Every Artist With 100 or More Billboard Hot 100 Chart Hits
Fifteen artists in the Hot 100’s 65-year history have charted 100-plus entries.
From left: Taylor Swift, Drake, Elvis Presley, Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne. Illustration by Nate Kitch; Fernando Leon/TAS23/Getty; Prince Williams/Wireimage; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Christopher Polk for WWD; Christopher Polk for Variety
Debuting a song on the Billboard Hot 100 is a highlight of any musician’s career. It’s Billboard’s premier songs chart, after all, and the stars often must align in order to stand with the best of the best.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations.
In total, more than 8,000 artists have landed a song on the survey, which launched on Aug. 4, 1958. Of those artists, only 15 have charted at least 100 total songs.
Elvis Presley, whose career predates the Hot 100’s launch, became the first artist to tally 100 total hits. He scored his 100th (of an eventual 109 total) in May 1975 with “T-R-O-U-B-L-E.” He held the record for the most overall chart entries until 2011, when the Glee Cast surpassed him, and then nearly doubled his total — reaching 207 entries. That record stood until 2020, when Drake stormed past the TV troupe when his track “Oprah’s Bank Account” reached the listing.
Drake now leads all artists with a whopping 321 total entries on the chart in his career (through the Hot 100 dated Nov. 11, 2023). He’s the only artist to chart at least 300 total songs in history. Only two other acts have charted at least 200: Taylor Swift (231) and the Glee cast (207).
Three artists have joined the 100-hits club in 2023 alone, so far. YoungBoy Never Broke Again achieved the milestone in May, and, fittingly, became the youngest artist to ever reach the feat, at age 23. Lil Uzi Vert became the 14th act to join in July, after releasing Pink Tape. Travis Scott then became the most recent artist to gain entry (Aug. 12), thanks to the chart arrival of his LP Utopia.
As for who might be next in line to join the elite group, The Weeknd is currently at 97 Hot 100-charted songs, followed by Eminem (95), Young Thug (92), James Brown (91), 21 Savage (89), Lil Durk (88), Beyoncé (82), Juice WRLD (79) and Gunna (77).
While it’s rare for artists to chart triple-digit entries on the Hot 100, it has become a more regular occurrence since the ranking began including streaming figures in 2007. As such, certain artists have been able to chart a high number of songs on the Hot 100 in recent years after releasing high-profile albums. The model contrasts with prior decades, when acts generally promoted one single at a time in the physical-only marketplace and on radio. That shift in consumption helps explain why artists have been able to chart many songs over short spans in recent years.
Here’s an updated look at every act to chart 100 or more career hits on the Hot 100, as of the Nov. 11, 2023-dated chart.
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Drake
Image Credit: Astral Number of Hot 100 hits: 321. He tallied his 100th career entry in 2015 after releasing What a Time To Be Alive with Future, his 200th in 2019 after releasing Care Package, and his record-extending 300th in 2023 after dropping For All the Dogs.
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Taylor Swift
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Glee Cast
Image Credit: Joe Viles/20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection Number of Hot 100 hits: 207. The collective notched its 100th hit in 2010 after releasing its album Glee: The Music, Season Two: Volume 4. And it reached the 200-entries mark in 2012, when its renditions of Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like The Wolf” and Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” debuted in the same week.
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Lil Wayne
Image Credit: Ramona Rosales Number of Hot 100 hits: 185. He earned his 100th entry in 2012.
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Future
Image Credit: Gregory Stewart for GQ Number of Hot 100 hits: 168. He reached 100 entries in 2020.
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Kanye West
Image Credit: Edward Berthelot/GC Images Number of Hot 100 hits: 141. He scored his 100th hit in 2019.
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Lil Baby
Image Credit: Kenneth Cappello Number of Hot 100 hits: 137. He joined the 100-hits club in 2022.
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Nicki Minaj
Image Credit: Courtesy of Universal Music Group Number of Hot 100 hits: 133. Minaj, the first woman to join the triple-digit club, and the only female rapper inducted, notched her 100th entry in 2018.
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Chris Brown
Image Credit: Jared Ryder Number of Hot 100 hits: 115. He reached the 100-hits mark in 2020.
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Travis Scott
Image Credit: Kristina Nagel Number of Hot 100 hits: 111. He scored his 100th entry in 2023 after releasing his LP Utopia.
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Elvis Presley
Image Credit: Archive Photos/Getty Images Number of Hot 100 hits: 109. He became the first act in the chart’s history to reach the triple-digit milestone, in 1975.
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Lil Uzi Vert
Image Credit: Kenneth Cappello Number of Hot 100 hits: 107. Uzi joined the club in 2023 after releasing Pink Tape.
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Jay-Z
Image Credit: Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images Number of Hot 100 hits: 105. The legendary MC hit 100 entries in 2019.
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Justin Bieber
Image Credit: Evan Paterakis Number of Hot 100 hits: 105. Bieber scored his 100th charted song in 2021.
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YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Image Credit: Khris James Number of Hot 100 hits: 103. He tallied his 100th entry in 2023, and became the youngest act ever to join the club, at age 23.
Link to the source article – https://www.billboard.com/lists/every-artist-with-100-hot-100-chart-hits-drake-taylor-swift/
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