Every year brings its share of historic Billboard Hot 100 achievements, but 2022 was particularly special.
From Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” breaking the record for the most weeks spent on the chart to Harry Styles’ “As It Was” scoring the longest stay ever in the survey’s top two (and three!) to Taylor Swift locking up the entire top 10 in a single week, there was no shortage of unprecedented feats between January and December.
With firsts still being established 64 years into the Hot 100’s history, let’s look back at key records broken on the chart in 2022, in chronological order.
(Note: We excluded records that artists extended this year, instead focusing only on those that were broken.)
