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No. 1 songs · Billboard Hot 100

  1. All I Want For Christmas Is You
    Mariah Carey
    Jan 2, 2021
    1 week
  2. Mood
    24kGoldn Featuring iann dior
    Jan 9, 2021
    2 weeks
  3. Drivers License
    Olivia Rodrigo
    Jan 23, 2021
    8 weeks
  4. What's Next
    Drake
    Mar 20, 2021
    1 week
  5. Up
    Cardi B
    Mar 27, 2021
    1 week
  6. Peaches
    Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon
    Apr 3, 2021
    1 week
  7. Montero (Call Me By Your Name)
    Lil Nas X
    Apr 10, 2021
    1 week
  8. Leave The Door Open
    Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak)
    Apr 17, 2021
    1 week
  9. Rapstar
    Polo G
    Apr 24, 2021
    2 weeks
  10. Save Your Tears
    The Weeknd & Ariana Grande
    May 8, 2021
    2 weeks
  11. Leave The Door Open
    Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak)
    May 22, 2021
    1 week
  12. Good 4 U
    Olivia Rodrigo
    May 29, 2021
    1 week
  13. Butter
    BTS
    Jun 5, 2021
    7 weeks
  14. Permission To Dance
    BTS
    Jul 24, 2021
    1 week
  15. Butter
    BTS
    Jul 31, 2021
    2 weeks
  16. Stay
    The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
    Aug 14, 2021
    4 weeks
  17. Butter
    BTS
    Sep 11, 2021
    1 week
  18. Way 2 Sexy
    Drake Featuring Future & Young Thug
    Sep 18, 2021
    1 week
  19. Stay
    The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
    Sep 25, 2021
    2 weeks
  20. My Universe
    Coldplay x BTS
    Oct 9, 2021
    1 week
  21. Stay
    The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
    Oct 16, 2021
    1 week
  22. Industry Baby
    Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow
    Oct 23, 2021
    1 week
  23. Easy On Me
    Adele
    Oct 30, 2021
    4 weeks
  24. All Too Well (Taylor's Version)
    Taylor Swift
    Nov 27, 2021
    1 week
  25. Easy On Me
    Adele
    Dec 4, 2021
    3 weeks
  26. All I Want For Christmas Is You
    Mariah Carey
    Dec 25, 2021
    1 week

No. 1 films · U.S. weekend box office

  1. Wonder Woman 1984
    Jan 3, 2021
    2 weekends
  2. The Marksman
    Jan 17, 2021
    2 weekends
  3. The Little Things
    Jan 31, 2021
    2 weekends
  4. The Croods: A New Age
    Feb 14, 2021
    2 weekends
  5. Tom & Jerry
    Feb 28, 2021
    1 weekend
  6. Raya and the Last Dragon
    Mar 7, 2021
    3 weekends
  7. Nobody
    Mar 28, 2021
    1 weekend
  8. Godzilla vs. Kong
    Apr 4, 2021
    3 weekends
  9. Mortal Kombat
    Apr 25, 2021
    1 weekend
  10. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train
    May 2, 2021
    1 weekend
  11. Wrath of Man
    May 9, 2021
    1 weekend
  12. Spiral
    May 16, 2021
    2 weekends
  13. A Quiet Place Part II
    May 30, 2021
    1 weekend
  14. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
    Jun 6, 2021
    1 weekend
  15. A Quiet Place Part II
    Jun 13, 2021
    1 weekend
  16. Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
    Jun 20, 2021
    1 weekend
  17. F9
    Jun 27, 2021
    2 weekends
  18. Black Widow
    Jul 11, 2021
    1 weekend
  19. Space Jam: A New Legacy
    Jul 18, 2021
    1 weekend
  20. Old
    Jul 25, 2021
    1 weekend
  21. Jungle Cruise
    Aug 1, 2021
    1 weekend
  22. The Suicide Squad
    Aug 8, 2021
    1 weekend
  23. Free Guy
    Aug 15, 2021
    2 weekends
  24. Candyman
    Aug 29, 2021
    1 weekend
  25. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    Sep 5, 2021
    4 weekends
  26. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
    Oct 3, 2021
    1 weekend
  27. No Time to Die
    Oct 10, 2021
    1 weekend
  28. Halloween Kills
    Oct 17, 2021
    1 weekend
  29. Dune
    Oct 24, 2021
    2 weekends
  30. Eternals
    Nov 7, 2021
    2 weekends
  31. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
    Nov 21, 2021
    1 weekend
  32. Encanto
    Nov 28, 2021
    2 weekends
  33. West Side Story
    Dec 12, 2021
    4 weekends

No. 1 books · NYT fiction best sellers

  1. A Time for Mercy
    John Grisham
    Jan 3, 2021
    2 weeks
  2. The Duke and I
    Julia Quinn
    Jan 17, 2021
    4 weeks
  3. The Russian
    James Patterson and James O. Born
    Feb 14, 2021
    1 week
  4. The Four Winds
    Kristin Hannah
    Feb 21, 2021
    2 weeks
  5. A Court of Silver Flames
    Sarah J. Maas
    Mar 7, 2021
    1 week
  6. The Four Winds
    Kristin Hannah
    Mar 14, 2021
    1 week
  7. Life After Death
    Sister Souljah
    Mar 21, 2021
    1 week
  8. The Four Winds
    Kristin Hannah
    Mar 28, 2021
    1 week
  9. Win
    Harlan Coben
    Apr 4, 2021
    1 week
  10. The Four Winds
    Kristin Hannah
    Apr 11, 2021
    1 week
  11. The Hill We Climb
    Amanda Gorman
    Apr 18, 2021
    2 weeks
  12. Ocean Prey
    John Sandford
    May 2, 2021
    1 week
  13. A Gambling Man
    David Baldacci
    May 9, 2021
    1 week
  14. Sooley
    John Grisham
    May 16, 2021
    1 week
  15. 21st Birthday
    James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
    May 23, 2021
    1 week
  16. While Justice Sleeps
    Stacey Abrams
    May 30, 2021
    1 week
  17. The Last Thing He Told Me
    Laura Dave
    Jun 6, 2021
    1 week
  18. Legacy
    Nora Roberts
    Jun 13, 2021
    1 week
  19. Freed
    E. L. James
    Jun 20, 2021
    1 week
  20. The President's Daughter
    Bill Clinton and James Patterson
    Jun 27, 2021
    2 weeks
  21. The Last Thing He Told Me
    Laura Dave
    Jul 11, 2021
    1 week
  22. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
    Jul 18, 2021
    1 week
  23. The Paper Palace
    Miranda Cowley Heller
    Jul 25, 2021
    1 week
  24. The Cellist
    Daniel Silva
    Aug 1, 2021
    1 week
  25. Black Ice
    Brad Thor
    Aug 8, 2021
    1 week
  26. The Last Thing He Told Me
    Laura Dave
    Aug 15, 2021
    1 week
  27. Billy Summers
    Stephen King
    Aug 22, 2021
    2 weeks
  28. Bloodless
    Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
    Sep 5, 2021
    1 week
  29. The Madness of Crowds
    Louise Penny
    Sep 12, 2021
    1 week
  30. A Slow Fire Burning
    Paula Hawkins
    Sep 19, 2021
    1 week
  31. Forgotten in Death
    J. D. Robb
    Sep 26, 2021
    1 week
  32. Apples Never Fall
    Liane Moriarty
    Oct 3, 2021
    2 weeks
  33. The Wish
    Nicholas Sparks
    Oct 17, 2021
    1 week
  34. The Lincoln Highway
    Amor Towles
    Oct 24, 2021
    1 week
  35. State of Terror
    Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
    Oct 31, 2021
    1 week
  36. The Judge's List
    John Grisham
    Nov 7, 2021
    1 week
  37. Better Off Dead
    Lee Child and Andrew Child
    Nov 14, 2021
    1 week
  38. Game On
    Janet Evanovich
    Nov 21, 2021
    1 week
  39. The Dark Hours
    Michael Connelly
    Nov 28, 2021
    1 week
  40. Mercy
    David Baldacci
    Dec 5, 2021
    1 week
  41. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
    Diana Gabaldon
    Dec 12, 2021
    1 week
  42. Wish You Were Here
    Jodi Picoult
    Dec 19, 2021
    1 week
  43. Call Us What We Carry
    Amanda Gorman
    Dec 26, 2021
    1 week