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Weekly music chart ranking dance and electronic songs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (formerly Dance/Electronic Songs) is a record chart has been published weekly by Billboard since January 2013.[1] It is their first chart to be published that ranks the most popular dance and electronic songs according to audience impressions, digital downloads, and streaming and it was introduced following an increase in the genre's popularity in the United States. The chart originally included reported club play.[1]

The first number-one song on the chart, for the issue dated January 26, 2013, was "Scream & Shout" by will.i.am and Britney Spears.[1] The chart's current number one as of the issue dated August 16, 2025, is "No Broke Boys" by Disco Lines and Tinashe.[2]

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As a result of the increase in the popularity of dance and electronic music, Billboard introduced the Dance/Electronic Songs chart in January 2013 to rank the most popular dance and electronic songs in the U.S. according to airplay audience impressions, digital downloads, streaming and reported club play and publishes it on a weekly basis.[1] They are tracked by Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen BDS, BDS from streaming services including Spotify and Xbox Music, and from a nationwide select panel of 140 DJs; outside of club play data, it uses the same methodology as the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.[1] It became the first multi-metric dance chart since Billboard began tracking dance music in 1976, when the Dance Club Songs was created solely by club play data.[3] Songs will be eligible to chart on the Dance/Electronic Songs chart based on their "core sound and tempo", however dance remixes of songs which were originally pop, R&B, rap or a different genre are not eligible for inclusion, regardless of whether it appears on either the Dance Club Songs or Dance/Mix Show Airplay charts.[1] Descending songs are removed from the chart after 78 weeks if their ranking drops below number three.[4]

In February 2013, Billboard announced that U.S. YouTube views would be incorporated into the chart's ranking.[5] In January 2014, the chart's name was modified from "Dance/Electronic Songs" to "Hot Dance/Electronic Songs".[6]

On December 10, 2024, Billboard announced that they would be revamping the chart in order to "better recognize the varied sounds" of the electronic music genre. As of the chart dated January 18, 2025, songs eligible to debut on the chart are those primarily recorded by DJs or producers, with an emphasis on electronic-based production. Billboard concurrently launched a sister chart, the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart, which aims to feature tracks with more of a focus on vocals, melody, and hooks by artists not rooted in the dance genre. Songs co-billed to both a DJ/producer and a singer who extends beyond the dance genre may be eligible for both Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and Hot Dance/Pop Songs.[7] At the same time as the revamping of the chart, the chart was reduced from 50 to 25 positions.[8] Artists such as Charli XCX, bbno$ and Kesha, all of which had multiple songs on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs on the issue dated January 11, 2025, were completely removed off the chart the next week and debuted on the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart.[9]

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Song achievements

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Artist achievements

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Artists with most top-tens on the chart

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