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The Digital Song Sales (previously named Digital Songs and Hot Digital Songs) ranks the best-selling songs in the United States, as compiled by Luminate and published by Billboard magazine. Although it originally started tracking song sales the week of October 30, 2004, it officially debuted in the issue dated January 22, 2005, and merged all versions of a song sold from digital music distributors. Its data was incorporated in the Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboards music singles charts. The decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible.

The first number one song on the Digital Song Sales chart was "Just Lose It" by . The chart's current number one as of the issue dated June 7, 2025 is "Ordinary" by .

Song records
Songs with most weeks at number one in sales
  • 18 weeks
– "Dynamite" (2020–21)
BTS – "Butter" (2021)
  • 17 weeks
and featuring – "Despacito" (2017)
  • 16 weeks
Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus – "Old Town Road" (2019)
  • 15 weeks
– "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" (2024)
  • 13 weeks
featuring – "Low" (2007–2008)
featuring – "" (2015)
featuring Halsey – "Closer" (2016)
  • 11 weeks
Pharrell Williams – "Happy" (2014)
  • 10 weeks
The Black Eyed Peas – "Boom Boom Pow" (2009)
The Black Eyed Peas – "I Gotta Feeling" (2009)
and featuring – "" (2013)
featuring T.I. and Pharrell – "" (2013)
Justin Timberlake – "Can't Stop the Feeling!" (2016)
– "Shape of You" (2017)
and – "Shallow" (2018–2019)

Top 10 single-week download sellers
1. – "Hello" (1,112,000) November 14, 2015
2. – "" (636,000) February 28, 2009
3. Adele – "Hello" (635,000) November 21, 2015
4. – "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (623,000) September 1, 2012
5. – "Tik Tok" (610,000) January 9, 2010
6. Taylor Swift – "I Knew You Were Trouble" (582,000) January 12, 2013
7. – "Grenade" (559,000) January 8, 2011
8. – "Roar" (557,000) August 31, 2013
9. Taylor Swift – "Shake It Off" (544,000) September 6, 2014
10. featuring – "Somebody That I Used to Know" (542,000) April 28, 2012

Biggest first-week sales
1. – "Hello" (1,112,000) November 14, 2015
2. – "Right Round" (636,000) February 28, 2009
3. – "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (623,000) September 1, 2012
4. – "Roar" (557,000) August 31, 2013
5. Taylor Swift – "Shake It Off" (544,000) September 6, 2014
6. – "Boyfriend" (521,000) April 14, 2012
7. Maroon 5 featuring – "Payphone" (493,000) May 5, 2012
8. The Black Eyed Peas – "Boom Boom Pow" (465,000) April 18, 2009
9. Lady Gaga – "Born This Way" (448,000) February 26, 2011
10. featuring – "Problem" (438,000) May 17, 2014

Biggest jump to number one

Longest climb to number one
  • 33 weeks
– "Levitating" (2021)
  • 26 weeks
The All-American Rejects – "Dirty Little Secret" (2005–2006)
  • 25 weeks
– "How to Save a Life" (2006)
Train – "Hey, Soul Sister" (2009–2010)
  • 24 weeks
featuring Colby O'Donis – "Just Dance" (2008–2009)
  • 23 weeks
– "Set Fire to the Rain" (2011–2012)
  • 22 weeks
Beyoncé – "" (2022-2023)
  • 20 weeks
, and — "I Like It" (2018)

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Biggest drop from number one
  • 1–38: Jordan Smith – "Mary, Did You Know?" (January 9, 2016)
  • 1–28: – "Heartless" (December 21, 2019)
  • 1–19: – "Teenage Dream" (December 4, 2010)
  • 1–19: Prince & the Revolution – "Purple Rain" (May 21, 2016)

Song achievements
  • "Party in the U.S.A." by and "" by hold the record of most weeks at number one on Digital Song Sales without topping the overall Billboard Hot 100, with six weeks each.
  • "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas holds the record for the biggest-selling digital download in the U.S., with sales of over 8 million copies by 2012. The song was the first to surpass 6–8 million downloads.
  • "Low" by featuring was the first song to surpass 4–5 million downloads. It was also named the Top Digital Song of the 2000s decade.
  • 's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" was the first song to surpass 3 million downloads.
  • 's "Bad Day" was the first song to surpass 2 million downloads. Chart Watch Extra: Thank You, Daniel Powter | Chart Watch - Yahoo! Music
  • "" by was the first song in history to surpass 1 million downloads.
  • "" by holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a male for a digital song with 636,000 downloads.
  • "Rolling in the Deep" by holds the record for the most digitally downloaded song in a calendar year.
  • "Payphone" by Maroon 5 featuring holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a group for a digital song with 493,000 downloads.
  • "We Are Young" by Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe is the first song to log seven weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales.
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  • "Thrift Shop" by and featuring is the first song to log eight and nine weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales.
  • "" by featuring T.I. and Pharrell is the first song to log 10 weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales and the first song to log four weeks of 400,000 or more in digital sales.
  • "Somebody That I Used to Know" by featuring is the first song to log three weeks of 400,000 or more in digital sales.
  • "Hello" by holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a digital song with 1.112 million downloads and the largest non-debut sales week for a digital song with 635,000 downloads. It is additionally the only song in history to debut with or achieve 1 million downloads sold in a week, and to log two weeks of 600,000 in digital sales. It surpassed the 4 million mark in its thirteenth week, faster than any other song in digital history.
  • "Lean on Me" by is the oldest song to reach number one on the Digital Song Sales chart. The song was released on April 21, 1972, and reached the top, following Withers' death, on the chart dated April 18, 2020.

Album records
  • Teenage Dream (2010) by holds the record for most digital number-ones from an album, with five. "" featuring , "Teenage Dream," "Firework," "E.T." featuring and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" all topped the chart.
  • Four albums by had four digital number-ones each on the chart: "Shake It Off", "", "Out of the Woods", and "Bad Blood" from 1989 (2014); "Look What You Made Me Do", "...Ready for It?", "Gorgeous", and "Call It What You Want" from Reputation (2017); "Me!", "You Need to Calm Down", "Lover", and "Cruel Summer" from Lover (2019); and "Anti-Hero", Question...?", "", and "You're Losing Me" from (2022).

Artist records
Most number-one hits
1. (29)
2. (17)
3. (14) (tie)
3. Drake (14) (tie)
5. (13)
6. (12) (tie)
6. Beyoncé (12) (tie)
6. (12) (tie)
7. (11) (tie)
7. (11) (tie)

Most weeks at number one
1. (54)
2. (49)
3. (40)
4. (37)
5. (33)

Self-replacement at number one
  • – "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (two non-consecutive weeks) → "Don't Forget About Us" (one week) (December 31, 2005)
  • T.I. – "Whatever You Like" (one week) → "Live Your Life" (T.I. featuring ) (one week) (October 18, 2008)
  • Beyoncé – "If I Were a Boy" (one week) → "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (two weeks) (December 6, 2008)
  • The Black Eyed Peas – "Boom Boom Pow" (ten weeks) → "I Gotta Feeling" (ten weeks) (June 27, 2009)
  • Glee Cast – "Teenage Dream" (one week) → "Forget You" (one week) (December 4, 2010)
  • – "Problem" ( featuring Iggy Azalea) (three weeks) → "Fancy" (Iggy Azalea featuring ) (four weeks) (June 7, 2014)
  • – "Shake It Off" (four non-consecutive weeks) → "Out of the Woods" (one week) (November 1, 2014)
  • Jordan Smith – "Somebody to Love" (one week) → "Mary, Did You Know?" (one week) (January 2, 2016)
  • Drake – "" (Drake featuring The Throne) (one week) → "" (Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla) (one week) (April 30, 2016)
  • – "Despacito" ( and featuring Justin Bieber) (seventeen non-consecutive weeks) → "I'm the One" ( featuring Justin Bieber, , Chance the Rapper and ) (one week) (May 20, 2017)
  • Taylor Swift – "Look What You Made Me Do" (one week) → "...Ready for It?" (one week) (September 23, 2017)
  • Drake – "God's Plan" (eight non-consecutive weeks) → "Nice for What" (one week) (April 21, 2018)
  • – "Dynamite" (eighteen non-consecutive weeks) → "" (one week) (April 17, 2021)
  • BTS – "Butter" (seven consecutive weeks) → "Permission to Dance" (one week) (July 24, 2021)
  • BTS – "Permission to Dance" (one week) → "Butter" (eight non-consecutive weeks) (July 31, 2021)
  • BTS – "Butter" (seventeen non-consecutive weeks) → "My Universe" ( and BTS) (one week) (October 9, 2021)
  • – "" ( and Nicki Minaj) (one week) → "We Go Up" (Nicki Minaj featuring ) (one week) (April 9, 2022)
  • – "Thought You Should Know" (one week) → "" (one week) (May 28, 2022)
  • – "Set Me Free Pt. 2" (one week) → "Like Crazy" (two weeks) (April 8, 2023)
  • – "Eyes Closed" (one week) → "Life Goes On" (Ed Sheeran featuring ) (one week) (May 27, 2023)

Simultaneously occupying the top two positions
  • Mariah Carey: December 31, 2005
  • "Don't Forget About Us"
  • "All I Want for Christmas Is You"
  • Beyoncé: December 6, 2008
  • "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
  • "If I Were a Boy"
  • The Black Eyed Peas: June 27, 2009 through July 4, 2009
  • "I Gotta Feeling"
  • "Boom Boom Pow"
  • Kesha: January 23, 2010
  • "Tik Tok"
  • "Blah Blah Blah" (featuring 3OH!3)
  • Taylor Swift: September 22, 2012
  • "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
  • "Ronan"
  • Iggy Azalea: May 17, 2014 through June 21, 2014
  • "Problem" (Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea)
  • "Fancy" (Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX) (songs switched positions on June 7, 2014)
  • Taylor Swift: November 1, 2014
  • "Out of the Woods"
  • "Shake It Off"
  • Prince: May 14, 2016
  • "Purple Rain"
  • "When Doves Cry"
  • Ed Sheeran: January 28, 2017
  • "Shape of You"
  • "Castle on the Hill"
  • Justin Bieber: May 20, 2017 through May 27, 2017 and June 17, 2017, through July 1, 2017
  • "I'm the One" (DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne)
  • "Despacito" (Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber) (songs switched positions on May 27, 2017)
  • Taylor Swift: September 23, 2017
  • "...Ready for It?"
  • "Look What You Made Me Do"
  • Ed Sheeran: January 3, 2018
  • "Perfect" (Ed Sheeran duet with Beyoncé)
  • "River" (Eminem featuring Ed Sheeran)
  • Cardi B: June 30, 2018 through July 14, 2018
  • "Girls Like You" (Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B)
  • "I Like It" (Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin)
  • Lady Gaga: October 20, 2018
  • "Shallow" (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper)
  • "I'll Never Love Again"
  • Lady Gaga: October 27, 2018 through November 3, 2018
  • "Shallow" (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper)
  • "Always Remember Us This Way"
  • The Weeknd: December 14, 2019
  • "Heartless"
  • ""
  • BTS: March 7, 2020
  • "On"
  • "My Time"
  • Kenny Rogers: April 4, 2020
  • "The Gambler"
  • "Islands in the Stream" (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton)
  • Bill Withers: April 18, 2020
  • "Lean on Me"
  • "Ain't No Sunshine"
  • BTS: October 17, 2020
  • "Dynamite"
  • "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" (Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo x BTS )
  • BTS: December 5, 2020
  • "Life Goes On"
  • "Blue & Grey"
  • BTS: December 19, 2020
  • "Life Goes On"
  • "Dynamite"
  • BTS: July 24, 2021 through August 21, 2021
  • "Permission to Dance"
  • "Butter" (songs switched positions on July 31, 2021)
  • BTS: October 9, 2021
  • "My Universe" ( and BTS)
  • "Butter"
  • Taylor Swift: November 5, 2022
  • "Question...?"
  • "Bigger Than the Whole Sky"
  • Taylor Swift: June 5, 2023
  • ""
  • "Karma" (Taylor Swift featuring )
  • Oliver Anthony Music: August 26, 2023
  • "Rich Men North of Richmond"
  • "Aint Gotta Dollar"
  • Oliver Anthony Music: September 2, 2023
  • "Rich Men North of Richmond"
  • "I Want To Go Home"
  • Beyoncé: February 20, 2024
  • "Texas Hold 'Em"
  • "16 Carriages"

Most single-week entries in the top 50
1. Prince (21)
2. (18)
3. (17)
4. (16)
5. (14)
6. Oliver Anthony Music (13)
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Other achievements
  • In 2009, became the first artist to sell over one million downloads in a week, with 2.6 million sales.
  • became the first artist in digital history to sell 300,000 downloads in a week with eight different songs: "Hot n Cold" (2008), "" (2010), "Firework" (2010), "E.T." (2011), "The One That Got Away" (2011), "Part of Me" (2012), "Roar" (2013), and "Dark Horse" (2014).
  • was named the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade.
  • is the only artist to have a song earn one million downloads in a week, with "Hello" (2015).
  • is the first artist to debut two songs at the top two spots for the same week: "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill" (both 2017).
  • holds the record for the highest-ever debut by a contemporary Christian artist. She achieved this when "" (2018) debuted at number five on the chart.
  • was the first act to debut six songs in the top 10 and to occupy the top six spots for the same week. They achieved this in 2020 with "Life Goes On", "Blue & Grey", "Stay", "Telepathy", "Dis-ease" and "Fly To My Room", all tracks from their fifth Korean-language studio album, Be (2020).
  • is the only artist to have debuted ten songs in the top-10 region simultaneously and the only act to hold the entire top-10 spots of a week, achieving it with tracks from her tenth studio album, (2022).

See also
  • Hot Digital Tracks
  • Digital distribution

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