60 YEARS OF THE BILLBOARD DISCO CHART. #7 . 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.

#7

17 #1s

MARIAH CAREY

Mariah Carey topped the chart with her first two entries: “Someday” and “Emotions” in 1991. Of her 17 #1s, only one- “Fantasy”- has been at the summit for more than one week. Her most recent visit to the pinnacle was in 2014 with “You’re Mine (Eternal)”.

KRISTINE W.

The American singer / songwriter reached #1 with her first chart entry “Feel What You Want” in 1994. She continued landing at the top with her next 8 consecutive releases: a record. In 2018, she secured a seventeenth #1 entitled “Stars”. This placed her in a tie with Mariah Carey in seventh place overall.