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Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestonesThis list highlights significant milestones and achievementsbased upon
Billboard 
magazine
 
's singles charts, most notably theBillboard Hot 100.
 This list spans from the issue dated January 1, 1955 to the present. The
Billboard 
Hot 100 began with the issue dated August 9, 1958, and iscurrently the standard music popularity chart in the United States.Prior to its creation,
Billboard 
published four singles charts: "Best Sellers inStores", "Most Played by Jockeys", "Most Played in Jukeboxes" and "The Top 100" (an early version of the Hot 100). These charts, which ranged from 20 to 100 slots, were phased out atdifferent times during 1957 and 1958. Though technically not part of the"Hot 100" chart history, their data is included by
Billboard 
forcomputational purposes, and to avoid unenlightening discrepancies (i.e."Buddy Holly's debut single in the Top 40 was released posthumously" or"Elvis Presley has seven Hot 100 number-ones"). There are chart discrepancies. In a prominent example of the magazine'sretroactive methodology, Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel"/"Hound Dog"single is credited with an 11-week run atop the
Billboard 
chart in 1956,because the double-sided release topped the "Best Sellers in Stores" and"Most Played in Jukeboxes" lists for that length of time (though the specificweeks differed).Presley's run lasted just eight weeks atop the "Most Played by Jockeys"chart, and seven weeks in "The Top 100"'s number one slot, but artists arecredited with their most favorable placements on any of the four charts. This is why
Billboard 
and its official statistician Joel Whitburnlists 17number one singles, for a total of 71 weeks, in 1956.However,
Billboard 
and Whitburn are not in complete statisticalagreement. Originally, each side of the aforementioned Presley single hada separate turn topping the sales chart, with the titles "flipping" during its11-week run. The Best Sellers in Stores chart specified that in the case of such double-sided releases, the "leading side" would be listed first. But
Billboard 
has since decertified all two-sided hit singles retroactively forcomputational purposes, by voiding the matching status of whicheversongs were deemed to have been the lesser sides. Because "Hound Dog"was the lead side during the single's number-one chart run for a shorterperiod than "Don't Be Cruel," it is thus no longer counted as a separatenumber-one hit by
Billboard 
magazine. Whitburn continues to rely onpreexisting research.All items listed below are from the Hot 100 era, unless otherwise noted
 
Boyz II Men — "End of the Road" (1992)BrandyandMonica— " The Boy Is Mine" (1998)
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12 weeks
 SantanafeaturingRob Thomas— "Smooth" (1999) Eminem— "Lose Yourself " (2002) UsherfeaturingLil JonandLudacris— " Yeah!" (2004)
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11 weeks
 Elvis Presley— "Hound Dog" / "Don't Be Cruel" (1956)
("Best Sellers inStores" and "Most Played in Jukeboxes" charts)
 All-4-One— "I Swear" (1994)  Toni Braxton— "Un-Break My Heart" (1996) Puff DaddyandFaith Evansfeaturing112— "I'll Be Missing You" (1997) Destiny's Child— "Independent Women Part I" (2000-2001)
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10 weeks
 McGuire Sisters— "Sincerely" (1955)
("Most Played by Jockeys" chart)
 Pérez Prado— "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (1955)
("Best Sellers in Stores" chart)
 Debby Boone— " You Light Up My Life" (1977) Olivia Newton-John— "Physical" (1981) Santana featuring The Product G&B— "Maria Maria" (2000) Ashanti— "Foolish" (2002) NellyfeaturingKelly Rowland— "Dilemma" (2002) Kanye Westfeaturing Jamie Foxx— "Gold Digger" (2005) Beyoncé— "Irreplaceable" (2006) Flo Ridafeaturing T-Pain— "Low" (2008)
Most weeks at number two
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11 weeks
 Whitney Houston — "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" (1995)
(after spending oneweek at number one)
 
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10 weeks
 Foreigner— "Waiting for a Girl Like You" (1981) Missy Elliott— "Work It" (2002)
Number-one debuts
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Michael Jackson— " You Are Not Alone" (September 2, 1995)
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Mariah Carey — "Fantasy" (September 30, 1995)
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Whitney Houston — "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" (November 25, 1995)
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Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men — "One Sweet Day" (December 2,1995)
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Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112 — "I'll Be Missing You"(June 14, 1997)
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Mariah Carey — "Honey" (September 13, 1997)
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Elton John — "Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" (October 11, 1997)
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Céline Dion— "My Heart Will Go On" (February 28, 1998)
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