 In the first issue of "Billboard" of the new year, the number one song was "Simple Things", a collaboration between pianist Jim Brickman and singer Rebecca Lynn Howard, which moved into the top spot that week.Unusually, despite going all the way to number one on the AC listing, the song did not enter "Billboard"s all-genre chart, the Hot 100, at all.Brickman, whose recordings mix pop and New-age music, has regularly placed songs on the AC chart since the 1990s, but "Valentine", which reached number 50 in 1997, is his only song ever to cross over to the Hot 100.