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In 1982, RPM magazine published a chart for top-performing singles in the adult contemporary category in Canada. The chart, entitled Contemporary Adult, has undergone numerous name changes and has become Adult Contemporary from 1984 to September 1988, and May 1989 until the magazine's final publication in November 2000. In 1982, 35 individual ...
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.
In 1980, thirty-two individual songs topped the chart, which contained 50 positions. By late 1980, the chart was only published every two weeks, and went into hiatus in November 29, restarting publication then simply as Adult Oriented in June 1981, and becoming Contemporary Adult and Adult Contemporary for the rest of the magazine's existence.
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
In 2008, for the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing songs on the chart over the 50 years, along with the best-performing artists. [1] In 2013, Billboard revised the rankings for the chart's 55th anniversary edition. [2] In 2015, Billboard revised the rankings again. [3]
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But when it was first released, the song was one of seven singles from the "Thriller" album to break into the top 10 of the Hot 100, peaking at #4. The album has also become the biggest seller of ...