Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is a hit parade of the U.S. Billboard magazine, published every Thursday charts. Since June 2007, Billboard publishes the Canadian Hot 100, which are determined according to the same principle as the Billboard Hot 100.
Determination of the Charts
Today
The charts are based on the airplay and sales of each week. With the issue of 24 March 2012, on-demand songs were recorded, so the data retrieved on the internet songs in audio-on -demand platforms such as Spotify and Rdio. Since March 2, 2013, the Streaming Songs charts part of the Hot 100, taking into account the demand figures for the video platform YouTube.
The sales week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday. The " airplay week " begins on Wednesday and ends on Tuesday.
- Monday, January 1 - sales week begins
- Wednesday, January 3 - " Airplay Week" starts
- Sunday, January 7 - sales week ends
- Tuesday, January 9th - " Airplay week " ends
- Thursday, January 11th - the charts are published
- Monday, January 15th until Sunday, January 21 - Validity period of the charts, with January 21 will be the official chart date (week ending January 21st )
- Hot 100 Airplay - about 1,000 radio stations in the U.S.
- Hot 100 Singles Sales - the best-selling singles of the week (CD)
- Hot Digital Songs - the songs most commonly sold as a download of the week ( digital file )
- Streaming songs - music and video streams at polling stations and video platforms such as Spotify and YouTube
1940s and 1950s
In the 1940s and 1950s there was today's Hot 100 yet, so that songs are then entered in three different charts:
- Sales - songs that have sold the most in the shops ( 20 to 50 positions )
- Airplay - the songs that were played most on the radio (20 to 25 positions )
- Jukebox - the songs that were most played in jukeboxes (20 positions). Since then have not played Rock'n'Roll many radio stations, this was the first point of contact for young people who wanted to listen to music.
- On August 4, 1958 Billboard published for the first time a hit parade that united all genres, the Hot 100
- As of October 13, 1958 also business oriented themselves on the Hot 100 and sorted the records according to the respective position in the charts.
More for determining
A special feature of the U.S. charts is that there songs are listed and not records. So it may be that of a single with two equal songs (double -A- side) both titles may appear in the charts simultaneously. Both get the same sales figures attributed add then come the respective radio airplay. It argues, for example, the Beatles in 1969 with their double feature single Come Together / Something same places 1 and 3
To be precise, Billboard has contracts with radio stations and stores / online providers, creating the billboard is possible to incorporate exact numbers of sales and the number of played songs to a radio station in the hit parade with.
Importance of Charts
The relevance of the Hot 100 Billboard in the United States is very high. They are considered the official U.S. singles chart.
History of number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100
The first number-one song was 1958 Poor Little Fool by Ricky Nelson. For a list see List of number-one hits in the United States.
Most number one hits have the Beatles (20 ), followed by Mariah Carey (18 ), Elvis Presley (17 ) and Michael Jackson ( 14). Elvis Presley is performed only with 7 titles on the Hot 100, as most of his hits were issued prior to August 1958.
Problems caused by the boycott of musicians through radio stations
With the disappearance of the singles sales and the increasing weight of the total radio airplay charts were more dependent on the policy of the radio stations in recent years. This affected not only musical decisions, but actually political as in the case of Madonna and the Dixie Chicks, which due to negative comments against George W. Bush in connection with the Iraq war at many stations handed curled a radio boycott and thus hardly still had chances, to place in the top 40. Due to the increasing trend towards music downloads This effect was again somewhat in perspective.