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

+ Issue date Song Artist(s) Weeks atnumber one 1 February 28, 1987 "Lean on Me" Club Nouveau 5 Citations for each week at number one: 2 April 4, 1987 "Looking for a New Love" Jody Watley 3 Citations for each week at number one: 3 April 25, 1987 "Sign o' the Times" Prince 2 Citations for each week at number one: 4 May 9, 1987 "Always" Atlantic Starr 2 Citations for each week at number one: 5 May 23, 1987 "Head to Toe" Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam 3 Citations for each week at number one: 6 June 27, 1987 "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" Whitney Houston 4 Citations for each week at number one: 7 July 25, 1987 "The Pleasure Principle" Janet Jackson 2 Citations for each week at number one: 8 August 8, 1987 "I Want Your Sex" George Michael 1 Citations for each week at number one: 9 August 15, 1987 "Who's That Girl" Madonna 4 Citations for each week at number one: 10 September 12, 1987 "Lost in Emotion" Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam 5 Citations for each week at number one: 11 October 17, 1987 "Bad" Michael Jackson 4 Citations for each week at number one: 12 November 14, 1987 "I Think We're Alone Now" Tiffany 3 Citations for each week at number one: 13 December 5, 1987 "Shake Your Love" Debbie Gibson 2 Citations for each week at number one: 14 December 19, 1987 "So Emotional" Whitney Houston 4 Citations for each week at number one (week of January 2, 1988, cited in following issue): 15 January 16, 1988 "The Way You Make Me Feel" Michael Jackson 3 Citations for each week at number one: 16 February 6, 1988 "Pump Up the Volume" MARRS 2 Citations for each week at number one: 17 February 20, 1988 "Never Gonna Give You Up" Rick Astley 3 Citations for each week at number one: 18 March 12, 1988 "Father Figure" George Michael 2 Citations for each week at number one: 19 March 26, 1988 "Man in the Mirror" Michael Jackson 3 Citations for each week at number one: 20 April 16, 1988 "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" Billy Ocean 2 Citations for each week at number one: 21 April 30, 1988 "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" Whitney Houston 2 Citations for each week at number one: 22 May 14, 1988 "Nite and Day" Al B. Sure! 1 Citations for each week at number one: 23 May 21, 1988 "One More Try" George Michael 6 Citations for each week at number one: 24 July 2, 1988 "Mercedes Boy" Pebbles 2 Citations for each week at number one: 25 July 16, 1988 "Sign Your Name" Terence Trent D'Arby 5 Citations for each week at number one: 26 August 20, 1988 "If It Isn't Love" New Edition 1 Citations for each week at number one: 27 August 27, 1988 "Monkey" George Michael 3 Citations for each week at number one: 28 September 17, 1988 "I'll Always Love You" Taylor Dayne 3 Citations for each week at number one: 29 October 8, 1988 "Red Red Wine" UB40 4 Citations for each week at number one: 30 November 5, 1988 "Giving You the Best That I Got" Anita Baker 5 Citations for each week at number one: 31 December 10, 1988 "My Prerogative" Bobby Brown 1 Citations for each week at number one: December 17, 1988 "Giving You the Best That I Got" Anita Baker 3 Citations for each week at number one (week of December 31, 1988, cited in following issue): 32 January 7, 1989 "Dial My Heart" The Boys 3 Citations for each week at number one: 33 January 21, 1989 "Wild Thing" Tone Loc 5 Citations for each week at number one: 34 February 25, 1989 "Straight Up" Paula Abdul 1 Citations for each week at number one: 35 March 4, 1989 "Girl You Know It's True" Milli Vanilli 6 Citations for each week at number one: 36 April 15, 1989 "Funky Cold Medina" Tone Loc 2 Citations for each week at number one: 37 April 29, 1989 "Like a Prayer" Madonna 3 Citations for each week at number one: 38 May 20, 1989 "Every Little Step" Bobby Brown 1 Citations for each week at number one: 39 May 27, 1989 "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)" New Kids on the Block 5 Citations for each week at number one: 40 July 1, 1989 "Baby Don't Forget My Number" Milli Vanilli 1 Citations for each week at number one: 41 July 8, 1989 "I Like It" Dino 1 Citations for each week at number one: 42 July 15, 1989 "Secret Rendezvous" Karyn White 2 Citations for each week at number one: 43 July 29, 1989 "On Our Own" Bobby Brown 5 Citations for each week at number one: 44 September 2, 1989 "Cold Hearted" Paula Abdul 2 Citations for each week at number one: 45 September 16, 1989 "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" Milli Vanilli 3 Citations for each week at number one: 46 October 7, 1989 "Miss You Much" Janet Jackson 5 Citations for each week at number one: 47 November 11, 1989 "Blame It on the Rain" Milli Vanilli 4 Citations for each week at number one: 48 December 9, 1989 "Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)" Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler 1 Citations for each week at number one: 49 December 16, 1989 "Pump Up the Jam" Technotronic 4 Citations for each week at number one (week of December 30, 1989, cited in following issue): 50 January 13, 1990 "Two to Make It Right" Seduction 4 Citations for each week at number one: 51 February 10, 1990 "Opposites Attract" Paula Abdul 3 Citations for each week at number one: 52 March 3, 1990 "Escapade" Janet Jackson 4 Citations for each week at number one: 53 March 31, 1990 "I'll Be Your Everything" Tommy Page 2 Citations for each week at number one: 54 April 14, 1990 "All Around the World" Lisa Stansfield 2 Citations for each week at number one: 55 May 5, 1990 "Nothing Compares 2 U" Sinéad O'Connor 2 Citations for each week at number one: 56 May 19, 1990 "Vogue" Madonna 4 Citations for each week at number one: 57 June 16, 1990 "Poison" Bell Biv DeVoe 3 Citations for each week at number one: 58 July 7, 1990 "Step by Step" New Kids on the Block 1 Citations for each week at number one: 59 July 14, 1990 "Hold On" En Vogue 1 Citations for each week at number one: 60 July 21, 1990 "Rub You the Right Way" Johnny Gill 2 Citations for each week at number one: 61 August 4, 1990 "Vision of Love" Mariah Carey 3 Citations for each week at number one: 62 August 25, 1990 "Do Me!" Bell Biv DeVoe 6 Citations for each week at number one: 63 October 6, 1990 "My, My, My" Johnny Gill 1 Citations for each week at number one: 64 October 13, 1990 "Ice Ice Baby" Vanilla Ice 7 Citations for each week at number one: 65 December 1, 1990 "Love Takes Time" Mariah Carey 1 Citations for each week at number one:

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