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Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. This is a list of the magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 2008. [1] The #1 song on the list was "Low" by Flo Rida and T-Pain, after having released the song in 2007 and spent 10 weeks at ...
Flo Rida's first U.S. number-one single "Low" was the longest-running number-one of 2008, topping the chart for 10 consecutive weeks. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, and airplay. In 2008 ...
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles which peaked in 2008 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten Singles from 2007; November 24 "Low" † (#1) Flo Rida featuring T-Pain: 1 January 5 23 "Paralyzer" Finger Eleven: 6 January 5 9 Singles from 2008 January 5 "Love Song" (#7) Sara Bareilles: 4 March 8 19 January 26 ...
The Mainstream Top 40 chart ranks the top-performing singles on contemporary hit radio, compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly airplay, and published in Billboard magazine.
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".
Mariah Carey earned four number-one singles, including the best-performing single of the decade "We Belong Together", which spent 14 weeks atop the Hot 100. Alicia Keys scored four number-one entries, totaling 22 weeks atop the chart. 50 Cent scored four number ones, including 2003's best-performing single , " In da Club ".
In 2008, for the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing songs on the chart over the 50 years, along with the best-performing artists. [1] In 2013, Billboard revised the rankings for the chart's 55th anniversary edition. [2] In 2015, Billboard revised the rankings again. [3]
Jimmy Wayne and the Zac Brown Band also topped the chart for the first time in 2008. [6] [7] Additionally, veteran reggae band The Wailers received a secondary credit on Kenny Chesney's song "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" for one of its two weeks in the top spot. This gave the group its first appearance at number one on Hot Country Songs and ...