List of Billboard number-one singles
- For the current year's number one hits, see List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2016
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States. It was created in 1958, and monitors the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play and single purchases.
Preface
The following year-by-year, week-by-week listings are based on statistics accrued by Billboard Magazine since before and after the inception of its Hot 100 popularity chart in August 1958.
All data is pooled from record purchases and radio/jukebox play within the United States. Later charts also include digital single sales, online streaming, and YouTube hits.
Pre-Hot 100 era
Hot 100 era
Sources
The following sources apply to all "by year" pages linked above:
- Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Pop Charts, 1955-1959 (ISBN 0-89820-092-X)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties (ISBN 0-89820-074-1)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (ISBN 0-89820-076-8)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (ISBN 0-89820-079-2)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties (ISBN 0-89820-137-3)
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The 2000s (ISBN 0-89820-182-9)
- Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
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