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The Radio Songs chart (previously named Hot 100 Airplay until 2014 [1] and Top 40 Radio Monitor until 1991) [2] is released weekly by Billboard magazine and measures the airplay of songs being played on radio stations throughout the United States across all musical genres.
During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
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.
This is a list of songs which received the most airplay per week on radio stations in the United States as ranked and published by Billboard magazine on the Radio Songs (formerly Hot 100 Airplay) chart during the 2020s.
Throughout the history of the Hot 100 and its predecessor charts, many songs have set records for longevity, popularity, or number of hit singles by an individual artist. Among these records is the longest-running number one single, a record set with " Old Town Road " by Lil Nas X , and later tied with " A Bar Song (Tipsy) " by Shaboozey ...
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Greatest Hits Radio saw its average weekly audience soar to 7.69 million in the first three months of 2024 – a leap of 50 per cent from its 5.12 million listeners a year earlier.
Beginning December 5, 1998, the Hot 100 changed from being a "singles" chart to a "songs" chart. [2] Not only did Billboard start allowing airplay-only tracks to chart, it broadened its radio panel to include "R&B, adult R&B, mainstream rock, triple-A rock, and country outlets", which was formerly "confined to the mainstream top 40, rhythmic ...