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Billboard named Olivia Rodrigo the top Hot 100 artist of 2021, [2] the youngest female artist to achieve this honor, and the first female artist since Katy Perry in 2014. [1] Rodrigo placed four songs on the list, all in the top 40; the highest ranked of them, " Good 4 U ", placed at number five.
Rodrigo's "Drivers License" was 2021's longest running number-one single by a female artist, with eight consecutive weeks atop. Taylor Swift scored her career's eighth number-one song this year with " All Too Well (Taylor's Version) ", which broke the 49-year-old Hot 100 record of Don McLean 's " American Pie " (1972) to become the longest song ...
3 In August 2021, with Dua Lipa's "Levitating" having already been in the top ten for more than 30 weeks, DaBaby was no longer listed as a featured artist on the song. [69] His name is being retained on the entry as he was credited for a majority of the song's run in the top ten, including the week it peaked at number two.
In 2021, 28 acts reached number one (including features) with 22 songs. Fifteen artists achieved their first number-one digital song: Tom MacDonald, Gabby Barrett, Masked Wolf, Dua Lipa, DaBaby, Bryson Gray, Tyson James, Chandler Crump, Jack Harlow, State of Mine, Drew Jacobs, John Rich, Mike Rowe, Juice Wrld and Suga.
The Billboard Adult Top 40 chart ranks the most popular songs on Adult Top 40 radio stations in the United States, based on airplay detections as measured by Nielsen BDS and published weekly by Billboard. These are the songs which reached number one on the Adult Top 40 chart during the 2020s.
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 ...
Artist of the Year: The Weeknd • Group of the Year: Arkells • Album of the Year: After Hours by The Weeknd • Single of the Year: "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd: 2021 MTV Video Music Awards (USA) Video of the Year: "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" by Lil Nas X • Best New Artist: Olivia Rodrigo • Artist of the Year: Justin Bieber
This chart was first printed in Billboard magazine in 1961 and lists the most popular songs as determined by airplay on American adult contemporary music radio stations. Over the years, the chart has gone by a variety of names, including Easy Listening, Middle-Road Singles, Pop-Standard Singles, Adult Contemporary and Hot Adult Contemporary ...