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\n\tThe Billboard Hot 100<\/a> chart ranks the top songs in the United States each week, blending streaming, radio airplay and sales figures (per data tracker Luminate). Unsurprisingly, the biggest hits tend to be relatively new at any given time, as they have been since the survey began in 1958. On the latest list, five acts are even enjoying their first top 10s: Shaboozey, Tommy Richman, Sabrina Carpenter \u2013 simultaneously logging her first two top 10s \u2013 Teddy Swims and Benson Boone.<\/p>\n \n\tBut what about the current biggest hits that were released in past decades?<\/p>\n \n\tNostalgia sells, and streams and attracts strong radio play, per a Billboard<\/em> analysis of the best-performing songs in the July 12-18 tracking week that were originally released in the 2000s, 1990s, \u201880s, \u201870s and \u201860s.<\/p>\n \n\tSimilarly, as Luminate revealed in its midyear<\/a> report, catalog music (released 18 months or earlier) accounted for 73% of all album consumption in the first half of 2024, matching its share in 2023, and up slightly from its totals earlier this decade. (Even the Hot 100\u2019s current No. 1 draws from the past, as Shaboozey\u2019s \u201cA Bar Song [Tipsy],\u201d on top for a second week<\/a>, interpolates<\/a> J-Kwon\u2019s 2004 hit \u201cTipsy.\u201d)<\/p>\n \n\tBelow is a look at the top 10 songs this week from each decade from the \u201800s back to the \u201860s. Notably, the top track from the \u201800s experienced an unexpected surge: Following the July 13 shooting of former president Donald Trump during a campaign rally, memes emerged<\/a> comparing him to 50 Cent, who was shot nine times in 2000. (Mused a shrugging<\/a> 50 Cent, \u201cTrump gets shot and now I\u2019m trending.\u201d)<\/p>\n \n\tThe rapper\u2019s \u201cMany Men (Wish Death)\u201d subsequently reigns as the biggest song from the 2000s July 12-18, led by 6.4 million official U.S. streams \u2013 up 224% week-over-week.<\/p>\n \n\tThe song\u2019s performance outpaces its original showing, as it bubbled under the Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 2003 and has yet to reach the ranking, or the Hot 100. Still, most of the titles below (and, happily, reflecting content of a more peaceable nature) were substantial hits upon their releases, with over 80% top 10 hits on the Hot 100 over the five decades analyzed.<\/p>\n \n\tBrowse below the most prominent representation of songs from the 2000s (2000-09), 1990s, \u201880s, \u201870s and \u201860s over the past week, encompassing a wide variety of genres, from pop and hip-hop to new wave, classic rock and Motown.<\/p>\n