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The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, airplay, and, since 2012, streaming.
For 2020, the list was published on December 3, calculated with data from November 23, 2019, to November 14, 2020. [1] Billboard ' s top Hot 100 artist of 2020 was The Weeknd, [2] whose "Blinding Lights" was the number-one Hot 100 song of the year. It was one of two songs he placed on the list.
Key ↑ – indicates single's top 10 entry was also its Hot 100 debut † – indicates Best performing song of the year (#) – 2020 Year-end top 10 single position and rank [1] (Despite not reaching the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #12, "The Bones" by Maren Morris reached #9 on the Year-end Hot 100 single chart of 2020.)
The year 2020 broke the record for the calendar year that spawned the most number-one debuts on the Hot 100, with twelve songs debuting atop the chart: Drake's "Toosie Slide", "The Scotts" by Scott and Cudi, "Stuck With U" by Grande and Bieber, "Rain On Me" by Gaga and Grande, "Trollz" by 6ix9ine and Minaj, Taylor Swift's "Cardigan", Cardi B's ...
"Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, the best-performing single of 2019, broke the record for the most weeks spent at number one by any song in Billboard Hot 100 history, at eighteen weeks (a nineteenth was clocked before the Billy Ray Cyrus remix was released, and thus was credited only to Lil Nas X).
The song made the fourth-biggest leap in Billboard Hot 100 history, vaulting from 94-2 on the chart. 22 – The American Music Awards took place. 27 – Hatebreed released their first studio album in four years, Weight of the False Self.
The list of number-one digital songs of 2020 in the United States is based upon the highest-selling downloaded songs ranked in the Digital Song Sales chart published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each song's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a song by an act for a ...
The Billboard Adult Top 40 chart ranks the most popular songs on Adult Top 40 radio stations in the United States, based on airplay detections as measured by Nielsen BDS and published weekly by Billboard. These are the songs which reached number one on the Adult Top 40 chart during the 2020s.