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This is a list of singles that have peaked in the top 10 of the French Singles Chart in 2021. 77 singles were in the top 10 this year which 16 were on the number-one spot.
| Artist(s) | Single | Peak | Peak date | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booba | "Azerty" | 10 | 2 January | [1] |
| Ed Sheeran | "Afterglow" | 8 | 2 January | |
| Mariah Carey | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | 1 | 2 January | |
| Julien Doré | "Nous" | 3 | 9 January | [2] |
| Collectif Artistes azuréens 06 | "Nos vallées" | 5 | 16 January | [3] |
| Sia | "Courage to Change" | 8 | 23 January | [4] |
| Cascadeur | "Meaning" | 10 | 6 February | [5] |
| Booba | "Ratpi World" | 4 | 6 February | |
| Hoshi | "Et même après je t'aimerai" | 3 | 13 February | [6] |
| Barbara Pravi | "Voilà" | 1 | 13 February | |
| M. Pokora and Dadju | "Si on disait" | 1 | 20 February | [7] |
| Julien Clerc | "Mon refuge" | 10 | 27 February | [8] |
| Kendji Girac | "Évidemment" | 6 | 27 February | |
| Benjamin Biolay | "Comment est ta peine" | 2 | 27 February | |
| Black Eyed Peas and Shakira | "Girl Like Me" | 2 | 6 March | [9] |
| Orelsan | "Suicide social" | 1 | 6 March | |
| Tayc | "Le temps" | 1 | 13 March | [10] |
| Booba and JSX | "Mona Lisa" | 10 | 20 March | [11] |
| Camille Lellouche | "N'insiste pas" | 4 | 20 March | |
| Grand Corps Malade | "Mesdames" | 1 | 20 March | |
| Gilbert Bécaud | "Je reviens te chercher" | 9 | 27 March | [12] |
| Rosé | "On the Ground" | 7 | 27 March | |
| Les Enfoirés | "Maintenant" | 6 | 27 March | |
| The Weeknd | "Save Your Tears" | 1 | 27 March | |
| Lorenzo de Blanck | "This Is Acid" | 9 | 3 April | [13] |
| Loïc Nottet | "Mr/Mme" | 7 | 3 April | |
| Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak | "Leave the Door Open" | 2 | 3 April | |
| Jason Derulo and Nuka | "Love Not War (The Tampa Beat)" | 8 | 10 April | [14] |
| Lil Nas X | "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" | 5 | 10 April | |
| Dadju, Gims and Slimane | "Belle" | 4 | 17 April | [15] |
| BTS | "Film Out" | 3 | 17 April | |
| Amel Bent and Hatik | "1, 2, 3" | 2 | 17 April | |
| Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon | "Peaches" | 4 | 24 April | [16] |
| Clara Luciani | "Le reste" | 2 | 24 April | |
| Faouzia and John Legend | "Minefields" | 2 | 1 May | [17] |
| Kimberose | "Back on My Feet" | 10 | 15 May | [18] |
| Booba | "Kayna" | 3 | 22 May | [19] |
| Coldplay | "Higher Power" | 2 | 22 May | |
| Frankie Goes to Hollywood | "The Power of Love" | 6 | 29 May | [20] |
| Grand Corps Malade and Louane | "Derrière le brouillard" | 1 | 29 May | |
| Måneskin | "Zitti e buoni" | 9 | 5 June | [21] |
| Vianney | "Dabali" | 7 | 5 June | |
| BTS | "Butter" | 1 | 5 June | |
| Booba | "Plaza Athénée" | 8 | 12 June | [22] |
| Pink and Willow Sage Hart | "Cover Me in Sunshine" | 4 | 12 June | |
| Justin Wellington featuring Small Jam | "Iko Iko (My Bestie)" | 1 | 12 June | |
| Martin Garrix featuring Bono and the Edge | "We Are the People" | 8 | 26 June | [23] |
| Soso Maness featuring PLK | "Petrouchka" | 6 | 26 June | |
| Reik, Rocco Hunt and Ana Mena | "A un Paso de la Luna" | 4 | 26 June | |
| Naps | "La kiffance" | 5 | 3 July | [24] |
| BTS | "Permission to Dance" | 1 | 24 July | [25] |
| Kungs | "Never Going Home" | 1 | 31 July | [26] |
| Ed Sheeran | "Bad Habits" | 1 | 7 August | [27] |
| The Weeknd | "Take My Breath" | 7 | 21 August | [28] |
| Polo & Pan | "Ani Kuni" | 4 | 21 August | |
| Shouse | "Love Tonight" | 2 | 21 August | |
| Elton John and Dua Lipa | "Cold Heart" | 1 | 11 September | [29] |
| Booba | "Variant" | 6 | 18 September | [30] |
| ABBA | "Don't Shut Me Down" | 5 | 18 September | |
| Lisa | "Lalisa" | 8 | 25 September | [31] |
| Angeli | "Le Professionnel" | 5 | 25 September | |
| Ennio Morricone | "Chi Mai" | 3 | 25 September | |
| F. R. David | "Words" | 8 | 2 October | [32] |
| Farruko | "Pepas" | 5 | 9 October | [33] |
| Coldplay and BTS | "My Universe" | 1 | 9 October | |
| Yseult | "Corps" | 9 | 16 October | [34] |
| The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber | "Stay" | 4 | 16 October | |
| CKay featuring Joeboy and Kuami Eugene | "Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah)" | 3 | 16 October | |
| Stromae | "Santé" | 2 | 30 October | [35] |
| Adele | "Easy on Me" | 1 | 30 October | |
| Ed Sheeran | "Shivers" | 3 | 13 November | [36] |
| Jin | "Yours" | 10 | 20 November | [37] |
| Booba | "Leo Messi" | 8 | 20 November | |
| Grand Corps Malade and Kimberose | "Nos plus belles années" | 2 | 20 November | |
| Orelsan | "L'odeur de l'essence" | 8 | 4 December | [38] |
| Ed Sheeran and Elton John | "Merry Christmas" | 6 | 18 December | [39] |
| Angèle | "Bruxelles je t'aime" | 6 | 1 January | [40] |
The following table shows artists who achieved two or more top 10 entries in 2021. The figures include both main artists and featured artists and the peak position in brackets.
| Entries | Artist | Singles |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Booba | "Azerty" (10), "Ratpi World" (4), "Mona Lisa" (10), "Kayna" (3), "Plaza Athénée" (8), "Variant" (6), "Leo Messi" (8) |
| 4 | BTS | "Film Out" (3), "Butter" (1), "Permission to Dance" (1), "My Universe" (1) |
| Ed Sheeran | "Afterglow" (8), "Bad Habits" (1), "Shivers" (3), "Merry Christmas" (6) | |
| 3 | Grand Corps Malade | "Mesdames" (1), "Derrière le brouillard" (1), "Nos plus belles années" (2) |
| 2 | Coldplay | "Higher Power" (2), "My Universe" (1) |
| Dadju | "Si on disait" (1), "Belle" (4) | |
| Elton John | "Cold Heart" (1), "Merry Christmas" (6) | |
| Justin Bieber | "Peaches" (4), "Stay" (4) | |
| Kimberose | "Back on My Feet" (10), "Nos plus belles années" (2) | |
| Orelsan | "Suicide social" (1), "L'odeur de l'essence" (8) | |
| The Weeknd | "Save Your Tears" (1), "Take My Breath" (7) |
American singer Mariah Carey has released 88 official singles, 22 promotional singles, and has made 30 guest appearances. Her self-titled debut album in 1990 yielded four number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, the first being "Vision of Love", a song credited with revolutionizing the usage of distinguished vocal stylings, predominantly the practice of melisma, and effectively influencing virtually every female R&B performer since the 1990s. Subsequent singles "Emotions" (1991) and Carey's cover of the Jackson 5 track, "I'll Be There" (1992) continued the singer's streak of US number-one singles, with the latter becoming her fourth chart-topper in Canada and first in the Netherlands. With the release of Carey's third studio album, Music Box (1993), the singer's international popularity surged upon release of "Hero" and the album's third single, her cover of Harry Nilsson's "Without You", which became the singer's first number-one single in several countries across Europe.
American singer Britney Spears has released nine studio albums, eight compilation albums, nine box sets, three extended plays (EPs), 50 singles, 11 promotional singles, two charity singles, and has made three guest appearances. In 1997, Spears signed a recording contract with American record label Jive Records in order to launch her career.
American singer Madonna has released 94 singles and 24 promotional singles and charted with 23 other songs. Among those releases, a total of 44 Madonna singles have topped the official chart in at least one of the world's top 10 music markets, from "Like a Virgin" (1984) to "Give Me All Your Luvin'" (2012). Globally, she has sold more than 100 million singles, which were predominantly in physical formats. According to Billboard, Madonna is the most successful solo artist in Hot 100 chart history, second overall behind the Beatles. In the United Kingdom, Madonna has scored a total of 64 top-ten hits and 12 number-two peaks. In 2012, she was ranked as the best-selling singles female artist in the UK with 17.6 million singles sold. At the 40th anniversary of the GfK Media Control Charts, Madonna was ranked as the most successful singles artist in German chart history. Her long-standing success with the single format was remarked upon in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), where editors wrote that she is a "deserving candidate for the title of greatest singles artist since the 1960s heyday of the single"; the staff of Slant commented in 2020 that "by every objective measure, she's the most successful singles artist of all time".
American singer Christina Aguilera has released nine studio albums, two extended plays (EPs), six compilation albums, one soundtrack album, 54 singles, and 17 promotional singles. To date, Aguilera has sold around over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling female music artist of all time. Billboard ranked Aguilera as the 37th Greatest Hot 100 Women of All Time and the 44th Greatest Billboard 200 Women of All Time. In the United States alone, Aguilera has sold 18.3 million albums. Through the RIAA she has 18.6 million certified albums units and 10 million certified digital singles units. Aguilera is recognized as the 20th best-selling artist of the 2000s. She has also achieved 10 number one hits on Billboard's Dance Club Songs. In the United Kingdom, Aguilera has sold over 3.3 million albums and 6.1 million singles.
American rock band Evanescence has released five studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, two demo albums, three extended plays, eighteen singles, nine promotional singles, two video albums, and eighteen music videos. Evanescence was founded in 1994 by Amy Lee and Ben Moody in Little Rock, Arkansas. The band's lineup comprises Lee, guitarist Troy McLawhorn, guitarist Tim McCord, drummer Will Hunt, and bassist Emma Anzai. As of 2022, the band has sold over 31.9 million albums.
American singer and songwriter Pink has released nine studio albums, one live album, five video albums, six compilation albums, 59 singles, six promotional singles, and 51 music videos. Throughout her career, Pink has sold 60 million albums, 75 million singles and 2.4 million DVDs worldwide. According to RIAA, she has sold 18 million albums and 13.5 million digital singles. She is also UK's second best-selling female artist of the 21st century. Billboard ranked her as the fifth top female artist of the 2000s, eighth top female artist of the 2010s and the 59th greatest artist of all time. Official Charts Company hailed her as UK's most played female artist of the 21st century.
Canadian singer Celine Dion has released 137 singles in both English and French discography as a lead artist. According to Billboard magazine, Dion is the world's best-selling contemporary female artist of all time. As of 2021, she has reportedly sold around 200 to 250 million records worldwide. Referred to as the "Queen of Power Ballads", Dion has released a string of worldwide hits, with "My Heart Will Go On" being her career's biggest hit, with estimated physical sales of over 18 million worldwide, making it the 2nd best-selling physical single by a woman in history. It reached over 117 million radio impressions during its peak, becoming the most-played radio hit in history and became the best-selling single of 1998 worldwide. "Because You Loved Me" is her biggest hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, spending six weeks atop the chart and selling six million copies in its first six months of availability worldwide. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" was the 4th biggest hit of the 1990s in France and has sold over four million copies worldwide.
English singer-songwriter Adele has released four studio albums, one video album, two extended plays, 17 singles and eleven music videos. Adele has sold over 70 million in pure album sales and over 100 million in album equivalent units worldwide over four studio albums and one video album as of December 2021. She was named the best-selling album artist of the 2010s decade in the US and worldwide. She has also sold over 100 million in single sales with total sales records over 170 million as of December 2021. She also became the best-selling female artist of the 21st century in the UK. Her album 21 became the best-selling album of the 21st century.
American singer Katy Perry has released six studio albums, seven extended plays (EP), 39 singles, and 11 promotional singles. According to Recording Industry Association of America, Perry has sold 109.5 million digital singles and 17 million albums in the United States. She is also the sixth best-selling digital singles artist in the United States. Throughout her career, Perry has sold 48 million album units and 135 million singles worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Billboard listed her as the fourth top female artist of the 2010s decade and the 61st greatest artist of all time. Perry has scored nine number one songs on Billboard Hot 100 and three number one albums on Billboard 200.
American singer Lady Gaga has released five solo studio albums, two collaborative studio albums, two film soundtracks, three remix albums, two compilation albums, four EPs, two live albums, 39 singles, and 14 promotional singles. Gaga made her debut in August 2008 with the studio album The Fame, which peaked at number two in the United States, where it was subsequently certified triple Platinum, while topping the charts in Austria, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", reached number one in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and for the latter, becoming the world's biggest single of the 2009 calendar year. The album spawned three more singles: "Eh, Eh ", "LoveGame" and "Paparazzi". The latter reached the top ten in many countries worldwide, and number one in Germany.
Lady A are an American country music group composed of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood. They have released nine studio albums, two extended plays, two box sets, and 23 singles, not counting guest appearances or digital-only releases. The lead singers are Charles Kelly and Hillary Scott. All ten of their full-length releases have debuted in the top ten on the Top Country Albums chart, including five number-ones. They have sold 10.2 million albums in the US as of February 2016.
The singles discography of Australian singer, songwriter and actress Kylie Minogue consists of ninety-six singles and twenty-four promotional recordings. Referred as the “Princess of Pop” by various media outlets, she has sold more than 80 million records worldwide. In Australia, she has a total of ten number-one singles, twenty-three top-ten hits and forty-seven top-forty entries. In the United Kingdom, with seven number-one singles, eleven singles that peaked at number two, thirty-five top-ten hits and fifty-two top-forty entries, she is the twelfth-best-selling singles artist and the third-best-selling female artist of all time to date, selling over 10.1 million singles.
Australian rapper Iggy Azalea has released three studio albums, five extended plays (EPs), two mixtapes and seventeen singles. In September 2011, Azalea released her first mixtape, Ignorant Art. Following the release, Azalea signed a recording contract with T.I.'s record label Grand Hustle. In July 2012, she released a free EP entitled Glory, and in October of that year, Azalea released her second mixtape, TrapGold.
The discography of American singer, songwriter, and actress Ariana Grande consists of seven studio albums, two compilation albums, one live album, two extended plays (EPs), fifty-four singles, and fifteen promotional singles. Throughout her career thus far, Grande has sold over 90 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she has sold over 100 million units, across albums, singles, and features, and 10 million albums and 73.5 million digital singles units as a lead artist. In the U.S., Grande has moved 22.4 million album units, and garnered over 23.6 billion streams across lead artist credits, according to Luminate. Having amassed over 105 billion consumed streams thus far, Grande is the most streamed female artist ever. She is also the most streamed female artist of the 2010s on Spotify and Apple Music. She has amassed 73 chart entries on the Billboard Hot 100—the fourth most entries for a female artist—including eight number ones and 21 top-10 hits altogether so far. Grande was named the sixth top female artist of the 2010s decade, and was ranked among Billboard's Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists, at number 78. Grande is also one of the most certified female artists in the UK, with nearly 25 million units.
English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa has released two studio albums, two reissues, one remix album, five extended plays (EPs), thirty-four singles, ten promotional singles, two charity singles, and thirty-five music videos. After signing with Warner Bros. Records, she released her debut single "New Love" in 2015. The following year, she gained recognition through the singles "Hotter than Hell" and "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)". In June 2017 Lipa released her eponymous debut studio album, which reached the top 10 charts in Australia, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The album's chart-topping hits "Be the One", "New Rules" and "IDGAF" propelled Lipa to international fame.
"Perfect" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran from his third studio album, ÷ (2017). After the album's release, it charted at number four on the UK Singles Chart. On 21 August 2017, Billboard announced that "Perfect" would be the fourth single from the album. The song was serviced to pop radio on 26 September 2017 as the third single from the album in the United States. The second version of the single, titled "Perfect Duet", with American singer Beyoncé, was released on 1 December 2017. Another duet with Italian singer Andrea Bocelli, titled "Perfect Symphony", was released on 15 December 2017.
Barbadian singer Rihanna has released 53 singles as lead artist, 17 singles as a featured artist, two charity singles, and four promotional singles. One of the best-selling artists of all time, her albums and singles sales as of 2018 stood at 250 million. In the United States, Rihanna has amassed 14 number-one songs and 32 top-ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100. She has tallied 60 weeks at number one and is the artist with the most weeks in the top ten (360). The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recognized Rihanna as the top-selling female digital singles artist, with 166.5 million certified units as of August 2023.
The World Digital Song Sales chart is a weekly record chart compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine. Established in 2010—its first issue was dated January 23—as one of 21 genre-specific song charts launched by Billboard that year, it originally ranked the 25 best-selling digital singles in the World Music genre, but was reduced to 15 entries in November 2021, and then 10 entries, effective the issue dated October 28, 2023.