The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on American radio stations and streaming on online digital music outlets.
During 2019, fifteen singles reached number one on the Hot 100; a sixteenth single, "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande, began its run at number one in November 2018. Of those fifteen number-one singles, four were collaborations. In total, eighteen acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with ten—Swae Lee (as a solo artist), Bradley Cooper, Jonas Brothers, Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus, Billie Eilish, Shawn Mendes, Lizzo, Lewis Capaldi, and Selena Gomez—achieving their first Hot 100 number-one single.
Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" was the longest-running number-one of the year, leading the chart for nineteen weeks (one for the song's original version, credited solely to Lil Nas X, and eighteen for a remix featuring Billy Ray Cyrus); in doing so, it broke the record as the longest-running number one single in Billboard history - a record previously held by the sixteen-week runs of both "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey (who added a nineteenth number one single in 2019) and Boyz II Men (1995–96), and "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber (2017). It also topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 ranking as the best-performing single of 2019. In December, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" hit number one for the first time 25 years after its debut in 1994, breaking the record for longest climb to the top spot of the Hot 100 since release. It became her 19th number-one single, extending her own record for most number ones among soloists on the Hot 100. It was also the first Christmas song to top the Hot 100 since "The Chipmunk Song" by David Seville and the Chipmunks in 1958–59. [1] Post Malone and Ariana Grande were the only acts to have multiple number-one songs in 2019, with two apiece.
† | Indicates best-performing song of 2019 [2] |
No. | Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Ref. |
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re | January 5 | "Thank U, Next" | Ariana Grande | [3] [4] |
1081 | January 12 | "Without Me" | Halsey | [5] [6] |
1082 | January 19 | "Sunflower" | Post Malone and Swae Lee | [7] [8] |
re | January 26 | "Without Me" | Halsey | [9] [10] |
1083 | February 2 | "7 Rings" | Ariana Grande | [11] [12] |
February 9 | [13] [14] | |||
February 16 | [15] [16] | |||
February 23 | [17] [18] | |||
March 2 | [19] [20] | |||
1084 | March 9 | "Shallow" | Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper | [21] [22] |
1085 | March 16 | "Sucker" | Jonas Brothers | [23] [24] |
re | March 23 | "7 Rings" | Ariana Grande | [25] [26] |
March 30 | [27] [28] | |||
April 6 | [29] [30] | |||
1086 | April 13 | "Old Town Road" † | Lil Nas X | [31] [32] |
April 20 | Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus [lower-alpha 1] | [33] [34] | ||
April 27 | [35] [36] | |||
May 4 | [37] [38] | |||
May 11 | [39] [40] | |||
May 18 | [41] [42] | |||
May 25 | [43] [44] | |||
June 1 | [45] [46] | |||
June 8 | [47] [48] | |||
June 15 | [49] [50] | |||
June 22 | [51] [52] | |||
June 29 | [53] [54] | |||
July 6 | [55] [56] | |||
July 13 | [57] [58] | |||
July 20 | [59] [60] | |||
July 27 | [61] [62] | |||
August 3 | [63] [64] | |||
August 10 | [65] [66] | |||
August 17 | [67] [68] | |||
1087 | August 24 | "Bad Guy" | Billie Eilish | [69] [70] |
1088 | August 31 | "Señorita" | Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello | [71] [72] |
1089 | September 7 | "Truth Hurts" | Lizzo | [73] [74] |
September 14 | [75] [76] | |||
September 21 | [77] [78] | |||
September 28 | [79] [80] | |||
October 5 | [81] [82] | |||
October 12 | [83] [84] | |||
1090 | October 19 | "Highest in the Room" | Travis Scott | [85] [86] |
re | October 26 | "Truth Hurts" | Lizzo | [87] [88] |
1091 | November 2 | "Someone You Loved" | Lewis Capaldi | [89] [90] |
1092 | November 9 | "Lose You to Love Me" | Selena Gomez | [91] [92] |
re | November 16 | "Someone You Loved" | Lewis Capaldi | [93] [94] |
November 23 | [95] [96] | |||
1093 | November 30 | "Circles" | Post Malone | [97] [98] |
December 7 | [99] [100] | |||
1094 | December 14 | "Heartless" | The Weeknd | [101] [102] |
1095 | December 21 | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | Mariah Carey | [103] [1] |
December 28 | [104] [105] |
Position | Artist | Weeks at No. 1 |
---|---|---|
1 | Lil Nas X | 19 |
2 | Billy Ray Cyrus | 18 |
3 | Ariana Grande | 9 |
4 | Lizzo | 7 |
5 | Post Malone | 3 |
Lewis Capaldi | ||
7 | Halsey | 2 |
Mariah Carey | ||
9 | Swae Lee | 1 |
Lady Gaga | ||
Bradley Cooper | ||
Jonas Brothers | ||
Billie Eilish | ||
Shawn Mendes | ||
Camila Cabello | ||
Travis Scott | ||
Selena Gomez | ||
The Weeknd |
The Streaming Songs chart is released weekly by Billboard magazine and lists each week's top streamed radio songs, on-demand songs and videos on leading online music services in the United States. The chart represents one of the three components, along with airplay and sales, that determine the chart positions of songs on the Billboard Hot 100, which ranks the most popular songs in the United States.
The Billboard Global 200 is a weekly record chart published by Billboard magazine. The chart ranks the top songs globally and is based on digital sales and online streaming from over 200 territories worldwide. First announced in mid-2019, it officially launched in September 2020.