Issue No. 100 / 1958–2026An obsessive's guide to the Billboard Hot 100
Hot 100
Sixty-eight years of the chart, indexed by the words that show up in the titles — plus every artist, every peak, every week on the chart.
32,517 songs
3,537 weekly charts
Special: Decade Atlas
Jump
The most common words in Hot 100 song titles, grouped by decade — counted once per song. Tap any word to filter the charts.
Sources & Methodology
Weekly chart data:mhollingshead/billboard-hot-100 — an open archive containing one JSON file per week of the Billboard Hot 100, from August 4, 1958 through the present, sourced from Billboard's published charts. License: MIT.
Underlying chart:Billboard Hot 100, published weekly by Billboard magazine since 1958. Rankings are based on physical and digital sales, radio airplay, and (since 2012) streaming activity, as tabulated by Luminate / Nielsen SoundScan / Broadcast Data Systems.
This issue: built from 3,537 weekly charts. For each unique (song, artist) pair, the artifact records its earliest week on the chart (the “first chart year”), its all-time peak position, and its total weeks on chart. Year stats — songs debuting, songs reaching #1, longest run — are computed from this aggregated table. Title-word counts use whole-word matching after normalizing apostrophes; each song contributes at most once per word.
Caveats: the chart's methodology has changed several times since 1958 (sales-and-airplay only until 2005, paid downloads added 2005, streaming added 2012, on-demand streaming weighted from 2014). Older chart cycles are shorter on average, so per-year “songs debuting” counts are not strictly comparable across eras. Artist filter matches a substring of the full credit string, so featured appearances are included.