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Billboard number-one singles charts preceding the Billboard Hot 100 were updated weekly by Billboard magazine and the leading indicator of popular music for the American music industry since 1940 and until the Billboard Hot 100 chart was established in 1958.
Music! Music!" Teresa Brewer with the Dixieland All Stars (Jack Pleis, Ernie Caceres, Max Kaminsky, Cutty Cutshall, George Wettling, Eddie Safranski, and Danny Perri) [14] March 25 "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" Eileen Barton with Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Morty Craft "Music! Music! Music!" [15] April 1 [16 ...
Esther Phillips, then billed as Little Esther, was the featured vocalist on three number ones for the band led by Johnny Otis.. In 1950, Billboard magazine published two charts covering the top-performing songs in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B) and related African-American-oriented music genres: Best Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records and Most Played Juke Box Rhythm & Blues ...
Hank Snow had lengthy runs at the top of all three charts with "I'm Movin' On".. In 1950, Billboard magazine published three charts covering the best-performing country music songs in the United States: Most-Played Juke Box (Country & Western) Records, Best-Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records and Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys.
Music Engine, was a freeware music player released by Yahoo! in 2005 to compete with iTunes and Rhapsody in the digital music market. Developed side-by-side with MusicMatch Jukebox , another music player acquired by Yahoo! in 2004, [ 1 ] it was designed to be the main client for Yahoo's array of music services , which were centered around Yahoo!
Elvis Presley had three songs on the year-end top 50, the most of any artist in 1958. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top 50 pop singles of 1958 . [ 1 ]
Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s.Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions.
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.