(Finished November 2nd, 2025) Part 3 of The Last Great Billboard Hot 100 Year End Chart: 1991: 69-54

I’m an old man and I still think the decade of the 80s was the best decade of music in this modern era of music. I looked at the year end chart for 2000. Sure there were some great songs. But oh my goodness there were some crappy songs. I also looked at 2008’s Billboard year end chart and again there were so many bad songs in that year. There were probably more bad songs than good songs.

So from my old man’s perspective I went back and looked to see what year was the last great Billboard Year End Top 100 and that year seems to be 1991.

I’m going to countdown those 100 songs in order of quality in my opinion.

69) Lenny Kravitz “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over”:

68) Gloria Estefan “Coming Out of The Dark”:

67) Karyn White “Romantic”:

66) LL Cool J “Around The Way Girl”:

65) Deee-Lite “Groove Is In The Heart”:

64) Roxette “Fading Like A Flower”:

Honestly I don’t remember this song, but I quite like it. 63) Styx “Show Me The Way”:

62) Cathy Dennis “Just Another Dream”:

Damn Mariah you are looking great here!! 61) Mariah Carey “I Don’t Want To Cry”:

60) Paula Abdul “Promise Of A New Day”:

59) INXS “Disappear”:

58) George Michael “Freedom ’90”:

57) Paula Abdul “Rush Rush”:

56) Tara Kemp “Hold You Tight”:

So many of the above songs are interchangeable, thankfully this isn’t one of those songs. 55) Surface “The First Time”:

54) Stevie B “Because I Love You (The Postman Song)”:

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