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Usher accumulated the most number-one entries (seven) and the most weeks atop the chart (42 weeks) throughout the 2000s. Beyoncé spent 36 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 with five entries, including the number-one song of 2007, "Irreplaceable". Rihanna accumulated five number-one singles, spending 19 weeks atop the chart.
Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s. Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" spent 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which at the time was a record. [4] [5] Lisa Loeb became the first artist to score a #1 hit before signing to any record label, with "Stay (I Missed You)".
Faith Hill's single "Breathe" was the first country music recording to be ranked number one since Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" in 1959. ( Patsy Cline 's " I Fall to Pieces " ( 1961 ) and Glen Campbell 's " Rhinestone Cowboy " ( 1975 ) had each come close, ranking second.)
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
The mid-1990s also witnessed a drastic difference between what reached the top of the Mainstream Top 40 chart and the Hot 100, when songs started being promoted to radio and receiving significant airplay without the release of a commercially available single, a requirement for a song to reach the Hot 100. Thus, number-one songs on the ...
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 2000 which peaked in 1999 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten September 4 "Smooth" Santana featuring Rob Thomas: 1 October 23 30 October 2 "I Need to Know" Marc Anthony: 3 November 27 19 November 6 "Back At One" Brian McKnight: 2 November 20 15 November 20
The 2000s in rock radio in the United States saw a continued blurring of the playlists among mainstream rock and alternative rock stations. Every track that was ranked by Billboard as the number-one song of the year on its Mainstream Rock Tracks chart during the decade was also a top-five hit on the Alternative Songs chart, most of which topped both charts.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales, and airplay. There were 18 number-one singles in 2000.