Digital Songs

This article is about the Billboard music chart. For digital music, see Music download.

Billboard logo (From 2013)

The Digital Songs or Digital Song Sales chart (previously named Hot Digital Songs)[1] ranks the best-selling digital songs in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine. Although it originally started tracking song sales the week of October 30, 2004,[2] it officially debuted in the issue dated January 22, 2005, and merged all versions of a song sold from digital music distributors.[3] Its data was incorporated in the Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboard's music singles charts.[4] The decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible.[5]

The first number one song on the Digital Songs chart was "Just Lose It" by Eminem.[2] The chart's current number one as of the issue dated November 9, 2024 is "Die with a Smile" by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars.[6]

  1. ^ Trust, Gary (January 8, 2014). "Pitbull, Ke$ha Take 'Timber' to Top of Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Digital Song Sales Chart - October 30, 2004". Billboard. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  3. ^ "New Mix for Digital Rankings". Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 4. January 22, 2005. p. 6. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
  4. ^ Grein, Paul (March 20, 2013). "Week Ending March 17, 2013. Songs: The Great Chart Robbery Of 2013". Yahoo!. Yahoo!. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  5. ^ "Billboard updated album charts". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
  6. ^ Trust, Gary (November 4, 2024). "Shaboozey's 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' Ties Decade's Longest Hot 100 Rule With 16th Week at No. 1". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2024.