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This week in 2006, JT topped the Billboard Hot 100. Plus, remembering key chart feats for Fergie, Mariah Carey and Eric Clapton

Your weekly recap celebrating significant milestones from more than seven decades of Billboard chart history

Sept. 8, 2007
On break from the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie crowned the Billboard Hot 100 solo with her ballad "Big Girls Don't Cry."

Sept. 9, 2006
First, he brought sexy back. Then he brought "SexyBack" to No. 1! Eight years ago today, Justin Timberlake scored his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1.

Sept. 10, 1988
Responding to the explosion of modern rock and college radio, Billboard launches the Alternative Songs chart. Such format staples as Patti Smith, Debbie Harry and INXS inhabit the maiden ranking (with Siouxsie & the Banshees' "Peek-a-Boo" at No. 1), while 10,000 Maniacs place at No. 9 with their socially-conscious "What's the Matter Here?"

Sept. 11, 2001
We will always remember.

Sept. 12, 1987
Powered by Los Lobos' Billboard Hot 100-topping title cut, the soundtrack from the Ritchie Valens hit biopic La Bamba rises to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Sept. 13, 1997
Mariah Carey coats the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in "Honey," her 12th No. 1 on the list.

Sept. 14, 1974
Forty years later, he's still a free man. But, on this date in 1974, Eric Clapton topped the Billboard Hot 100 with his damning confession, the Bob Marley-penned "I Shot the Sheriff."

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