List of number-one hits (United States)
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This is a list of songs that have reached Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a singles chart created in 1958 which monitors the most popular singles in the United States of America.
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[edit] Preface
The following year-by-year, week-by-week listings are based on statistics accrued by Billboard Magazine since before and after the inception of its Hot 100 popularity chart (August, 1958). All data were pooled from record purchases and radio/jukebox play within the United States.
[edit] Pre-Hot 100 era
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958
[edit] Hot 100 era
[edit] Sources
The following sources apply to all "by year" pages linked above:
- Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 (ISBN 0-89820-155-1)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Pop Charts, 1955-1959 (ISBN 0-89820-092-X)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties (ISBN 0-89820-074-1)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (ISBN 0-89820-076-8)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (ISBN 0-89820-079-2)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties (ISBN 0-89820-137-3)
- Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
[edit] See also
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States)
- List of number-one modern rock hits (United States)
- List of number-one rhythm and blues hits (United States)
- List of number-one Top 40 Mainstream hits
- List of number-one Hot 100 Airplay hits
- List of artists who reached number one in the United States
- List of year-end number-one hits (United States)
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