The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States.
Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming.
At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information.
[1] Billboard named Olivia Rodrigo the top Hot 100 artist of 2021,[2] the youngest female artist to achieve this honor, and the first female artist since Katy Perry in 2014.
[1] Rodrigo placed four songs on the list, all in the top 40; the highest ranked of them, "Good 4 U", placed at number five.
"
Levitating
" by
Dua Lipa
(pictured)
came in at number one in the Year-End list, despite peaking at number two on the weekly Hot 100 chart. It became the first song to top a Year-End list without topping the weekly chart since
Lifehouse
's "
Hanging by a Moment
" in 2001.
[
1
]
The Weeknd
(pictured)
has four songs on the Year-End list, with "
Save Your Tears
" (with
Ariana Grande
) and "
Blinding Lights
" ranking at #2 and #3; in addition, "Blinding Lights", previously the biggest performing song of 2020, was crowned by
Billboard
as the most successful Hot 100 single of all time, dethroning Chubby Checker's "
The Twist
".
[
3
]
Four songs from
Olivia Rodrigo
's
(pictured)
debut studio album
Sour
rank within the top 40, with her number ones "
Good 4 U
" and "
Drivers License
" ranking within the top 10 at number 5 and number 8 respectively, while "
Deja Vu
" and "
Traitor
" rank at number 13 and number 38 respectively.
