Talk:List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2020s

Butter

Butter again. Make a new section for Butter, please for July 31 go to the billboard charts — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.198.29.40 (talk) 00:31, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

"All I Want for Christmas Is You"

On the December 25, 2021 chart, the holiday classic by Mariah Carey returned to the number one spot, and became the first entry to hit number one in three separate runs on the Hot 100. It first topped the chart on December 21, 2019, and stayed there for the next two weeks (bringing it into the first week of 2020), then fell completely off the Hot 100 - like all of the holiday songs do sometime in January. Then it returned in November 2020, and made it back to number one on December 19, 2020, for two non-consecutive weeks (interrupted by Taylor Swift's "Willow"), then was off the Hot 100 again by mid-January. Then, back again in November 2021, working its way to number one for this holiday season.

That does present some problems in recording every song's progress in the format we have here, in chronological order, where we also show the total number of weeks at number one after each entry. While many songs have had non-consecutive weeks on top (e.g., in this decade in particular, "Blinding Lights", "Dynamite", "Mood", "Leave the Door Open", "Butter", etc.), none of these gaps between leaving the number one spot and returning to it have involved the song exiting the Hot 100 completely. The two exceptions have been Chubby Checker's "The Twist" in the early 1960s, and "All I Want for Christmas Is You". When "The Twist" managed to come back to the chart and hit number one a second time (I hear the reason behind that was that an older audience started getting into the dance craze after the teenagers had done so first), it was an impressive feat, but the convention for the chronological list of number ones - seen in Joel Whitburn's compilation books where the total number of weeks at number one are shown - was to list that twice, both in the lists for 1960 and 1962, and it's reflected at List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from 1958 to 1969. While open to suggestions on alternative ways to handle AIWFCIY and perhaps other songs, holiday or not, that may do this later, I would respect the convention that was established with "The Twist" here, and not combine the weeks at number one from separate chart runs of AIWFCIY, which makes things more confusing, especially with these weeks spread across two plus years now. MPFitz1968 (talk) 00:29, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

"The Twist" is the only other instance of this happening, and if that's what we've been doing and it's what Whitburn - an authority on the charts - has been doing, I think we should go with that. But I think we should also mention the total cumulative weeks somewhere on the page, and Billboard itself listed those cumulative weeks last year as seen on the 1/2/2021 chart. Could we list both the weeks of the current run and the cumulative weeks? Or at least include one or the other in a footnote? Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 06:23, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Added a footnote at the end of the section listing the number ones, and made adjustment to the reference blocks to distinguish the two runs in 2020 and 2021 of the song [1]. MPFitz1968 (talk) 08:14, 21 December 2021 (UTC)