In 2016, Billboard magazine celebrated its 20th anniversary of the Adult Pop Songs chart, a chart which it referred to as “Top 40 for people over 25.” They published a list of the top 50 “Greatest Of All Time Adult Pop Songs.” Dave’s Music Database has reworked the list to rank the songs based on most weeks at #1 and then, for ties, by overall points in Dave’s Music Database. All songs which spent at least 5 weeks at #1 are in the list below, pushing this a few notches past a top 100 list.
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25 weeks:
- Santana with Rob Thomas “Smooth” (1999)
23 weeks:
- The Calling “Wherever You Will Go” (2001)
20 weeks:
- The Weeknd “Blinding Lights” (2019)
18 weeks:
- Nickelback “Photograph” (2005)
- Matchbox 20 “Unwell” (2002)
17 weeks:
- Goo Goo Dolls “Iris” (1998)
16 weeks:
- Avril Lavigne “Complicated” (2002)
15 weeks:
- The Fray “How to Save a Life” (2005)
- Panic! At the Disco “High Hopes” (2018)
14 weeks:
- No Doubt “Don’t Speak” (1995)
- Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (2017)
- Natalie Imbruglia “Torn” (1997)
- Train “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” (2001)
- Maroon 5 “Memories” (2019)
- Vertical Horizon “Everything You Want’ (1999)
13 weeks:
- Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
- Maroon 5 “This Love” (2002)
- 3 Doors Down “Here Without You” (2002)
- Matchbox 20 “Bent” (2000)
- Maroon 5 “She Will Be Loved” (2002)
- Colbie Caillat “Bubbly” (2007)
- Matchbox 20 “If You’re Gone” (2000)
- Santana with Michelle Branch “The Game of Love” (2002)
12 weeks:
- Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017)
- Celine Dion “Because You Loved Me” (1996)
- Daniel Powter “Bad Day” (2005)
11 weeks:
- Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (2004)
- Kings of Leon “Use Somebody” (2008)
- Pink with Nate Ruess “Just Give Me a Reason” (2012)
10 weeks:
- Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” (2007)
- Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men “One Sweet Day” (1995)
- Hoobastank “The Reason” (2003)
- Sugar Ray “Every Morning” (1998)
- Avirl Lavigne “I’m with You” (2002)
- Rob Thomas “Lonely No More” (2005)
- KT Tunstall “Black Horse & the Cherry Tree” (2004)
- Matchbox 20 “3 A.M.” (1996)
- Daughtry “Home” (2007)
9 weeks:
- Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect” (2017)
- Adele “Someone Like You (2011)
- Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (2016)
- Lady Antebellum “Need You Now” (2009)
- Katy Perry with Snoop Dogg “California Gurls” (2010)
- Sara Bareilles “Love Song” (2007)
- Kelly Clarkson “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” (2011)
- Jonas Brothers “Sucker” (2019)
- Smash Mouth “All Star” (1999)
- The Fray “You Found Me” (2008)
- Lifehouse “You and Me” (2005)
- Dido “Thank You” (2000)
- Maroon 5 with Kendrick Lamar “Don’t Wanna Know” (2016)
- Sheryl Crow “Soak Up the Sun” (2002)
- Daughtry “It’s Not Over” (2006)
- Santana with Chad Kroeger or Alex Band “Why Don’t You and I?” (2002)
8 weeks:
- Jason Mraz “I’m Yours” (2008)
- Taylor Swift “Shake It Off” (2014)
- The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (2012)
- Donna Lewis “I Love You Always Forever” (1996)
- Creed “With Arms Wide Open” (1999)
- Maroon 5 “One More Night” (2012)
- Walk the Moon “Shut Up and Dance” (2014)
- Tracy Chapman “Give Me One Reason” (1995)
- Shawn Mullins “Lullaby (Rock-a-Bye)” (1998)
- Ava Max “Kings & Queens” (2020)
- Kelly Clarkson “Already Gone” (2009)
- Goo Goo Dolls “Give a Little Bit” (2004)
7 weeks:
- Adele “Hello” (2015)
- Sia with Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills” (2016)
- One Republic “Counting Stars” (2013)
- Fergie “Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)” (2006)
- The Chainsmokers with Coldplay “Something Just Like This” (2017)
- Eric Clapton “Change the World” (1996)
- Pink “Raise Your Glass” (2010)
- Ed Sheeran with Justin Bieber “I Don’t Care” (2019)
- Imagine Dragons “Thunder” (2017)
- Shawn Colvin “Sunny Came Home” (1996)
- Zedd with Meren Morris & Grey “The Middle” (2018)
- Sarah McLachlan “Angel” (1997)
- Shinedown “Second Chance” (2008)
- Pink “Fuckin’ Perfect” (2010)
- The Script “Breakeven” (2008)
- Sister Hazel “All for You” (1997)
- Sophie B. Hawkins “As I Lay Me Down” (1995)
6 weeks:
- Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2011)
- Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2013)
- Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines” (2013)
- Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud” (2014)
- Coldplay “Viva La Vida” (2008)
- Seal “Kiss from a Rose” (1994)
- Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (2014)
- One Republic with Timbaland “Apologize” (2006)
- Ricky Martin “Livin’ La Vida Loca” (1999)
- Train “Hey, Soul Sister” (2009)
- Maroon 5 with Wiz Khalifa “Payphone” (2012)
- Jewel “You Were Meant for Me” (1995)
- Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved” (2018)
- Imagine Dragons “Believer” (2017)
- Shawn Mendes “Treat You Better” (2016)
- Ed Sheeran “Photograph” (2014)
- Paula Cole “I Don’t Want to Wait” (1996)
- Nickelback “If Everyone Cared” (2005)
- Kelly Clarkson “Mr. Know It All” (2011)
5 weeks:
- Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)” (2010)
- Justin Bieber “Love Yourself” (2015)
- Katy Perry “Firework” (2010)
- Katy Perry “Roar” (2013)
- James Blunt “You’re Beautiful” (2004)
- Magic! “Rude” (2013)
- Chumbawamba “Tubthumping” (1997)
- Lifehouse “Hanging by a Moment” (2000)
- The Wallflowers “One Headlight” (1996)
- Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now” (2019)
- Jewel “Foolish Games” (1995)
- Nickelback “Far Away” (2005)
- Shawn Mendes “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” (2016)
- Benny Blanco with Halsey & Khalid “Eastside” (2018)
- Pink “Blow Me One Last Kiss” (2012)
- Train “Calling All Angels” (2003)
- Kelly Clarkson “Behind These Hazel Eyes” (2004)
- Nickelback “Gotta Be Somebody” (2008)
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First posted 4/28/2019; last updated 5/8/2021. |
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