Happy birthday, 'Murica!
Miley Cyrus performs at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2021.
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In 1776, the founding fathers declared the birth of a nation called the United States — and 182 years later, Billboard debuted the Billboard Hot 100 chart to keep track of all of the songs that have been the most popular in the country on any given week.
And among the tens of thousands of tracks that have appeared on the U.S. songs tally since it launched in 1958, there have been many with patriotic titles paying homage to the country in which they’d become hits. So in honor of the Land of the Free’s fast-approaching 250th birthday on Saturday (July 4), we’re taking a look at which of those performed the best on the Hot 100 by rounding up the top 25 highest-peaking and longest-running songs with either “America” or “U.S.A” in the name.
