Hot Singles Sales

The Hot Singles Sales, also known as the Hot 100 Singles Sales and the POS chart, was a music chart released weekly by Billboard magazine listing each week's best-selling physical singles in the United States, such as CD singles, vinyl singles, and cassette singles. Along with the Hot 100 Airplay, Hot Digital Songs, and Streaming Songs charts, it was a component chart used to compile the main Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The chart was first published on October 20, 1984, with Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" reaching number one. The Hot Singles Sales was a very important component chart during the 1980s and the 1990s.