2021 Billboard Year End Charts

[iHype.]

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/

Chart number ones...

Top Artists: Drake

Hot 100: Dua Lipa - "Levitating"
Hot 100 Artists: Olivia Rodrigo
Billboard 200: Morgan Wallen - "Dangerous: The Double Album"
Billboard 200 Artists: Taylor Swift
Top New Artists: Olivia Rodrigo

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

Neat! Just in time I was about to sleep and listening to the Year-End #1 of 2021!

[recordyear]

Feels like the complete version will be out about 35 mins later?

[recordyear]

Scratch that, the year-end Hot 100 is out.
www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2021/hot-100-songs/

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

Dec 2, 2021 9:25:59 GMT -5 recordyear said:

Scratch that, the year-end Hot 100 is out.
www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2021/hot-100-songs/

It redirects to the 2020 Year-End list though

[iHype.]

They are officially out now.

Drake taking #1 over Olivia is a mild surprise, but they weighed Billboard 200 a bit higher compared to Hot 100 than I predicted.

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/208075/billboard-hot-100-11-2021?page=12

I think I should actually be able to figure out the formula for Top Artists since my predictions were all the same artists top 20 just a slightly different order. I’ll look more when I’m home.

[recordyear]

Just a quick question, why the overall charts and genre charts may not match? e.g. Tennessee Whiskey is #2 on Country Streaming Songs and Fancy Like is #6, but Tennessee Whiskey is #51 on Streaming Songs while Fancy Like is #30?

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Billboard 2021 Year-End Hot 100

1 Levitating - Dua Lipa
2 Save Your Tears - The Weeknd & Ariana Grande
3 Blinding Lights - The Weeknd
4 Mood - 24kGoldn Featuring iann dior
5 Good 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo
6 Kiss Me More - Doja Cat Featuring SZA
7 Leave The Door Open - Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak)
8 Drivers License - Olivia Rodrigo
9 Montero (Call Me By Your Name) - Lil Nas X
10 Peaches - Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon
11 Butter - BTS
12 Stay - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
13 Deja Vu - Olivia Rodrigo
14 Positions - Ariana Grande
15 Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran
16 Heat Waves - Glass Animals
17 Without You - The Kid LAROI
18 Forever After All - Luke Combs
19 Go Crazy - Chris Brown & Young Thug
20 Astronaut In The Ocean - Masked Wolf
21 34+35 - Ariana Grande Feat. Doja Cat & Megan Thee Stallion
22 What You Know Bout Love - Pop Smoke
23 My Ex's Best Friend - Machine Gun Kelly X blackbear
24 Industry Baby - Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow
25 Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish
26 Up - Cardi B
27 Fancy Like - Walker Hayes
28 Dakiti - Bad Bunny & Jhay Cortez
29 Best Friend - Saweetie Featuring Doja Cat
30 Rapstar - Polo G
31 Heartbreak Anniversary - Giveon
32 For The Night - Pop Smoke Featuring Lil Baby & DaBaby
33 Calling My Phone - Lil Tjay Featuring 6LACK
34 Beautiful Mistakes - Maroon 5 Featuring Megan Thee Stallion
35 Holy -Justin Bieber Featuring Chance The Rapper
36 On Me - Lil Baby
37 You Broke Me First. - Tate McRae
38 Traitor - Olivia Rodrigo
39 Back In Blood - Pooh Shiesty Featuring Lil Durk
40 I Hope - Gabby Barrett Featuring Charlie Puth
41 Dynamite - BTS
42 Wockesha - Moneybagg Yo
43 You Right - Doja Cat & The Weeknd
44 Beat Box - SpotemGottem Featuring Pooh Shiesty Or DaBaby
45 Laugh Now Cry Later - Drake Featuring Lil Durk
46 Need To Know - Doja Cat
47 Wants And Needs - Drake Featuring Lil Baby
48 Way 2 Sexy - Drake Featuring Future & Young Thug
49 Telepatia - Kali Uchis
50 Whoopty - CJ
51 Lemonade - Internet Money & Gunna Featuring Don Toliver & NAV
52 Good Days - SZA
53 Starting Over - Chris Stapleton
54 Body - Megan Thee Stallion
55 Willow - Taylor Swift
56 Bang! - AJR
57 Better Together - Luke Combs
58 You're Mines Still - Yung Bleu Featuring Drake
59 Every Chance I Get - DJ Khaled Featuring Lil Baby & Lil Durk
60 Essence - Wizkid Featuring Justin Bieber & Tems
61 Chasing After You - Ryan Hurd With Maren Morris
62 The Good Ones - Gabby Barrett
63 Leave Before You Love Me - Marshmello X Jonas Brothers
64 Glad You Exist - Dan + Shay
65 Lonely - Justin Bieber & benny blanco
66 Beggin' - Maneskin
67 Streets - Doja Cat
68 What's Next - Drake
69 Famous Friends - Chris Young + Kane Brown
70 Lil Bit - Nelly & Florida Georgia Line
71 Thot Shit - Megan Thee Stallion
72 Late At Night - Roddy Ricch
73 Kings & Queens - Ava Max
74 Anyone - Justin Bieber
75 Track Star - Mooski
76 Time Today - Moneybagg Yo
77 Cry Baby - Megan Thee Stallion Featuring DaBaby
78 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
79 No More Parties - Coi Leray Featuring Lil Durk
80 What's Your Country Song - Thomas Rhett
81 One Too Many - Keith Urban Duet With P!nk
82 Arcade - Duncan Laurence
83 Yonaguni - Bad Bunny
84 Good Time - Niko Moon
85 If I Didn't Love You - Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood
86 Knife Talk - Drake Featuring 21 Savage & Project Pat
87 pov - Ariana Grande
88 Just The Way - Parmalee x Blanco Brown
89 Take My Breath - The Weeknd
90 We're Good - Dua Lipa
91 Hell Of A View - Eric Church
92 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
93 Put Your Records On - Ritt Momney
94 Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish
95 Single Saturday Night - Cole Swindell
96 Things A Man Oughta Know - Lainey Wilson
97 Throat Baby (Go Baby) - BRS Kash
98 Tombstone - Rod Wave
99 Drinkin' Beer. Talkin' God. Amen. - Chase Rice Featuring Florida Georgia Line
100 Todo de Ti - Rauw Alejandro

[iHype.]

Dec 2, 2021 9:51:04 GMT -5 recordyear said:

Just a quick question, why the overall charts and genre charts may not match? e.g. Tennessee Whiskey is #2 on Country Streaming Songs and Fancy Like is #6, but Tennessee Whiskey is #51 on Streaming Songs while Fancy Like is #30?

Because songs can chart longer on the genre charts — i.e. charting for months on the lower section of Country before making the overall chart, or continuing to chart on Country after leaving the overall chart. Since Year-Ends are based on total points from a specific chart they will have different point totals.

[born]

Wow I didn't think they could fuck up their website more but kudos to them for finding a way to do just that. Terrible.

[algo]

awesome to see happier than ever make it, todo de ti and tombstone as well those were projected to just barely miss

[Az Paynter]

One Too Many and Arcade comfortably charting instead of barely scraping through #Winning

[312999]

Congratulations to Blinding Lights for being such a huge song to be top 3 on 2 year end charts. I don’t think that this feat will ever happen again.

[kalmanta]

Surprisingly DaBaby wasn’t credited on Levitating.

[rockgolf]

Has One Too Many become the lowest charting song on the Hot 100 to make the year end chart?

[rockgolf]

Dec 2, 2021 10:24:04 GMT -5 312999 said:

Congratulations to Blinding Lights for being such a huge song to be top 3 on 2 year end charts. I don’t think that this feat will ever happen again.

Not bad for a song that dropped more than 50 places in its first four weeks on the chart.

[Clode]

Dec 2, 2021 10:41:50 GMT -5 kalmanta said:

Surprisingly DaBaby wasn’t credited on Levitating.

It's not actually surprising due the controversy surrounding what he said in his Rolling Loud concert, And Dua Lipa's record label probably told Billboard to not credit him on the Year-End charts.  

[phieaglesfan712]

2021 continues a trend of an artist charting in the YE Top 2 after doing so in the previous year’s Top 2:

Justin Bieber
2016 - Love Yourself (1) and Sorry (2)
2017 - Despacito Remix (2)

Ed Sheeran

2017 - Shape of You (1)
2018 - Perfect (2)

Post Malone

2019 - Sunflower (2)
2020 - Circles (2)

The Weeknd

2020 - Blinding Lights (1)
2021 - Save Your Tears (2) [and BL charted at 3 to complete the 1-2-3 sweep with 2 songs in back-to-back years]

Assuming this trend continues, Dua will be the artist and Cold Heart will be the YE #2 in 2022.

[dovahduck]

So glad "Take My Breath" and "Todo de Ti" were able to make it. Both songs were staples of my playlist during the late summer. Hopefully "Pepas" can make it on the list for next year.

[gikem]

Dec 2, 2021 10:45:48 GMT -5 rockgolf said:

Has One Too Many become the lowest charting song on the Hot 100 to make the year end chart?

No, El Perdon (#56, 2015) and Talk You Out Of It (#57, 2019) peaked even lower. This ultimately means that OTM is the best-performing song to make a YE without clearing the top 50.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

So here are the Top 10 songs that missed (going by Cedric's predictions so someone correct me if I'm wrong):
1. Goosebumps (predicted to be #99)
2. Girls Want Girls
3. Damage
4. Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s
5. Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)
6. ROCKSTAR
7. Settling Down
8. Gone
109. Down to One
110. Wasted on You

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

The Year In Global Charts 2021: Dua Lipa, BTS & Olivia Rodrigo Lead Inaugural Year-End Rankings

12/2/2021

By Eric Frankenberg

Lipa's "Levitating" and BTS' "Dynamite" crown the 2021 year-end Billboard Global 200 Songs and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. Songs charts.

For the first time, Billboard is naming the biggest songs of the year based on worldwide data.

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts launched in September 2020, but after its first full tracking year, the results are in.

Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” is No. 1 on the 2021 year-end Billboard 200 Global Songs chart, while Olivia Rodrigo is the top Billboard Global 200 Artist. BTS leads both the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. Songs ranking (with “Dynamite”) and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. Artist.

Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts dated Nov. 21, 2020, through Nov. 13, 2021. The rankings for MRC Data-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the November-November time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by MRC Data. 

Lipa Levitates To The Top: Not only did Dua Lipa conquer the U.S. with the No. 1 year-end Billboard Hot 100 song, but Future Nostalgia’s “Levitating” is 2021’s biggest song in the world. “Levitating” is the No. 1 Billboard Global 200 song of 2021, without ever having reached the top of the weekly chart.

The song first appeared at No. 51 on the Oct. 17, 2020-dated ranking and circled the top 40 throughout the final months of 2020 as holiday music crowded the chart’s upper regions.

Lipa shot 13-8 on the Jan. 16-dated chart, beginning a non-consecutive 32-week run in the top 10. She spent six weeks between Nos. 7-8 before dipping in-and-out of the top 10, and then returned and slowly made its way up the ladder with three weeks at No. 6, three more at No. 4, then to No. 3 and ultimately to its peak at No. 2 for a week in late-May, behind Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U.”

“Levitating” was last seen in the top 10 at No. 8 on the Sept. 4 chart. It’s one of 11 Global 200 hits for the British-Albanian superstar, and one of two to hit the top 10. Her duet with Elton John, “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)” scaled to No. 5 in November.

Rodrigo’s Breakout Year: Olivia Rodrigo is the top artist of the year on the Billboard Global 200, based on streaming and sales data from more than 200 markets around the world. She finishes the year with eight titles on the Billboard Global 200 Songs ranking, topped by “Drivers License” at No. 4 and “Good 4 U” at No. 9. It’s an especially impressive feat considering that, outside of her starring role in Disney’s High School Musical: The Series: The Musical (and its accompanying songs), she only has released 11 songs in her career.

All of Rodrigo’s charting hits are solo endeavors, a rare feat in an age of international crossover. Other acts with as many, or more, entries on the Billboard Global 200 year-end list – Justin Bieber (11), Doja Cat and Drake (eight each) – do so via numerous duet partners and featured bits ranging from fellow North American pop and hip-hop stars to Spanish-language Latin hitmakers.

Rodrigo kicked off the year with “Drivers License” debuting atop both Global charts in January and staying there for eight weeks (plus a ninth frame on the Global Excl. U.S. tally). No other song has debuted and stuck to the top for that long, though one of her own follow-ups came quite close. “Good 4 U” debuted at No. 1 on the May 29-dated Global 200 and spent six of its first eight weeks at No. 1, the other two at No. 2.

BTS Dominates Internationally: The seven-piece South Korean group is the year’s top artist, and has the year’s top song, on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. recaps. “Dynamite” finishes at No. 1 on the year-end Global Excl. U.S. chart while their English language-follow-up, “Butter,” is No. 5. BTS. The Weeknd also nabs two of the top five Global Excl. U.S. songs of the year (“Save Your Tears,” with Ariana Grande is No. 2; “Blinding Lights” is No. 4), while “Levitating” rounds out the top five at No. 3.

“Dynamite” and “Butter” are two of five songs with which BTS has topped the weekly Global Excl. U.S. chart. In that pair, they reigned with “Life Goes On,” “Permission to Dance” and “My Universe,” with Coldplay, each for one week. Justin Bieber is the only other act to manage multiple Global Excl. U.S. chart-toppers with “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, for five weeks and “Stay,” with The Kid LAROI, for nine weeks.

International Breakdown: The Billboard Global 200 measures the biggest songs in the world, merging the biggest American stars with those of South America, Asia, Europe and beyond. The Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, however, removes stateside streams & sales from the equation, giving a glimpse of the biggest international songs. Essentially, the opposite of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Looking at the top 25 songs of the year on the Global Excl. U.S. chart, there are some obvious similarities to the Hot 100’s annual recap. Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Nas X and Justin Bieber all make the top 10 of both lists. But while BTS’ “Dynamite” topped both charts in their weekly editions, the song held steady outside the U.S. for months, becoming the top Global Excl. U.S. song of the year, whereas it is No. 41 on the 2021 Hot 100 chart.

Other major discrepancies include Bad Bunny & Jhay Cortez’s “Dakiti,” which finishes at No. 6 on the Global Excl. U.S. recap, but ranks at No. 28 for the Hot 100. Italy’s Maneskin nabs a top 20 year-end hit in “Beggin’” outside America but falls below the top 50 domestically (No. 16; No. 66). And Rauw Alejandro’s “Todo De Ti” is No. 25 on the Excl. U.S. year-end list, while rounding out the Hot 100’s at No. 100. Songs by Maluma (Colombia), YOASOBI (Japan) and Joel Corry x MNEK (U.K.) all land in the Excl. U.S.’s top 25 while missing the Hot 100 recap completely.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

It seems Keith meant to say Evermore is at #4, but forgot to include it. There seems to be a missing paragraph in the article.

The Year in Charts 2021: Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous: The Double Album’ Is the Top Billboard 200 Album

12/2/2021

By Keith Caulfield

'Dangerous' is only the fourth country album to earn No. 1 year-end honors on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album is 2021’s year-end No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.

The set was released in January, debuted atop the weekly Billboard 200 chart dated Jan. 23, and spent 10 weeks atop the list in 2021. That’s the most weeks at No. 1 among all albums since Drake’s Views racked up 13 weeks on top in 2016.

Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts dated Nov. 21, 2020, through Nov. 13, 2021. The rankings for MRC Data-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the November-November time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by MRC Data.

Dangerous was also the first album to spend its first 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since 1987, when Whitney Houston’s Whitney album logged all 11 of its weeks at No. 1 starting from its debut week (from the June 27 through Sept. 5, 1987-dated charts). Dangerous is the only country album to spend its first 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since the chart began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956. Further, Dangerous is one of just four country albums to spend at least 10 weeks in total at No. 1 on the weekly Billboard 200.

On Feb. 2, in the middle of the album’s fourth week of release, a video emerged showing Wallen using the N-word. He subsequently issued an apology. Reaction was swift, and his music was removed from dozens of high-profile playlists on streamers such as Apple Music and Spotify, and multiple radio groups dropped his music. However, on the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums chart, the album posted a gain in units earned during its fourth week and held at No. 1 on both charts.

Dangerous never left the weekly top 10 on the Billboard 200 during the 2021 chart year (through the Nov. 13-dated chart) — a total of 43 weeks in the top 10. No album spent more time in the top 10 during the 2021 chart year than Dangerous.

With its year-end coronation, Dangerous is only the fourth country album to earn No. 1 year-end honors on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. It follows Taylor Swift’s Fearless (2009), Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts (2006) and Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ the Wind (1992). (Country albums are defined as those that have charted on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.)

Dangerous is also No. 1 on Billboard’s year-end Top Country Albums and Top Canadian Albums rankings, while Wallen leads the Top Country Artists, Hot Country Songs Artists, Country Streaming Songs Artists and Top Country Albums Artists recaps.

At No. 2 on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums roundup is Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album Sour, which spent five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the weekly Billboard 200 during the 2021 chart year. Pop Smoke’s 2020 release Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon is the No. 3 album of the year, following its No. 7 placing in 2020.

Swift is also No. 1 on the 2021 year-end Billboard 200 Artists roundup, which ranks the most successful artists on the chart during the eligibility year, based on the cumulative performance of their charting albums. Swift placed a total of nine albums on the weekly chart in 2021 – the most of any artist.

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, The Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love, Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get, Ariana Grande’s Positions, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia and Lil Baby’s My Turn round out the rest of the year-end top 10 Billboard 200 Albums at, in order, Nos. 5-10. Of the entire top 10, Future Nostalgia is the only album not to also reach No. 1 on the weekly Billboard 200 chart.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

The Year in Charts 2021: Drake Is Billboard’s Top Artist of the Year

12/2/2021

By Keith Caulfield

2021 marks the fifth straight year that a male artist has led the tally.

Drake is No. 1 on Billboard’s year-end Top Artists chart for a second time, while 2021 marks the fifth straight year that a male artist has led the tally.

Post Malone was tops in both 2020 and 2019, while Drake was the top artist for the first time in 2018 and Ed Sheeran ruled in 2017.

The 35-year-old Drake is the year’s top artist not just thanks to the success of the pop and hip-hop superstar’s latest Billboard 200 No. 1 album, Certified Lover Boy (his 10th No. 1), and its accompanying hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart; he also reigns supreme via the continued presence of his catalog of previously released albums on the Billboard 200.

Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts dated Nov. 21, 2020, through Nov. 13, 2021. The rankings for MRC Data-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the November-November time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by MRC Data. The Top Artists and Top New Artists categories ranks the best-performing overall acts, and new acts, of the year based on activity on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 charts, as well as Billboard Boxscore (touring), for the 2021 tracking period.

Certified Lover Boy debuted at No. 1 on the Sept. 18, 2021-dated Billboard 200 chart and logged only nine weeks on the survey before the 2021 chart year closed. (The 2021 chart year comprises the Nov. 21, 2020, through Nov. 13, 2021-dated charts.) Certified made the most of its short time in the 2021 chart year, as it also finishes at No. 5 on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums recap.

In total during the chart year, Drake placed eight albums on the Billboard 200 (only one of which was new, Certified). Only Taylor Swift placed more albums on the chart in the 2021 chart year, with nine (three of which were new). She finishes at No. 4 on the Top Artists list.

Drake also charted 35 songs on the Hot 100 during the 2021 chart year — with 13 of those reaching the top 10, including two No. 1s: “What’s Next” and “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug. During the 2021 chart year, among all artists, Drake had the most songs reach the Hot 100’s top 10 (13), top 20 (23) and top 40 (30).

Drake is also, thus, 2021’s top male artist, while Olivia Rodrigo does double duty as both the top female artist and top new artist, while ranking at No. 2 on the overall Top Artists tally. Rodrigo’s debut album, Sour, spent five weeks atop the weekly Billboard 200 in June-July and launched a pair of Hot 100 No. 1s in “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U.” Sour finishes at No. 2 on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums tally, while “Good” and “License” are Nos. 5 and 8, respectively, on the year-end Hot 100 Songs recap.

BTS is the top duo/group for a second straight year (No. 12 on the overall list). The South Korean group notched four No. 1s on the Hot 100 during the 2021 chart year — the most of any act — and scored their fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with the chart-topping debut of Be (Dec. 5, 2020-dated chart). The set closes the year at No. 40 on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums chart.

The year-end No. 1 on the 2021 Billboard 200 Albums chart is Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album. The January release spent 10 weeks atop the weekly Billboard 200 in 2021 — the most of any album since Drake’s Views racked up 13 weeks at No. 1 in 2016. Dangerous is only the fourth country album to earn No. 1 year-end honors on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, since the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in 1956. It follows Taylor Swift’s Fearless (2009), Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts (2006) and Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ the Wind (1992).

Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” triumphs as the year-end No. 1 on the Hot 100 Songs recap, following the track’s record-breaking run on the chart. The song debuted on the weekly Hot 100 dated Oct. 17, 2020, peaked at No. 2 on the May 22, 2021-dated survey, and, as of the current issue, has yet to leave the tally. “Levitating” was in the Hot 100’s weekly top 40 in every week of the chart year (Nov. 21, 2020–Nov. 13, 2021), with 41 of those weeks in the top 10. During the chart year, the song broke the record for the most weeks in the top 10 and top 20 for a song by a female artist. “Levitating” also boasts the second-most weeks in the top 10 among all songs, second to only The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (57), which was 2020’s year-end Hot 100 No. 1.

The consistent chart performance of “Levitating” paid off: It is only the third song to be the Hot 100’s year-end top song without also having reached No. 1 on the weekly Hot 100 chart. Since the chart began in 1958, a non-weekly No. 1 won for the entire year only in 2001 and 2000, when Lifehouse’s “Hanging by a Moment” and Faith Hill’s “Breathe” were the respective year’s biggest hits. Both tracks peaked at No. 2 on the weekly Hot 100 — “Hanging” for four weeks, and “Breathe” for five weeks. Both songs, like “Levitating,” had lengthy runs on the chart, enabling their overall No. 1 year-end finishes.

The year-end Hot 100 No. 1 hit is by a lead female artist for the first time in 10 years, since Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” was tops in 2011. (The last year-end No. 1 to credit a female artist at all was 2012’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” with Gotye as the lead act and Kimbra as the featured artist.

“Levitating” is also No. 1 on the 2021 year-end Billboard Global 200, Radio Songs, Streaming Songs, Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Billboard Canadian Hot 100 charts.

2020’s year-end Hot 100 champ, The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights,” is the No. 3 Hot 100 title of 2021. Meanwhile, The Weeknd’s “Save Your Tears,” with Ariana Grande, is the No. 2 song of the year. (The song was originally released as a solo track by The Weeknd in 2020 but got a boost from a remix with Grande in 2021.) As The Weeknd has the Nos. 2 and 3 year-end songs on the Hot 100, he’s the first act with two of the three year-end songs since Justin Bieber was Nos. 1 and 2 in 2016, respectively, with “Love Yourself” and “Sorry.”

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

The Year In Charts 2021: Dua Lipa’s ‘Levitating’ Is the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 Song of the Year

12/2/2021

By Gary Trust, Keith Caulfield

"'Levitating' doing its thing on the Billboard chart is absolutely surreal."

Dua Lipa‘s “Levitating” triumphs as the No. 1 hit on Billboard‘s 2021 year-end Hot 100 Songs chart, following its record-breaking run on the weekly ranking, which blends streaming, radio airplay and sales data.

Meanwhile, Olivia Rodrigo leads Billboard‘s 2021 year-end Hot 100 Artists recap, becoming the youngest woman ever to take top honors in the category over the chart’s 63-year archives.

Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts dated Nov. 21, 2020, through Nov. 13, 2021. The rankings for MRC Data-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the November-November time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by MRC Data.

‘‘Levitating’ Doing Its Thing on the Billboard Chart Is Absolutely Surreal’

“Levitating” debuted on the weekly Hot 100 dated Oct. 17, 2020. It peaked at No. 2 on the May 22, 2021-dated survey and, as of the latest, Dec. 4-dated list, has yet to depart the chart. The song ranked in the Hot 100’s top 40 each week of the 2021 chart year (Nov. 21, 2020-Nov. 13, 2021), with 41 of those frames in the top 10 — a record for a song by a woman over the Hot 100’s history. Overall, it’s second only to The Weeknd’s 57-week run in the top 10 with “Blinding Lights,” 2020’s year-end Hot 100 No. 1.

“It’s nice after you work so hard, especially despite the pandemic, when you’ve got limited resources,” Lipa marveled to Billboard upon learning of the top year-end status for “Levitating.” “So it means a lot to me. ‘Levitating’ doing its thing on the Billboard chart is absolutely surreal. That song has been my baby for so long, and to have it out in the world, and for people’s response to be the way that it is, it’s just absolutely mind-blowing to me. I’m really, really, really grateful for it all.”

The persistent performance of “Levitating” paid off, as it’s only the third song to be crowned the Hot 100’s year-end top hit without having reached No. 1 on the weekly Hot 100 ranking. Since the chart began in August 1958, a non-weekly leader previously won for an entire year only in 2000 and 2001, when Faith Hill’s “Breathe” and Lifehouse’s “Hanging by a Moment” were the biggest hits of each respective year. Both tracks also peaked at No. 2 on the weekly Hot 100, the former for five weeks and the latter for four. Both songs, also like “Levitating,” logged year-plus runs on the chart overall, further enabling their overall top year-end finishes.

The year-end No. 1 on Hot 100 Songs is by a lead female artist for the first time in 10 years, since Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” reigned in 2011. (The last year-end No. 1 to credit a female artist at all was 2012’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” with Gotye as the lead act and Kimbra in a featured role.)

“Levitating” is also No. 1 on the 2021 year-end Billboard Global 200, Streaming Songs, Radio Songs, Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Billboard Canadian Hot 100 charts.

The song navigated a winding road to its chart success. First released on Lipa’s album Future Nostalgia in March 2020, it debuted on Pop Airplay in October 2020 and initially peaked at No. 4 for two weeks in January. It fell off the list for two months in March-May before re-entering in May. Helping spark its revival, Lipa and DaBaby, the featured artist on the song’s most prominent remix, performed “Levitating” at the Grammy Awards in March as part of a medley with lead Future Nostalgia single “Don’t Start Now,” a No. 2 Hot 100 hit in March 2020 and the No. 4 song of all of 2020.

“Levitating” also surged as a soundtrack to clips on TikTok. “I really believe TikTok gave it a humongous jolt back into the pop-culture forefront,” Erik Bradley, music director at KNOU Los Angeles and assistant program director/md at WBBM-FM Chicago, told Billboard in June. “It sure is an interesting case. There was a period as it was re-emerging at radio when you couldn’t open TikTok without seeing it all over your feed.”

The song maintained its prominent weekly presence on the Hot 100 even after its DaBaby version was largely dropped at radio following the rapper’s controversial comments at the Rolling Loud festival in Miami on July 25. (In a July 27 Instagram post, Lipa wrote of DaBaby: “I really don’t recognize this as the person I worked with. I know my fans know where my heart lies and that I stand 100% with the LGBTQ community.”)

The Weeknd’s “Save Your Tears,” with Ariana Grande, ranks at No. 2 on the year-end Hot 100 Songs chart. It was originally released as a solo track by The Weeknd in 2020 and received a boost, which helped drive it to No. 1 on the weekly Hot 100 in May, from their collaborative remix. Plus, 2020’s year-end Hot 100 champ, The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights,” is the No. 3 Hot 100 title of 2021. He is the first act with two of the top three year-end Hot 100 hits since Justin Bieber held Nos. 1 and 2 in 2016 with “Love Yourself” and “Sorry,” respectively.

Rounding out the top five on the 2021 year-end Hot 100 Songs chart are 24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring iann dior, at No. 4 and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” at No. 5. The former topped the Hot 100 for eight weeks between October 2020 and this January, while the latter led in its debut week in May, becoming Rodrigo’s second No. 1, after “Drivers License,” the year’s No. 8 hit, ruled the Hot 100 for eight weeks from its January debut.

Sweet Success for Sour‘s Songs

Meanwhile, Rodrigo crowns the 2021 Hot 100 Artists chart, also sparked by the year-end ranks of her singles “Deja Vu” (No. 13) and “Traitor” (No. 38) on the year’s Hot 100 Songs recap, with those songs, each of which hit the weekly Hot 100’s top 10, and her two weekly leaders all from her debut LP, Sour.

Rodrigo is the first woman to win top honors on Hot 100 Artists since Katy Perry in 2014. The singer-songwriter, 18, also makes history as the youngest woman ever to rank at No. 1 on Hot 100 Artists. Among all acts, she’s the youngest to achieve the feat since Michael Jackson, then 14, tied Al Green for the title in 1972.

Drake places at No. 2 on Hot 100 Artists for 2021, having upped his totals during the chart year to nine career No. 1s and a record-extending 54 top 10s. He’s followed in the top five by The Weeknd, Bieber and Doja Cat, at Nos. 2 through 5, respectively.

[fridayteenage]

I wonder what % of levitating's activity was from dababy though. It feels like it still might be more than half but they didn't want to credit him. They had to credit him on the Streaming Year End since she barely did any streaming solo.

days on us spotify chart:
dababy 422
madonna/missy 2
solo 7

days on us itunes chart:
dababy 399
solo 145

[phieaglesfan712]

Weird that they did the YE cut off on 11/13 and the all-time list on 11/6. Why didn’t they just add the final week of the 2021 charting year for the all-time?

[Myth X]

Yeah, obviously the Dababy version has more points.

Dababy was removed on August. So he had at least 9 months of being credited

Last year they didn't credit Beyoncé for Savage so it's not the first time they do these type of mistakes

[adam]

Dec 2, 2021 11:03:00 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

So here are the Top 10 songs that missed (going by Cedric's predictions so someone correct me if I'm wrong):
1. Goosebumps (predicted to be #99)
2. Girls Want Girls
3. Damage
4. Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s
5. Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)
6. ROCKSTAR
7. Settling Down
8. Gone
109. Down to One
110. Wasted on You

Does GWG have a shot at next year?

[jenglisbe]

Dec 2, 2021 12:02:08 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Weird that they did the YE cut off on 11/13 and the all-time list on 11/6. Why didn’t they just add the final week of the 2021 charting year for the all-time?

The AT list came out earlier, so it was probably due to logistics.