Every song that hit No. 1 on the chart in 2019

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• Seventeen different songs have hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this year.
• "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande took the first top spot of the year. Mariah Carey's classic holiday single "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is currently charting at No. 1 for the first time since its release in 1994.
• Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" topped the chart for a historic 19 weeks.
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The Billboard Hot 100 is roundly recognized as the music industry's most reliable measure of song popularity. To score a No. 1 on the chart is a major accomplishment; to debut at No. 1 is even more rare.

This year has been especially interesting. After Selena Gomez's comeback ballad "Lose You to Love Me" surged to No. 1 in November, 2019 became the year with the most female artists to top the Hot 100 this decade. 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 1994.

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 have claimed the chart's top spot so far this year. They're listed in chronological order below.

This list has been updated since its original publish date.

"Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande

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Ariana Grande's 2018 single "Thank U, Next" continued its Billboard Hot 100 reign into the first week of 2019. It had already been No. 1 for six weeks, and the seventh was its last on top of the chart.

"Without Me" by Halsey

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Halsey's "Without Me" took the No. 1 spot for two nonconsecutive weeks in 2019. It dethroned "Thank U, Next" for the second week of the year, and after briefly dropping to No. 2, it returned to the top of the chart the following week.

"Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee

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"Sunflower," a 2018 single from the soundtrack of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," was No. 1 on the chart for the third week of 2019.

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