Debuting a song on the Billboard Hot 100 is a highlight of any musician’s career. It’s Billboard’s premier songs chart after all, and the stars often must align in order to stand with the best of the best.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations.
In total, more than 8,000 artists have landed a song on the survey, dating it the chart’s launch on Aug. 4, 1958. Of those artists, only 20 have charted at least 100 total songs.
Elvis Presley, whose career predates the Hot 100’s launch, became the first artist to tally 100 total hits. He scored his 100th (of an eventual 109 total) in May 1975 with “T-R-O-U-B-L-E.” He held the record for the most overall chart entries until 2011, when the Glee Cast surpassed him, and then nearly doubled his total — reaching 207 entries. That record stood until 2020, when Drake stormed past the TV troupe when his track “Oprah’s Bank Account” debuted.
Drake now leads all artists with a whopping 338 total entries on the chart in his career (through the Hot 100 dated Jan. 18, 2025). He’s the only artist to chart at least 300 total songs in history. Only three other acts have charted at least 200: Taylor Swift (264), Future (218) and the Glee cast (207).
Three artists joined the 100-hits club in 2023: YoungBoy Never Broke Again achieved the milestone in May and, fittingly, became the youngest artist to ever reach the feat, at age 23; Lil Uzi Vert became the 14th act to join in July, after releasing Pink Tape; and Travis Scott then joined the club on Aug. 12, thanks to the arrival of his LP Utopia. Four artists joined the club in 2024: 21 Savage was the 16th artist to reach the milestone, thanks to his album American Dream, followed by Beyoncé after releasing Cowboy Carter, then The Weeknd, thanks to his guest appearances on Future and Metro Boomin’s We Still Don’t Trust You, and then Eminem after releasing The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace).
Bad Bunny becomes the first artist to join the club in 2025, and the first Latin act, thanks to the release of his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos.
As for who might be next in line to join the elite group, the artists just short of 100 career entries are Post Malone and Young Thug (currently at 95 each), Lil Durk (92), the late James Brown (91), Ariana Grande (90), J. Cole and Rod Wave (89 each), Kendrick Lamar (88), Gunna and Metro Boomin (87 each), and the late Juice WRLD (86).
While it’s rare for artists to chart triple-digit entries on the Hot 100, it has become a more regular occurrence since the ranking began including streaming figures in 2007. As such, some artists have been able to chart a high number of songs on the Hot 100 after releasing high-profile albums. The model contrasts with prior decades, when acts generally promoted one single at a time in the physical-only marketplace and on radio. That shift in consumption helps explain why artists have been able to chart many songs over short spans in recent years.
Here’s an updated look at every act to chart 100 or more career hits on the Hot 100, as of the Jan. 18, 2025-dated chart.
Drake
Number of Hot 100 hits: 338. He tallied his 100th career entry in 2015 after releasing What a Time To Be Alive with Future, his 200th in 2019 after releasing Care Package, and his record-extending 300th in 2023 after dropping For All the Dogs. He’s the first and, to date, only artist to chart 300 songs.
Taylor Swift
Future
Number of Hot 100 hits: 218. He reached 100 entries in 2020 after releasing his album High Off Life, and tallied his 200th in August 2024 thanks to his featured appearance on Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Promotion.” He became just the third solo artist to join the 200 hits club, after Drake and Taylor Swift.
Glee Cast
Number of Hot 100 hits: 207. The collective notched its 100th hit in 2010 after releasing its album Glee: The Music, Season Two: Volume 4. And it reached the 200-entries mark in 2012, when its renditions of Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like The Wolf” and Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” debuted in the same week.
Lil Wayne
Number of Hot 100 hits: 187. He earned his 100th entry in 2012.
Kanye West
Number of Hot 100 hits: 161. He scored his 100th hit in 2019.
Lil Baby
Number of Hot 100 hits: 155. He joined the 100-hits club in 2022.
Nicki Minaj
Number of Hot 100 hits: 149. Minaj was the first woman to reach triple-digits, and is the only female rapper in the club. She notched her 100th entry in 2018.
Travis Scott
Chris Brown
Number of Hot 100 hits: 118. He reached the 100-hits mark in 2020.
Bad Bunny
Number of Hot 100 Hits: 113. He became the first Latin artist in history to join the club in January 2025, following the release of his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos.
Eminem
Number of Hot 100 Hits: 112. He became the 19th artist to join the club in July 2024 after releasing his album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace).
Lil Uzi Vert
Number of Hot 100 hits: 111. Uzi joined the club in 2023 after releasing Pink Tape.
Elvis Presley
Number of Hot 100 hits: 109. He became the first act in the chart’s history to reach the triple-digit milestone, in 1975. Notably, Presley’s career pre-dates the Hot 100’s inception in 1958.
Beyoncé
Number of Hot 100 Hits: 106. She became the 17th artist to join the club in April 2024, thanks to her album Cowboy Carter.
21 Savage
Number of Hot 100 Hits: 105. He became the 16th artist to join the club in January 2024, after releasing his album American Dream.
Jay-Z
Justin Bieber
The Weeknd
Number of Hot 100 Hits: 104. He became the 18th artist to reach the milestone, thanks to two guest appearances on Future and Metro Boomin’s album We Still Don’t Trust You: the title track and “All to Myself.”
YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Number of Hot 100 hits: 104. He tallied his 100th entry in 2023, and became the youngest act ever to join the club, at age 23.
