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More recently, they have reached into the top ten, and in 2019, for only the second time ever on the Hot 100 (the first since 1958), made it to number one. This has led to all-time records for dropping off the Hot 100, including from number one, as the songs depart regardless of their final chart positions during the season.
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.
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".
The song peaked at #3 on the U.K.'s Official Singles chart in 1973 and ranked #105 on Rolling Stones' "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." Michael Putland // Getty Images 'Dust in the Wind' by Kansas
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.
The deeply catchy — and totally iconic — hook of this 1995 song still shows up everywhere, from social media posts to commercials. Tim Mosenfelder - Getty Images "No Diggity" by Blackstreet (1996)
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13. "Hound Dog," Elvis Presley Elvis made dozens of classic songs in his career, but when it comes to pure catchy hook heaven, the repeated line "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, cryin' all the ...