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A Best Sellers chart debuted that week, followed by a Jockeys chart on the week of December 10, 1949. [1] The last Juke Box chart was published for the week of June 15, 1957, [ 2 ] and starting on the chart week of October 13, 1958, the Best Sellers and Jockeys charts were consolidated into one singles chart called Hot C&W Sides . [ 3 ]
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.
The number one song on the Best Sellers chart in the first issue of 1958 was "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis, and the song at the top of the Jockeys chart was "The Story of My Life" by Marty Robbins; both songs replaced "My Special Angel" by Bobby Helms, which had topped both charts the week before. [1]
Artists who hit number one prior to the start of the Hot 100 are included here. A song that topped multiple pre-Hot 100 charts is counted only once towards the artist's total. The ° symbol indicates that all or part of an artist's total includes number-ones occurring on any of the pre-Hot 100 chart(s) listed above (January 1, 1955 through July ...
Conway Twitty reached number one for the first time in 1968. He would go on to achieve a record-breaking 40 chart-toppers. He would go on to achieve a record-breaking 40 chart-toppers. Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine.
She initially set the record with "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" on December 9, 2023, and reset the record with the song's additional weeks at number one, most recently on January 6, 2024. 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.
The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history, until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road". Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s.
Frizzell reached number one for the first time in late 1950 and achieved five chart-toppers within 18 months, but soon afterwards his chart performance began to decline, his career suffering in part due to issues in his personal life. [3] [4] He was the only artist with four number-one country songs in 1951; Snow and Eddy Arnold each had three.