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His song "Dreams" debuted on the third Hot 100 ever (dated August 18, 1958), and "Jingle Bell Rock" reached the top 10 on the chart dated January 5, 2019. [258] Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)" holds the record for the longest trip to the Hot 100's top 10: 62 years and 26 days. It first appeared on the Hot 100 dated ...
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.
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.
The instrumental featuring André playing the flute beats Tool's "Fear Inoculum," which peaked at No. 93 in August 2019 and runs for 10 minutes and 21 seconds. The longest running No. 1 song is ...
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
However, on December 5, 1998, the Hot 100 changed from being a "singles" chart to a "songs" chart. [10] During the 1990s, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without ever releasing them as singles. It was claimed by major record labels that singles were cannibalizing album sales, so they were slowly phased out. [18]
Four female acts top the chart for the first time, highlighting a resurgence in success for female artists in the country field. [65] 1999: Lonestar spends eight consecutive weeks at number one with "Amazed", the longest unbroken run in the top spot since 1966. [66] 2000: At age 61, Kenny Rogers becomes the oldest artist to achieve a number one ...