The Hot Digital Songs chart ranks the best-selling digital singles in the United States, according to Billboard.
Beginning in February 2005, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboard's music single charts. It was decided to do so mainly because of the dramatic rise in popularity of the digital market while commercial single sales were becoming negligible.[1] The chart has had seventy-one number one songs and its current number one is "Bad Romance" by Lady GaGa.
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Achievements
Songs with most weeks at number one
- 13 weeks
- 10 weeks
- Black Eyed Peas - "I Gotta Feeling" (2009)
- Black Eyed Peas - "Boom Boom Pow" (2009)
- 9 weeks
- Gwen Stefani - "Hollaback Girl" (2005)
- Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx - "Gold Digger" (2005)
- 8 weeks
- 50 Cent featuring Olivia - "Candy Shop" (2005)
- 7 weeks
- Daniel Powter - "Bad Day" (2006)
- 6 weeks
- Miley Cyrus - "Party in the U.S.A." (2009)
- Flo Rida - "Right Round" (2009)
- Katy Perry - "I Kissed A Girl" (2008)
- Justin Timberlake - "SexyBack" (2006)
- 5 weeks
- Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - "Umbrella" (2007)
- Soulja Boy Tell'Em - "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" (2007)
- Rihanna - "Pon de Replay" (2005)
Artists with most number one hits
- Six
- Rihanna ("Pon de Replay", "SOS", "Umbrella", "Take A Bow", "Disturbia", Live Your Life)
- Five
- Beyoncé ("Check On It", "Irreplacable", "Beautiful Liar", "If I Were A Boy", "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)")
- Justin Timberlake ("SexyBack", "My Love", "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around", "Give It to Me", "4 Minutes")
- Four
- Timbaland ("Promiscous", "SexyBack", "Give It to Me", "Apologize")
- Black Eyed Peas ("Don't Phunk With My Heart", "My Humps", "Boom Boom Pow", "I Gotta Feeling")
- Britney Spears ("Gimme More, Womanizer", "Circus", "3")
- Three
- Mariah Carey ("All I Want For Christmas Is You", "Don't Forget About Us", "Touch My Body")
- Kanye West ("Gold Digger", "Stronger", "Heartless")
- Fergie ("London Bridge", "Fergalicious", "Glamorous")
- T.I. ("My Love", "Whatever You Like", "Live Your Life")
- Eminem ("When I'm Gone", "Smack That", "Crack A Bottle")
- Akon ("Smack That", "I Wanna Love You", "The Sweet Escape")
- Lady GaGa ("Just Dance", "Poker Face", "Bad Romance")
Artists with most weeks at number one
- 1. Black Eyed Peas (24)
- 2. Rihanna (19) (tie)
- 2. Flo Rida (19) (tie)
- 3. Kanye West (12) (tie)
- 3. Justin Timberlake (12) (tie)
- 3. Beyoncé (12) (tie)
- 4. Gwen Stefani (10)
- 5. Fergie (9) (tie)
- 5. 50 Cent (9) (tie)
Artists with most consecutive weeks at number one
- 1. Black Eyed Peas (19 weeks)
Self-replacement at number one
- Mariah Carey — All I Want For Christmas Is You (one week) → Don't Forget About Us (one week) (December 31, 2005)
- T.I. — Whatever You Like (one week) → Live Your Life (one week) (October 18, 2008)
- Beyoncé — If I Were a Boy (one week) → Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (one week) (December 6, 2008)
- Black Eyed Peas — Boom Boom Pow (ten weeks) → I Gotta Feeling (ten weeks) (June 27, 2009)
Additional achievements
- Miley Cyrus's song, "Party in the USA" is youngest female artist to debut at number one with 226,000 downloads. It also holds the record for most weeks at #1 without topping the Hot 100
- Gwen Stefani's song, "Hollaback Girl", was the first song in its history to surpass one million downloads.
- Flo Rida's "Low" holds the record for biggest selling digitally downloaded song of all time, with current U.S. digital sales of over 5,000,000
- Flo Rida's song "Right Round" holds the record for the biggest and the largest debut sales week for a digital song with 636,000 downloads.
- Lady GaGa's song "Just Dance" holds the record for the largest sales week for a female artist with 419,000 downloads.
- Britney Spears's song "Womanizer" holds the record for the largest debut for a female artist with sales of 286,000 digital downloads in its first week of release.
- Black Eyed Peas' song "Boom Boom Pow" holds the record for the biggest and largest debut sales week for a group for a digital song with 465,000 downloads.
- Michael Jackson is the only artist to sell over 1 million downloads in one week.
See also
External links
References
- ^ "Billboard updated album charts". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Singles&f=Hot+Digital+Tracks&page=2. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
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