Billboard All-Time Top 100 Songs ( 1958 - 2008 ) - 50th Anniversary

1) This chart is based on Billboard Magazine : 50th Anniversary Special Issue, dated Sept 20, 2008.
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The 50th Anniversary Hot 100 Song is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100, since the chart's inception in August 1958 through the issue dated July 26, 2008. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least.

Prior to the Hot 100's implementation in 1991 of enhanced radio and sales information from Nielsen BDS and Nielsen SoundScan, songs had shorter reigns at No. 1 and shorter chart lives.

To ensure equitable representation of the biggest hits from all 50 years, earlier time frames were each weighted to compensate for the differences in the faster turnover rates from those earlier decades, compared to the slower churn the Hot 100 has seen since the advent of Nielsen Music data.

Before that conversion, UB40's cover of "Red, Red Wine," which was on the chart for 40 weeks, and Chubby Checker's "The Twist," with 39 weeks, represented the longest chart stays ever by a No. 1 title. Since December 1991, 17 No. 1 titles have surpassed UB40's prior record, the longest being 60 weeks by Los Del Rio's "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)."

The same methodology that provided a fairly balanced list with hits from all eras on the 1994 chart skewed heavily toward the '90s when that same formula was employed for the Hot 100's 40th Anniversary. To wit, every single title in the top 10 of the 1998 chart had been released since 1991, while earlier decades had less representation on that 1998 recap than was seen on the 1994 all-time chart.

That shift toward newer songs happened during that four-year interval because the 1991 advent of sales tracking from Nielsen SoundScan and radio monitoring by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems allows big hits to spend more weeks in the top 10, and more weeks on the overall chart, than happened in the earlier years when the chart was based on surveys of retailers and radio programmers.

For the Hot 100's 50th Anniversary, Billboard's charts department ensured a more balanced representation of hits from all 50 years, by analyzing the length of chart runs in earlier decades, as well as the average weeks that titles spent in the top 10 and at No. 1. Weights for earlier spans were then formulated, to compensate for the shorter chart runs that titles experienced before the 1991 conversion to precise and objective sales and radio data from Nielsen Music.

Prior to December 1998, songs did not appear on the Billboard Hot 100 until a retail single became available (which, incidentally, is why hits like Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and No Doubt's "Don't Speak" never appeared on the Hot 100). In earlier years, retail singles came to market fairly early in a song's life-usually shortly after, or even before, a song came to radio.

But, during the '90s, when labels would strategize No. 1 chart bows by significant hits, the retail release of some priority singles were withheld until radio audience reached maximum levels. Although some of these songs spent significant numbers of weeks at No. 1 or in the top 10, the delay of the sales component ultimately shortened the spans these songs would spend on the chart.

With the new methodology rewarding points for a song's entire chart run, rather than confining points to weeks spent in the top 10, the shorter chart lives recorded by the songs that debuted at No. 1 impact their all-time standings.

As described above, the 50th Anniversary Songs chart is based on length of stay on the chart, as opposed to the specific dimensions of sales or radio data. That limitation stands with any recap that includes titles predating 1991, because specific sales and radio audience data from those earlier years cannot be applied.

[ Source : Billboard Magazine - 50th Anniversary Special Issue, dated Sept 20, 2008 ]

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[SergeantPaenzer]

thanks a lot for this great Video!

best wishes from Germany!

Sgt.P.

[BillboardClassic]

@SergeantPaenzer bitte gern geschehen :-)

[donnaskillet]

I'm not shooting the messenger,but this list utter nonsense.Only ONE Michael Jackson song,and He is number 71 and LeAnn Rimes is number 7?

Perfectly Ridiculous.

[jakerayin1489]

''As described above, the 50th Anniversary Songs chart is based on length of stay on the chart, as opposed to the specific dimensions of sales or radio data. ''

Mariah and BoyzIIMen 's One Sweet Day spent 16 weeks at no.1,longer than any other song of any other decade,

and here its number 29?

wow.

douche.

[Jessicah19981008]

only 1 michael jackson song? LIKE WTF? WHERES BEAT IT,BAD,THRILLER,BLACK OR WHITE,REMEMBER THE TIME, SMOOTH CRMINAL, DIRTY DIANA,EARTH SONG....AND OTHER GREAT MJ SONGS?

[doodlebot143]

10:49 - 10:59 oh thats were that sikowitz part in Victorious was from

[TheInfotwins]

They missed so much

[MrPekisha]

2:21 THAT'S SHAME, THEY TOOK MUSIC FROM THE POLICE- EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE

[toogoodnottobetrue]

Guys, not that I'm hater or anything but how can one song that in other chart is number 20 and above here comes as number 3-4 or sth like that that's ridiculous plus I heard no Metallica no AC/DC...

[rebekahdance]

@EX555555 WHAT? THE SONGS ON THIS LIST ARENT THT GOOD BY HIM BUT UHSER IS MY FAVORITE MAN SINGER! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

[rebekahdance]

Theres only like 1 song I like! And I hardly even like it! ''Low'' Flo' Rida. Why aren't ANY of the singers I like on this list? Well.... I do like Fergie and Usher, but where is britney? or kelly clarkson? or p!nk? or lady.... oh! right! GaGa came at 2009...but anyways.... and perry? or kesha? I'm 9 years old! Don't upset me!