Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100 audio music charts are the top most trusted hit music song charts around. Every day Billboard releases new hit charts that cover the most popular hit songs in the music industry in almost every genre of audio music. The Billboard Hot 100 has been around for over 50 years, and Billboard has been putting out charts of the top hit music songs for even longer than that.

On the Billboard website, you can find reviews of top hit songs, charts of the best music, audio and video recordings from the most popular music artists right now, and much more relating to the audio music industry. But what Billboard is most known for is their extensive charts of the top Hot 100 music hits of the day.

On radio stations across the country where DJs have the day off on Sunday, many listeners can hear pre-recorded syndicated shows by aging disc jockey Casey Kasem where he goes through this weeks hit chart put out by the leader in top audio music, Billboard and their Hot 100 chart of the most popular songs in radio.

Billboard Magazine’s Hot 100 is the industry standard top audio music popularity chart and is issued weekly. The chart ranks top songs based on radio play and singles record sales.

The first Billboard Hot 100 was released August 4, 1958. The number one song in that issue was “Poor Little Fool” by Ricky Nelson. The most recent issue was published April 25, 2009 and features Black Eyed Peas new hit, “Boom Boom Pow”. The Billboard Hot 100 has published 973 #1 top audio hit charts since its inception as the music industry’s leading standard for top song charts.