 In 1939, Holiday recorded her biggest selling record, "Strange Fruit" for Commodore, charting at number 16 on the available pop charts for the 1930s.In 1940, "Billboard" began publishing its modern pop charts, which included the Best Selling Retail Records chart, the precursor to the Hot 100.None of Holiday's songs placed on the modern pop charts, partly because "Billboard" only published the first ten slots of the charts in some issues.