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
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!scope=colgroup colspan=2|Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales
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!scope=col|Artist(s)
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|January 5
|rowspan="2"|"Power of Love"/<br>"Build the Bridge"
|rowspan="2"|Deee-Lite
|rowspan="2"|"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"
|rowspan="2"|C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams
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|January 12
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|January 19
|rowspan="2"|"Justify My Love"
|rowspan="2"|Madonna
|rowspan="3"|"Justify My Love"
|rowspan="3"|Madonna
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|January 26
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|February 2
|"I Don't Know Anybody Else"
|Black Box
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|February 9
|rowspan="2"|"Another Sleepless Night"
|rowspan="2"|Shawn Christopher
|rowspan="3"|"I Don't Know Anybody Else"
|rowspan="3"|Black Box
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|February 16
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|February 23
|rowspan="3"|"Sadeness (Part I)"
|rowspan="3"|Enigma
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|March 2
|"Power of Love"/<br>"Build the Bridge"
|Deee-Lite
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|March 9
|"Jealousy"
|The Adventures of Stevie V
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|March 16
|"Someday"
|Mariah Carey
|"Hold You Tight"
|Tara Kemp
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|March 23
|"Touch Me (All Night Long)"
|Cathy Dennis
|rowspan="2"|"Sadeness (Part I)"
|rowspan="2"|Enigma
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|March 30
|"How to Dance"
|Bingoboys featuring Princessa
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|April 6
|"I've Been Thinking About You"
|Londonbeat
|rowspan="3"|"Rescue Me"
|rowspan="3"|Madonna
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|April 13
|rowspan="3"|"Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)"
|rowspan="3"|C+C Music Factory presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis
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|April 20
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|April 27
|"Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)"
|C+C Music Factory presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis
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|May 4
|"Strike It Up"
|Black Box
|rowspan="2"|"It's a Shame (My Sister)"
|rowspan="2"|Monie Love Featuring True Image
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|May 11
|rowspan="2"|"People Are Still Having Sex"
|rowspan="2"|LaTour
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|May 18
|"Touch Me (All Night Long)"
|Cathy Dennis
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|May 25
|rowspan="3"|"Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)"
|rowspan="3"|Crystal Waters
|rowspan="6"|"Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)"
|rowspan="6"|Crystal Waters
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|June 1
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|June 8
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|June 15
|rowspan="2"|"Good Beat"
|rowspan="2"|Deee-Lite
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|June 22
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|June 29
|"(I Wanna Give You) Devotion"
|Nomad
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|July 6
|"Got a Love for You"
|Jomanda
|rowspan="2"|"I Wanna Sex You Up" (From "New Jack City")
|rowspan="2"|Color Me Badd
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|July 13
|rowspan="3"|"Let the Beat Hit 'Em"
|rowspan="3"|Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
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|July 20
|rowspan="3"|"Let the Beat Hit 'Em"
|rowspan="3"|Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
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|July 27
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|August 3
|"3 a.m. Eternal"
|The KLF
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|August 10
|"Deep in My Heart"
|Clubhouse
|"Temptation"
|Corina
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|August 17
|"This Beat Is Hot"
|B.G., the Prince of Rap
|rowspan="2"|"Now That We Found Love"
|rowspan="2"|Heavy D. & The Boyz
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|August 24
|"Such a Good Feeling"
|Brothers in Rhythm
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|August 31
|rowspan="2"|"Things That Make You Go Hmmm..."
|rowspan="2"|C+C Music Factory presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis
|rowspan="2"|"This Beat Is Hot"
|rowspan="2"|B.G., the Prince of Rap
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|September 7
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|September 14
|"The Whistle Song"
|Frankie Knuckles
|"Things That Make You Go Hmmm..."
|C+C Music Factory presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis
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|September 21
|"Makin' Happy"
|Crystal Waters
|rowspan="3"|"Makin' Happy"
|rowspan="3"|Crystal Waters
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|September 28
|"Gett Off"
|Prince and the New Power Generation
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|October 5
|"Ride on the Rhythm"
|Little Louie Vega with Marc Anthony
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|October 12
|"Gonna Catch You"
|Lonnie Gordon
|"Good Vibrations"
|Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch Featuring Loleatta Holloway
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|October 19
|"Lost in Music"
|Stereo MC's
|"O.P.P."
|Naughty By Nature
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|October 26
|rowspan="2"|"Finally"
|rowspan="2"|CeCe Peniston
|"Gett Off"
|Prince and the New Power Generation
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|November 2
|rowspan="2"|"Running Back To You"
|rowspan="2"|Vanessa Williams
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|November 9
|"The Pressure Part 1"
|Sounds of Blackness
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|November 16
|rowspan="2"|"Move Any Mountain (Progen 91)"
|rowspan="2"|The Shamen
|rowspan="2"|"Finally"
|rowspan="2"|CeCe Peniston
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|November 23
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|November 30
|"Emotions"
|Mariah Carey
|rowspan="5"|"Set Adrift On Memory Bliss"
|rowspan="5"|P.M. Dawn
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|December 7
|rowspan="2"|"Change"
|rowspan="2"|Lisa Stansfield
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|December 14
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|December 21
|rowspan="2"|"It Should Have Been Me"
|rowspan="2"|Adeva
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|December 28
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See also
- 1991 in music
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart