Billboard Radio - Hot 100

Billboard Radio - Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100:

It is a great music hit list of the 100 best-selling singles in the United States, which helps promote the national and international music industry, and is defined as the most important of the Billboard charts along with the Billboard 200. The publication of the ranking Hot 100 is made weekly through Billboard magazine, and also via the Internet. The first song to reach number one in the Hot 100 era was Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" in 1958.1

According to the official historical record, this issue was ranked first specifically on August 4, 1958. As of that week and until August 3, 2019, the Billboard Hot 100 has had 1,086 different one numbers, of which The Song with more weeks at the top of the list is «Old Town Road», performed by Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus, holds the record for the most weeks in the first position, with a total of 19 consecutive in 2018.2 The artist American Katy Perry managed to position five singles from a single album (Teenage Dream) in first place; With the release as a single of "Part of Me" (which also achieved number one, thus being the sixth), Billboard clarified that it would not be taken into account since it is the reissue of the album, being taken as if it were from the album The Complete Confection and not Teenage Dream, 3 implying that the artist ended up tying like this with Michael Jackson and not surpassing the record she achieved with five singles from her album Bad.4 As for artists, Madonna has more top ten than any another, with 38 songs; as well as according to Billboard, she is the most successful solo artist in the history of this list.5 The number 1 most singles female artist is Mariah Carey, with 19; It is only surpassed by The Beatles, with 20.5 Regarding albums, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 is the album that most singles managed to place in the top five positions, with seven consecutive songs. In addition, he is the only one in history to achieve number 1 singles in three different years. Cher managed to become the longest-running artist to have reached a number 1 on the Hot 100 at the age of 52. Ariana Grande became the first solo artist in history to occupy the entire top three of the Hot 100, second only to The Beatles, who in 1964 managed to occupy the entire top five.6