List of Billboard number-one dance singles of 1989

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

Chart history

Issue date	Hot Dance Music Club Play		Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales		Ref.
	Title	Artist(s)	Title	Artist(s)
January 7	"Get on the Dance Floor"	Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock	"I Wanna Have Some Fun"	Samantha Fox	[1][2]
January 14			"The Lover In Me"	Sheena Easton	[3][4]
January 21	"Good Life"	Inner City	"Walking Away"	Information Society	[5][6]
January 28			"Wild Thing"	Tone-Loc	[7][8]
February 4	"Wild Thing"	Tone Lōc			[9][10]
February 11	"All She Wants Is"	Duran Duran			[11][12]
February 18			"Straight Up"	Paula Abdul	[13][14]
February 25	"Fading Away"	Will to Power			[15][16]
March 4					[17][18]
March 11	"That's the Way Love Is"	Ten City	"I Beg Your Pardon"	Kon Kan	[19][20]
March 18	"She Drives Me Crazy"	Fine Young Cannibals			[21][22]
March 25			"Girl You Know It's True"	Milli Vanilli	[23][24]
April 1	"This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze)"	Maurice			[25][26]
April 8			"This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze)"	Maurice	[27][28]
April 15	"Like a Prayer"	Madonna			[29][30]
April 22			"Like a Prayer"	Madonna	[31][32]
April 29	"Buffalo Stance"	Neneh Cherry			[33][34]
May 6	"Real Love"	Jody Watley			[35][36]
May 13					[37][38]
May 20	"We Call It Acieed"/ "Trance Dance"	D-Mob featuring Gary Haisman	"Funky Cold Medina"	Tone-Loc	[39][40]
May 27	"Round & Round"	New Order	"Buffalo Stance"	Neneh Cherry	[41][42]
June 3	"Me Myself and I"	De La Soul	"Me Myself and I"	De La Soul	[43][44]
June 10	"Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)"	Roberta Flack			[45][46]
June 17	"Ain't Nobody Better"	Inner City	"This Time I Know It's For Real"	Donna Summer	[47][48]
June 24	"Keep on Movin'"	Soul II Soul	"Keep on Movin'"	Soul II Soul Featuring Caron Wheeler	[49][50]
July 1	"Secret Rendezvous"	Karyn White			[51][52]
July 8	"Express Yourself"	Madonna			[53][54]
July 15					[55][56]
July 22			"Express Yourself"	Madonna	[57][58]
July 29	"Deep in Vogue"	Malcolm McLaren			[59][60]
August 5	"Let It Roll"	Doug Lazy			[61][62]
August 12	"Come Home with Me Baby"	Dead or Alive			[63][64]
August 19	"Batdance"	Prince	"Friends"	Jody Watley with Eric B. & Rakim	[65][66]
August 26	"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)"	Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler	"Come Home with Me Baby"	Dead or Alive	[67][68]
September 2			"Batdance" (From "Batman")	Prince	[69][70]
September 9			"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)"	Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler	[71][72]
September 16	"It's Time to Get Funky"	D-Mob featuring LRS			[73][74]
September 23	"Do You Love What You Feel"	Inner City			[75][76]
September 30	Life Is a Dance (all cuts)	Chaka Khan			[77][78]
October 7	"Miss You Much"	Janet Jackson	"Miss You Much"	Janet Jackson	[79][80]
October 14					[81][82]
October 21	"French Kiss"	Lil Louis			[83][84]
October 28					[85][86]
November 4	"Pump Up the Jam"	Technotronic	"French Kiss"	Lil Louis	[87][88]
November 11					[89][90]
November 18					[91][92]
November 25			"Pump Up the Jam"	Technotronic Featuring Felly	[93][94]
December 2	"Git on Up"	Fast Eddie featuring Sundance			[95][96]
December 9	"Love on Top of Love (Killer Kiss)"	Grace Jones			[97][98]
December 16					[99][100]
December 23	"Rhythm Nation"	Janet Jackson			[101][102]
December 30					[103][104]

See also

• 1989 in music
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart