| First posted 3/27/2020. |
 | USA’s Biggest #1 Pop Songs:1890-2019 |
These are the songs from each year from 1890 to 2019 which spent the most weeks at #1 on the pop charts in the United States. These songs could have hit #1 on any of the following charts:
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- 2019: Roddy Rich “The Box” (ST: 12 wks)
- 2018: Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (ST: 20 wks)
- 2017: Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (DG: 17 wks)
- 2016: The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer” (DG: 13 wks)
- 2015: Desiigner “Panda” (ST: 14 wks)
- 2014: Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (BB: 14 wks)
- 2013: Miley Cyrus” Wrecking Ball” (ST: 13 wks)
- 2012: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Wanz “Thrift Shop” (DG: 10 wks)
- 2011: Rihanna with Calvin Harris “We Found Love” (BA: 12 wks)
- 2010: Eminem & Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie”…Eminem & Rihanna (BA: 8 wks)
- 2009: Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (BB: 14 wks)
- 2008: Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow” (BB: 12 wks)
- 2007: Alicia Keys “No One” (BA: 14 wks)
- 2006: Beyoncé “Irreplaceable” (BA: 11 wks)
- 2005: Mariah Carey “We Belong Together” (BA: 16 wks)
- 2004: Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!” (BB: 12 wks)
- 2003: OutKast “Hey Ya!” (BB: 9 wks)
- 2002: Eminem “Lose Yourself” (BB: 12 wks)
- 2001: Usher “U Got It Bad” (BA: 10 wks)
- 2000: Destiny’s Child “Independent Women” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1999: TLC “No Scrubs” (BA: 13 wks)
- 1998: Goo Goo Dolls “Iris” (BA: 18 wks)
- 1997: Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (BB: 14 wks)
- 1996: Celine Dion “Because You Loved Me” (BA: 14 wks)
- 1995: Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men “One Sweet Day” (BB: 16 wks)
- 1994: Boyz II Men “I’ll Make Love to You” (BB: 14 wks)
- 1993: Ace of Base “The Sign” (BA: 13 wks)
- 1992: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (BB: 14 wks)
- 1991: Paula Abdul “Rush Rush” (BA: 9 wks)
- 1990: Mariah Carey “Someday” (BA: 10 wks)
- 1989: Janet Jackson “Love Will Never Do Without You” (BA: 7 wks)
- 1988: Poison “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” (BA: 4 wks)
- 1987: George Michael “Faith” (BB: 5 wks)
- 1986: Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer” (BB: 4 wks)
- 1985: U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World” (BA: 5 wks)
- 1984: Madonna “Like a Virgin” (BB: 6 wks)
- 1983: The Police “Every Breath You Take” (BB: 8 wks)
- 1982: Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1981: Olivia Newton-John “Physical” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1980: Blondie “Call Me” (CB: 7 wks)
- 1979: The Knack “My Sharona” (BB: 6 wks)
- 1978: Chic “Le Freak” (CB/HR: 7 wks)
- 1977: Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life” (HR: 13 wks)
- 1976: Rod Stewart “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)” (BB: 8 wks)
- 1975: Captain & Tennille “Love Will Keep Us Together” (RR: 6 wks)
- 1974: Terry Jacks “Seasons in the Sun” (RR: 6 wks)
- 1973: Roberta Flack “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (BB: 5 wks)
- 1972: Gilbert O’Sullivan “Alone Again (Naturally)” (BB: 6 wks)
- 1971: Don McLean “American Pie” (HR: 5 wks)
- 1970: Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (BB: 6 wks)
- 1969: The Fifth Dimension “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (BB: 6 wks)
- 1968: The Beatles “Hey Jude” (BB: 9 wks)
- 1967: Paul Mauriat “Love Is Blue” (CB: 7 wks)
- 1966: The Monkees “I’m a Believer” (CB: 8 wks)
- 1965: The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (BB: 4 wks)
- 1964: The Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love” (BB: 5 wks)
- 1963: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (HR: 9 wks)
- 1962: The Four Seasons “Sherry” (CB: 7 wks)
- 1961: Bobby Lewis “Tossin’ and Turnin’” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1960: Percy Faith “Theme from ‘A Summer Place’” (BB: 9 wks)
- 1959: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (BB: 9 wks)
- 1958: Domenico Modugno “Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blue)” (CB/HR: 6 wks)
- 1957: Elvis Presley “All Shook Up” (JB: 9 wks)
- 1956: Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” / “Hound Dog” (BB/BS: 11 wks)
- 1955: Perez “Prez” Prado “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” (BB/BS: 10 wks)
- 1954: The McGuire Sisters “Sincerely” (BB/DJ: 10 wks)
- 1953: Les Paul with Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (BB/BS: 11 wks)
- 1952: Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (BB/DJ: 12 wks)
- 1951: Nat “King” Cole “Too Young” (HP: 12 wks)
- 1950: Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (BB/JB: 13 wks)
- 1949: Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” (BB/DJ: 12 wks)
- 1948: Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows” (BB/HP: 10 wks)
- 1947: Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (BB/DJ: 17 wks)
- 1946: The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (BB/JB: 13 wks)
- 1945: Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (BB/BS: 10 wks)
- 1944 Bing Crosby “I’ll Be Seeing You” (HP: 10 wks)
- 1943: Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (BB: 13 wks)
- 1942: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “White Christmas” (BB: 14 wks)
- 1941: Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1940: Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (BB: 13 wks)
- 1939: Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (BB: 13 wks)
- 1938: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1937: Tommy Dorsey “Once in a While” (BB/HP: 7 wks)
- 1936: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Pennies from Heaven” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1935: Leo Reisman & His Orchestra with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers “Cheek to Cheek” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1934: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “Isle of Capri” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1933: George Olsen with Joe Morrison “The Last Round-Up” (BB: 9 wks)
- 1932: Leo Reisman’s Orchestra with Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1931: Wayne King “Goodnight Sweetheart” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1930: Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees “Stein Song (University of Maine)” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1929: Nick Lucas “Tip-Toe Thru the Tulips with Me” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1928: Al Jolson “Sonny Boy” (BB: 12 wks)
- 1927: Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (BB: 13 wks)
- 1926: Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Franklyn Baur “Valencia (A Song of Spain)” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1925: Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (BB: 12 wks)
- 1924: Al Jolson with Isham Jones’ Orchestra “California Here I Come” (BB: 6 wks)
- 1923: Paul Whiteman “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1922: Al Jolson “April Showers” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1921: Isham Jones “Wabash Blues” (BB: 6 wks)
- 1920: Ben Selvin “Dardanella” (BB: 13 wks)
- 1919: Henry Burr with Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again” (BB: 9 wks)
- 1918: Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1917: American Quartet “Over There” (BB: 9 wks)
- 1916: Henry Burr “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” (BB: 6 wks)
- 1915: John McCormack “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (BB: 8 wks)
- 1914: American Quartet “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1913: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1912: American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (BB: 8 wks)
- 1911: Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1910: American Quartet with Billy Murray “Casey Jones” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1909: Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1908: Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1907: Byron Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1906: Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1905: Arthur Collins “The Preacher and the Bear” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1904: Haydn Quartett “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1903: Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summertime” (BB; 6 wks)
- 1902: Len Spencer “Arkansaw Traveler” (BB: 11 wks)
- 1901: Harry MacDonough & Grace Spencer “Tell Me Pretty Maiden” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1900: George J. Gaskin “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (BB: 8 wks)
- 1899: Arthur Collins “I’d Leave My Happy Home for You” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1898: George J. Gaskin “My Old New Hampshire Home” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1897: George J. Gaskin “On the Banks of the Wabash” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1896: Dan Quinn “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1895: Dan Quinn “The Band Played On” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1894: Edward M. Favor “Say Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye” (BB: 7 wks)
- 1893: George J. Gaskin “After the Ball” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1892: Len Spencer “Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay” (BB: 8 wks)
- 1891: George W. Johnson “The Laughing Song” (BB: 10 wks)
- 1890: U.S. Marine Band “The Washington Post March” (BB: 6 wks)
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