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Hundreds of voters, who included elected officials, people from the music industry and from the media, teachers, and students, were asked in 2001 by the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to choose the top 365 songs (not necessarily by Americans) of the 20th century with historical ...
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About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... This category is for songs issued as singles in the decade 1900s, i.e the years 1900 to 1909. 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" was the best-selling single in the UK during the 20th century. This is a list based on estimated sales between 1952 (the first charts) and the end of 1999. Availability of sales figures, particularly in earlier decades, means that there is a great deal of uncertainty over the accuracy of these estimates. Singles are a type of music release defined by the ...
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".
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.