List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2020
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 MRC Data, 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. So far, twenty-five artists have reached the top of the Hot 100 in 2020, with fourteen—Roddy Ricch, The Scotts, Kid Cudi, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, 6ix9ine, Harry Styles, BTS, M.I.A., Jawsh 685, 24kGoldn and Iann Dior—achieving their first number-one single. Ricch, Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion, Travis Scott, and BTS have scored two number-one singles each, and Ariana Grande has scored three.
For the first time since 1990, six songs topped the Hot 100 in six consecutive weeks, namely "The Scotts" by The Scotts (Travis Scott and Kid Cudi), "Say So" by Doja Cat featuring Minaj, "Stuck with U" by Grande and Justin Bieber, "Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé, "Rain on Me" by Lady Gaga and Grande, and "Rockstar" by DaBaby featuring Ricch. Billboard highlighted this unusual amount of turnover for the number-one spot on the chart, and cited many reasons to this phenomenon—song remixes, organized fan buying/streaming activities and the release of numerous collectible physical copies (CDs and vinyls) and bundles by artists to encourage their fans to purchase multiple copies of a song. This made the Hot 100 chart "more of a first-week factor than usual", explaining the drop in sales units of a song after it peaked at the number-one spot.[1]
In July 2020, Billboard announced that the Hot 100 chart "will no longer allow" the sales of physical/digital bundles (physical singles that are clubbed with digital downloads) to be reported as digital sales, which is a "widespread" industry practice of not manufacturing and shipping the vinyls, CDs and other physical copies to consumers for weeks or months, but making the bundled digital download instantly redeemable, a tactic generally used by artists like Grande, Bieber and 6ix9ine to boost their chart positions; Billboard asserted that those physical singles will only be counted when they are shipped to the consumer, making the tactic "ineffectual".[2]
The year 2020 broke the record for the calendar year that spawned the most number-one debuts on the Hot 100; as of the chart dated November 7, 2020, ten songs debuted atop the Hot 100: Drake's "Toosie Slide", "The Scotts" by The Scotts (Scott and Cudi), "Stuck With U" by Grande and Bieber, "Rain On Me" by Gaga and Grande, "Trollz" by 6ix9ine and Minaj, Taylor Swift's "Cardigan", Cardi B's "WAP" featuring Megan Thee Stallion, BTS's "Dynamite", Scott's "Franchise" featuring Young Thug and M.I.A., and Grande's "Positions".[3] 2020 further marked the first calendar year in Hot 100 history to have more than one all-female collaboration reach the number-one spot, with four so far.[4]
Contents
Chart history
No. | Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Ref. |
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1095 | January 4 | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | Mariah Carey | [5][6] |
re | January 11 | "Circles" | Post Malone | [7][8] |
1096 | January 18 | "The Box" | Roddy Ricch | [9][10] |
January 25 | [11][12] | |||
February 1 | [13][14] | |||
February 8 | [15][16] | |||
February 15 | [17][18] | |||
February 22 | [19][20] | |||
February 29 | [21][22] | |||
March 7 | [23][24] | |||
March 14 | [25][26] | |||
March 21 | [27][28] | |||
March 28 | [29][30] | |||
1097 | April 4 | "Blinding Lights" | The Weeknd | [31][32] |
April 11 | [33][34] | |||
1098 | April 18 | "Toosie Slide" | Drake | [35][36] |
re | April 25 | "Blinding Lights" | The Weeknd | [37][38] |
May 2 | [39][40] | |||
1099 | May 9 | "The Scotts" | The Scotts,[lower-alpha 1] Travis Scott and Kid Cudi | [41][42] |
1100 | May 16 | "Say So" | Doja Cat featuring Nicki Minaj | [43][44] |
1101 | May 23 | "Stuck with U" | Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber | [45][46] |
1102 | May 30 | "Savage" | Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé | [47][48] |
1103 | June 6 | "Rain on Me" | Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande | [49][50] |
1104 | June 13 | "Rockstar" | DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch | [51][52] |
June 20 | [53][54] | |||
1105 | June 27 | "Trollz" | 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj | [55][56] |
re | July 4 | "Rockstar" | DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch | [57][58] |
July 11 | [59][60] | |||
July 18 | [61][62] | |||
July 25 | [63][64] | |||
August 1 | [65][66] | |||
1106 | August 8 | "Cardigan" | Taylor Swift | [67][68] |
1107 | August 15 | "Watermelon Sugar" | Harry Styles | [69][70] |
1108 | August 22 | "WAP" | Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion | [4][71][72] |
August 29 | [73][74] | |||
1109 | September 5 | "Dynamite" | BTS | [75][76] |
September 12 | [77][78] | |||
re | September 19 | "WAP" | Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion | [79][80] |
September 26 | [81][82] | |||
re | October 3 | "Dynamite" | BTS | [83][84] |
1110 | October 10 | "Franchise" | Travis Scott featuring Young Thug and M.I.A. | [85][86] |
1111 | October 17 | "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" | Jawsh 685, Jason Derulo and BTS | [87][88] |
1112 | October 24 | "Mood" | 24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior | [89][90] |
October 31 | [91][92] | |||
1113 | November 7 | "Positions" | Ariana Grande | [3][93] |
re | November 14 | "Mood" | 24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior | [94][95] |
November 21 | [96] |
Notes
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See also
- 2020 in American music
- List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2020
- List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2020
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