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Test your music knowledge with the Billboard Weekly Hot 100 Number One Song Artists Quiz. Can you name the artists behind the top charting hits?

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Billboard Weekly Hot 100 Number One Song Artists

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Name the artists of the songs to reach #1 on the Billboard Weekly Hot 100 since 1955. First two words accepted for longer artist names. Date first reached #1 shown, followed by weeks at #1 and song. Object is most weeks at #1, not artists.

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osmie

2 years ago

This might be my favourite quiz on the site so far.

Have you thought about creating a similar quiz for #1 artists on the Canadian, British, etc. charts?

icenine

3 years ago

Awesome…thank you!

icenine

3 years ago

One of my all time favorite quizzes…thoughts about an update or making it “Live?”

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darin

3 years ago

Reply to icenine

can’t do live on this one, but just updated it.

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