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More recently, they have reached into the top ten, and in 2019, for only the second time ever on the Hot 100 (the first since 1958), made it to number one. This has led to all-time records for dropping off the Hot 100, including from number one, as the songs depart regardless of their final chart positions during the season.
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.
In 2017, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 20 best-performing songs on the chart since its inception in 1994. The chart is based on the most weeks the song spent on top of the chart. For songs with the same number of weeks at number one, they are ranked them by most weeks in the top ten, followed by most total weeks on the chart. [19]
Shortly after its release, the song was banned by the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation due to its explicit lyrical content. [13] "Romping Shop" was ranked number 9 on both Pitchfork's list of the 50 Best Dancehall Songs of All Time [14] and Billboard's 12 Best Dancehall & Reggaeton Choruses of the 21st Century. [15]
Another accolade of a successful song was a position on the "Honor Roll of Hits", introduced on March 24, 1945, initially as a 10-song list, [11] later expanded to 30 songs, which ranked the most popular songs by combining record and sheet sales, disk jockey, and jukebox performances as determined by Billboard's weekly nationwide survey. [12]
The Three Degrees provided the vocals on the chart-topping single "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" by MFSB.. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1974 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres and since 2005 has ...
Prince had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, "When Doves Cry", the number one hit of the year, and "Let's Go Crazy" at number 21. Lionel Richie had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1984. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1984. [1]
"Murder She Wrote" is a song by Jamaican reggae duo Chaka Demus & Pliers, from their 1993 album Tease Me. It was first released as a single in 1992 and again in late 1993 by Mango and Taxi Records, reaching number 27 on the UK Singles Chart in early 1994, [3] and number 57 on the US Billboard Hot 100, spending 17 weeks there.