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“DNA,” No. 67, Oct. 14, 2017“Mic Drop,” featuring Desiigner, No. 28, Dec. 16, 2017“Fake Love,” No. 10, June 2, 2018“Idol,” featuring Nicki Minaj, No. 11, Sept. 8, 2018“Waste It on Me” (Steve Aoki featuring BTS), No. 89, Nov. 10, 2018“Make It Right,” featuring Lauv, No. 76, Nov. 2, 2019“Boy With Luv,” featuring Halsey, No. 8, April 27, 2019“Black Swan,” No. 57, Feb. 1, 2020“On,” No. 4, March 7, 2020“Filter,” No. 87, March 7, 2020“My Time,” No. 84, March 7, 2020“Dynamite,” No. 1, Sept. 5, 2020“Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” with Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo, No. 1, Oct. 17, 2020“Life Goes On,” No. 1, Dec. 5, 2020“Fly to My Room,” No. 69, Dec. 5, 2020“Blue & Grey,” No. 13, Dec. 5, 2020“Telepathy,” No. 70, Dec. 5, 2020“Dis-ease,” No. 72, Dec. 5, 2020“Stay,” No. 22, Dec. 5, 2020“Film Out,” No. 81, April 17, 2021“Butter,” No. 1, June 5, 2021“Permission To Dance,” No. 1, July 25, 2021“My Universe,” with Coldplay, No. 1, Oct. 9, 2021“Yet To Come,” No. 13, June 25, 2022“Run BTS,” No. 73, June 25, 2022“Bad Decisions,” with Benny Blanco & Snoop Dogg, No. 10, Aug. 20, 2022“Take Two,” No. 48, June 24, 2023

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, over 8,000 artists have landed a song on the survey, which launched on Aug. 4, 1958. Of those artists, only 15 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 following his song “Oprah’s Bank Account” reaching the listing.

Drake now leads all artists with a whopping 298 total entries on the chart in his career (through the Hot 100 dated Aug. 26, 2023). He’s one of just three artists to top 200 total songs, along with Taylor Swift (212) and the Glee Cast (207).

Three artists have joined the 100-hits club in 2023 alone, so far. 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. Travis Scott then became the most-recent artist to gain entry on Aug. 12, thanks to the release of his new LP Utopia.

As for who might be next in line to join the elite group, The Weeknd is currently at 96 Hot 100-charted songs, followed by Eminem (95), Young Thug (92), James Brown (91), Lil Durk (87), 21 Savage (85), Beyoncé (82), Juice WRLD (79) and Gunna (77).

While it’s rare for artists to chart triple-digit entries on the Hot 100, it’s become a more regular occurrence since the ranking began including streaming figures in 2007. As such, certain artists have been able to chart a high number of songs on the Hot 100 in recent years 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 in history to chart 100 or more songs on the Hot 100, as of the Aug. 26, 2023-dated chart.

Legendary singer-songwriter and producer Babyface scores his first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 as a producer in 23 years, thanks to his work on SZA’s “Snooze.”

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The song, released in December on SZA’s 10-week Billboard 200 No. 1 album SOS, jumps 15-10 on the Hot 100 (dated Aug. 19). Babyface, who co-produced the track with BLK (real name: Blair Ferguson) and The Rascals (the production duo comprising Khristopher Riddick-Tynes and Leon Thomas III), last appeared in the top 10 as a producer in December 2000, with P!nk’s “Most Girls.” The song climbed to No. 4 the prior month, becoming P!nk’s first career top five hit (of an eventual eight to date).

Babyface is also one of five credited co-writers on “Snooze” (however SZA solely wrote the lyrics).

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While “Snooze” marks Babyface’s return to the Hot 100’s top 10 as a producer, he’s tallied three additional top 10s on the Hot 100 this century as a writer, thanks to samples and interpolations of his older hits. (When a song is sampled on another track, credited writers of the original typically receive writing credits on the new song.)

Babyface is credited as a co-writer of Mariah Carey’s 2005 14-week No. 1 “We Belong Together,” thanks to its interpolation of “Two Occasions” by The Deele, in which he was a member; the latter song hit No. 10 on the Hot 100 in 1988. He even gets a shoutout in the lyrics of Carey’s lost-love song: “I gotta change the station / So I turn the dial, tryin’ to catch a break / And then I hear Babyface, ‘I only think of you’ / And it’s breaking my heart.”

In 2020, Babyface notched another top 10 as a writer, via Lil Mosey’s “Blueberry Faygo” (No. 8 peak). The track samples Johnny Gill’s 1990 No. 10 hit “My, My, My,” which he co-wrote with Daryl Simmons. In 2021, Babyface tallied another top 10, thanks to a writing credit on Drake’s “Fair Trade,” featuring Travis Scott (No. 3). The collab samples Charlotte Day Wilson’s 2019 song “Mountains.”

Of Babyface’s top 10 Hot 100 hits in any role (producer, writer or recording artist), seven have hit No. 1. They’ve combined to spend just shy of a year at the summit: 51 weeks.

Here’s a recap:

Artist Billing, Title (Peak Year; Role)Whitney Houston, “I’m Your Baby Tonight” (1990, one week at No. 1; producer, songwriter)Boyz II Men, “End of the Road” (1992, 13 weeks; producer, songwriter)Boyz II Men, “I’ll Make Love to You” (1994, 14 weeks; producer, songwriter)Madonna, “Take a Bow” (1995, seven weeks; producer, songwriter)Whitney Houston, “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” (1995, one week; producer, songwriter)Toni Braxton, “You’re Makin’ Me High”/”Let It Flow” (1996, one week; producer, songwriter)Mariah Carey, “We Belong Together” (2005, 14 weeks; songwriter)

Babyface praised SZA in an interview on Billboard’s Pop Shop Podcast in January. ““I think SZA is amazing,” he said. “She’s so unique and I’m amazed by her talent, to be honest, and very happy for her success. I think it’s very well-deserved.”

Of his own versatility, and longevity, he said, “I think as a musician, I’ve always tried to not be one particular thing and be able to cross different genres. I always kind of look at it [as], if you’re a full musician, then you should be able to do more than one thing. And what allows you to do that is to not have an ego, to the point to where you think what you do is the best thing and always the best. So, it’s always great to collaborate and get into a room and learn.”