Record chart
From October 26, 1974
[1]
until August 28, 1976,
Billboard's
Disco Action
section published weekly
single
retail sales
charts
from various local regions along with Top Audience Response Records in their
magazine
.
[2]
Billboard
debuted its first national chart devoted exclusively to
12-inch Singles
Sales
in their issue dated March 16, 1985.
[3]
This record type is most commonly used in disco and
dance music
genres where
DJs
use them to play in discos or
dance clubs
because of the exclusive extended
remixes
that are often only made available on this format, but
Billboard's
12-inch Single Sales chart ranks releases by artists from all styles of music that release
maxi-singles
.
[4]
The 50-position weekly ranking joined
Billboard
'
s established
Dance/Disco Top 80
chart, reduced to the same 50 positions, both under the title
Hot Dance/Disco
, becoming two separate Top 50 charts: 12-Inch Singles Sales and Club Play. A coupling from
MCA Records
'
Beverly Hills Cop
soundtrack
,
Patti LaBelle
's "
New Attitude
"
[5]
and
Harold Faltermeyer
's "
Axel F
",
[6]
held the No. 1 slot for the 12-inch Singles Sales chart's first week
[7]
and was also No. 1 for the second consecutive week on the most played dance/disco chart.
[8]
[7]
Madonna
's "
Angel
" 12" vinyl single from 1985 contains one of the most famous
B-sides
in U.S. history: "
Into the Groove
," featured in the film
Desperately Seeking Susan
.
[9]
While receiving a proper release in other countries,
Warner Bros. Records
relegated the song to 12-inch B-side status in
America
despite its enormous popularity on
radio
and
MTV
, thus making it ineligible to enter the
Billboard
U.S.
Hot 100
.
[10]
The dance mix edit of "Angel" is the B-side of the
7-inch single
that did chart the Hot 100.
[11]
"Into The Groove" has been cited by multiple publications as Madonna's best single, but only charted
Billboard
in the Hot Dance/Disco section as a dual sided single peaking at #1 for 7 weeks on the 12-inch Single Sales
survey
& #1 for 1 week on the Club Play survey
[12]
and on the
Hot Black Singles
chart as a single track peaking at #19.
[13]
Only later remixes by
Shep Pettibone
and Goh Hotoda
[14]
are available on Madonna's albums.
The word "
disco
" was removed from the title of the section of both charts beginning September 19, 1987.
[15]
After being temporarily renamed
Hot Dance 50
,
[16]
Billboard
retitled the section
Hot Dance Music
on October 24, 1987.
[17]
On the first
Billboard
Music Awards
in 1990,
Janet Jackson
[18]
was awarded #1 Hot Dance 12-inch Singles Sales Artist.
[19]
The 1991 winner for #1 Hot Dance 12" Singles Sales was
C + C Music Factory
featuring
Freedom Williams
' "
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
".
[20]
[21]
On June 20, 1992,
Billboard
began to also survey
cassette tape
and
CD
maxi-singles along with vinyl twelve-inch singles renaming the chart
Maxi-Singles Sales
.
[22]
In 1993, the
Billboard
Music Award winner for #1 12" Dance Single was
RuPaul
's
[23]
"
Supermodel (You Better Work)
".
[24]
[25]
The Maxi-Singles Sales survey began using actual sales figures (
SoundScan
) to compile the chart on August 28, 1993.
[26]
Hot Dance Music section expansion
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On July 28, 2001,
Billboard
launches the 15 position
Top Electronic Albums
chart and reduces the Maxi-Singles Sales chart size from 50 to 25 positions, 30 positions online.
[27]
Top Electronic Albums chart is expanded to 25 positions on December 2, 2001.
[28]
Billboard
renamed the Maxi-Singles Sales survey to
Dance Singles Sales
[29]
on March 1, 2003,
[30]
although the survey would continue to chart popular maxi-singles
[31]
by artists from other genres of music besides dance even more frequently such as
hip hop
&
rap
artists like
Public Enemy
[32]
and
2Pac
[33]
[34]
and
alternative rock
&
industrial metal
bands such as
The Smiths
[35]
and
Ministry
.
[36]
[37]
2006's "
Every Day Is Exactly the Same
" by
Nine Inch Nails
[38]
topped the sales chart more than any other single with 36 inconsecutive weeks, yet never appeared on the Hot Dance Club Play survey.
[39]
[40]
Billboard
launches the 40 position
Hot Dance Radio Airplay
chart online August 16, 2003, ranking the songs on
stations playing mainly dance music
.
[41]
Dance Singles Sales is retitled
Hot Dance Single Sales
when the top 25 Hot Dance Radio Airplay begins to appear in print on October 25 of that year.
[42]
The single "
Me Against The Music
" by
Britney Spears
and Madonna won the award for "Hot Dance Singles Sales Single of the Year"
[43]
at the
Billboard
Music Awards in 2004.
[44]
[45]
Singles Sales decline and Dance section reorganization
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]
Beginning April 30, 2005, the
Billboard
Dance
section started alternately printing Hot Dance Single Sales and Top Electronic Albums every other week in the magazine
[46]
until Hot Dance Single Sales
[47]
became only available at billboard.biz after the February 24, 2007 issue.
[48]
Billboard
reduces the position size of the Hot Dance Singles chart from 25 to 15 positions on March 30, 2007.
[49]
Stevie Nicks
' 2007 remix single of "
Stand Back
" debuted at #3 on the chart on September 15, 2007,
[50]
peaking at #2 the following week where it stayed for two weeks.
[51]
Top Electronic Albums is renamed Top Dance/Electronic Albums by
Billboard
on June 20, 2009.
[52]
The size of the Dance Singles Sales chart is reduced further down to 10 positions on October 3, 2009.
[53]
Billboard's
Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales
, a 50 position chart ranking of the most popular
downloaded songs
ranked by sales data as compiled by
Luminate
, debuts online January 23, 2010.
[54]
Hot Dance Airplay is retitled Dance/Mix Show Airplay
[55]
[56]
on November 19, 2011, and reconfigured to rank total weekly plays as monitored by
Nielsen BDS
from full-time dance-formatted stations, as well as plays on
Mainstream Top 40
and select
Rhythmic
and
Adult Top 40
stations that have submitted their hours of mix show programming.
[57]
[58]
The
Hot Dance/Electronic Songs
[59]
chart is launched in
Billboard
magazine's newly restructured
Dance/
Electronic
music section on January 26, 2013.
[60]
Similar to the Hot 100, Dance/Electronic Songs is
Billboard's
first-ever ranking of the nation's top dance songs combining sales (tracked by
Nielsen
SoundScan), radio airplay,
streaming
data and club play.
[61]
Billboard's
Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs chart debuted online April 20, 2013, ranking the week's most popular streamed dance songs (audio + video) on leading
U.S.
digital music services.
[62]
After years of falling
record sales
,
[63]
Billboard
discontinued their weekly Dance Singles Sales survey later that year.
[64]
The last chart of the nearly 29 year old national survey was published online November 30, 2013.
[65]
On June 1, 2019,
Billboard
introduced their weeekly Dance/Electronic Producers
[66]
and Songwriters
[67]
surveys. After almost 45 years of continuous weekly national charts,
Billboard's
Dance Club Songs survey has been suspended since March 28, 2020,
[68]
due to widespread
social distancing
being practiced in reaction to the
COVID-19 pandemic
.
[69]
[70]
Top charting Dance Singles
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]
The following are the top charting singles for each year of the duration of the Hot Dance Singles Sales survey.
[71]
The following singles peaked at #1 for more than 12 weeks on the Hot Dance Singles Sales survey.
The following #1 singles charted over 100 total weeks each on the Hot Dance Singles Sales survey.
[132]
The following artists charted 5 or more #1 singles on the Hot Dance Singles Sales survey between 1985 and 2013.
Lists of number-one Dance Singles
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]
80s-90s
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]
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000s
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]
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Billboard
external links
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]
Dance Club Songs
[
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]
Dance Singles Sales
[
edit
]
Dance/Electronic year-end charts
[
edit
]
Dance/Mix Show Airplay
[
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]
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