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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.[1]
The Hot Singles Sales was a very important component chart during the 1980s and the 1990s. In the late 1990s, airplay-only singles were allowed to enter the Billboard Hot 100 and by the mid-2000s, digital downloads had overtaken physical singles as the main sales metric. At this time if a physical single had an equivalent digital download release with the same track listing as the physical single and all of the b-sides were downloaded then it was counted as a sale towards the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart.
The Hot Singles Sales was last featured on the regular issue of the magazine on July 5, 2008, when Cast of Camp Rock's "We Rock" topped the chart.[2] Nevertheless, the chart was still published through Billboard.biz until November 25, 2017, with Emcee N.I.C.E.'s "I Got Angels" as the final number-one single.[3]