List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2018

The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on American radio stations and streaming on online digital music outlets.

Drake (pictured) scored three number-one hits with "God's Plan", "Nice for What", and "In My Feelings". He beat the record for most weeks at number one in a year for a single artist, with 29 weeks at number one. "God's Plan" became the longest-running number-one hit of the year and topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 of 2018.

During 2018, eleven singles reached number one on the Hot 100; a twelfth single, "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran, solo or duet with Beyoncé, began its run at number one in December 2017. Of those eleven number-one singles, four were collaborations. In total, thirteen acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with nine—Camila Cabello, Young Thug, Childish Gambino, Ty Dolla Sign, XXXTentacion, Bad Bunny, J Balvin, Ariana Grande and Travis Scott—achieving their first Hot 100 number-one single. Drake's "God's Plan" was the longest-running number-one of the year, leading the chart for eleven weeks; it subsequently topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100. Drake beat the record for most weeks at number one in a year for a single artist, with 29 weeks at number one. XXXTentacion became the first artist to have a posthumous number one since Static Major featured on Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" in 2008 and the first artist to lead the chart with a posthumous number one since The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize" in 1997, and is the eighth overall.

Drake and Cardi B were the only acts to have multiple number-one songs in 2018, with Drake having the most with three and Cardi B with two.

Billboard added a mid-week chart on January 3, 2018, as part of an effort to cut the time between data collection and chart publication. This Wednesday chart is the only mid-week chart in the history of the Hot 100.

Chart history

Cardi B (pictured) scored a second number-one song with "I Like It", making her the first female rapper to do so. She later scored a third number one with a featuring credit on Maroon 5's "Girls Like You" extending her own record for most number ones among female rappers.

"This Is America" became Childish Gambino's (pictured) first song to top the Hot 100.

XXXTentacion (pictured) became the first artist to posthumously top the chart as a lead artist since The Notorious B.I.G. in 1997, with "Sad!" hitting number one following his death.

"Thank U, Next" became Ariana Grande's (pictured) first song to top the Hot 100.

Key

†	Indicates best-performing song of 2018[1]

No.	Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Ref.
1069	January 3	"Perfect"	Ed Sheeran and Beyoncé	[2][3]
	January 6			[4][5]
	January 13			[6][7]
	January 20		Ed Sheeran[a]	[9][8]
1070	January 27	"Havana"	Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug	[10][11]
1071	February 3	"God's Plan" †	Drake	[12][13]
	February 10			[14][15]
	February 17			[16][17]
	February 24			[18][19]
	March 3			[20][21]
	March 10			[22][23]
	March 17			[24][25]
	March 24			[26][27]
	March 31			[28][29]
	April 7			[30][31]
	April 14			[32][33]
1072	April 21	"Nice for What"		[34][35]
	April 28			[36][37]
	May 5			[38][39]
	May 12			[40][41]
1073	May 19	"This Is America"	Childish Gambino	[42][43]
	May 26			[44][45]
re	June 2	"Nice for What"	Drake	[46][47]
	June 9			[48][49]
1074	June 16	"Psycho"	Post Malone featuring Ty Dolla Sign	[50][51]
re	June 23	"Nice for What"	Drake	[52][53]
1075	June 30	"Sad!"	XXXTentacion	[54][55]
1076	July 7	"I Like It"	Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin	[56][57]
re	July 14	"Nice for What"	Drake	[58][59]
1077	July 21	"In My Feelings"		[60][61]
	July 28			[62][63]
	August 4			[64][65]
	August 11			[66][67]
	August 18			[68][69]
	August 25			[70][71]
	September 1			[72][73]
	September 8			[74][75]
	September 15			[76][77]
	September 22			[78][79]
1078	September 29	"Girls Like You"	Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B	[80][81]
	October 6			[82][83]
	October 13			[84][85]
	October 20			[86][87]
	October 27			[88][89]
	November 3			[90][91]
	November 10			[92][93]
1079	November 17	"Thank U, Next"	Ariana Grande	[94][95]
	November 24			[96][97]
	December 1			[98][99]
1080	December 8	"Sicko Mode"	Travis Scott	[100][101]
re	December 15	"Thank U, Next"	Ariana Grande	[102][103]
	December 22			[104][105]
	December 29			[106][107]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	Drake	29
2	Cardi B	8
3	Maroon 5	7
4	Ariana Grande	6
5	Ed Sheeran	4
6	Beyoncé	3
7	Childish Gambino	2
8	Camila Cabello	1
	Young Thug
	Post Malone
	Ty Dolla Sign
	XXXTentacion
	Bad Bunny
	J Balvin
	Travis Scott

See also

• 2018 in American music
• List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2018
• List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2018
• Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2018
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2010s

Notes

1. From this issue date, Billboard returned to credit solely Ed Sheeran for the chart performance of "Perfect" on the Billboard Hot 100.^[8]