List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2004

R&B singer Usher broke Billboard records with four number-one singles for 28 weeks on the top spot in a calendar year.

The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplay. In 2004, there were 11 singles that topped the chart. Although there were 12 singles that claimed the top spot in the 52 issues of the chart, hip hop duo Outkast's "Hey Ya!" began its peak position in 2003, and is thus excluded.Template:Citation needed

In 2004, 13 acts achieved their first U.S. number-one single, either as a lead artist or featured guest, including Sleepy Brown, Twista, Kanye West, Jamie Foxx, Lil Jon, Fantasia Barrino, Juvenile, Soulja Slim, Terror Squad, Ciara, Petey Pablo, Snoop Dogg, and Pharrell. Barrino and Ciara were the only acts to have earned a number-one debut single this year. R&B singer Usher had four number-one singles that appeared in the 2004 issues, and Outkast had two. Soulja Slim became the sixth artist to have a number one song posthumously, after his death in November 2003. During the year, seven collaboration singles reached the number-one position, tying the record set in 2003.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Usher's "Yeah!" is the longest-running number-one single of 2004, remaining in that position for 12 straight weeks.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> It is followed by his other single "Burn", whose streak on the top spot reached eight non-consecutive weeks.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Other singles with extended chart runs include Ciara's "Goodies", which features Petey Pablo, and Usher's "My Boo", a duet with Alicia Keys, each topping the chart for seven and six weeks, respectively.

Usher is the most successful act of 2004.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He had four singles that topped the Billboard Hot 100: "Yeah!, "Burn", "Confessions Part II", and "My Boo"; he is the only act in 2004 to have earned multiple number-one singles. Overall, Usher had 28 weeks on top in a calendar year, becoming the first act to have achieved such an extended chart run on the Billboard Hot 100.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The feat broke the record set by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in 1940; their records spent 26 consecutive weeks at the top spot of Record Buying Guide, a jukebox chart Billboard magazine published in the late 1930s and early 1940s.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> "Yeah!" is the best-performing single of the calendar year, having topped the Top Hot 100 Hits of 2004.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Following periods of fluctuating success, urban music attained commercial dominance during the early 2000s, which featured massive crossover success on the Billboard charts by R&B and hip hop artists.<ref name="Molanphy"/> In 2004, all 12 songs that topped the Billboard Hot 100 were performed by African-American recording artists and accounted for 80% of the number-one R&B hits that year.<ref name="Molanphy"/> Along with Usher's streak of singles, Top 40 radio and both pop and R&B charts were topped by OutKast's "Hey Ya!", Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot", Terror Squad's "Lean Back", and Ciara's "Goodies".<ref name="Molanphy"/> Chris Molanphy of The Village Voice later remarked that "by the early 2000s, urban music was pop music."<ref name="Molanphy">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Chart history

Singer Ciara's first number-one single, "Goodies", topped the chart for seven consecutive weeks.

Band OutKast's number-one single "Hey Ya!", self-replaced the top spot with their "The Way You Move".

Key

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Indicates best-performing single of 2004

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899	January 3	"Hey Ya!"	OutKast	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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900	February 14	"The Way You Move"	OutKast featuring Sleepy Brown	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
901	February 21	"Slow Jamz"	Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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904	July 10	"I Believe"	Fantasia	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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905	July 24	"Confessions Part II"		<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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906	August 7	"Slow Motion"	Juvenile featuring Soulja Slim	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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907	August 21	"Lean Back"	Terror Squad	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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908	September 11	"Goodies"	Ciara featuring Petey Pablo	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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909	October 30	"My Boo"	Usher and Alicia Keys	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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910	December 11	"Drop It Like It's Hot"	Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	Usher	28
2	Lil Jon	12
	Ludacris
4	OutKast	7
	Ciara
	Petey Pablo
7	Alicia Keys	6
8	Terror Squad	3
	Snoop Dogg
	Pharrell
11	Juvenile	2
	Soulja Slim
13	Sleepy Brown	1
	Twista
	Kanye West
	Jamie Foxx
	Fantasia

See also

• 2004 in music
• Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2004
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2000s

Additional sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The 2000s (Template:ISBN)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services Template:Webarchive and print editions of the magazine.