Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the main U.S. singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. The new charts go into effect every Saturday, while the charts are posted every previous Thursday on the website.

Notable artist records on the Hot 100

Note: these records do not include totals from any of Billboard's pre-Hot 100 charts.

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• Most Hot 100 entries (in descending order): Elvis Presley (121), James Brown (99), Ray Charles (76) and Aretha Franklin (76) (tie), The Beatles (73).
• Most Top 40 hits (in descending order): Elvis Presley (78), Elton John (59), The Beatles (52), Stevie Wonder (49), Madonna (46).
• Most Top 10 hits (A-side and B-sides separated) (in descending order): Madonna (35), The Beatles (34), Janet Jackson (29), Michael Jackson (28) and Stevie Wonder (28) (tie).
• Most Top 10 singles: Madonna (35), The Beatles (29) Janet Jackson (29), Michael Jackson (28) and Stevie Wonder (28) (tie).
• Most number one hits (in descending order): The Beatles (20), Mariah Carey (16), Michael Jackson (13), Madonna/The Supremes (tie) (12), Whitney Houston (11).
• Mariah Carey is the only artist to have a number one single every year for the decade of the 90s, beginning with "Vision of Love" in 1990 to "Thank God I Found You" in 2000.
• Mariah Carey is the only artist to have entered the Billboard Hot 100 at least once every year since her debut in 1990.
• Mariah Carey and Celine Dion are the only artists who have debuted at number one more than once consecutively on the Hot 100. Dion accomplished this with "My Heart Will Go On" and "I'm Your Angel" (though the second one is often controversial). Carey accomplished that feat three times with "Fantasy", "One Sweet Day", and "Honey". The first two were consecutive hits, separated only by a week by another number one debut (Whitney Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)").
• Elton John had at least one Top 40 hit every calendar year from 1970 (beginning with "Your Song") until 1999 (with "Written In the Stars," a duet with LeAnn Rimes).
• The October 11, 2003 chart week marked the first time since its inception that the Billboard Top 10 artists were exclusively black individuals or groups with a majority of black members.
• The Isley Brothers hold the record for being the only act to have had Top 40 hits on the Hot 100 in six consecutive decades: the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
• James Brown holds the record for most Hot 100 entries without a number one.
• Creedence Clearwater Revival holds the record for the most number two hits (5) without ever hitting number one.
• Santana, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men are the only artists to have two or more double-digit runs at number one:
• Santana:
• 12 weeks with "Smooth" (with Rob Thomas)
• 10 weeks with "Maria Maria"
• Mariah Carey:
• 16 weeks with "One Sweet Day" (with Boyz II Men)
• 14 weeks with "We Belong Together"
• Boyz II Men:
• 16 weeks with "One Sweet Day" (with Mariah Carey)
• 14 weeks with "I'll Make Love To You"
• 13 weeks with "End of the Road"
• "Waiting For a Girl Like You" by Foreigner (1981) and "Work It" by Missy Elliott (2002) are the most successful number two hits (ten weeks each). "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" by Whitney Houston (1995) however is the longest running number two single (eleven weeks) that peaked at number one.
• "How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes holds the longevity record on the Hot 100 with 69 consecutive weeks, 61 of them being on the Top 40.
• The longevity record for a group is Los del Río's "Macarena" which remained in the Hot 100 for 60 weeks, including a 14-week stay at number one in 1996.
• The Beatles, the Bee Gees, Nelly, OutKast, and Mariah Carey are the only artists to simultaneously occupy the top two positions on the Hot 100.
• Madonna, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Janet Jackson are the only female artists to have single peak at every position of the Hot 100 Top Five. Madonna also further extends her run by being the only artist to claim a single peaking at every position of the top ten.