List of Hot Crossover 30 number ones


Hot Crossover 30 was a weekly record chart published by American magazine Billboard that ranked the 30 top-performing songs on "crossover" radio stations in the United States featuring a combination of Black, dance and pop music. It was first published in the February 28, 1987, issue of Billboard. The chart was renamed Top 40/Dance on September 9, 1989, and last published on December 1, 1990. Unlike the guitar-oriented rock music heard on contemporary hit radio stations at the time, songs that appeared on the Hot Crossover 30 were often typified by their up-tempo nature, featured drum machines and electronic keyboards, and had varied dance, pop, and R&B influences. Club Nouveau's "Lean on Me" was the first of 65 different songs that topped the chart, and Mariah Carey's "Love Takes Time" was the last.
To formulate the chart, Billboard created a panel of crossover radio stations which reported their current playlists by rank every week. The magazine converted these ranks to points using a weighting system based on the station's Arbitron rating. The most-played song on a station received a base of 25 points while songs ranked below number 40 received 5 points. The points were multiplied 0.5 times if it was played by a station with a weekly cumulative audience of under 100,000 people, 1 time if the station had an audience between 100,000 and 249,999, 1.5 times if the station had an audience between 250,000 and 499,999, 2 times if the station had an audience between 500,000 and 999,999, and 2.5 times if the station had an audience over 1 million. Songs were eligible to chart regardless of a commercial release, as long as they received a combined 175 points from at least 10 stations.
Hot Crossover 30 allowed programmers at burgeoning crossover stations to observe the national popularity of songs on similar stations, some of which had been previously unrecognized because such stations did not contribute to any other Billboard chart. The Hot Crossover 30 panel of stations originally included those that reported exclusively to the chart and some that also reported to either the Hot 100 or Hot Black Singles charts. Effective September 9, 1989, stations formerly exclusive to the Hot Crossover 30 panel also contributed to the Hot 100. By the chart's last issue on December 1, 1990, Billboard considered its composition of songs too similar to the Hot 100's and announced its discontinuation. The Black/dance/pop crossover genre became known as rhythmic contemporary, and Billboard launched the Top 40/Rhythm-Crossover chart on October 3, 1992.

Chart history

No.Issue dateSongArtistWeeks at
number one
1February 28, 1987"Lean on Me"Club Nouveau5
2April 4, 1987"Looking for a New Love"Jody Watley3
3April 25, 1987"Sign o' the Times"Prince2
4May 9, 1987"Always"Atlantic Starr2
5May 23, 1987"Head to Toe"Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam3
6June 27, 1987"I Wanna Dance with Somebody "Whitney Houston4
7July 25, 1987"The Pleasure Principle"Janet Jackson2
8August 8, 1987"I Want Your Sex"George Michael1
9August 15, 1987"Who's That Girl"Madonna4
10September 12, 1987"Lost in Emotion"Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam5
11October 17, 1987"Bad"Michael Jackson4
12November 14, 1987"I Think We're Alone Now"Tiffany3
13December 5, 1987"Shake Your Love"Debbie Gibson2
14December 19, 1987"So Emotional"Whitney Houston4
15January 16, 1988"The Way You Make Me Feel"Michael Jackson3
16February 6, 1988"Pump Up the Volume"MARRS2
17February 20, 1988"Never Gonna Give You Up"Rick Astley3
18March 12, 1988"Father Figure"George Michael2
19March 26, 1988"Man in the Mirror"Michael Jackson3
20April 16, 1988"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"Billy Ocean2
21April 30, 1988"Where Do Broken Hearts Go"Whitney Houston2
22May 14, 1988"Nite and Day"Al B. Sure!1
23May 21, 1988"One More Try"George Michael6
24July 2, 1988"Mercedes Boy"Pebbles2
25July 16, 1988"Sign Your Name"Terence Trent D'Arby5
26August 20, 1988"If It Isn't Love"New Edition1
27August 27, 1988"Monkey"George Michael3
28September 17, 1988"I'll Always Love You"Taylor Dayne3
29October 8, 1988"Red Red Wine"UB404
30November 5, 1988"Giving You the Best That I Got"Anita Baker5
31December 10, 1988"My Prerogative"Bobby Brown1
December 17, 1988"Giving You the Best That I Got"Anita Baker3
32January 7, 1989"Dial My Heart"The Boys3
33January 21, 1989"Wild Thing"Tone Loc5
34February 25, 1989"Straight Up"Paula Abdul1
35March 4, 1989"Girl You Know It's True"Milli Vanilli6
36April 15, 1989"Funky Cold Medina"Tone Loc2
37April 29, 1989"Like a Prayer"Madonna3
38May 20, 1989"Every Little Step"Bobby Brown1
39May 27, 1989"I'll Be Loving You "New Kids on the Block5
40July 1, 1989"Baby Don't Forget My Number"Milli Vanilli1
41July 8, 1989"I Like It"Dino1
42July 15, 1989"Secret Rendezvous"Karyn White2
43July 29, 1989"On Our Own"Bobby Brown5
44September 2, 1989"Cold Hearted"Paula Abdul2
45September 16, 1989"Girl I'm Gonna Miss You"Milli Vanilli3
46October 7, 1989"Miss You Much"Janet Jackson5
47November 11, 1989"Blame It on the Rain"Milli Vanilli4
48December 9, 1989"Back to Life "Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler1
49December 16, 1989"Pump Up the Jam"Technotronic4
50January 13, 1990"Two to Make It Right"Seduction4
51February 10, 1990"Opposites Attract"Paula Abdul3
52March 3, 1990"Escapade"Janet Jackson4
53March 31, 1990"I'll Be Your Everything"Tommy Page2
54April 14, 1990"All Around the World"Lisa Stansfield2
55May 5, 1990"Nothing Compares 2 U"Sinéad O'Connor2
56May 19, 1990"Vogue"Madonna4
57June 16, 1990"Poison"Bell Biv DeVoe3
58July 7, 1990"Step by Step"New Kids on the Block1
59July 14, 1990"Hold On"En Vogue1
60July 21, 1990"Rub You the Right Way"Johnny Gill2
61August 4, 1990"Vision of Love"Mariah Carey3
62August 25, 1990"Do Me!"Bell Biv DeVoe6
63October 6, 1990"My, My, My"Johnny Gill1
64October 13, 1990"Ice Ice Baby"Vanilla Ice7
65December 1, 1990"Love Takes Time"Mariah Carey1