List of Hot Adult Contemporary number ones of 1992

In 1992, 19 songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Adult Contemporary, based on playlists submitted by radio stations.

[1] At the start of the year, Richard Marx was at number one with "Keep Coming Back", retaining a position which the song had occupied at the end of 1991.

Marx and Carey were among several acts to achieve two chart-toppers in 1992, along with Michael Bolton, Celine Dion and Elton John, who topped the chart with his solo single "The One" and also made a guest appearance on George Michael's version of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", which John himself had originally recorded in 1974.

[4][5] The final number one of the year was "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston,[2] from the soundtrack of the film The Bodyguard, in which she starred.

Patty Smyth, the former lead singer of the rock group Scandal,[11] was also a first-time AC chart-topper in 1992 with "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough", a duet with Don Henley.