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The Billboard Streaming Songs chart ranks each week's most-streamed radio songs, on-demand songs and videos on leading online music services in the United States. In 2018, 20 songs by 24 artist reached the top.
The first number one song of the year was Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" alongside Beyonce. Post Malone's and 21 Savage's "Rockstar" spent 12 weeks atop in late 2017 and topped the chart for two more weeks in January for a total of 14 weeks. "God's Plan" by Canadian musician Drake reached the top in early February and topped the charts for 11 consecutive weeks. Furthermore, it became the second song to be ever streamed more than 100 million times within one week, since Baauer's "Harlem Shake" in early 2013.[1] Drake replaced himself with "Nice for What" for four weeks in April and May.
Childish Gambino scored his first number one on the chart with "This is America" for three weeks in May and early June. Following the murder of XXXTentacion in Florida, his single "Sad!" became his first to top the chart for two weeks. Drake scored his third and fourth number-one hit in 2018 with "Nonstop" and "In My Feelings" for nine more weeks. Furthermore, "In My Feelings" became the most-streamed songs within a week, accumulating more than 116 million streams—13 million more than "Harlem Shake". Moreover, "In My Feelings" was the third most streamed song of the year, accumulating more than 1.1 billion streams.[2]
Drake was the most-successful artist of the year. "God's Plan", "In My Feelings" and "Nice for What" ranked in the top ten most-streamed songs in the US for 2018. "God's Plan" concluded as the most-streamed song in 2018, with more than 1.5 billion streams.[2]
Chart history
† | Indicates best-performing single of 2018[3] |
Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Weekly streams |
---|---|---|---|
January 3 | "Perfect" | Ed Sheeran featuring Beyonce | 43.4 million[4] |
January 6 | "Rockstar" | Post Malone featuring 21 Savage | 37.7 million[5] |
January 13 | 39.4 million[6] | ||
January 20 | "Finesse" | Bruno Mars featuring Cardi B | 38.3 million[7] |
January 27 | "Havana" | Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug | 44.9 million[8] |
February 3 | "God's Plan" † | Drake | 82.4 million[9] |
February 10 | 83.3 million[10] | ||
February 17 | 79.6 million[11] | ||
February 24 | 75.5 million[12] | ||
March 3 | 101.7 million[13] | ||
March 10 | 92.8 million[14] | ||
March 17 | 81.8 million[15] | ||
March 24 | 72.9 million[16] | ||
March 31 | 68.5 million[17] | ||
April 7 | 61.1 million[18] | ||
April 14 | 52.1 million[19] | ||
April 21 | "Nice for What" | 60.4 million[20] | |
April 28 | 59.3 million[21] | ||
May 5 | 53.6 million[22] | ||
May 12 | 48.5 million[23] | ||
May 19 | "This Is America" | Childish Gambino | 65.3 million[24] |
May 26 | 69.6 million[25] | ||
June 2 | 45.2 million[26] | ||
June 9 | "Yes Indeed" | Lil Baby and Drake | 37.6 million[27] |
June 16 | "All Mine" | Kanye West | 36.3 million[28] |
June 23 | "Lucid Dreams" | Juice WRLD | 38.8 million[29] |
June 30 | "Sad!" | XXXTentacion | 48.9 million[30] |
July 7 | 47.5 million[31] | ||
July 14 | "Nonstop" | Drake | 58.6 million[32] |
July 21 | "In My Feelings" | 71.7 million[33] | |
July 28 | 116.2 million[34] | ||
August 4 | 106.2 million[35] | ||
August 11 | 95.4 million[36] | ||
August 18 | 92.7 million[37] | ||
August 25 | 71 million[38] | ||
September 1 | 59.4 million[39] | ||
September 8 | 50.5 million[40] | ||
September 15 | "Lucky You" | Eminem featuring Joyner Lucas | 42.2 million[41] |
September 22 | "I Love It" | Kanye West and Lil Pump | 46.6 million[42] |
September 29 | 44.8 million[43] | ||
October 6 | "Lucid Dreams" | Juice WRLD | 41.6 million[44] |
October 13 | "Mona Lisa" | Lil Wayne featuring Kendrick Lamar | 43 million[45] |
October 20 | "Drip Too Hard" | Lil Baby and Gunna | 41.3 million[46] |
October 27 | "Zeze" | Kodak Black featuring Travis Scott and Offset | 47.6 million[47] |
November 3 | 42.2 million[48] | ||
November 10 | 39.5 million[49] | ||
November 17 | "Thank U, Next" | Ariana Grande | 55.5 million[50] |
November 24 | 63.4 million[51] | ||
December 1 | 43.8 million[52] | ||
December 8 | 42.5 million[53] | ||
December 15 | 93.8 million[54] | ||
December 22 | 50.7 million[55] | ||
December 29 | 43.5 million[56] |
See also
References
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