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This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
The list includes four Shakespearean plays; The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of a Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, and Love's Labour's Won. Up until 1953, only Meres's reference was known, until Hunt's two pages of handwriting were discovered in the backing of a copy of Thomas Gataker 's Certaine Sermones.
The Supremes scored 12 number-one singles during 1958–1969, spending 22 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "The Twist" by Chubby Checker topped the chart in two different chart years and ranked as the most successful song in the chart's history, until surpassed by The Weeknd 's "Blinding Lights" (2020). #. Reached number one.
The Black Crook, which ran from 1866 to 1868, was the first Broadway show to run for over one year. [127] This is a list of shows that have held the record for being the longest-running show (including straight plays and musicals) on Broadway since 1853. A few probable longest-running plays prior to 1853 are also listed.
Sunday in the Park with George. 1984. Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim. James Lapine. 1991. It was nominated for ten Tony Awards winning two and the 1985 Pulitzer. It won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. The 2006 West End revival won the Olivier for Best Revival.
This is a list of songs that have reached number 10 or higher on the Billboard Hot 100.Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
Year Writer(s) Tony Olivier Notes [1] All the Way: 2012 Robert Schenkkan: 2014: Won both Tony Awards for which it was nominated. Amadeus: 1979 Peter Shaffer: 1981: Nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning five. Angels in America: Millennium Approaches: 1991 Tony Kushner: 1993: Nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning four. Angels in America ...
Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the ...