Most Billboard Hot 100 Number-One Singles by Artist
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Most Billboard Hot 100 Number-One Singles by ArtistThe Beatles' record of 20 number ones has now survived for over five decades, but Mariah Carey came remarkably close at 19 - and her total includes 'All I Want for Christmas Is You', which keeps returning to number one every December decades after release. The three-way tie at 13 between Michael Jackson, Drake and Taylor Swift captures three different eras of hit-making: Jackson earned his through radio and MTV, Drake through streaming volume, and Swift through fan-driven launch weeks, with her 2025 single debuting at the top. Rihanna's 14 number ones, achieved in under a decade of active releases, may be the most efficient run in chart history. Only two acts from the last 20 years appear here, showing how much harder repeated chart-topping has become in a fragmented market.
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- Data source
- Billboard
- Coverage
- 8 entities · As of 2025 · 8 observations
- Measure
- Number-One Singles
- Last updated
- 6 July 2026
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- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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