Charts That Got Ghosted: Remembering Long-Lost Billboard Lists

The Top 100 consolidated the Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played in Juke Boxes and Most Played by Jockey charts, which ...
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Here’s Every Billboard Hot 100 Year-End No. 1 Song

"Die With a Smile" is the latest leader, dating to the Hot 100's 1958 launch. By Xander Zellner Billboard has been publishing weekly rankings in one form or another for more than a century. Early in ...
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1958 No. 1 Hit, Written by a Future Vice President, Is Still a Pop Classic 68 Years Later

Today, Sept. 29, marks the 68th anniversary of a pop classic with quite the stately backstory. A suave little ballad that arrived during the transition between 1950s orchestral pop and the emerging ...
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Here’s Every Billboard Hot 100 Year-End No. 1 Song

Domenico Modugno, "Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)" Hot 100 debut date: Aug. 4, 1958 Hot 100 peak date: Aug. 18, 1958 Hot 100 peak position: No. 1 (for 5 weeks) Weeks Spent on Hot 100: 16 ...