Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Billboard: Digital Sales, 2005-present

Billboard’s Biggest Digital Hits:

2005-present

Billboard magazine started its airplay chart on January 22, 2005 to track the biggest hits based on digital sales. This list focuses on the biggest hits on that chart based on weeks at #1. All songs which spent five or more weeks on top are included in this list. Ties are broken by songs’ overall Dave’s Music Database points.

See other chart-based lists here and specific Billboard lists here.


    18 weeks:

  1. BTS “Dynamite” (2020)
    17 weeks:

  2. Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017)
    16 weeks:

  3. Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018)
    13 weeks:

  4. Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014)
  5. The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer” (2016)
  6. BTS “Butter” (2021)
    11 weeks:

  7. Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2013)
    10 weeks:

  8. Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (2009)
  9. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017)
  10. Flo Rida & T-Pain “Low” (2007)
  11. Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines” (2013)
  12. Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow” (2009)
  13. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Wanz “Thrift Shop” (2012)
  14. Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (5/28/2016)
  15. Lady Gaga with Bradley Cooper “Shallow
    9 weeks:

  16. Kanye West with Jamie Foxx “Gold Digger” (2005)
  17. Gwen Stefani “Hollaback Girl” (2004)
    8 weeks:

  18. Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe” (2011)
  19. Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect” (2017)
  20. Meghan Trainor “All About That Bass” (2014)
  21. 50 Cent with Olivia “Candy Shop” (2005)
    7 weeks:

  22. Adele “Hello” (2015)
  23. Wiz Khalifa with Charlie Puth “See You Again” (2015)
  24. Eminem with Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie” (2010)
  25. Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (2014)
  26. Daniel Powter “Bad Day” (#1, 2005)
  27. fun. with Janelle Monae “We Are Young” (2012)
  28. Katy Perry with Kanye West “E.T.” (2010)
    6 weeks:

  29. Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
  30. LMFAO with Lauren Bennett & GoonRock “Party Rock Anthem” (2011)
  31. Ke$ha “Tik Tok” (2009)
  32. Psy “Gangnam Style” (2012)
  33. Drake “God’s Plan” (2018)
  34. Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (2017)
  35. Katy Perry “I Kissed a Girl” (2008)
  36. Drake “In My Feelings” (2018)
  37. Flo Rida with Ke$ha “Right Round” (2009)
  38. Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (2009)
  39. Halsey “Without Me” (2018)
  40. Rae Sremmurd with Gucci Mane “Black Beatles” (2016)
    5 weeks:

  41. Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella” (2007)
  42. Rihanna & Calvin Harris “We Found Love” (2011)
  43. Lorde “Royals” (2013)
  44. Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger” (2011)
  45. Justin Timberlake “Sexyback” (2006)
  46. Katy Perry with Snoop Dogg “California Gurls” (2010)
  47. LMFAO “Sexy and I Know It” (2011)
  48. Katy Perry with Juicy J “Dark Horse” (2013)
  49. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us” (2011)
  50. Bruno Mars “Grenade” (2010)
  51. Soulja Boy Tell’em “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” (2007)
  52. Taylor Swift “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (2012)
  53. Taylor Swift with Kendrick Lamar “Bad Blood” (2014)
  54. Lizzo “Truth Hurts” (2017)
  55. Rihanna “Pon De Replay” (2005)

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First posted 9/8/2021.

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