Longest-Running Number-One Songs on the Billboard Hot 100
About This Dataset
Longest-Running Number-One Songs on the Billboard Hot 100'Old Town Road' rewrote the record book in 2019 with 19 weeks at number one - and it did so as a viral novelty that country radio initially rejected, proof that streaming had wrested control of the charts from radio programmers. The three songs tied at 16 weeks span three decades and three genres: Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's 'One Sweet Day' (1995), the Spanish-language 'Despacito' (2017), and Morgan Wallen's country hit 'Last Night' (2023). Notably, five of the eight songs on this list reached their record runs after 2017, when streaming began counting heavily toward the chart - long reigns have become more common as passive listening keeps hits on top. Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' remains the longest-running number one of the pre-streaming era.
Key Findings
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Billboard
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Weeks at Number One
- Last updated
- 6 July 2026
- Compiled by
- 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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