From October 26, 1974 until August 28, 1976, Billboard's Disco Action section published weekly single retail sales charts from various local regions along with Top Audience Response Records in their magazine . Billboard debuted its first national chart devoted exclusively to 12-inch Singles Sales in their issue dated March 16, 1985. This record type is most commonly used in disco and dance music genres where DJs use them to play in discos or dance clubs because of the exclusive extended remixes that are often only made available on this format, but Billboard's 12-inch Single Sales chart ranks releases by artists from all styles of music that release maxi-singles .
44-457: The 50-position weekly ranking joined Billboard ' s established Dance/Disco Top 80 chart, reduced to the same 50 positions, both under the title Hot Dance/Disco , becoming two separate Top 50 charts: 12-Inch Singles Sales and Club Play. A coupling from MCA Records ' Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack , Patti LaBelle 's " New Attitude " and Harold Faltermeyer 's " Axel F ", held the No. 1 slot for
88-485: A "Trop-Rock" format, flipped to Dance under the operation of Patrick Pfeffer, owner of Club La Vela , a dance club in Panama City Beach, followed by KXTE Las Vegas launching a HD2 subchannel called "SIN107.5." The same month saw Mediabase and All Access team up to launch a Top 50 Dance Airplay chart with 23 stations reporting. On June 13, 2014, WEDX flipped from Dance to Country but moved its format over to
132-525: A 50 position chart ranking of the most popular downloaded songs ranked by sales data as compiled by Luminate , debuts online January 23, 2010. Hot Dance Airplay is retitled Dance/Mix Show Airplay on November 19, 2011, and reconfigured to rank total weekly plays as monitored by Nielsen BDS from full-time dance-formatted stations, as well as plays on Mainstream Top 40 and select Rhythmic and Adult Top 40 stations that have submitted their hours of mix show programming. The Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart
176-463: A bit further in 1986, when KPWR Power 106 Los Angeles and its sister station WQHT HOT 103 New York (later becoming HOT 97 by 1988) debuted a "Top 40 Crossover" dance format, thus paving the way for more stations to jump onto this genre, such as WPOW Power 96 in Miami by 1988. This format would later become known as Rhythmic Contemporary Hit Radio, or Contemporary Hit Urban (CHUrban) by the 1990s. In
220-545: A dance music/techno format hosted by DJ Racer and former MARS-FM DJ Mike "Fright" Ivankay. Renegade Radio also broadcast MARS-FM music director Swedish Egil's syndicated Groove Radio program, which later became a full-time local dance/electronica format at 103.1 KACD/KBCD. In 1996, with Groove Radio making its debut in Los Angeles, WKTU New York was revived. This would be followed by stations in other cities looking to duplicate its success. In 2002, WPYM Miami would take
264-590: A dual sided single peaking at #1 for 7 weeks on the 12-inch Single Sales survey & #1 for 1 week on the Club Play survey and on the Hot Black Singles chart as a single track peaking at #19. Only later remixes by Shep Pettibone and Goh Hotoda are available on Madonna's albums. The word " disco " was removed from the title of the section of both charts beginning September 19, 1987. After being temporarily renamed Hot Dance 50 , Billboard retitled
308-543: Is expanded to 25 positions on December 2, 2001. Billboard renamed the Maxi-Singles Sales survey to Dance Singles Sales on March 1, 2003, although the survey would continue to chart popular maxi-singles by artists from other genres of music besides dance even more frequently such as hip hop & rap artists like Public Enemy and 2Pac and alternative rock & industrial metal bands such as The Smiths and Ministry . 2006's " Every Day Is Exactly
352-523: Is launched in Billboard magazine's newly restructured Dance/ Electronic music section on January 26, 2013. Similar to the Hot 100, Dance/Electronic Songs is Billboard's first-ever ranking of the nation's top dance songs combining sales (tracked by Nielsen SoundScan), radio airplay, streaming data and club play. Billboard's Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs chart debuted online April 20, 2013, ranking
396-586: Is the only artist to have achieved five number-one songs in a calendar year. Sources: Footnotes Dance radio Dance radio is a type of radio format that focuses on dance and electronic music . These formats typically feature current and recent hits in the genres, and may often include mixshows featuring songs mixed by DJs (including station personalities and special guests). Some stations—especially on digital platforms such as internet radio —may focus specifically on certain genres of electronic music, but many typically focus on genres under
440-839: The COVID-19 pandemic . The following are the top charting singles for each year of the duration of the Hot Dance Singles Sales survey. The following singles peaked at #1 for more than 12 weeks on the Hot Dance Singles Sales survey. The following #1 singles charted over 100 total weeks each on the Hot Dance Singles Sales survey. The following artists charted 5 or more #1 singles on the Hot Dance Singles Sales survey between 1985 and 2013. 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Dance Club Songs Dance Club Songs
484-494: The Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, which tracks the 50 most popular dance and electronic songs as determined by Billboard based on digital single sales, streaming, radio airplay across all formats, and club play, with Dance Club Songs serving as the club play component to the multi-metric chart. On March 31, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the closures of clubs, Billboard suspended
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#1732790145976528-455: The 12-inch Singles Sales chart's first week and was also No. 1 for the second consecutive week on the most played dance/disco chart. Madonna 's " Angel " 12" vinyl single from 1985 contains one of the most famous B-sides in U.S. history: " Into the Groove ," featured in the film Desperately Seeking Susan . While receiving a proper release in other countries, Warner Bros. Records relegated
572-400: The 1975 and 1976 number-ones lists. With the issue dated August 28, 1976, Billboard premiered its own national chart ( National Disco Action Top 30 ) and their data is used from this date forward. In January 2017, Billboard proclaimed Madonna as the most successful artist in the history of the chart, ranking her first in their list of the 100 top all-time dance artists. Madonna holds
616-550: The Dance format to a new level. The station's success would result in other newcomers adopting the "Pure Dance" format, but the lack of support from advertisers and issues from signal coverage to ratings would force several stations out the format. Despite the lack support from Top 40 and Rhythmic radio, the Dance format has continued to thrive at stations like KNHC Seattle and on satellite radio. In 2008 Clear Channel dropped two HD dance channels, leaving Club Phusion and Pride Radio as
660-761: The HD2 subchannel of Top 40/CHR sister WXKS-FM. By 2015, Miami would once again have a full-time Dance station when Zoo Communications took over the translators of WHYI and later WMIA (at 93.5), which later coincided with the launch of WZFL in 2016 and later expanded to West Palm Beach with the acquisition of WBGF in August 2017. On May 3, 2019, at 5PM, the Research Triangle region of North Carolina ( Raleigh , Durham , Cary , Chapel Hill ) welcomed NC State University 's WolfBytes Radio onto 88.1 WKNC HD3. The station had been online-only up until that point. With
704-627: The Hot Dance Singles chart from 25 to 15 positions on March 30, 2007. Stevie Nicks ' 2007 remix single of " Stand Back " debuted at #3 on the chart on September 15, 2007, peaking at #2 the following week where it stayed for two weeks. Top Electronic Albums is renamed Top Dance/Electronic Albums by Billboard on June 20, 2009. The size of the Dance Singles Sales chart is reduced further down to 10 positions on October 3, 2009. Billboard's Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales ,
748-1013: The November 2008 channel merge of XM and Sirius which resulted in the elimination of Chrome, The Strobe, The Move, The System, Boombox, and the merging of The Beat with BPM and Sirius Chill with XM Chill. Sirius XM returned The Strobe to the channel lineup in January 2009 after a backlash from subscribers over the removal of both classic dance channels, which left no channel playing that music. In 2009, Music Choice pared down its dance offerings by merging its Dance and Electronica channels, while Mega Media's plan to expand its Pulse 87 brand to Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. failed to occur. Mega Media, which leased WNYZ-LP from station owner Island Broadcasting, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August 2009, citing $ 3.5 million in liabilities against assets of $ 180,000. Island ended its leasing deal with Mega for WNYZ on October 30, 2009, and WNYZ signed off
792-665: The Same " by Nine Inch Nails topped the sales chart more than any other single with 36 inconsecutive weeks, yet never appeared on the Hot Dance Club Play survey. Billboard launches the 40 position Hot Dance Radio Airplay chart online August 16, 2003, ranking the songs on stations playing mainly dance music . Dance Singles Sales is retitled Hot Dance Single Sales when the top 25 Hot Dance Radio Airplay begins to appear in print on October 25 of that year. The single " Me Against The Music " by Britney Spears and Madonna won
836-721: The Trance/Electronica HD2 subchannel Trancid , while WWAC, under new ownership, shifted to a regular Top 40/CHR direction. Even WPTY would exit the format, shifting to Rhythmic AC after seeing more potential in that format after doing a series of "throwback" weekends. On the other hand, KVBE Las Vegas replaced its Dance format with Rock but the Dance format went over to another rimshot outlet, KYLI . KRXV/KHWY/KHYZ Barstow / Mountain Pass, California , which also serves Las Vegas, dropped their Hot AC format to relaunch KVBE's former Dance format and adopts its former "Vibe" moniker
880-579: The US, the nation's first full-time dance radio format began airing in August 1991 when Los Angeles college radio station KSCR controversially changed its format from alternative rock to the "Pulse of the ’90s" techno/rave format. KSCR continued airing this format until September 1993, when it switched back to alternative rock. The USA's first commercial full-time dance radio format was MARS-FM, airing in Los Angeles and Orange County, California on 103.1 FM KSRF/KOCM from late 1991 to late 1992. The rave-inspired format
924-483: The air in 2007 after their frequency was taken over by KORL-FM , returned to the air at a new frequency, followed by the July 3, 2010 debut of WWAC Atlantic City with a Dance-intensive Rhythmic Top 40 format. In December 2010 KBPA Austin's HD2 channel "Mega HD2" returned to the airwaves on a low-powered translator, but after a few days returned to WBPA's HD2 subchannel. In 2011, Clear Channel's iHeartRadio relaunched
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#1732790145976968-531: The air the same day. The following Monday, Party 105.3 on Long Island added 87.7 as a simulcast. In September 2009, KNGY/San Francisco was flipped by new owner Royce International to Top 40/CHR, but the following month KMVQ filled the void by adding a HD2 subchannel called "Pulse Radio." As of 2010, the WPTY simulcast on WNYZ, WMPH Wilmington, Delaware and iPartyRadio.com became casualties of due to financial situations. However, KXRG-LP Honolulu , which signed off
1012-658: The award for "Hot Dance Singles Sales Single of the Year" at the Billboard Music Awards in 2004. Beginning April 30, 2005, the Billboard Dance section started alternately printing Hot Dance Single Sales and Top Electronic Albums every other week in the magazine until Hot Dance Single Sales became only available at billboard.biz after the February 24, 2007 issue. Billboard reduces the position size of
1056-547: The chart Maxi-Singles Sales . In 1993, the Billboard Music Award winner for #1 12" Dance Single was RuPaul 's " Supermodel (You Better Work) ". The Maxi-Singles Sales survey began using actual sales figures ( SoundScan ) to compile the chart on August 28, 1993. On July 28, 2001, Billboard launches the 15 position Top Electronic Albums chart and reduces the Maxi-Singles Sales chart size from 50 to 25 positions, 30 positions online. Top Electronic Albums chart
1100-399: The chart began on October 26, 1974, under the title Disco Action . The chart went on to feature playlists from various cities around the country from week to week. Billboard continued to run regional and city-specific charts throughout 1975 and 1976 until the issue dated August 28, 1976, when a 30-position National Disco Action Top 30 premiered. The first number-one song on the chart for
1144-580: The chart was reduced back to 80. During the first half of the 1980s, the chart maintained 80 slots until March 16, 1985, when the Disco charts were splintered and renamed. Two charts appeared: Hot Dance/Disco Club Play , which ranked club play (at 50 positions), and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales , which ranked 12-inch single (or maxi-single) sales (also 50 positions, later reduced to 10 and discontinued in 2013, since replaced by Dance/Electronic Digital Songs ). On January 26, 2013, Billboard introduced
1188-793: The chart. The last number-one song, for the issue dated March 28, 2020, was " Love Hangover 2020 " by Diana Ross . Even after the pandemic receded and club attendance increased again, Billboard has not revived the chart nor published any information about a possible revival, effectively ending the nearly 44-year run of the chart. Although the disco chart began reporting popular songs in New York City nightclubs, Billboard soon expanded coverage to feature multiple charts each week which highlighted playlists in various cities such as San Francisco , San Diego , Boston , Los Angeles , Chicago , Miami , Phoenix , Detroit , and Houston . During this time, Billboard rival publication Record World
1232-467: The company's only dance offerings. In November 2008 the merged Sirius XM made cuts in music channels which included eight of the ten Dance stations on XM and Sirius, while WorldSpace satellite radio filed for bankruptcy protection, resulting in The System's discontinuation on XM. 2008 had the most dance music stations lost in recent years. On October 31, 2008, KNRJ Phoenix went off the air, followed by
1276-610: The dance sound alive while at the same time mixed it in with the R&;B, hip hop, and pop songs of the 1980s. At the same time, another former disco outlet, WXKS-FM Medford/Boston, became very successful in taking the urban-dance sound into a top 40 format. By the mid-1980s, more stations began to adopt the same formula that has worked for WXKS-FM, such as KMEL in San Francisco , while at the same time more artists were incorporating dance styles into their hits. The concept would go
1320-493: The early days of disco in the late 1970s, when WKTU New York , WBLS New York , and WRKS 98.7 KISS-FM New York made the format a staple on the airwaves. But by the end of the decade, the format began to experience a backlash when sentiments over the music began to force several stations to move on to other genres, with most of them moving to what would become urban contemporary , led by such stations as WAMO-FM Pittsburgh, WLUM-FM Milwaukee and WHRK Memphis. These stations kept
1364-471: The following September. Also that same month, WPGC-FM Washington, D.C. , a station whose programming history included stints in the Disco and Dance genres, launched a HD2 subchannel billed as "Area 95.5." Meanwhile, in Winnipeg, Manitoba , CHWE-FM debuted with a Top 40/Dance presentation, billed as "Energy 106." In 2012, KXJM Portland, Oregon would bring the Dance format to the local HD airwaves with
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1408-657: The format back to that market and WARG Summit/Chicago joining KNHC in being the second current high school outlet in the United States to offer a Dance format but on a part-time basis. Another surprise move would also take place in late April 2012, when WPTY returned to playing Dance full-time after a brief stint as a Rhythmic AC. By November 2012 KDHT would drop the format for Adult Hits, but in December 2012, WHBA, who had been programming an Adult Hits format in Boston, went
1452-513: The increasing electronic dance music scene in the United States, there are several terrestrial radio stations in the country that broadcast a dance-oriented format as their primary programming. Joel Salkowitz, program director of Pulse 87 and Las Vegas station KYLI , argued that the format is not as widespread in the country because popular EDM songs often cross over into the playlists of contemporary hit radio and rhythmic contemporary stations, presuming that major station owners would not want
1496-498: The issue dated August 28, 1976, was " You Should Be Dancing " by the Bee Gees , spending five weeks atop the chart and the group's only number-one song on the chart. The chart would continue to be published continuously for over 40 years, but with changes. The chart soon expanded to 40 positions, then in 1979 the chart expanded to 60 positions, then 80, and eventually the chart reached 100 positions from September 1979 until 1981, when
1540-508: The launch of "Too Wild," while in Halifax, Nova Scotia, CKHZ-FM , a Top 40 that was launched in 2006 with a Dance-leaning direction before shifting to a regular Top 40/CHR presentation in 2009, returned to its Dance roots and rebranded itself as "Energy 103.5," using the same direction as sister station CHWE. This was followed by WOLT-FM Greenville, South Carolina adding Dance mixes to its brokered programming schedule, KDHT-FM Denver bringing
1584-654: The other way around and made headlines by flipping to an EDM-focused presentation, billed as "Evolution 101.7," with the call sign WEDX . As of 2013, the Dance format would see WOLT change format to Oldies and dropping brokered programming while it picked up another full-time outlet, this time in Gainesville, Florida , where on June 1, JVC Media , the owner of WPTY, expanded its "Party" brand to its newly acquired property WBXY , followed in November by non-commercial outlet KVIT Phoenix . In January 2014, WPCF/W227CE Panama City Beach, Florida , which previously programmed
1628-417: The record for the most number-one songs with 50. Katy Perry holds the record for having 18 consecutive number-one songs. Perry's third studio album, Teenage Dream (2010), became the first album in the history of the chart to produce at least seven number-one songs by a lead artist. It held this record until Rihanna 's eighth studio album Anti produced eight chart-toppers from 2016 to 2017. Rihanna
1672-465: The section Hot Dance Music on October 24, 1987. On the first Billboard Music Awards in 1990, Janet Jackson was awarded #1 Hot Dance 12-inch Singles Sales Artist. The 1991 winner for #1 Hot Dance 12" Singles Sales was C + C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams ' " Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) ". On June 20, 1992, Billboard began to also survey cassette tape and CD maxi-singles along with vinyl twelve-inch singles renaming
1716-582: The song to 12-inch B-side status in America despite its enormous popularity on radio and MTV , thus making it ineligible to enter the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 . The dance mix edit of "Angel" is the B-side of the 7-inch single that did chart the Hot 100. "Into The Groove" has been cited by multiple publications as Madonna's best single, but only charted Billboard in the Hot Dance/Disco section as
1760-718: The umbrella of electronic dance music (including house and trance ). The format is popular in Europe and Asia. It is not as common in North America, where EDM-oriented stations are often a specialty format carried on digital radio or less-prominent outlets, although some attempts at major-market dance music . Electronic dance music is typically played as a component of the wider rhythmic contemporary and rhythmic adult contemporary formats, and may appear on contemporary hit radio stations if they reach mainstream record charts . Most of dance radio's origins can be traced to
1804-636: The week's most popular streamed dance songs (audio + video) on leading U.S. digital music services. After years of falling record sales , Billboard discontinued their weekly Dance Singles Sales survey later that year. The last chart of the nearly 29 year old national survey was published online November 30, 2013. On June 1, 2019, Billboard introduced their weeekly Dance/Electronic Producers and Songwriters surveys. After almost 45 years of continuous weekly national charts, Billboard's Dance Club Songs survey has been suspended since March 28, 2020, due to widespread social distancing being practiced in reaction to
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1848-473: Was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by Billboard magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the United States. The Dance Club Songs chart underwent several incarnations since its inception in 1974. Originally a top-10 list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques ,
1892-459: Was created by KROQ DJs Swedish Egil and Freddy Snakeskin. 103.1 FM would later be the home of several subsequent Los Angeles dance radio formats: "Groove Radio" (1996–1998), "Groove 103.1" (1998) and "KDL" (2003). After the demise of MARS-FM, the former general manager of KSCR, who had been responsible for that station's change to a dance format, created a nighttime leased-time format from 1993 to 1994 at Santa Ana's KWIZ 96.7 FM called Renegade Radio,
1936-448: Was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level. Noted Billboard statistician Joel Whitburn has since "adopted" Record World s chart data from the weeks between March 29, 1975, and August 21, 1976, into Billboard s club play history. For the sake of continuity, Record World s national chart is incorporated into both Whitburn's Dance/Disco publication (via his Record Research company) as well as
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