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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".
Lee recorded the song back in 1958, when she was 13, and would have been the youngest woman to top the Hot 100 had the song been number one back then. [237] [238] Louis Armstrong (age 62 years, 279 days) is the oldest male artist to top the Hot 100. He set that record with "Hello, Dolly!" on May 9, 1964. Armstrong, born in 1901, is also the ...
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.
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". Ludacris gathered four number-one songs, including a feature on Usher's "Yeah!", which topped the Year-End chart of 2004. Nelly spent 23 weeks atop the chart with four entries.
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
Billboard Hot 100 & Best Sellers in Stores number-one singles by decade Before August 1958 1940–1949 1950–1958 After August 1958 1958–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029 US Singles Chart Billboard magazine The Billboard Hot 100 chart is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During ...
The song was in its third week at number one on January 4, 2020, reaching the top for the first time on December 21, 2019. The following week, on January 11, 2020, Post Malone 's " Circles " returned to the number-one spot, another carry-over from the 2010s; it originally reached number one on November 30, 2019.
"A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey spent nineteen weeks atop the chart, tying Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" as the longest-running number-one song in the chart's history. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States.