Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 2, 1999
HOT 100SINGLES
100 positions ← 12/26/98 01/09 →

This chart comes from the chart file, not from a page. The scans supplied don’t include the issue dated January 2, 1999, so its ranks, titles, artists and LAST WEEK figures come from the owner’s 1980-2009 Hot 100 chart file, which agrees with the pages either side: the next page’s LAST WEEK column names the same ranks. 2 WKS AGO and WKS ON CHART follow the pages’ own count, and each label is the one the pages print for the record. The bullets and the Hot Shot Debut are inferred from the chart’s movement, by the rule the archive uses for 1958-1979: a record is bulleted when it is new, re-entering, up on last week, or at last week’s rank for the second week running, unless it stood higher earlier in the same run; and a record that has peaked and moves up three places or fewer gets no bullet when it has none in the two weeks before and the two weeks after.

This weekLast week2 wks agoWks. on chartTitle Artist
Label
Peak
1 1 1 10
★★ NO. 1 ★★5 weeks at No. One
JIVE 42557
1
2 2 2 14
ARISTA 13550
2
3 3 3 17
PENDULUM 15316/RED ANT
1
4 5 8 7
JIVE 42545
4
5 6 6 14
MOTOWN 860830
3
6 4 4 31
MERCURY (NASHVILLE) 566450
4
7 7 5 8
RUFFHOUSE 78868/COLUMBIA
1
8 12 11 9
BAD BOY 79185/ARISTA
8
9 9 10 10
ATLANTIC ALBUM CUT
9
10 8 7 8
BAD BOY 79117/ARISTA
7
11 11 — 2
VIRGIN 38652
11
12 10 9 15
SMG ALBUM CUT/COLUMBIA
8
13 13 12 15
WORK ALBUM CUT/ERG
12
14 14 14 42
WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 17247
7
15 15 16 11
ATLANTIC ALBUM CUT
15
16 17 19 15
WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT
16
17 16 15 17
ELEKTRA ALBUM CUT/EEG
15
18 21 24 11
Love Me112 featuring MASE
BAD BOY 79184/ARISTA
17
19 47 72 3
DECCA 72078
19
20 20 21 14
DEF JAM 567683/MERCURY
20
21 46 46 7
MO THUGS/RUTHLESS 1707/RELATIVITY
21
22 18 13 34
WARNER SUNSET SOUNDTRACK CUT/REPRISE
9
23 19 17 21
ARISTA 13522
1
24 25 27 5
INTERSCOPE SOUNDTRACK CUT
24
25 28 41 5
ARISTA/WARNER SUNSET (B/W ADIA)/REPRISE
25
26 22 22 15
LAVA 84191/ATLANTIC
5
27 24 20 17
A&M ALBUM CUT
20
28 23 18 13
ISLAND/DEF JAM 572424/MERCURY
3
29 30 33 7
COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT
29
30 42 49 10
PRIORITY 53456
28
31 36 35 8
UNIVERSITY ALBUM CUT/ISLAND
31
32 26 23 14
MAVERICK ALBUM CUT/REPRISE
17
33 33 29 22
UPTOWN 56207/UNIVERSAL
9
34 31 28 24
RCA ALBUM CUT
28
35 34 44 5
RCA ALBUM CUT
34
36 37 51 5
ARISTA ALBUM CUT
36
37 27 25 14
REPRISE 17174
1
38 35 34 9
ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM 566493/MERCURY
32
39 32 30 47
ARISTA 13456
1
40 43 55 5
MOTOWN 8608852
40
41 45 38 12
MCA 55473
26
42 39 42 10
GIANT (NASHVILLE) 17158/REPRISE (NASHVILLE)
39
43 41 31 12
MAVERICK 17160/WARNER BROS.
11
44 38 43 5
AMARU/DEATH ROW ALBUM CUT/INTERSCOPE
38
45 48 54 9
ARISTA NASHVILLE 13134
45
46 40 37 7
EPIC (NASHVILLE) 79011
37
47 29 26 29
BLACKGROUND SOUNDTRACK CUT/ATLANTIC
21
48 49 56 19
RCA (NASHVILLE) 65456
48
49 44 40 12
MERCURY (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
40
50 52 47 5
MCA ALBUM CUT
47
This weekLast week2 wks agoWks. on chartTitle Artist
Label
Peak
51 51 48 9
ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT
48
52 53 45 14
VIRGIN ALBUM CUT
45
53 54 52 13
LYRIC STREET 164023
52
54 66 87 4
RCA (NASHVILLE) 65584
54
55 57 66 7
DREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
55
56 62 61 11
ELEKTRA 64080/EEG
12
57 59 62 9
COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT
57
58 77 99 3
WARNER BROS. 44576
58
59 58 67 5
LAFACE ALBUM CUT/ARISTA
58
60 50 36 12
ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT
36
61 60 68 5
CURB ALBUM CUT
60
62 55 39 12
WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
33
63 65 69 4
CURB ALBUM CUT
63
64 56 53 8
DREAMWORKS /GEFFEN
51
65 68 73 6
ATLANTIC (NASHVILLE) 84197
65
66 74 — 2
REPRISE ALBUM CUT
66
67 69 63 5
ISLAND ALBUM CUT
63
68 75 85 4
GIANT (NASHVILLE) 17131/REPRISE (NASHVILLE)
68
69 71 74 12
H.O.L.A. 341075/RED ANT
36
70 79 — 2
JIVE ALBUM CUT
70
71 73 71 4
MCA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT
71
72 76 84 3
ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT
72
73 61 57 14
CLOCKWORK 79022/EPIC
12
74 91 95 8
ARISTA 13569
53
75 80 83 3
TOMMY BOY ALBUM CUT
75
76 85 — 2
LAVA ALBUM CUT/ATLANTIC
76
77 84 — 2
ARISTA ALBUM CUT
77
78 67 59 18
MONUMENT 79003
41
79 83 76 6
FLYTE TYME SOUNDTRACK CUT/MCA
76
80 NEW▶ 1
★★★ HOT SHOT DEBUT ★★★
WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT
80
81 82 75 8
ATLANTIC ALBUM CUT
75
82 72 60 18
COLUMBIA 78952
1
83 78 77 7
CAPITOL ALBUM CUT
77
84 81 81 8
CAPRICORN ALBUM CUT/MERCURY
81
85 63 58 14
EPIC (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
38
86 86 — 2
DEF JAM SOUNDTRACK CUT/MERCURY
86
87 70 65 7
JIVE ALBUM CUT
65
88 87 78 18
BLACKBIRD ALBUM CUT/SIRE
69
89 64 50 5
MCA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT
44
90 88 86 8
HOLLYWOOD ALBUM CUT
86
91 89 70 11
SO SO DEF 79036/COLUMBIA
9
92 95 90 5
MERCURY (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
73
93 94 92 15
DGC ALBUM CUT/GEFFEN
85
94 97 96 9
POOKIE 860848/MOTOWN
49
95 NEW▶ 1
M3 56216/UNIVERSAL
95
96 98 93 5
RCA (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
82
97 NEW▶ 1
COLUMBIA (NASHVILLE) 79013
97
98 96 79 10
DECCA 72068/MCA NASHVILLE
43
99 92 88 5
GOSPO CENTRIC ALBUM CUT/INTERSCOPE
79
100 93 80 5
CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
62

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