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 . The Hot 100 Singles Sales Chart is one of three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Airplay Chart & Hot Digital Songs that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard Hot 100. ... The Hot Digital Songs chart ranks the bestselling digital singles in the United States of America according to Billboard. ... The Pop 100 Chart is a newly created chart featured on Billboard in America. ...
It is often mistaken and confused with the Top 40 Mainstream charts. Whereas the Top 40 Mainstream charts and Pop 100 Airplay both measure the airplay of songs played on Mainstream stations playing pop-oriented music, the Pop 100 Airplay (like the Hot 100 Airplay) measures airplay based on stastical impressions, while the Top 40 Mainstream uses The Number Of Total Detections. The Pop 100 Airplay replaced the now defunct Top 40 Tracks. Top 40 Mainstream (often also called Mainstream Top 40) is an airplay format from Billboard Magazine. ... The Hot 100 Airplay Chart is one of the three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Single Sales Chart & Hot Digital Songs, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard Hot 100. ...
The Pop100 is a songs chart created in February 2005 and released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.
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.
To illustrate another extreme, at the time the Pop100 was first published, only one country act in the previous 20 years had reached #1 on the Hot 100 (Lonestar in 2000 with "Amazed").