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American music magazine Billboard had previously named the greatest pop star of every year since 1981, with essay tributes for each artist. In 2024, to mark the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, Billboard decided to make a list of the artists who have defined popular culture, music and stardom, and been the "most important and most impactful" over the past 25 years.
In 2021, Billboard revised the rankings again upon the ascendance of "Blinding Lights" to the top spot on the list. [5] Shown below are the top 10 songs and top 10 artists over the 63-year period of the Hot 100, through November 2021. Also shown are the artists placing the most songs on the overall "all-time" top 100 song list.
All acts are listed alphabetically, solo artists by last name, groups by group name excluding "A", "An", and "The". Each act's total of number-one hits is shown after their name. All artists who are officially namechecked in song credits are listed here; this includes one-time pairings of otherwise solo artists and those appearing as "featuring".
The award show also featured a slew of first-time finalists who received their musical flowers. Pop star Sabrina Carpenter was up for Top Hot 100 Artist and top streaming songs artist, and her ...
Billboard describes the list as consisting of "the artists who have most defined pop stardom for the last 25 years." Swift comes in immediately ahead of Rih a nna (No. 3), Drake (No. 4), Lady Gaga ...
In its issue of November 12, 1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time (for the survey weeks ending October 26 and November 2). [12] The Top 100 combined all aspects of a single's performance (sales, airplay and jukebox activity), based on a point system that typically gave sales (purchases) more weight than radio airplay.
Artists from multiple different genres — pop, country, instrumental jazz, rap, metal — have earned their spots on this list. Keep scrolling to see the 50 best-selling music artists of all time ...
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.