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The Hot Dance Club Songs was first published in 1976, ranking the most popular songs on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club DJs. The Dance/Mix Show Airplay was first published in 2003, ranking the songs based on dance radio airplay and mix-show plays on top 40 radio and select rhythmic radio as measured by Mediabase.
Dancehall pop is a sub-genre of the Jamaican genre dancehall that originated in the early 2000s. [1] Developing from the sounds of reggae, dancehall pop is characteristically different in its fusion with western pop music and digital music production. [2]
The 12-inch Singles Sales chart was launched in 1985 to compile the best-selling dance singles based on retail sales across the United States. On the issue dated June 20, 1992, Billboard began to tabulate cassette tape and CD maxi-singles along with 12-inch singles, and the sales chart was renamed as the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales.
These are the Billboard magazine's number-one dance songs of 2025 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, the Hot Dance/Pop Songs, and the Dance/Mix Show Airplay charts. The Dance/Mix Show Airplay was first published in 2003, ranking songs based on airplay on dance radio and mix-show plays on top 40 radio and select rhythmic radio as measured by ...
Dancehall music, also called ragga, is a style of Jamaican popular music that had its genesis in the political turbulence of the late 1970s and became Jamaica's dominant music in the 1980s and '90s. It was also originally called Bashment music when Jamaican dancehalls began to gain popularity.
The album was released on March 25, 2016, under DJ Frass Records, going on to top the Billboard Reggae Charts in April which stood for 18 weeks, making him the first dancehall deejay to have a number one album on the charts in five years. [11] [12] [13] New Level Unlocked was selected at number 3 in Billboard's "10 Best Reggae Albums of 2016". [14]
[10] In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton concluded that it "must surely be a contender for No.1 within a week or two." [11] Alan Jones from Music Week complimented "this infectious, instantly appealing dancehall" song for achieving "the right mix between reggae and hip-hop." He added that it "should make quite a splash here."
American singer and songwriter Donna Summer achieved 14 number-one songs on the U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs chart between 1976 and 2010 before her death in May 2012, and ranked sixth among the top 100 Dance Club Songs artists overall. Summer gained her sixteenth number-one posthumously in 2018 with "Hot Stuff 2018".