26 No. 26 Hot 100 Chart Hits for 2026

Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 22, 1958

Summer 1958 (when the Hot 100 premiered) was big for summer-themed hits. As this song was making its splash, it was joined in the top 40 by Eddie Cochran’s eventual top 10 “Summertime Blues” and The Four Preps’ “Lazy Summer Night.”

Hot 100 peak date: March 14, 1964

Recorded in 1961, with original Beatles drummer Pete Best, the cover of the folk song piqued the interest of then-Liverpool, England, record shop owner Brian Epstein, who decided to see the group perform. “He immediately sees their potential,” noted Dean Harmeyer of Heritage Auctions, which in 2015 sold the band’s first contract (for $90,000). “He tells them, ‘I want to manage you and I’ll make you successful.’ That’s really where the story started … it’s where they really become The Beatles.”

Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 3, 1977

Following this pop-rock track, the trio would rocket to No. 1 on the Hot 100 with its next six singles (a record streak among groups), as Saturday Night Fever fever took hold. The song preceded “How Deep Is Your Love,” “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever,” “Too Much Heaven,” “Tragedy” and “Love You Inside Out.”

Hot 100 peak date: Nov. 8, 1980

The band rolled further into the ‘80s after its “Emotional Rescue” hit No. 3 that September. The Stones scored 11 top 40-peaking titles that decade, after 12 in the ’70s and 18 in the ‘60s.

Hot 100 peak date: June 29, 1985

The breezy song is one of the band’s 35 top 40 Hot 100 hits, and its highest-charting entry (No. 2) on Adult Contemporary.

Hot 100 peak date: Oct. 25, 1986

The song returned to the Hot 100 in 1989, fueled by buzz (and boombox play) generated by its famous synch in the big-screen favorite Say Anything.

Hot 100 peak date: Nov. 22, 1986

The band earned its second top 40 Hot 100 hit with the lead single from its second album, Welcome Home, after “Voices Carry,” the title cut from the act’s 1985 debut, climbed to No. 8. In 2025, the group — lead singer Aimee Mann, Michael Hausman, Robert Holmes and Joey Pesce — reunited for its first show in more than 30 years at the Cruel World festival in Pasadena, Calif. “And by the way, everybody’s great,” Mann mused. “Like, everybody just developed into a sweet, nice person. And not that they weren’t before, but it’s nice when people don’t calcify into their worst selves.”

Hot 100 peak date: May 23, 1987

The track is the highest-peaking Hot 100 hit for the British band, which also charted with fellow alt classics “Love My Way,” “The Ghost in You” and “Pretty in Pink” in 1983-86.

Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 9, 1988

In 1985, Air Supply’s “Power of Love (You Are My Lady)” reached No. 68 on the Hot 100. In 1986, Jennifer Rush’s version of the ballad, which she co-wrote, hit No. 59. Branigan’s version took the composition to the top 40 — six years before Celine Dion’s interpretation reigned for four weeks.

Hot 100 peak date: Nov. 19, 1988

The band’s debut single arrived on the Hot 100 as “Hold On to the Nights” (by “Edge of a Broken Heart” co-writer, producer and then-EMI labelmate Richard Marx) was continuing its run after becoming his first No. 1. Marx wrote in his 2021 memoir, Stories To Tell, that he had a 48-hour window in which to produce the track for the group. “Looking back,” he shared, “I still can’t believe everybody just took the leap of faith that I’d not only write the right song but be able to produce it in a matter of hours.”

Hot 100 peak date: July 22, 1989

The song first reached No. 29 in 1984. It’s been featured on multiple movie soundtracks, with a new placement at the end of the fun 2025 film Good Fortune, starring Aziz Ansari, Sandra Oh, Keke Palmer, Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen.

Hot 100 peak date: Nov. 18, 1989

Alan Light, whose résumé includes Rolling Stone and SiriusXM, told Billboard of the song (also a No. 1 hit on Hot Rap Songs) in 2019, “The lyrics were different for that time, coming out of Public Enemy and N.W.A [being] ascendant, which had a real sense of hip-hop as storytelling — Black America’s CNN — and then there’s De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, which gave a sense of hip-hop as a lyrical form. I’m not saying it was in opposition to that, but these were clearly party records. No message, just sex and dancing and partying and using these records to have a good time.”

Hot 100 peak date: Aug. 17, 1991

Otis Redding co-wrote the song and his version became a posthumous No. 51 hit on the Hot 100 in 1968.

Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 29, 1994

The song introduced Kadison’s trademark piano pop. Follow-up “Beautiful in My Eyes” did even better, reaching No. 19 on the Hot 100 and going top five on Adult Contemporary.

Hot 100 peak date: July 6, 1996

“LeAnn Rimes, who’s kicking up a bit of a fuss with her debut single, stopped by our offices to chat,” Chet Flippo wrote in the May 25, 1996, Billboard, the week that the then-13-year-old Rimes made her chart debut as “Blue” entered Hot Country Songs, where it would go on to hit No. 10. “The song,” the then-Nashville bureau chief continued, “was written by longtime Fort Worth, Texas, DJ Bill Mack for Patsy Cline. When Cline died before recording it, Mack put it away. Rimes says he offered it to her after hearing her sing. Rimes does indeed have a big voice in the Cline tradition. ‘My mom says I was born singing,’ she says.”

Hot 100 peak date: May 2, 1998

The Queen of Soul appeared in the Hot 100’s top 40 from 1961 through 1998, logging two No. 1s among 17 top 10s. Her last two top 40 entries each reached No. 26: prior to “A Rose Is Still a Rose,” “Willing To Forgive” charted in 1994.

Hot 100 peak date: April 17, 1999

“This wildly energetic foursome (two gals, two guys) from the Netherlands is pretty much a household name throughout Europe, where this infectious pop gem has been a constant on radio and in clubs,” read a Billboard review of the single in January 1999. It praised the song’s “sugar-soaked sing-along chorus,” correctly predicting that “people who embraced Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’ and Los Del Rio’s ‘Macarena’ will be lining up for this latest slice of energetic pop.”

Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 22, 2001

The week that it hit its Hot 100 high, the ballad also began a three-week reign on Hot Country Songs.

Hot 100 peak date: Nov. 15, 2003

The anthem became the 12th of the late legend’s 20 No. 1s on Hot Country Songs.

Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 12, 2008

The band’s breakthrough hit also reached No. 3 on the Alternative Airplay chart.

Hot 100 peak date: March 16, 2013

Different times. The team-up, Lamar’s second Hot 100 entry, after “Swimming Pools (Drank)” (a No. 17 hit in December 2012), peaked in the top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Hot 100 peak date: Oct. 25, 2014

Eight months after Fallon became host of NBC’s The Tonight Show, he reached the Hot 100 with this novelty track born on his day (night) job. “Everyone has dreams. I remember lip-syncing into a mirror when I was a kid. Having a song chart is just crazy,” he beamed, with his Billboard history including two No. 1s on Comedy Albums. “I didn’t even know that this would be a song. Will.i.am came on the show and said he loves ‘Ew,’ this character where I’m a 15-year-old girl, just listing things that I think are … ‘ew!’ He just liked it because it’s fun. It’s just a goofy sketch. The song has no other goal than to make you smile.”

Hot 100 peak date: Feb. 11, 2017

One of her 16 top 40 Hot 100 hits, it rose to the top 10 on the all-format Radio Songs chart.

Hot 100 peak date: Nov. 4, 2017

The collaboration between the chart-toppers, and childhood friends, ruled Hot Country Songs for five weeks.

Hot 100 peak date: April 4, 2020

The Peas’ comeback hit — their first top 40 Hot 100 single since 2011 — also dominated Hot Latin Songs for 24 weeks.

Hot 100 peak date: Feb. 5, 2022

The track topped Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs for six weeks, starting with the inaugural list. The Nigerian artist’s introductory hit was first released in 2019 and surged when it went viral, helped by remixes. Originally, “no one took it seriously because it wasn’t a fast song,” he told Billboard in 2021. He shared that he was in love while making the record, whose title in his native Igbo language means “small love.” “Emo Afrobeats is a way to express myself, my emotions and my sound and still have a groove to it,” he said. “My energy is basically emotions.”