The List of number-one digital songs of 2015 in the United States are based upon the highest-selling digital singles ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
† | Indicates best-charting digital song of 2015 [1] |
Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Weekly sales | Ref(s) |
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January 3 | "Uptown Funk" † | Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars | 288,000 | [2] |
January 10 | "Blank Space" | Taylor Swift | 503,000 | [3] |
January 17 | "Uptown Funk" † | Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars | 382,000 | [4] |
January 24 | 341,000 | [5] | ||
January 31 | 400,000 | [6] | ||
February 7 | 341,000 | [7] | ||
February 14 | 365,000 | [8] | ||
February 21 | 319,000 | [9] | ||
February 28 | "Thinking Out Loud" | Ed Sheeran | 314,000 | [10] |
March 7 | "Uptown Funk" † | Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars | 257,000 | [11] |
March 14 | 240,000 | [12] | ||
March 21 | 210,000 | [13] | ||
March 28 | 189,000 | [14] | ||
April 4 | 187,000 | [15] | ||
April 11 | 165,000 | [16] | ||
April 18 | "See You Again" | Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth | 168,000 | [17] |
April 25 | 464,000 | [18] [19] | ||
May 2 | 375,000 | [20] | ||
May 9 | 316,000 | [21] | ||
May 16 | 285,000 | [22] | ||
May 23 | 251,000 | [23] | ||
May 30 | 229,000 | [24] | ||
June 6 | "Bad Blood" | Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar | 385,000 | [25] |
June 13 | 241,000 | [26] | ||
June 20 | 213,000 | [27] | ||
June 27 | 206,000 | [28] | ||
July 4 | 173,000 | [29] | ||
July 11 | "Good for You" | Selena Gomez featuring ASAP Rocky | 179,000 | [30] |
July 18 | "Cheerleader" | OMI | 170,000 | [31] |
July 25 | 276,000 | [32] | ||
August 1 | 172,000 | [33] | ||
August 8 | 163,000 | [34] | ||
August 15 | "Can't Feel My Face" | The Weeknd | 148,000 | [35] |
August 22 | "Drag Me Down" | One Direction | 350,000 | [36] |
August 29 | "Can't Feel My Face" | The Weeknd | 119,000 | [37] |
September 5 | 109,000 | [38] | ||
September 12 | "Locked Away" | R. City featuring Adam Levine | 92,000 | [39] |
September 19 | "What Do You Mean?" | Justin Bieber | 337,000 | [40] |
September 26 | 159,000 | [41] | ||
October 3 | 128,000 | [42] | ||
October 10 | "The Hills" | The Weeknd | 110,000 | [43] |
October 17 | 105,000 | [44] | ||
October 24 | "Hotline Bling" | Drake | 121,000 | [45] |
October 31 | "The Hills" | The Weeknd | 189,000 | [46] |
November 7 | "Hotline Bling" | Drake | 153,000 | [47] |
November 14 | "Hello" | Adele | 1,112,000 | [48] |
November 21 | 635,000 | [49] | ||
November 28 | 480,000 | [50] | ||
December 5 | 327,000 | [51] | ||
December 12 | "Sorry" | Justin Bieber | 178,000 | [52] |
December 19 | "Hello" | Adele | 233,000 | [53] |
December 26 | "Somebody to Love" | Jordan Smith | 164,000 | [54] |
The Digital Songs or Digital Song Sales chart 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.
The Radio Songs chart is released weekly by Billboard magazine and measures the airplay of songs being played on radio stations throughout the United States across all musical genres. It is one of the three components, along with sales and streaming activity, that determine the chart positions of songs on the Billboard Hot 100.
English-American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, record producer and record executive Mark Ronson has released five studio albums and twenty-two singles.
American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars has released three studio albums, one collaborative studio album, one EP, 32 singles and four promotional singles. With estimated sales of over 26 million albums and 200 million singles worldwide, Mars is one of the best-selling artists of all time. Six of his singles are among the best-selling singles of all time: in order of release date, "Just the Way You Are", "Grenade", "The Lazy Song", "When I Was Your Man", "Uptown Funk" and "That's What I Like". According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), he has sold 91.5 million copies in the United States. His first two albums have sold 5.04 million copies in the US market alone. In 2012, Mars was named 2011's best selling music artist worldwide. In 2022, he became the first artist to receive six diamond certified songs in the United States.
"Uptown Funk" is a song by British record producer Mark Ronson and featuring American singer Bruno Mars. It was released on 10 November 2014, as the lead single from Ronson's fourth studio album, Uptown Special (2015). "Uptown Funk" was written by Ronson, Mars, Jeff Bhasker, and Philip Lawrence; it was produced by the aforementioned first three. The song began during a freestyle studio session while they worked on a jam Mars and his band had been playing on tour. Copyright controversies arose after the song's release resulting in multiple lawsuits and amendments to its songwriting credits.
The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards were held on August 30, 2015. The 32nd installment of the event was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, and hosted by Miley Cyrus. Taylor Swift led the nominations with a total of ten, followed by Ed Sheeran, who had six, bringing his total number of mentions to 13. Swift's "Wildest Dreams" music video premiered during the pre-show. Cyrus also announced and released her studio album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, right after her performance at the end of the show. During his acceptance speech, Kanye West announced that he would be running in the 2020 United States presidential election. Taylor Swift won the most awards with four, including Video of the Year and Best Female Video. The VMA trophies were redesigned by Jeremy Scott.
Now That's What I Call Music! 53 is the 53rd edition of the Now! series in the United States. It was released on February 3, 2015. It features 21 tracks including the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit "Uptown Funk".
"See You Again" is a song by American rapper Wiz Khalifa featuring American singer-songwriter Charlie Puth. It was commissioned for the soundtrack of the 2015 film Furious 7 as a tribute to Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker, who died in a single-vehicle crash on November 30, 2013. The song was released on March 10, 2015, as the soundtrack's lead single in the United States. It was later included as a bonus track on the international release of Puth's debut album, Nine Track Mind.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2015, the list was published on December 9, calculated with data from December 6, 2014, to November 28, 2015. The funk track "Uptown Funk" by British producer Mark Ronson, featuring American singer Bruno Mars, who co-wrote and voiced the lyrics was named the number 1 song of 2015, despite being released in late 2014. It spent the longest time at number 1 for the year, 14 weeks, and spent the entire year in the Top 40 region. This is also the joint-fifth longest time at number 1 for a single in the history of the Hot 100 post-1958 inception, after Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus's "Old Town Road", Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day" and Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber's "Despacito", and Harry Styles' "As It Was".