Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance Music Club Play chart and the Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales chart. Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played singles on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club DJs. The 12-inch Singles Sales chart was launched in 1985 to compile the best-selling dance singles based on retail sales across the United States.
Charts history
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!scope=col rowspan=2|Issue date
!scope=colgroup colspan=2|Hot Dance Music Club Play
!scope=colgroup colspan=2|Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales
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!scope=col|Artist(s)
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|January 7
|rowspan="2"|"Get on the Dance Floor"
|rowspan="2"|Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
|"I Wanna Have Some Fun"
|Samantha Fox
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|January 14
|"The Lover In Me"
|Sheena Easton
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|January 21
|rowspan="2"|"Good Life"
|rowspan="2"|Inner City
|"Walking Away"
|Information Society
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|January 28
|rowspan="3"|"Wild Thing"
|rowspan="3"|Tone-Loc
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|February 4
|"Wild Thing"
|Tone Lōc
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|February 11
|rowspan="2"|"All She Wants Is"
|rowspan="2"|Duran Duran
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|February 18
|rowspan="3"|"Straight Up"
|rowspan="3"|Paula Abdul
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|February 25
|rowspan="2"|"Fading Away"
|rowspan="2"|Will to Power
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|March 4
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|March 11
|"That's the Way Love Is"
|Ten City
|rowspan="2"|"I Beg Your Pardon"
|rowspan="2"|Kon Kan
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|March 18
|rowspan="2"|"She Drives Me Crazy"
|rowspan="2"|Fine Young Cannibals
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|March 25
|rowspan="2"|"Girl You Know It's True"
|rowspan="2"|Milli Vanilli
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|April 1
|rowspan="2"|"This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze)"
|rowspan="2"|Maurice
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|April 8
|rowspan="2"|"This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze)"
|rowspan="2"|Maurice
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|April 15
|rowspan="2"|"Like a Prayer"
|rowspan="2"|Madonna
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|April 22
|rowspan="4"|"Like a Prayer"
|rowspan="4"|Madonna
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|April 29
|"Buffalo Stance"
|Neneh Cherry
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|May 6
|rowspan="2"|"Real Love"
|rowspan="2"|Jody Watley
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|May 13
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|May 20
|"We Call It Acieed"/<br />"Trance Dance"
|D-Mob featuring Gary Haisman
|"Funky Cold Medina"
|Tone-Loc
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|May 27
|"Round & Round"
|New Order
|"Buffalo Stance"
|Neneh Cherry
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|June 3
|"Me Myself and I"
|De La Soul
|rowspan="2"|"Me Myself and I"
|rowspan="2"|De La Soul
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|June 10
|"Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)"
|Roberta Flack
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|June 17
|"Ain't Nobody Better"
|Inner City
|"This Time I Know It's For Real"
|Donna Summer
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|June 24
|"Keep on Movin'"
|Soul II Soul
|rowspan="4"|"Keep on Movin'"
|rowspan="4"|Soul II Soul Featuring Caron Wheeler
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|July 1
|"Secret Rendezvous"
|Karyn White
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|July 8
|rowspan="3"|"Express Yourself"
|rowspan="3"|Madonna
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|July 15
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|July 22
|rowspan="4"|"Express Yourself"
|rowspan="4"|Madonna
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|July 29
|"Deep in Vogue"
|Malcolm McLaren
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|August 5
|"Let It Roll"
|Doug Lazy
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|August 12
|"Come Home with Me Baby"
|Dead or Alive
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|August 19
|"Batdance"
|Prince
|"Friends"
|Jody Watley with Eric B. & Rakim
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|August 26
|rowspan="3"|"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)"
|rowspan="3"|Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler
|"Come Home with Me Baby"
|Dead or Alive
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|September 2
|"Batdance" (From "Batman")
|Prince
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|September 9
|rowspan="4"|"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)"
|rowspan="4"|Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler
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|September 16
|"It's Time to Get Funky"
|D-Mob featuring LRS
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|September 23
|"Do You Love What You Feel"
|Inner City
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|September 30
|Life Is a Dance (all cuts)
|Chaka Khan
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|October 7
|rowspan="2"|"Miss You Much"
|rowspan="2"|Janet Jackson
|rowspan="4"|"Miss You Much"
|rowspan="4"|Janet Jackson
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|October 14
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|October 21
|rowspan="2"|"French Kiss"
|rowspan="2"|Lil Louis
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|October 28
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|November 4
|rowspan="4"|"Pump Up the Jam"
|rowspan="4"|Technotronic
|rowspan="3"|"French Kiss"
|rowspan="3"|Lil Louis
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|November 11
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|November 18
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|November 25
|rowspan="6"|"Pump Up the Jam"
|rowspan="6"|Technotronic Featuring Felly
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|December 2
|"Git on Up"
|Fast Eddie featuring Sundance
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|December 9
|rowspan="2"|"Love on Top of Love (Killer Kiss)"
|rowspan="2"|Grace Jones
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|December 16
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|December 23
|rowspan="2"|"Rhythm Nation"
|rowspan="2"|Janet Jackson
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|December 30
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See also
- 1989 in music
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart