20 Years of Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay Chart – Billboard
“The chart will significantly elevate the profile of dance music at radio.”
With the survey dated Aug. 16, 2003, Billboard began the Dance/Mix Show Airplay ranking, with then-dance radio chart manager Ricardo Companioni touting its value to the genre. Billboard also described dance as “an emerging radio format in major U.S. markets” at the time.
Twenty years later, the chart continues to reflect the biggest dance hits on radio each week.
When the list premiered (in Billboard’s pages for the first time in the Oct. 25, 2003, issue), it tracked airplay on eight stations: WKTU New York, KDLD Los Angeles, KPTI San Francisco, KKDL Dallas, WQSX Boston, WPYM Miami, KNRJ Phoenix and KCJZ San Antonio, Texas. (Today, only WKTU remains a reporter.)
In November 2011, the chart was made over from its original Hot Dance Radio Airplay name to Dance/Mix Show Airplay, with its panel of core 24/7 dance stations augmented with mix show hours on pop stations, which now comprise around 80 reporters. Three years later, the chart expanded from 25 spots to its current 40-position depth. (Stations’ airplay is tracked by Mediabase and provided to Billboard by Luminate.)
Over its 20-year archives, the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart has built up a history of achievements by some of the most key names in the genre.
Below is a look at 20 impressive feats achieved on Dance/Mix Show Airplay, from the acts with the most No. 1s to the longest-leading hit and more, from the inaugural chart, dated Aug. 16, 2003, through the latest, Aug. 19, 2023-dated tally.
(Notably, Aug. 16 doubles as the birthday of one of the chart’s most successful performers: Madonna.)
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First No. 1
Image Credit: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images “Crazy in Love,” by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z, Aug. 16, 2003
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100th No. 1
Image Credit: Jenn Cady “Hang On,” by Plumb, Jan. 2, 2010
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200th No. 1
Image Credit: David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images “Paris,” by The Chainsmokers, Feb. 25, 2017
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Latest No. 1
Image Credit: Kevin Winter/GI “If Only I,” by Loud Luxury, Two Friends & Bebe Rexha, Aug. 19, 2023 (of 298 total No. 1s)
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Most No. 1s
Image Credit: Allen Berezovsky/WireImage 13 each, David Guetta and Calvin Harris
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Most No. 1s Among Women
Image Credit: James Devaney/GC Images
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Most No. 1s – 2003-09
Image Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
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Most No. 1s – 2010-19
Image Credit: Frazer Harrison/GI for Coachella
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Most No. 1s – 2020-23
Image Credit: Gareth Cattermole/GI
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Most Weeks at No. 1 Among Artists
Image Credit: Joseph Okpako/WireImage
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Longest-Leading No. 1
Image Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images 20 weeks, “Closer,” by The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey, beginning Sept. 10, 2016
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Longest-Leading No. 1 – 2003-09
Image Credit: Tabatha Fireman/Redferns 15 weeks, “Poker Face,” by Lady Gaga, beginning Feb. 7, 2009
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Longest-Leading No. 1s – 2020-23
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo 14 weeks each, “I’m Good (Blue),” by David Guetta & Bebe Rexha, beginning Oct. 29, 2022, and “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix),” by Elton John & Dua Lipa, beginning Oct. 30, 2021
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Most Top 10 Hits
Image Credit: Dan Reid*
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Most Chart Hits
Image Credit: Courtesy of Billboard Radio China
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Most Consecutive No. 1s
Image Credit: Frank Micelotta/GI 7, Madonna, from “Hung Up,” Nov. 12, 2005, to “Miles Away,” Jan. 3, 2009 (No. 1s in between: “Sorry”; “Get Together”; “Jump”; “4 Minutes,” featuring Justin Timberlake & Timbaland; and “Give It 2 Me”)
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Longest Span of No. 1s
Image Credit: Andy Butterton – PA Images via Getty Images Kylie Minogue, from “Red Blooded Woman,” May 15, 2004, to “Padam Padam,” Aug. 12, 2023
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Longest Span of Charted Hits
Image Credit: Don Arnold/Getty Images Kylie Minogue, Sept. 20, 2003, to Aug. 19, 2023
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Artists With No. 1s in the 2000s, ‘10s & ‘20s
Image Credit: Jamie McCarthy/GI deadmau5, David Guetta, Kaskade, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Tiësto
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Only No. 1 With ‘Dance’ in Its Title …
Image Credit: STEPHANE DANNA/AFP via Getty Images “Evacuate the Dancefloor,” by Cascada, Sept. 26-Oct. 3, 2009
