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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.
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's weekly singles chart(s). This list spans from the issue dated January 1, 1955 to the present. This list spans from the issue dated January 1, 1955 to the present.
The first number-one song of the Billboard Hot 100 was "Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson, on August 4, 1958. [5] As of the issue for the week ending on January 4, 2025, the Billboard Hot 100 has had 1,176 different number-one entries. The current number-one song on the chart is "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey. [6]
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† – The biggest number-one listed by each artist reflects its overall performance on the Hot 100, as calculated by Billboard, and may not necessarily be the single which spent the most weeks at No. 1 for the artist, such as Madonna's "Like a Virgin" (six weeks at No. 1, compared to seven for "Take a Bow"), among other examples on the list.
[note 1] American singer Brenda Lee became the oldest artist of all time to reach number one on the Hot 100 (age 78), when "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (1958) topped the chart in December 2023; concurrently, the song also became the third holiday single to top the Hot 100 [note 2] and it broke the record for longest climb to the top spot ...
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[1] In the issue dated January 7, 2023, "You Proof" by Morgan Wallen was at number one on Country Airplay, the song's tenth week in the top spot, [2] extending a record set the previous week for the longest-running number-one single based strictly off country radio rotation.