Number-one dance hits of 1994 (USA)
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These are the Billboard
Hot Dance Club Play
number one hits of 1994.
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
number one hits of 1994.
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| January 1 | "Tradición Tradición "Tradición" was the third single released by Gloria Estefan on her first all Spanish-language album from 1993, Mi Tierra.-Song history:... " |
Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those... |
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| January 8 | "Show Me" | Ultra Naté Ultra Naté Ultra Naté is an American house music, Dance-pop and sometimes R&B musician who has achieved a respectable amount of success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free" and "If You Could Read My Mind" as part of Stars on 54.... |
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| January 15 | "Love Changes" | MK featuring Alana Alana (singer) Alana Simon is the featured female vocalist of the duo MK featuring Alana, which scored two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Always" in 1993 and "Love Changes" in 1994. She scored another hit in 1995 with the single "Burning," which was recorded with Marc Kinchen as... |
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| January 22 | "I Love Music I Love Music (song) "I Love Music" is a disco song written by Gamble and Huff and recorded by The O'Jays. It appeared on the group's 1975 album Family Reunion. The single version went to number one on the soul singles chart and reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100... " |
Rozalla Rozalla Rozalla is a dance music performer, born to a Zambian mother and a Zimbabwean father... |
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| January 29 | "Queen of the Night Queen of the Night (song) "Queen of the Night" is a song co-written and performed by American pop/R&B singer Whitney Houston. It was the fifth and final single released from the multiplatinum The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album... " |
Whitney Houston Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among... |
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| February 5 | "Joy" | Staxx of Joy Staxx of Joy Staxx Of Joy is a house music studio project assembled by producers Simon Thorne and Tommy Jones. In the mid 1990s they had four Top 10 hits on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, two of which reached #1: "Joy" and "You". Both of these tracks, including a third single "Shout" featured vocals... featuring Carol Leeming Carol Leeming Carol Leeming is a British female singer/songwriter who lives in Leicester England. She also goes by the alias KYO and works with other acts, mostly as a featured vocalist... |
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| February 12 | "Big Time Sensuality Big Time Sensuality "Big Time Sensuality" is a song by Björk, released as the fourth single from her 1993 album Debut. The song helped boost Björk's popularity worldwide, particularly the U.S., where she charted for the first time.-Background:... " |
Björk Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir , known as Björk , is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her eclectic musical style has achieved popular acknowledgement and popularity within many musical genres, such as rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical and folk... |
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| February 26 | "A Deeper Love" | Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All... |
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| March 12 | "I'm in the Mood I'm in the Mood "I'm In The Mood" is a 1993 song by the musician CeCe Peniston, released as the first commercial single taken from Thought 'Ya Knew, the singer's second studio album.... " |
CeCe Peniston CeCe Peniston CeCe Peniston is an African American recording artist and former beauty queen. At the beginning of the nineties, she was considered to be one of the most successful dance club artists in the history of the U.S... |
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| March 19 | "I Want You" | Juliet Roberts Juliet Roberts Juliet Roberts is a British jazz, rock and house music singer of Grenadian descent.-Career:She originally recorded as Julie Roberts in 1982, and performed on the 1983 Top 10 hit single, "It's Over" by the Funkmasters... |
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| April 2 | "Got to Get It Got to Get It "Got to Get It" is a 1993 song recorded by the German eurodance band Culture Beat. It was the second single from their second album Serenity and was released in September 1993.... " |
Culture Beat Culture Beat Culture Beat is a German Eurodance project formed in 1989 by Torsten Fenslau. The act has gone through a number of line-up changes over the years; they achieved the most success whilst fronted by singer Tania Evans and rapper Jay Supreme. Their 1993 single "Mr. Vain" was a No... |
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| April 9 | "So into You" | Michael Watford Michael Watford Michael Watford is an African American dance music singer, who was born in Virginia and raised in New Jersey. He is best known for his gospel-influenced vocals on house records through the 1990s and 2000s. Four of his singles charted on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the mid-1990s,... |
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| April 16 | "Beautiful People" | Barbara Tucker Barbara Tucker Barbara Tucker , is an African American house, R&B and soul singer, songwriter and choreographer. Her impact on the mainstream music scene has been felt more in Europe, than in her home country.... |
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| April 23 | "Moving on Up" | M People M People M People are a British house music act from Manchester, who formed in 1990 and achieved success throughout most of the 1990s. The name M People is from the initials of Mike Pickering, who formed the group.-Career:... |
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| May 7 | "Love & Happiness" | River Ocean Masters At Work Masters at Work is the house/garage production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. They first worked together using the name, which had been given to them by mutual friend Todd Terry , in 1990... featuring India La India La India , known also as "La Princesa de la Salsa" , is a singer of salsa. She has been nominated for both Grammy and Latin Grammy awards.-Early years:... |
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| May 14 | "I Believe" | Sounds of Blackness Sounds of Blackness Sounds of Blackness is a Grammy Award-winning vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota who perform music from several genres music including gospel, R&B, soul, and jazz. The group scored several hits on the Billboard R&B chart and Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play... |
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| May 21 | "100% Pure Love" | Crystal Waters Crystal Waters Crystal Waters is an American dance music singer and songwriter.-Childhood and young adult life:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Waters is the daughter of Betty and Junior Waters, a famed jazz musician; her great aunt, Ethel Waters, was one of the first African-American vocalists to appear in... |
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| June 4 | "I'll Take You There I'll Take You There "I'll Take You There" is a number-one single written and produced by Al Bell and performed by soul/gospel family band The Staple Singers, released on Stax Records in February 1972... " |
General Public General Public General Public were a band formed by The Beat vocalists, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger, and which included former members of Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Specials and The Clash... |
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| June 11 | "Good Time" | Sound Factory Sound Factory Sound Factory is a dance music duo from Sweden consisting of producers Kenyan born St.James as well as Emil Hellman and produced by Stonebridge. They had three entries on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the mid-nineties: "Understand This Groove" in '92, "2 the Rhythm" in '93 and "Good Time"... |
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| June 18 | "I Want It, I Need It (Real Love)" | Saundra Williams Saundra Williams Saundra Williams is a female jazz/R&B/dance music vocalist from New York City who scored a couple of hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: "I Want It, I Need It" and "Unconditionally" .-See also:... |
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| June 25 | "Worker Man" | Patra Patra (singer) Patra is a reggae singer. In her beginnings as a Female Dancehall deejay in the late 1980s, she used the stage name, Lady Patra... |
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| July 2 | "Misled" | Céline Dion Celine Dion Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record... |
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| July 16 | "When You Made the Mountain" | Opus III Opus III Opus III were a techno and house music group from England who had success on the UK Singles Chart and on the U.S. Dance charts. The group consisted of vocalist Kirsty Hawkshaw and producers/musicians Kevin 'The Fly' Dodds, Ian Munro and Nigel 'Spider' Walton... |
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| July 23 | "Feel What You Want Feel What You Want "Feel What You Want" is a 1994 single which would later appear on American club music singer Kristine W's album Land of the Living. The track marked the first in her string of thirteen consecutive number one hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.-Track listing:# "Feel What You Want" ... " |
Kristine W Kristine W Kristine W, born Kristine Weitz, is an American singer-songwriter. She has released seven albums, three of them through major labels, plus an early recording she sells to fans through her website... |
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| July 30 | "Caught in the Middle" | Juliet Roberts | |
| August 6 | "The Right Kinda Lover" | Patti LaBelle Patti LaBelle Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry... |
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| August 13 | "Bring Me Your Love" | Deee-Lite Deee-Lite Deee-Lite was an American house and club/dance group, formed in New York City, United States. The group's best-known single was "Groove Is in the Heart", from their 1990 debut album, World Clique. However, Deee-Lite achieved longer lasting success on the U.S... |
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| August 20 | "Lifted by Love" | k.d. lang K.D. Lang Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress... |
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| August 27 | "Anytime You Need a Friend Anytime You Need a Friend "Anytime You Need a Friend" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. The song was written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, for her third studio album, Music Box . It was released on May 31, 1994 through Columbia Records, as the fourth and final single from the album. The... " |
Mariah Carey Mariah Carey Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993... |
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| September 3 | "One Night in Heaven One Night in Heaven One Night in Heaven is the sixth overall single from British band M People and the first single from their second album Elegant Slumming . Written by Mike Pickering and Paul Heard. Produced by M People. It was released on 14 June 1993. The song peaked at number six on the UK Singles... " |
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| September 17 | "Ain't Nobody" | Jaki Graham Jaki Graham Jaki Graham is an English singer. Her biggest international success was reaching number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1994, with her cover version of Chaka Khan's hit, "Ain't Nobody".... |
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| September 24 | "Bring Me Joy" | Meechie Meechie Meechie is a female African American dance music singer, born in Chicago, Illinois. She placed two songs on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1990s, including "You Bring Me Joy", which spent a week at #1 in 1994... |
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| October 1 | "Another Night Another Night (song) "Another Night" is a dance song by Real McCoy from their album Another Night. It was one of their biggest hits, reaching number 18 in Germany, number three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S. during the holiday season of 1994-1995, number two on the UK Singles Chart and number one on... " |
Real McCoy Real McCoy (band) Real McCoy, originally known as M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy, is a German band, best known for their 1993/1994 singles "Another Night" and "Run Away", which were both Top 10 hits in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.-Formation:... |
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| October 8 | "Do You Wanna Get Funky" | C+C Music Factory C+C Music Factory C+C Music Factory is a dance-pop and hip hop group formed in 1989 by David Cole and Robert Clivillés which stopped recording 1996, following Cole's death... |
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| October 15 | "Hit by Love Hit by Love "Hit by Love" is a 1994 song by the musician CeCe Peniston, released as the fourth single from her album record Thought 'Ya Knew, and the fifth number one hit in the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play for the artist.... " |
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| October 29 | "Drunk on Love" | Basia Basia Basia Trzetrzelewska is a Polish singer-songwriter and record producer. She established a successful international recording career featuring characteristically Latin-flavoured jazz-pop crossover songs during the late 1980s and early 1990s and the late 2000s and 2010s, particularly in the United... |
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| November 5 | "What I Need" | Crystal Waters | |
| November 12 | "Turn the Beat Around Turn the Beat Around In 1994 , the song was recorded by Gloria Estefan for the soundtrack to the film The Specialist. Released as a single, it became a hit reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is also featured on Estefan's fourth solo album Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me. She also sang the song as her opening... " |
Gloria Estefan | |
| November 19 | "Dreamer Dreamer (Livin' Joy song) "Dreamer" was the first track released by Italian house group Livin' Joy in 1994. It was a number-one dance hit that year. The following year, it entered the UK chart at No. 1. "Set You Free", the dance anthem from N-Trance, could only reach No. 2 the same year.The song was first released in the... " |
Livin' Joy Livin' Joy Livin' Joy was a house music group from Italy who released two successful dance hits in the 1990s, "Dreamer" and "Don't Stop Movin'". The group consisted of Italian brothers Paolo and Gianni Visnadi and singer Tameka Starr.... |
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| November 26 | "Secret Secret (Madonna song) "Secret" is a song by Madonna, released as the first single from her 1994 album Bedtime Stories. It was released in September 1994 and became a top ten hit around the world, including reaching number three in the United States and five in the UK... " |
Madonna Madonna (entertainer) Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983... |
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| December 10 | "Excited" | M People | |
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| December 24 | "Living in Danger Living in Danger "Living In Danger" is a song taken from the album, Happy Nation by the band Ace of Base. It was released as a single and reached #18 on the UK Singles Chart, and it peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. in 1994... " |
Ace of Base Ace of Base Ace of Base is a pop band based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Its original lineup consisted of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg, and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren... |
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See also
- 1994 in music1994 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart