Your weekly recap celebrating significant milestones from more than seven decades of Billboard chart history. April 22, 198930 years ago: Madonna‘s Like a Prayer ascended to the top of the ...

The album's first single, "You Give Love a Bad Name," hit No. 1 in November 1986, and "Livin' on a Prayer" reached No. 1 on Feb. 14, 1987, and stayed there for four weeks.

“Prayer” re-enters the Hot 100 more than 26 years after it spent four weeks atop the chart (Feb. 14-March 7, 1987). It returns with 94% of its Hot 100 chart points owed to streaming.

It’s been 26 years since Bon Jovi‘s mega-anthem “Livin’ on a Prayer” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, and while Tommy and Gina may have stayed at Number One in your heart in ...

This was the week that Madonna was supposed to sweep into the top spot on most of the pop charts with her Like a Prayer album and single. But a couple of newer acts managed to steal some of her ...