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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 song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" began the 2020s in the number-one position on the Hot 100, and made her the first artist to rank at number one on charts from four different decades. [1] The song was in its third week at number one on January 4, 2020, reaching the top for the first time on December 21, 2019.
The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th ... if one song were streamed 1.5 ... Hip-hop / R&B / pop [162] 556.8 million ...
Ludacris gathered four number-one songs, including a feature on Usher's "Yeah!", which topped the Year-End chart of 2004. Nelly spent 23 weeks atop the chart with four entries. Justin Timberlake gained three number-one songs as a lead singer and one as a featured artist.
Note - SZA's "Kill Bill" charted every week of 2023 through December 2, 2023, and most likely could have charted all 52 weeks despite Billboard's recurrent rules, due to holiday songs taking up much of the Hot 100 and pushing many non-holiday songs off the chart. Once the holiday season ended, "Kill Bill" returned to the Hot 100 in early 2024.
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's Pop Airplay chart (previously known as Mainstream Top 40, Pop Songs, and Top 40/CHR). Taylor Swift has the record for the most number-one songs with 13.
Another accolade of a successful song was a position on the "Honor Roll of Hits", introduced on March 24, 1945, initially as a 10-song list, [11] later expanded to 30 songs, which ranked the most popular songs by combining record and sheet sales, disk jockey, and jukebox performances as determined by Billboard's weekly nationwide survey. [12]