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Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Club Play chart (formerly known as Hot Dance Music/Club Play and Hot Dance/Disco) is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply and meet certain criteria to become "Billboard-reporting DJs."
History The Hot Dance Club Play chart has undergone several incarnations since its inception in 1974. Originally a top-ten 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. The chart went on to feature playlists from various cities around the country from week to week. Billboard continued to run regional or city-specific charts throughout 1975 and 1976, while rival music publication Record World was the first publication to feature a chart that encompassed club play on a national level. Billboard has since adopted Record World's chart statistics from the weeks between March 29, 1975 and August 21, 1976 into their Hot Dance Club Play chart history, as Billboard did not publish a national chart during this time. (source: Joel Whitburn's "Billboard Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003", ISBN 0-89820-156-X) Beginning on August 28, 1976, a thirty-position National Disco Action Top 30 premiered, which quickly expanded to forty positions. In 1979 the chart expanded to sixty positions, then eighty, and finally reached 100 positions from 1979 until 1981, when it was reduced to eighty again. During the first half of the 1980s the chart maintained eighty slots until March 16, 1985 when the Disco charts were splintered and renamed. Two charts appeared: Hot Dance/Disco, which ranked Club Play (fifty positions) and Hot Maxi-Single Sales, which ranked 12-inch single (or maxi-single) sales (also fifty positions). These two charts still exist today, under the official titles Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance Single Sales. In 2003 Billboard introduced the Hot Dance Airplay chart, which is based solely on radio airplay of seven dance music stations electronically monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. These stations are also a part of the electronically monitored panel that encompasses the Hot 100. It is generally assumed that when one refers to a song or an artist "going to number one on the Dance chart," he or she is referring to the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Chart statistics and other facts 1. Madonna — 36 2. Janet Jackson — 16 3. Mariah Carey — 12 (tie) 3. Whitney Houston — 12 (tie) 3. Donna Summer — 12 (tie) 6. Deborah Cox — 9 (tie) 6. Kristine W — 9 (tie) 8. C+C Music Factory/Clivilles & Cole — 8 (tie) 8. Pet Shop Boys — 8 (tie) See also | ||||||||
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