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The song was first released as Drake's follow-up track to "Best I Ever Had" for his So Far Gone mixtape, with Trey Songz and Lil Wayne received featuring credits. [3]After the success of the two singles, Drake decided to release a retail version of the mixtape in the form of an extended play, including the song. [3]
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum, [7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales.
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.
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Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
Ludacris gathered four number-one songs, including a feature on Usher's "Yeah!", which topped the Year-End chart of 2004. Nelly spent 23 weeks atop the chart with four entries. Justin Timberlake gained three number-one songs as a lead singer and one as a featured artist.
Drake has six songs on the list, the most of any artist. His highest-ranking single on the list is "Hotline Bling" at number 30. The first five singles from Taylor Swift's fifth studio album, 1989, are on the list. Four were in the top 30, of which "Blank Space" ranked the highest, at number 7.