This is a list of the songs placed number one in the United States during 2021. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. Its data is compiled by MRC Data and published by American music magazine Billboard. The chart is based on each song's weekly physical and digital sales collectively, the amount of airplay it receives on American radio stations, and its streams on online digital music platforms.
Twenty-four acts reached number one in 2021, nine of whom earned their first number-one single: Olivia Rodrigo, Daniel Caesar, Giveon, Silk Sonic, Anderson .Paak, Polo G, The Kid Laroi, Future, and Jack Harlow. BTS scored three number ones while Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, Drake and Lil Nas X scored two each, as the only acts to achieve multiple number-one songs in 2021.
2021 marked the first calendar year since 1991 to have at least 10 songs reach number one on the Hot 100 by the end of May. BTS spent the most weeks at the top spot of the Hot 100 in 2021, with twelve non-consecutive weeks. Their single "Butter" is the longest running number-one song of 2021, spending ten weeks atop the chart. (Adele's "Easy On Me" also spent ten weeks total at number one, but only seven of them occurred in 2021.) Rodrigo's "Drivers License" was 2021's longest running number-one single by a female artist, with eight consecutive weeks atop. Taylor Swift scored her career's eighth number-one song with "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)", which broke the 49-year-old Hot 100 record of Don McLean's "American Pie" (1972) to become the longest song of all time to top the chart, clocking at 10 minutes and 13 seconds. Topping the chart for the first time with a feature on Drake's "Way 2 Sexy", Future broke the record for the longest wait for a #1, after 125 entries on the chart.
Chart history
The best-performing single of 2021, "Levitating" by Dua Lipa, peaked at number two on the Hot 100 chart dated May 22, 2021. Issue date Song Artist(s) re January 2 "All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey re January 9 "Mood" 24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior January 16 1116 January 23 "Drivers License" Olivia Rodrigo January 30 February 6 February 13 February 20 February 27 March 6 March 13 1117 March 20 "What's Next" Drake 1118 March 27 "Up" Cardi B 1119 April 3 "Peaches" Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon 1120 April 10 "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" Lil Nas X 1121 April 17 "Leave the Door Open" Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) 1122 April 24 "Rapstar" Polo G May 1 1123 May 8 "Save Your Tears" The Weeknd and Ariana Grande May 15 re May 22 "Leave the Door Open" Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) 1124 May 29 "Good 4 U" Olivia Rodrigo 1125 June 5 "Butter" BTS June 12 June 19 June 26 July 3 July 10 July 17 1126 July 24 "Permission to Dance" re July 31 "Butter" August 7 1127 August 14 "Stay" The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber August 21 August 28 September 4 re September 11 "Butter" BTS 1128 September 18 "Way 2 Sexy" Drake featuring Future and Young Thug re September 25 "Stay" The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber October 2 1129 October 9 "My Universe" Coldplay and BTS re October 16 "Stay" The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 1130 October 23 "Industry Baby" Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow 1131 October 30 "Easy on Me" Adele November 6 November 13 November 20 1132 November 27 "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" Taylor Swift re December 4 "Easy on Me" Adele December 11 December 18 re December 25 "All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey
Number-one artists + List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one Position Artist Weeks at No. 1 1 BTS 12 2 Olivia Rodrigo 9 3 Justin Bieber 8 4 The Kid Laroi 7 Adele 6 Mariah Carey 2 24kGoldn Iann Dior Drake Lil Nas X Silk Sonic Bruno Mars Anderson .Paak Polo G The Weeknd Ariana Grande 17 Cardi B 1 Daniel Caesar Giveon Future Young Thug Coldplay Jack Harlow Taylor Swift
See also List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2021 List of Billboard Global 200 number ones of 2021 List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2021 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2020s Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2021 2021 in American music
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