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* 1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
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1958 and Billboard
" Jennie Lee " peaked at No. 3 on the Cash Box charts on June 21, 1958, No. 4 on the R & B charts, and No. 8 on the Billboard charts on June 30, 1958.
It entered the Billboard charts on August 24, 1958, and peaked at No. 81 a week later.
The duo scored an impressive sixteen Top 40 hits on the Billboard and Cash Box magazine charts, with a total of twenty-six chart hits over an eight-year period ( 1958 – 1966 ).
The Elegants released a single adapted from this song called " Little Star ", which made # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958.
* " Skinny Minnie "-# 22, Billboard ; # 25, Cashbox, 05 / 1958
* " Lean Jean "-# 67, Billboard ; # 52 Cashbox, 08 / 1958
* " Week End "-( recorded under the name The Kingsmen ) # 35, Billboard Hot 100, November / 1958
Tommy Edwards ' recording of " It's All in the Game " was a number one hit on the American Billboard record chart for six weeks in the fall of 1958.
Domenico Modugno is placed third for Italy with " Nel blu, dipinto di blu ", retitled " Volare ", which will reach No. 1 in the US Billboard Hot 100, and will win two Grammy Awards next year for Record of the Year and Song of the Year for 1958.
Released the first week of May, 1958, it was on the national charts two weeks later, charting the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 22.
The Weavers ' sound and repertoire of traditional folk material and topical songs directly inspired The Kingston Trio, a three-piece folk group who came to prominence in 1958 with their hit recording of " Tom Dooley ", which peaked at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Reardon earlier had scored a 1958 Billboard hit with ' Nothin Shakin ' for Argo Records, a subsidiary of Chess, under the name Eddie Fontaine.
Additionally, in 2008, it was listed at # 72 on the Billboard Hot 100's list of the top 100 songs from the chart's first 50 years, August 1958 through July 2008.
* Lillie Howard, née Bryant ( 1940-), one half of the rock duo Billy & Lillie who recorded the top ten hit " La-De-Dah " in 1958 and several other records which made the Billboard charts.
His biggest hits, " C. C. Rider " ( 1957 ) and " What Am I Living For " ( 1958 ), both reached No. 1 on the Billboard R & B chart.
Avalon had 31 charted U. S. Billboard singles from 1958 to late 1962, including " Just Ask Your Heart " ( U. S. # 7 ), " I'll Wait For You " ( U. S. # 15 ), " Bobby Sox to Stockings " ( U. S. # 8 ), and " A Boy Without a Girl " ( U. S. # 10 ).
It spent four weeks at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from December 22, 1958 to January 12, 1959.
In 1958 one of Perez's own compositions, " Patricia ", became the last record to ascend to # 1 on the Jockeys and Top 100 charts, both of which gave way the following week to the then newly-introduced Billboard Hot 100 chart.
He also found time to release his own instrumental albums on the label, most notably Hey ... Let Yourself Go ( 1957 ) and C ' mon ... Get Happy ( 1958 ), both of which peaked at a respectable number twenty on the Billboard charts.
On August 4, 1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart: the Hot 100.
The Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13, 1958.
His 1958 single " It's Only Make Believe " reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, giving him an overall total of 41 Billboard No. 1 hits.
After Little Anthony and the Imperials passed on the song, Sedaka recorded it himself, and his debut single hit the Top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 14 in 1958.
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