The Year in Billboard Chart Feats, By the Numbers: From 1 to 4.002 Million

1 — The pair’s “APT.” rented the top floor on the Pop Airplay chart for five weeks beginning Feb. 1, becoming the first song associated with K-pop (Korean pop) to have reached No. 1.

“Yes, it might sound like a silly drinking game, but I feel like that could be a song that brings so many people joy,” BLACKPINK’s ROSÉ shared on Billboard’s 2025 No. 1s Livestream. “It means so much to my younger self who grew up feeling like that would not be a possibility … I’m really, really grateful and a little shook.”

27 — Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tossed back a record-breaking 27th week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart dated Feb. 8, the most over the list’s 35-year history. It surpassed The Weeknd’s 26-week reign with “Blinding Lights” in 2020.

43 — John added his record-extending 43rd top 10 onBillboard’sAdult Contemporarychart, and duet partnerBrandi Carlileearned her first, as their “Who Believes in Angels?” rose a spot to No. 10 on the survey dated March 15. Neil Diamond follows John with 38 top 10s, with Barbra Streisand third with 35, dating to the chart’s 1961 inception.

4 — “Bed Chem” hit No. 1 on the Pop Airplay chart dated March 29. With the song and prior singles “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” all from Carpenter’s 2024 albumShort n’ Sweet, the set became the first to spin off at least four Pop Airplay No. 1s in nearly a decade — since Taylor Swift’s1989generated five in 2014-15.

Since the Pop Airplay chart originated in 1992, a select five albums have yielded four or more No. 1 singles each.

12 — The breakout British artist’s “Messy” topped Alternative Airplay in April and crossed to No. 1 on the Pop Airplay chart dated May 17. It became the first initial entry by a woman with lead billing to have topped both charts in almost a dozen years, since Lorde’s “Royals” in 2013.

81 — “Miss” was another hit: “What Did I Miss?” debuted as Drake’s record-extending 81st and most recent Hot 100 top 10 on the July 19-dated chart. By September, he also upped his count to an unprecedented 361 total chart entries.

89 — On the Aug. 2-dated Hot Latin Songs chart, Bad Bunny’s “Alambre Púa” jumped 14-8, becoming his record-extending 89th top 10. Especially impressively, he has ascended to the sum, driven in large part by robust streaming totals, since posting his first top 10 in September 2017; the chart began in 1986. To date, Enrique Iglesias and Luis Miguel share second place with 39 top 10s each.

From July through September, Benito staged his No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí residency at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in his native Puerto Rico. “This residency was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced,” he subsequently marveled. “The word that keeps coming to mind for me is ‘harmony.’ “Across [31] shows, there wasn’t a single viral video of people fighting or arguing. Everyone was just happy, dancing and showing love.”

31 — Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” notched its unprecedented 31st and most recent week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart dated Aug. 16. Neither artist had to worry about offending the previous record holders. The song bested the 22-week reign of Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which had taken the title from SZA’s 21-week leader “Kill Bill.”

4 — The soundtrack to Netflix’s empowering, action-packed, heartwarming — and record-breaking — KPop Demon Hunters added a fourth Hot 100 top 10 on the Aug. 30 chart, as HUNTR/X’s “How It’s Done” reached the tier, joining the act’s “Golden” amid its eight-week rule. HUNTR/X’s adversaries in the film Saja Boys also logged two top 10s that week, “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop,” making KPop Demon Hunters the first soundtrack to generate four simultaneous top 10s on the chart.

1 & 1 — BigXthaPlug’s “All the Way,” featuring Bailey Zimmerman, topped the Hot Country Songs chart upon its debut on the April 11 list. On Sept. 6, it climbed to No. 1 on Hot Rap Songs, becoming the first track to have reached No. 1 on both genre surveys; the former ranking began in October 1958, while the latter premiered in April 1989.

31 — In July 1994, Hootie achieved its first No. 1 on a Billboard chart, as its breakthrough LP Cracked Rear View topped Heatseekers Albums. Among the set’s classics: “Hold My Hand,” which helped define the sound of ‘90s pop-rock and reached No. 10 on the Hot 100 in 1995. Thirty-one years later, the song again contributed to a chart-topping title: McCreery’s “Bottle Rockets,” which interpolates the “Hold My Hand” chorus, crowned the Country Airplay chart dated Oct. 4.

“It fit like a glove,” McCreery told Billboard earlier this year of how “Bottle Rockets” got a helping, well, hand.

20 — Wallenbecame the first solo act with multiple 20-week leaders on the Hot Country Songs chart, when “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, reached the milestone atop the Oct. 11 ranking. It followed 2023’s “Last Night,” which topped the tally for 25 weeks. Only Florida Georgia Line previously met that mark twice, with “Cruise” (24 weeks in 2012-13) and “Meant To Be,” the latter with Bebe Rexha (a record 50 weeks in 2017-18).

16 — The singer-songwriter’s “Ordinary” ran up its reign on the Pop Airplay chart to 16 weeks with its last frame at No. 1 on the Oct. 11 list. It broke the record for the longest stay at the summit that Ace of Base had held for 31 years, thanks to “The Sign,” which led for 14 weeks in 1994.

4.002 million — On the Oct. 18-dated Billboard 200, Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl launched with a record-demolishing 4.002 million equivalent album units earned in its first week, according to Luminate. It vaulted past the likewise lofty 3.482 million collected by Adele’s 25 in 2015.

Plus, Swift scored her 15th Billboard 200 No. 1 with the new set, breaking out of a tie with Jay-Z for the most among soloists dating to the chart’s 1956 start.

“I have 4 million ‘thank you’s I want to send to the fans, and 4 million reasons to feel even more proud of this album than I already was,” Swift wrote. “Just wow. Thank you for the lovely bouquet.”

26 — Swift co-wrote and co-produced The Life of a Showgirl’s “The Fate of Ophelia” with Max Martin and Shellback. Her 13th Hot 100 No. 1 as a recording artist, upon its Oct. 18 debut, it became Martin’s 28th leader as a songwriter, second only to Paul McCartney’s 32, and his record-extending 26th as a producer.

112 — Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” ran up its record run to 112 weeks spent on the Hot 100, from its debut (at No. 99) in August 2023 through the Oct. 18, 2025, chart. Along the way, it led the list for a week in March 2024 and finished as the top hit on the year-end 2024 Hot 100 Songs recap.

“I love always watching your updates,” thesinger-songwriter musedin February ofBillboard News’ weekly recap of the Hot 100’s top 10. “It’s like, ‘Here comes Teddy Swims!’ ”

51 & 60 — The superstars’ “Die With a Smile” — No. 1 on the 2025 year-end Hot 100 Songs chart, after it led the Hot 100 for five weeks beginning in January — spent 51 weeks in the top 10 and 60 frames on the survey overall, last appearing on the tally dated Oct. 18. Both totals mark the most for a co-billed duet between a female and male artist in the chart’s history.

43 — SZA’s SOS added its 43rd and latest week at No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart dated Nov. 22, padding its status as the longest-leading set since the list began in 1965. It posted its 38th week on top on the June 14 chart, overtaking Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which had held the mark for more than 40 years, with 37 weeks at No. 1 in 1983-84.

50 — The late folk icon’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” from 1976, hit No. 1 on a Billboard chart for the first time, a little more than 50 years after the namesake ship’s sinking. Driven by commemoration of the anniversary, it topped the Rock Digital Song Sales survey dated Nov. 22.

8 — The K-pop stars collected their eighth Billboard 200 No. 1 with the debut of Do It on the chart dated Dec. 6. All eight have debuted at No. 1, beginning with Oddinary in 2022. In 2024, when Hop entered atop the list, Stray Kids became the first act to launch at the top spot with six initial entries, dating to the chart’s 1956 start. This September, they extended the record to seven with the chart-topping arrival of Karma: The 4th Album, a mark furthered exactly three months later with Do It.

‘70s through ‘20s — Aerosmith and YUNGBLUD teamed for a No. 9 debut on the Dec. 6 Billboard 200 with their EP One More Time, the band’s 10th top 10 and YUNGBLUD’s first. Aerosmith became the second group, following The Rolling Stones, with at least one newly charted top 10 in every decade from the 1970s through the 2020s. Among all acts, just five acts have scored a new top 10 in each decade in that span: Aerosmith, Paul McCartney, the Stones, Bruce Springsteen and James Taylor.

20 — Guetta became the first to 20 Dance/Mix Show Airplay No. 1s when “Gone Gone Gone,” with Teddy Swims Tones and I, went to the top of the Dec. 13-dated chart. Guetta notched four No. 1s in both the 2000s and ’10s, followed by a dozen to date in the ‘20s.

2 — Wham!’s “Last Christmas” dashed four placesto No. 2on the Hot 100dated Dec. 13, as the 1984 classic by the British duo ofGeorge Michael, who died in 2016, and Andrew Ridgeley hit a new high on the chart, surpassing its prior No. 3 peak. The carol went on to top the Billboard Global 200 for the first time a week later.

“It’s an amazing testament to the special place the song occupies in so many hearts and one that George Michael would have been immensely proud of,” Ridgeley told Billboard. “Thank you, everyone who has embraced the song as a little piece of their own merry Christmas.”

993 — The band’s The Dark Side of the Moon, which entered the Billboard 200 in March 1973 and scored a week at No. 1 that April, added its record 993rd and latest week on the ranking dated Dec. 20, 2025. Will 2026 be the year that it claims its 1,000th week on the chart?

20 — “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by the Queen of Christmas (and many Billboard chart records) scored its record 20th total week atop the Hot 100 dated Dec 20. It surpassed the 19-week reigns of two hits each — Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” in 2024, and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, in 2019 — for the longest command over the chart’s history. She and Boyz II Men had held or shared the distinction for more than 23 years, from 1996 to 2019, thanks to their ballad “One Sweet Day.”

“Humbly taking back the torch!! 20 weeks at#1,”Carey celebrated on Instagram. “I’m so grateful ❤️”