This Week in Billboard Chart History: 20 Years Ago, Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men Wrapped Their Record Reign
In 1996, "One Sweet Day" spent its 16th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100. Plus, remembering chart feats by Carrie Underwood, the Beatles & Belinda Carlisle.
Your weekly recap celebrating significant milestones from more than seven decades of Billboard chart history.
March 14, 1992
TLC‘s debut album Ooooooohhh…On the TLC Tip entered the Billboard 200 at No. 105, kicking off more than a decade of dominance for the trio on multiple pop and R&B charts. The set would reach No. 14 in a 73-week run and has sold 2.6 million copies in the U.S. to date, according to Nielsen Music. It generated three Billboard Hot 100 top 10 smashes in 1992: “Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg” (No. 6), “Baby-Baby-Baby” (No. 2) and “What About Your Friends” (No. 7).
March 15, 2008
Carrie Underwood tops Hot Country Songs with “All-American Girl,” her fifth of 14 career No. 1s to date.
March 16, 1996
A record week for Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men 20 years ago: Their “One Sweet Day” spends its 16th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, wrapping the longest reign by any song in the chart’s history.
March 17, 1990
Wilson Phillips made its chart debut, as “Hold On” entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 74. It would top the June 9, 1990, tally and become the No. 1 song of the year, and the trio’s first of three No. 1s. “I have my Billboard magazine laminated plaques on the wall of ‘Hold On,’ ‘Release Me’ and ‘You’re in Love,’ our No. 1 records,” Carnie Wilson told Billboard in 2012. “Honestly, I walk by every single day and I practically want to kiss them.”
March 18, 1967
The Beatles score their first of three Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s in 1967, as “Penny Lane” strolls to the top. “All You Need Is Love” and “Hello Goodbye” would also reign before the end of the year.
March 19, 1988
Belinda Carlisle’s “I Get Weak” rose to its No. 2 Billboard Hot 100 peak. It marked her third visit to the top two: as part of the Go-Go’s, she reached No. 2 in in 1982 with “We Got the Beat.” In 1987, she topped the chart with her own “Heaven Is a Place on Earth.”
March 20, 1982
We loved it, too! Joan Jett & the Blackhearts‘ “I Love Rock ‘N Roll” began a seven-week command of the Billboard Hot 100 34 years ago today.
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