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In America, "Candy" reached number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the R&B charts in early 1987, causing Aretha Franklin's "Jimmy Lee" to stop at #2. [ 1 ] "Candy" also made the Top 10 on the US Dance charts and #27 in the United Kingdom in late 1986.
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.
Lee recorded the song back in 1958, when she was 13, and would have been the youngest woman to top the Hot 100 had the song been number one back then. [ 238 ] [ 239 ] Louis Armstrong (age 62 years, 279 days) is the oldest male artist to top the Hot 100.
Rapper 50 Cent had six songs on the chart, five of them in the top 40, the highest one being "Candy Shop" at number eight. Singer Ciara had four songs in the top 40 of the chart, the highest one being "1, 2 Step" at number five. The Black Eyed Peas had three songs on the chart, two of which are in the top forty.
A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey spent nineteen weeks atop the chart, tying Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" as the longest-running number-one song in the chart's history. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States.
The song was in its third week at number one on January 4, 2020, reaching the top for the first time on December 21, 2019. The following week, on January 11, 2020, Post Malone's "Circles" returned to the number-one spot, another carry-over from the 2010s; it originally reached number one on November 30, 2019. [2]
Technically the song is a solo recording and was released as such in many parts of the world except the U.S., where it charted as "Wham! featuring George Michael". "We Are the World" is credited to "USA for Africa", and not the individual artists who participated in the recording. Double A-sides are counted as one number-one single.
Stefani earned her first number-one single in the United States this year, although she had been with band the No Doubt since 1986. Hip hop artist Kanye West gained his first number-one single, "Gold Digger", as lead artist; West previously had a number-one single with "Slow Jamz", a 2004 song by rapper Twista. [1]