131-583: Billboard magazine only charted Christmas singles and albums along with the other popular non-holiday records until the 1958 holiday season when they published their first section that surveys only Christmas music . An increase of Christmas records began charting Billboard in 1957. The popular music surveys charted 9 Christmas singles, including the debut of the Bobby Helms ' standard " Jingle Bell Rock " ( Top 100 Sides #6) . Gene Autry 's newly recorded version of his 1949 original " Rudolph
262-535: A seasonal album chart would be the only Christmas survey published until the introduction of Holiday Songs in 2001. For the next 25 years, best-sellers like 1989's " This One's For The Children " by New Kids On The Block (Hot 100 #7, Adult Contemporary #7, Hot Black Singles #55) and 1993's " Let It Snow " by Boyz II Men Featuring Brian McKnight (Hot 100 #32, Hot R&B Singles #17) were only surveyed on their weekly popular music charts until Billboard began surveying best selling Christmas songs in 2010 on
393-441: A "stage gossip" column covering the private lives of entertainers, a "tent show" section covering traveling shows and a subsection called "Freaks to order". Donaldson also published news articles opposing censorship, supporting productions exhibiting good taste and decrying yellow journalism ." As railroads became more developed, Billboard enabled a mail-forwarding system for traveling entertainers. The location of an entertainer
524-546: A 6-week run in 1993, Billboard increased the survey size to 40 positions and began publishing the chart 7–10 weeks a year starting with the 1994 holiday season. Kenny G 's Miracles: The Holiday Album topped the Christmas Albums chart for 17 weeks starting December 12, 1994, the most of any album during the 1990s. Kenny G also spent 5 more weeks at No. 1 in the nineties with his Faith: A Holiday Album from 1999. Celine Dion 's These Are Special Times spent
655-599: A Christmas holiday album survey, consecutively since the 1987 Christmas Hits charts. The following albums have spent at least 6 weeks at the #1 position. They have been sorted by the total weeks charted on all the various named Christmas album charts since Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks was published on November 24, 1958. The following albums have charted over 200 weeks on Billboard's Christmas Holiday Album surveys since November 24, 1958. The following artists or series have had at least 6 albums chart Billboard's Christmas Holiday Album surveys since November 24, 1958. In
786-519: A Merry Christmas (Top Mono LP's #50) . The 1962 Hot 100 had 12 seasonal singles including new releases like The 4 Seasons cover of " Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town " (Hot 100 #23) and re-charting holiday standards like Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" (Hot 100 #65) . Billboard debuted their first annual Christmas Records charts the following year. Beginning with the issue dated November 30, 1963, Billboard magazine no longer charted Christmas albums or singles on its existing music charts . For
917-427: A Time ", written by Hugh Ashley, became a hit in both the pop and country fields. Her next hit, "Dynamite", coming out of a 4-foot 9-inch frame, led to her lifelong nickname, Little Miss Dynamite. Lee first attracted attention performing in country music venues and shows; however, her label and management felt it best to market her exclusively as a pop artist, the result being that none of her best-known recordings from
1048-540: A background in the music industry. Gervino was appointed editor-in-chief in April 2014. An NPR item covered a leaked version of Billboard ' s annual survey, which it said had more gossip and focused on less professional topics than had prior surveys. For example, the magazine polled readers on a lawsuit that singer Kesha filed against her producer, alleging sexual abuse. Gervino was fired in May 2016. A note from Min to
1179-404: A contract, and her first record was "Jambalaya", backed with "Bigelow 6-200". Lee's second single featured two novelty Christmas tunes: "I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus", and "Christy Christmas". Though she turned 12 on December 11, 1956, both of the first two Decca singles credit her as "Little Brenda Lee (9 Years Old)". Neither of the 1956 releases charted, but her first issue in 1957, " One Step at
1310-492: A country music artist. In a 1996 memoir , television producer Sam Lovullo stated that Lee's 1972 appearance on his variety show Hee Haw had been instrumental to her comeback . Lee earned a string of top ten hits in the United States on the country charts, the first of which was 1973's " Nobody Wins ", which reached the top five that spring and became her last Top 100 pop hit, peaking at No. 70. The follow-up,
1441-741: A cover of " Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer " that peaked at No. 21 on the Hot 100. Bobby Rydell & Chubby Checker 's cover of "Jingle Bell Rock" peaked at No. 21 and "Baby's First Christmas" by Connie Francis peaked at No. 26 in 1961, both re-charting the following year. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" returned to the Hot 100 in 1961 at No. 12 and in 1962 at No. 38. Billboard's TOP LP's charted 21 holiday albums in 1962. Mitch Miller's Gang peaked at No. 1 again with their latest Christmas album Holiday Sing Along with Mitch . Bing Crosby returned with Merry Christmas (Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks #3, Top Mono LP's #46) and debuted his latest I Wish You
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#17327974261731572-621: A dedicated section called Amusement Machines in March 1932. Billboard began covering the motion-picture industry in 1907 but, facing strong competition from Variety , centered its focus on music. It created a radio-broadcasting station in the 1920s. The jukebox industry continued to grow through the Great Depression and was advertised heavily in Billboard , which led to even more editorial focus on music. The proliferation of
1703-611: A duet ("You'll Never Know") with Willy DeVille on his album Loup Garou . Lee's autobiography, Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee , was published by Hyperion in 2002 ( ISBN 0-7868-6644-6 ). Lee's most recent album release was a gospel collection in 2007. She no longer tours and rarely performs. Since the millennium, she has been involved with her work for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum . On October 4, 2000, Lee inducted fellow country music legends Faron Young and Charley Pride into
1834-490: A few months later, and sales snowballed; the song remains a perennial favorite each December and is the record with which she is most identified by contemporary audiences. Her last top-ten single on the pop charts in the United States (besides the reappearance each November–December since 2017 of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree") was 1963's " Losing You " (No. 6). In 1964, " As Usual " reached No. 12 in
1965-461: A glassy stare in my eyes. On March 31, 1955, the 10-year-old made her network debut on Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri . Although her five-year contract with the show was broken by a 1957 lawsuit brought by her mother and her manager, she nevertheless made regular appearances on the program throughout its run. Less than two months later, on July 30, 1956, Decca Records offered her
2096-540: A high-tech firm for tracking music airtime. Private investors from Boston Ventures and BPI executives repurchased a two-thirds interest in Billboard Publications for $ 100 million, and more acquisitions followed. In 1993, it created a division known as Billboard Music Group for music-related publications. In 1994, Billboard Publications was sold to Dutch media conglomerate Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen (VNU) for $ 220 million. VNU acquired
2227-702: A last-minute replacement on Oh Boy! . She first toured the UK in March and April 1962 with Gene Vincent and Sounds Incorporated (as her backing group), and she toured the country for a second time in March 1963, this time supported by the Bachelors , Sounds Incorporated , Tony Sheridan , and Mike Berry . Lee also toured in Ireland in 1963 and appeared on the front cover of the Irish dancing and entertainment magazine Spotlight in April that year. After appearing at
2358-505: A record for a female solo artist that was not equaled until 1986 by Madonna . The biggest-selling track of Lee's career was a Christmas song. In 1958, when she was 13, producer Owen Bradley asked her to record a new song by Johnny Marks , who had had success writing Christmas tunes for country singers, most notably " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( Gene Autry ) and " A Holly Jolly Christmas " ( Burl Ives ). Lee recorded
2489-892: A recording artist, in September 2006 she was the second recipient of the Jo Meador-Walker Lifetime Achievement award by the Source Foundation in Nashville. In 1997, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame . In 2008, her recording of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" marked 50 years as a holiday standard, and in February 2009
2620-509: A set of self-study cassette tapes and four television franchises. It also acquired Photo Weekly that year. Over time, subjects that Billboard covered outside of the music world formed the basis of separate publications: Funspot magazine was created in 1957 to cover amusement parks and Amusement Business was created in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment. In January 1961, Billboard was renamed Billboard Music Week to emphasize its newly exclusive interest in music. Two years later, it
2751-481: A trade publication for the Broadway theatre industry called Backstage . In 1987, Billboard was sold again to Affiliated Publications for $ 100 million. Billboard Publications Inc. became a subsidiary of Affiliated Publications called BPI Communications. As BPI Communications, it acquired The Hollywood Reporter , Adweek , Marketing Week and Mediaweek , and also purchased Broadcast Data Systems ,
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#17327974261732882-574: A weekly paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, and Paris, and also refocused the magazine on outdoor entertainment such as fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville , and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of outdoor events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, professionalism, economics and new shows. It had
3013-581: A young age. At age five, she won first place at her school's talent show contest, where she sang " Take Me Out to the Ball Game ". Her performance generated positive reviews, leading her to make regular appearances on local radio and television shows. Her father died in 1953 (when she was 8 years old) in a construction accident, and by the time she turned ten, she was the primary breadwinner of her family through singing at events and on local radio and television shows. During that time, she appeared regularly on
3144-555: Is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation . The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry . Its music charts include the Hot 100 , the 200 , and the Global 200 , tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. Billboard
3275-506: Is considered one of the most reputable sources of music industry news. The website includes the Billboard Charts, news separated by music genre, videos and a separate website. It also compiles lists, hosts a fashion website called Pret-a-Reporter and publishes eight different newsletters. The print magazine's regular sections include: Billboard is known for publishing several annual listicles on its website, in recognition of
3406-512: Is one of the most successful American artists of the 20th century. Her U.S. success in the 1960s earned her recognition as Billboard 's Top Female Artist of the Decade and one of the four artists who charted the most singles, behind Elvis Presley , the Beatles and Ray Charles . Her accolades include a Grammy Award , four NARM Awards , three NME Awards and five Edison Awards . She
3537-675: Is the first woman to be inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame . In 2023, she was named by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest singers of all time. Brenda Mae Tarpley was born on December 11, 1944, in the charity ward of Grady Hospital in Atlanta , Georgia , to parents Annie Grayce (née Yarbrough; 1921–2006) and Ruben Lindsey Tarpley (1909–1953). She weighed only 4 pounds 11 ounces at birth. Lee attended primary schools wherever her father found work, mainly between Atlanta and Augusta . Her family
3668-474: The Billboard 200 , which tracks the top-selling albums, has become more popular as an indicator of commercial success. Billboard has also published books in collaboration with Watson-Guptill and a radio and television series called American Top 40, based on Billboard charts. A daily Billboard Bulletin was introduced in February 1997 and Billboard hosts about 20 industry events each year. Billboard
3799-591: The Holiday Digital Song Sales chart and also on the Holiday 100 beginning the following year. The Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks, Christmas Records, Top Christmas Sellers. Best Bets For Christmas and Christmas Hits single surveys ran 46 weeks and charted 134 titles from 1958 until 1985. These are Billboard's top ranking Christmas 45 rpm record singles. Both the A-side and B-sides of
3930-482: The Billboard Hot 100 chart dated December 9, 2023, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" topped the Hot 100 for the first time in the United States becoming Lee's third #1 hit and first since her 1960 single, " I Want to Be Wanted ". At 78, Lee became the oldest female artist and oldest artist overall to top the Hot 100, feats formerly held by Cher and Louis Armstrong , respectively. The week following, she held
4061-578: The Billboard Hot 100); however, "Here Comes That Feeling" also made an appearance in the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 89, despite its B-side status in the US. In 1962, while touring West Germany , Lee appeared at the Star-Club , Hamburg , with the Beatles as the opening act. Lee also had big hits in the UK with " All Alone Am I " (No. 7 in 1963) and " As Usual " (No. 5 in 1964). Lee first visited England for three days in April 1959 as
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4192-711: The Clio Awards in advertising and the National Research Group in 1997, as well as Editor & Publisher in 1999. In July 2000, it paid $ 650 million to the publisher Miller Freeman . BPI was combined with other entities in VNU in 2000 to form Bill Communications Inc. By the time CEO Gerald Hobbs retired in 2003, VNU had grown substantially larger, but had a great deal of debt from the acquisitions. An attempted $ 7 billion acquisition of IMS Health in 2005 prompted protests from shareholders that halted
4323-485: The Country Music Hall of Fame . Lee is often called upon to announce the annual inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame and then officially present them with their membership medallions at a special ceremony every year. The most recent inductees announced by Lee were Randy Travis , Charlie Daniels and Fred Foster in 2016. Since Billboard modified its recurrent rules in 2012, Lee's "Rockin' Around
4454-524: The Eagles ' 1978 cover of " Please Come Home For Christmas " (Hot 100 #18) and Dan Fogelberg 's 1980 " Same Old Lang Syne " (Hot 100 #9, Adult Contemporary #8) as well as LPs and tapes like John Denver's 1975 Rocky Mountain Christmas ( Top LPs & Tapes #14) and Kenny Rogers ' 1981 Christmas (Top LPs & Tapes #34, Top Country LPs #10) . After 9 years, Billboard began publishing
4585-471: The Mark James composition " Sunday Sunrise ", reached No. 6 on Billboard magazine 's Hot Country Singles chart that October. Other major hits included " Wrong Ideas " and " Big Four Poster Bed " (1974); and "Rock on Baby" and " He's My Rock " (both 1975). After a few years of lesser hits, Lee began another run at the top ten with 1979's " Tell Me What It's Like ". Two follow-ups also reached
4716-484: The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave Lee a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Lee at number 161 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. The Grammy Awards is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry . It shares recognition of
4847-653: The United States Army . Her mother came from a working class family in Greene County , Georgia. Though her family did not have indoor plumbing until after her father's death, they had a battery-powered table radio that fascinated Brenda as a baby. Both her mother and sister remembered taking her repeatedly to a local candy store before she turned three. One of them would stand her on the counter and she would earn candy or coins for singing. Lee's voice, face and stage presence won her wider attention from
4978-482: The jukebox , phonograph and radio became commonplace. Many topics that it covered became the subjects of new magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment, so that Billboard could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was inherited by his and Hennegan's children, who retained ownership until selling it to private investors in 1985. The magazine has since been owned by various parties. The first issue of Billboard
5109-532: The "bible" of the recording industry. Billboard struggled after its founder William Donaldson died in 1925, and within three years, was once again heading towards bankruptcy . Donaldson's son-in-law Roger Littleford took command in 1928 and "nursed the publication back to health." His sons Bill and Roger became co-publishers in 1946 and inherited the magazine in the late 1970s after Littleford's death. They sold it to private investors in 1985 for an estimated $ 40 million. The investors cut costs and acquired
5240-594: The #1 spot on the Holiday 100 are Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe" in 2012, Ariana Grande 's " Santa Tell Me " in 2015 and both Pentatonix's " Little Drummer Boy " in 2013 and " Mary, Did You Know? " for 2 weeks in 2014. Michael Bublé, Pentatonix and Bing Crosby have charted the most songs on the Holiday 100 with 15 or more each. Billboard also began publishing their 25-position Holiday Streaming Songs chart on December 14, 2013. The survey runs for 5–6 weeks concurrently with
5371-566: The 1960s were released to country radio, and despite her country sound, with top Nashville session people, she did not have another country hit until 1969 with " Johnny One Time ". Lee achieved her biggest success on the pop charts in the late 1950s through the mid-1960s with rockabilly and rock and roll -styled songs. Her biggest hits included "Jambalaya", " Sweet Nothin's " (No. 4, written by country musician Ronnie Self ), "I Want to Be Wanted" (No. 1), " All Alone Am I " (No. 3) and " Fool #1 " (No. 3). She had more hits with
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5502-436: The 1960s, when the service was discontinued, Billboard was still processing 1,500 letters per week. In 1920, Donaldson controversially hired black journalist James Albert Jackson to write a weekly column devoted to black performers. According to The Business of Culture: Strategic Perspectives on Entertainment and Media , the column identified discrimination against black performers and helped validate their careers. Jackson
5633-433: The 2011 " SuperFestive! " duet with Justin Bieber that also peaked at number one for one week. Beginning November 5, 2011, Bieber's " Mistletoe " topped the chart for 11 inconsecutive weeks. " Hallelujah " by Pentatonix has spent the second most weeks at No. 1 on the survey with 19 inconsecutive weeks beginning November 12, 2016. Holiday Digital Song Sales has charted over 750 songs, significantly more titles than any of
5764-599: The 50-position chart for at least 12 weeks each holiday season mostly coinciding with the Top Holiday Albums chart, until they reduced it to a 7-week run at the beginning of December 2021 and then 6 weeks concurrently with the Holiday 100 in 2022. Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was the chart's first No. 1 and has topped the survey the most with 77 inconsecutive weeks. Carey has charted 4 different versions on Holiday Digital Song Sales, including
5895-688: The Atlanta Music Hall of Fame 5th Annual Awards Ceremony held at the Raddison Inn, Atlanta, Georgia . She was named among many other recording artists including: Riley Puckett , Gid Tanner , Dan Hornsby , Clayton McMichen , and Boots Woodall . Lee reached the final ballot for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and 2001 without being inducted, but was finally voted into the Hall of Fame in 2002. Celebrating over 50 years as
6026-735: The Best Bets For Christmas album chart. Harry Simeone's "The Little Drummer Boy" single peaked at No. 1 for 10 weeks between 1964 and 1968, the most of any title on Billboard's Christmas 45 rpm record surveys. His hit and 1960's " Please Come Home For Christmas " by Charles Brown (45's #1) spent more time than any other single in the top 10 of the Best Bets for Christmas survey at 33 weeks each. Both, along with Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" (45's #1) , Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" (45's #1) and Elvis Presley's " Blue Christmas " (45's #1) spent more than 30 weeks each on
6157-696: The Best Selling Christmas Singles chart as well as appearing on the Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles chart. Holiday albums only charted the Best Bets for Christmas that year. Christmas music surveys were not published after the December 22, 1973 Best Bets For Christmas until the section continues in 1983 retitled Christmas Hits . Billboard sporadically provided a section entitled New Christmas Selections from 1974 until 1976 that alphabetically listed titles of holiday record albums and singles. Many singles and albums have re-charted over
6288-463: The Bill Poster. A department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The Billboard Advertising publication was renamed The Billboard in 1897. After a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegan's interest in the business in 1900 for $ 500 (equal to $ 15,100 today) to save it from bankruptcy. On May 5, Donaldson changed the publication from a monthly to
6419-501: The Christmas Hits album survey. Kenny Roger's 1981 Christmas was number one on the album chart for the first two weeks of the Christmas Hits survey. A Very Special Christmas spent the most weeks at the top of the album chart during the 1980s with 3 consecutive weeks starting December 12, 1987. Mannheim Steamroller 's A Fresh Aire Christmas spent 2 consecutive weeks at No. 1 starting December 24, 1988 and went on to top
6550-410: The Christmas Hits survey. His hit has charted the most with 37 total weeks during the entire Christmas singles survey run. Bobby Helms comes in second with "Jingle Bell Rock" charting a total of 36 weeks. Harry Simeone's "Little Drummer Boy", Charles Brown's "Please Come Home For Christmas", Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" and Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas " also charted over 30 weeks each during
6681-469: The Christmas Tree" has regularly returned to the Billboard Hot 100 since 2015. On the Hot 100 chart dated December 21, 2019, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" reached a new peak of #3 in the United States with 37.1 million streams and 5,000 digital sales sold. The following week it moved up to #2, where it remained for a second week. From 2019 to 2022, the song has re-peaked at #2, blocked from
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#17327974261736812-509: The Christmas singles survey between 1963 and 1973. Andy William's "White Christmas" and 1967's " Snoopy's Christmas " by The Royal Guardsmen topped the chart 5 times each tying both for the second most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Christmas Singles chart. The Carpenters " Merry Christmas, Darling " was No. 1 on the singles chart the most during the 1970s with 3 weeks. Second is the Jackson 5 's "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town' which topped
6943-695: The Holiday 100 each holiday season. The chart size increased to 50 positions in 2016. The survey measures the top streamed holiday radio songs, on-demand songs and videos from the leading U.S. online music services. Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has been #1 for 47 inconsecutive weeks on the survey. Besides Carey's hit, the only other songs that have topped the Holiday Streaming Songs charts are Pentatonix's "Mary, Did You Know?" for 3 weeks, Grande's "Santa Tell Me" for 2 weeks and most recently Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" for 6 weeks. Michael Bublé has charted 15 songs on
7074-541: The Holiday Songs or Christmas Singles surveys. Pentatonix has charted 49 songs on the survey. The Glee Cast , Kelly Clarkson and Michael Bublé have also charted at least 20 songs each. Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You", Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Eve" (Holiday Digital Song Sales #2), and Wham!'s "Last Christmas" (Holiday Digital Song Sales #2) have appeared on all 160 weeks surveyed. The top 15 Holiday Digital Song Sales occasionally appear in
7205-497: The Holiday Streaming Songs survey. Bing Crosby and Pentatonix tie for second most songs with 10 each. Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You", Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)" (Holiday Streaming Songs #2) , Gene Autry's "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Holiday Streaming Songs #2) and 2011's " It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas " by Michael Bublé (Holiday Streaming Songs #2) have charted all 58 weeks of
7336-519: The Holiday Streaming Songs survey. Mariah Carey's chart topping success and other songs that appear on Billboard's Holiday Song surveys every year have met criticism. In 2022, Billboard launched the Holiday 100 Songwriters and Producers charts that run during the same seasonal period as the Holiday 100. The weekly 25 position charts are based on points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song. They join Billboard's 26 other songwriter and producer rankings covering
7467-682: The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a unit of the holding company Eldridge Industries . Timothy White was appointed editor-in-chief in 1991, a position that he held until his unexpected death in 2002. White wrote a weekly column promoting music with "artistic merit" while criticizing music with violent or misogynistic themes, and also reworked the publication's music charts. Rather than relying on data from music retailers, new charts used data from store checkout scanners obtained by Nielsen SoundScan . White also wrote in-depth profiles on musicians, but
7598-417: The Hot 100 and all other “Hot”-named genre charts: Christian , country, dance/electronic , gospel , Latin , R&B/hip-hop, R&B , rap , rock & alternative , rock, alternative and hard rock . On the inaugural Holiday 100 Songwriters survey, Johnny Marks (who died in 1985 at age 75) was No. 1 for seven songwriting credits on the Holiday 100. Lee Gillette (who died in 1981 at age 68) topped
7729-403: The Hot 100 at No. 36 in 1960 with the start of an annual charting of "Jingle Bell Rock". Harry Simeone's "Little Drummer Boy" and "The Chipmunk Song" re-charted the Hot 100 every year after their initial release just as Christmas Sing Along with Mitch and Johnny Mathis' Merry Christmas album had on Billboard's Best-Selling LPs chart. The Chipmunks with David Seville followed up in 1960 with
7860-459: The Hot 100, Christina Aguilera's cover of " The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) " peaked at #18 for 2 weeks starting December 25, 1999, and Kenny G's " Auld Lang Syne ( The Millennium Mix )" peaked at No 7 on January 8, 2000, making both the first holiday songs to enter their top 40 in the past 6 years. Billboard introduced the 25-position Holiday Songs survey online December 8, 2001. The top 15 has occasionally appeared in
7991-548: The Red-Nosed Reindeer " made the Top 100 Sides at No. 70. The Best Selling Pop LP's had 11 seasonal albums chart including the debut of Elvis' Christmas Album that topped the survey for 3 weeks. Bing Crosby 's all-time best-selling single " White Christmas " returned to the Top 40 again in 1957 at No. 34. It has charted Billboard's surveys almost annually since it first spent 11 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on their Best Selling Retail Records chart beginning Oct. 31, 1942 It reached
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#17327974261738122-647: The Top 10 in 1980: " The Cowgirl and the Dandy " and " Broken Trust " (the latter featuring vocal backing by the Oak Ridge Boys ). A 1982 album, The Winning Hand , featuring Lee along with Dolly Parton , Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson , was a surprise hit, reaching the top ten on the U.S. country albums chart. Her last well-known hit was 1984's " Hallelujah, I Love Her So " in duet with George Jones (Lee sang this song individually before and released it in 1960 on This Is...Brenda ). In 1992, Lee recorded
8253-446: The Top Holiday Albums, the most of any album on the entire Christmas album survey. Pentatonix spent 47 weeks at No. 1 with 4 different albums during the 2010s with 2014's That's Christmas to Me (18 weeks) , 2016's A Pentatonix Christmas (18 weeks) , 2018's Christmas Is Here! (2 weeks) and 2019's The Best of Pentatonix Christmas (3 weeks) . The original soundtrack to 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas has topped
8384-399: The U.S. by January 1985, but did not appear on Billboard's Christmas Hits best selling singles survey. Bruce Springsteen 's cover of " Santa Claus is Comin' To Town " had peaked at No. 1 when Billboard published their last Christmas Hits single survey on December 28, 1985. An alphabetical listing of Christmas singles would be featured in the magazine's "Reviews and Previews" section, but
8515-492: The UK in 1959, before she had achieved much pop recognition in the United States. Her first hit single in the UK was " Sweet Nothin's ", which reached No. 4 on the UK singles chart in the spring of 1960. She subsequently had a UK hit (in 1961) with " Let's Jump the Broomstick ", a rockabilly number recorded in 1959, which had not charted in the United States, but reached No. 12 in the UK. Lee had two Top Ten hits in
8646-455: The UK that were not released as singles in her native country: the first, " Speak to Me Pretty " peaked at No. 3 in May 1962 and was her greatest hit in the UK by chart placing, swiftly followed by " Here Comes That Feeling ", which reached No. 5 in the summer of 1962. The latter was issued as the B-side to " Everybody Loves Me But You " in the United States (which peaked at No. 6 on
8777-476: The US and No. 5 in the UK and " Coming on Strong " peaked at No. 11 in the US. Also in 1964, " Is It True " peaked at No. 17 in both the US and the UK. Featuring Big Jim Sullivan (guitar), Jimmy Page (guitar), and Bobby Graham (drums), it was her only hit single recorded in London , England, and was produced by Mickie Most . The slide guitar and background singers were overdubbed in Nashville. It
8908-780: The annual Royal Variety Performance before Queen Elizabeth II at the London Palladium on November 2, 1964, Lee toured Britain again in November and December 1964, supported by (amongst others) Manfred Mann , Johnny Kidd & the Pirates , the John Barry Seven , Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders , Marty Wilde , the Tornados and Heinz Burt . During the early 1970s, Lee re-established herself as
9039-413: The articles are written by staff writers, while some are written by industry experts. It covers news, gossip, opinion, and music reviews, but its "most enduring and influential creation" is the Billboard charts . The charts track music sales, radio airtime and other data about the most popular songs and albums. The Billboard Hot 100 chart of the top-selling songs was introduced in 1958. Since then,
9170-606: The best-selling Christmas Album and Single chart survey section again under the title Christmas Hits on December 17, 1983. The top 10 charts ran for two weeks each holiday season for the next 3 years then returned in 1987 as a 30 position album only chart. Unlike the Best Bets For Christmas, Christmas Hits would often also chart Billboard's other music surveys such as Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton 's 1984 Once Upon A Christmas ( Top 200 Albums #31, Top Country Albums #12) and 1985's Alabama Christmas (Top 200 Albums #75, Top Country Albums #8) which both peaked at No. 1 on
9301-493: The biggest hits of 1960, reaching the #1 chart position in the U.S. and #12 in the U.K. It was her first gold single and was nominated for a Grammy Award . Even though it was not released as a country song, it was among the first big hits to use what was to become the Nashville sound – a string orchestra and legato harmonized background vocals. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" was finally noticed in its third release
9432-447: The chart 4 more weeks during the 1990s. Barbra Streisand's A Christmas Album (Christmas Hits #2) and 1978's Christmas Portrait by The Carpenters (Christmas Hits #2) charted all 13 weeks of the Christmas Hits album chart. Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's Once Upon a Christmas , Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song (Christmas Hits #5) and 1984's Mannheim Steamroller Christmas (Christmas Hits #2) tie for second most times on
9563-416: The chart during the eighties with 11 weeks each. Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas , Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song and Elvis's Christmas Album spent more than 40 weeks each on the Best Bets for Christmas and Christmas Hits surveys, more weeks than other LP during the entire holiday album chart run at the time. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" returned to the top of the singles chart for the first week of
9694-546: The chart for 15 inconsecutive weeks beginning October 21, 2017. So far this decade, Michael Bublé's Christmas has topped the chart for 30 inconsecutive weeks. The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack has topped the chart for 8 weeks since 2021. Carrie Underwood 's My Gift was no. 1 for 7 weeks beginning October 10, 2020. Billboard reduced the Top Holiday Album chart run to 12 weeks in 2022 then 10 weeks in 2023. For over 60 years, Billboard has provided
9825-532: The chart for 2 weeks each that decade, Now That's What I Call Christmas!: The Signature Collection went to number one beginning November 22, 2003 and Now That's What I Call Christmas! 3 beginning January 13, 2007. Andrea Bocelli 's My Christmas , Susan Boyle 's The Gift and Sarah McLachlan 's Wintersong all topped the Top Holiday Albums chart for 8 weeks that decade. On November 11, 2011, Michael Bublé 's Christmas went to No. 1 for its first week. To date, it has spent 52 total weeks at No. 1 on
9956-509: The chart online in October for 14–15 weeks each holiday season. Josh Groban 's Noël started a 12-week consecutive run at number one on October 27, 2007. It topped the chart 6 more weeks in 2008 making it the top charting Holiday Album of the first decade of the century. Now That's What I Call Christmas! was the second top charting album of the 2000s with 14 inconsecutive weeks at number one from 2000 to 2003. Two follow ups also topped
10087-687: The country music show TV Ranch on WAGA-TV in Atlanta; she was so short, the host would lower a stand microphone as low as it would go and stand her up on a wooden crate to reach it. In 1955, Grayce Tarpley married Buell "Jay" Rainwater, who moved the family to Cincinnati , Ohio, where he worked at the Jimmie Skinner Music Center. Lee performed with Skinner at the record store on two Saturday programs broadcast over Newport, Kentucky, radio station WNOP . The family soon returned to Georgia, but this time to Augusta , and Lee appeared on
10218-476: The deal; it eventually agreed to an $ 11 billion takeover bid from investors in 2006. VNU changed its name to Nielsen in 2007, the namesake of a company that it had acquired for $ 2.5 billion in 1999. New CEO Robert Krakoff divested some of the previously owned publications, restructured the organization and planned some acquisitions before dying suddenly in 2007. He was subsequently replaced by Greg Farrar. Nielsen owned Billboard until 2009, when it
10349-813: The debut of " The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) " (Hot 100 #1 for 4 weeks) and Harry Simeone 's " Little Drummer Boy " (Hot 100 #13) . Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" returned to the charts at No. 35. Eight holiday albums charted on Billboard's Best-Selling LP's survey in 1958 including the debut of Johnny Mathis ' Merry Christmas that peaked at No. 3 on December 27. Mitch Miller & The Gang's first holiday album Christmas Sing Along with Mitch peaked at No. 1 on January 8, 1959. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" made its first Hot 100 appearance in 1959 at No. 59. Perry Como debuted his second Christmas album Season's Greetings from Perry Como on The Billboard's TOP LP'S on January 8, 1960, peaking at No. 22. The 1960 Hot 100 had 10 holiday singles including
10480-504: The debut of an annual charting of Brenda Lee 's standard " Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree " (Hot 100 #14) and the return of Nat King Cole 's " The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) " (Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks #2, Hot 100 #80) . Bing Crosby's "Silent Night" (Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks #8, Hot 100 #54) also returned in 1960 and the flip side " Adeste Fidelis " (Hot 100 #45) also from his 1945 Merry Christmas album made its first charting. Bobby Helms returned to
10611-534: The editorial staff indicated that senior vice president of digital content Mike Bruno would head the editorial department. On June 15, 2016, BillboardPH , the first Billboard chart company in Southeast Asia, mainly in the Philippines, was announced. On September 12, 2016, Billboard expanded into China by launching Billboard China in partnership with Vision Music Ltd. On September 23, 2020, it
10742-693: The entirety of the Christmas singles survey. All 6 of these records peaked at No. 1 over the duration of Billboard's Christmas singles charts. Elmo 'N Patsy 's " Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer " spent the most weeks at top of the Christmas Hits singles chart during the 1980s with 4 consecutive weeks starting December 24, 1983. It was also the only single that crossed over charting the Hot Country Singles chart at No. 92 in 1984. Band Aid 's " Do They Know It's Christmas? " (Hot 100 #13) reached number 6 on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales chart in 1984 and had sold an estimated 2.5 million copies in
10873-516: The first female and youngest-ever executive editor at Billboard and led its first major redesign since the 1960s, designed by Daniel Stark and Stark Design. During Conniff's tenure, Billboard 's newsstand sales jumped 10%, ad pages climbed 22% and conference registrations rose 76%. In 2005, Billboard expanded its editorial outside the music industry into other areas of digital and mobile entertainment. In 2006, after leading Billboard's radio publication, former ABC News and CNN journalist Scott McKenzie
11004-486: The following 6 records charted the Christmas single surveys. The following artists had more than one single chart the Christmas surveys (A-Side and B-Side chartings of the same single count as one). After no holiday charts were published in 1986, the Christmas Hits section resumed December 12, 1987 with a 30-position album survey, but Billboard stopped publishing a singles sales chart. Only alternate weeks of
11135-403: The inaugural Holiday 100 Producers chart for seven production credits. Both have held their number 1 positions for the 12 weeks each chart has run. Billboard' s Holiday 100 has charted 305 songs. The following ranked by peak position have consecutively charted all 68 weeks since its debut on December 10, 2011. Billboard (magazine) Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013)
11266-1119: The mid-1990's, holiday songs with no commercial single availability had begun appearing more often on Billboard's airplay charts. New songs like 1995's " Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) " by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Adult Contemporary #34, Adult Top 40 #25, Hot 100 Airplay #49) and " The Chanukah Song " by Adam Sandler (Adult Contemporary #35, Adult Top 40 #32, Hot 100 Airplay #10, Mainstream Rock #20, Modern Rock Tracks #25) would re-chart annually each Christmas season along with older titles such as 1984's " Last Christmas " by Wham! (Adult Contemporary #22, Adult Top 40 #40, Hot 100 Airplay #58) and 1979's " Wonderful Christmastime " by Paul McCartney (Adult Contemporary #29, Adult Top 40 #32) The Hot Country Singles & Tracks and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay survey were also charting earlier classics such as The Temptations ' "Silent Night" (Hot R&B Airplay #16) and new songs like Jeff Foxworthy 's " Redneck 12 Days of Christmas " (Hot Country Singles & Tracks #18). On
11397-535: The moments following her introduction: I still get cold chills thinking about the first time I heard that voice. One foot started patting rhythm as though she was stomping out a prairie fire but not another muscle in that little body even as much as twitched. And when she did that trick of breaking her voice, it jarred me out of my trance enough to realize I'd forgotten to get off the stage. There I stood, after 26 years of supposedly learning how to conduct myself in front of an audience, with my mouth open two miles wide and
11528-422: The more pop-based songs " That's All You Gotta Do " (No. 6), " Emotions " (No. 7), " You Can Depend on Me " (No. 6), " Dum Dum " (No. 4), 1962's " Break It to Me Gently " (No. 2), " Everybody Loves Me But You " (No. 6), and " As Usual " (No. 12). Lee's total of nine consecutive top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits from "That's All You Gotta Do" in 1960 through "All Alone Am I" in 1962 set
11659-568: The most influential executives, artists and companies in the music industry, such as the following: Since 1990 Billboard established the Billboard Music Awards , an awards ceremony honors top album, artist and single in a number of different music genres which achieved the highest results during the year form sales, streaming, radio airplay, touring, and social engagement. The data are taken from Billboard and its data partners, including MRC Data and Next Big Sound . Through
11790-434: The most of any songs on the survey. Both Brenda Lee's 1958 "Rockin" Around The Christmas Tree" (Holiday Songs #1) and Gene Autry's 1949 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Holiday Songs #2) tie for second most chart appearances with 130 charted weeks each. The most weeks at the top of the Holiday Songs survey is held by Mariah Carey 's 1994 Hot 100 Airplay Christmas classic, " All I Want for Christmas Is You ". It has held
11921-418: The most popular Christmas holiday singles that charted prior to 1958 according to those surveys. On November 24, 1958, the magazine published Deejay 's Favorite Christmas Disks . Described as the records played most frequently by disk jockeys each Christmas season, according to a survey made by The Billboard, the section consisted of 3 top 10 lists charting the top Holiday Singles , LP Albums and for
12052-662: The music industry as that of the other performance arts: Emmy Awards (television), the Tony Awards (stage performance), and the Academy Awards (motion pictures). Lee met Charles Ronald "Ronnie" Shacklett in November 1962, at a concert by Bo Diddley and Jackie Wilson hosted at Nashville's Fairgrounds Coliseum. They married less than six months later, on April 24, 1963. Lee and Shacklett have two daughters, Jolie and Julie (named after Patsy Cline 's daughter), and three grandchildren, Taylor, Jordan and Charley. Lee
12183-536: The name of the Holiday Songs survey to Holiday Airplay after the launch of the Holiday 100 in 2011 and run the charts concurrently each holiday season. At over 20 years, the Holiday Airplay chart is their longest running holiday single or song survey and their second longest running holiday survey after the Top Holiday Albums chart. The Holiday Season Digital Song Sales survey of music download purchases debuted on October 16, 2010. Billboard published
12314-449: The next 10 years, these titles could only be found in their new annual best-selling Christmas Records section (retitled Billboard Top Christmas Sellers in 1965 and then Billboard Best Bets for Christmas in 1966 through 1973) . The 5-position survey ranking of top-selling Christmas Singles and Christmas LP's ran for 3–5 weeks each holiday season expanding in size as sales activity increased. The Andy Williams Christmas Album
12445-406: The number one position for 55 weeks. Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" has peaked at No. 1 for a total of 30 weeks and Ives' "A Holly Jolly Christmas" has topped the survey the third most times with 20 inconsecutive weeks. Since December 4, 2010, these three songs and 1971's " Feliz Navidad " by Jose Feliciano have alternated the #1 position on the Holiday Songs chart. Billboard changed
12576-415: The number one spot, which also meant she surpassed her own age record, having turned 79 during the week ending December 16, 2023. Following two few weeks off number one, on the week ending January 6, 2024, she returned to number one for an additional week. A Lee approved AI-generated Spanish language version "Noche Buena y Navidad" appeared on October 25, 2024. On September 26, 1986, Lee was installed in
12707-498: The only time on Billboard's Christmas/Holiday surveys, EP Albums . Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" was the No. 1 single, Percy Faith 's 1954 Music of Christmas was the No. 1 LP and Pat Boone 's 1957 Merry Christmas was the No. 1 EP. A Holiday survey would not be published again until the annual Christmas Records section is launched in 1963. Seven holiday singles charted the first year of Billboard's Hot 100 in 1958 including
12838-582: The past 11 years. On December 10, 2011, Billboard expanded the Holiday Song chart to 50 positions, reduced it back to a 5-6 week run and renamed it Holiday Airplay . The newly reconfigured Hot Holiday Songs , like the Hot 100, ranks holiday tracks based on a formula blending airplay, download sales and streaming data as tracked by Nielsen Entertainment . The 50-position chart survey begins to appear in print and Billboard.com in early December for 5–6 weeks each year. On December 14, 2013, Holiday Songs
12969-868: The phonograph and radio also contributed to its growing music emphasis. Billboard published the first music hit parade on January 4, 1936 and introduced a Record Buying Guide in January 1939. In 1940, it introduced Chart Line, which tracked the best-selling records, and was followed by a chart for jukebox records in 1944 called Music Box Machine. By the 1940s, Billboard was more of a music-industry specialist publication. The number of charts that it published grew after World War II , as new music interests and genres became popular. It had eight charts by 1987, covering different genres and formats, and 28 charts by 1994. By 1943, Billboard had about 100 employees. The magazine's offices moved to Brighton, Ohio in 1946, then to New York City in 1948. A five-column tabloid format
13100-399: The print magazine. Billboard reduced the chart to 25 positions with a 5-week run starting December 2, 2023. An increase of Christmas songs occurred on the Hot 100 in 2010 when 6 holiday songs appeared on the survey with 4 more Bubbling Under the Hot 100 . On December 25, Coldplay reached No. 25 on the Hot 100 with " Christmas Lights ", making it the first holiday song in their top 40 in
13231-520: The print magazine. The chart differed from the discontinued best-selling Christmas singles survey (s) by ranking songs based solely on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen BDS of Adult Contemporary and a few Adult Top 40 stations, most of which switch to all or nearly all Christmas music around Thanksgiving . Billboard later began to compile the chart data from all-format radio airplay audience impressions, as measured by Mediabase and provided by Luminate . The first number one Holiday Song
13362-450: The second most weeks at the top during the 90's with 9 weeks at number one starting November 21, 1998. The album made its tenth week at No. 1 on October 29, 2016. Christina Aguilera 's My Kind of Christmas topped the chart when Billboard renames the survey Top Holiday Albums on November 25, 2000. The chart size increased to 50 positions in 2002 and expanded an 11-week run in 2006. On October 20, 2007, Billboard began publishing
13493-598: The show The Peach Blossom Special on WJAT-AM in Swainsboro . Lee's breakthrough came in February 1955, when she turned down $ 30 ($ 334 in 2022 value ) to appear on a Swainsboro radio station to see Red Foley and a touring promotional unit of his ABC-TV program Ozark Jubilee in Augusta. An Augusta disc jockey persuaded Foley to hear her sing before the show. Foley did and agreed to let her perform " Jambalaya " on stage that night, unrehearsed. Foley later recounted
13624-571: The singles chart only having 3 positions on December 18 of that year. Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas (LPs #2) spent 39 weeks on the LP survey from 1963 to 1973, more than any other album at the time. Harry Simeone's album The Little Drummer Boy (LPs #1) and Nat King Cole's album The Christmas Song (LPs #1) tie at second, both charting 35 weeks between 1963 and 1973. Crosby's Merry Christmas , Cole's The Christmas Song and Johnny Mathis' Merry Christmas (LPs #2) spent more than 25 weeks each in
13755-455: The song " Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree " in July with a prominent twanging guitar part by Hank Garland and raucous sax soloing by Nashville icon Boots Randolph . Decca released it as a single that November, but it sold only 5,000 copies, and did not do much better when it was released again in 1959. However, over subsequent years, it eventually sold more than five million copies. Since 2017,
13886-428: The song has appeared at the end of each year on the Billboard Hot 100, having spent (as of December 9, 2023) 54 weeks on the Hot 100, peaking at number 1 in 2023. In 1960, Lee recorded her signature song , " I'm Sorry ". However, the record initially was withheld for months before its release due to concern that the 15-year-old Lee would not understand what she was singing about in the love song. The song became one of
14017-624: The survey twice that decade. Both debuted on the Best Bets For Christmas in 1970. The Jackson 5 Christmas Album topped the album chart the most in the 70's with 3 weeks. 1971's A Partridge Family Christmas Card and Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas tie for second with each peaking at No. 1 for 2 weeks. Titles on these Christmas surveys did not appear on Billboard's other charts until 1973 when "Please Daddy" by John Denver (Hot 100 #69, Hot Country Singles #69) and " If We Make It Through December " by Merle Haggard (Hot 100 #28, Hot Country Singles #1) both peaked at No. 7 on
14148-492: The survey were available in print with alternating weeks available via the Billboard Information Network. The various artist collection A Very Special Christmas topped the survey for the first 3 weeks of its return. Billboard published the chart for 2 consecutive weeks in 1987, then in 1988 began to run the survey every other week 2-3 times a holiday season. The album-only Christmas Hits section
14279-421: The top 10. The Andy Williams Christmas Album spent the most time on top of the chart at 9 inconsecutive weeks between 1963 and 1965. Andy Williams follow up, Merry Christmas spent 3 inconsecutive weeks at number one from 1966 to 1969. Barbra Streisand 's 1967 A Christmas Album topped the second most with 6 weeks and Harry Simeone's The Little Drummer Boy album comes in 3rd with 4 weeks at number one on
14410-428: The top position by Mariah Carey 's " All I Want for Christmas Is You ". In November 2023, to celebrate the song's 65th anniversary, Lee released a music video featuring her lip-synching to the original recording at a house party with Tanya Tucker and Trisha Yearwood . Lee has also joined social media platform TikTok to promote the song, where she posts videos reminiscing about her song's history and success. On
14541-602: The top spot again in 1945 for two more weeks and made its 14th #1 week on December 28, 1946. Crosby's " Silent Night " (Top 100 Sides #54) and " Silver Bells " (Top 100 Sides #78) also made the Top 100 Sides in 1957. All 3 of these titles are included on his Merry Christmas which returned to No. 1 in January 1958 after charting Billboard 's album surveys since its debut in 1945. The " Billboard Music Popularity Chart" began weekly publication in their July 27, 1940 issue, with lists covering jukebox play, radio play, record sales and sheet music sales. The following are
14672-461: The years, Billboard has established several other awards to honor different music genres, live performances, and artists. Since that Billboard established severals awards ceremonies and honors: Brenda Lee Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee , is an American singer. Primarily performing rockabilly , pop, country and Christmas music , she achieved her first Billboard hit aged 12 in 1957 and
14803-566: The years, but hundreds of titles only appeared in these best-seller sections that are unavailable on Billboard's website. The charts are extensively researched in Joel Whitburn 's Christmas in the Charts 1920-2004 that contain statistics on every Christmas single and album that charted all of Billboard's music surveys. From 1974 until 1982, the magazine reverted to charting seasonal hits only on their weekly popular music surveys such as
14934-453: Was adopted in November 1950 and coated paper was first used in Billboard ' s print issues in January 1963, allowing for photojournalism. Billboard Publications Inc. acquired a monthly trade magazine for candy and cigarette machine vendors called Vend , and in the 1950s it acquired an advertising trade publication called Tide . By 1969, Billboard Publications Inc. owned 11 trade and consumer publications, Watson-Guptill Publications,
15065-574: Was announced that Penske Media Corporation would assume operations of the MRC Media & Info publications under a joint venture with MRC known as PMRC. The joint venture includes the management of Billboard . On January 13, 2024, Billboard shared the intent to further expand in Asia by announcing the launch of Billboard Korea . Billboard publishes a news website and weekly trade magazine that covers music, video and home entertainment. Most of
15196-420: Was expanded to 100 positions and renamed the Holiday 100 , although only the top 50 remain in print. Topping the inaugural Hot Holiday Songs ranking was Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You". It has been #1 for 60 total weeks. After 34 weeks at No. 2, Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" topped the chart for 3 inconsecutive weeks starting December 9, 2023. The other songs that have taken
15327-409: Was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $ 500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the music industry as
15458-475: Was given the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite". Some of Lee's most successful songs include " Sweet Nothin's ", " I'm Sorry ", " I Want to Be Wanted ", " Speak to Me Pretty ", " All Alone Am I " and " Losing You ". Her festive song " Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree ", recorded in 1958, topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, making Lee the oldest artist ever to top the chart and breaking several chart records. Having sold over 100 million records globally, Lee
15589-624: Was named editorial director across all Billboard properties. Conniff launched the Billboard Women in Music event in 2007. Bill Werde was named editorial director in 2008, and was followed by Janice Min in January 2014, also responsible for editorial content at The Hollywood Reporter . The magazine became more of a general-interest music-news source rather than solely an industry trade, covering more celebrity and fashion news. Min hired Tony Gervino as editor although he did not have
15720-556: Was one of eight publications sold to e5 Global Media Holdings. e5 was formed by investment firms Pluribus Capital Management and Guggenheim Partners for the purpose of the acquisition. The following year, the new parent company was renamed Prometheus Global Media . Three years later, Guggenheim Partners acquired Pluribus' share of Prometheus and became the sole owner of Billboard . In December 2015, Guggenheim Digital Media spun out several media brands, including Billboard , to its own executive Todd Boehly . The assets operate under
15851-557: Was poor. As a child, she shared a bed with her brother and sister in a series of three-room houses without running water. Life centered on her parents finding work, their family, and the Baptist church , where she began singing solos every Sunday. Lee's father was a farmer's son in Georgia's red-clay belt. Standing 5 ft 7 in (170 cm), he was an excellent left-handed pitcher and played baseball while serving for 11 years in
15982-659: Was published in Cincinnati , Ohio by William Donaldson and James Hennegan on November 1, 1894. Initially it covered the advertising and bill-posting industry and was known as Billboard Advertising . At the time, billboards, posters, and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the primary means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co., managed magazine production. The first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns such as The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable and Tireless Industry of
16113-668: Was recorded at Decca Records' number two studio at their West Hampstead complex, as was the UK B-side, a version of Ray Charles' 1959 classic cut, " What'd I Say ?", which was not released in North America. "Is It True" was composed by noted British songwriting team Ken Lewis and John Carter , who were also members of UK hitmakers the Ivy League . Lee was popular in the UK from early in her career. She performed on television in
16244-419: Was renamed to simply Billboard . According to The New Business Journalism , by 1984, Billboard Publications was a "prosperous" conglomerate of trade magazines, and Billboard had become the "undisputed leader" in music-industry news. In the early 1990s, Billboard introduced Billboard Airplay Monitors , a publication for disc jockeys and music programmers. By the end of the 1990s, Billboard dubbed itself
16375-469: Was replaced by Keith Girard, who was subsequently fired in May 2004. Girard and a female employee filed a $ 29 million lawsuit alleging that Billboard fired them unfairly with an intent to damage their reputations and that they experienced sexual harassment, a hostile work environment and a financially motivated lack of editorial integrity. Email evidence suggested that human resources were given special instructions to watch minority employees. The case
16506-524: Was retitled Top Christmas Albums in 1990. Barry Manilow 's Because It's Christmas was the No. 1 album for the first 2 weeks under the survey's new name. Billboard began running the chart 5 consecutive weeks each holiday season in 1991, but all weeks are still not available in print. In 1992, Billboard increased the survey to 7 weeks and started compiling the Top Christmas Albums chart using actual sales figures ( SoundScan ). After
16637-411: Was settled out of court in 2006 for an undisclosed sum. In the 2000s, economic decline in the music industry dramatically reduced readership and advertising from Billboard ' s traditional audience. Circulation declined from 40,000 in circulation in the 1990s to less than 17,000 by 2014. The publication's staff and ownership were also undergoing frequent changes. In 2004, Tamara Conniff became
16768-568: Was the 1977 track " Celebrate Me Home " by Kenny Loggins . The initial chart had a 3-week run, then expanded to 6 weeks in 2002. Billboard increased the survey to 30 positions and ran the chart 6–9 weeks each holiday season starting in 2006. Amy Grant has charted the most songs on the Holiday Song survey with nine. Michael Bublé is second with 6 charted songs. 1964's " A Holly Jolly Christmas " by Burl Ives (Holiday Songs #1) and 1963's " It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year " by Andy Williams (Holiday Songs #2) have both charted 132 weeks,
16899-498: Was the first black critic at a national magazine with a predominantly white audience. According to his grandson, Donaldson also established a policy against identifying performers by their race. Donaldson died in 1925. Billboard ' s editorial content changed focus as technology in recording and playback developed, covering "marvels of modern technology" such as the phonograph and wireless radios. The magazine began covering coin-operated entertainment machines in 1899 and created
17030-407: Was the first number one album and his version of " White Christmas " from the same album was the first number one single, both peaking at No. 1 for the 5 week entirety of the section run in 1963. The chart size increased each holiday season until peaking at 38 singles and 117 LPS in 1967. Beginning in 1971, the Best Bets for Christmas only ran 2–3 weeks a year and listed significantly less titles with
17161-482: Was tracked in the paper's Routes Ahead column, and then Billboard would receive mail on the star's behalf and publish a notice in its Letter-Box column that it had mail for him or her. This service was first introduced in 1904 and became one of Billboard ' s largest sources of profit and celebrity connections. By 1914, 42,000 people were using the service. It was also used as the official address of traveling entertainers for draft letters during World War I . In
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