60 YEARS OF THE BILLBOARD DISCO CHART. More: tomorrow.

Caffè  Lattè looks back on:

 

60 YEARS

OF THE

BILLBOARD

DISCO/DANCE

CHART

 

Billboard began ranking the top Disco and Dance tracks in 1974. Six decades of dancefloor favourites have kept us in discotheques and clubs to this day. Billboard discontinued the chart in 2020 as nightclubs shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is a focus on the acts that achieved the most number one songs, a Top 10 that has amassed 14 or more #1s…

 

-THE ACTS WITH THE MOST NUMBER ONES-

Oct. 26^th, 1974:         The Disco Chart debuts in Billboard.

#10

14 #1s

DAVID GUETTA

French DJ / producer has topped the Billboard Dance / Disco Chart 11 times under his own name and a further 3 using the alias Jack Back. He first reached #1 in 2009 with “When Love Takes Over” with Kelly Rowland. 

 

 

WHITNEY HOUSTON

First topped the Dance Chart in 1987 with “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” and continued until her death in 2012. In 2019, she made #1 with the posthumous remix with Kygo of “Higher Love”. 

 

KYLIE MINOGUE

Most successful Australian act on the Dance Chart. She first charted in 1988 with “I Should Be So Lucky” and had to wait until 2002 to reach #1 with “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”. Her last to make the summit was “Dancing” in 2018. As well as the 11 #1s in her own right, she has made the top as a featured artist with “Higher”, “Right Here, Right Now” and “The Other Boys”. 

 

PITBULL

Most successful rapper / hip hop act on the Dance Chart, of his 14 #1s, he was a credited featured artist on 11 of them. 

 

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS

Born in Madrid, Spain, his first Dance Chart entry was “Bailamos” in 1999. It became his first #1 on the Billboard chart. In 2016, he scaled the list for the fourteenth time with the Spanish-language track “Duele El Corazón”.

 

DAVE AUDÉ

American songwriter/ producer has not sung on any of his 14 Dance Chart #1s.