The Billboard Hot is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan , 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. Of those eleven number-one singles, four were collaborations. Drake 's " God's Plan " was the longest-running number-one of the year, leading the chart for eleven weeks; it subsequently topped the Billboard Year-End Hot Drake beat the record for most weeks at number one in a year for a single artist, with 29 weeks at number one. XXXTentacion became the first artist to have a posthumous number one since Static Major featured on Lil Wayne 's " Lollipop " in and the first artist to lead the chart with a posthumous number one since The Notorious B. Drake and Cardi B were the only acts to have multiple number one songs in , with Drake having the most with three and Cardi B with two. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved December 4, Retrieved December 27,
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The Billboard Streaming Songs chart ranks each week's most-streamed radio songs, on-demand songs and videos on leading online music services in the United States. In , 20 songs by 24 artist reached the top. The first number one song of the year was Ed Sheeran 's " Perfect " alongside Beyonce. Post Malone 's and 21 Savage 's " Rockstar " spent 12 weeks atop in late and topped the chart for two more weeks in January for a total of 14 weeks. Furthermore, it became the second song to be ever streamed more than million times within one week, since Baauer 's " Harlem Shake " in early
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When talking about so far at Billboard , it's hard to avoid the fact that the chart year has only had 24 editions of the Hot , and Drake has been No. It's the most that any one artist has dominated the listing's top spot in a year's first six months this decade -- though shout-out to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' combined 11 weeks on top in the first half of -- and it essentially leaves the non-Drake part of the field wide open when it comes to discussing the year's best and biggest singles. But that's fine. Beyond the Drakening, has been a year of pleasant surprises on the charts: All-Star teamups we didn't see coming, previously unknown artists coming out with left-field hits, and a handful of big-name comebacks taking us to unexpected new places, all of which made the predictability at pop's highest level forgivable.
The track, which spent eight weeks at Number 1 between April and June, takes the top spot on the chart of the year with a combined sales figure of 1. The song, which trailed his fifth album Scorpion, spent nine weeks at the helm between February and April. Drake may have just missed out on the top spot, but he bags two more spots in the Top fellow chart-toppers Nice For What and In My Feelings place at 7 and God's Plan also finishes as the year's most streamed song with m plays. See Drake's full UK Chart history here. In December, a landmark 2 billion audio streams were served in a single week for the first time. Shotgun by George Ezra was the official song of the summer , and it's the third biggest track of with 1. Check out George Ezra's biggest songs on the Official Chart.
