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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 Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
Double A-sides are counted as one number-one single. Artists associated with a group who reached number one, yet have their own solo page in Wikipedia, are not listed here unless they hit number one as a solo artist. Artists who hit number one prior to the start of the Hot 100 are included here.
[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 ...
† – 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.
Conway Twitty achieves his 40th and final number one, a record that will stand for 20 years. [59] 1987: 1988: Merle Haggard achieves his 38th and final number one, the second-highest tally for an artist at this point. [59] 1989: Garth Brooks, one of the biggest-selling country artists of all time, reaches number one for the first time.
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BTS scored three number ones while Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, Drake and Lil Nas X scored two each, as the only acts to achieve multiple number-one songs in 2021. American singer Olivia Rodrigo reigned atop the chart for nine weeks, with two singles that debuted at number-one, "Drivers License" and "Good 4 U", both from her debut studio album, Sour.