Billboard Hot 100: Every #1 song of 2024
The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart measures the most popular songs every week from Friday to Thursday based on the combination of their sales, online streams (audio and video), and radio airplay. Below is the list of every song that came out on top in 2024, updated weekly as each new chart is announced.
Brenda Lee, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
1 week at number-one in 2024 (3 weeks total)
January 6
The classic holiday song reached number-one during the 2023 holiday season. It was the song’s first time ever at the top a remarkable 65 years after its release way back in 1958. This is just the third holiday song ever to top the chart, following The Chipmunks and David Seville’s “The Chipmunk Song” and Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas is You.” It’s also Brenda Lee’s third song to reach the pinnacle. “Rockin’ Around” spent a total of three weeks on top during this competitive holiday period.
The Billboard Hot 100 has tracked the industry’s most popular music since back in 1958, starting with the very first number-one hit, Ricky Nelson‘s “Poor Little Fool.” Since then more than 1,100 songs have reached the top, though 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 that changed to Friday to Thursday. Also, in the earlier years of the charts, sales were given more weight than radio airplay because single purchases were much more common than they have been lately. That changed as full-length albums became more prevalent and single sales went down. Similarly, in 1998 Billboard updated its rules again to allow a song to appear on the Hot 100 even if it was airplay-only and wasn’t available to purchase. In 2007 Billboard began counting audio streaming performance towards the Hot 100. And in 2013 YouTube video streams were added to the formula, bringing the chart more in line with how music is consumed in the modern era.
The Beatles hold the record for the most number-one hits with 20 different chart-toppers. They’re followed closely by Mariah Carey, who has had 19 songs reach numberthe summit. Carey’s 1995 duet with Boyz II Men, “One Sweet Day,” set the record for the most weeks at number-one with 16. That record stood for more than two decades before it was tied by “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber in 2017, and then ultimately broken by Lil Nas X, whose “Old Town Road” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus dominated the chart for 19 weeks in 2019. But the song named by Billboard as the number-one of all time was The Weeknd‘s “Blinding Lights,” which spent only four weeks at number-one but shattered the record for the most weeks in the top 10 with more than a year in that upper echelon.
How much history will be made on the Hot 100 in 2024? Come back every week for more.
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