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 Billboard Top 100 year end chart isn’t perfect but it is still considered the authority on the most successful songs of very year of the music industry. This is a list of songs that have reached number 10 or higher on the Billboard Hot 100. Unfortunately that song would of charted much higher had it peaked just a few weeks prior. What happens then is the first four weeks would be considered for that particular year and the consecutive two weeks would fall to the following year. Due to the early state of the music industry and Billboard magazine itself. Please keep in mind that some years, specially in the early years may only contain 30-80 songs. The accuracy to the chart very stable with the exception of a song that may hit the number one spot in november and stays there for a period of six weeks. Billboard Global 200 ranks the top songs based on streaming and/or sales activity from more than 200 territories around the world- including the U.S. Here you will find a comprehensive list of the Billboard Top 100 Songs songs for every year since 1940 according to Billboard Magazine. Nowadays the Billboard Top 100 year to end chart is a combination of the point system and its yearly sales performance. In 1991 Nielsen SoundScan came along and changed the Billboard Top 100 forever. This was a pretty basic system that only took in to consideration the radio airplay of a particular song. The point system for the old Billboard Top 100 worked as follows: position 100 garnered 1 point, position 99 garnered 2 point and so on with position 1 garnering 100 points. A song gained a points for every week it spend on the chart based on the position it was in that particular week. In the past, the year end chart for singles was tabulated by a simple point system. This allows the magazine to figure its year-end charts and allows them the time to include the chart in its final print issue on the last week of December. Billboard magazine‘s Yearly chart starts the first week of December to the last week in November of every year.