“[The song] was really a left-field hit … one of the few disks in recent years with a non-English lyric to reach the top,” Billboard wrote at the time. In the 2020s, such hits are ...

The Beatles continue to lead all artists, with 132 weeks on top between 1964 and 2001 ... in 1956 pre-dated the launch of Billboard’s flagship songs chart by more than two years, the Billboard ...