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Usher accumulated the most number-one entries (seven) and the most weeks atop the chart (42 weeks) throughout the 2000s. Beyoncé spent 36 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 with five entries, including the number-one song of 2007, "Irreplaceable". Rihanna accumulated five number-one singles, spending 19 weeks atop the chart.
Faith Hill's single "Breathe" was the first country music recording to be ranked number one since Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" in 1959. (Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces" and Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" had each come close, ranking second.) Her "The Way You Love Me" also made the list, at 41.
At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2016, the list was published on December 8, calculated with data from December 5, 2015 to November 26, 2016.
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [1] The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in ...
“The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” was a strange hit in 1973. Riding the trend of kudzu noir that followed In the Heat of the Night, yet sung by an actress best known as a cast member ...
Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market. In 2000, seven different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.
"1979" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It was released in 1996 as the second single from their third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. "1979" was written by frontman Billy Corgan, and features loops and samples uncharacteristic of previous Smashing Pumpkins songs. [7]
"AM Radio" is a song by American rock band Everclear from their fourth album, Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile (2000). The song was released as the second single from the album on August 22, 2000, and failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number one on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.