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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 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.
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]
In 2008, for the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing songs on the chart over the 50 years, along with the best-performing artists. [1] In 2013, Billboard revised the rankings for the chart's 55th anniversary edition. [2] In 2015, Billboard revised the rankings again. [3]
At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. [1] For 2019, the list was published on December 5, calculated with data from November 24, 2018, to November 16, 2019. [2] Post Malone ranked as Billboard ' s top Hot 100 artist of 2019 ...
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]
"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.