Dance Club Songs

Artist achievements

Top 10 artists of all-time (1976–2016)

Most number ones

Most consecutive number-ones

Most number-ones in a calendar year

Quickest collection of first 10 number-ones

Song achievements

Most weeks at number one

Shortest climbs to number one

Longest climbs to number one

• 19th week — "Wordy Rappinghood"/"Genius of Love" by Tom Tom Club
• 19th week — "Walking on a Dream" by Empire of the Sun
• 17th week — "Losing It" by Fisher
• 16th week — "The [Look of Love (ABC song)|The Look of Love]" by ABC
• 16th week — "Most Precious Love" by Blaze presents U.D.A.U.F.L. featuring Barbara Tucker
• 16th week — "Where Have You Been" by Rihanna
• 16th week — "Right Now" by Rihanna featuring David Guetta

Biggest jump to number one

• Thriller by Michael Jackson

  Number-one songs covered by different artists

• "The Boss" — Diana Ross, The Braxtons, Kristine W, and again Diana Ross.
• "You [Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)]" — Sylvester and Byron Stingily
• "Back to Life" — Soul II Soul and Hilary Roberts.
• "Keep on Jumpin'" — Musique and Todd Terry with Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown

  Album achievements

Most number-one songs from one album

Records and other achievements

• Madonna holds the record for the most chart hits, the most top-twenty hits, the most top-ten hits and the most total weeks at number one.
• Enrique Iglesias, Dave Audé, Pitbull, and David Guetta are tied with 14 number-ones on the chart, the most among male artists.
• Rihanna became the first artist to earn 4 number-ones on the chart in a year, a feat she repeated a record 3 additional times before becoming the first act to earn 5 number-ones in a year as well.
• Madonna scored three number-ones in a single year seven times, making her the first and most act to do so.
• Kylie Minogue became the first act to have two songs in the top three on March 5, 2011. Her song "Better than Today" was number-one while "Higher", a song by Taio Cruz on which Minogue features, was number three. On July 28, 2016, Rihanna became the second act to achieve this when her songs "Kiss It Better" and "Needed Me" were number one and three concurrently, however it made her the first act to have two songs in the top three as the lead act on both. David Guetta was the third to earn this distinction during the chart week of November 24, 2018, when " Sometimes", under his alias Jack Back, was number two, while his "Don't Leave Me Alone" collaboration with Anne-Marie was number three.
• Madonna was the first artist in the chart's history to have 2 studio albums with 5 number-one songs each topping the chart, respectively; from her eighth studio album Music and her ninth studio album American Life; Katy Perry has since surpassed this record, achieving 7 number-ones from her third studio album [Teenage Dream (Katy Perry album)|Teenage Dream], and 5 number-ones from her fourth, Prism.
• The first 12-inch single made commercially available to the public was "Ten Percent" by Double Exposure in 1976.
• The first number one on Billboards Disco Action chart was "Never Can Say Goodbye" by Gloria Gaynor in 1974.
• The first number one on Billboards National Disco Action Top 30 was "You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees in 1976.
• Madonna is the first act ever to score as many as 50 No. 1s on any single Billboard chart, extending her record over George Strait, who has earned 44 leaders on Hot Country Songs.
• From the dance chart's inception until the week of February 16, 1991, several songs on an EP, album or 12-inch single could occupy the same position if more than one track from a release was receiving significant play in clubs. Chart entries like this were especially prevalent during the disco era, where an entire side of an album would contain several songs segued together seamlessly to replicate a night of dancing in a club. Beginning with the February 23, 1991 issue, the dance chart became "song specific", meaning only one song could occupy each position at a time.
• Because of the former policy allowing multiple songs to occupy one position at the same time, there have been three instances when not only multiple songs were at number one, but the songs were performed by different artists. In all scenarios this was due to the tracks being included in film soundtrack albums. In 1978, four tracks from Thank God It's Friday ; in 1980, three tracks from Fame ; and in 1985, two songs from Beverly Hills Cop hit number one together.
• Madonna is recognized as the first act to have scored at least one No. 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart in five separate decades since the chart's inception in 1976, having tallied 9 in the 1980s, 13 in the '90s, 18 in the 2000s, 9 in the '10s and, now, one in the '20s. However, Martha Wash achieved this in 2015, having 1 in the 1970s; "Dance (Disco Heat)" with Sylvester, 1 in the 1980s; "It's Raining Men" with The Weather Girls, 7 in the 1990s, 1 in the 2000s, and 1 in the '10s.
• The Trammps are the only act to replace themselves at number one.
• The longest running number-ones on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart are "Bad Luck" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in 1975 and the album Thriller by Michael Jackson. Both entries spent eleven weeks in the top spot.
• "One Word" by Kelly Osbourne made chart history on June 18, 2005, when it became the first song to simultaneously top the Hot Dance Club Songs, Hot Dance Singles Sales and Hot Dance Airplay charts.
• LeAnn Rimes became the first country music artist to have topped both the Billboard country chart and the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. Rimes, who had several remixes of her country hits reach the dance chart, achieved that distinction during the week of February 28, 2009, when the electronic dance music remixes of her 2008 single "What I Cannot Change" reached number one. Rimes has gone on to place two additional songs atop the dance charts, "Long Live Long" and "Love is Love is Love," both from her 2016 album, "Remnants."
• Olivia Newton-John and Chloe Lattanzi's collaboration with Dave Audé, "You Have to Believe", which reached number one in its November 21, 2015 issue, made history for Newton-John and Lattanzi, as they became the first mother-daughter duo to reach number one on this chart as well as picking up their first number ones at Dance Club Songs as well, although Newton-John had charted four times prior to this.
• Sting has the distinction of being the only artist to reach number one twice on this chart with a song he recorded and re-recorded, as his original version of "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)" featuring Twista reached that position in 2004, and again in 2016 as a featured duet with Mylène Farmer for "Stolen Car". In both cases, they were also remixed by Dave Audé, which is another first on this chart that a remixer reached number one with a song he remixed twice.