The Digital Songs or Digital Song Sales chart (previously named Hot Digital Songs) [1] ranks the best-selling digital songs in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine. Although it originally started tracking song sales the week of October 30, 2004, [2] it officially debuted in the issue dated January 22, 2005, and merged all versions of a song sold from digital music distributors. [3] Its data was incorporated in the Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboard's music singles charts. [4] The decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible. [5]
The first number one song on the Digital Songs chart was "Just Lose It" by Eminem. [2] The chart's current number one as of the issue dated December 14, 2024, is "Winter Ahead" by V with Park Hyo-shin. [6]
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