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For each Year in Music (beginning 1940) and Year in Country Music (beginning 1939), a comprehensive Year End Top Records section can be found at mid-page (popular), and on the Country page. For the United States, charts are compiled from data published by Billboard magazine, using their own formulas with slight modifications. There are no songs ...
In 1945, the magazine published the following four all-genre national singles charts: Best-Selling Popular Retail Records (named National Best Selling Retail Records until March 31) – ranked the most-sold singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country.
The compilation album Glenn Miller by Glenn Miller's Orchestra (pictured in 1941) topped the charts for a total of eight weeks during the year. Bing Crosby (pictured in 1951) was the only solo artist with two albums atop the chart. Billboard published its first popular albums chart, at the time known as Best-Selling Popular Record Albums, in 1945
1945's year-end list of The Billboard's "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records" represented the first Country music (referred to at the time as "Hillbilly") chart in the lineage of today's "Hot Country Songs". Note that it was based on weekly reports supplied by a sampling of Juke Box operators nationwide; Billboard would not add Country Sales and ...
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 Billboard number-one singles chart (which preceded the Billboard Hot 100 chart), which was updated weekly by the Billboard magazine, was the ...
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k.d. lang, Canadian country-pop singer-songwriter, known for her campy performances, androgynous look, and mezzo-soprano range, winning CCMA's Entertainer of the Year Award in 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990, Best Album 1988 for Shadowland, and the American Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal Collaboration 1989 for "Crying" (shared with Roy Orbison ...