The Billboard Digital Song Sales chart is a chart that ranks the most downloaded songs in the United States. Its data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each song's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a song by an act for a summarized figure.
| † | Indicates best-performing single of 2017 [1] |
| Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Weekly sales | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 7 | "Starboy" | The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk | 86,000 | [2] |
| January 14 | "Black Beatles" | Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane | 136,000 | [3] |
| January 21 | "24K Magic" | Bruno Mars | 77,000 | [4] |
| January 28 | "Shape of You" | Ed Sheeran | 240,000 | [5] |
| February 4 | 120,000 | [6] | ||
| February 11 | 104,000 | [7] | ||
| February 18 | "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" | Zayn and Taylor Swift | 188,000 | [8] |
| February 25 | "Million Reasons" | Lady Gaga | 149,000 | [9] |
| March 4 | "Shape of You" | Ed Sheeran | 200,000 | [10] |
| March 11 | 147,000 | [11] | ||
| March 18 | 141,000 | [12] | ||
| March 25 | 116,000 | [13] | ||
| April 1 | 104,000 | [14] | ||
| April 8 | 97,000 | [15] | ||
| April 15 | 85,000 | [16] | ||
| April 22 | "Humble" | Kendrick Lamar | 111,000 | [17] |
| April 29 | "Sign of the Times" | Harry Styles | 142,000 | [18] |
| May 6 | "Stay" | Zedd and Alessia Cara | 91,000 | [19] |
| May 13 | "Despacito" † | Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber | 86,000 | [20] |
| May 20 | "I'm the One" | DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Wayne | 171,000 | [21] |
| May 27 | "Despacito" † | Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber | 104,000 | [22] |
| June 3 | 115,000 | [23] | ||
| June 10 | 137,000 | [24] | ||
| June 17 | 148,000 | [25] | ||
| June 24 | 141,000 | [26] | ||
| July 1 | 140,000 | [27] | ||
| July 8 | 139,000 | [28] | ||
| July 15 | 136,000 | [29] | ||
| July 22 | 129,000 | [30] | ||
| July 29 | 124,000 | [31] | ||
| August 5 | 118,000 | [32] | ||
| August 12 | 102,000 | [33] | ||
| August 19 | 84,000 | [34] | ||
| August 26 | 82,000 | [35] | ||
| September 2 | 83,000 | [36] | ||
| September 9 | 80,000 | [37] | ||
| September 16 | "Look What You Made Me Do" | Taylor Swift | 353,000 | [38] |
| September 23 | "...Ready for It?" | 135,000 | [39] | |
| September 30 | "Too Good at Goodbyes" | Sam Smith | 90,000 | [40] |
| October 7 | "Rockstar" | Post Malone feat. 21 Savage | 80,000 | [41] |
| October 14 | "Thunder" | Imagine Dragons | 65,000 | [42] |
| October 21 | "Mi Gente" | J Balvin and Willy William featuring Beyoncé | 79,000 | [43] |
| October 28 | "Almost Like Praying" | Lin-Manuel Miranda featuring Artists for Puerto Rico | 111,000 | [44] |
| November 4 | "Thunder" | Imagine Dragons | 66,000 | [45] |
| November 11 | "Gorgeous" | Taylor Swift | 68,000 | [46] |
| November 18 | "Thunder" | Imagine Dragons | 54,000 | [47] |
| November 25 | "Call It What You Want" | Taylor Swift | 68,000 | [48] |
| December 2 | "Havana" | Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug | 75,000 | [49] |
| December 9 | 85,000 | [50] | ||
| December 16 | "Perfect" | Ed Sheeran featuring Beyoncé | 69,000 | [51] |
| December 23 | 181,000 | [52] | ||
| December 30 | 98,000 | [53] | ||
The Digital Song Sales ranks the best-selling digital songs in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine. Although it originally started tracking song sales the week of October 30, 2004, it officially debuted in the issue dated January 22, 2005, and merged all versions of a song sold from digital music distributors. Its data was incorporated in the Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboard's music singles charts. The decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible.
"Despacito" is a song by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, originally written in 2015. In 2016, Luis sent the song to Puerto Rican rapper and singer Daddy Yankee to give it an "urban injection", and released it as the lead single from Fonsi's 2017 studio album Vida.
"Rockstar" is a song by American rapper Post Malone featuring British-American rapper 21 Savage. It was released on September 15, 2017, by Republic Records as the lead single from Malone's second studio album Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018). The song was written alongside Carl Rosen, Joey Bada$$, and producers Louis Bell & Tank God.
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