List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1998

Brandy's (pictured) "The Boy Is Mine" (a duet with Monica) is the longest-running hit single of 1998, topping the Hot 100 for thirteen consecutive weeks.

The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplay. In 1998, there were 16 singles that topped the chart, in 52 issue dates.

During the year, 10 acts had achieved a first U.S. number-one single, namely: Savage Garden, Usher, Will Smith, Next, Brandy, Monica, Aerosmith, Barenaked Ladies, Lauryn Hill, and Divine. R&B singer Monica and pop singer Céline Dion both had two number-one singles in 1998.

Brandy and Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" is the longest-running single of the year, staying at number one for thirteen consecutive weeks. Other singles that had a multiple chart run includes Monica's "The First Night" with five weeks atop and Next's "Too Close", Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and R. Kelly's "I'm Your Angel" (featuring Céline Dion) with four weeks (the latter spending two additional weeks at number one in 1999).

Chart history

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821	January 3	"Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight"	Elton John	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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822	January 17	"Truly Madly Deeply"	Savage Garden	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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823	January 31	"Together Again"	Janet	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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824	February 14	"Nice & Slow"	Usher	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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825	February 28	"My Heart Will Go On"	Céline Dion	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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826	March 14	"Gettin' Jiggy wit It"	Will Smith	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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827	April 4	"All My Life"	K-Ci & JoJo	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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829	May 23	"My All"	Mariah Carey	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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830	June 6	"The Boy Is Mine"	Brandy and Monica	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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831	September 5	"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"	Aerosmith	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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832	October 3	"The First Night"	Monica	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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833	October 17	"One Week"	Barenaked Ladies	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
re	October 24	"The First Night"	Monica	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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834	November 14	"Doo Wop (That Thing)"	Lauryn Hill	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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835	November 28	"Lately"	Divine	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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836	December 5	"I'm Your Angel"	R. Kelly and Céline Dion	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	Monica	18
2	Brandy	13
3	Céline Dion	6
4	Next	5
5	Aerosmith	4
	R. Kelly
7	Will Smith	3
	K-Ci & JoJo
9	Elton John	2
	Savage Garden
	Janet
	Usher
	Lauryn Hill
8	Mariah Carey	1
	Barenaked Ladies
	Divine

See also

• 1998 in music
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1990s

Additional sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties (Template:ISBN)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.