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The Beatles had eight number-one singles on the Fab 40 chart and their double A-side "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" was the only single by any artist to spend more than two weeks at number one. The Kinks had four number-one singles, three of which failed to top the canonical Record Retailer chart.
Some 30–40 years after they were in use, meticulous attempts were made to reconstruct the Fab 40 charts by Radio London Ltd. These drew on surviving lists prepared between 1965 and 1967, at Radio London's offices at 17 Curzon Street in London and informal ones compiled at the time by listeners, although there were sometimes discrepancies between the "official" list and the records that were ...
The Fab 40 was the weekly playlist and was broadcast each Sunday as a chart based entirely on airplay. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The station closed on 14 August 1967 when the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 came into effect, [ 21 ] [ 24 ] Later, rivals to the official chart would factor airplay into their charts.
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
This is a list of songs that reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 (or Pop Songs) chart in 2020. During 2020, a total of 15 singles hit number-one on the charts. Chart history
6 January – For the first time, BBC Radio 1's Sunday chart show plays all 40 tracks and the show is renamed as The Complete Top 40. [3] This becomes possible due to an extension of the programme's duration – starting half an hour earlier at 4:30 pm. 1992. 1 March – Mark Goodier ends his first stint as presenter of BBC Radio 1's Complete ...
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, airplay, and, since 2012, streaming.
The move was due to an international agreement by the music industry to release all new albums and singles on Fridays. The new chart played the top 25 in full rather than the top 40 that had previously been broadcast. The change in presenter meant that Clara Amfo became the shortest-serving permanent host of the show.