1991 in music

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The year 1991 is the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. Nirvana's Nevermind, led by the surprise hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", becomes the most popular U.S. album of the year. Followed immediately by other grunge bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and in 1992 by Stone Temple Pilots, grunge dominates the U.S. charts for the next few years. Its success effectively ends pop-oriented, 1980s glam metal groups like Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison and Ratt, whose sales and critical viability were beginning to decline for about two years previously. Even so, the rock band Guns N' Roses's popularity flourishes with the release of their albums Use Your Illusion I &Use Your Illusion II, both reaching selling over 10 million copies each. A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory is released this year; it would go on to be considered one of the best hip hop albums of the 1990s. A Tribe Called Quest, along with De La Soul, Dream Warriors, Gang Starr and the Poor Righteous Teachers, help define what comes to be known as alternative rap with important releases this year.

On November 24 Both Kiss drummer Eric Carr and Queen frontman Freddie Mercury died. Mercury was at home in London on November 24, due to AIDS complications. Rumors had been circulating that Mercury had AIDS, but the death comes as a shock to millions of fans and the music industry. The remaining members of Queen form the Mercury Phoenix Trust and the following year, a tribute concert is staged in Wembley Stadium. A sell-out crowd in attendance witness the three surviving members reuniting to play along with performances by the likes of David Bowie, Elton John, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Metallica, Annie Lennox, and George Michael.

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody goes to number one for the second time, which is the only time a single has gone to number one in the same version more than once. It is also the only time a single has gone to number one more than once on the UK Christmas charts. It has now spent a total of 14 weeks on top of the UK charts.

1991 is also the year CCM, or contemporary Christian music, reaches a new peak. Amy Grant, who had already crossed back and forth between CCM and pop in the mid-80s, achieves her (and CCM's) first #1 hit on the pop charts with the hit single "Baby Baby." Another single, "That's What Love Is For," would also top the charts, this time in the Adult Contemporary field. Meanwhile, Grant's album Heart In Motion reaches #11 on the pop chart and #1 on the Christian chart despite its non-religious objective, and quickly becomes a best-seller. Another CCM crossover artist in 1991 is Michael W. Smith, who achieves a Top Ten pop hit with his single "Place In This World." The subsequent album, Go West Young Man, is also a hit.

The massive success of Garth Brooks in this year sets the stage for the mid-1990s influx of pop-oriented country musicians. In addition, several soon-to-be pivotal bands form or release debuts, including Dave Matthews Band, Live, Phish, Spin Doctors) and stoner metal (Kyuss, Sleep, The Obsessed). Massive Attack's Blue Lines, while unique at the time, invents the sound that would eventually become known as trip hop. Entombed's Clandestine and Dismember's Like an Ever Flowing Stream are early releases from the Scandinavian metal scene. On the other side of the Atlantic, New York death metal band Suffocation release their debut full-length Effigy of the Forgotten, often considered one of the most influential extreme metal albums ever recorded. Trance music rises to prominence in the underground dance scene of Frankfurt, Germany, pioneered by such producers as Dance 2 Trance and Resistance D. U2 release their seventh album Achtung Baby, considered by many of their fans to be their best album. Metallica also release their most commercially successful self-titled album, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers break through to the mainstream with their critically and commercially acclaimed Blood Sugar Sex Magik. R.E.M. release their massive commercial breakthrough album Out of Time.

Timeline January 8 - Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark dies January 18 - Three people are crushed to death during an AC/DC concert in Salt Lake City, Utah when audience members rush the stage. January 27 - Whitney Houston sings "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl. The recording is then released and becomes a hit single. February 27 - James Brown is granted an early parole and released from jail. Brown had been arrested after leading police on a high speed chase through two states in 1989. Pop Will Eat Itself documented the affair with their song, "Not Now James, We're Busy". February 28 - Hollywood, California's Record Plant Studios recording studio closes its doors. Among the albums recorded at the Record Plant were The Eagles' Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life March 11 - Janet Jackson signs a $30 million (US) contract with Virgin Records, making her the highest paid female recording artist ever. March 16 - Seven members of country music singer Reba McEntire's band and her road manager are killed when their private plane crashes in California, near the U.S.-Mexico border. McEntire travels on a separate plane. March 20 Michael Jackson signs a $1 billion contract with Sony. Eric Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor, dies after falling 53 stories from a New York City apartment window, which would inspire Clapton to write the hit single "Tears in Heaven"). March 24 - The Black Crowes are dropped as the opening act of ZZ Top's tour for repeatedly insulting the tour's sponsor, Miller Beer. March 27 - New Kids on the Block star Donnie Wahlberg is arrested in Louisville, Kentucky for allegedly setting his hotel room on fire. March 28 - George Harrison, Phil Collins and others attend funeral services for Eric Clapton's late son, Conor. April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York. May 4 - The Eurovision Song Contest 1991 is held in Rome, Italy and, after a highly controversial voting segment, Sweden's Fångad av en stormvind by Carola is declared the winner. May 7 - In Macon, Georgia, a judge dismisses a wrongful death lawsuit against Ozzy Osbourne. The suit was filed by a local couple that believed their son was inspired to attempt suicide by Osbourne's music. May 10 - Truth or Dare, a documentary chronicling singer Madonna's 1990 Blond Ambition Tour, is released to theatres. May 25 - The Billboard 200 album chart starts incorporating electronically monitored sales data provided by Nielsen SoundScan, thus beginning what chart aficionados tag as the "SoundScan era". May 28 - The Smashing Pumpkins release their debut album, Gish. June 18 - Van Halen releases their ninth album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, spawing the huge ballad hit Right Now and the Top Billboard 30 hit "Top of the World" July - Launch of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. July - At the Use Your Illusion Tour, Axl Rose assaults a member of the audience watching the show on camera, after security fails to respond to the singer's orders to confiscate the camera. After the attack, Rose angrily stomped off the stage saying, "Thanks to the lame-ass security, I'm goin' home!"[1] August 13 - Metallica releases their most successful album, "Metallica" (also called "The Black Album"). This album is somewhat of a departure from the thrash metal sound they helped pioneer. It is one of the best selling albums of all time1 August 27 Pearl Jam releases their debut album, "Ten". While initially slow to sell, it became #2 on the Billboard charts within a year and has since become certified thirteen times Platinum in the United States.2 Dr. Dre pleads no contest to charges that he beat up a woman at a West Hollywood nightclub. Dr. Dre is sentenced to 24 months probation. September 17 - Guns N' Roses release the highly anticipated albums Use Your Illusion I & II which debut at the two highest spots on the Billboard 200, the first such feat for a rock act. The albums went on to sell over 7 million copies each in the USA alone and spawned the most expensive music videos ever made and a very controversy-laden multi-year world tour. September 24 - Nirvana releases Nevermind, debuting at #144 on the Billboard 200. Red Hot Chili Peppers release their 5th album Blood Sugar Sex Magik and A Tribe Called Quest release their 2nd album The Low End Theory on the same day. Tupac Shakur's solo career begins with his first album, 2Pacalypse Now, however it does not do well. 6 year old Qa'id Walker is shot dead by a stray bullet during a confrontation between Tupac's entourage and a rival group. October 25 - Steely Dan spontaneously reunites. November 19 - U2 release Achtung Baby, considered by many to be one of their best, if not their best, album. It is their 3rd #1 album, with 2 Billboard (magazine) Top 10 singles and 4 Billboard (magazine) Top 40 singles November 23 - Lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury, reveals he has AIDS; he dies the following day. November 24 - Kiss drummer Eric Carr Dies November 26 - Michael Jackson releases his blockbuster album Dangerous, led by the controversial hit single Black or White. November 30 - Following on the steps of the Billboard 200, the Billboard Hot 100 also begins a new era by incorporating and merging electronically measured sales and airplay data from SoundScan and BDS respectively. Undated Amon Amarth hires Johan Hegg. Britney Spears appears on Star Search Country music legend Kenny Rogers starts his restaurant chain, "Kenny Rogers Roasters," serving up tasty chicken. Perry Farrell organizes the first Lollapalooza tour as a farewell for his just-dissolved band, Jane's Addiction Nas joins Main Source The Pharcyde signs to Delicious Vinyl, their first label The original surviving members of Bill Haley and His Comets from the 1950s reunite for a European concert tour, and soon after resume regular touring and recording engagements that continue as of 2005. Genesis release their last studio album with Phil Collins, We Can't Dance. Bands formed See Musical groups established in 1991 Bands reformed Procol Harum Bands disbanded Bronski Beat Bros Devo The Dream Syndicate Fields of the Nephilim Flipper's Guitar Furniture Galaxie 500 Jane's Addiction The La's Mantronix The Men They Couldn't Hang Moev This Mortal Coil N.W.A. The Primitives Queen (following Freddie Mercury's death) The Replacements Slint Talk Talk Transvision Vamp Wang Chung The Way Moves Albums released Contents: Top • January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December January Day Album Artist Notes 1 This Year's Girl Pizzicato Five - 9 The Singles Collection The Specials Compilation 15 A Little Ain't Enough David Lee Roth - Step in the Arena Gang Starr - Eight Track Stomp Chickasaw Mudd Puppies - A Different Kind of Weather Dream Academy US Fatal Joy 29 Palms (Band) US 22 Chagall Guevara Chagall Guevara - The Soul Cages Sting - Cure for Sanity Pop Will Eat Itself - US 25 Into the Light Gloria Estefan - 29 Divinyls Divinyls - Mo' Ritmo Gerardo Debut When You're a Boy Susanna Hoffs - Doubt Jesus Jones - Uncle Anesthesia Screaming Trees - East of the Sun, West of the Moon a-ha US Party Mix/Mesopotamia The B-52's - Glad 'N Greasy Beat Farmers - Candy Carol Book of Love - The Martyr Mantras Boy George US Tyranny (For You) Front 242 US Native Son Judybats - ? Babyteeth Therapy? - February Day Album Artist Notes 5 Innuendo Queen - International Pop Overthrow Material Issue - 11 Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! Another Bad Creation - 12 The Best of A Flock of Seagulls A Flock of Seagulls - Coming Down Daniel Ash - MCMXC a.D. Enigma (musical project) US The Hollow Men The Hollow Men US Strange Cargo William Orbit US Greatest Hits 1977-1990 The Stranglers US 19 Green Mind Dinosaur Jr - Ink The Fixx - The Name Above the Title John Wesley Harding - Road Apples Tragically Hip US 20 Pioughd Butthole Surfers - Last Days of Pompeii Nova Mob - 21 Marc Cohn Marc Cohn - 25 Recurring Spacemen 3 - 26 Hooked Great White - 1916 Motörhead - ? Day 1 Robbie Nevil - Different World Uriah Heep - March Day Album Artist Notes 4 Peggy Suicide Julian Cope UK; May 7 in US; Double Album The White Room The KLF - 5 Kill Uncle Morrissey - Heart in Motion Amy Grant - Dollars & Sex The Escape Club - Time for a Witness The Feelies - 12 Free Rick Astley - Mind Funk Mind Funk - Out of Time R.E.M. - The Real Ramona Throwing Muses - Everybody's Angel Tanita Tikaram - Unreal World The Godfathers US Outland Gary Numan US Cereal Killers Too Much Joy - 19 Chill of an Early Fall George Strait - 26 The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 Bob Dylan Box Set The Human Factor Metal Church - Lean Into It Mr. Big - Places I Have Never Been Willie Nile - Ribbed NOFX - Vagabond Heart Rod Stewart - Black and White The BoDeans - Recurring Spacemen 3 US No Warning Dave Wakeling US 27 Spiderland Slint - Good-bye My Loneliness Zard - 28 Joyride Roxette - ? Outland Gary Numan - Extremely Live Vanilla Ice - April Day Album Artist Notes 1 School of Fish School of Fish - 2 Arise Sepultura - Mane Attraction White Lion - 6 Now! That's What I Call Music 19 Various Artists Compilation 8 Flashpoint The Rolling Stones Live Real Life Simple Minds - 9 L'Autre Mylène Farmer - The Ghosts That Haunt Me Crash Test Dummies - 15 Brotherhood The Doobie Brothers - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld The Orb - 16 Auberge Chris Rea - Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog - The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life Frank Zappa 2 discs; Live Ripe Banderas US The Way to Salvation King Missile - Raintree Crow Raintree Crow US Real Life Simple Minds US 22 Shift-Work The Fall - Hoodoo Alison Moyet - 23 Time, Love & Tenderness Michael Bolton - The Reality of My Surroundings Fishbone - Ordinary Average Guy Joe Walsh - And Now the Legacy Begins Dream Warriors US Flyin' the Flannel Firehose (band) - Kinky Hoodoo Gurus US Psychout The Seers - 13 Engines 13 Engines US 27 True Love Pat Benatar - 30 Cooleyhighharmony Boyz II Men - Spartacus The Farm Debut Laughter & Lust Joe Jackson - Why Do Birds Sing? Violent Femmes - Birdland Birdland US Fred Schneider Fred Schneider Re-issue May Day Album Artist Notes 3 Grippe Jawbox - 7 Star Time James Brown Box Set 5,000,000 Dread Zeppelin - Hard at Play Huey Lewis and the News - Peggy Suicide Julian Cope US The Best of the Waterboys 81–90 The Waterboys US 9 Ex:el 808 State - 13 Pop Life Bananarama UK De La Soul Is Dead De La Soul - Positively Phranc Phranc - 14 Spellbound Paula Abdul - Mighty Like a Rose Elvis Costello - Schubert Dip EMF - Don't Rock the Jukebox Alan Jackson - O.G. Original Gangster Ice T - Yerself Is Steam Mercury Rev - Sailing the Seas of Cheese Primus - 17 Whispers Thomas Anders - 21 Pink Bubbles Go Ape Helloween - Slinky Milltown Brothers US 28 Electronic Electronic - Niggaz4Life N.W.A. - Gish The Smashing Pumpkins - Music From the Movie Jungle Fever Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits Eurythmics US The White Room The KLF US 29 Like an Ever Flowing Stream Dismember - June Day Album Artist Notes 4 Funke, Funke Wisdom Kool Moe Dee - Make a Jazz Noise Here Frank Zappa - Back on the Bus, Y'all Indigo Girls - 11 Love Hurts Cher - Unforgettable... with Love Natalie Cole - Prime of My Life Phyllis Hyman - Seal Seal - Slave to the Grind Skid Row - Superstition Siouxsie and the Banshees - Space I'm In Candyskins US Sugar Tax Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark US The Forest David Byrne - Dance to the Holy Man The Silencers US 14 Slow, Deep and Hard Type O Negative - You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 Frank Zappa 2 discs; Live 16 The Globe Big Audio Dynamite II - 18 Derelicts of Dialect 3rd Bass - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Van Halen - Turtle Soup Mock Turtles US 24 Holidays in Eden Marillion - Baby Yello - 25 Attack of the Killer B's Anthrax Rarities album Whirlpool Chapterhouse - Hollywood Vampires L.A. Guns - Luck of the Draw Bonnie Raitt - All Souled Out Pete Rock & CL Smooth EP Go Figure Spirit of the West - ? The Tea Party The Tea Party Debut July Day Album Artist Notes 1 Butchered at Birth Cannibal Corpse - This is an EP Release Digital Underground EP We Can't Be Stopped Geto Boys - 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours Green Day Compilation 13-Point Program to Destroy America Nation of Ulysses - Pure Poverty Poor Righteous Teachers - 2 Hey Stoopid Alice Cooper - A Future Without a Past Leaders of the New School - God Fodder Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Into the Great Wide Open Tom Petty - Woodface Crowded House - The Ruler's Back Slick Rick - Trisha Yearwood Trisha Yearwood - 3 Am I Cool or What? Various Artists Soundtrack 5 Blessed Are the Sick Morbid Angel - 9 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: Music from the Motion Picture Various Artists - Boyz N the Hood soundtrack Various Artists - Watershed Grant McLennan US All The Stuff (And More!) Volume 2 Ramones - Rag and Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts and Leftovers XTC - James James US 16 Amen Salif Keita - Biscuits (EP) Living Colour EP Beat the Boots Frank Zappa Live; Box Set 23 Homebase DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - João João Gilberto - Breaking Atoms Main Source - Music for the People Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Emotional Hooligan Gary Clail US Play Squeeze - Circa Mary's Danish - 30 Widespread Panic Widespread Panic - World Outside The Psychedelic Furs - 31 Steady Diet of Nothing Fugazi - August Day Album Artist Notes 3 To Mother Babes in Toyland EP 5 Brainstorm Young MC - 6 Harem Scarem Harem Scarem - Blue Lines Massive Attack - Madra Miranda Sex Garden - 1000 Smiling Knuckles Skin Yard - Ask the Ages Sonny Sharrock - Perspex Island Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - 12 Metallica ("The Black Album") Metallica - 13 Brand New Man Brooks & Dunn Debut Cypress Hill Cypress Hill - 20 Notorious Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Pocket Full of Kryptonite Spin Doctors - Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble Transvision Vamp - Honey Lingers Voice of the Beehive US The Comfort Zone Vanessa L. Williams - 26 Leisure Blur UK 27 Backlash Bad English - Ten Pearl Jam - The Prodigal Stranger Procol Harum - Harmony Ranch Riders in the Sky Live fear Toad the Wet Sprocket - September Day Album Artist Notes 2 Guaranteed Level 42 - Tin Machine II Tin Machine - 3 Travelers and Thieves Blues Traveler - Horrorscope Overkill - Ratt & Roll 81-91 Ratt Greatest Hits Roll the Bones Rush - Mistaken Identity Donna Summer - Naughty by Nature Naughty by Nature - 10 Ropin' the Wind Garth Brooks - On Every Street Dire Straits - Catfish Rising Jethro Tull - Showstoppers Barry Manilow - Solace Sarah McLachlan - Blow Up The Smithereens - Psychotic Supper Tesla - 17 Emotions Mariah Carey - Use Your Illusion I Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II Guns N' Roses - Pretty on the Inside Hole - No More Tears Ozzy Osbourne - 18 C.M.B. Color Me Badd - 19 Mad Mad World Tom Cochrane Canada; released in US in Feb '92 Live Train to Heartbreak Station Cinderella Live 20 The Pod Ween - 23 Waking Up the Neighbours Bryan Adams Canada; released Sept. 24 in US Prisoners in Paradise Europe - Sigh No More Gamma Ray - Wretch Kyuss - Shake Me Up Little Feat - Trompe le Monde Pixies - 24 Nevermind Nirvana - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers - Ceremony The Cult - Rock the House Live! Heart Live Prove You Wrong Prong Face the Nation Kid 'n Play - Hymns to the Silence Van Morrison - The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest - 30 Ebbhead Nitzer Ebb - Stars Simply Red - October Day Album Artist Notes 1 The Greatest Hits Cheap Trick Greatest Hits For My Broken Heart Reba McEntire - Diamonds and Pearls Prince & the New Power Generation - Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black Public Enemy - Scamboogery Scatterbrain - 4 Streets: A Rock Opera Savatage - Miscellaneous T They Might Be Giants B-Sides & Remixes 8 Screamadelica Primal Scream - Badmotorfinger Soundgarden - Sports Weekend: As Nasty As They Wanna Be, Pt. 2 2 Live Crew - Cool as Ice Vanilla Ice - 9 The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move... It's the Infectious Grooves Infectious Grooves - 14 Let's Get to It Kylie Minogue - 15 Vinyl Dramarama - Chorus Erasure - As Ugly as They Wanna Be Ugly Kid Joe - Mr. Bad Example Warren Zevon - 17 The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth Skyclad - 19 Decade of Decadence Mötley Crüe Compilation 22 Human Death - I Wish My Brother George Was Here Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Pennywise Pennywise - Effigy of the Forgotten Suffocation - Girlfriend Matthew Sweet - 28 Rush Street Richard Marx - 29 Prince of Darkness Big Daddy Kane - Death Certificate Ice Cube - 30 Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious Carcass - ? Krov za Krov (Blood for Blood) Aria - For Keeps The Field Mice - Queer Thompson Twins - November Day Album Artist Notes 1 Infrared Roses Grateful Dead Live Compilation Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Various Artists - Night of the Stormrider Iced Earth UK 4 Shepherd Moons Enya - Loveless My Bloody Valentine - 6 Ricky Martin Ricky Martin - 10 Sadisfaction Gregorian - 11 Essential Divinyls Greatest Hits We Can't Dance Genesis - Live Baby Live INXS Live 12 80-85 Bad Religion Compilation Clandestine Entombed - For the Boys Bette Midler Soundtrack Swallow This Live Poison 2 discs; Live 2Pacalypse Now 2Pac - In Celebration of Life Yanni - 19 Beckology Jeff Beck Box Set Live Happy Mondays Live Cool Hand Loc Tone Lōc - The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection Yngwie Malmsteen - Laughing Stock Talk Talk - Achtung Baby U2 - 26 Dangerous Michael Jackson - Keep It Comin' Keith Sweat - Hook: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack John Williams - 30 Now That's What I Call Music! 20 Various Artists Compilation ? No Jive Nazareth - December Day Album Artist Notes 6 Forest of Equilibrium Cathedral - 10 Until the End of the World soundtrack Various Artists - 15 V Legião Urbana - 25 Mō Sagasanai Zard - ? Spine of God Monster Magnet - Release Date Unknown Pandora's Box (album) - Aerosmith (box set) Baby Animals - Baby Animals (debut) Spirit Electricity (EP) - Bad Brains War Master - Bolt Thrower Early On (1964-1966) - David Bowie Don't Fear the Reaper (EP) - Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch Love's Secret Domain - Coil Woodface - Crowded House Island - Current 93 with HÖH 85-86 - Dag Nasty Open Doors, Closed Windows - Disco Inferno Believing in Better - Lennie Gallant On the Way Down from the Moon Palace - Lisa Germano Girly Sound - Liz Phair Hammerbox - Hammerbox Havana 3am - Havana 3am BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert - Hawkwind Palace Springs - Hawkwind I'm on Your Side - Jennifer Holliday Night of the Stormrider - Iced Earth Page of Life - Jon & Vangelis San Antorium - Lowlife It's... Madness Too - Madness Distant Plastic Trees - The Magnetic Fields Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo - MC Solaar Clown Heaven and Hell (EP) - Me Mom & Morgentaler Bullhead - The Melvins Daniela Mercury - Daniela Mercury Word of Mouth - Mike + The Mechanics Boys Will Be Boyz - Newsboys The Nymphs - The Nymphs Lunar Womb - The Obsessed Orbital - Orbital Soul Show: Live at Delta 88 - Joan Osborne (live) Industrial - Pitchshifter World Outside - The Psychedelic Furs Border Drive-In Theatre - The Raindogs Architect of Fear - Raven Foxbase Alpha - Saint Etienne Magia - Shakira Information Libre - Sham 69 Suit suit...hehehe - Slank Volume One - Sleep The Best of Spandau Ballet - Spandau Ballet By Heart - Brenda K. Starr Jah Won't Pay the Bills - Sublime No Pocky for Kitty - Superchunk Tossing Seeds - Superchunk Raise - Swervedriver Ophelia's Shadow - Toyah Unsane - Unsane Surprise - Crystal Waters Angst - Lacrimosa Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1991.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries 1 Bryan Adams (Everything I Do) I Do it For You 1991 UK 1 - Jun 1991, US BB 1 of 1991, US CashBox 1 of 1991, Holland 1 - Jul 1991, Sweden 1 - Aug 1991, Austria 1 - Aug 1991, Switzerland 1 - Jul 1991, Norway 1 - Jul 1991, Poland 1 - Jul 1991, Germany 1 - Jan 1992, Éire 1 - Jul 1991, New Zealand 1 for 8 weeks Aug 1991, Australia 1 for 11 weeks Oct 1991, US BB 3 of 1991, Australia 3 of 1991, POP 3 of 1991, Europe 5 of the 1990s, TOTP 6, Global 7 (10 M sold) - 1991, Italy 9 of 1991, Germany 9 of the 1990s, Scrobulate 30 of ballad, Virgin 60, Party 70 of 2007, RYM 73 of 1991, Poland 96 of all time, OzNet 121, Belgium 150 of all time 2 Michael Jackson Black Or White 1991 UK 1 - Nov 1991, US BB 1 of 1991, Sweden 1 - Nov 1991, Switzerland 1 - Nov 1991, Norway 1 - Nov 1991, Poland 1 - Nov 1991, Éire 1 - Nov 1991, New Zealand 1 for 8 weeks Nov 1991, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Feb 1992, Austria 2 - Nov 1991, Germany 2 - Jan 1992, Holland 3 - Nov 1991, Italy 3 of 1991, US BB 19 of 1991, POP 19 of 1991, Australia 24 of 1992, US CashBox 29 of 1992, RYM 96 of 1991, Germany 115 of the 1990s 3 Roxette Joyride 1991 US BB 1 of 1991, Holland 1 - Mar 1991, Sweden 1 - Mar 1991, Austria 1 - Mar 1991, Switzerland 1 - Mar 1991, Norway 1 - Mar 1991, Germany 1 - Mar 1991, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Jul 1991, Poland 3 - Apr 1991, UK 4 - Mar 1991, France 7 - Apr 1991, Australia 13 of 1991, Italy 24 of 1991, Germany 24 of the 1990s, US CashBox 33 of 1991, US BB 35 of 1991, POP 37 of 1991 4 Scorpions Wind of Change 1991 Holland 1 - Apr 1991, Sweden 1 - Mar 1991, Austria 1 - Jun 1991, Switzerland 1 - Feb 1991, Norway 1 - Apr 1991, Poland 1 - Mar 1991, Germany 1 of the 1990s, Germany 1 - Apr 1991, UK 2 - Sep 1991, US BB 4 of 1991, Scrobulate 9 of ballad, France 10 - Dec 1990, US BB 24 of 1991, Europe 26 of the 1990s, POP 26 of 1991, RYM 142 of 1990 5 R.E.M. Losing My Religion 1991 Holland 1 - Mar 1991, Poland 1 - Apr 1991, Europe 1 of the 1990s, US BB 4 of 1991, Norway 4 - Jun 1991, Sweden 5 - Mar 1991, RYM 5 of 1991, Austria 7 - Aug 1991, Switzerland 11 - Oct 1991, Belgium 12 of all time, UK 19 - Mar 1991, US BB 28 of 1991, Virgin 30, US CashBox 39 of 1991, 39 in 2FM list, Poland 44 of all time, Acclaimed 44, POP 61 of 1991, Scrobulate 69 of rock, Italy 70 of 1991, OzNet 90, WXPN 106, RIAA 143, Rolling Stone 169 Top hits "À nos actes manqués" - Fredericks, Goldman, Jones "Alive" - Pearl Jam "All The Man That I Need" - Whitney Houston "American Music" - The Violent Femmes "Baby Baby" - Amy Grant "Black Or White" - Michael Jackson "Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are the Days of Our Lives" - Queen "Bring The Noise" - Public Enemy and [[Anthrax (band)|Anthrax] "Call My Name" - OMD "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" - Bryan Adams "Can't Let Go" - Mariah Carey "Chocolate Cake" - Crowded House "Chorus" - Erasure "Close My Eyes" - Marillion "Coming Out of the Dark" - Gloria Estefan "Crucified" - Army of Lovers "Désenchantée" - Mylène Farmer "Do You Remember" - Phil Collins "Do Anything" - Natural Selection "Don't Cry" - Guns N' Roses "Emotions" - Mariah Carey "Enter Sandman" - Metallica "Every Heartbeat" - Amy Grant "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" - Bryan Adams "Everyday Sunshine - Fishbone "Fall At Your Feet" - Crowded House "Get Here" - Oleta Adams "Get The Funk Out" - Extreme "The Globe" - Big Audio Dynamite II "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" - C&C Music Factory "Good For Me" - Amy Grant "Good Times" - INXS and Jimmy Barnes "Give it Away" - Red Hot Chili Peppers "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) - Crystal Waters "Holding On" - Beverley Craven "I Can't Make You Love Me" - Bonnie Raitt "I Don't Wanna Cry" - Mariah Carey "I Touch Myself" - Divinyls "I Can't Dance" - Genesis "I Wanna Sex You Up" - Color Me Badd "It's in His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)" - Cher "It's Only Natural" - Crowded House "Learning To Fly" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Let's Talk About Sex" - Salt-N-Pepa "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" - Spin Doctors "Live And Let Die" - Guns N' Roses "Feed My Frankenstein" - Alice Cooper "Live For Loving You" - Gloria Estefan "Losing My Religion" - R.E.M. "Love To Hate You" - Erasure "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" - Janet Jackson "More Than Words" - Extreme "Motownphily" - Boyz II Men "Mysterious Ways" - U2 "No more tears" - Ozzy Osbourne "O.P.P." - Naughty by Nature "One" - U2 "Qui a le droit... (live)" - Patrick Bruel "Pandora's Box" - OMD "People Are Strange" - Echo & the Bunnymen "Pop Goes The Weasel" - 3rd Bass "Poundcake" - Van Halen "Radio Song" - R.E.M. "Right Now" - Van Halen "Right Here, Right Now" - Jesus Jones "Rescue Me" - Madonna "Romantic" - Karyn White "Rush" - Big Audio Dynamite II "Rush Rush" - Paula Abdul "Saga Africa" - Yannick Noah "Sailing on the Seven Seas" - OMD "Sexuality" - Billy Bragg "Senza una donna" - Zucchero & Paul Young "Shameless" - Garth Brooks "Shiny Happy People" - R.E.M. "Sit Down" - James "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana "Someday" - Mariah Carey "Something To Talk About" - Bonnie Raitt "Sunless Saturday - Fishbone "Temptation" - Corina "That's What Love Is For" - Amy Grant "The Unforgiven" - Metallica "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" - Cher "The Show Must Go On" - Queen "There's No Other Way" - Blur "Top of the World" - Van Halen "Touch Me (All Night Long)" - Cathy Dennis "Train in Vain (Stand By Me)" - The Clash "Twist and Shout" - Deacon Blue "Unbelievable" - EMF "Under The Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers "Walking in Memphis" - Marc Cohn "Weather with You" - Crowded House "When Something's Wrong With My Baby" - John Farnham + Jimmy Barnes "Who Said I Would" - Phil Collins "When A Man Loves A Woman" - Michael Bolton "What Comes Naturally" - Sheena Easton "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" - Celine Dion "Wicked Game" - Chris Isaak "Wind of Change" - Scorpions (Released in 1990, became hit single in 1991) "Violent Blue" - Chagall Guevara "You Could Be Mine" - Guns N' Roses "You Got The Love" - Candi Staton

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