List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1996

The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplays. The year started out with "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men and ended with "Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton. There were nine singles that peaked atop the charts, but if "One Sweet Day" is excluded from the count (as the song had its peak in the previous year), the total would be eight, the second lowest for a single year, along with 2005 and 2015. The longest running number-one single of 1996 is "Macarena" (Bayside Boys Mix), which stayed at the top for 14 weeks.

Los del Río (pictured) earned their first Hot 100 number-one single with "Macarena", which stayed at the top position for fourteen straight weeks.

That year, 8 acts earned their first number one song, such as Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, 2Pac, K-Ci & JoJo, Dr. Dre, Roger Troutman, Toni Braxton, Los del Río, and Blackstreet. Mariah Carey, Dr. Dre and Toni Braxton were the only acts to hit number one more than once, with each of them hitting number one twice.

Chart history

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1996 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

No.	Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Ref.
804	January 6	"One Sweet Day"	Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men	[1]
	January 13			[2]
	January 20			[3]
	January 27			[4]
	February 3			[5]
	February 10			[6]
	February 17			[7]
	February 24			[8]
	March 2			[9]
	March 9			[10]
	March 16			[11]
805	March 23	"Because You Loved Me"	Céline Dion	[12]
	March 30			[13]
	April 6			[14]
	April 13			[15]
	April 20			[16]
	April 27			[17]
806	May 4	"Always Be My Baby"	Mariah Carey	[18]
	May 11			[19]
807	May 18	"Tha Crossroads"	Bone Thugs-n-Harmony	[20]
	May 25			[21]
	June 1			[22]
	June 8			[23]
	June 15			[24]
	June 22			[25]
	June 29			[26]
	July 6			[27]
808	July 13	"How Do U Want It" / "California Love"	2Pac featuring K-Ci & JoJo / featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman	[28]
	July 20			[29]
809	July 27	"You're Makin' Me High" / "Let It Flow"	Toni Braxton	[30]
810	August 3	"Macarena" (Bayside Boys Mix)	Los del Río	[31]
	August 10			[32]
	August 17			[33]
	August 24			[34]
	August 31			[35]
	September 7			[36]
	September 14			[37]
	September 21			[38]
	September 28			[39]
	October 5			[40]
	October 12			[41]
	October 19			[42]
	October 26			[43]
	November 2			[44]
811	November 9	"No Diggity"	Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre	[45]
	November 16			[46]
	November 23			[47]
	November 30			[48]
812	December 7	"Un-Break My Heart"	Toni Braxton	[49]
	December 14			[50]
	December 21			[51]
	December 28			[52]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	Los Del Rio	14
2	Mariah Carey	13
3	Boyz II Men	11
4	Bone Thugs-N-Harmony	8
5	Céline Dion	6
	Dr. Dre
7	Toni Braxton	5
8	Blackstreet	4
9	2Pac	2
	K-Ci & JoJo
	Roger Troutman

See also

• 1996 in music
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1990s