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‘Billboard Top 500 Summer Hits Countdown’ Limited Engagement Channel Returns to SiriusXM

SiriusXM’s limited engagement channel Billboard Top 500 Summer Hits Countdown has returned, celebrating the all-time biggest summer songs. The channel counts down, from No. 500 to No. 1, the most ...
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Here Are Connie Francis’ Biggest Billboard Hits

In spring 1958, Francis’ version of “Who’s Sorry Now,” originally a hit for multiple artists in the 1920s, rose to No. 4 on Billboard’s Top 100 chart. Upon the Hot 100’s start, “My Happiness” became ...
The Economist

You can learn a lot about music and society from 1,200 hit songs

“Uncharted Territory” provides an entertaining and empirical look at how the Billboard chart has changed over the decades.

Here’s Every Holiday Hit That Has Jingled to the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 10

The two most recently released holiday hits to go (over the river and through the woods) to the Hot 100’s top 10 did so on ...

Here’s Every Billboard Hot 100 Year-End No. 1 Song

Also in the 1958 year-end issue, Billboard continued its tradition of surveying the music industry via “The Billboard Eleventh Annual Disc Jockey Poll,” which “Volare” also crowned. “[The song] was ...