The Billboard Streaming Songs chart ranks each week's most-streamed radio songs, on-demand songs and videos on leading online music services in the United States. In 2018, 20 songs by 24 artist reached the top.
The first number one song of the year was Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" alongside Beyonce. Post Malone's and 21 Savage's "Rockstar" spent 12 weeks atop in late 2017 and topped the chart for two more weeks in January for a total of 14 weeks. "God's Plan" by Canadian musician Drake reached the top in early February and topped the charts for 11 consecutive weeks. Furthermore, it became the second song to be ever streamed more than 100 million times within one week, since Baauer's "Harlem Shake" in early 2013. Drake replaced himself with "Nice for What" for four weeks in April and May.
Childish Gambino scored his first number one on the chart with "This is America" for three weeks in May and early June. Following the murder of XXXTentacion in Florida, his single "Sad!" became his first to top the chart for two weeks. Drake scored his third and fourth number-one hit in 2018 with "Nonstop" and "In My Feelings" for nine more weeks. Furthermore, "In My Feelings" became the most-streamed songs within a week, accumulating more than 116 million streams—13 million more than "Harlem Shake". Moreover, "In My Feelings" was the third most streamed song of the year, accumulating more than 1.1 billion streams.
Drake was the most-successful artist of the year. "God's Plan", "In My Feelings" and "Nice for What" ranked in the top ten most-streamed songs in the US for 2018. "God's Plan" concluded as the most-streamed song in 2018, with more than 1.5 billion streams.
Chart history +KeyIndicates best-performing single of 2018
Issue dateSongArtist(s)Weekly streamsJanuary 3"Perfect"Ed Sheeran featuring Beyonce43.4 millionJanuary 6"Rockstar"Post Malone featuring 21 Savage37.7 millionJanuary 1339.4 millionJanuary 20"Finesse"Bruno Mars featuring Cardi B38.3 millionJanuary 27"Havana"Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug44.9 millionFebruary 3"God's Plan" Drake82.4 millionFebruary 1083.3 millionFebruary 1779.6 millionFebruary 2475.5 millionMarch 3101.7 millionMarch 1092.8 millionMarch 1781.8 millionMarch 2472.9 millionMarch 3168.5 millionApril 761.1 millionApril 1452.1 millionApril 21"Nice for What"60.4 millionApril 2859.3 millionMay 553.6 millionMay 1248.5 millionMay 19"This Is America"Childish Gambino65.3 millionMay 2669.6 millionJune 245.2 millionJune 9"Yes Indeed"Lil Baby and Drake37.6 millionJune 16"All Mine"Kanye West36.3 millionJune 23"Lucid Dreams"Juice WRLD38.8 millionJune 30"Sad!"XXXTentacion48.9 millionJuly 747.5 millionJuly 14"Nonstop"Drake58.6 millionJuly 21"In My Feelings"71.7 millionJuly 28116.2 millionAugust 4106.2 millionAugust 1195.4 millionAugust 1892.7 millionAugust 2571 millionSeptember 159.4 millionSeptember 850.5 millionSeptember 15"Lucky You"Eminem featuring Joyner Lucas42.2 millionSeptember 22"I Love It"Kanye West and Lil Pump46.6 millionSeptember 2944.8 millionOctober 6"Lucid Dreams"Juice WRLD 41.6 millionOctober 13"Mona Lisa"Lil Wayne featuring Kendrick Lamar43 millionOctober 20"Drip Too Hard"Lil Baby and Gunna41.3 millionOctober 27"Zeze"Kodak Black featuring Travis Scott and Offset47.6 millionNovember 342.2 millionNovember 1039.5 millionNovember 17"Thank U, Next"Ariana Grande55.5 millionNovember 2463.4 millionDecember 143.8 millionDecember 842.5 millionDecember 1593.8 millionDecember 2250.7 millionDecember 2943.5 million
See also 2018 in American music List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2018
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