Two years later, in August 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart began. At the end of 1958, Billboard printed a recap of the year’s biggest songs for the first time (that year also ...

By Gary Trust Beginning with Debby Boone’s 1977 smash “You Light Up My Life,” a relatively select few smashes have led the Billboard Hot 100 for at least 10 weeks. How few? Just a mere 4% of ...

Billboard has been publishing weekly rankings in one form or another for over a century. Early in the 1900s, Billboard ...