Hot Dance Music section expansion[edit]

On July 28, 2001, Billboard launches the 15 position Top Electronic Albums chart and reduces the Maxi-Singles Sales chart size from 50 to 25 positions, 30 positions online.[27] Top Electronic Albums chart is expanded to 25 positions on December 2, 2001.[28]


Billboard renamed the Maxi-Singles Sales survey to Dance Singles Sales[29] on March 1, 2003,[30] although the survey would continue to chart popular maxi-singles[31] by artists from other genres of music besides dance even more frequently such as hip hop & rap artists like Public Enemy[32] and 2Pac[33][34] and alternative rock & industrial metal bands such as The Smiths[35] and Ministry.[36][37] 2006's "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" by Nine Inch Nails[38] topped the sales chart more than any other single with 36 inconsecutive weeks, yet never appeared on the Hot Dance Club Play survey.[39][40]


Billboard launches the 40 position Hot Dance Radio Airplay chart online August 16, 2003, ranking the songs on stations playing mainly dance music.[41] Dance Singles Sales is retitled Hot Dance Single Sales when the top 25 Hot Dance Radio Airplay begins to appear in print on October 25 of that year.[42] The single "Me Against The Music" by Britney Spears and Madonna won the award for "Hot Dance Singles Sales Single of the Year"[43] at the Billboard Music Awards in 2004.[44][45]

Singles Sales decline and Dance section reorganization[edit]

Beginning April 30, 2005, the Billboard Dance section started alternately printing Hot Dance Single Sales and Top Electronic Albums every other week in the magazine[46] until Hot Dance Single Sales[47] became only available at billboard.biz after the February 24, 2007 issue.[48] Billboard reduces the position size of the Hot Dance Singles chart from 25 to 15 positions on March 30, 2007.[49] Stevie Nicks' 2007 remix single of "Stand Back" debuted at #3 on the chart on September 15, 2007,[50] peaking at #2 the following week where it stayed for two weeks.[51]


Top Electronic Albums is renamed Top Dance/Electronic Albums by Billboard on June 20, 2009.[52] The size of the Dance Singles Sales chart is reduced further down to 10 positions on October 3, 2009.[53] Billboard's Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales, a 50 position chart ranking of the most popular downloaded songs ranked by sales data as compiled by Luminate, debuts online January 23, 2010.[54] Hot Dance Airplay is retitled Dance/Mix Show Airplay[55][56] on November 19, 2011, and reconfigured to rank total weekly plays as monitored by Nielsen BDS from full-time dance-formatted stations, as well as plays on Mainstream Top 40 and select Rhythmic and Adult Top 40 stations that have submitted their hours of mix show programming.[57][58]


The Hot Dance/Electronic Songs[59] chart is launched in Billboard magazine's newly restructured Dance/Electronic music section on January 26, 2013.[60] Similar to the Hot 100, Dance/Electronic Songs is Billboard's first-ever ranking of the nation's top dance songs combining sales (tracked by Nielsen SoundScan), radio airplay, streaming data and club play.[61] Billboard's Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs chart debuted online April 20, 2013, ranking the week's most popular streamed dance songs (audio + video) on leading U.S. digital music services.[62]


After years of falling record sales,[63] Billboard discontinued their weekly Dance Singles Sales survey later that year.[64] The last chart of the nearly 29 year old national survey was published online November 30, 2013.[65] On June 1, 2019, Billboard introduced their weeekly Dance/Electronic Producers[66] and Songwriters[67] surveys. After almost 45 years of continuous weekly national charts, Billboard's Dance Club Songs survey has been suspended since March 28, 2020,[68] due to widespread social distancing being practiced in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.[69][70]

Dance Club Play Songs

Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists