List of Billboard Social 50 number-one artists

The Billboard Social 50 was a popularity chart which ranked the most active music artists on the world's leading social networking services. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Next Big Sound, was based collectively on each artist's weekly additions of friends, fans and followers, along with artist website views and streaming media. Bill Werde, the former editorial director of Billboard, called the Social 50 "yet another step" in the evolution of the magazine and an "important response to our changing times". The chart initially only retrieved its data from YouTube, Vevo, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and iLike to create its ranking, but in November 2012 was expanded to include SoundCloud and Instagram. Data from Vine and Tumblr was added to the chart in June 2015.

The Billboard Social 50 was launched on December 11, 2010. The first artist to reach number one on the chart was Barbadian singer Rihanna. Since debuting, she had spent a total of 21 weeks at the top of the chart. In October 2016, South Korean boy band BTS landed the number one spot on the chart, becoming the second K-pop act, after Psy, to reach first place on the ranking. They set the record for the most weeks at number one, with 210. Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber followed with 164 weeks at number one. BTS also set the record for the most consecutive weeks at number one, with 180. Following her death in December 2012, American singer Jenni Rivera became the first and only artist to top the chart posthumously. Since its launch, 20 artists had reached the top spot on the Billboard Social 50. Three of these artists—Rivera, Skrillex and Justin Timberlake—had only reached the spot for a single week.

On December 26, 2020, Billboard announced its suspension of the Social 50 chart for an undisclosed period of time in order to facilitate their transition to a new data partner. While this would also impact the Artist 100 and Emerging Artists charts—both include social metrics in their formulation—Billboard stated that neither chart would be disrupted. The Social 50 was to resume activity sometime early in 2021, but remains inactive to date.

Number-one artists

Key
No.	nth artist to top the Billboard Social 50
re	Return of an artist to number one

Contents
2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017

No.	Artist	Reached number one	Weeks at number one
1	Rihanna	December 11, 2010	1
2	The Black Eyed Peas	December 18, 2010	2
re	Rihanna	January 1, 2011	3
3	Justin Bieber	January 22, 2011	4
re	Rihanna	February 19, 2011	1
4	Lady Gaga	February 26, 2011	1
re	Justin Bieber	March 5, 2011	2
re	Lady Gaga	March 19, 2011	5
re	Justin Bieber	April 23, 2011	4
re	Lady Gaga	May 21, 2011	5
re	Justin Bieber	June 25, 2011	3
5	Selena Gomez	July 16, 2011	1
re	Justin Bieber	July 23, 2011	1
re	Rihanna	July 30, 2011	1
re	Justin Bieber	August 6, 2011	24
6	Adele	January 21, 2012	11
re	Rihanna	April 7, 2012	1
re	Justin Bieber	April 14, 2012	7
re	Rihanna	June 2, 2012	5
7	Katy Perry	July 7, 2012	1
re	Rihanna	July 14, 2012	2
8	Skrillex	July 28, 2012	1
re	Rihanna	August 4, 2012	1
re	Justin Bieber	August 11, 2012	2
re	Rihanna	August 25, 2012	1
9	Taylor Swift	September 1, 2012	1
10	Psy	September 8, 2012	10
11	One Direction	November 17, 2012	1
re	Justin Bieber	November 24, 2012	1
re	One Direction	December 1, 2012	1
re	Rihanna	December 8, 2012	2
re	Justin Bieber	December 22, 2012	1
12	Jenni Rivera	December 29, 2012	1
re	Justin Bieber	January 5, 2013	5
13	Shakira	February 9, 2013	1
14	Beyoncé	February 16, 2013	2
re	Rihanna	March 2, 2013	2
re	Justin Bieber	March 16, 2013	3
15	Justin Timberlake	April 6, 2013	1
re	Justin Bieber	April 13, 2013	1
re	Taylor Swift	April 20, 2013	1
re	Rihanna	April 27, 2013	1
re	Psy	May 4, 2013	1
re	Justin Bieber	May 11, 2013	8
re	One Direction	July 6, 2013	1
re	Justin Bieber	July 13, 2013	4
re	One Direction	August 10, 2013	2
re	Justin Bieber	August 24, 2013	1
re	One Direction	August 31, 2013	3
re	Katy Perry	September 21, 2013	1
16	Miley Cyrus	September 28, 2013	6
re	Katy Perry	November 9, 2013	1
re	Miley Cyrus	November 16, 2013	6
re	Beyoncé	December 28, 2013	1
re	Justin Bieber	January 4, 2014	1
re	Miley Cyrus	January 11, 2014	4
re	Shakira	February 8, 2014	6
re	Justin Bieber	March 22, 2014	17
re	Miley Cyrus	July 19, 2014	1
re	Justin Bieber	July 26, 2014	8
re	Miley Cyrus	September 20, 2014	1
re	Justin Bieber	September 27, 2014	2
re	Miley Cyrus	October 11, 2014	3
re	Justin Bieber	November 1, 2014	1
re	Selena Gomez	November 8, 2014	1
re	Justin Bieber	November 15, 2014	1
17	Ariana Grande	November 22, 2014	1
re	Justin Bieber	November 29, 2014	1
re	Ariana Grande	December 6, 2014	3
re	Taylor Swift	December 27, 2014	8
re	Ariana Grande	February 21, 2015	1
re	Taylor Swift	February 28, 2015	9
re	Ariana Grande	May 2, 2015	1
re	Taylor Swift	May 9, 2015	6
re	Ariana Grande	June 20, 2015	1
re	Taylor Swift	June 27, 2015	1
re	Justin Bieber	July 4, 2015	1
re	Taylor Swift	July 11, 2015	2
re	Justin Bieber	July 25, 2015	56
re	Ariana Grande	August 20, 2016	1
re	Justin Bieber	August 27, 2016	1
re	Ariana Grande	September 3, 2016	4
18	Shawn Mendes	October 1, 2016	2
19	Niall Horan	October 15, 2016	2
20	BTS	October 29, 2016	2
re	Ariana Grande	November 12, 2016	2
re	BTS	November 26, 2016	1
re	Ariana Grande	December 3, 2016	1
re	BTS	December 10, 2016	3
re	Ariana Grande	December 31, 2016	1
re	BTS	January 7, 2017	3
re	Ariana Grande	January 28, 2017	1
re	BTS	February 4, 2017	8
re	Justin Bieber	April 1, 2017	1
re	BTS	April 8, 2017	11
re	Ariana Grande	June 24, 2017	1
re	BTS	July 1, 2017	1
re	Justin Bieber	July 8, 2017	1
re	BTS	July 15, 2017	1
re	Justin Bieber	July 22, 2017	1
re	BTS	July 29, 2017	180

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List of Billboard Social 50 number-one artists

Number-one artists

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