The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in Billboard magazine. Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts, [1] as well as year-end charts. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot song chart, all three data are used to compile the charts. The weekly sales and streams charts are monitored on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle since July ; previously it was on a Monday-to-Sunday cycle.
Citation Information
1. "You Are Not Alone" by Michael Jackson
These charts are meant for the public to use for research, entertainment and educational purposes only. Some errors, typos, and misinformation may be presented variously throughout. We are working daily to correct those through research and over-looking each and every chart to find these errors and fix them. We have tons of research resources and will look up anything you may want, or need to know. Please feel free to use the contact form below if you have any questions, comments, suggestions or you just want to reach out. There are some charts missing an element or two of these details. These are charts we are still researching to finalize the accurate information. It is located immediately after label -.
Access The Archive
Over the course of those months, the Fab Four earned three consecutive 1 singles a record ; held all five spots in the top five in early April a record ; and had a total of 14 songs in the Billboard Hot in mid-April yet another record. But just when it seemed that no homegrown act would ever stand up to the British invaders, one of the least likely American stars imaginable proved himself equal to the task. In a way, it was entirely appropriate that a titan such as Louis Armstrong would be the artist to end the reign of the first foreign group ever to take over the American pop scene. It can be argued, after all, that Armstrong bears more responsibility for shaping the course of 20th-century American music than Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra combined. The recordings Armstrong made with his Hot Five and Hot Seven combos between and are widely credited with creating much of the foundation for the future of jazz and blues performance and, by extension, of rock and roll. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! In the early hours of May 9, , a frazzled President Richard Nixon embarks upon what his Chief of Staff will describe as "the weirdest day so far" of his presidency.
Subscriber Account active since. In the history of modern music rankings, only a handful of songs have ever debuted at No. The Hot is widely considered the definitive all-genre singles chart in the US. Although it was officially launched in , Billboard began using modern airplay and sales data in — allowing for more time-sensitive calculations and accurate rankings. Moreover, Billboard began incorporating digital sales data in and YouTube data in The chart methodology is updated at least once a year , to reflect rapidly evolving listening trends. Although more than 1, songs have reached the coveted No. Only 42 songs in history have achieved the rare feat. Keep scrolling for the complete list, in chronological order.
