Billboard Hot 100 · 1960–2020
The #1 song of the year you were born
Pick your birth year. You’ll hear the song that sat at the top of the American charts longest that year.
Your birth year
The biggest #1 of every year
#1 songs by decade
The song that held the top spot longest each year. Open a year for all of its #1 hits, plus what things cost and what happened.
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
The 2000s
The 2010s
The 2020s
About the chart
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What was the most popular song the year I was born?
Pick your birth year above. We show the song that spent the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 during that calendar year, the two runners-up, and a 30-second preview. It covers every year from 1960 to 2020.
How do you choose the biggest song of a year?
By weeks at #1 within that calendar year. When two songs tie, the one with more weeks at #1 overall wins. A song that topped the chart across New Year counts its weeks in each year separately.
Is this the same as Billboard’s year-end chart?
Not always. Billboard’s year-end list scores every week a song spends anywhere on the chart, so a long-running #5 can beat a short-lived #1. This page only looks at the top spot, which is the song most people remember hearing everywhere.
Which song spent the longest at #1 in a single year?
Between 1960 and 2020, “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus held #1 for 19 weeks of 2019.
Can I find the #1 on my exact birthday?
Yes. The Hot 100 changes every week, so the song on your birthday may not be the biggest song of the year. The birthday song finder looks up the exact chart week you were born in.
Your day, not just your year
That was your year’s song. Now hear your day’s.
Add your birthday and city and we’ll rebuild the day you were born: the #1 that week, the weather outside and the moon overhead.
See your exact day →The weather, the sky and the #1 song from that exact day, in your city