{"id":122112,"date":"2024-12-23T18:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/23\/heres-every-billboard-hot-100-year-end-no-1-song-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T23:08:06","slug":"heres-every-billboard-hot-100-year-end-no-1-song-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/23\/heres-every-billboard-hot-100-year-end-no-1-song-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Every Billboard Hot 100 Year-End No. 1\u00a0Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tBillboard<\/em> has been publishing weekly rankings in one form or another for over a century.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarly in the 1900s, Billboard<\/em> presented charts detailing the popularity of sheet music in the U.S. In July 1940, Billboard<\/em> unveiled its first chart ranking the sales of recorded songs, the 10-position \u201cNational List of Best Selling Retail Records,\u201d with Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Miller among its ranks.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard<\/em> expanded its number of weekly charts over the next few years, starting recaps for R&B in 1942 and country in 1944. In March 1956, the weekly Billboard 200 albums chart premiered (at just 10 positions deep). Two years later, in August 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart began.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the end of 1958, Billboard<\/em> printed a recap of the year\u2019s biggest songs for the first time (that year also encompassing songs\u2019 performance on pre-Hot 100 charts leading up to its launch that August). Domenico Modugno\u2019s \u201cVolare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)\u201d finished as Billboard<\/em>\u2018s first year-end No. 1 Hot 100 song. The track, which spent five weeks at No. 1, became the second song to top the weekly Hot 100, after Ricky Nelson\u2019s \u201cPoor Little Fool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tTeddy Swims’ ‘Lose Control’ Is 2024’s No. 1 Hot 100 Song & Taylor Swift Is Chart’s\u2026\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

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\n\tAlso in the 1958 year-end issue, Billboard<\/em> continued its tradition of surveying the music industry via \u201cThe Billboard<\/em> Eleventh Annual Disc Jockey Poll,\u201d which \u201cVolare\u201d also crowned. \u201c[The song] was really a left-field hit \u2026 one of the few disks in recent years with a non-English lyric to reach the top,\u201d Billboard <\/em>wrote at the time. In the 2020s, such hits are plentiful, largely via the growth of K-pop and Latin music. Thus, this line from that 1958 issue proved prophetic, given the sonic, and geographic scope of that year\u2019s biggest titles: \u201cThe preference in tunes indicates that no one type of song or artist reigns supreme among jockeys. The list also includes several types of songs with many extremes, ranging from an old folk song to European, Latin American and tunes by American cleffers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tToday, Billboard<\/em> not only has the year-end Hot 100 Songs ranking, but also annual recaps for all 200-plus weekly charts, reflecting chart performance of songs, albums and artists over a 12-month tracking period.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom \u201cVolare\u201d to this year, here\u2019s a look at every year-end No. 1 Hot 100 single since 1958, as published in every year-end issue.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditional research by Gary Trust, Paul Grein and Alex Vitoulis<\/em><\/p>\n