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Songs by the year in which they were written, or first performed, published, recorded, or released. ... Year of song unknown (813 P ... 1880 songs (10 P) 1881 ...
Hundreds of voters, who included elected officials, people from the music industry and from the media, teachers, and students, were asked in 2001 by the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to choose the top 365 songs (not necessarily by Americans) of the 20th century with historical ...
There have been a handful of songs that charted more than 52 weeks throughout their runs, but only five songs have managed to chart on the Hot 100 every week within a given calendar year. The first to accomplish such milestone was Jewel 's " You Were Meant for Me " charting each week of 1997.
The highest being Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind", which made it on to 2009's list at number 62 and repeat higher at number 21 in 2010's. Only four other year-end lists repeat the same feat, that being 1997 , 2016 , 2018 and 2022 .
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".
To shine a light on songwriters, Stacker compiled 20 hit songs released between 1960 and today that were written by a famous artist other than the singer, sourcing from Rolling Stone, Billboard ...
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.
Of all the contributions made by Americans to world culture—automation and the assembly line, advertising, innumerable devices and gadgets, skyscrapers, supersalesmen, baseball, ketchup, mustard and hot dogs and hamburrgers—one, undeniably native has been taken to heart by the entire world. It is American popular music. ^ Garofalo, p. 94.