Digital Songs
The Digital Songs or Digital Song Sales chart (previously named Hot Digital Songs)[1] ranks the best-selling digital songs in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard magazine. Although it originally started tracking song sales the week of October 30, 2004,[2] it officially debuted in the issue dated January 22, 2005, and merged all versions of a song sold from digital music distributors.[3] Its data was incorporated in the Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboard's music singles charts.[4] The decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible.[5]
This article is about the Billboard music chart. For digital music, see Music download.
The first number one song on the Digital Songs chart was "Just Lose It" by Eminem.[2]
The chart's current number one as of the issue dated April 20, 2024 is "Wanna Be" by GloRilla and Megan Thee Stallion.[6]
18 weeks
(2010) by Katy Perry holds the record for most digital number-ones from an album, with five. "California Gurls" featuring Snoop Dogg, "Teenage Dream," "Firework," "E.T." featuring Kanye West and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" all topped the chart.
Teenage Dream
Four albums by had four digital number-ones each on the chart: "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Out of the Woods", and "Bad Blood" from 1989 (2014); "Look What You Made Me Do", "...Ready for It?", "Gorgeous", and "Call It What You Want" from Reputation (2017); "Me!", "You Need to Calm Down", "Lover", and "Cruel Summer" from Lover (2019); and "Anti-Hero", Question...?", "Hits Different", and "You're Losing Me" from Midnights (2022).
Taylor Swift
– "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (two non-consecutive weeks) → "Don't Forget About Us" (one week) (December 31, 2005)
Mariah Carey
– "Whatever You Like" (one week) → "Live Your Life" (T.I. featuring Rihanna) (one week) (October 18, 2008)
T.I.
– "If I Were a Boy" (one week) → "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (two weeks) (December 6, 2008)
Beyoncé
– "Problem" (Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea) (three weeks) → "Fancy" (Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX) (four weeks) (June 7, 2014)
Iggy Azalea
– "Shake It Off" (four non-consecutive weeks) → "Out of the Woods" (one week) (November 1, 2014)
Taylor Swift
– "Despacito" (Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber) (seventeen non-consecutive weeks) → "I'm the One" (DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne) (one week) (May 20, 2017)
Justin Bieber
Taylor Swift – "" (one week) → "...Ready for It?" (one week) (September 23, 2017)
Look What You Made Me Do
BTS – "Permission to Dance" (one week) → "Butter" (eight non-consecutive weeks) (July 31, 2021)
BTS – "Butter" (seventeen non-consecutive weeks) → "" (Coldplay and BTS) (one week) (October 9, 2021)
My Universe
– "Blick Blick" (Coi Leray and Nicki Minaj) (one week) → "We Go Up" (Nicki Minaj featuring Fivio Foreign) (one week) (April 9, 2022)
Nicki Minaj
– "Eyes Closed" (one week) → "Life Goes On" (Ed Sheeran featuring Luke Combs) (one week) (May 27, 2023)