Subscriber Account active since. The Billboard Hot is roundly recognized as the music industry's most reliable measure of song popularity. To score a No. Mariah Carey added to that historic number when her classic holiday single, "All I Want For Christmas Is You," topped the chart for the first time since its release in Moreover, thanks to smash hits like Ariana Grande's "7 Rings" and Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" — both of which dominated radio play and streaming numbers for an unprecedented stretch of weeks — only 17 songs claimed the chart's top spot this year.

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A handful of recording artists, however, have managed the feat at least 10 times since the s, when the chart originated. To find out who they are, as well as which of their hits gained them membership, read on. By the end of the decade, he had become a singular presence on the shifting American musical landscape. In , shortly after returning from his stint in the U. He went on to score four more. By the time the Beatles officially broke up, 20 of their songs had reached number one in the United States, a record that still stood decades later. And there was no Motown act during that decade more successful than the modish female vocal group the Supremes. With Bad , Jackson—by then the most popular entertainer in the world—sought to outdo himself. While the album could not match the astronomic sales of its predecessor, it did produce a then-unprecedented five number ones.
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Subscriber Account active since. For more than six decades now, Billboard has been keeping track of what Americans are listening to via the Hot list, which measures the top pop songs in America based on sales, radio play, and online streaming. While how we listen to music has changed immensely since then, it still remains a goal of many artists to try and climb the charts, all the way to No. However, some of the most beloved bands and artists have never achieved the coveted spot atop the Hot Of these 16 musical acts, some still have plenty of time to make it. Keep scrolling to see who's never had a No. It might surprise you. It's hard to overstate the influence that Nirvana had on pop music in the early '90s. Grunge, suddenly, was everywhere, and the youth of America had a new icon to look up to: Kurt Cobain.