Number-one dance hits of 1999 (USA)
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These are the Billboard magazine Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

number one hits of 1999.
Issue date Song Artist Reference(s)
January 2 "Believe
Believe (Cher song)
"Believe" is a song by American recording artist Cher. It was released on November 24, 1998 as the lead single from her twenty-third studio album of the same name. It was written by Brian Higgins, Stuart McLennen, Paul Barry, Steven Torch, Matthew Gray, and Timothy Powell and produced by Mark...

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Cher
Cher
Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...

January 9
January 16 "Up and Down" Vengaboys
Vengaboys
Vengaboys are a Eurodance pop group based in Amsterdam. The brainchild of two Dutch producers Wessel van Diepen and Dennis van den Driesschen , they enjoyed commercial success in the late 1990s. They are best known for their two UK number one singles, "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!" and "We're Going...

January 23 "It's Not Right but It's Okay
It's Not Right but It's Okay
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" is a 1999 R&B/dance song by American singer Whitney Houston, from her fourth studio album My Love Is Your Love. Initially featured as the B-Side of "Heartbreak Hotel," it became the album's third single and peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart on...

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Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...

January 30
February 6
February 13 "I'm Beautiful" Bette Midler
Bette Midler
Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...

February 20
February 27 "Skin" Charlotte
Charlotte (singer)
Charlotte Kelly is a British R&B and dance singer and songwriter. She is of mixed English/Caribbean descent.-Career:Kelly was blind at birth. Kelly started her career as a singer in her teens. In the 1990s, she co-wrote with Mike Ward and Lisa Stansfield, before being signed to Big Life Records...

March 6 "(You Got Me) Burnin' Up" Cevin Fisher
Cevin Fisher
Cevin Fisher is an American house music record producer. He is best known for songs such as "The Freaks Come Out" and " Burning Up," the latter of which featured vocals by Loleatta Holloway...

 featuring Loleatta Holloway
Loleatta Holloway
Loleatta Holloway was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively.-Biography:...

March 13 "Nothing Really Matters
Nothing Really Matters
"Nothing Really Matters" is a pop-dance music song written by American singer Madonna and Patrick Leonard for Madonna's seventh album Ray of Light . The song was released as the final single from the album in the spring of 1999. It was produced by Madonna, William Orbit and Marius De Vries and...

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Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

March 20
March 27 "Jackie's Strength
Jackie's Strength
"Jackie's Strength" is a song by Tori Amos, released as the second single from her 1998 album From the Choirgirl Hotel. It reached #54 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart. The remix single, released the following year, reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in the U.S...

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Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

April 3 "Heartbreak Hotel
Heartbreak Hotel (Whitney Houston song)
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a song by American R&B/Pop singer Whitney Houston. It was released as the second but official lead single from her 1998 album My Love Is Your Love. The song also features R&B singers Faith Evans and Kelly Price accompanying her...

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Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans
Faith Evans
Faith Renée Evans is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, record producer, actress and author. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles during 1993 for a career with the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B...

 and Kelly Price
Kelly Price
Kelly Price is an American R&B and soul singer, formerly on the Def Soul label.-Life and music career:Kelly Cherelle Price was born in Queens, New York. She was first discovered by Mariah Carey in February 1992 and subsequently introduced to Sony Columbia's then CEO Tommy Mottola...

April 10 "I Still Believe" Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...

April 17 "Baby Wants to Ride" Hani
Hani (producer)
Hani is an American producer and remixer from New York City, New York whose restructuring of hits ranging from Michael Jackson to Alicia Keys have gone on to become club classics...

April 24 "Body" Funky Green Dogs
Murk (band)
Murk is a house music production team composed of Ralph Falcón and Oscar Gaetan). They formed in Miami in 1991...

May 1 "Strong Enough
Strong Enough (Cher song)
"Strong Enough" is a song by American recording artist Cher from her twenty-third studio album Believe . The song was released as the second single from the album. It was released on May 4, 1999 by Warner Bros, and WEA. The song's composition and musical style is very strong modern 80's disco music...

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Cher
May 8 "It's Over Now" Deborah Cox
Deborah Cox
Deborah Cox is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1998 song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart , a record held for nearly eight years. She has achieved ten number-one hits on...

May 15
May 22 "Unspeakable Joy" Kim English
Kim English
Kim English is an African American electronica, soul, gospel, and house music singer, born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.-Music career:...

May 29 "Got the Groove" SM-Trax
SM-Trax
SM-Trax is an electronic duo from Germany consisting of producers Stefan Grunwald and Mirko von Schlieffen. In mid-1999 they went to #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Got the Groove," released on Groovilicious Records....

June 5 "Sexual (Li-Da-Di)" Amber
June 12 "Big Love" Pete Heller
Pete Heller
Pete Heller is an English electronic and house music producer. He is recognised in the dance community for his solo work, and his remixes with frequent collaborator Terry Farley. As a duo they have released popular tunes under the names Heller & Farley Project , Fire Island plus The Look and Feel...

June 19
June 26
July 3 "Sing It Back
Sing It Back
"Sing It Back" is a song written and performed by Moloko . It first appeared in its original version on Moloko's second album, I Am Not a Doctor...

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Moloko
Moloko
Moloko were an Anglo-Irish electronic/pop duo consisting of Róisín Murphy from Wicklow, Ireland and Mark Brydon, from Sunderland, England.- Origin of band name :...

July 10
July 17 "What You Need" Powerhouse featuring Duane Harden
Duane Harden
Duane Harden is a male African American dance music vocalist and songwriter who has sung on several big nightclub hits by various producers.Harden is particularly famous in the United Kingdom, having sung on two best selling dance singles in 1999: "U Don't Know Me" by Armand Van Helden and "I Got...

July 24 "Beautiful Stranger
Beautiful Stranger
"Beautiful Stranger" is a Grammy Award winning dance-pop song written and produced by American singer Madonna and British song-writer and musician William Orbit, drawing heavily on the 1966 song "She Comes in Colors" by Love. "Beautiful Stranger" was written for the film soundtrack Austin Powers:...

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Madonna
July 31
August 7 "I Will Go with You (Con te partirò)
I Will Go with You (Con te partirò)
"I Will Go with You " is a song recorded by American singer Donna Summer in 1999 for her album Live & More Encore, the track being one of two new studio recordings included on the live album....

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Donna Summer
Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...

August 14 "Red Alert
Red Alert (song)
"Red Alert" is a song by British electronic dance music duo Basement Jaxx. It was the first single released from their debut album, Remedy. It later appears on Basement Jaxx: The Singles. It ties with "Romeo" as their second-highest UK Singles Chart placing at number 5. It also became their first...

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Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

August 21 "Bailamos
Bailamos
"Bailamos" is a Latin pop song from singer Enrique Iglesias, sung in English and Spanish. It was the debut single of Iglesias in the English-language market, and attained immense success, reaching the #1 spot in the Billboard Hot 100....

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Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop music singer, a son of singer Julio Iglesias.Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa...

August 28 "My Love Is Your Love
My Love Is Your Love (song)
"My Love Is Your Love" is a 1999 song by American R&B singer Whitney Houston. Released as the fourth single off Houston's album of the same name, it peaked at #4 in the U.S., #2 on the U.S. R&B chart, and #2 in the U.K...

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Whitney Houston
September 4
September 11 "Canned Heat
Canned Heat (song)
"Canned Heat" is the second single from British funk band Jamiroquai's fourth studio album, Synkronized, released in 1999. The song was their second #1 on the U.S. Dance Chart and peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund...

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Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai is a British jazz funk and acid jazz band formed in 1992. Jamiroquai were initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the James Taylor Quartet, and the Brand New Heavies. Other Acid Jazz artists such as...

September 18 "Five Fathoms (Love More)" Everything but the Girl
Everything but the Girl
Everything but the Girl was a two-person English band, formed in Hull during 1981, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt . They are currently inactive although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may reform someday...

September 25 "Walking" Pocket Size
Pocket Size
Pocket Size is the name of a house music duo from England, featuring producer Darren Pearson and singer Liz Overs. In 1999 they hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Walking" on Atlantic Records....

October 2 "All or Nothing
All or Nothing (Cher song)
"All or Nothing" is the third international single by American singer-actress Cher from her twenty-third studio album, Believe. It was released in 1999 by Warner Bros, and WEA.-Song information:...

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Cher
October 9 "Situation '99
Situation (song)
"Situation" is the title of a 1982 single by the British synthpop band Yazoo. The song was originally released in the UK as the B-side to Yazoo's debut single, "Only You", which went to number two on the UK Singles Chart. Released as a single in its own right in the U.S., the song peaked at number...

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Yazoo
Yazoo (band)
Yazoo are a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex. They had a number of Top 10 hits in the UK charts in the early 1980s...

October 16
October 23
October 30 "Waiting for Tonight
Waiting for Tonight
"Waiting for Tonight" is a song originally recorded by American female pop trio 3rd Party for their 1997 album Alive. American recording artist Jennifer Lopez recorded a version for her debut album, On the 6 , and the song became the second single from the album and also the most famous version of...

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Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...

November 6 "That's the Way Love Is
That's the Way Love Is (Ten City song)
"That's the Way Love Is" is a 1989 dance and soul single by Chicago based, dance trio, Ten City. The single reached number eight in the UK and was the group's highest charting single on the both the R&B and dance charts in the U.S...

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Byron Stingily
Byron Stingily
Byron Stingily is an African American R&B and house-music singer born in Chicago, Illinois, known for his falsetto voice. He is now a principal at a school in Chicago.-Career:...

November 13 "Love Is the Healer" Donna Summer
November 20 "Sun Is Shining
Sun is Shining
"Sun Is Shining" is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers first appearing on the Lee Perry-produced album Soul Revolution in 1971, and then on African Herbsman in 1973. Marley later re-recorded the song for his 1978 album Kaya. In 1999 a reggae fusion remix by "Bob Marley vs. Funkstar De Luxe" reached...

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Bob Marley
Bob Marley
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...

 vs. Funkstar De Luxe
Funkstar De Luxe
Funkstar De Luxe is a Danish House music producer and remixer.In 1999 and 2000 he had several hits. Remixes of two Bob Marley songs, "Sun Is Shining" and "Rainbow Country", peaked at numbers one and seven on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart...

November 27
December 4 "New York City Boy
New York City Boy
"New York City Boy" is the second single off the album Nightlife by British music group Pet Shop Boys. In the UK, the single peaked at #14 on the UK Singles Chart...

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Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....

December 11 "Rendez-Vu
Rendez-Vu
"Rendez-Vu" is a song by English electronic dance music duo Basement Jaxx. It was released on 2 August 1999 as the second single from their debut album Remedy. It reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart and number 1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. It later appears on Basement Jaxx:...

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Basement Jaxx
December 18 "Get Get Down" Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson (producer)
Paul Johnson is an American house DJ and producer.He first began DJing in Chicago in 1985, and started working as a producer in 1990, doing tracks for Chicago house labels Dance Mania, Relief, Cajual, Nite Life, Undaground Therapy, Defected, DJax Up Beats, Peacefrog, and Moody...

December 25 "17 Again" Eurythmics
Eurythmics
Eurythmics were a British pop rock duo, formed in 1980, currently disbanded, but known to reunite from time to time. Consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A...


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