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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Streaming: Billion Airs Club

Streaming:

Billion Airs Club

These are the songs which have reached one billion streams, mostly via Spotify. Different versions of songs have been combined. Because this list has now ballooned to more than 600 titles, only the top 100 are ranked. After that, songs which have reached the billion air status are listed alphabetically by artist without the figures included.

Click here to see other song lists based on charts, sales, and airplay.

Check out the Spotify playlist of these songs here..


The Top 100 Most-Streamed Songs of All Time


3 billion +:

1) 4154.87: The Weeknd “Blinding Lights” (2019)
2) 3833.89: Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017)
3) 3674.35: Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect” (2017)
4) 3406.07: Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017)
5) 3401.43: The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Save Your Tears “ (2020)
6) 3301.19: Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved” (2018)
7) 3233.72: Post Malone with Swae Lee “Sunflower” (2018)
8) 3146.40: The Weeknd with Daft Punk “Starboy “ (2016)
9) 3119.13: Harry Styles “As It Was” (2022)
10) 3069.25: Drake with WizKid & Kyla “One Dance” (2016)

11) 3020.09: Tones and I “Dance Monkey “ (2019)
12) 3009.00: The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay 2021)

2.5 to 2.9 billion:

13) 2934.82: Dua Lipa with DaBaby “Levitating” (2020)
14) 2911.89: Imagine Dragons “Believer “ (2017)
15) 2908.87: Post Malone with 21 Savage “Rockstar” (2017)
16) 2900.80: Glass Animals “Heat Waves” (2020)
17) 2797.37: The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer “ (2016)
18) 2753.62: The Neighbourhood “Sweater Weather” (2012)
19) 2718.27: James Arthur “Say You Won’t Let Go” (2016)
20) 2717.64: Billie Eilish with Khalid “Lovely” (2018)

21) 2690.90: Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018)
22) 2679.61: Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello “Señorita” (2019)
23) 2603.91: Harry Styles “Watermelon Sugar” (2019)
24) 2536.67: Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now” (2019)

2.4 billion:

25) 2491.79: Juice Wrld “Lucid Dreams” (2018)
26) 2488.58: The Chainsmokers & Coldplay “Something Just Like This” (2017)
27) 2472.82: Drake “God’s Plan” (2018)
28) 2470.33: Billie Eilish “Bad Guy” (2019)
29) 2465.87: Ed Sheeran “Photograph” (2014)
30) 2456.46: Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud” (2014)

31) 2444.27: Hozier “Take Me to Church” (2013)
32) 2425.54: Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
33) 2419.78: Vance Joy “Riptide” (2013)
34) 2400.49: Post Malone “Circles” (2019)

2.2 to 2.3 billion:

35) 2382.59: Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper “Shallow” (2018)
36) 2358.73: One Republic “Counting Stars” (2013)
37) 2356.26: Justin Bieber “Love Yourself” (2015)
38) 2307.40: Imagine Dragons “Thunder” (2017)
39) 2306.43: John Legend “All of Me” (2013)
40) 2296.32: Travis Scott with Kendrick Lamar “Goosebumps” (2016)

41) 2292.85: Tom Odell “Another Love” (2013)
42) 2286.41: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us” (2011)
43) 2245.68: Twenty One Pilots “Stressed Out” (2015)
44) 2242.41: Avicii with Aloe Blacc “Wake Me Up!” (2013)
45) 2232.04: The Weeknd “The Hills” (2015)
46) 2209.28: Ariana Grande “7 Rings” (2019)

2.1 billion:

47) 2187.27: Coldplay “Yellow” (2000)
48) 2183.88: Passenger “Let Her Go” (2012)
49) 2182.87: XXXtentacion “Sad!” (2018)
50) 2171.23: Imagine Dragons “Demons” (2012)

51) 2144.13: J. Cole “No Role Modelz” (2014)
52) 2143.66: “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (1806)
53) 2141.79 Kendrick Lamar “Humble” (2017)
54) 2140.51: XXXtentacion “Jocelyn Flores” (2017)
55) 2131.12: The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Die for You” (2016)
56) 2116.93: Eminem “Lose Yourself” (2002)
57) 2114.05: Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License” (2021)
58) 2104.76: Arctic Monkeys “Do I Wanna Know?” (2013)
59) 2104.29: Olivia Rodrigo “Good 4 U” (2021)
60) 2103.64: Calvin Harris with Dua Lipa “One Kiss” (2018)

2 billion:

61) 2097.86: Shawn Mendes “Treat You Better” (2016)
62) 2086.13: Travis Scott & Drake “Sicko Mode” (2018)
63) 2084.00: The Killers “Mr. Brightside” (2003)
64) 2081.95: Marshmello with Bastille “Happier” (2018)
65) 2079.74: DJ Snake with Justin Bieber “Let Me Love You” (2016)
66) 2075.87: Lil Uzi Vert “XO Tour Llif3” (2017)
67) 2051.29: Dua Lipa “New Rules” (2017)
68) 2040.24: Eminem “Without Me” (2002)
69) 2028.62: Camila Cabello with Young Thug “Havana” (2017)
70) 2028.20: Justin Bieber “Sorry” (2015)

71) 2027.28: Sam Smith “Stay with Me” (2014)
72) 2018.28: Calvin Harris with Rihanna “This Is What You Came For” (2016)
73) 2017.36: Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (2017)
74) 2013.42: Bruno Mars “When I Was Your Man” (2012)
75) 2009.25: Major Lazer with DJ Snake & MØ “Lean On” (2015)
76) 2004.65: Sam Smith “Too Good at Goodbyes” (2017)
77) 2000.70: Bruno Mars “That’s What I Like” (2016)

1.9 billion:

78) 1998.21: Arctic Monkeys “I Wanna Be Yours” (2013)
79) 1997.64: Coldplay “Viva La Vida” (2008)
80) 1997.30: Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)” (2010)

81) 1993.38: Halsey “Without Me” (2018)
82) 1978.42: Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow “Industry Baby” (2021)
83) 1968.90: Shawn Mendes “There's Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” (2016)
84) 1959.30: French Montana with Swae Lee “Unforgettable” (2017)
85) 1753.04: Maroon 5 “Memories” (2019)
86) 1947.94: Taylor Swift “Cruel Summer” (2019)
87) 1941.55: Post Malone with Quavo “Congratulations” (2016)
88) 1940.32: Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)
89) 1938.58: The Police “Every Breath You Take (1983)
90) 1935.98: Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014)

91) 1933.63: Linkin Park “In the End” (2000)
92) 1928.90: Bad Bunny with Jhay Cortez “Dakiti” (2020)
93) 1925.54: Oasis “Wonderwall (1995)
94) 1920.36: Lord Huron “The Night We Met” (2015)
95) 1919.35: Elton John with Dua Lipa “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” (2021)
96) 1917.62: Post Malone “Better Now” (2018)

1.8 billion:

97) 1899.95: Eminem with Nate Dogg “Till I Collapse” (2002)
98) 1897.95: Mike Posner “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (2015)
99) 1894.73: Saint JHN with Imanbek “Roses” (2016)
100) 1894.55: Alan Walker “Faded” (2015)
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The Billion Airs Club


These are all the songs with a billion airs listed alphabetically by artist. Songs ranked in the top 100 are marked with an asterisk.

A:
  • Abba “Dancing Queen” (1976)
  • AC/DC “Highway to Hell” (1979)
  • AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long” (1980)
  • AC/DC “Back in Black” (1980)
  • AC/DC “Thunderstruck” (1990)
  • Bryan Adams “Summer of ‘69” (1984)
  • Adele “To Make You Feel My Love” (2008)

  • Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
  • Adele “Someone Like You” (2011)
  • Adele “Set Fire to the Rain” (2011)
  • Adele “Hello” (2015)
  • Adele “When We Were Young” (2015)
  • Adele “Send My Love to Your New Lover” (2015)
  • Adele “Easy on Me” (2021)
  • Aerosmith “Dream On” (1973)
  • A-ha “Take on Me” (1984)

  • Rauw Alejandro “Todo de Ti” (2021)
  • Anne-Marie “2002” (2018)
  • Anuel AA with Daddy Yankee, Karol G, Ozuna, & J. Balvin “China” (2019)
  • Arctic Monkeys “505” (2007)
  • Arctic Monkeys “R U Mine?” (2012)
  • Arctic Monkeys “Do I Wanna Know?” (2013) *
  • Arctic Monkeys “I Wanna Be Yours” (2013) *
  • Arctic Monkeys “Why’d You Only Call Me When You're High?” (2013)
  • Eslabon Armado with Peso Pluma “Ella Baila Sola” (2023)
  • James Arthur “Say You Won’t Let Go” (2016) *
  • A$AP Rocky with Skepta “Praise the Lord (Da Shine)” (2018)
  • Ava Max “Sweet But Psycho” (2018)
  • Avicii with Aloe Blacc “Wake Me Up!” (2013) *
  • Avicii “The Nights” (2015)
  • Avicii “Waiting for Love” (2015)
  • Avicii with Sandro Cavazza “Without You” (2017)
  • Axwell & Ingrosso “More Than You Know” (2017)

B:
  • Ruth B “Dandelions” (2022)
  • Backstreet Boys “I Want It That Way” (1999)
  • Bad Bunny & Drake “MIA” (2018)
  • Bad Bunny with Tainy “Callaíta” (2019)
  • Bad Bunny with Jhay Cortez “Dakiti” (2020) *

  • Bad Bunny “Yonaguni” (2021)
  • Bad Bunny with Chencho Corleone “Me Porto Bonito” (2022)
  • Bad Bunny “Efecto” (2022)
  • Bad Bunny “Moscow Mule” (2022)
  • Bad Bunny “Tití Me Preguntó” (2022)
  • Bad Bunny with Bomba Estereo “Ojitos Lindos” (2022)
  • J. Balvin with Willy William & Beyoncé “Mi Gente” (2017)
  • J. Balvin with Bad Bunny “La Canción” (2019)
  • Bastille “Pompeii” (2013)
  • James Bay “Let It Go” (2014)
  • Bazzi “Mine” (2017)
  • The Beatles “Here Comes the Sun” (1969)
  • Alec Benjamin & Alessia Cara “Let Me Down Slowly” (2019)
  • Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love” (2003)
  • Beyoncé “Halo” (2008)
  • Justin Bieber “What Do You Mean?” (2015)

  • Justin Bieber “Love Yourself” (2015) *
  • Justin Bieber “Sorry” (2015) *
  • Justin Bieber with Quavo “Intentions” (2020)
  • Justin Bieber with Daniel Caesar & Giveon “Peaches” (2021)
  • Justin Bieber “Ghost” (2021)
  • Bizarrap with Quevedo “BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 52” (2022)
  • Blackbear “Hot Girl Bummer” (2019)
  • Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (2009)
  • Blackpink “How You Like That” (2020)
  • Black Sabbath “Paranoid” (1970)
  • Benny Blanco with Halsey & Khalid “Eastside” (2018)
  • Blink-182 “All the Small Things” (1999)
  • Jonas Blue with Dakota “Fast Car” (2015)
  • Jonas Blue “Perfect Strangers” (2016)
  • Bon Jovi “You Give Love a Bad Name” (1986)
  • Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer” (1986)
  • Benson Boone “Beautiful Things” (2024)
  • Børns “Electric Love” (2015)
  • Chris Brown & Drake “No Guidance” (2019)
  • Chris Brown “Under the Infulence” (2022)
  • BTS with Halsey “Boy with Luv” (2019)
  • BTS “Dynamite” (2020)
  • BTS “Butter” (2021)
  • Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” (1985)

C:
  • Camila Cabello with Young Thug “Havana” (2017) *
  • Lewis Capaldi “Bruises” (2017)
  • Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved” (2018) *

  • Lewis Capaldi “Before You Go” (2019)
  • Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” (2012)
  • Alessia Cara “Scars to Your Beautiful” (2015)
  • Cardi B with Bad Bunny & J. Balvin “I Like It” (2018)
  • Cardi B with Megan Thee Stallion “WAP” (2020)
  • Mariah Carey “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (1994)
  • Sabrina Carpenter “Espresso” (2024)
  • Sabrina Carpenter “Please Please Please” (2024)
  • Casper Magico with Nio Garcia, Darell, Bad Bunny, Nicky Jam & Ozuna “Te Boté” (2017)
  • The Chainsmokers with Rozes “Roses” (2015)

  • The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer “ (2016) *
  • The Chainsmokers with Daya “Don't Let Me Down” (2016)
  • The Chainsmokers “Paris” (2017)
  • The Chainsmokers & Coldplay “Something Just Like This” (2017) *
  • Childish Gambino “Redbone” (2016)
  • Cigarettes After Sex “Apocalypse” (2017)
  • Clean Bandit with Jess Glynne “Rather Be” (2014)
  • Clean Bandit with Sean Paul & Anne-Marie “Rockabye” (2016)
  • Clean Bandit with Demi Lovato “Solo”(2018)

  • Coldplay “Yellow” (2000) *
  • Coldplay “The Scientist” (2002)
  • Coldplay “Fix You” (2005)
  • Coldplay “Viva La Vida” (2008) *
  • Coldplay “Paradise” (2011)
  • Coldplay “A Sky Full of Stars” (2014)
  • Coldplay with Beyoncé “Hymn for the Weekend” (2015)
  • Coldplay & BTS “My Universe” (2021)
  • J. Cole “No Role Modelz” (2014) *
  • J. Cole “Wet Dreamz” (2014)
  • J. Cole “Middle Child” (2019)
  • Coolio with L.V. “Gangsta’s Paradise” (1995)
  • Joel Corry with MNEK “Head & Heart” (2020)
  • Jhay Cortez with J. Balvin & Bad Bunny “No Me Conoce” (2019)
  • The Cranberries “Zombie” (1994)
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son” (1969)
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” (1970)
  • Taio Cruz “Dynamite” (2010)
  • Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (2009)
  • Miley Cyrus “Flowers” (2023)

D:
  • DaBaby with Roddy Ricch “Rockstar” (2020)
  • Daddy Yankee with Snow “Con Calma” (2019)
  • Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky” (2013)
  • Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber “10,000 Hours” (2019)
  • Trevor Daniel “Falling” (2018)
  • Lana Del Rey with Cedric Gervais “Summertime Sadness” (2012)
  • Lana Del Rey “Young and Beautiful” (2013)
  • Jason Derulo “Want to Want Me” (2015)
  • Jason Derulo with Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign “Swalla” (2017)
  • Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing” (1978)
  • Desiigner “Panda” (2015)
  • DJ Khaled with Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, & Lil Wayne “I'm the One” (2017)
  • DJ Khaled with Rihanna & Bryson Tiller “Wild Thoughts” (2017)
  • DJ Snake with Bipolar Sunshine “Middle” (2015)
  • DJ Snake with Justin Bieber “Let Me Love You” (2016) *
  • DJ Snake with Selena Gomez, Ozuna, & Cardi B “Taki Taki” (2018)
  • DNCE “Cake by the Ocean” (2015)
  • Doja Cat “Say So” (2019)
  • Doja Cat “Streets” (2019)
  • Doja Cat with SZA “Kiss Me More” (2021)
  • Doja Cat “Need to Know” (2021)
  • Doja Cat “Woman” (2021)
  • Doja Cat “Paint the Town Red” (2023)
  • Drake “Hotline Bling” (2015)

  • Drake with WizKid & Kyla “One Dance” (2016) *
  • Drake with Rihanna “Too Good “ (2016)
  • Drake “Passionfruit” (2017)
  • Drake “God’s Plan” (2018) *
  • Drake “In My Feelings” (2018)
  • Drake “Nice for What” (2018)
  • Drake “Nonstop” (2018)
  • Drake “Toosie Slide” (2020)
  • Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg “Still D.R.E.” (1999)
  • Elley Duhé “Middle of the Night” (2022)
  • Dynoro with Gigi D'Agostino “In My Mind” (2018)

E:
  • Eagles “Hotel California” (1976)
  • Earth, Wind & Fire “September” (1978)
  • Billie Eilish “Ocean Eyes” (2016)
  • Billie Eilish “I Don't Wanna Be You Anymore (idontwannabeyouanymore)” (2017)
  • Billie Eilish with Khalid “Lovely” (2018) *
  • Billie Eilish “When the Party’s Over” (2018)

  • Billie Eilish “Bad Guy” (2019) *
  • Billie Eilish “Everything I Wanted” (2019)
  • Billie Eilish “Happier Than Ever” (2021)
  • Billie Eilish “What Was I Made For?” (2023)
  • Billie Eilish “Birds of a Feather” (2024)
  • Eminem “The Real Slim Shady” (2000)
  • Eminem with Dido “Stan” (2000)
  • Eminem “Without Me” (2002) *

  • Eminem “Lose Yourself” (2002) *
  • Eminem with Nate Dogg “Till I Collapse” (2002) *
  • Eminem “Mockingbird” (2004)
  • Eminem with Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie” (2010)
  • Eminem with Rihanna “The Monster” (2013)
  • Eminem “Rap God” (2013)
  • Eminem with Juice Wrld “Godzilla” (2020)
  • Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” (1983)
  • Evanescence with Paul McCoy “Bring Me to Life” (2003)
  • George Ezra “Budapest” (2013)

F:
  • Fall Out Boy “Centuries” (2014)
  • Farruko with Pedro Capo “Calma” (2018)
  • Farruko “Pepas” (2021)
  • Fetty Wap “Trap Queen” (2014)
  • Fifth Harmony with Ty Dolla $ign “Work from Home” (2016)
  • 50 Cent “In Da Club” (2002)
  • 5 Seconds of Summer “Youngblood” (2018)
  • Fleetwood Mac “Dreams” (1977)
  • Fleetwood Mac “The Chain” (1977)
  • Flo Rida “My House” (2015)
  • Flo Rida with T-Pain “Low” (2007)

  • Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017) *
  • Foo Fighters “Everlong” (1997)
  • Foster the People “Pumped Up Kicks” (2010)
  • The Fray “How to Save a Life” (2005)
  • Fun. with Janelle Monáe “We Are Young” (2011)
  • Nelly Furtado with Timbaland “Promiscuous” (2006)
  • Future “Mask Off” (2017)
  • Future & Drake “Life Is Good” (2020)

G:
  • Karol G & Nicki Minaj “Tusa” (2019)
  • Karol G “Provenza” (2022)
  • Martin Garrix with Bebe Rexha “In the Name of Love” (2016)
  • Martin Garrix with Dua Lipa “Scared to Be Lonely” (2017)
  • Ali Gatie “It’s You” (2019)
  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (1967)
  • Gayle “abcdefu” (2021)
  • G-Eazy with Bebe Rexha “Me, Myself & I” (2015)
  • Giveon “Heartbreak Anniversary” (2020)
  • Glass Animals “Heat Waves” (2020) *

  • Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
  • Gnash with Olivia O’Brien “I Hate U, I Love U” (2016)
  • Selena Gomez with Marshmello “Wolves” (2017)
  • Selena Gomez “Back to You” (2018)
  • Selena Gomez “Lose You to Love Me” (2019)
  • Goo Goo Dolls “Iris” (1998)
  • Gorillaz with De La Soul “Feel Good Inc.” (2005)
  • Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2011)
  • Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” (2015)
  • Ariana Grande “Santa Tell Me” (2013)
  • Ariana Grande “One Last Time” (2014)
  • Ariana Grande “Dangerous Woman” (2016)
  • Ariana Grande with Nicki Minaj “Side to Side” (2016)
  • Ariana Grande “Into You” (2016)
  • Ariana Grande “God Is a Woman” (2018)
  • Ariana Grande “No Tears Left to Cry” (2018)
  • Ariana Grande “Thank U, Next” (2018)

  • Ariana Grande “7 Rings” (2019) *
  • Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber “Stuck with U” (2020)
  • Ariana Grande “Positions” (2020)
  • Ariana Grande “We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” (2024)
  • Conan Gray “Heather” (2020)
  • A Great Big Adventure with Christina Aguilera “Say Something” (2013)
  • Green Day “Basket Case” (1994)
  • David Guetta with Sia “Titanium” (2011)
  • David Guetta with Bebe Rexha “I'm Good (Blue)” (2022)
  • Guns N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle” (1987)
  • Guns N' Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1987)
  • Guns N’ Roses “Paradise City” (1987)
  • Gym Class Heroes with Adam Levine “Stereo Hearts” (2011)

H:
  • Calvin Harris “Summer” (2014)
  • Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding “Outside” (2014)
  • Calvin Harris & Disciples “How Deep Is Your Love” (2015)

  • Calvin Harris with Rihanna “This Is What You Came For” (2016) *
  • Calvin Harris & Frank Ocean “Slide” (2017)
  • Calvin Harris with Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, & Big Sean “Feels” (2017)
  • Calvin Harris with Dua Lipa “One Kiss” (2018) *
  • Calvin Harris with Sam Smith “Promises” (2018)
  • Halsey “Without Me” (2018) *
  • H.E.R. with Daniel Caesar “Best Part” (2017)
  • Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me” (1987)
  • Hozier “Take Me to Church” (2013) *
  • Hozier “Too Sweet” (2024)

I:
  • Ice Cube “It Was a Good Day” (1993)
  • Imagine Dragons “Radioactive” (2012)
  • Imagine Dragons “Demons” (2012) *
  • Imagine Dragons “Believer” (2017) *

  • Imagine Dragons “Thunder” (2017) *
  • Imagine Dragons “Whatever It Takes” (2017)
  • Imagine Dragons “Natural” (2018)
  • Imagine Dragons “Bad Liar” (2018)
  • Imagine Dragons with JID “Enemy” (2021)
  • Imagine Dragons “Bones” (2022)
  • Internet Money with Don Toliver & Nav “Lemonade” (2020)

J:
  • Jessie J with Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj “Bang Bang” (2014)
  • Michael Jackson “>Billie Jean” (1982)
  • Michael Jackson “Beat It” (1982)
  • Jawsh 685 with Jason Derulo “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” (2020)
  • Jay-Z & Kanye West “N****s in Paris” (2011)
  • Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe” (2011)
  • Jimin “Who” (2024)
  • Joji “Slow Dancing in the Dark” (2018)
  • Joji “Gimpse of Us” (2022)
  • Elton John “Rocket Man (I Think It’s Gonna Be a Long Time)” (1972)
  • Elton John “I’m Still Standing” (1983)
  • Elton John with Dua Lipa “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” (2021) *
  • Jonas Brothers “Sucker” (2019)
  • Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’ (1981)
  • Vance Joy “Riptide” (2013) *

  • Juice Wrld “Lucid Dreams” (2018) *
  • Juice Wrld “All Girls Are the Same” (2018)
  • Juice Wrld “Robbery” (2019)
  • Jung Kook with Latto “Seven” (2023)
  • JVKE “Golden Hour” (2022)

K:
  • Keane “Somewhere Only We Know” (2004)
  • Ke$ha “Tik Tok” (2009)
  • Alicia Keys “If I Ain’t Got You” (2004)
  • Khalid “Location” (2017)
  • Khalid “Young, Dumb & Broke” (2017)
  • Khalid “Better” (2018)
  • The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay 2021) *

  • The Killers “Mr. Brightside” (2003) *
  • Kina with Snow “Get You the Moon” (2018)
  • Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
  • Kings of Leon “Sex on Fire” (2008)
  • Kodak Black with Travis Scott & Offset “Zeze” (2018)
  • Kodaline “All I Want” (2014)
  • Kungs vs. Cookin’ on 3 Burners “This Girl” (2016)
  • David Kushner “Daylight” (2023)
  • Kygo with Conrad “Firestone” (2015)
  • Kygo with Selena Gomez “It Ain’t Me” (2017)

L:
  • Steve Lacy “Bad Habit” (2022)
  • Steve Lacy “Dark Red” (2022)
  • Lady Gaga “Poker Face” (2009)
  • Lady Gaga “Bad Romance” (2009)
  • Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper “Shallow” (2018) *

  • Lady Gaga “Always Remember Us This Way” (2018)
  • Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande “Rain on Me” (2020)
  • Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars “Die with a Smile” (2024)
  • Kendrick Lamar with Jay Rock “Money Trees” (2012)
  • Kendrick Lamar “Humble” (2017) *
  • Kendrick Lamar with Zacari “Love” (2017)
  • Kendrick Lamar “DNA” (2017)
  • Kendrick Lamar with SZA “All the Stars” (2018)
  • Zara Larsson “Lush Life” (2016)
  • Zara Larsson with Clean Bandit “Symphony” (2017)
  • Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (1983)
  • Duncan Laurence “Arcade” (2019)
  • Lauv “I Like Me Better” (2018)
  • Brenda Lee “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (1958)
  • John Legend “All of Me” (2013) *

  • Dean Lewis “Be Alright” (2018)
  • Lil Baby with Drake “Yes Indeed” (2018)
  • Lil Baby with Gunna “Drip Too Hard” (2018)
  • Lil Mosey “Blueberry Faygo” (2020)
  • Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018) *

  • Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” (2021)
  • Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow “Industry Baby” (2021) *
  • Lil Nas X “That’s What I Want” (2021)
  • Lil Peep “Star Shopping” (2015)
  • Lil Peep with XXXtentacion “Falling Down” (2018)
  • Lil Tecca “Ran$om” (2019)
  • Lil Uzi Vert “XO Tour Llif3” (2017) *
  • Lil Wayne with Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons “Sucker for Pain” (2016)
  • Lillywood & the Prick with Robin Schulz “Prayer in C” (2014)
  • Linkin Park “In the End” (2000) *
  • Linkin Park “Numb” (2003)
  • Dua Lipa “New Rules” (2017) *
  • Dua Lipa “IDGAF” (2018)
  • Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now” (2019) *

  • Dua Lipa with DaBaby “Levitating” (2020) *
  • Dua Lipa “Break My Heart” (2020)
  • Lisa “Money” (2021)
  • Tove Lo “Habits (Stay High)” (2013)
  • Logic with Alessia Cara & Khalid “1-800-273-8255” (2017)
  • Lorde “Royals” (2013)
  • Lord Huron “The Night We Met” (2015) *
  • Lost Frequencies with Calum Scott “Where Are You Now” (2023)
  • Loud Luxury with Brando “Body” (2018)
  • Demi Lovato “Sorry Not Sorry” (2017)
  • Lukas Graham “7 Years” (2015)
  • The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (2012)
  • The Lumineers “Ophelia” (2016)
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974)

M:
  • M83 “Midnight City” (2011)
  • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us” (2011) *
  • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Wanz “Thrift Shop” (2012)
  • Magic! “Rude” (2013)
  • Major Lazer with DJ Snake & MØ “Lean On” (2015) *
  • Major Lazer with Justin Bieber & MØ “Cold Water” (2016)
  • Major Lazer with Nyla “Light It Up” (2016)
  • Maluma with the Weeknd “Hawái” (2020)
  • Måneskin “Beggin’” (2017)
  • Manuel Turizo “La Bachata” (2022)
  • Maroon 5 “She Will Be Loved” (2002)
  • Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger” (2011)
  • Maroon 5 with Wiz Khalifa “Payphone” (2012)
  • Maroon 5 “Maps” (2014)
  • Maroon 5 “Animals” (2014)
  • Maroon 5 “Sugar” (2014)

  • Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (2017) *
  • Maroon 5 with SZA “What Lovers Do” (2017)
  • Maroon 5 “Memories” (2019) *
  • Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)” (2010) *
  • Bruno Mars “Grenade” (2010)
  • Bruno Mars “Talking to the Moon” (2010)
  • Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven” (2012)
  • Bruno Mars “When I Was Your Man” (2012) *
  • Bruno Mars “24K Magic” (2016)
  • Bruno Mars “That’s What I Like” (2016) *
  • Marshmello with Khalid “Silence” (2017)
  • Marshmello with Bastille “Happier” (2018) *
  • Marshmello with Anne-Marie “Friends” (2018)
  • Masked Wolf “Astronaut in the Ocean” (2019)
  • Tate McRae “You Broke Me First” (2020)
  • Meek Mill & Drake “Going Bad” (2018)
  • Shawn Mendes “Stitches” (2015)
  • Shawn Mendes “Treat You Better” (2016) *
  • Shawn Mendes “There's Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” (2016) *
  • Shawn Mendes “Mercy” (2016)

  • Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello “Señorita” (2019) *
  • Metallica “Enter Sandman” (1991)
  • Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” (1991)
  • Metro Boomin with 21 Savage & the Weeknd “Creepin’” (2022)
  • Julia Michaels “Issues” (2017)
  • Miguel “Sure Thing” (2010)
  • Milky Chance “Stolen Dance” (2013)
  • Nicki Minaj “Starships” (2012)
  • MKTO “Classic” (2013)
  • French Montana with Swae Lee “Unforgettable” (2017) *
  • Jason Mraz “I’m Yours” (2008)

N-O:
  • The Neighbourhood “Sweater Weather” (2012) *
  • The Neighbourhood “Daddy Issues” (2015)
  • NF “Let You Down” (2017)
  • Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991) *
  • Nirvana “Come As You Are” (1991)
  • The Notorious B.I.G. “Hypnotize” (1997)
  • Oasis “Wonderwall (1995) *
  • Danny Ocean “Me Rehúso” (2016)
  • Frank Ocean “Lost” (2012)
  • Frank Ocean “Pink + White” (2016)
  • Tom Odell “Another Love” (2013) *
  • Of Monsters and Men “Little Talks” (2011)
  • Offset & Metro Boomin “Ric Flair Drip” (2017)
  • One Direction “What Makes You Beautiful” (2011)
  • One Direction “Story of My Life” (2013)
  • One Direction “Night Changes” (2014)
  • One Direction “Drag Me Down” (2015)
  • One Republic “I Ain't Worried” (2022)
  • OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003)
  • Don Omar with Lucenzo “Danza Kuduro” (2010)
  • OMI “Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)” (2014)
  • One Republic “Counting Stars” (2013) *

P:
  • Panic! At the Disco “High Hopes” (2018)
  • Papa Roach “Last Resort” (2000)
  • Passenger “Let Her Go” (2012) *
  • Sean Paul “No Lie” (2018)
  • Christina Perri “A Thousand Years” (2011)
  • Katy Perry “Firework” (2010)
  • Katy Perry “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” (2010)
  • Katy Perry with Juicy J “Dark Horse” (2013)
  • Katy Perry “Roar” (2013)

  • Pink with Nate Ruess “Just Give Me a Reason” (2012)
  • Pitbull with Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer “Give Me Everything” (2011)
  • Pitbull & Ke$ha “Timber” (2013)
  • Pitbull with Ne-Yo “Time of Our Lives” (2014)
  • Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah” (2005)
  • The Police “Every Breath You Take (1983) *
  • Pop Smoke “Dior” (2019)
  • Pop Smoke “What You Know ‘Bout Love” (2020)
  • Pop Smoke with Lil Baby & DaBaby “For the Night” (2020)
  • Portugal. The Man “Feel It Still” (2017)
  • Mike Posner “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (2015) *
  • Post Malone “White Iverson” (2015)
  • Post Malone with Quavo “Congratulations” (2016) *
  • Post Malone “I Fall Apart” (2016)
  • Post Malone “Go Flex” (2016)
  • Post Malone with 21 Savage “Rockstar” (2017) *
  • Post Malone “Candy Paint” (2017)
  • Post Malone “Wow.” (2018)
  • Post Malone “Better Now” (2018) *

  • Post Malone with Swae Lee “Sunflower” (2018) *
  • Post Malone with Ty Dolla $ign “Psycho” (2018)
  • Post Malone “Circles” (2019) *
  • Post Malone with Young Thug “Goodbyes” (2019)
  • Powfu with beabadoobee “Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)” (2020)
  • Charlie Puth & Selena Gomez “We Don’t Talk Anymore” (2016)
  • Charlie Puth “Attention” (2017)

Q:

R:
  • Radiohead “Creep” (1992)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge” (1991)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Californication” (1999)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Can’t Stop” (2002)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Snow (Hey Oh)” (2006)
  • Regard “Ride It” (2020)
  • R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
  • Rema with Selena Gomez “Calm Down” (2022)
  • Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be” (2017)
  • Tommy Richman “Million Dollar Baby” (2024)

  • Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella” (2007)
  • Rihanna “Only Girl in the World” (2010)
  • Rihanna with Calvin Harris “We Found Love” (2011)
  • Rihanna “Diamonds” (2012)
  • Rihanna & Drake “Work” (2016)
  • Rihanna “Love on the Brain” (2016)
  • Rihanna “Needed Me” (2016)
  • Rihanna with Kanye West & Paul McCartney “Four Five Seconds” (2015)
  • Rihanna with Mikky Ekko “Stay” (2012)
  • Chappel l Roan “Good Luck, Babe!” (2024)
  • Roddy Ricch “The Box” (2019)

  • Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License” (2021) *
  • Olivia Rodrigo “Good 4 U” (2021) *
  • Olivia Rodrigo “Déjà Vu” (2021)
  • Olivia Rodrigo “Happier” (2021)
  • Olivia Rodrigo “Traitor” (2021)
  • Olivia Rodrigo “Vampire” (2023)
  • The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” (1966)
  • Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014) *
  • Rudimental with Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen “These Days” (2018)

S:
  • Saint JHN with Imanbek “Roses” (2016) *
  • JP Saxe with Julia Michaels “If the World Was Ending” (2020)
  • Robin Schulz with Francesco Yates “Sugar” (2016)
  • Calum Scott “Dancing on My Own” (2016)
  • Calum Scott with Leona Lewis “You Are the Reason” (2018)

  • Travis Scott with Kendrick Lamar “Goosebumps” (2016) *
  • Travis Scott “Butterfly Effect” (2017)
  • Travis Scott & Drake “Sicko Mode” (2018) *
  • Travis Scott “Highest in the Room” (2019)
  • The Script with will.i.am “Hall of Fame” (2012)
  • Shakira & Wyclef Jean “Hips Don’t Lie” (2006)
  • Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud” (2014) *
  • Ed Sheeran “Photograph” (2014) *
  • Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017) *

  • Ed Sheeran “Castle on the Hill” (2017)
  • Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect” (2017) *
  • Ed Sheeran “Galway Girl” (2017)
  • Ed Sheeran “Happier” (2017)
  • Ed Sheeran with Justin Bieber “I Don’t Care” (2019)
  • Ed Sheeran with Khalid “Beautiful People” (2019)
  • Ed Sheeran “Bad Habits” (2021)
  • Ed Sheeran “Shivers” (2021)
  • Sheck Wes “Mo Bamba” (2017)
  • Sia “Chandelier” (2014)
  • Sia with Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills” (2016)
  • Sia “Unstoppable” (2016)
  • Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson Paak) “Leave the Door Open” (2021)
  • Skrillex with Diplo & Justin Bieber “Where Are Ü Now” (2015)
  • Smash Mouth “All Star” (1999)

  • Sam Smith “Stay with Me” (2014) *
  • Sam Smith “I’m Not the Only One” (2014)
  • Sam Smith “Too Good at Goodbyes” (2017) *
  • Sam Smith with Normani “Dancing with a Stranger” (2019)
  • Sam Smith with Kim Petras “Unholy” (2022)
  • Willow Smith “Wait a Minute!” (2015)
  • Snoop Dogg with Wiz Khalifa & Bruno Mars “Young, Wild & Free” (2011)
  • Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars” (2006)
  • Britney Spears “Toxic” (2003)
  • Spice Girls “Wannabe” (1996)
  • Hailee Stenfield with Grey & Zedd “Starving” (2016)
  • Hailee Steinfeld with Alesso, Florida Georgia Line, & Watt “Let Me Go” (2017)
  • Harry Styles “Sign of the Times” (2017)
  • Harry Styles “Watermelon Sugar” (2019) *
  • Harry Styles “Adore You” (2019)
  • Harry Styles “Falling” (2019)

  • Harry Styles “As It Was” (2022) *
  • Surf Curse “Freaks” (2021)
  • Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” (1982)
  • Swedish House Mafia with John Martin “Don’t You Worry Child” (2012)
  • Taylor Swift “Shake It Off” (2014)
  • Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (2014)
  • Taylor Swift “Style” (2014)
  • Taylor Swift “Look What You Made Me Do” (2017)
  • Taylor Swift “Don’t Blame Me” (2017)
  • Taylor Swift “Lover” (2019)
  • Taylor Swift “Cruel Summer” (2019) *
  • Taylor Swift “Cardigan” (2020)
  • Taylor Swift “August” (2020)

  • Taylor Swift “Anti-Hero” (2022)
  • Teddy Swims “Lose Control” (2023)
  • System of a Down “Chop Suey” (2001)
  • SZA “Kill Bill” (2022)

T-U:
  • Tame Impala “The Less I Know the Better” (2016)
  • Jane Taylor (words), unknown (music) “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (1806) *
  • Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (1985)
  • Tiesto “The Business” (2021)
  • Bryson Tiller “Don't” (2015)
  • Justin Timberlake “Mirrors” (2013)
  • Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (2016)
  • TLC “No Scrubs” (1999)
  • Tones and I “Dance Monkey” (2019) *
  • Topic with A7S “Breaking Me” (2020)
  • Toto “Africa” (1982)
  • Train “Hey, Soul Sister” (2009)
  • Meghan Trainor with John Legend “Like I’m Gonna Lose You” (2015)
  • 24K Goldn with Iann Dior “Mood” (2020)

  • Twenty One Pilots “Stressed Out” (2015) *
  • Twenty One Pilots “Ride” (2015)
  • Twenty One Pilots “Heathens” (2016)
  • 21 Savage “Bank Account” (2017)
  • Tyga with Offset “Taste” (2018)
  • Tyler the Creator with Kali Uchis “See You Again” (2017)
  • U2 “With or Without You” (1987)
  • Kali Uchis “Telepatía” (2020)
  • Usher with Lil' Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!” (2004)

V-W:
  • The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony” (1997)
  • Alan Walker “Faded” (2015) *
  • Walk the Moon “Shut Up and Dance” (2014)
  • The Walters “I Love You So” (2021)
  • Morgan Wallen “Last Night” (2023)
  • The Weeknd “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” (2014)
  • The Weeknd “Can’t Feel My Face” (2015)
  • The Weeknd “The Hills” (2015) *
  • The Weeknd with Daft Punk “Starboy “ (2016) *
  • The Weeknd with Daft Punk “I Feel It Coming” (2016)
  • The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Die for You” (2016) *
  • The Weeknd “Call Out My Name” (2018)

  • The Weeknd “Blinding Lights” (2019) *
  • The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Save Your Tears “ (2020) *
  • Kanye West with Jamie Foxx “Gold Digger” (2005)
  • Kanye West with Daft Punk “Stronger” (2007)
  • Kanye West with Dwele “Flashing Lights: (2007)
  • Kanye West “Heartless” (2008)
  • Wham! “Last Christmas” (1984)
  • Jay Wheeler “La Curiosidad” (2020)
  • Wiz Khalifa with Charlie Puth “See You Again” (2015)
  • The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” (2003)
  • Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2013)

X-Z:
  • XXXtentacion “Jocelyn Flores” (2017) *
  • XXXtentacion “Everybody Dies in Their Nightmares” (2017)
  • XXXtentacion “Look at Me!” (2017)
  • XXXtentacion “Revenge” (2017)
  • XXXtentacion with Trippie Redd “Fuck Love” (2017)
  • XXXtentacion “Sad!” (2018) *

  • XXXtentacion “Moonlight” (2018)
  • XXXtentacion “Changes” (2018)
  • XXXtentacion “Hope” (2018)
  • YNM Melly “Murder on My Mind” (2017)
  • Jaymes Young “Infinity” (2022)
  • Zayn with Taylor Swift “I Don't Wanna Live Forever” (2016)
  • Zayn “Pillow Talk” (2016)
  • Zayn with Sia “Dusk Till Dawn” (2017)
  • Zedd & Alessia Cara “Stay” (2017)
  • Zedd with Maren Morris & Grey “The Middle” (2018)
  • Arizona Zervas “Roxanne” (2019)

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First posted 1/30/2018; last updated 12/26/2024.

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.

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Top 50 Songs of 2017

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2017

These are the top 50 songs of the year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists.

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

    DMDB Top 1%:

  1. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You
  2. Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito
  3. Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect
  4. Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You
  5. Camila Cabello with Young Thug “Havana
  6. Post Malone with 21 Savage “Rockstar
  7. The Chainsmokers with Coldplay “Something Just Like This”
  8. Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be
  9. Cardi B “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)”
  10. Kendrick Lamar “Humble

    DMDB Top 2%:

  11. Lizzo “Truth Hurts”
  12. Portugal.the Man “Feel It Still”
  13. Imagine Dragons “Thunder”
  14. Imagine Dragons “Believer”
  15. DJ Khaled with Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, & Lil Wayne “I’m the One”
  16. Sam Hunt “Body Like a Back Road”

    DMDB Top 5%:

  17. Dua Lipa “New Rules”
  18. Taylor Swift “Look What You Made Me Do”
  19. Charlie Puth “Attention”
  20. DJ Khaled with Rihanna & Bryson Tiller “Wild Thoughts”

  21. Lil Uzi Vert “XO Tour Llif3”
  22. Logic with Alessia Cara & Khalid “1-800-273-8255”
  23. Future “Mask Off”
  24. Harry Styles “Sign of the Times”
  25. Sam Smith “Too Good at Goodbyes”
  26. French Montana & Swae Lee “Unforgettable”
  27. NF “Let You Down”
  28. Ed Sheeran “Castle on the Hill”
  29. Taylor Swift “Delicate”
  30. Demi Lovato “Sorry Not Sorry”

  31. Imagine Dragons “Whatever It Takes”
  32. Camila Cabello “Never Be the Same”
  33. Zedd with Alessia Cara “Stay”
  34. Keala Settle & the Greatest Showman Cast “This Is Me”
  35. Julia Michaels “Issues”
  36. Måneskin “Beggin’”
  37. Brandi Carlile “The Joke”
  38. Kendrick Lamar “DNA”
  39. Lorde “Green Light”
  40. Khalid “Location”

  41. Khalid “Young, Dumb & Broke”
  42. G-Eazy with Halsey “Him & I”
  43. G-Eazy with A$AP Rocky & Cardi B “No Limit”
  44. Bazzi “Mine”
  45. Niall Horan “Slow Hands”
  46. U2 “You’re the Best Thing About Me”
  47. Arcade Fire “Everything Now”
  48. Beck “Up All Night”
  49. Kendrick Lamar with Zacari “Love”
  50. Taylor Swift “Ready for It?”

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First posted 12/26/2021; last updated 1/17/2023.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Chainsmokers and Coldplay “Something Just Like This” premiered at Brit Awards

Something Just Like This

The Chainsmokers with Coldplay

Writer(s): Andrew Taggart, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin (see lyrics here)


Released: February 22, 2017


First Charted: March 11, 2017


Peak: 3 US, 11 RR, 14 AC, 17 A40, 15 AA, 16 MR, 2 UK, 3 CN, 2 AU, 22 DF (Click for codes to charts.)


Sales (in millions): 10.0 US, 0.76 UK, 21.50 world (includes US + UK)


Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 2802.5 video, 2194.29 streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

The DJ and production duo of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart formed The Chainsmokers in 2012. They experienced their first chart success with 2014’s “#Selfie,” a #16 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. They followed with top-ten hits “Roses,” “Don’t Let Me Down,” “Paris,” and, most notably, “Closer,” a chart-topper for 12 weeks. “Something Just Like This” was the second single from Memories…Do Not Open, a #3 album in the UK and a million-selling, chart-topper in the United States.

Coldplay had an even deeper history, forming in London in 1997. They’d already chalked up seventeen top-ten hits in the UK, including #1 songs “Viva La Vida” and “Paradise,” before their collaboration with the Chainsmokers hit #2. In the United States, it was their fourth top-ten. Meanwhile, they’d topped the album chart eight times in the UK and four in the United States.

Both bands were involved in writing the song. Most of the song was written when the Chainsmokers first met with Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay. SF The Chainsmokers said, “We found some chords that everyone loved and then Chris…freestyled for an hour.” SF

The Chainsmokers explained it is about “a relationship that doesn’t need to be superhumanly perfect, an ordinary love.” SF Martin sings about wanting to be like Hercules or Batman, he knows he isn’t like them but fortunately his girlfriend just wants “a simple relationship with a straightforward guy.” SF

The lyric video set a record for single-day views with more than nine million in its first 24 hours. SF The previous record holder, with 8.2 million plays, was Justin Bieber’s “What Do You Mean?” SF “Just Like This” has gone on to amass more than two billion views.

The song was premiered with a live performance by both bands at the Brit Awards on February 22, 2017. It debuted at #56 on the Billboard Hot 100 and soared to #5 the next week.


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First posted 7/30/2023.

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Top 50 Songs of 2016

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2016

These are the top 50 songs of the year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists.

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

    DMDB Top 1%:

  1. The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer
  2. Drake with WizKid & Kyla “One Dance
  3. Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!
  4. Sia with Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills
  5. Rihanna with Drake “Work
  6. Bruno Mars “That’s What I Like” (2016)
  7. The Weeknd with Daft Punk “Starboy

    DMDB Top 2%:

  8. Pinkfong! “Baby Shark”
  9. Twenty One Pilots “Heathens”
  10. Rae Sremmurd with Gucci Mane “Black Beatles”

  11. The Chainsmokers with Daya “Don’t Let Me Down”
  12. Beyoncé “Formation”
  13. Calvin Harris & Rihanna “This Is What You Came For”

    DMDB Top 5%:

  14. James Arthur “Say You Won’t Let Go”
  15. Bruno Mars “24K Magic”
  16. Shawn Mendes “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back”
  17. Shawn Mendes “Treat You Better”
  18. Zayn “Pillow Talk”
  19. Fifth Harmony with Ty Dolla $ign “Work from Home”
  20. Post Malone with Quavo “Congratulations”

  21. Migos with Lil Uzi Vert “Bad and Boujee”
  22. Major Lazer with Justin Bieber & MØ “Cold Water”
  23. DJ Snake with Justin Bieber “Let Me Love You”
  24. Ariana Grande with Nicki Minaj “Side to Side”
  25. Clean Bandit with Sean Paul & Anne-Marie “Rockabye”
  26. Bruno Mars with Cardi B “Finesse”
  27. Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y”
  28. Zayn with Taylor Swift “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”
  29. Maroon 5 with Kendrick Lamar “Don’t Wanna Know”
  30. Lizzo “Good As Hell”

  31. Rihanna “Needed Me”
  32. The Lumineers “Ophelia”
  33. Charlie Puth with Selena Gomez “We Don’t Talk Anymore”
  34. The Weeknd with Daft Punk “I Feel It Coming”
  35. Rag ‘n’ Bone Man “Human”
  36. Saint JHN with Imanbek “Roses”
  37. Leonard Cohen “You Want It Darker”
  38. D.R.A.M. with Lil Yachty “Broccoli”
  39. Childish Gambino “Redbone”
  40. Gnash with Olivia O’Brien “I Hate U, I Love U”

  41. Keith Urban “Blue Ain’t Your Color” (2016)
  42. Dwayne Johnson “You’re Welcome”
  43. Ariana Grande “Into You”
  44. Alice Merton “No Roots”
  45. Little Big Town “Better Man”
  46. Post Malone “I Fall Apart”
  47. Drake with Rihanna “Too Good”
  48. Rihanna “Love on the Brain”
  49. Future with the Weeknd “Low Life”
  50. Hailee Stenfield with Grey & Zedd “Starving”

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First posted 12/26/2021; last updated 1/17/2023.

Saturday, November 19, 2016

The Chainsmokers spend 12th week at #1 with “Closer”

Closer

The Chainsmokers with Halsey

Writer(s): Andrew Taggart, Ashley Frangipane, Shaun Frank, Frederic Kennett, Isaac Slade, Joe King (see lyrics here)


Released: July 29, 2016


First Charted: August 20, 2016


Peak: 112 US, 110 RR, 111 BA, 113 DG, 112 ST, 8 AC, 14 A40, 14 UK, 113 CN, 19 AU, 12 DF (Click for codes to charts.)


Sales (in millions): 15.0 US, 1.8 UK, 20.7 world (includes US + UK)


Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 2972.6 video, 2584.27 streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

“Closer” was about a couple rekindling their romance. The Chainsmokers’ Andrew Taggart and guest vocalist Halsey each sing their sides of the story before coming together by chance at the end. SF Right after the song’s release, the Chainsmokers tweeted “This song is dedicated to anyone that hooked up with their EX and right after remember all the reasons why they broke up.” SF

Taggart said the “EDM song with a retro style synthesizer” WK was inspired by Blink-182. SF Taggart crafted the beat during a studio session with Freddy Kennett (from EDM duo Louis the Child) and then wrote the words with Shaun Frank – a Canadian DJ, singer, and producer. SF Taggart said Shaun convinced him he could sing – so Taggart sang on a Chainsmokers’ song for the first time. SF

When similiarities were noted between “Closer” and the Fray’s “Over My Head (Cable Car),” the Chainsmokers reached out to the Fray’s Isaac Slade and Joe King. SF King told ABC Radio that “There was no friction or tension…So it’s all good.” SF Slade and King were added to the songwriting credits on September 2, 2016. WK

Billboard’s Matt Medved said the song “sounds like an instant classic” and boasts “an earworm chorus and evocative verses.” WK MTV’s Deepa Lakshmin called it “an upbeat dance-worthy jam that deserves a spot on your summer playlist.” WK

The Chainsmokers became the first duo or group since Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (“Thrift Shop”) more than two years earlier to top the Billboard Hot 100. WK It was the longest-running #1 song of the year and also spent more time in the top 5 (26 weeks) than any song in history SF and was only the second song – the other being LeAnn Rimes’ “How Do I Live” – to spend 32 weeks in the top ten. WK It also topped the charts in 10 other countries WK and was the first song since “Harlem Shake” by Baauer to top the Hot 100 and Hot Dance/Electronic Songs charts. SF In May 2017, it became only the second song to surpass one billion streams on Spotify. WK


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Last updated 7/20/2023.