POP CULTURE: BILLBOARD HOT 100 TURNS 50

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Fifty years ago, in the Aug. 4, 1958, issue, Billboard launched a revolutionary chart called the Hot 100. After nearly two decades of tracking songs distinctively by sales or plays (on jukeboxes and at radio), the Hot 100 was the first list to measure popularity by incorporating both radio play and sales. Scoring the chart's inaugural No. 1 was Ricky Nelson with "Poor Little Fool." Billboard.com is celebrating this milestone in a big way. We have posted all kinds of Hot 100-based charts leading up to the newly-unveiled special All-Time Hot 100 chart and the commemorative Hot 100 Anniversary issue of Billboard Magazine.

The Charts

The All-Time Hot 100 Top Songs

All-Time Top Artists

All-Time Top Latin Songs

All-Time Top Country Songs

All-Time Top R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

All-Time Top Rock Songs

Hot 100 Songs of the Year: 1958-2007

Every No. 1 Song: 1958-2008

Song With the Most Weeks at No. 1

One-Hit Wonders

Most Weeks at No. 1 By Artist

Most Hot 100 Hits By Artist

Most No. 2 Hits Without Reaching No. 1 By Artist

Most Weeks at No. 2 Without Reaching No. 1 By Title

Different Songs, Same Titles To Hit No. 1

Same Songs To Hit No. 1 By Two Different Artists

Most No. 1s By Artist (All-Time)

MUSIC NEWS: RICK ROSS SITS ATOP THE CHARTS

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Rick Ross hits No. 1 with 'Deeper Than Rap'

By Erik Pedersen

Rick Ross is batting 1.000.

The Miami rapper makes it three-for-three No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, including two in 13 months, as "Deeper Than Rap" moved 150,000 units during its first week. That's 40,000 fewer than "Trilla" sold during its freshman week in March 2008 but easily enough to push the soundtrack to "Hannah Montana: The Movie" from the summit.

Depeche Mode scores its sixth top 10 album and best debut since 1993 with "Sounds of the Universe." But the 80,000-unit tally marks the English electronic band's smallest debut sales week for a studio set since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. The group's previous four studio offerings -- dating to its lone No. 1, 1993's "Songs of Faith and Devotion" -- had opening weeks north of 92,000.

Pennsylvania rapper Asher Roth -- whose paean to partying, "I Love College," flirted with the pop top 10 last month -- arrives at No. 5 with his debut disc, "Asleep in the Bread Aisle."

Elsewhere, the double-platinum soundtrack to "Twilight" remains for a sixth consecutive week in the top 10, where it has resided since the film's DVD release.

Billboard analyst Keith Caulfield contributed to this report.

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