In October 1938, a review list 'The Week's Best Records' was retitled 'The Billboard Record Buying Guide' by incorporating airplay and sheet music sales, which would eventually become the first trade survey of record popularity. Titled 'Ten Best Records for Week Ending', it listed the 10 top-selling records of three leading record companies as reported by the companies themselves. On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published its first pop chart based on record sales. In 1928, 'Popular Numbers Featured by Famous Singers and Leaders' appeared, which added radio performances to in-person performances. Other early charts listed popular song performances in theatres and recitals. The first chart published by Billboard was 'Last Week's Ten Best Sellers Among the Popular Songs', a list of best-selling sheet music, in July 1913. The charts are released each Tuesday with an issue date the following Saturday. Radio airplay song charts, however, follow the Monday-to-Sunday cycle (previously Wednesday-to-Tuesday). The weekly sales and streams charts are monitored on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle since July 2015 previously it was on a Monday-to-Sunday cycle. For the Billboard 200 album chart, streams and track sales are included in addition to album sales. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot 100 song chart, all three data are used to compile the charts.

The two most important charts are the Billboard Hot 100 for songs and Billboard 200 for albums, and other charts may be dedicated to a specific genre such as R&B, country, or rock, or they may cover all genres. Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts, as well as year-end charts. The results are published in Billboard magazine. What does the Billboard Top 100 of every year have to do with today’s Hits?……….The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. Over the last 15 years pop music has made a big come back with the help of yesterdays’ top 100. The point system for the old Billboard Top 100 worked as follows……. A song gained a points for every week it spend on the chart based on the position it was in that particular week.

In the past, the year end chart for singles was tabulated by a simple point system. This allows the magazine to figure its year-end charts and allows them the time to include the chart in its final print issue on the last week of December. Outside of publishing several industry standard charts every week and at the end of every year, it publishes the Billboard Top 100 of that particular year.but it was not always like this……… Read entire articleīillboard magazine’s Yearly chart starts the first week of December to the last week in November of every year. Not many people know that Billboard magazine has been around for quite a while. Have a look around and enjoy!Ĭheck out some of our articles and learn more about Billboard and the music industry Many people want to know what were the Top 100 songs of a particular year and billboard has been keeping track since 1940 so if you are looking for the top 100 of every year since the beginning of the chart history, you are a the right place. When people say “number one hit” they are refering to the number one spot on billboard magazine’s Hot 100, Top 200 Albums & the year ends top 100. Today Billboard magazine and its charts are the industry standard for measuring the success of musical works all over the world. The magazine has an amazing story in how it morphed over the years into the most popular music chart magazine on the planet. Due to the early state of the music industry and Billboard magazine itself. Please keep in mind that some years, specially in the early years may only contain 30-80 songs. Here you will find a comprehensive list of the Billboard Top 100 Songs songs for every year since 1940 according to Billboard Magazine.