February 14, 2026 "Choosin' Texas" by Ella Langley tops the Hot 100, Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts, making her the first woman to top all three of those charts at the same time.
October 25, 2025 Meghan Trainor's trainer posts photos showing the "All About That Bass" singer's 60-pound weight loss, done through diet, exercise and GLP-1 drugs. Trainor takes some heat online for being "too thin," prompting her to retort in the song "Still Don't Care."
August 16, 2025 "Golden" by the animated group Huntr/x goes to #1 on the Hot 100. Taken from the Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters, it's the first K-pop song with female vocalists to top the chart.
May 31, 2025 On the Hot 100, 37 songs are from Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem album, breaking a record he set two years earlier when 36 songs from his One Thing at a Time album made the chart at the same time.
January 30, 2025 A parade of stars including Stevie Wonder, Olivia Rodrigo and Katy Perry perform at the FireAid benefit concerts in Los Angeles to raise money for victims of the California wildfires, which left 29 dead and destroyed thousands of homes. The concert is held at two venues and runs for six hours.More
July 26, 2024 Paris Hilton sets up the "That's Hotline," a play on her "that's hot" catchphrase, to promote her new single, "Chasin'." Calling 855-THTS-HOT gets you advice from Hilton on how to get over an ex, the theme of the song.
June 13, 2024 Donald Fagen and the late Walter Becker of Steely Dan are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio welcomes Fagen and Becker into the institution, and leads a tribute performance featuring their classic songs "Kid Charlemagne" and "Reelin' In The Years."
May 4, 2024 The top 14 songs on the Hot 100 are all from Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department, with "Fortnight" taking the top spot. All 31 songs from the album are on the chart in addition to an earlier song, "Cruel Summer."
March 29, 2024 Beyoncé drops Cowboy Carter, a sassy country album (mostly) with 27 tracks and appearances by Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, and an unheralded Black country singer named Linda Martell, whose only album was released in 1970. When Cowboy Carter tops the Country chart, it makes Beyoncé the first Black woman to do so.More
August 5, 2023 For the first time since 1958, country songs claim the top three spots on the Hot 100: #1 "Try That in a Small Town" by Jason Aldean #2 "Last Night" by Morgan Wallen #3 "Fast Car" by Luke Combs (a cover of Tracy Chapman's song)
July 28, 2023 Travis Scott releases his highly anticipated fourth album, Utopia. It lives up to the hype, debuting at #1 with all 19 tracks entering the Hot 100 simultaneously. Guests on the album include Beyoncé on "Delresto (Echoes)," Drake on "Meltdown," and Playboi Carti on "FE!N."
March 18, 2023 Every track - all 36 of them - from Morgan Wallen's album One Thing at a Time lands in the Hot 100, breaking Drake's record of 27 set in 2017. Wallen's song "Last Night" claims the top spot.
March 11, 2023 "TQG," a collaboration between Colombian superstars Shakira and Karol G, debuts at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. Just weeks after Shakira became the first female artist to open in the Top 10 with a Spanish-language track ("Shakira: BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53"), "TQG" breaks the record as the highest-charting Spanish-language tune by a female artist in the tally's history.
November 5, 2022 Thanks to huge streaming numbers, Taylor Swift claims every spot on the Top 10 of the Hot 100 with songs from her album Midnights, with "Anti-Hero" at #1. She's the first artist to do so; Drake held nine of the Top 10 for a week in September 2021.
October 29, 2022 Kim Petras becomes the first transgender singer to top the Hot 100 when her Sam Smith collaboration "Unholy" goes to #1.
November 27, 2021 Taylor Swift's extended version of "All Too Well," with a running time of 10:13, hits #1 on the Hot 100, becoming the longest song ever to top the chart. Don McLean held the record since 1972, when "American Pie," running 8:36, went to the top.
March 2, 2021 Dolly Parton gets the coronavirus vaccine, which she helped fund with a $1 million donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. To encourage others to get it, she posts video of her getting the shot on her social media channels and adapts her song "Jolene" to the occasion: Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine I'm begging of you please don't hesitate
August 8, 2020 Taylor Swift becomes the first artist to debut at #1 on both the Hot 100 and US albums chart when Folklore and its lead single, "Cardigan," both go to the top. Folklore is her seventh consecutive #1 album.
January 21, 2020 Ever the trendsetter, Dolly Parton creates a viral meme that shows off four sides of her personality, as represented by LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder. Celebrities like Oprah, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Garner, and Miley Cyrus join in on the fun with their own versions.More
January 4, 2020 Mariah Carey becomes the first artist to top the Hot 100 in four different decades when "All I Want For Christmas Is You" stays at #1 for a third week.
August 24, 2019 Billie Eilish ends a 19-week run at #1 for "Old Town Road" when "Bad Guy" claims the top spot on the Hot 100. The song is about how certain people (herself included) like to think of themselves as subversive rule breakers.
August 23, 2019 Taylor Swift releases Lover, an upbeat album that stands in contrast to her previous release, the serpentine Reputation.More
August 17, 2019 Tool's "Fear Inoculum" enters the Hot 100 at #93, becoming the longest song ever to hit that chart. Running 10:22, it outlasts David Bowie's "Blackstar," which clocks in at 9:57. "Fear Inoculum" drops off the chart the following week.
July 6, 2019 With 13 weeks at #1, "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X breaks the record for longest-running hip-hop song on the Hot 100. "Lose Yourself," "Boom Boom Pow" and "See You Again" all had runs of 12 weeks.
March 16, 2019 "Old Town Road" by the rapper Lil Nas X makes the Country chart, but is removed the following week when Billboard declares it ineligible for the tally. The attention leads to a remix with Billy Ray Cyrus that goes to #1 on the genre-agnostic Hot 100.More
February 23, 2019 Ariana Grande becomes the first solo artist to hold the top three spots on the Hot 100 in the same week, a feat previously accomplished only by The Beatles. The songs: #1: "7 Rings" #2: "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" #3: "Thank U, Next"
August 16, 2018 Aretha Franklin dies after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at age 76.More
July 14, 2018 Drake breaks his own record for most entries on the Hot 100 at once when he places 27 songs on the tally following the release of his album Scorpion.
January 15, 2018 Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan dies in London at 46 years old.More
October 1, 2017 During Jason Aldean's headlining set at the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Las Vegas strip, a gunman opens fire from his suite at the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 58 and injuring over 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in US history.More
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