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In 1999, the Backstreet Boys' album Millennium established a new record for the largest sales in a single week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. The Billboard 200, published in Billboard magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States.
99 Records was an American independent record label, active from 1980 to 1984. The label was home to musicians in the no wave , post-punk , post-disco , and avant-garde scenes in New York City. History
List of UK Dance Singles Chart number ones of 1999; List of UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart number ones of 1999; List of UK R&B Singles Chart number ones of 1999; List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 1999; Ultratop 40 number-one hits of 1999; Ultratop 50 number-one hits of 1999; 1999 in British music charts; List of UK top-ten ...
A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music judging by the popularity during a given period of time. Although primarily a marketing or supermarketing tool like any other sales statistic, they have become a form of popular media culture in their own right. Record charts are compiled using a variety of criteria.
Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales. Weekly surveys and year-end charts by Billboard and other publications such as now defunct Cash Box magazine sometimes differed. For instance, during the 1960s and 1970s, the number-one album as ...
The first record chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins, who was working at New Musical Express at the time. Dickins would telephone roughly twenty UK record stores and ask what their best-selling records were that week. [1] Several similar charts followed after the success of the NME chart, including Melody Maker and Record Retailer. [2]
These are the Billboard magazine R&B singles chart number one hits of 1999: Chart history. Key † Indicates best-charting R&B single of 1999 [1] Issue date Song
Santana and Rob Thomas' "Smooth" was the longest-running single of 1999, topping the chart for 10 consecutive weeks. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplays. There were 15 singles that topped the chart this ...