See the highlights below as UCR revisits the Top 35 Songs of 1989. 35. XTC, “Mayor of Simpleton” From: Oranges & Lemons XTC ...

The track, which spent five weeks at No. 1, became the second song to top the weekly Hot 100, after Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool.” Also in the 1958 year-end issue, Billboard continued ...

By Trevor Anderson Since Billboard first began its national survey of song sales in the 1940s ... Billboard has monitored and reported popular tastes through every chapter of rap’s history ...