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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.
The singles listed here were cited by reliable sources from various media, such as digital journalism, newspapers, magazines, and books. According to Guinness World Records , Irving Berlin 's " White Christmas " (1942) as performed by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies. [ 1 ]
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.
"Heat Waves" by Glass Animals (pictured) was the best-performing single of 2022; in addition, it was #16 on the 2021 Year-End List. It spent five weeks at number one on the weekly chart in 2022, and spent 91 weeks on the chart overall, becoming the longest-charting song in the Hot 100's 64-year history.
Five additional singles managed nine weeks at number one during the first 34 years of the chart (1958–1992). In October 1992, the first single to top the Hot 100 for more than 10 weeks was Boyz II Men's "End of the Road", [6] which accumulated 13 weeks at number one by November that year. Source: [7]
Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" is the best-selling physical single in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991.. All of these physical singles have sold over four million copies according to either reliable third-party claims or RIAA multi-platinum certifications.
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles that peaked in 2024 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten Ref. Singles from 2023; November 25 "Greedy" Tate McRae: 3 January 13: 15 [3] [4] December 2 "Water" Tyla: 7 January 13: 3 [5] [4] Singles from 2024 January 13 "Agora Hills" Doja Cat: 7 February 3: 7 [4] [6] January 20