"Happy" by Pharrell Williams came in at number one, spending a total of ten consecutive weeks at the top position of the Billboard Hot 100 throughout 2014.
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 and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. 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 2014, the list was published on December 9, calculated with data from December 7, 2013 to November 29, 2014.[1]
Katy Perry was the top Hot 100 artist of 2014,[2] with "Dark Horse", ranked as the number-two song of the year and featuring Juicy J, the highest of her three placements on the list.
This was the first time in eight years that a male artist topped the chart with a non-collaboration.
Australian rapper Iggy Azalea has four songs, the most of all artists, on the list. Her highest-charting being "Fancy" (number 4).OneRepublic is the highest-charting band on the list with their single "Counting Stars" (number 5). They also had their single, "Love Runs Out" at number 67.Ariana Grande has three singles in the top 40, with "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea (number 9), "Bang Bang", her collaboration with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj (number 27), and "Break Free" featuring Zedd (number 37)."Shake It Off", the lead single from Taylor Swift's fifth studio album 1989, ranked 13.New Zealand recording artist Lorde has two singles in the top 20, with "Team" (number 18) and "Royals" (number 20)."Let It Go" from Frozen is number 21 on the 2014 year-end chart. It became the first song from a Disney animated musical to reach the top 10 of the Hot 100 since Vanessa L. Williams's "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas in 1995 and is also Idina Menzel's highest-charting single.