Pop Airplay
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The Mainstream Top 40 is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine, and is also known as Pop Songs on billboard.com. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart. Whereas the Top 40 Mainstream and Pop 100 Airplay charts both measured the airplay of songs played on Mainstream stations playing pop-oriented music, the Pop 100 Airplay (like the Hot 100 Airplay) measures airplay was based on statistical impressions, while the Top 40 Mainstream chart used the number of total detections. Arbitron sometimes refers to the format as Pop Contemporary Hit Radio.
Song records
Highest debut
- No. 12: Mariah Carey — "Dreamlover"
- No. 14: Lady Gaga — "Born This Way", Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z — "Suit & Tie"
- No. 16: Madonna — "Frozen", Britney Spears — "Hold It Against Me"
- No. 18: Taylor Swift — "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
Most weeks at number one
14 weeks
- Ace of Base - "The Sign" (1994)
11 weeks
- Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - "One Sweet Day" (1995-1996)
- Donna Lewis - "I Love You Always Forever" (1996)
- Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn" (1998)
- Nelly featuring Tim McGraw - "Over and Over" (2004-2005)
10 weeks
- Dionne Farris - "I Know" (1995)
- No Doubt - "Don't Speak" (1996-1997)
- Céline Dion - "My Heart Will Go On" (1998)
- 'N Sync - "Bye Bye Bye" (2000)
- Nickelback - "How You Remind Me" (2001-2002)
- Mariah Carey - "We Belong Together" (2005)
9 weeks
- Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You" (1992-1993)
- Janet Jackson - "That's the Way Love Goes" (1993)
- Ace of Base - "All That She Wants" (1993)
- Seal - "Kiss from a Rose" (1995)
- Chumbawamba - "Tubthumping" (1997-1998)
- Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa & Pink - "Lady Marmalade" (2001)
- OutKast - "Hey Ya!" (2003-2004)
- Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love" (2008)
Most weeks on the chart
- 41 weeks - Edwin McCain — "I'll Be" (1998) [3]
- 39 weeks - Real McCoy — "Another Night" (1995),[4] Goo Goo Dolls — "Iris" (1999),[5] Goo Goo Dolls — "Slide" (1999) [6]
- 38 weeks - Santana ft. Rob Thomas — "Smooth" (2000),[7] P!nk — "U + Ur Hand" (2007) [8]
- 36 weeks - Third Eye Blind — "Semi-Charmed Life" (1998),[9] Eagle-Eye Cherry — "Save Tonight" (1999),[10] Vertical Horizon — "Everything You Want" (2000),[11] Lifehouse — "Hanging by a Moment" (2001) [12]
Most weekly plays
Below are listed the 10 songs with the most weekly plays under Billboard's then panel. The panel is regularly updated, with stations being added or removed sometimes even weekly, and often expanded, thus the spins record is broken quite frequently.
- Taylor Swift - "I Knew You Were Trouble." (16,073) [13]
- Bruno Mars - "Locked Out of Heaven (14,497)[14]
- Kesha - "Die Young", (14,465)[15]
- Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko - "Stay", (13,886)[16]
- Maroon 5 - "One More Night", (13,168)[17]
- fun. featuring Janelle Monáe - "We Are Young", (12,928)[18]
- Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe", (12,812)[19]
- Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris - "We Found Love", (12,613)[20]
- Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa - "Payphone", (12,539)[21]
- Adele - "Set Fire to the Rain", (12,536)[22]
Artist records
Artists with the most number-one singles
- 1.) Rihanna (10)
- 2.) Katy Perry (9)
- 3.) Pink (8)
- 4.) Lady Gaga (7)
- 5.) Bruno Mars (6) (tie)
- 5.) Britney Spears (6) (tie)
- 5.) Beyoncé (6) (tie)
- 5.) Mariah Carey (6) (tie)
- 5.) Maroon 5 (6) (tie)
Artists with the most cumulative weeks at number-one
- Mariah Carey (45)
- Katy Perry (37)
- Pink (31)
- Ace of Base (29)
- Rihanna (26)
- Christina Aguilera (25)
- Justin Timberlake (24)
- Boyz II Men, Nelly, Beyoncé (23) (tie)
Note: As of April 2013
Artists with the most top 10 singles
- 1.) Rihanna (23)
- 2.) Pink (17)
- 3.) Britney Spears (15)
- 4.) Madonna (14) (tie)
- 5.) Christina Aguilera (13)[24]
Artists with the most entries
- 1.) Rihanna (35)
- 2.) Britney Spears (30)[25]
- 3.) Mariah Carey (29)
- 4.) Madonna (28)
- 5.) Lil Wayne (25)
Source[26]
Artist achievements
- Lady Gaga is the only artist to have her first six singles reach No. 1.[27]
- Britney Spears holds the record for the longest span of No. 1s (12 years, 7 months, 4 days).[28]
- Katy Perry's Teenage Dream is the first album ever to have 6 singles top the chart.[29]
- At age thirteen, JoJo became the youngest solo artist to have a number-one single on the chart.[citation needed]
- Demi Lovato's "Give Your Heart a Break" and Cee Lo Green's "Forget You" share the record for the longest climb to the top, with 25 weeks each.[30]
Chart criteria
There are 40 positions on this chart and it is solely based on radio airplay. This chart ranks the week's hottest pop songs, ranked by mainstream top 40 radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen BDS Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. Songs are ranked by the total number of spins detected per week.
Songs that are gaining plays or remaining flat from previous week will receive a bullet. A song will also receive a bullet if its percentage loss in plays does not exceed the percentage of monitored station downtime for the format. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first. In the week December 3, 2005 songs below No. 20 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Descending songs below No. 10 are moved to recurrent after 52 weeks on the chart.
Use in countdown shows
From January 9, 1993 up until its last first-run show on January 28, 1995, American Top 40 used this chart as its main source.
See also
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Mainstream Top 40 chart
- List of number one Top 40 Mainstream hits
References
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- ^ http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1521640/justin-timberlake-makes-historic-debut-on-pop-songs-chart
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs December 26, 1998 (Weeks on chart)".
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs June 03, 1995 (Weeks on chart".
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs January 23, 1999 (Weeks on chart".
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs July 10, 1999 (Weeks on chart".
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs April 15, 2000 (Weeks on chart".
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs September 01, 2007 (Weeks on chart".
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs January 24, 1998 (Weeks on chart".
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs May 15, 1999 (Weeks on chart".
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs September 02, 2000 (Weeks on chart".
- ^ "Billboard Pop Songs November 03, 2001 (Weeks on chart".
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- ^ "Rihanna Rewrites Record For Most Pop Songs No. 1s". Billboard. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
- ^ Trust, Gary. "Weekly Chart Notes: Jeff Bridges, Christina Aguilera, Gloria Estefan". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
- ^ Brett, Kerry. "Chart Highlights: will.i.am, Britney Spears Bound Onto Pop Songs Chart". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ^ Trust, Gary. "Weekly Chart Notes: Adele, Rihanna, Guy Lombardo". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
- ^ Trust, Gary (2010-03-15). "Lady Gaga, Beyonce Match Mariah's Record". Billboard (magazine). Retrieved 2012-09-21.
- ^ Trust, Gary (2011-09-12). "Britney Spears' Sustained Success 'Go'-es On At Pop Radio". Billboard (magazine). Retrieved 2011-09-12.
- ^ Katy Perry's Latest Chart Record: A 6th No. 1 From 'Dream' on the Pop Songs (Not Hot 100) Chart
- ^ http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/chart-moves-demi-lovato-leaps-to-no-1-on-1007938572.story