List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones

This is a comprehensive listing which highlights significant achievements and milestones based upon Billboard magazine's singles charts, most notably the Billboard Hot 100. This list spans from the issue dated January 1, 1955 to present. The Billboard Hot 100 began with the issue dated August 4, 1958, and is currently the standard popular music chart in the United States.

Prior to the creation of the Hot 100, Billboard published four singles charts: "Best Sellers in Stores", "Most Played by Jockeys", "Most Played in Jukeboxes" and "The Top 100". These charts, which ranged from 20 to 100 slots, were phased out at different times between 1957 and 1958. Though technically not part of the Hot 100 chart history, their data is included for computational purposes, and to avoid unenlightening or misleading characterizations. All items listed below are from the Hot 100 era, unless otherwise noted (pre-Hot 100 charts).

Contents

Song achievements

Most weeks at number one

Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men — "One Sweet Day" (1995)
Whitney Houston — "I Will Always Love You" (1992)
Boyz II Men — "I'll Make Love to You" (1994)
Los del Río"Macarena" (Bayside Boys mix) (1996)
Elton John — "Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" (1997)
Mariah Carey — "We Belong Together" (2005)
The Black Eyed Peas — "I Gotta Feeling" (2009)
Boyz II Men — "End of the Road" (1992)
Brandy and Monica — "The Boy Is Mine" (1998)
Santana featuring Rob Thomas — "Smooth" (1999)
Eminem — "Lose Yourself" (2002-2003)
Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris — "Yeah!" (2004)
The Black Eyed Peas — "Boom Boom Pow" (2009)
Elvis Presley — "Hound Dog" / "Don't Be Cruel" (1956) (Pre-Hot 100: "Best Sellers in Stores" and "Most Played in Jukeboxes" charts)
All-4-One — "I Swear" (1994)
Toni Braxton — "Un-Break My Heart" (1996)
Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112 — "I'll Be Missing You" (1997)
Destiny's Child — "Independent Women Part I" (2000)
McGuire Sisters — "Sincerely" (1955) (Pre-Hot 100: "Most Played by Jockeys" chart)
Pérez Prado — "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (1955) (Pre-Hot 100: "Best Sellers in Stores" chart)
Debby Boone — "You Light Up My Life" (1977)
Olivia Newton-John — "Physical" (1981)
Santana featuring The Product G&B — "Maria Maria" (2000)
Ashanti — "Foolish" (2002)
Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland — "Dilemma" (2002)
Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx — "Gold Digger" (2005)
Beyoncé — "Irreplaceable" (2006)
Flo Rida featuring T-Pain — "Low" (2008)

Most weeks at number two

Whitney Houston — "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" (1995) (after spending one week at number one)
Foreigner — "Waiting for a Girl Like You" (1981)
Missy Elliott — "Work It" (2002)
Mariah Carey — "Always Be My Baby" (1996) (four weeks before and five weeks after spending two weeks at number one)
Donna Lewis — "I Love You Always Forever" (1996)
Shania Twain — "You're Still the One" (1998)
Coolio featuring L.V. — "Gangsta's Paradise" (1995) (one week before and eight weeks after spending three weeks at number one)
Lady Gaga — "Poker Face" (2009) (one week before and eight non-consecutive weeks after spending one week at number one)
Shai — "If I Ever Fall in Love" (1992)
Deborah Cox — "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (1998)
Brian McKnight — "Back at One" (1999)
OutKast featuring Sleepy Brown — "The Way You Move" (2004) (before spending one week at number one)
Mario Winans featuring P. Diddy and Enya — "I Don't Wanna Know" (2004)
Chris Brown featuring Juelz Santana — "Run It!" (2005) (four weeks before and four weeks after spending five weeks at number one)

Most total weeks in the top ten

The total weeks displayed in this section are total weeks the song was charted inside the top 10 portion of the chart, instead of total weeks spent on the chart. Only songs that spent 25 weeks or more in the top 10 are considered for inclusion in this section.

Most total weeks on the Hot 100

The year displayed is the year the songs ended their respective chart runs. Only songs that spent 53 weeks or more in the Billboard Hot 100 are considered for inclusion in this section.

Number-one debuts

Biggest jump to number one

Changes in when the eligibility of a single first begins, as well as more accurate digital download totals, have made abrupt chart jumps more commonplace. From 1955-2001, under Billboard's previous methodologies, only two singles ascended directly to #1 from a previous position beneath the Top 20: The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love", which jumped from #27 to the top slot in April 1964, and Brandy and Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" which jumped from #23 to #1 in June 1998.

Biggest single-week upward movements

Under Billboard's previous methodologies, jumps of this magnitude were rare. One exception was Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley PTA," which advanced 74 slots in August 1968; this upward acceleration went unmatched for 30 years, but has been surpassed over a dozen times since 2006. Changes in when the eligibility of a single first begins, as well as more accurate digital download totals, have made abrupt chart jumps more commonplace.

Biggest single-week downward movements

Source:[18]

Biggest drops off the Hot 100

Source:[22]

Most weeks charted before reaching number one

Number-ones by two different artists

Non-English language number-ones

Artist achievements

Self-replacement at number one

†The Black Eyed Peas (with both "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling") hold the chart record for 26 consecutive weeks in the #1 spot. Usher (with both "Yeah!" and "Burn") stayed for 19 weeks; Elvis Presley and Boyz II Men each had a 16-week run atop the Hot 100 with the above-listed pairs of singles ("On Bended Knee"'s six weeks at #1 were non-consecutive). The longest run for one song is also 16 weeks (see Most weeks at number one, above).

Most Hot 100 entries

Source:[24]

Most top 40 hits

Most top 10 singles

NOTE: If Top 10 sides are considered—that is, singles whose A-sides and B-sides both charted as separate Top 10 entries—then Elvis Presley would have the most, with 38 Top 10 songs, and Janet Jackson would have 28. The totals for Madonna, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and so on would remain as is.

Most number-one hits

NOTE:

Most consecutive number-one hits

Most cumulative weeks at number one

79 – Elvis Presley – (Pre Hot 100)
79 – Mariah Carey
59 – The Beatles
50 – Boyz II Men
47 – Usher
41 – Rihanna
37 – Michael Jackson
36 – Beyoncé
34 – Elton John
33 – Janet Jackson
  • Presley is sometimes credited with an "80th week" that occurred when "All Shook Up" spent a ninth week on top of the "Most Played in Jukeboxes" chart. Although Billboard's chart statistician Joel Whitburn still counts this 80th week based on preexisting research, Billboard magazine itself has since revised its methodology and officially credits Presley with 79 weeks.[26]
  • Presley has the record for the most separate calendar weeks with a charting single in any position, with 1,598. As of 2007, Elton John is second with 1,051, Madonna had 873 (a total which has since increased), and no other artist has as many as 800.

Simultaneously occupying the top two positions

  1. "Hound Dog" / "Don't Be Cruel"
  2. "Love Me Tender" ("Best Sellers in Stores" and "Most Played by Jockeys" charts)
  1. "Can't Buy Me Love"
  2. "Twist and Shout"
  3. "She Loves You"
  4. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
  5. "Please Please Me"
  1. "Night Fever"
  2. "Stayin' Alive"
  1. "Foolish"
  2. "What's Luv?" (Fat Joe featuring Ashanti)
  1. "Hot in Herre"
  2. "Dilemma" (songs switched positions on August 17, 2002)
  1. "Hey Ya!"
  2. "The Way You Move"
  1. "Candy Shop" (50 Cent featuring Olivia)
  2. "Hate It or Love It" (The Game featuring 50 Cent)
  1. "We Belong Together"
  2. "Shake It Off"
  1. "I Wanna Love You" (Akon featuring Snoop Dogg)
  2. "Smack That" (Akon featuring Eminem)
April 14, 2007
  1. "Don't Matter"
  2. "The Sweet Escape" (Gwen Stefani featuring Akon)
  1. "Live Your Life" (T.I. featuring Rihanna)
  2. "Whatever You Like" (songs switched positions several times)
  1. "Boom Boom Pow"
  2. "I Gotta Feeling" (songs switched positions on July 11, 2009)

Posthumous number ones

Most uninterrupted weeks in top ten

Source:[30][31]

Album achievements

Producers with the most number-one hits

Songwriters with the most number-one hits

Selected additional Hot 100 achievements

See also

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