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This is a list of number-one dance hits as recorded by Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart – a weekly national survey of popular songs in U.S. dance clubs. It began on October 26, 1974, under the title Disco Action chart.
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart. Billboard began ranking dance music on the week ending October 26, 1974, and this is the standard music popularity chart in the United States for play in nightclubs. The chart has been suspended since March 2020.
Issue date Club Play Song Artist 12-Inch Singles Sales Artist Reference(s) January 5 "Power of Love"/ "Build the Bridge" Deee-Lite "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"
This page lists the songs that reached number-one on the overall Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the R&B Songs chart (which was created in 2012), the Hot Rap Songs chart, the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, and the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop chart in 2018. The R&B Songs and Rap Songs charts partly serve as distillations of the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
From November 30, 1963 to January 23, 1965 there was no Billboard R&B singles chart. Some publications have used Cashbox magazine's stats in their place. No specific reason has ever been given as to why Billboard ceased releasing R&B charts, but the prevailing wisdom is that the chart methodology used was being questioned, since more and more white acts were reaching number-one on the R&B chart.
Club Play Song Artist 12-Inch Singles Sales Artist Reference(s) January 6 "Rhythm Nation" Janet Jackson "Pump Up the Jam" Technotronic Featuring Felly [1] [2] January 13 "Two to Make It Right" Seduction [3] [4] January 20 "Let the Rhythm Pump" Doug Lazy "Two to Make It Right" Seduction [5] [6] January 27 "C'mon and Get My Love" D-Mob ...
Club Play Song Artist 12-Inch Singles Sales Artist Reference(s) January 2 "So Emotional" Whitney Houston "System of Survival" (Remix) Earth, Wind & Fire [1] [2] January 9 "I'm Beggin' You" Supertramp [3] [4] January 16 "Never Gonna Give You Up" Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up" Rick Astley [5] [6] January 23 "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"
totals are counted from the start of the stay at No. 1 - for example, a hit which reached No. 1 in November 1945 and stayed there 11 weeks is included in the 1945 list but not 1946. As well as the R&B best sellers (BS) chart, between 1948 and 1957 there was also an R&B juke box (JB) chart, and from 1955 to 1958 there was an R&B airplay (JY ...