Courtesy of Barry McCall
The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart measures the most popular songs each week Friday through Thursday based on the combination of their sales, online streams (audio and video), and radio airplay. Below is the list of all the songs that came in at number one in 2024, updated weekly as each new ranking is announced.
Hozier, “Too sweet”
1 week at number one
April 27
It is the first number one single of Hozier’s career, going one place higher than his previous record, “Take Me to Church”, which peaked at number two. It is also the fifth success of an Irish artist to reach the top.
Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar, “Like That”
3 weeks at number one
April 6 – April 20
It is the third number one hit for Future, the third for Kendrick Lamar, and the first for Metro Boomin as a credited recording artist; Metro previously topped the chart twice as writer/producer. In its first week, the single achieved the most weekly streams for any song since Miley CyrusMetro and Future’s “Flowers” in 2023. “Like That” debuted at No. 1 the same week its parent album, Metro and Future’s “We Don’t Trust You,” debuted at the top of the chart. Billboard 200.
Teddy swims, “Losing control”
1 week at number one
March 30
It was Swims’ first song to chart on the Hot 100 and his first to reach number one. It took 32 weeks on the charts for the song to finally reach the top, making it the longest path to number one for a male solo artist.
Ariana Grande, “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”
1 week at number one
March 23
It’s Ariana Grande’s ninth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 and the second from her album “Eternal Sunshine,” which just weeks earlier sent “Yes, And?” at the top of the graph. It is Grande’s seventh song to debut at the top, representing the most songs ever for women. Max Martin achieves his 25th number one hit as a producer.
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign feat. Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, “Carnival”
1 week at number one
March 16
It is Kanye West’s fifth number one single, Ty Dolla $ign’s second, and Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti’s first. West becomes the first rapper to score number one singles in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. West also has the longest period of number one hits for a rap artist.
Beyoncé, “Texas Hold’Em”
2 weeks at number one
March 2 – March 9
It is Beyoncé’s ninth number one hit as a solo artist. It is also her first historic ranking in the Hot Country Songs ranking: she is the first black woman to lead this survey. “Texas Hold ‘Em” was released alongside “16 Carriages” as the first single from his new album due for release on March 29.
Megan Thee Stallion, “Hiss”
1 week at number one
February 10
This diss track debuted at number one. It is Megan Thee Stallion’s third song to reach the top spot, following “Savage” with Beyonce and “WAP” with CardiB. This is his first solo number one.
Ariana Grande, “Yes, and?”
1 week at number one
January 27
It is Grande’s eighth song to top the chart and her sixth to debut at number one. This also goes into the producer’s story Max Martin, who achieved her 24th number one hit, the most of any producer in Hot 100 history. Half of Grande’s hits are collaborations. It is only his fourth hit to reach the top without any other artist credited, following “Thank U Next”, “7 Rings” and “Positions”.
Jack Harlow, “I Love Me”
5 weeks at number one in 2024 (6 weeks total)
January 13 – January 20; February 3; February 17 – February 24
After all the Christmas songs disappeared from the charts in the week following Christmas, Harlow’s single rose from number 9 to number one after spending a week at the top in December. This is his third hit, after “Industry Baby” with Lil Nas and “First Class.” It is also his longest-standing record.
Brenda Lee, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
1 week at number one in 2024 (3 weeks total)
January 6
The classic holiday song reached No. 1 during the 2023 holiday season. It was the first time the song reached the top, 65 years after its release in 1958. It is only the third Christmas song to appear at the top of the ranking, after “The Chipmunk Song” by The Chipmunks and David Seville and Mariah Carey“All I want for Christmas is you.” It is also the third Brenda Lee song to reach the top. “Rockin’ Around” spent a total of three weeks at the top during this competitive holiday season.
The Billboard Hot 100 has tracked the industry’s most popular music since 1958, starting with the first-ever number one hit, Ricky Nelson“Poor little fool.” Since then, more than 1,100 songs have reached the top, although Billboard’s methodology has evolved over the years as the music industry and technology have advanced.
For example, sales were once tracked by Nielsen from Monday to Sunday, but in 2015 they moved from Friday to Thursday. Additionally, in the early years of the charts, sales carried more weight than radio airplay, because single purchases were much more common than they have been recently. This changed as full-length albums became more prevalent and sales of singles declined. Similarly, in 1998, Billboard updated its rules again to allow a song to appear on the Hot 100 even if it was stream-only and not available for purchase. In 2007, Billboard began counting streaming audio’s performance on the Hot 100. And in 2013, YouTube video streams were added to the formula, bringing the chart more in line with how music is performed. consumed in the modern era.
The Beatles holds the record for most number one hits with 20 different peaks. They are closely followed by Mariah Carey, who had 19 songs to reach the top. Carey’s 1995 duet with Boyz II Men“One Sweet Day”, set the record for most weeks at number one with 16. This record stood for over two decades before being matched by “Despacito” from Luis Fonsi And Daddy Yankee with Justin Bieber in 2017, then finally broken by Lil Nasincluding “Old Town Road” with Billy Ray Cyrus topped the chart for 19 weeks in 2019. But the song named by Billboard as the number one song of all time was The weekend‘s “Blinding Lights,” which spent only four weeks at number one but broke the record for most weeks in the top 10 with over a year in that upper echelon.
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