List of number-one Billboard Streaming Songs of 2018

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Four songs of Drake (pictured in 2016) topped the chart for a total of 22 weeks. "God's Plan", topped the charts for eleven weeks and was the most-streamed song of the year, accumulating more than 1.5 billion streams. "In My Feelings" had the highest weekly streams ever at the time, with more than 116 million and was streamed more than 1.1 billion times in 2018. Drake and Future 2016 Summer Sixteen Tour (cropped).jpg
Four songs of Drake (pictured in 2016) topped the chart for a total of 22 weeks. "God's Plan", topped the charts for eleven weeks and was the most-streamed song of the year, accumulating more than 1.5 billion streams. "In My Feelings" had the highest weekly streams ever at the time, with more than 116 million and was streamed more than 1.1 billion times in 2018.

The Billboard Streaming Songs chart ranks each week's most-streamed radio songs, on-demand songs and videos on leading online music services in the United States. In 2018, 20 songs by 24 artist reached the top.

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The first number one song of the year was Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" alongside Beyonce. Post Malone's and 21 Savage's "Rockstar" spent 12 weeks atop in late 2017 and topped the chart for two more weeks in January for a total of 14 weeks. "God's Plan" by Canadian musician Drake reached the top in early February and topped the charts for 11 consecutive weeks. Furthermore, it became the second song to be ever streamed more than 100 million times within one week, since Baauer's "Harlem Shake" in early 2013. [1] Drake replaced himself with "Nice for What" for four weeks in April and May.

Childish Gambino scored his first number one on the chart with "This is America" for three weeks in May and early June. Following the murder of XXXTentacion in Florida, his single "Sad!" became his first to top the chart for two weeks. Drake scored his third and fourth number-one hit in 2018 with "Nonstop" and "In My Feelings" for nine more weeks. Furthermore, "In My Feelings" became the most-streamed songs within a week, accumulating more than 116 million streams—13 million more than "Harlem Shake". Moreover, "In My Feelings" was the third most streamed song of the year, accumulating more than 1.1 billion streams. [2]

Drake was the most-successful artist of the year. "God's Plan", "In My Feelings" and "Nice for What" ranked in the top ten most-streamed songs in the US for 2018. "God's Plan" concluded as the most-streamed song in 2018, with more than 1.5 billion streams. [2]

Chart history

Key
Dagger-14-plain.pngIndicates best-performing single of 2018 [3]
Issue dateSongArtist(s)Weekly streams
January 3"Perfect" Ed Sheeran featuring Beyonce 43.4 million [4]
January 6"Rockstar" Post Malone featuring 21 Savage 37.7 million [5]
January 1339.4 million [6]
January 20"Finesse" Bruno Mars featuring Cardi B 38.3 million [7]
January 27"Havana" Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug 44.9 million [8]
February 3"God's Plan" Dagger-14-plain.png Drake 82.4 million [9]
February 1083.3 million [10]
February 1779.6 million [11]
February 2475.5 million [12]
March 3101.7 million [13]
March 1092.8 million [14]
March 1781.8 million [15]
March 2472.9 million [16]
March 3168.5 million [17]
April 761.1 million [18]
April 1452.1 million [19]
April 21"Nice for What"60.4 million [20]
April 2859.3 million [21]
May 553.6 million [22]
May 1248.5 million [23]
May 19"This Is America" Childish Gambino 65.3 million [24]
May 2669.6 million [25]
June 245.2 million [26]
June 9"Yes Indeed" Lil Baby and Drake37.6 million [27]
June 16"All Mine" Kanye West 36.3 million [28]
June 23"Lucid Dreams" Juice WRLD 38.8 million [29]
June 30"Sad!" XXXTentacion 48.9 million [30]
July 747.5 million [31]
July 14"Nonstop"Drake58.6 million [32]
July 21"In My Feelings"71.7 million [33]
July 28116.2 million [34]
August 4106.2 million [35]
August 1195.4 million [36]
August 1892.7 million [37]
August 2571 million [38]
September 159.4 million [39]
September 850.5 million [40]
September 15"Lucky You" Eminem featuring Joyner Lucas 42.2 million [41]
September 22"I Love It"Kanye West and Lil Pump 46.6 million [42]
September 2944.8 million [43]
October 6"Lucid Dreams"Juice WRLD41.6 million [44]
October 13"Mona Lisa" Lil Wayne featuring Kendrick Lamar 43 million [45]
October 20"Drip Too Hard"Lil Baby and Gunna 41.3 million [46]
October 27"Zeze" Kodak Black featuring Travis Scott and Offset 47.6 million [47]
November 342.2 million [48]
November 1039.5 million [49]
November 17"Thank U, Next" Ariana Grande 55.5 million [50]
November 2463.4 million [51]
December 143.8 million [52]
December 842.5 million [53]
December 1593.8 million [54]
December 2250.7 million [55]
December 2943.5 million [56]

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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.

"In My Feelings" is a song by Canadian rapper Drake from his fifth studio album Scorpion (2018). It was released to rhythmic and contemporary hit radio on July 10, 2018, as the album's fifth single. The song features additional vocals by the City Girls, though they are uncredited on the official version. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for ten weeks and broke several records.

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