Dance Club Songs

It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the United States.

Originally a top-10 list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques, the chart began on October 26, 1974, under the title Disco Action.

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.

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 was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level.

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Madonna holds the record for the most number-ones since its inception with 50, and as of 2020 is the only living and active artist to have charted continuously since 1982. [ 11 ] " Holiday "/" Lucky Star " (1983) marked her first number-one on the chart, with " I Don't Search I Find " (2020) being her most recent.
Katy Perry holds the record for the most consecutive number-ones.
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Rihanna is the only act to have achieved five number-one songs in a calendar year, and is one of only four acts to have attained at least four. [ 36 ]
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Lady Gaga holds the record for collecting 10 number-ones in the shortest time frame at two years, five months and three weeks. [ 38 ]