Top songs of 2022

What was the number one song of 2022?

The number one song of 2022 was “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals, the top song on Billboard's year-end Hot 100 for 2022. It spent 5 weeks at number one on the weekly chart, starting with the chart dated March 12, 2022.

“As It Was” by Harry Styles was number one for the most weeks of 2022: 15 of the year's 53 weekly charts, starting with the chart dated April 16, 2022.

Born in 2022? The birthday number one finder shows the song at number one in the exact week of your birthday, and the number one on every birthday since.

Chart data: Billboard Hot 100, as compiled on Wikipedia (number ones of 2022, year-end Hot 100 of 2022).

How many songs reached number one in 2022?

12 songs reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 2022. Counting “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and “Easy on Me”, which were already at number one when the year began, 14 songs held the top spot across the year's 53 weekly charts.

Of the songs that first reached number one in 2022, “As It Was” by Harry Styles stayed there longest: 15 weeks in total, from the chart dated April 16, 2022.

Weeks at No. 1 counts every week the song spent at the top, including weeks in other years; the number in brackets is the weeks on charts dated 2022. Dates are chart issue dates.

Which artists had more than one number one in 2022?

No act had more than one number one in 2022, counting lead and featured credits: each of the 14 songs at number one that year was by a different act.

What were the biggest songs of 2022?

The five biggest songs of 2022 on Billboard’s year-end Hot 100 were “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals, “As It Was” by Harry Styles, “Stay” by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber, “Easy on Me” by Adele and “Shivers” by Ed Sheeran.

The year-end chart ranks songs by how they performed on the weekly Hot 100 across Billboard’s chart year, so a song that peaked late in the year can rank lower than its weekly peak suggests, or count toward the next year’s list. The top 30 below show each song’s length.

Numbers 31 to 100

31. “Good 4 U” Olivia Rodrigo
32. “Numb Little Bug” Em Beihold
33. “Jimmy Cooks” Drake featuring 21 Savage
34. “'Til You Can't” Cody Johnson
35. “Fancy Like” Walker Hayes
36. “The Kind of Love We Make” Luke Combs
37. “I Ain't Worried” OneRepublic
38. “Break My Soul” Beyoncé
39. “Something in the Orange” Zach Bryan
40. “Save Your Tears” The Weeknd and Ariana Grande
41. “Smokin out the Window” Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak)
42. “Levitating” Dua Lipa
43. “In a Minute” Lil Baby
44. “Moscow Mule” Bad Bunny
45. “You Right” Doja Cat and the Weeknd
46. “She Had Me at Heads Carolina” Cole Swindell
47. “Vegas” Doja Cat
48. “Pushin P” Gunna and Future featuring Young Thug
49. “Buy Dirt” Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan
50. “I Hate U” SZA
51. “Boyfriend” Dove Cameron
52. “Glimpse of Us” Joji
53. “Surface Pressure” Jessica Darrow
54. “Fall in Love” Bailey Zimmerman
55. “Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah)” CKay
56. “Super Freaky Girl” Nicki Minaj
57. “Hrs and Hrs” Muni Long
58. “Sand in My Boots” Morgan Wallen
59. “Mamiii” Becky G and Karol G
60. “Knife Talk” Drake featuring 21 Savage and Project Pat
61. “AA” Walker Hayes
62. “Sweetest Pie” Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa
63. “Provenza” Karol G
64. “Essence” Wizkid featuring Justin Bieber and Tems
65. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” Mariah Carey
66. “Bam Bam” Camila Cabello featuring Ed Sheeran
67. “5 Foot 9” Tyler Hubbard
68. “Get Into It (Yuh)” Doja Cat
69. “Efecto” Bad Bunny
70. “Rock and a Hard Place” Bailey Zimmerman
71. “Doin' This” Luke Combs
72. “Oh My God” Adele
73. “Better Days” Neiked, Mae Muller and Polo G
74. “Meet Me at Our Spot” The Anxiety: Willow and Tyler Cole
75. “Fingers Crossed” Lauren Spencer-Smith
76. “All Too Well (Taylor's Version)” Taylor Swift
77. “Party” Bad Bunny and Rauw Alejandro
78. “Después de la Playa” Bad Bunny
79. “You Should Probably Leave” Chris Stapleton
80. “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” Brenda Lee
81. “Broadway Girls” Lil Durk featuring Morgan Wallen
82. “Take My Name” Parmalee
83. “What Happened to Virgil” Lil Durk featuring Gunna
84. “Puffin on Zootiez” Future
85. “Like I Love Country Music” Kane Brown
86. “Jingle Bell Rock” Bobby Helms
87. “Ojitos Lindos” Bad Bunny and Bomba Estéreo
88. “Trouble with a Heartbreak” Jason Aldean
89. “A Holly Jolly Christmas” Burl Ives
90. “Kiss Me More” Doja Cat featuring SZA
91. “She Likes It” Russell Dickerson featuring Jake Scott
92. “Never Say Never” Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson
93. “Damn Strait” Scotty McCreery
94. “She's All I Wanna Be” Tate McRae
95. “Last Night Lonely” Jon Pardi
96. “Flower Shops” Ernest featuring Morgan Wallen
97. “To the Moon” Jnr Choi and Sam Tompkins
98. “Unholy” Sam Smith and Kim Petras
99. “One Mississippi” Kane Brown
100. “Circles Around This Town” Maren Morris

Chart data: Billboard Hot 100, as compiled on Wikipedia (number ones of 2022, year-end Hot 100 of 2022).

What songs should go on a 2022 mix CD?

A 2022 mix that fits one 80-minute CD holds 24 of the year's biggest songs, opening with “Stay” by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber and closing with “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” by Kate Bush, for 78:02 of music.

We built it from the year-end top 30 and every number one of 2022, taking songs in year-end order until the disc was full, then sequenced it to follow the year: the number ones in the order they reached the top, with the year’s other big hits placed between them. With a 2-second gap before each track it runs 78:50, under the 79 minutes we fill a CD to.

Lengths are the recordings matched in Deezer’s catalog. Single edits, album versions and remasters can run a little longer or shorter, so check your own playlist before you burn it.

Turn 2022 into a CD. Send us this list, or your own 2022 songs, and we burn it to a real audio CD, test-play it and post it. It makes a good gift for a birth year, a graduation year or a wedding year.

To change the songs, paste the list into the playlist length calculator to keep it under 80 minutes, then print an insert with the CD case template. Our guide to making a mixtape covers sequencing, and nostalgic gift ideas has more ways to give a year as a present.

What has popular music been like in the 2020s?

Popular music in the 2020s has been driven by streaming, with pop, hip-hop and country crossover songs topping the Hot 100. When a major album comes out, its songs can fill much of the top ten in the same week.

From 2020 to 2025, 89 songs reached number one on the Hot 100, and 8 songs stayed there for 10 weeks or more. Of those 89, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey spent the most weeks at number one: 19 in total. Taylor Swift had the most number ones that reached the top in these years, with 8. The typical number one of these years ran 3:18 (the median of the 81 with a known length).