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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.
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 Hot 100 is a singles chart published by Billboard that measures the most popular singles in the United States, based on sales (physical and digital), online streaming, and radio airplay. Throughout the history of the Hot 100 and its predecessor charts, many songs have set records for longevity, popularity, or number of hit singles ...
The chart's importance is replaced by the Mainstream Top 40 chart; Pop 100 Airplay: airplay (audience) 100 Measured airplay on pop music radio; One of three component charts of the Pop 100; R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums physical sales Top 40 Tracks: March 2005 airplay (audience) 40
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]
Alicia Keys scored four number-one entries, totaling 22 weeks atop the chart. 50 Cent scored four number ones, including 2003's best-performing single, "In da Club". 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.
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.