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1999 in music

Who ruled 1999? TLC was Artist of the Year on the Billboard Hot 100 and Steps on the UK Singles Chart. Every #1 song of 1999, the biggest songs and the top artists.

Billboard Hot 100

Artist of the Year 1999

TLC

10 crowns · 25 weeks among the top five artists · Era Power 131

Top artists of 1999
#	Artist	Era Power	Crowns	Top-five weeks
1	TLC	131	10	25
2	Whitney Houston	123	0	13
3	Backstreet Boys	119	0	3
4	Sugar Ray	119	0	9
5	Goo Goo Dolls	107	1	9
6	Britney Spears	103	1	10
7	Ricky Martin	93	10	18
8	98 Degrees	87	0	3
9	702	86	0	3
10	Sixpence None The Richer	85	0	10

Every #1 song of 199915 songs reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
First week at #1	Song	Artist	Weeks at #1
Jan 2, 1999	I'm Your Angel	R. Kelly & Celine Dion	2
Jan 16, 1999	Have You Ever?	Brandy	2
Jan 30, 1999	...Baby One More Time	Britney Spears	2
Feb 13, 1999	Angel Of Mine	Monica	4
Mar 13, 1999	Believe	Cher	4
Apr 10, 1999	No Scrubs	TLC	4
May 8, 1999	Livin' La Vida Loca	Ricky Martin	5
Jun 12, 1999	If You Had My Love	Jennifer Lopez	5
Jul 17, 1999	Bills, Bills, Bills	Destiny's Child	1
Jul 24, 1999	Wild Wild West	Will Smith feat. Dru Hill & Kool Mo Dee	1
Jul 31, 1999	Genie In A Bottle	Christina Aguilera	5
Sep 4, 1999	Bailamos	Enrique Iglesias	2
Sep 18, 1999	Unpretty	TLC	3
Oct 9, 1999	Heartbreaker	Mariah Carey feat. Jay-Z	2
Oct 23, 1999	Smooth	Santana feat. Rob Thomas	10

Biggest songs of 1999Songs that entered the chart in 1999, by Record Power
#	Song	Artist	Peak	Weeks	Record Power
1	Smooth	Santana feat. Rob Thomas	#1	58	135.3
2	Breathe	Faith Hill	#2	53	105.0
3	Where My Girls At?	702	#4	42	92.4
4	Amazed	Lonestar	#1	55	92.2
5	I Need To Know	Marc Anthony	#3	40	81.2
6	Back At One	Brian McKnight	#2	37	81.2
7	I Knew I Loved You	Savage Garden	#1	33	76.4
8	Higher	Creed	#7	57	74.3
9	No Scrubs	TLC	#1	28	71.8
10	Say My Name	Destiny's Child	#1	32	68.1

UK Singles Chart

Artist of the Year 1999

Steps

4 crowns · 14 weeks among the top five artists · Era Power 99

Top artists of 1999
#	Artist	Era Power	Crowns	Top-five weeks
1	Steps	99	4	14
2	Vengaboys	98	1	9
3	Britney Spears	95	1	11
4	Shania Twain	72	2	7
5	Westlife	70	6	10
6	Boyzone	69	3	8
7	Whitney Houston	65	0	5
8	Will Smith	64	0	5
9	TLC	61	0	3
10	Geri Halliwell	56	2	6

Every #1 song of 199934 songs reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart
First week at #1	Song	Artist	Weeks at #1
Jan 3, 1999	Heartbeat/Tragedy	Steps	1
Jan 10, 1999	Praise You	Fatboy Slim	1
Jan 17, 1999	A Little Bit More	911	1
Jan 24, 1999	Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)	The Offspring	1
Jan 31, 1999	Maria	Blondie	2
Feb 14, 1999	Fly Away	Lenny Kravitz	1
Feb 21, 1999	Baby 1 More Time	Britney Spears	2
Mar 7, 1999	When the Going Gets Tough	Boyzone	2
Mar 21, 1999	Blame It on the Weatherman	B*Witched	1
Mar 28, 1999	Flat Beat	Mr. Oizo	2
Apr 11, 1999	Perfect Moment	Martine McCutcheon	2
Apr 25, 1999	Swear It Again	Westlife	2
May 9, 1999	I Want It That Way	Backstreet Boys	1
May 16, 1999	You Needed Me	Boyzone	1
May 23, 1999	Sweet Like Chocolate	Shanks & Bigfoot	2
Jun 6, 1999	Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)	Baz Luhrmann	1
Jun 13, 1999	Bring It All Back	S Club 7	1
Jun 20, 1999	Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!	Vengaboys	1
Jun 27, 1999	9PM (Till I Come)	ATB	2
Jul 11, 1999	Livin' La Vida Loca	Ricky Martin	3
Aug 1, 1999	When You Say Nothing at All	Ronan Keating	2
Aug 15, 1999	If I Let You Go	Westlife	1
Aug 22, 1999	Mi Chico Latino	Geri Halliwell	1
Aug 29, 1999	Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)	Lou Bega	2
Sep 12, 1999	We're Going to Ibiza!	Vengaboys	1
Sep 19, 1999	Blue (Da Ba Dee)	Eiffel 65	3
Oct 10, 1999	Genie In A Bottle	Christina Aguilera	2
Oct 24, 1999	Flying Without Wings	Westlife	1
Oct 31, 1999	Keep on Movin	Five	1
Nov 7, 1999	Lift Me Up	Geri Halliwell	1
Nov 14, 1999	She's the One/It's Only Us	Robbie Williams	1
Nov 21, 1999	King of My Castle	Wamdue Project	1
Nov 28, 1999	The Millennium Prayer	Cliff Richard	3
Dec 19, 1999	I Have a Dream/Seasons in the Sun	Westlife	2

Biggest songs of 1999Songs that entered the chart in 1999, by Record Power
#	Song	Artist	Peak	Weeks	Record Power
1	Baby 1 More Time	Britney Spears	#1	23	45.7
2	That Don't Impress Me Much	Shania Twain	#3	24	45.6
3	I Try	Macy Gray	#6	22	45.1
4	Blue (Da Ba Dee)	Eiffel 65	#1	31	44.2
5	If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time	R. Kelly	#2	25	43.3
6	No Scrubs	TLC	#3	20	40.8
7	Re-Rewind the Crowd Say Bo Selecta	Artful Dodger feat. Craig David	#2	20	36.9
8	Livin' La Vida Loca	Ricky Martin	#1	19	36.2
9	Genie In A Bottle	Christina Aguilera	#1	29	35.6
10	Better Off Alone	Alice Deejay	#2	20	35.3

Artist of the Year and the rankings are the ChartReign Power model: the artist with the most chart power over the year, not the most #1s. Crowns are weeks crowned Artist of the Week. How it works