"This Used to Be My Playground" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna. It is the theme for the film A League of Their Own, which starred Madonna, and portrayed a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Madonna was asked to record a song for the film's soundtrack. At that time she was busy recording her fifth studio album, Erotica, with producer Shep Pettibone. They worked on some ideas and came up with "This Used to Be My Playground" in two days. Once presented to director Penny Marshall's team, the song was released as a standalone single on June 16, 1992, by Warner Bros. Records. However, it was not available on the film's soundtrack due to contractual obligations and was later added to the Olympics-inspired Barcelona Gold compilation album, released that summer. The song was included on Madonna's 1995 ballads compilation Something to Remember.
With "This Used to Be My Playground", Madonna broke her tie with Whitney Houston (picture) as the female artist with the most number one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100.
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1992.
Boyz II Men (pictured) had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, incluidng "End of the Road", the number one hit song of the year.