Top 10 artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. Hot 100

This is a list of artists with the most number-one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart (10 or more). The Beatles currently hold the record for the most number-one songs in the 57 year history of the chart, with 20. Mariah Carey holds the record for solo artist with the most number-one songs, with 18. The only other artist to have achieved more than 15 chart toppers is Elvis Presley, who attained 17 according to Billboard. Michael Jackson and Rihanna are tied for fourth most number-ones, with 13 each, while The Supremes and Madonna have attained 12. Whitney Houston achieved 11 number-ones during her career, while Stevie Wonder and Janet Jackson have scored 10 a piece.
First: The Beatles (20)
English rock band The Beatles achieved a record holding 20 number one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1964 and their split in 1970.
Second: Mariah Carey (18)
American singer, songwriter and producer Mariah Carey has achieved 18 number-one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Carey's self-titled debut studio album produced four number-one songs. She achieved her first with "Vision of Love" in August 1990, which reached the peak for four weeks. It was followed by "Love Takes Time" later that year in November for three weeks, "Someday" in March 1991 for two weeks, and "I Don't Wanna Cry" in May 1991 for two weeks. "Emotions" became her fifth consecutive number-one song in October 1991. This run of five consecutive number-ones means that Carey is the only artist in the history of the Hot 100 to have her first five single releases top the chart. Carey's cover of the Jackson 5 song "" topped the chart for two weeks in August 1992, and she collected two further chart toppers in 1993 when "Dreamlover" peaked atop the chart in September for eight weeks and with "Hero" in December for four consecutive weeks.
"Fantasy" became the first song to debut atop the Hot 100 by a female artist, and only the second song to debut at number-one after Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone", which did so only one month prior. "One Sweet Day", a duet with Boyz II Men, became her tenth number-one song, spending a record-breaking 16 weeks at the peak of the Hot 100 chart, a record it still holds today. "One Sweet Day" finished at number one on Billboards Hot 100 songs of the decade chart. In September 1997, "Honey" became Carey's third single to debut atop the Hot 100, the most for any artist to date, and only the sixth song in history to do so. it meant that Carey became the first artist in the history of the chart to have two runs of five consecutive number-ones, first with "Vision of Love", "Love Takes Time", "Someday", "I Don't Wanna Cry" and "Emotions" in 1990/91, and again with "Fantasy", "One Sweet Day", "Always Be My Baby", "Honey" and "My All" between 1995-98. extending her lead for female artist with the most number-ones, and only third to Elvis Presley (17) and The Beatles (20) overall. "Thank God I Found You" became Carey's fifteenth number-one song in February 2000, meaning that Carey had charted a number-one single for eleven consecutive years, a record she still holds, starting with "Vision of Love" in 1990.
"We Belong Together" spent 14 weeks at number-one in 2005, "Touch My Body" became Carey's eighteenth number-one song on the Hot 100 in 2008, breaking her tie with Presley and placing her in second place for the most chart toppers in the history of the chart. Carey and Presley hold the record for having spent 79 weeks at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100. Carey holds the record for solo artist with the most number-ones, and she is considered to be the only active recording artist with the potential to surpass The Beatles record of 20.
Third: Elvis Presley (17)
American singer Elvis Presley achieved 17 number one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1956 and 1969 prior to his death in August 1977.
Joint fourth (13)
Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter and producer Michael Jackson achieved 13 number one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 between 1972 and 1995 prior to his death in June 2009.
Rihanna
Barbadian singer Rihanna has achieved 13 number-one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
Her first number-one was "SOS" in May 2006; it jumped 33 positions from the previous week to the peak, as a result of the release being upheld until the accompanying album was released. It spent a further two weeks atop the chart. "Umbrella" became her second number-one in May 2007, selling 277,000 downloads in its first week, logging the highest digital sales debut since tracking of downloads began in 2003, jumping from number 44 to number-one. It spent a total of seven weeks at the summit, and became the second most successful song of 2007, behind Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable".
Joint sixth (12)
The Supremes
American female singing group The Supremes achieved 12 number one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 between 1964 and 1969.
Madonna
American singer, songwriter and producer Madonna has achieved 12 number one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
Eighth: Whitney Houston (11)
American singer Whitney Houston achieved 11 number-one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1985 and 1995 before her death in February 2012.
Joint ninth (10)
Stevie Wonder
American singer, songwriter and producer Stevie Wonder has achieved 10 number-one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Janet Jackson
American singer, songwriter and producer Janet Jackson has achieved 10 number-one songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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