Drake has surpassed The Beatles with the most top five hits in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The Beatles have the most No. 1 hits of all time: 20. Though unclear for how long, the Beatles still reign supreme as the artist with the most No. 1 songs of all time.
With 40 top 10 hits in the Hot 100 over her career, Swift surpassed Madonna as the woman with the most top 10s in the chart's history. (Madonna has 38 top 10 singles.) Swift is only surpassed by Drake, who counts 59 top 10 hits.
That's a new record for the most simultaneous placements inside the highest area, and Drake grabs this piece of history from... himself. Several years back, when his album Scorpion arrived, the rapper scored seven top 10 smashes at one time, which bested a record long held by The Beatles.
1 Billboard Hot 100 Song of All Time | Billboard News. The Weeknd's “Blinding Lights” is the new No. 1 song on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time Hot 100 Chart. It's replacing Chubby Checker's “The Twist”.
"Old Town Road" holds the record for the longest stretch at No. 1 with 19 weeks. It also became the fastest song in history to be certified diamond.
Cher's career as a recording artist spans seven decades and she is the only artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each of the past six decades.
During the time period from 2012 to 2021, Drake was the top performer in the charts, with 46 songs in the Billboard Top 100. Ranking in joint second place were Ariana Grande with 22 and Nicki Minaj with 21 songs each.
Gogi Grant, whose rendition of “The Wayward Wind” replaced Elvis Presley's “Heartbreak Hotel” on top of the Billboard singles chart in 1956, died on Thursday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91.
Most recorded artist in music history - Asha Bhosle
In 1974, the Guinness Book of Records had older sister Mangeshkar (now 87) down as recording the most songs in history - a staggering 25,000.
25 by Adele is the fastest-selling album of all time in the US with 3,378,000 copies sold in its first seven days.
The only audited measure of record sales in the United States is certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Since the RIAA introduced its awards on 14 March 1958, Elvis Presley holds the record for the most platinum certificates for both albums and singles with 82.
Taylor Swift has once again made music history by claiming every single top 10 spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart at once. No other artist has ever held all 10 spots at the same time, according to Billboard.
With the release of her single "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" in early '88, Whitney Houston set the record as the only artist ever to reach the milestone of seven consecutive No. 1 hits on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Paul McCartney (32) and John Lennon (26), of The Beatles, rank first and second, respectively, for having written the most Hot 100 No. 1s, thanks to their respective group and solo outputs.
However, the record for the shortest song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart happened in 1960. That honor was established by Maurice & the Zodiacs with their doo-wop classic “Stay" at just 1 minute and 38 seconds.
“Heat Waves” by @GlassAnimals is officially the longest-charting Hot 100 hit in HISTORY (91 weeks). Dave Bayley of Glass Animals told Billboard of the achievement, "Wow, all I can say is wow. Many of you know when I wrote this song I was writing about missing someone I loved very dearly.
Only 22 albums in history have sold 1 million copies in a single week — here they all are. Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. In the 30+ years since, only 22 albums have sold at least 1 million copies in one week.
Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" Is the Fastest-Selling Diamond Record of All Time.