Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2002
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical as well as airplay. Throughout a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2002, the list was published on December 29, calculated with data from December 1, 2001 to November 30, 2002.[1]
There were only less than nine songs that topped the Hot 100 throughout the year 2002, being the second lowest in Billboard history. Ashanti's "Foolish" and Nelly's "Dilemma" both spend 10 weeks at number one respectably during 2002 being the second longest running number one songs of 2002. Eminem's "Lose Yourself" was the longest running song of the entire year, running 12 weeks at number one spending 8 of its weeks in 2002 and running into the 2003 chart year with four more weeks.
"Lose Yourself" also held the record for the longest rap song to stay at number one that long, it would eventually get tied with The Black Eyed Peas's "Boom Boom Pow" in 2009 and Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" in 2015. All three of these songs would keep the record until Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" broke it being logging an extra 13th week at number one.
Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" which spend 4 weeks at number one between 2001 and 2002 ended up topping the year-end list. As of the first quarter of 2021, it is the last rock song to top the year-end list and the last rock song to top the Hot 100.
See also
- 2002 in music
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2002
- List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2002