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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.
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.
Gloria Gaynor scored a #1 hit with "I Will Survive" in 1979. Here are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1979. That year, 10 acts earned their first number one song: Gloria Gaynor, Amii Stewart, Blondie, Peaches & Herb, Anita Ward, The Knack, Robert John, M, Styx, and Rupert Holmes; only Blondie would ever have another number one hit.
Note: "Hey Jude" by the Beatles tied the record for 9 weeks at number one on November 23, 1968. [20] Note: "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John tied the record for 10 weeks at number one on January 23, 1982. [21] Note: “I'll Make Love to You” by Boyz II Men tied the record for 14 weeks at number one on November 26, 1994. [11]
The first number-one song of the Billboard Hot 100 was "Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson, on August 4, 1958. [5] As of the issue for the week ending on January 4, 2025, the Billboard Hot 100 has had 1,176 different number-one entries. The current number-one song on the chart is "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey. [6]
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 ...
My Sharona" by The Knack (singer Doug Fieger pictured) was the number one song of 1979. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1979 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 22, 1979.
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #