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October 26, 1974 was the premiere week of a dance-related chart in Billboard. Originally called Disco Action , the chart ranked the popularity of tracks in New York City discothèques , expanded to feature multiple charts each week which highlighted playlists in various cities such as San Francisco , Los Angeles , Miami , Chicago , Boston ...
Donna Summer is the most successful dance artist of the 1970s, with seven number ones during the decade. Pet Shop Boys is the most successful group on the Dance Club Songs chart. "Crazy in Love" (2003) by Beyoncé is the first dance dance airplay number one. David Guetta has charted a record 17 dance airplay number ones since 2004.
The next year, Billboard rival publication Record World was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level. Billboard statistician Joel Whitburn has since "adopted" Record Worlds chart data from the weeks between March 29, 1975, and August 21, 1976, into Billboards club play history.
Whitburn, Joel (2004), Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, ISBN 0-89820-156-X, archived from the original on 2010-03-16; Some weeks may also be found at Billboard magazine courtesy of Google Books: 1975—1979
The Dance Club Songs (also known as National Disco Action, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play, and Hot Dance Club Play) was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by Billboard magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the United States.
The National Disco Action Top 40 was a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, which ranked the popularity of dance singles in nightclubs across the country, based on a national survey of club disc jockeys. Launched in 1976, the chart combined the data from 15 major markets, and there were 12 different number ones.
"The Best Disco in Town" is a 1976 crossover disco single by Philadelphia-based group, The Ritchie Family. In the United States, the single was a top 20 hit on both the soul and pop charts. [ 1 ] " The Best Disco in Town" went to number one for one week on the disco/dance chart.
In 1970, there were 23 songs that reached the top spot on the chart, but by the mid-1970s, more than 40 titles rotated in and out of the top spot for the first time in history. The trend temporarily reversed itself by the late 1970s, when about 30 to 35 songs reached the pinnacle position of the chart annually.