List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1993
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This is a list of the U.S. '' Billboard'' magazine Hot 100 number-ones of 1993. There were 11 singles that topped the chart this year. The first of these, " I Will Always Love You" by
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, spent nine weeks at the top, concluding a 14-week run that had begun in November 1992. That year, 6 acts earn their first number one song:
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. Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey were the only acts to hit number one more than once, with each of them hitting twice.


Chart history


Number-one artists


See also

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List of Billboard number-one singles This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently mon ...


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