As part of Billboard’s celebration of the Hot 100’s 50th anniversary, we present a listing of each of the No. 1s by the artists who scored the most in the chart’s history.
Each entry includes the name of the artist and the number of Hot 100 No. 1s the artist earned, with the peak date and number of weeks the track topped the chart alongside each chart-topping song name.
The Beatles: 20
02/01/64 (7): “I Want To Hold Your Hand”
03/21/64 (2): “She Loves You”
04/04/64 (5): “Can’t Buy Me Love”
05/30/64 (1): “Love Me Do”
08/01/64 (2): “A Hard Day’s Night”
12/26/64 (3): “I Feel Fine”
03/13/65 (2): “Eight Days A Week”
05/22/65 (1): “Ticket To Ride”
09/04/65 (3): “Help!”
10/09/65 (4): “Yesterday”
01/08/66 (3): “We Can Work It Out”
06/25/66 (2): “Paperback Writer”
03/18/67 (1): “Penny Lane”
08/19/67 (1): “All You Need Is Love”
12/30/67 (3): “Hello Goodbye”
09/28/68 (9): “Hey Jude”
05/24/69 (5): “Get Back” (W/ Billy Preston)
11/29/69 (1): “Come Together/Something”
04/11/70 (2): “Let It Be”
06/13/70 (2): “The Long And Winding Road/For You Blue”
Mariah Carey: 18
08/04/90 (4): “Vision Of Love”
11/10/90 (3): “Love Takes Time”
03/09/91 (2): “Someday”
05/25/91 (2): “I Don’t Wanna Cry”
10/12/91 (3): “Emotions”
06/20/92 (2): “I’ll Be There”
09/11/93 (8): “Dreamlover”
12/25/93 (4): “Hero”
09/30/95 (8): “Fantasy”
12/02/95 (16): “One Sweet Day” (& Boyz Ii Men)
05/04/96 (2): “Always Be My Baby”
09/13/97 (3): “Honey”
05/23/98 (1): “My All”
10/09/99 (2): “Heartbreaker” (Feat. Jay-Z)
02/19/00 (1): “Thank God I Found You” (Feat. Joe & 98 Degrees)
06/04/05 (14): “We Belong Together”
12/31/05 (2): “Don’t Forget About Us”
04/12/08 (2): “Touch My Body”
Michael Jackson: 13
10/14/72 (1 Wk): “Ben”
10/13/79 (1): “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”
01/19/80 (4): “Rock With You”
03/05/83 (7): “Billie Jean”
04/30/83 (3): “Beat It”
12/10/83 (6): “Say Say Say” (& Paul Mccartney)
09/19/87 (1): “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” (W/Siedah Garrett)
10/24/87 (2): “Bad”
01/23/88 (1): “The Way You Make Me Feel”
03/26/88 (2): “Man In The Mirror”
07/02/88 (1): “Dirty Diana”
12/07/91 (7): “Black Or White”
09/02/95 (1): “You Are Not Alone”
Madonna: 12
12/22/84 (6): “Like A Virgin”
05/11/85 (1): “Crazy For You”
06/07/86 (1): “Live To Tell”
08/16/86 (2): “Papa Don’t Preach”
02/07/87 (1): “Open Your Heart”
08/22/87 (1): “Who’s That Girl”
04/22/89 (3): “Like A Prayer”
05/19/90 (3): “Vogue”
01/05/91 (2): “Justify My Love”
08/08/92 (1): “This Used To Be My Playground”
02/25/95 (7): “Take A Bow”
09/16/00 (4): “Music”
The Supremes: 12
08/22/64 (2): “Where Did Our Love Go”
10/31/64 (4): “Baby Love”
12/19/64 (2): “Come See About Me”
03/27/65 (2): “Stop! In The Name Of Love”
06/12/65 (1): “Back In My Arms Again”
11/20/65 (2): “I Hear A Symphony”
09/10/66 (2): “You Can’t Hurry Love”
11/19/66 (2): “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”
03/11/67 (1): “Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone”
05/13/67 (1): “The Happening”
11/30/68 (2): “Love Child”
12/27/69 (1): “Someday We’ll Be Together”
Whitney Houston: 11
10/26/85 (1 Wk): “Saving All My Love For You”
02/15/86 (2): “How Will I Know”
05/17/86 (3): “Greatest Love Of All”
06/27/87 (2): “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”
09/26/87 (2): “Didn’t We Almost Have It All “
01/09/88 (1): “So Emotional”
04/23/88 (2): “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”
12/01/90 (1): “I’m Your Baby Tonight”
02/23/91 (2): “All The Man That I Need”
11/28/92 (14): “I Will Always Love You”
11/25/95 (1): “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)”
Janet Jackson: 10
10/11/86 (2): “When I Think Of You”
10/07/89 (4): “Miss You Much”
03/03/90 (3): “Escapade”
10/27/90 (1): “Black Cat”
01/19/91 (1): “Love Will Never Do (Without You)”
05/15/93 (8): “That’s The Way Love Goes”
12/11/93 (2): “Again”
01/31/98 (2): “Together Again”
08/26/00 (3): “Doesn’t Really Matter”
04/14/01 (7): “All For You”
Stevie Wonder: 10
08/10/63 (3): “Fingertips – Pt 2”
01/27/73 (1): “Superstition”
05/19/73 (1): “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life”
11/02/74 (1): “You Haven’t Done Nothin”
01/22/77 (1): “I Wish”
05/21/77 (3): “Sir Duke”
05/15/82 (7): “Ebony And Ivory” (& Paul Mccartney)
10/13/84 (3): “I Just Called To Say I Love You”
11/02/85 (1): “Part Time Lover”
01/18/86 (4): “That’s What Friends Are For” (Dionne & Friends)
Bee Gees: 9
08/07/71 (4): “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart”
08/09/75 (2): “Jive Talkin'”
09/04/76 (1): “You Should Be Dancing”
12/24/77 (3): “How Deep Is Your Love”
02/04/78 (4): “Stayin’ Alive”
03/18/78 (8): “Night Fever”
01/06/79 (2): “Too Much Heaven”
03/24/79 (2): “Tragedy”
06/09/79 (1): “Love You Inside Out”
Elton John: 9
02/03/73 (3): “Crocodile Rock”
04/13/74 (1): “Bennie And The Jets”
01/04/75 (2): “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”
04/12/75 (2): “Philadelphia Freedom” (The Elton John Band)
11/01/75 (3): “Island Girl”
08/07/76 (4): “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (& Kiki Dee)
01/18/86 (4): “That’s What Friends Are For” (Dionne & Friends)
02/01/92 (1): “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” (& George Michael)
10/11/97 (14): “Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight”
Paul McCartney: 9
09/04/71 (1 Wk): “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” (& Linda Mccartney)
06/02/73 (4): “My Love”
06/08/74 (1): “Band On The Run”
07/19/75 (1): “Listen To What The Man Said”
05/22/76 (5): “Silly Love Songs”
05/20/78 (2): “With A Little Luck”
06/28/80 (3): “Coming Up” (Live At Glasgow)
05/15/82 (7): “Ebony And Ivory” (& Stevie Wonder)
12/10/83 (6): “Say Say Say” (& Michael Jackson)
The Rolling Stones: 8
07/10/65 (4): “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
11/06/65 (2): “Get Off Of My Cloud”
06/11/66 (2): “Paint It, Black”
03/04/67 (1): “Ruby Tuesday”
08/23/69 (4): “Honky Tonk Women”
05/29/71 (2): “Brown Sugar”
10/20/73 (1): “Angie”
08/05/78 (1): “Miss You”
Usher: 8
02/14/98 (2): “Nice & Slow”
07/07/01 (4): “U Remind Me”
12/15/01 (6): “U Got It Bad”
02/28/04 (12): “Yeah!” (Feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris)
05/22/04 (8): “Burn”
07/24/04 (2): “Confessions Part II”
10/30/04 (6): “My Boo” (& Alicia Keys)
03/15/08 (3): “Love In This Club” (Feat. Young Jeezy)
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As part of Billboard's celebration of the Hot 100's 50th anniversary, we present a listing of each of the No. 1s by the artists who scored the most in the chart's history. Includes artist name…