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The United States has remained the biggest market for recorded music in IFPI history, except in 2010 when Japan topped the list. The largest Asian music market, Japan has always [vague] stayed within the top two. The other largest music markets by region include the United Kingdom in Europe, Australia in Oceania, and Brazil in South America
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.
User-generated database of comparison between original tracks and covers, remixes, or songs that use samples. 1,100,000 338,000 SIMUC: Chilean music and musicians SIMUC is a Non-profit organisation that collects data on composers, academics, institutions, people and other topics related to classical music and Chile.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, airplay, and, since 2012, streaming.
Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" is the best-selling physical single in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991. All of these physical singles have sold over four million copies according to either reliable third-party claims or RIAA multi-platinum certifications.
Some services offer non-free options in the style of a digital music store. For a list of online music stores that provide a means of purchasing and downloading music as files of some sort, see comparison of digital music stores. Many sites from both of these categories offer services similar to an online music database.
In April 2008, the iTunes Store was the largest music vendor in the United States, [15] and in February 2010, it was the largest music vendor in the world. [16] The iTunes Store's revenues in the first quarter of 2011 totaled nearly US$1.4 billion. [17] By May 28, 2014, the store had sold 35 billion songs worldwide. [18]
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.