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Singer Bing Crosby topped the chart for nine consecutive weeks with "Only Forever". "Frenesi", an instrumental recorded by clarinetist Artie Shaw, occupied the number one position on the chart during the final two weeks of 1940. In 1940, The Billboard began compiling and publishing the National Best Selling Retail Records chart. Debuting in the ...
This list compiles the best-selling singles in the United States, based on reported sales figures. Some of the singles have been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In music, a single is a song considered commercially viable enough by the artist and record company to be released separately from an album , usually ...
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
First, it’s growing: US sales of tequila rose 8% last year to $6.5 billion according to DISCUS and is projected to overtake vodka as the top-selling spirit in the next few years.
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA.
Prior to incorporating chart data from Nielsen SoundScan (from 1991), year-end charts were calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on a title's performance (for example a single appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 would be given one point for a week spent at position 100, two points for a week spent at position ninety-nine, and so forth, up to 100 points for each week spent at number ...
These are the number-one albums in the United States per Billboard magazine during the year 1960. From May 5, 1959, until August 1963, separate charts existed for albums in mono and stereo formats. During 1960, those charts were named Mono Action Albums and Stereo Action Albums.
Chart history; Issue date 33 1/3 R.P.M. 45 R.P.M. Ref. Album Artist(s) Label Album Artist(s) Label July 22: South Pacific: Mary Martin & Ezio Pinza Columbia Rodgers and Hammerstein II for Dancing: Ralph Flanagan: RCA Victor [29] July 29: Young Man with a Horn: Doris Day & Harry James Columbia [30] August 5 [31] August 12: South Pacific: Mary ...