List of Billboard Hot 100 Chart Achievements and Milestones - Selected Additional Hot 100 Achievements

Selected Additional Hot 100 Achievements

  • The first number-one song on the Hot 100 was "Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson (August 4, 1958). The number-one song on the first week Billboard incorporated sales and airplay data from Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems was "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" by P.M. Dawn (November 30, 1991). The first "airplay-only" song to reach number one (no points from a commercial single release) was "Try Again" by Aaliyah (June 17, 2000).
  • The Beatles hold the record for the most entries in the Hot 100 during a one-week period. They had 14 for the week April 11, 1964.
  • The Beatles are the only artists to simultaneously hold the top 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and Billboard 200 albums chart. On April 4, 1964, "Can't Buy Me Love" and their cover of "Twist and Shout" were the #1 and #2 singles, while ""Meet the Beatles!" and "Introducing... The Beatles" held the top 2 spots on the albums charts.
  • For the week of December 8, 1984, Cyndi Lauper became the first woman to notch four Top 5 singles from same album on the Hot 100, a record since broken by several singers, with Janet Jackson currently holding the record with seven such singles.
  • For the week of February 11, 2006, Ashley Tisdale became the first female artist to debut with two songs simultaneously on the chart with "What I've Been Looking For" and "Bop to the Top", both tracks from the High School Musical film's soundtrack.
  • For the week of June 7, 2008, American Idol season 7 winner David Cook set a record with the most debuts in a single week (11).
  • For the week of November 13, 2010, Taylor Swift had eleven singles on the Hot 100, including ten chart debuts. Both totals are the most ever by a female artist. Swift also holds the record of most top ten debuts on the Hot 100. Swift now holds the record for an entire album of songs with all of the standard edition of Speak Now's fourteen songs hitting the Hot 100. Also, Swift holds the record for the most number of songs from an album to chart on Hot 100 after the 3 bonus tracks from the deluxe edition of Speak Now charted in the Top 20 of the chart, thus giving her a record-17 chart entries from one album.
  • On December 4, 2010, Rihanna's "Only Girl (In the World)" reached the top spot two weeks after "What's My Name?", becoming the first time in Hot 100 history that an album's debut single hit number one after the second single did.

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