The Hot Digital Songs chart ranks the best-selling digital singles in the United States, according to Billboard.

Beginning in February 2005, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboard's music single charts. It was decided to do so mainly because the digital market was more reliable than the unpopular commercial single sales market.^[1] The chart has had sixty-three number one songs and its current number one is Pink's "So What".

Most downloads sold

• Flo Rida's song "Low" set a new record for the biggest sales week for a digital song with 467,000 downloads.^[2] Timbaland and OneRepublic's song "Apologize" holds the record for the second largest sales week with sales of 319,000 digital downloads.

• Two songs, OneRepublic's " Apologize" and Soulja Boy's "Crank That (Soulja Boy), made history with sales that reached three million digital song downloads.^[3]

• The year 2007 saw nine different digital songs with sales that exceeded two million compared to one in 2006. Forty-one digital songs exceeded the one million sales mark for this year compared to twenty-two songs in 2006 and only two songs in 2005.^{citation needed}

• T.I's song "Live Your Life" had a record-breaking digital sales debut with 355,000 copies sold in its first week of availability. Mariah Carey has the second largest opening sales week with "Touch My Body" for 286,000 digital downloads.

• Gwen Stefani's song, "Hollaback Girl", was the first song to surpass one million downloads.

• The first number one song was 50 Cent's "Candy Shop". The tenth number one song was Nickelback's "Photograph". The fiftieth number one song was Britney Spears's "Gimme More".

See also

• Hot Digital Tracks
• Digital download
• Hot Digital Songs 2008 number-ones

External links

• Billboard Hot Digital Songs official site

References