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† – The biggest number-one listed by each artist reflects its overall performance on the Hot 100, as calculated by Billboard, and may not necessarily be the single which spent the most weeks at No. 1 for the artist, such as Madonna's "Like a Virgin" (six weeks at No. 1, compared to seven for "Take a Bow"), among other examples on the list.
Artists who hit number one prior to the start of the Hot 100 are included here. A song that topped multiple pre-Hot 100 charts is counted only once towards the artist's total. The ° symbol indicates that all or part of an artist's total includes number-ones occurring on any of the pre-Hot 100 chart(s) listed above (January 1, 1955 through July ...
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.
With seven consecutive number one songs, Houston holds the title for the most number one hits by a artist. [a] Houston's recording of "The Star Spangled Banner" reached the number twenty on the Hot 100 Singles chart in March 1991, making her the only act to turn the national anthem into a pop hit.
A number of artists have achieved number-one singles and albums simultaneously on the Billboard charts in the United States. The list includes only those charting on the primary top singles/songs and top albums charts, presently the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200.
Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart. Whitney Houston scored seven consecutive number-one singles during the 1980s, becoming the only artist in the chart's history to achieve this feat.
[note 1] American singer Brenda Lee became the oldest artist of all time to reach number one on the Hot 100 (age 78), when "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (1958) topped the chart in December 2023; concurrently, the song also became the third holiday single to top the Hot 100 [note 2] and it broke the record for longest climb to the top spot ...
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.