Billboard Year-End Hot chart for For detailed information on how Billboard compiled the charts, see the Wikipedia article " Billboard Hot ". Top s Songs. Love Yourself - Justin Bieber 2. Sorry - Justin Bieber 3. One Dance featuring Wizkid and Kyla - Drake 4. Work featuring Drake - Rihanna 5. Stressed Out - twenty one pilots 6. Panda - Desiigner 7.

The best-selling and most streamed hits of the year revealed.


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The top lists the most popular hits in the UK singles music charts in Cheap Thrills. One Dance. Lush Life. Dancing On My Own. Hymn For The Weekend. Love Yourself. Light It Up.
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Ariana Grande's "Dangerous Woman" was one of the year's most popular songs. Plus, Lady Gaga returned to pop, and let's not forget the tour-de-force that was Lemonade. Simply put, our faves delivered the hits in spades. But which artist achieved the most success this year? That's a subjective term, of course—I mean, what is success? We'll leave the lofty analysis to the music scholars and stick to something more cut and dry: streams. In the digital era, music streams are the best way to gauge what artist is the most popular at any given time. So many heavy-hitters released albums and songs this year, but who came out on top as the most-streamed—and, subsequently, the most popular? That would be Drake. Streaming giant Spotify recently released its list of most-streamed artists and songs of the year, and Drake topped the list with—wait for it—4.
The Billboard Hot 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 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot chart based on the information. For , the list was published on December 8, calculated with data from December 5, to November 26, The list was dominated by Justin Bieber and Drake , who shared the top four spots, for the first time since the top four spots was dominated by Lady Gaga and The Black Eyed Peas. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.