Saturday, February 24, 2007
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Thursday. Each chart is dated with the "week-ending" date of the following Saturday.
Example:
- Monday, January 1 - sales tracking-week begins
- Wednesday, January 3 - airplay tracking-week begins
- Sunday, January 7 - sales tracking-week ends
- Tuesday, January 9 - airplay tracking-week ends
- Thursday, January 11 - new chart released, with issue date of Saturday, January 20.
The first number one song of the Hot 100 era was "Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson on August 4, 1958. As of the issue dated March 3, 2007, the Hot 100 has had 939 number one hits. Its current number one is "What Goes Around..." by Justin Timberlake.
Track Listings :
- Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around...Comes Around
- Ludacris feat. Mary J. Blige - Runaway Love
- Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
- Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice
- Akon - Don't Matter
- Gwen Stefani feat. Akon - The Sweet Escape
- Daughtry - It's Not Over
- Gym Class Heroes feat. Patrick Stump - Cupid's Chokehold
- Beyonce - Irreplaceable
- Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
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