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#Billboard Hot 100 numberone singles #Top lists #Billboard charts

1 Since February 12, 2005, the Billboard Hot 100 tracks paid digital downloads from such internet services as iTunes, ________, Musicmatch, and Rhapsody.

2 ________

3 For example, during the 1950s and 1960s, ________ and other problems skewed the numbers in largely undetectable ways.

4 1998 ________ – "Iris" (number one for eighteen weeks)

5 Under normal circumstances, airplay points from a song’s album version, "radio" mix and/or ________ remix, etc.

6 ________

7 1996 ________ – "Don't Speak" (number one for sixteen weeks)

8 Most Played In Jukeboxes—ranked the most played songs in ________ across the United States (20 positions).

9 Its current number-one is "Rude Boy" by ________.

10 Originally entering the Hot 100 in its album version, a "remix" was issued in the midst of its chart run that featured rapper ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Motown recording "Do You Love Me" by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987?
  • the Vietnam War protest song "War," originally recorded by the Temptations, was Motown artist Edwin Starr's only number-one hit?
  • the song "Nights in White Satin," largely ignored on its first release in 1967, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was re-released in 1972?
  • the Bobby Goldsboro song "Honey" (1968), Goldsboro's first and only number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles Chart, frequently appears on "worst songs of all time" lists?
  • in 1989 Cuban singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan became the first artist to simultaneously reach number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 and Top Latin Songs charts with her single "Don't Wanna Lose You"?
  • British singer Maxine Nightingale first charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 after a massive marketing push by her label, United Artists?
  • American schoolteacher Rita Abrams and the fourth-grade class in her school recorded an album which featured a Billboard Hot 100 hit and saw her being nominated for a Grammy?
  • Los Angeles-based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100?
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