These are the biggest #1 pop songs in the history of the United States pop charts from 1890 to present. Songs could have hit #1 on any of the following charts:
- the pre-Hot 100 pop charts, 1890-1955 (BB)
- Billboard Hot 100 chart, 1955-present (BB)
- Billboard Best Sellers chart, 1940-1958 (BS)
- Billboard Disc Jockey Hits, 1944-1958 (DJ)
- Billboard Juke Box Hits, 1940-1957 (JB)
- Billboard pop airplay chart, 1984-present (BA)
- Billboard digital chart, 2005-present (DG)
- Billboard streaming chart, 2013-present (ST)
- Hit Parade, 1935-1955 (HP)
- Cashbox, 1950-1996 (CB)
- Hit Records, 1954-1982 (HR)
- Radio & Records/Mediabase, 1973-2015 (RR)
All songs with 10 or more weeks on any of these charts are listed. If a song hit #1 on more than chart, only the chart where the song had the most weeks is noted. However, at times Hit Parade and Cashbox did not designate a specific artist with the #1 song. For example, “Some Enchanted Evening” was a #1 song on Hit Parade in 1949, but because there were multiple versions of the song out at the time, it wasn’t credited to any specific artist. In such cases, this list attributes the song only to an artist if that artist also hit #1 on another of the noted charts.
One last note – in the event of ties, songs are ranked according to most overall points in Dave’s Music Database. For songs which hit #1 multiple times, the version which accumulated the most points is used.
See other chart-based lists here.
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