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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".
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.
An asterisk (*) represents that a single is in the top ten as of the issue dated for the week of January 25, 2025. [1] Key ↑ – indicates single's top 10 entry was also its Hot 100 debut; The "weeks in top ten" column reflects each song's entire chart life, not just its run during 2025.
The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below.
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.
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.
One of Elvis Presley's most famous songs, “Jailhouse Rock,” was released in 1957 in conjunction with the movie of the same name. The song is one of Presley’s signature songs and describes a ...
List of songs which have spent the most weeks on the UK Singles Chart; List of songs banned by the BBC; List of songs containing the I-V-vi-IV progression; List of Negima songs; List of songs introduced by Frank Sinatra; List of songs recorded by Zecchino d'Oro; List of songs that retell a work of literature; List of songs with Latin lyrics