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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.
Bobby Helms holds the longest wait for an artist's first top 10: 60 years, four months and two weeks. His song "Dreams" debuted on the third Hot 100 ever (dated August 18, 1958), and "Jingle Bell Rock" reached the top 10 on the chart dated January 5, 2019.
SZA has four songs on the Year-End chart, led by "Kill Bill" at number three. Four songs by Taylor Swift ranked within the top 40, with "Anti-Hero" at number 4. Drake has five songs on the list. Ice Spice has four songs on the list, two of which are remixes of other artists' singles.
The following year-by-year, week-by-week listings are based on statistics accrued by Billboard Magazine since the inception of its Hot 100 popularity chart in August 1958. All data is pooled from record purchases and radio/jukebox play within the United States. Later charts also include digital single sales, online streaming, and YouTube hits.
The current Billboard Hot 100 logo. The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), online streaming, and radio airplay in the U.S. [1]
The Weeknd (pictured) has four songs on the Year-End list, with "Save Your Tears" (with Ariana Grande) and "Blinding Lights" ranking at #2 and #3; in addition, "Blinding Lights", previously the biggest performing song of 2020, was crowned by Billboard as the most successful Hot 100 single of all time, dethroning Chubby Checker's "The Twist". [3]
At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. [1] For 2019, the list was published on December 5, calculated with data from November 24, 2018, to November 16, 2019. [2] Post Malone ranked as Billboard ' s top Hot 100 artist of 2019 ...
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.