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'' magazine compiled the top-performing
dance singles in the United States on the
Hot Dance/Disco Club Play chart and the
Hot Dance/Disco 12-inch Singles Sales chart. Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played singles on
dance club based on reports from a national sample of club DJs. The 12-inch Singles Sales chart was launched in 1985 to compile the best-selling dance singles based on
retail sales across the United States. The word "
disco
Disco is a music genre, genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightclub, nightlife, particularly in African Americans, African-American, Italian-Americans, Italian-American, LGBTQ ...
" was removed from the title of the section of both charts beginning on September 19, 1987. ''Billboard'' retitled the section Hot Dance Music on October 24, 1987.
["Hot Dance Music." Billboard, vol. 99, no. 43. October 24, 1987, p 36.]
Charts history
See also
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1987 in music
*
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on ''Billboard magazine's'' Dance Club Songs chart. ''Billboard'' began ranking dance music on the week ending October 26, 1974, and this is the standard music popularity chart in ...
References
{{US Dance Chart
1987
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1987 record charts
1987 in American music