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During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as simply "America", is an American patriotic song, the lyrics of which were written by Samuel Francis Smith. [2] The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States (along with songs like "Hail, Columbia") before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. [3]
Boyz II Men remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 50 weeks during the 1990s. They scored five number-one songs, with three of them spending over 10 weeks atop the chart. The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in ...
October 7. "You Always Hurt the One You Love". The Mills Brothers. [ 41] October 14. "I'll Walk Alone". Dinah Shore. "(There'll Be a) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go Marching In)" Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra.
Number ones. Bing Crosby had the highest number of hits at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (9 songs). In addition, Crosby remained the longest at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (55 weeks). Jimmy Dorsey remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 32 weeks.
The funk track "Uptown Funk" by British producer Mark Ronson, featuring American singer Bruno Mars, who co-wrote and voiced the lyrics was named the number 1 song of 2015, despite being released in late 2014. It spent the longest time at number 1 for the year, 14 weeks, and spent the entire year in the Top 40 region.
Number ones. The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the ...
Music of theUnited States. Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. The history began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North America.