A review of Talk of the Charts' weekly Final Billboard Hot 100 Predictions across 52 graded weeks (July 2025 to July 2026), comparing each predicted top 10 against the chart Billboard published.
Using Global 200 singles points and artist-credit splits, this ranking shows the top 10 artists of every year from 2020 through 2025.
To identify album eras with the biggest global hits and broad public impact, we exclude pure album sales and long-tail album-track activity. Instead, this ranking measures each era's hit songs that charted on the Global 200, with special focus on tracks that reached the top 10.
Taylor Swift has broken a staggering number of chart records with the release of her twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Here's a comprehensive list of every major record she shattered.
A look at the most streamed songs on Spotify in any 1 year period so far this decade, from 2020 to 2025.
According to our analysis, Shaboozey's A Bar Song (Tipsy) could be the biggest hit of all time in the US.
The Weeknd's Blinding Lights and Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars’ Die With A Smile are now the two biggest global chart hits of the 2020s. We compare their first year on the charts.
