The Pop 100 is a songs chart created in February 2005 and released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It ranks songs based on mainstream radio airplay, singles sales, and digital downloads. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ...

History

The chart was created as an answer to criticism of the Billboard Hot 100, the most popular Billboard singles chart. Many complained that the Hot 100 was biased against non-rhythmic songs, making it difficult for a pop, rock, or country song to reach the top ten. In fact, every number-one in 2004 was by a hip-hop or R&B artist. To illustrate another extreme, at the time the Pop 100 was first published, only two country act in the previous 20 years had reached #1 on the Hot 100 (Lonestar in 2000 with "Amazed") and (Carrie Underwood in 2005 with "Inside Your Heaven") The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Rhythmic music and Rhythmic radio, also known as Rhythmic Crossover or Rhythmic Pop, is a term used to describe a certain group of radio stations and the Billboard chart that is compiled based on airplay from those radio stations. ... For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music), see Popular music. ... Rock and Roll Music is a song written and originally recorded by Chuck Berry which became a hit single in 1957, and was later covered by many artists, notably The Beatles. ... country music, see Country music (disambiguation) In popular music, country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, and old-time music that began... This is a list of the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-ones of 2004. ... Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music which came into existence in roughly the mid 70s but became a large part of modern day pop culture in the late 80s. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Lonestar also refers to a Rock Band that released a self titled album in 1976 under the UK CBS label Lonestar poses for pictures before a show Lonestar is an American country music band consisting of Richie McDonald (lead vocals) (born Richard Vance McDonald, on 6 February 1962, in Mesquite... This article is about the year 2000. ... Amazed is a country music ballad recorded by Lonestar, released as a single from the bands album Lonely Grill. ... Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983 in Muskogee, Oklahoma) is an American country music singer who won the title of the fourth season of American Idol. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Inside Your Heaven is a song written by Andres Carlsson, Pelle Nyhlen, Savan Kotecha and produced by Desmond Child. ...

When the Pop 100 was first published, the Hot 100 changed its format as well. Digital downloads were incorporated into the equation which tabulates a song's rank on the chart. Prior to this, only radio airplay and singles sales were used to determine positions.

A Pop 100 Airplay chart was created alongside the new Pop 100. It measures mainstream radio airplay. The Pop 100 Airplay Chart is one of the three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Singles Sales Chart & Hot Digital Songs, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Pop 100 . ...

See also

• Pop 100 number-one hits of 2005 (USA)
• Pop 100 number-one hits of 2006 (USA)
• Pop 100 records
• Pop music
• List of Billboard Charts

These are the number one Pop 100 hits of 2005 per Billboard magazine. ... These are the number one Pop 100 hits of 2006 per Billboard magazine. ... These are the records of the Pop 100 chart. ... For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music), see Popular music. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ...

External link

• Current Pop 100 - Top 50 Positions