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It began on October 26, 1974, under the title Disco Action chart. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys, who must apply and meet certain criteria to become "Billboard-reporting DJs". Below are links to lists showing the songs that have topped the chart.
The Dance Club Songs chart underwent several incarnations since its inception in 1974. Originally a top-10 list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques, the chart began on October 26, 1974, under the title Disco Action. The chart went on to feature playlists from various cities around the country ...
Whitburn, Joel (2004), Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, ISBN 0-89820-156-X, archived from the original on 2010-03-16; Some weeks may also be found at Billboard magazine courtesy of Google Books: 1980—1984
These are the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco Club Play and 12 Inch Singles Sales number-one hits ... [80] [81] October 20 "Doin' the Do ... [90] [91] November 24 "H.O.U.S ...
These are the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco Club Play and Maxi-Singles Sales number-one hits of 1992. ... [80] October 10 "The Hitman" AB Logic [81] ... [90] November 14
Year Artist Origin Song 1990: Snap! Germany "The Power" [4] 1990: C+C Music Factory: United States "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" 1991: 2 Unlimited: The Netherlands "Get Ready for This" [5]
In the late 1970s, Eurodisco musicians such as Silver Convention and Donna Summer were popular in America. [7]In the 1980s, a highly polished production with "musical simplicity" at its core — from Bubblegum Pop-like lyrics, catchy (in some cases Italian, in other Eurodisco-like) melodies, to "elementary" song structures — an average British Eurobeat song took very little time to complete. [8]
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [131] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [132] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 133 ]