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Psy's video remained the most-liked on YouTube for nearly four years until August 27, 2016, when Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" featuring Charlie Puth surpassed it with 11.21 million likes. Less than a year later, on July 25, 2017, Luis Fonsi 's " Despacito " featuring Daddy Yankee claimed the top spot with 16.01 million likes.
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [ 1 ]
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 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]
"Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd (pictured) was the best-performing single of 2020, spending a total of four nonconsecutive weeks at the top position of the Billboard Hot 100, as well as breaking Billboard records for both the most time ever spent in the Top 5, and the most spent in the Top 10.
American rapper Kendrick Lamar charted 4 songs on the list with the highest-ranking being his number-one single "Humble" at number 4. Canadian singer Alessia Cara has three songs within the top 40, with "Stay" (with Zedd) at number 17, "Scars to Your Beautiful" at number 30, and "1-800-273-8255" (with Logic and Khalid) at number 31.
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.
"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).