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Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2023
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2023: the year-end US singles chart topped by Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" (16 weeks at weekly No. 1), with Miley Cyrus's "Flowers" at No. 2, covering tracking window, top 10, artists, and genre trends.
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2024
The Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2024 lists the 100 best-performing US songs of Billboard's 2024 tracking year, topped by Teddy Swims' "Lose Control".
Billboard Year-End Hot Rap Songs of 2016
Billboard Year-End Hot Rap Songs of 2016: annual ranking of the year's top US rap songs from the weekly Hot Rap Songs chart. 2016 No. 1s included "Don't Mind," "Panda," and "Black Beatles"; Drake set a record 17 chart-toppers.
Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars
Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars is Billboard magazine's annual editorial staff ranking of the year's most impactful music artists, begun with yearly picks back to 1981, expanded to a top 10 in 2021, plus a 2024 list of the 25 greatest pop stars of the 21st century topped by Beyoncé.
Bille C. Carlson
Bille C. Carlson (Bille Chandler Carlson, 1924–2013) was an American mathematician and physicist at Iowa State University whose symmetric elliptic integrals RF, RC, RD, and RJ are widely implemented in mathematical software.
Billericay Town F.C.
Billericay Town F.C. is an English football club in Billericay, Essex, founded in 1880, best known for winning the FA Vase three times in the late 1970s.
Billerud
Billerud is a Swedish pulp and paper company making paper and packaging from virgin wood fiber at nine production facilities in Sweden, Finland, and the United States.
BillGO
BillGO, formerly BillHero, Inc., is a financial technology company founded in 2015 in Fort Collins, Colorado, that converts paper checks to small businesses into same-day digital payments.
Billhook
Billhook: curved-bladed European hand tool with inner cutting edge for hedgelaying, coppicing, pruning, and cutting small woody material; distinct from the machete, with regional British patterns and Roman-era ancestry.
Billiard ball
Billiard ball: precision sphere for cue sports (pool, snooker, carom, Russian pyramid). Once ivory from Asian elephants, now cast phenolic resin (Aramith); pool 57.15 mm/156-170 g, snooker 52.5 mm.
Billiard table
Billiard table: cloth-covered slate table for cue sports (pool, snooker, carom). First recorded 1470 for Louis XI; 2:1 playing surface; WPA specs: 29.25-31 in bed height, 1-in slate, 4.5-in corner pockets.
Billiards Arena
Billiards Arena (Bilardo Stadiumi) is the English name of Bar Kafe Bilardo Stadiumi, a bar-café and pool venue tagged as a casino in Elbasan, Albania, at Lagja Kongresi Elbasanit Nr. 29, open 08:00-23:00 daily.
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (German: Billard um halb zehn) is a 1959 novel by the West German writer Heinrich Böll, following three generations of the Fähmel family.
Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas (William Thomas Jr., 1931-1980), American child actor who played Buckwheat in Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts 1934-1944, later a Technicolor film lab technician; distinct from other Buckwheat players and from the later musician William Thomas Jr.
Billie Bird
Billie Bird (Billie Bird Sellen, 1908–2002), American vaudeville comedienne and character actress; Sixteen Candles, Home Alone, Dear John; distinct from the Swiss musician Billie Bird.
Billie Blue
Billie Blue (Cœur de slush) is a 2023 Canadian French-language romantic comedy-drama directed by Mariloup Wolfe, adapted from Sarah-Maude Beauchesne's 2014 novel series, about 16-year-old Billie's water-park summer love triangle; distinct from the 1972 film The Ballad of Billie Blue.
Billie Burke
Billie Burke (Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke, born 1884 or 1885, died 1970), American stage and film actress, Broadway leading lady, wife of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Oscar-nominated for Merrily We Live, best remembered as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish (Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell), born 2001 in Los Angeles, is an American singer-songwriter whose debut album produced "Bad Guy" and swept the 2020 Grammys.
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) is a 2026 3D concert film co-directed by Eilish and James Cameron, shot at Manchester's Co-op Live, released May 8, 2026 by Paramount, and streaming on Paramount+ from August 6, 2026.
Billie Eilish discography
Billie Eilish discography: three studio albums (When We All Fall Asleep 2019, Happier Than Ever 2021, Hit Me Hard and Soft 2024), EPs dont smile at me and Guitar Songs, singles from Ocean Eyes onward, plus Oscar-winning soundtrack songs No Time to Die and What Was I Made For?.
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, Apple TV+ documentary film directed by R.J. Cutler, released February 26, 2021; 2h20m vérité coming-of-age portrait of Eilish at 17 recording her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? with Finneas, up to her 2020 Grammys sweep.
Billie Hayes
Billie Hayes (1924-2021), American actress born in DuQuoin, Illinois; Broadway's New Faces of 1956 and Li'l Abner's Mammy Yokum; famous as Witchiepoo on H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, and prolific voice actor.
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan, 1915–1959), American jazz singer nicknamed Lady Day, known for behind-the-beat phrasing, the anti-lynching song Strange Fruit, and recordings with Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Count Basie, and Artie Shaw.
Billie Jean
Billie Jean: 1982 Michael Jackson song from Thriller, written 1981, produced by Quincy Jones; seven weeks at Billboard number one from March 1983, diamond-certified in the US, moonwalk debut at Motown 25, first Black-artist MTV heavy-rotation video.
Billie Jean Horton
Billie Jean Horton (born Billie Jean Jones Eshlimar, June 6, 1933) is a country singer and businesswoman, widow of Hank Williams (married October 1952) and of Johnny Horton (1953 to 1960), known for her long legal fights over the Williams estate.
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King (born 1943), American tennis champion and equality activist; 39 Grand Slam titles, record 20 at Wimbledon, founder of the WTA, winner of the 1973 Battle of the Sexes against Bobby Riggs.
Billie Jean King Cup
Billie Jean King Cup, formerly Federation Cup (1963–1995) and Fed Cup (1995–2020), is the ITF's women's World Cup of Tennis, the largest annual women's international team competition, with a record 148 nations in 2026 and the United States holding a record 18 titles.
Billie Jean King Cup zones and group competitions
The Billie Jean King Cup zones and group competitions are regional qualifiers for the Billie Jean King Cup, run in three zones across Groups I to IV.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is the American lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of Green Day, the punk-pop trio behind Dookie (1994, over 20 million copies) and the rock opera American Idiot (2004), later adapted for Broadway; Dookie entered the National Recording Registry in 2024.
Billie Lee Turner II
Billie Lee Turner II is an American geographer and human-environmental scientist at Arizona State University who helped establish land change science, studying deforestation in Mexico and Central America.