These are the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco Club Play and Maxi-Singles Sales number-one hits of 1996.
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!Issue date
!Club Song
!Artist
!Maxi-Singles Sales
!Artist
!Reference(s)
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|January 6
|"Beautiful Life"
|Ace of Base
|"Missing"
|Everything But The Girl
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|January 13
|"If I Were You"
|k.d. lang
|"Fu-Gee-La" (Refugee Camp Remix)
|Fugees
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|January 20
|rowspan="2"|"Got Myself Together"
|rowspan="2"|The Bucketheads
|"Missing"
|Everything But The Girl
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|January 27
|"Fu-Gee-La" (Refugee Camp Remix)
|Fugees
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|February 3
|"I Found It"
|Daphne
|rowspan="2"|"Missing"
|rowspan="2"|Everything But The Girl
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|February 10
|"When"
|Sunscreem
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|February 17
|"The Lover That You Are"
|Pulse featuring Antoinette Roberson
|rowspan="2"|"Soon As I Get Home"
|rowspan="2"|Faith Evans
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|February 24
|"Day by Day"
|Dajae
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|March 2
|"Who Do U Love"
|Deborah Cox
|rowspan="2"|"Down Low (Nobody Has To Know)"
|rowspan="2"|R. Kelly Featuring Ronald Isley
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|March 9
|rowspan="2"|"The New Anthem"
|rowspan="2"|N-Joi
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|March 16
|rowspan="5"|"Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check" / "Everything Remains Raw"
|rowspan="5"|Busta Rhymes
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|March 23
|"Lucky Love"
|Ace of Base
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|March 30
|"Salva Mea"
|Faithless
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|April 6
|"Tres Deseos (Three Wishes)"
|Gloria Estefan
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|April 13
|"Hyperballad"
|Björk
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|April 20
|rowspan="2"|"The Sound"
|rowspan="2"|X-Press 2
|rowspan="5"|"Ain't No Nigga" / "Dead Presidents"
|rowspan="5"|Jay-Z Featuring Foxxy Brown
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|April 27
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|May 4
|rowspan="2"|"Make the World Go Round"
|rowspan="2"|Sandy B
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|May 11
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|May 18
|"Sunday Afternoons"
|Vanessa Daou
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|May 25
|"One More Try"
|Kristine W
|rowspan="4"|"Get Money"
|rowspan="4"|Junior M.A.F.I.A. Featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
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|June 1
|rowspan="2"|"America (I Love America)"
|rowspan="2"|Full Intention
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|June 8
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|June 15
|"Children"
|Robert Miles
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|June 22
|rowspan="3"|"Wrong"
|rowspan="3"|Everything but the Girl
|rowspan="9"|"How Do U Want It" / "California Love"
|rowspan="9"|2Pac Featuring K-Ci & JoJo
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|June 29
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|July 6
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|July 13
|rowspan="2"|"Before"
|rowspan="2"|Pet Shop Boys
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|July 20
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|July 27
|rowspan="2"|"Professional Widow"
|rowspan="2"|Tori Amos
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|August 3
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|August 10
|"Keep on Jumpin'"
|Martha Wash and Jocelyn Brown
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|August 17
|rowspan="2"|"You're Makin' Me High"
|rowspan="2"|Toni Braxton
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|August 24
|"Only You"
|112 Featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
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|August 31
|"Stand Up"
|Love Tribe
|rowspan="3"|"Hit Me Off"
|rowspan="3"|New Edition
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|September 7
|rowspan="2"|"You Got to Pray"
|rowspan="2"|Joi Cardwell
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|September 14
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|September 21
|rowspan="2"|"Killing Me Softly with His Song"
|rowspan="2"|Roberta Flack
|"Fired Up!"
|Funky Green Dogs
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|September 28
|rowspan="3"|"How Do U Want It" / "California Love"
|rowspan="3"|2Pac Featuring K-Ci & JoJo
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|October 5
|rowspan="3"|"Two to Tango"
|rowspan="3"|Vanessa Daou
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|October 12
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|October 19
|rowspan="3"|"No Diggity"
|rowspan="3"|BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre)
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|October 26
|"Stomp"
|Quincy Jones featuring the Cast of Stomp
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|November 2
|"Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?"
|Meshell Ndegeocello
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|November 9
|"No Frills Love"
|Jennifer Holliday
|rowspan="2"|"Street Dreams"
|rowspan="2"|Nas
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|November 16
|rowspan="2"|"Land of the Living"
|rowspan="2"|Kristine W
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|November 23
|rowspan="2"|"Where Do You Go"
|rowspan="2"|No Mercy
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|November 30
|"The Child (Inside)"
|Qkumba Zoo
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|December 7
|"One and One"
|Robert Miles
|rowspan="4"|"Un-Break My Heart"
|rowspan="4"|Toni Braxton
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|December 14
|"Sugar Is Sweeter"
|C. J. Bolland
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|December 21
|rowspan="2"|"Un-Break My Heart"
|rowspan="2"|Toni Braxton
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|December 28
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See also
- 1996 in music
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart