24 No. 24 Billboard Hot 100 Hits for ‘24: John Legend, Billy Joel, Carrie Underwood & More

Hot 100 peak date: July 4, 1964

Nearly 60 years later, The Beach Boys are still hitting new highs on the Hot 100: “Little Saint Nick,” from 1963, rises to a new No. 25 best on the Jan. 6, 2024-dated chart.

Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 21, 1968

The song is one of the group’s 13 top 40 Hot 100 hits logged over three decades, from “Go Now!” (No. 10 peak, 1965) through “I Know You’re Out There Somewhere” (No. 30, 1988).

Hot 100 peak date: Feb. 5, 1972

John’s next single just missed the Hot 100’s top 40 but is also one of his signature songs: “Tiny Dancer” hit No. 41 in April 1972.

Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 19, 1974

“I think more than anything,” Tommy Chong told Billboard in 2018 of his and Cheech Marin’s 1978 movie Up in Smoke – and, essentially, their unique, decades-long appeal – “the phenomenon was we painted a positive spin when everybody else was painting a negative spin.”

Hot 100 peak date: Feb. 15, 1975

Hot 100 hits with the word “taxi” in their titles have traveled to a No. 24 best; in 1972, Harry Chapin’s “Taxi” likewise reached that rank. (Your move, writers of songs about Lyft and Uber.)

Hot 100 peak date: April 2, 1977

The Jeff Lynne-led band tallied 20 top 40 Hot 100 hits in 1975-86 – the most among acts of more than two members in that decade-plus-long span. (In that stretch, Billy Joel and Elton John led with 27 each, while only Daryl Hall and John Oates had more top 40 entries, 25, than ELO among non-solo acts.)

Hot 100 peak date: April 9, 1977

The song became a hit 20 years after the iconic sitcom’s final episode. Perhaps that’s not that surprising, considering disco’s reach at the time and the series’ historic run in syndication.

Hot 100 peak date: July 8, 1978

Joel also peaked at No. 24 in 1979 with his ballad “Honesty.”

Hot 100 peak date: Aug. 4, 1979

The classic is Blondie’s fifth-highest-charting Hot 100 hit, after the band’s four No. 1s: “Heart of Glass” (in 1979), “Call Me” (1980), “The Tide Is High” and “Rapture” (both 1981).

Hot 100 peak date: April 12, 1986

The song became the most recent of Wonder’s eight No. 1s on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Hot 100 peak date: April 15, 1989

Parent album Watermark led BiIlboard’s New Age Albums chart for one week, while Enya boasts the three longest-leading titles since the survey began in 1988: The Very Best of Enya, which also includes “Orinoco Flow” (152 weeks at No. 1), A Day Without Rain (93) and Amarantine (80).

Hot 100 peak date: Aug. 19, 1995

The song became Evans’ first Hot 100 hit. On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, it rose to No. 4, marking her first of 10 top 10s.

Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 21, 1996

The single marked the Shirley Manson-fronted group’s first of five top 10s on the Alternative Airplay chart.

Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 25, 1997

The Dutch singer-songwriter’s breakthrough hit also reached No. 7 on Pop Airplay.

Hot 100 peak date: Aug. 12, 2000

The multitalented Moore broke through as a singer-songwriter before scoring notable acting turns in movies and on TV, including NBC’s This Is Us. In 2022, she released her seventh studio album, In Real Life. “I wrote this whole record during the pandemic and when I was pregnant,” she told Jimmy Fallon. “It’s filled with songs about impending parenthood and thinking of my own childhood, and trying to make sense of what was happening in the world. It was very cathartic to write it.”

Hot 100 peak date: May 15, 2004

The wistful ballad became Urban’s fourth of 16 career Hot Country Songs No. 1s. It also crossed over to the top 10 on Adult Contemporary and Adult Pop Airplay and is his only song to have hit the Pop Airplay chart.

Hot 100 peak date: March 26, 2005

Legend earned his first top 40 Hot 100 hit with the song. His second, “Green Light,” featuring André 3000, also hit No. 24, in 2008. He then ruled the chart for three weeks in 2014 with his signature piano ballad, “All of Me.”

Hot 100 peak date: June 5, 2010

The song is one of Bublé’s six No. 1s on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Hot 100 peak date: July 24, 2010

The all-star collab also hit the top 10 on both Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs.

Hot 100 peak date: June 14, 2014

The song sparked the group’s Hot 100 debut. In 2018, the act notched its first top 10, when “Youngblood” hit No. 7.

Hot 100 peak date: July 12, 2014

As with 5SOS, 2014 brought Mendes’ Hot 100 debut, with this single. He has since tallied six top 10s, including the No. 1 “Senorita,” with Camila Cabello, in 2019.

Hot 100 peak date: Oct. 18, 2014

The song became Underwood’s 14th and most recent leader on Hot Country Songs – and her first of three No. 1s on Hot Christian Songs, where it dominated for 26 weeks.

Hot 100 peak date: July 2, 2016

The Peter Pan-themed track also flew to the Adult Pop Airplay top 10, while parent EP The Intro hit the top 10 on Americana/Folk Albums.

Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 12, 2019

“Speechless” became Dan + Shay’s fifth of eight Country Airplay No. 1s, and their first of three leaders on the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart. “We’ve been fortunate enough in our career to have songs used in weddings and first dances,” the duo’s Dan Smyers recently told Billboard of his and Shay Mooney’s catalog. “If all else goes away, people will always be getting married … so it gives us a bit of job security.”