List of artists who reached number one in the United States

This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's weekly pop singles chart(s).

This list spans from the issue dated January 1 1955 to the present. Prior to the creation of the Hot 100, "Billboard" published four weekly singles charts: "Best Sellers in Stores", "Most Played by Jockeys", "Most Played in Jukeboxes" and "The Top 100" (an early version of the Hot 100). The Hot 100 began with the issue dated August 9 1958, and is currently the standard music popularity chart in the United States.

List inclusions

*All acts are listed alphabetically, solo artists by last name, groups by group name excluding "A", "An", and "The".
*Each act's total of number-one hits is shown after their name.
*Artists who hit number one prior to the start of the Hot 100 are included here; a song that topped multiple pre-Hot 100 charts is counted only once towards the artist's total.
*All artists who are officially namechecked in song credits are listed here; this includes one-time pairings of otherwise solo artists and those appearing as "featured". Exceptions to this rule:
# Paul McCartney's hits with Wings are credited to "Wings" even though many of them were released as "Paul McCartney & Wings". McCartney's total is only from hits not attributed to Wings or the Beatles.
# Both Wham! and George Michael get one credit for "Careless Whisper". Technically the song is a solo recording and was released as such in many parts of the world except the U.S., where it charted as "Wham! featuring George Michael".
*Artists associated with a group who reached number one, yet have their own solo page in Wikipedia, are not listed here unless they hit number one as a solo artist.

*° symbol indicates that all or part of an artist's total includes number-ones occurring on any of the pre-Hot 100 chart(s) listed above (1 January 1955 through 28 July 1958).

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A

*Aaliyah (1)
*ABBA (1)
*Gregory Abbott (1)
*Paula Abdul (6)
*Ace of Base (1)
*Bryan Adams (4)
*Aerosmith (1)
*Christina Aguilera (4)
*a-ha (1)
*Clay Aiken (1)
*Air Supply (1)
*Akon (2)
*Ali (1)
*All-4-One (1)
*Herb Alpert (2)
*America (2)
*The Angels (1)
*The Animals (1)
*Paul Anka (3)°
*The Archies (1)
*Louis Armstrong (1)
*Ashanti (2)
*The Association (2)
*Rick Astley (2)
*Atlantic Starr (1)
*Patti Austin (1)
*Frankie Avalon (2)
*The Average White Band (1)

B

*Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1)
*Bad English (1)
*Bananarama (1)
*The Bangles (2)
*Barenaked Ladies (1)
*Toni Basil (1)
*Les Baxter (2)°
*Bay City Rollers (1)
*The Beach Boys (4)
*The Beatles (20)
*Bee Gees (9)
*Archie Bell & the Drells (1)
*Bellamy Brothers (1)
*Regina Belle (1)
*Berlin (1)
*Chuck Berry (1)
*Beyoncé (4)
*Mr. Acker Bilk (1)
*BLACKstreet (1)
*Mary J. Blige (1)
*Blondie (4)
*Blue Swede (1)
*James Blunt (1)
*Michael Bolton (2)
*Bon Jovi (4)
*Jon Bon Jovi (1)
*Gary U.S. Bonds (1)
*Krayzie Bone (1)
*Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (1)
*Debby Boone (1)
*Pat Boone (6)°
*Boston (1)
*David Bowie (2)
*Box Tops (1)
*Boyz II Men (5)
*Brandy (2)
*Toni Braxton (2)
*Bread (1)
*Bobby Brown (2)
*Chris Brown (2)
*Sleepy Brown (1)
*The Browns (1)
*Peabo Bryson (1)
*B2K (1)
*The Buckinghams (1)
*The Byrds (2)

C

*C+C Music Factory (1)
*Glen Campbell (2)
*Captain & Tennille (2)
*Irene Cara (1)
*Mariah Carey (18)
*Belinda Carlisle (1)
*Kim Carnes (1)
*The Carpenters (3)
*Shaun Cassidy (1)
*Peter Cetera (2)
*Chamillionaire (1)
*The Champs (1)°
*Gene Chandler (1)
*Bruce Channel (1)
*Harry Chapin (1)
*Ray Charles (3)
*Cheap Trick (1)
*Chubby Checker (2)
*Cher (4)
*Chic (2)
*Chicago (3)
*The Chiffons (1)
*The Chi-Lites (1)
*The Chordettes (1)°
*Lou Christie (1)
*Ciara (1)
*Eric Clapton (1)
*The Dave Clark Five (1)
*Petula Clark (2)
*Kelly Clarkson (1)
*Club Nouveau (1)
*The Coasters (1)°
*Odia Coates (1)
*Joe Cocker (1)
*Coldplay (1)
*Phil Collins (7)
*Color Me Badd (2)
*Commodores (2)
*Perry Como (3)°
*Bill Conti (1)
*Sam Cooke (1)°
*Coolio (1)
*Dave "Baby" Cortez (1)
*Crazy Town (1)
*Creed (1)
*The Crickets (1)°
*Jim Croce (2)
*Christopher Cross (2)
*The Crystals (1)
*Culture Club (1)
*Cutting Crew (1)

D

*D4L (1)
*Dale & Grace (1)
*Michael Damian (1)
*Danny and the Juniors (1)°
*Terence Trent D'Arby (1)
*Bobby Darin (1)
*Billy Davis, Jr. (1)
*Mac Davis (1)
*Sammy Davis, Jr. (1)
*Taylor Dayne (1)
*Jimmy Dean (1)
*Joey Dee and the Starliters (1)
*Kiki Dee (1)
*Rick Dees (1)
*Def Leppard (1)
*John Denver (4)
*Destiny's Child (4)
*Dexys Midnight Runners (1)
*Neil Diamond (3)
*Mark Dinning (1)
*Dion (1)
*Céline Dion (4)
*Dire Straits (1)
*Divine (1)
*The Dixie Cups (1)
*Dr. Dre (2)
*Ernie K-Doe (1)
*Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods (1)
*Donovan (1)
*The Doobie Brothers (2)
*The Doors (2)
*Carl Douglas (1)
*Joe Dowell (1)
*The Drifters (1)
*Dru Hill (1)
*Ricardo "RikRok" Ducent (1)
*Duran Duran (2)

E

*Eagles (5)
*Earth, Wind & Fire (1)
*Sheena Easton (1)
*Tommy Edwards (1)
*The Elegants (1)
*Yvonne Elliman (1)
*EMF (1)
*Eminem (1)
*The Emotions (1)
*The Escape Club (1)
*The Essex (1)
*Gloria Estefan (2) and Miami Sound Machine (1)
*Eurythmics (1)
*Faith Evans (1)
*The Everly Brothers (4)°
*Exile (1)
*Exposé (1)
*Extreme (1)

F

*Shelley Fabares (1)
*Percy Faith (1)
*Falco (1)
*Fantasia (1)
*Freddy Fender (1)
*Fergie (3)
*The Fifth Dimension (2)
*50 Cent (3)
*Fine Young Cannibals (2)
*Roberta Flack (3)
*Fleetwood Mac (1)
*The Fleetwoods (2)
*Flo Rida (1)
*Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders (1)
*Fontane Sisters (1)°
*Tennessee Ernie Ford (1)°
*Foreigner (1)
*Four Aces (1)°
*The Four Seasons (5)
*Four Tops (2)
*Jamie Foxx (2)
*Connie Francis (3)
*Aretha Franklin (2)
*John Fred and His Playboy Band (1)
*Freddie and the Dreamers (1)
*Nelly Furtado (3)

G

*Peter Gabriel (1)
*Marvin Gaye (3)
*Gloria Gaynor (1)
*J. Geils Band (1)
*Genesis (1)
*Bobbie Gentry (1)
*Andy Gibb (3)
*Georgia Gibbs (1)°
*Debbie Gibson (2)
*Nick Gilder (1)
*Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs (1)
*Gipp (1)
*Bobby Goldsboro (1)
*Lesley Gore (1)
*Charlie Gracie (1)°
*Grand Funk (2)
*Amy Grant (2)
*Gogi Grant (1)°
*Al Green (1)
*Lorne Greene (1)
*The Guess Who (1)
*Guns N' Roses (1)

H

*Bill Haley and His Comets (1)°
*Daryl Hall and John Oates (6)
*Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds (1)
*Jan Hammer (1)
*Hanson (1)
*George Harrison (3)
*Wilbert Harrison (1)
*Bill Hayes (1)°
*Isaac Hayes (1)
*Heart (2)
*The Heights (1)
*Herman's Hermits (2)
*Taylor Hicks (1)
*Hi-Five (1)
*The Highwaymen (1)
*Lauryn Hill (1)
*Loleatta Holloway (1)
*Hollywood Argyles (1)
*Rupert Holmes (1)
*Honey Cone (1)
*Bruce Hornsby and the Range (1)
*Johnny Horton (1)
*Thelma Houston (1)
*Whitney Houston (11)
*Hues Corporation (1)
*Human League (2)
*Tab Hunter (1)°
*Brian Hyland (1)

I

*Billy Idol (1)
*Enrique Iglesias (2)
*James Ingram (2)
*INXS (1)

J

*Ja Rule (3)
*Terry Jacks (1)
*Janet Jackson (10)
*Michael Jackson (13)
*The Jackson 5 (4)
*Sonny James (1)°
*Tommy James and the Shondells (2)
*Jan & Dean (1)
*Jay-Z (3)
*Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (1)
*Joe (2)
*Billy Joel (3)
*Elton John (9)
*Robert John (1)
*Janis Joplin (1)
*Montell Jordan (1)
*Juvenile (1)

K

*Bert Kaempfert (1)
*Ini Kamoze (1)
*KC and the Sunshine Band (5)
*K-Ci and JoJo (2)
*R. Kelly (2)
*Eddie Kendricks (1)
*Alicia Keys (3)
*Andy Kim (1)
*Carole King (1)
*Sean Kingston (1)
*Kingston Trio (1)
*The Knack (1)
*Gladys Knight (1) & the Pips (1)
*Buddy Knox (1)°
*Kool and the Gang (1)
*Kool Moe Dee (1)
*Kris Kross (1)

L

*Labelle (1)
*Patti LaBelle (1)
*Cyndi Lauper (2)
*Avril Lavigne (1)
*Steve Lawrence (1)
*Vicki Lawrence (1)
*Brenda Lee (2)
*Murphy Lee (1)
*The Lemon Pipers (1)
*John Lennon (2)
*Bobby Lewis (1)
*Gary Lewis & the Playboys (1)
*Huey Lewis & the News (3)
*Leona Lewis (1)
*Gordon Lightfoot (1)
*Lil Jon (1)
*Lil' Kim (1)
*Lil Wayne (1)
*Lipps, Inc. (1)
*Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam (2)
*Little Eva (1)
*L.L. Cool J (1)
*Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories (1)
*Kenny Loggins (1)
*Laurie London (1)°
*Londonbeat (1)
*Lonestar (1)
*Looking Glass (1)
*Jennifer Lopez (4)
*Los del Río (1)
*Los Lobos (1)
*Love Unlimited Orchestra (1)
*The Lovin' Spoonful (1)
*Jim Lowe (1)°
*Ludacris (4)
*Lulu (1)
*L.V. (1)

M

*M (1)
*Mary MacGregor (1)
*Madonna (12)
*The Mamas & the Papas (1)
*Henry Mancini (1)
*Barry Manilow (3)
*Manfred Mann (2)
*The Manhattans (1)
*The Marcels (1)
*Little Peggy March (1)
*Mario (1)
*Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (1)
*Maroon 5 (1)
*Martika (1)
*Dean Martin (2)°
*Marilyn Martin (1)
*Ricky Martin (1)
*The Marvelettes (1)
*Richard Marx (3)
*Mase (2)
*Hugh Masekela (1)
*Matchbox Twenty (1)
*Johnny Mathis (2)°
*Paul Mauriat (1)
*C.W. McCall (1)
*Linda McCartney (1)
*Paul McCartney (3)
*Marilyn McCoo (1)
*Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony (1)
*The McCoys (1)
*George McCrae (1)
*Michael McDonald (1)
*Bobby McFerrin (1)
*Maureen McGovern (1)
*Barry McGuire (1)
*McGuire Sisters (2)°
*Don McLean (1)
*Meat Loaf (1)
*Meco (1)
*Glenn Medeiros (1)
*Bill Medley (1)
*Melanie (1)
*John Mellencamp (1)
*Men at Work (2)
*MFSB (1)
*George Michael (8)
*Bette Midler (1)
*Mike and the Mechanics (1)
*Mitch Miller (1)°
*Steve Miller Band (3)
*Milli Vanilli (3)
*MIMS (1)
*The Miracles (2)
*Mr. Big (1)
*Mr. Mister (2)
*Guy Mitchell (2)°
*Domenico Modugno (1)
*Monica (3)
*The Monkees (3)
*Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band (1)
*Anne Murray (1)
*Mya (1)
*Alannah Myles (1)
*Mystikal (1)

N

*Johnny Nash (1)
*Nate Dogg (1)
*Nelly (4)
*Nelson (1)
*Ricky Nelson (2)
*New Kids on the Block (3)
*The New Vaudeville Band (1)
*Olivia Newton-John (5)
*Next (1)
*Ne-Yo (1)
*Nickelback (1)
*Harry Nilsson (1)
*98 Degrees (1)
*The Notorious B.I.G. (2)
*'N Sync (1)

O

*Billy Ocean (3)
*Sinéad O'Connor (1)
*Alan O'Day (1)
*Ohio Players (2)
*The O'Jays (1)
*Olivia (1)
*112 (1)
*Roy Orbison (2)
*Tony Orlando and Dawn (3)
*Donny Osmond (1)
*The Osmonds (1)
*Gilbert O'Sullivan (1)
*Outkast (3)

P

*Petey Pablo (1)
*Tommy Page (1)
*Robert Palmer (1)
*Paper Lace (1)
*Ray Parker, Jr. (1)
*John Parr (1)
*Dolly Parton (2)
*The Partridge Family (1)
*Billy Paul (1)
*Sean Paul (3)
*Paul & Paula (1)
*Peaches & Herb (1)
*Katy Perry (1)
*Pet Shop Boys (1)
*Peter & Gordon (1)
*Peter, Paul and Mary (1)
*Pharrell (2)
*Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers (1)
*Pink (2)
*Pink Floyd (1)
*Plain White T's (1)
*The Platters (4)°
*Player (1)
*PM Dawn (1)
*Poison (1)
*The Police (1)
*Daniel Powter (1)
*Pérez Prado (2)°
*Elvis Presley (17)°
*Billy Preston (2)
*Johnny Preston (1)
*Lloyd Price (1)
*Maxi Priest (1)
*Prince (5) and The Revolution (2) / and the New Power Generation (1)
*The Product G&B (1)
*Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Diddy (5)

Q

*Queen (2)
*Question Mark & the Mysterians (1)

R

*Eddie Rabbitt (1)
*The Raiders (1)
*The Rascals/The Young Rascals (3)
*Rayvon (1)
*Ready for the World (1)
*Otis Redding (1)
*Helen Reddy (3)
*REO Speedwagon (2)
*Debbie Reynolds (1)°
*Rhythm Heritage (1)
*Charlie Rich (1)
*Lionel Richie (5)
*Nelson Riddle (1)°
*Right Said Fred (1)
*The Righteous Brothers (2)
*Rihanna (5)
*Jeannie C. Riley (1)
*Minnie Riperton (1)
*Johnny Rivers (1)
*Marty Robbins (1)
*Jimmie Rodgers (1)°
*Tommy Roe (1)
*Kenny Rogers (2)
*The Rolling Stones (8)
*Linda Ronstadt (1)
*The Rooftop Singers (1)
*David Rose (1)
*Rose Royce (1)
*Diana Ross (6)
*Kelly Rowland (1)
*Roxette (4)
*Ruby & the Romantics (1)

*SSgt Barry Sadler (1)
*Kyu Sakamoto (1)
*Santana (2)
*Santo & Johnny (1)
*Savage Garden (2)
*Leo Sayer (2)
*Seal (1)
*John Sebastian (1)
*Neil Sedaka (3)
*Bob Seger (1)
*Michael Sembello (1)
*David Seville (2)° and The Chipmunks (1)
*Shaggy (2)
*Shakira (1)
*Tupac Shakur (1)
*The Shangri-Las (1)
*Del Shannon (1)
*Shawnna (1)
*Sheriff (1)
*The Shirelles (2)
*Shocking Blue (1)
*Silhouettes (1)°
*Silk (1)
*Silver Convention (1)
*Carly Simon (1)
*Paul Simon (1)
*Simon and Garfunkel (3)
*Simple Minds (1)
*Simply Red (2)
*Frank Sinatra (3)°
*Nancy Sinatra (2)
*The Singing Nun (1)
*Sir Mix-a-Lot (1)
*Sisqó (1)
*Percy Sledge (1)
*Slim Thug (1)
*Sly and the Family Stone (3)
*Will Smith (2)
*Snoop Dogg (2)
*Snow (1)
*Sonny and Cher (1)
*David Soul (1)
*Jimmy Soul (1)
*Soulja Boy (1)
*Soulja Slim (1)
*Britney Spears (1)
*Spice Girls (1)
*The Spinners (1)
*Rick Springfield (1)
*The Staple Singers (2)
*Starland Vocal Band (1)
*Edwin Starr (1)
*Kay Starr (1)°
*Ringo Starr (2)
*Stars on 45 (1)
*Starship (3)
*Static Major (1)
*Steam (1)
*Gwen Stefani (1)
*April Stevens (1)
*Ray Stevens (2)
*Stevie B (1)
*Amii Stewart (1)
*Rod Stewart (4)
*Sting (1)
*Morris Stoloff (1)°
*Stories (1)
*Strawberry Alarm Clock (1)
*Barbra Streisand (5)
*Styx (1)
*Donna Summer (4)
*The Supremes (12)
*Surface (1)
*Survivor (1)
*Billy Swan (1)
*Sweet Sensation (1)
*SWV (1)
*The Sylvers (1)

T

*A Taste of Honey (1)
*James Taylor (1)
*Johnnie Taylor (1)
*Tears for Fears (2)
*Teddy Bears (1)
*Nino Tempo (1)
*The Temptations (4)
*Terror Squad (1)
*B. J. Thomas (2)
*Rob Thomas (1)
*The Three Degrees (1)
*Three Dog Night (3)
*Tiffany (2)
*T.I. (3)
*Timbaland (2)
*Justin Timberlake (4)
*Timmy T (1)
*TLC (4)
*The Tokens (1)
*The Tornados (1)
*Toto (1)
*T-Pain (3)
*John Travolta (1)
*The Troggs (1)
*Tina Turner (1)
*The Turtles (1)
*Twista (1)
*Conway Twitty (1)
*Bonnie Tyler (1)
*The Tymes (1)

U

*UB40 (2)
*Carrie Underwood (1)
*USA for Africa (1)
*Usher (8)
*U2 (2)

V

*Frankie Valli (2)
*Van Halen (1)
*Vangelis (1)
*Vanilla Ice (1)
*Bobby Vee (1)
*Billy Vera and The Beaters (1)
*Larry Verne (1)
*Vertical Horizon (1)
*Bobby Vinton (4)

W

*John Waite (1)
*Paul Wall (1)
*Anita Ward (1)
*Jennifer Warnes (2)
*Dionne Warwick (2)
*Joan Weber (1)°
*Lawrence Welk (1)
*Mary Wells (1)
*Kanye West (3)
*Wham! (3)
*Barry White (1)
*Karyn White (1)
*Whitesnake (1)
*Wild Cherry (1)
*The Wild Pair (1)
*Kim Wilde (1)
*Will to Power (1)
*Andy Williams (1)°
*Deniece Williams (2)
*Freedom Williams (1)
*Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs (1)
*Roger Williams (1)°
*Vanessa Williams (1)
*Al Wilson (1)
*Wilson Phillips (3)
*Wings (6)
*The Edgar Winter Group (1)
*Steve Winwood (2)
*Bill Withers (1)
*Stevie Wonder (10)
*Sheb Wooley (1)°
*Wyclef Jean (1)

X

Y

*Yes (1)
*Neil Young (1)
*Paul Young (1)
*Young Jeezy (1)
*Yung Joc (1)

Z

*Zager and Evans (1)

ources

*"Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition" (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
*"Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2003" (ISBN 0-89820-155-1)
*"Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Pop Charts, 1955-1959" (ISBN 0-89820-092-X)
*"Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties" (ISBN 0-89820-074-1)
*"Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies" (ISBN 0-89820-076-8)
*"Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties" (ISBN 0-89820-079-2)
*"Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties" (ISBN 0-89820-137-3)
*Additional information obtained can be verified within "Billboard's" [http://www.billboard.biz online archive services] and print editions of the magazine.

ee also

*List of artists by total number of U.S. number-one singles
*List of number-one hits (United States)
*List of best-selling music artists
*List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
*List of songs by British artists which reached number-one on the Hot 100 (USA)