Songs You Thought Hit Number One But Didn’t
Topping Billboard’s Hot 100 isn’t as easy as Taylor Swift makes it look.
6 min readSep 2, 2020
Over the course of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart history, some artists, at various points in their careers, have made scoring number ones look like a cinch: Elvis Presley in the late ’50s, The Beatles and The Supremes in the ’60s, Bee Gees and Elton John and Paul McCartney…