This article is about the Billboard music chart. For digital music, see
Music download.
The Digital Songs or Digital Song Sales chart (previously named Hot Digital Songs)[1] ranks the best-selling
digital songs in the United States, as compiled by
Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine. Although it originally started tracking song sales the week of October 30, 2004,[2] it officially debuted in the issue dated January 22, 2005, and merged all versions of a song sold from digital music distributors.[3] Its data was incorporated in the
Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboard's music singles charts.[4] The decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible.[5]
The first number one song on the Digital Songs chart was "
Just Lose It" by
Eminem.[2]
"
I Gotta Feeling" by
The Black Eyed Peas holds the record for the biggest-selling digital download in the U.S., with sales of over 8 million copies by 2012. The song was the first to surpass 6–8 million downloads.[18]
"
Low" by
Flo Rida featuring
T-Pain was the first song to surpass 4–5 million downloads. It was also named the Top Digital Song of the 2000s decade.[19]
"
Payphone" by
Maroon 5 featuring
Wiz Khalifa holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a group for a digital song with 493,000 downloads.[25]
"
Blurred Lines" by
Robin Thicke featuring
T.I. and
Pharrell is the first song to log 10 weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales and the first song to log four weeks of 400,000 or more in digital sales.
"
Hello" by
Adele holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a digital song with 1.112 million downloads and the largest non-debut sales week for a digital song with 635,000 downloads. It is additionally the only song in history to debut with or achieve 1 million downloads sold in a week, and to log two weeks of 600,000 in digital sales. It surpassed the 4 million mark in its thirteenth week, faster than any other song in digital history.
"
Lean on Me" by
Bill Withers is the oldest song to reach number one on the Digital Songs chart. The song was released on April 21, 1972, and reached the top, following Withers' death, on the chart dated April 18, 2020.[28]
BTS was the first act to debut six songs in the top 10 and to occupy the top six spots for the same week. They achieved this in 2020 with "
Life Goes On", "
Blue & Grey", "Stay", "Telepathy", "Dis-ease" and "Fly To My Room", all tracks from their fifth Korean-language studio album, Be (2020).[49][50]
Taylor Swift is the only artist to have debuted ten songs in the top-10 region simultaneously and the only act to hold the entire top-10 spots of a week, achieving it with tracks from her tenth studio album, Midnights (2022).[51]
^Mitchell, Gail (December 17, 2005). "Green Day, 50 Cent Come Up Big In Vegas". Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 51. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 21.
ISSN0006-2510.
This article is about the Billboard music chart. For digital music, see
Music download.
The Digital Songs or Digital Song Sales chart (previously named Hot Digital Songs)[1] ranks the best-selling
digital songs in the United States, as compiled by
Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine. Although it originally started tracking song sales the week of October 30, 2004,[2] it officially debuted in the issue dated January 22, 2005, and merged all versions of a song sold from digital music distributors.[3] Its data was incorporated in the
Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboard's music singles charts.[4] The decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible.[5]
The first number one song on the Digital Songs chart was "
Just Lose It" by
Eminem.[2]
"
I Gotta Feeling" by
The Black Eyed Peas holds the record for the biggest-selling digital download in the U.S., with sales of over 8 million copies by 2012. The song was the first to surpass 6–8 million downloads.[18]
"
Low" by
Flo Rida featuring
T-Pain was the first song to surpass 4–5 million downloads. It was also named the Top Digital Song of the 2000s decade.[19]
"
Payphone" by
Maroon 5 featuring
Wiz Khalifa holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a group for a digital song with 493,000 downloads.[25]
"
Blurred Lines" by
Robin Thicke featuring
T.I. and
Pharrell is the first song to log 10 weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales and the first song to log four weeks of 400,000 or more in digital sales.
"
Hello" by
Adele holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a digital song with 1.112 million downloads and the largest non-debut sales week for a digital song with 635,000 downloads. It is additionally the only song in history to debut with or achieve 1 million downloads sold in a week, and to log two weeks of 600,000 in digital sales. It surpassed the 4 million mark in its thirteenth week, faster than any other song in digital history.
"
Lean on Me" by
Bill Withers is the oldest song to reach number one on the Digital Songs chart. The song was released on April 21, 1972, and reached the top, following Withers' death, on the chart dated April 18, 2020.[28]
BTS was the first act to debut six songs in the top 10 and to occupy the top six spots for the same week. They achieved this in 2020 with "
Life Goes On", "
Blue & Grey", "Stay", "Telepathy", "Dis-ease" and "Fly To My Room", all tracks from their fifth Korean-language studio album, Be (2020).[49][50]
Taylor Swift is the only artist to have debuted ten songs in the top-10 region simultaneously and the only act to hold the entire top-10 spots of a week, achieving it with tracks from her tenth studio album, Midnights (2022).[51]
^Mitchell, Gail (December 17, 2005). "Green Day, 50 Cent Come Up Big In Vegas". Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 51. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 21.
ISSN0006-2510.