On the week ending November 12, 1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time. This was one of the main outlets of measuring song popularity with the younger generation of music listeners, as many radio stations resisted adding rock and roll music to their playlists for many years.Īlthough officially all three charts had equal "weight" in terms of their importance, Billboard retrospectively considers the Best Sellers in Stores chart when referencing a song's performance before the creation of the Hot 100. Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States (20 positions). It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio DJs and radio stations (20 to 25 positions). Most Played by Jockeys was Billboard 's original airplay chart.This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country (20 to 50 positions). Best Sellers in Stores was the best seller chart first established in July 1940.At the start of the rock era in 1955, there were three charts that measured songs by individual metrics: This chart ranked the most popular songs regardless of performer (it combined different versions of the same song by different artists) based on record and sheet sales, disk jockey, and jukebox performances as determined by Billboard 's weekly nationwide survey. Starting on March 24, 1945, Billboard 's lead popularity chart was the Honor Roll of Hits. Listed were 10 songs of the national "Best Selling Retail Records", which was the fore-runner of today's pop chart, with " I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey its first number one. This led to the full-page "Billboard Music Popularity Chart" for the week ending Jand published in the July 27 issue, with lists covering jukebox play, retail sales, sheet music sales, and radio play. In October 1938, a review list, "The Week's Best Records", was retitled "The Billboard Record Buying Guide" by incorporating airplay and sheet music sales, which would eventually become the first trade survey of record popularity. On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published "Ten Best Records for Week Ending", which recorded the 10 top selling records of three leading record companies as reported by the companies themselves. In 1928, "Popular Numbers Featured by Famous Singers and Leaders" appeared, which added radio performances to in-person performances. Other charts listed popular song performances in theatres and recitals. The first chart published by Billboard was "Last Week's Ten Best Sellers Among the Popular Songs", a list of best-selling sheet music, in July 1913. The current number-one song on the chart is " Last Night" by Morgan Wallen. As of the issue for the week ending on June 24, 2023, the Billboard Hot 100 has had 1,149 different number-one entries. The first number-one song of the Billboard Hot 100 was " Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson, on August 4, 1958. Previously, radio was tracked Monday–Sunday and, before July 2015, Wednesday–Tuesday. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but is also tracked on the same Friday–Thursday cycle, effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. It was initially Monday–Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991. The weekly tracking period for sales is currently Friday–Thursday, after being changed in July 2015. Ī new chart is compiled and released online to the public by Billboard website on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday, when the printed magazine first reaches newsstands. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), online streaming, and radio play in the U.S. The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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