List of Billboard Global 200 number ones of 2021

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Canadian singer Justin Bieber topped the Global 200 for 13 weeks and the Global Excl. US for 14 weeks, aided by two number-one singles "Peaches" and the Kid Laroi collaboration "Stay". Justin Bieber in Rosemont, Illinois (2015).jpg
Canadian singer Justin Bieber topped the Global 200 for 13 weeks and the Global Excl. US for 14 weeks, aided by two number-one singles "Peaches" and the Kid Laroi collaboration "Stay".

The Billboard Global 200 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs globally. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by MRC Data, is based on digital sales and online streaming from over 200 territories worldwide. Another similar chart is the Billboard Global Excl. US chart, which follows the same formula except it covers all territories excluding the US.

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On the Global 200, fourteen singles reached number one in 2021. In addition, two other number-one singles, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey and "Dynamite" by BTS, had each previously hit number one in 2020. Sixteen artists reached the top of the chart, with thirteen—Olivia Rodrigo, Drake, Rosé, Justin Bieber, Daniel Caesar, Giveon, Lil Nas X, The Weeknd, Ed Sheeran, the Kid Laroi, Coldplay, Adele, and Taylor Swift—achieving their first number-one single. BTS scored three number-one singles while Rodrigo and Bieber scored two each, as the only acts to achieve multiple number-one songs in 2021. Olivia Rodrigo spent the most weeks at the top spot with 14 non-consecutive weeks at number one, while "Stay" by Justin Bieber and the Kid Laroi is the longest reigning number-one song with 11 weeks atop the chart.

On the Global Excl. US, eleven singles reached number one in 2021. In addition, two other number-one singles, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey and "Dynamite" by BTS, had each previously hit number one in 2020. Thirteen artists reached the top of the chart, with eleven—Olivia Rodrigo, Rosé, Justin Bieber, Daniel Caesar, Giveon, Lil Nas X, Ed Sheeran, the Kid Laroi, Coldplay, Adele, and Taylor Swift—achieving their first number-one single. BTS scored three number-one singles while Justin Bieber scored two, as the only acts to achieve multiple number-one songs in 2021. Bieber also spent the most weeks at the top spot with 14 non-consecutive weeks at number one. Bieber and the Kid Laroi's song "Stay" is tied with Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" as the longest reigning number-one song of 2021, each with nine weeks atop the chart.

Chart history

Key
†The #1 song of 2021 on the Global 200, "Levitating" by Dua Lipa, never reached #1 on the weekly charts. [1]
‡Indicates best-performing song of 2021 on the Global Excl. US [2]
Issue dateBillboard Global 200Billboard Global Excl. USRef.
SongArtist(s)SongArtist(s)
January 2"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey "All I Want for Christmas Is You"Mariah Carey [3]
January 9"Dynamite" ‡ BTS [4]
January 16"Dynamite"BTS [5]
January 23"Drivers License" Olivia Rodrigo "Drivers License"Olivia Rodrigo [6]
January 30 [7]
February 6 [8]
February 13 [9]
February 20 [10]
February 27 [11]
March 6 [12]
March 13 [13]
March 20"What's Next" Drake [14]
March 27"On the Ground" Rosé "On the Ground"Rosé [15]
April 3"Peaches" Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar and Giveon "Peaches"Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar and Giveon [16]
April 10 [17]
April 17"Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" Lil Nas X [18]
April 24 [19]
May 1 [20]
May 8"Save Your Tears" The Weeknd and Ariana Grande "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)"Lil Nas X [21]
May 15"Montero (Call Me by Your Name)"Lil Nas X [22]
May 22 [23]
May 29"Good 4 U"Olivia Rodrigo [24]
June 5"Butter"BTS"Butter"BTS [25]
June 12 [26]
June 19"Good 4 U"Olivia Rodrigo [27]
June 26 [28]
July 3 [29]
July 10"Bad Habits" Ed Sheeran [30]
July 17 [31]
July 24"Permission to Dance"BTS"Permission to Dance"BTS [32]
July 31"Bad Habits"Ed Sheeran"Bad Habits"Ed Sheeran [33]
August 7"Stay" The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber [34]
August 14 [35]
August 21"Stay"The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber [36]
August 28 [37]
September 4 [38]
September 11 [39]
September 18 [40]
September 25 [41]
October 2 [42]
October 9"My Universe" Coldplay and BTS"My Universe"Coldplay and BTS [43]
October 16"Stay"The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber"Stay"The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber [44]
October 23 [45]
October 30"Easy on Me" Adele "Easy on Me"Adele [46]
November 6 [47]
November 13 [48]
November 20 [49]
November 27"All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" Taylor Swift "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)"Taylor Swift [50]
December 4"Easy on Me"Adele"Easy on Me"Adele [51]
December 11 [52]
December 18"All I Want for Christmas Is You"Mariah Carey [53]
December 25"All I Want for Christmas Is You"Mariah Carey [54]

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