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This is a list of the songs placed number one in the United States during 2021. The ''Billboard'' Hot 100 is a 
2021 marked the first calendar year since 1991 to have at least 10 songs reach number one on the Hot 100 by the end of May. BTS spent the most weeks at the top spot of the Hot 100 in 2021, with twelve non-consecutive weeks. Their single " Butter" is the longest running number-one song of 2021, spending ten weeks atop the chart. Rodrigo's " Drivers License" was 2021's longest running number-one single by a female artist, with eight consecutive weeks atop. Taylor Swift scored her career's eighth number-one song this year with "
This is a list of the songs placed number one in the United States during 2021. The ''Billboard'' Hot 100 is a chart
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that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. Its data is compiled by MRC Data and published by American music magazine ''Billboard
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''. The chart is based on each song's weekly physical
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and digital sales collectively, the amount of airplay it receives on American radio stations, and its streams
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on online digital music platforms.
Twenty-four acts reached number one in 2021, nine of whom earned their first number-one single: Olivia Rodrigo, Daniel Caesar, Giveon, Silk Sonic, Anderson .Paak
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, Polo G, The Kid Laroi, Future
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and Jack Harlow. BTS scored three number ones while Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, Drake and Lil Nas X scored two each, as the only acts to achieve multiple number-one songs in 2021.
2021 marked the first calendar year since 1991 to have at least 10 songs reach number one on the Hot 100 by the end of May. BTS spent the most weeks at the top spot of the Hot 100 in 2021, with twelve non-consecutive weeks. Their single " Butter" is the longest running number-one song of 2021, spending ten weeks atop the chart. Rodrigo's " Drivers License" was 2021's longest running number-one single by a female artist, with eight consecutive weeks atop. Taylor Swift scored her career's eighth number-one song this year with "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)
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", which broke the 49-year-old Hot 100 record of Don McLean's " American Pie" (1972) to become the longest song of all time to top the chart, clocking at 10 minutes and 13 seconds.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
*2021 in American music
The following is a list of events and releases that happened in 2021 in music in the United States.
Notable events January
*8 – Olivia Rodrigo released her debut single, "Drivers License", which was met with critical acclaim and went on to ...
* List of ''Billboard'' 200 number-one albums of 2021
* List of ''Billboard'' Global 200 number ones of 2021
* List of ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2021
* ''Billboard'' Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2021
References
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Hot 100 number-one singles