# List of Billboard Hot Rap Songs number ones of the 2010s

Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. 77 songs topped Hot Rap Songs in the 2010s. The first number-one song of the decade was "Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys. In 2012, Drake broke the record for the most Hot Rap Songs number-one songs, previously held by Diddy. During the 2010s, Drake spent the most weeks at number one and attained the most number-one songs on Hot Rap Songs, with 19 chart-toppers spanning 118 weeks. In 2019, "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus spent a record-breaking 20 weeks atop Hot Rap Songs. The final number-one song of the decade on the chart was "Roxanne" by Arizona Zervas.
At the start of the decade the chart was airplay-based, with rankings based on each track's estimated audience as monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems from a panel of 134 radio stations. In October 2012, Billboard altered the chart's methodology to include digital download sales and streaming data. Under the new methodology, the Rap Songs chart became a distillation of the main Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, which according to the magazine "highlight[s] the differences between pure R&B and rap titles in the overall, wide-ranging R&B/hip-hop field." "Gangnam Style" by Psy was the first number-one song to benefit from these changes, ascending from number 20 to the top spot on the chart dated October 20, 2012.
The changes were met with controversy, with critics arguing that the new chart failed to take into account R&B and rap music's traditionally African-American demographic. Psy's climb to number one in particular was also criticized, with Ebro Darden, program director of New York City radio station WQHT, arguing: "Trust me when I tell you hip-hop does not consider Psy rap. Billboard has pull, but they cannot make people who live hip-hop believe Psy is rap." In response, Billboard chart director Bill Werde defended the changes as a necessary means of reflecting consumer tastes on genre charts. In a 25th anniversary listing of the top 100 songs in the history of Hot Rap Songs based on chart performance, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' 2013 15-week number-one single "Thrift Shop" was ranked at number one, thanks in part to the new methodology.

## Number-one songs

Key :
| † | Billboard year-end number-one song |
| ↑ | Return of a song to number one |
| Song | Artist | Reached number one | Weeks at number one |
| "Empire State of Mind" | Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys | November 21, 2009 | 9 |
| "BedRock" | Young Money featuring Lloyd | January 23, 2010 | 9 |
| "Say Something" | Timbaland featuring Drake | March 27, 2010 | 4 |
| "Nothin' on You" † | B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars | April 24, 2010 | 7 |
| "Over" | Drake | June 12, 2010 | 4 |
| "Your Love" | Nicki Minaj | July 10, 2010 | 8 |
| "Love the Way You Lie" | Eminem featuring Rihanna | September 4, 2010 | 8 |
| "Fancy" | Drake featuring T.I. and Swizz Beatz | October 30, 2010 | 1 |
| "Right Above It" | Lil Wayne featuring Drake | November 6, 2010 | 5 |
| "No Hands" | Waka Flocka Flame featuring Wale and Roscoe Dash | December 11, 2010 | 2 |
| "Aston Martin Music" | Rick Ross featuring Drake and Chrisette Michele | December 25, 2010 | 3 |
| "No Hands" ↑ | Waka Flocka Flame featuring Wale and Roscoe Dash | January 15, 2011 | 3 |
| "Black and Yellow" | Wiz Khalifa | February 5, 2011 | 2 |
| "Moment 4 Life" | Nicki Minaj featuring Drake | February 19, 2011 | 9 |
| "Look at Me Now" † | Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes | April 23, 2011 | 10 |
| "My Last" | Big Sean featuring Chris Brown | July 2, 2011 | 2 |
| "I'm on One" | DJ Khaled featuring Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne | July 16, 2011 | 13 |
| "Headlines" | Drake | October 15, 2011 | 7 |
| "Niggas in Paris" | Jay-Z and Kanye West | December 3, 2011 | 10 |
| "Make Me Proud" | Drake featuring Nicki Minaj | February 11, 2012 | 1 |
| "The Motto" † | Drake featuring Lil Wayne | February 18, 2012 | 14 |
| "Drank in My Cup" | Kirko Bangz | May 26, 2012 | 4 |
| "Cashin' Out" | Cash Out | June 23, 2012 | 2 |
| "Mercy" | Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz | July 7, 2012 | 9 |
| "No Lie" | 2 Chainz featuring Drake | September 8, 2012 | 6 |
| "Gangnam Style" | Psy | October 20, 2012 | 8 |
| "I Cry" | Flo Rida | December 15, 2012 | 3 |
| "Gangnam Style" ↑ | Psy | January 12, 2013 | 1 |
| "Thrift Shop" † | Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz | January 19, 2013 | 15 |
| "Can't Hold Us" | Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton | May 4, 2013 | 14 |
| "Holy Grail" | Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake | August 10, 2013 | 5 |
| "Berzerk" | Eminem | September 14, 2013 | 1 |
| "Holy Grail" ↑ | Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake | September 21, 2013 | 6 |
| "Rap God" | Eminem | November 2, 2013 | 1 |
| "Holy Grail" ↑ | Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake | November 9, 2013 | 1 |
| "The Monster" | Eminem featuring Rihanna | November 16, 2013 | 9 |
| "Timber" | Pitbull featuring Kesha | January 18, 2014 | 15 |
| "Fancy" † | Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX | May 3, 2014 | 18 |
| "Anaconda" | Nicki Minaj | September 6, 2014 | 6 |
| "Black Widow" | Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora | October 18, 2014 | 5 |
| "Hot Nigga" | Bobby Shmurda | November 22, 2014 | 2 |
| "I Don't Fuck with You" | Big Sean featuring E-40 | December 6, 2014 | 3 |
| "Only" | Nicki Minaj featuring Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown | December 27, 2014 | 1 |
| "I Don't Fuck with You" ↑ | Big Sean featuring E-40 | January 3, 2015 | 6 |
| "Time of Our Lives" | Pitbull and Ne-Yo | February 14, 2015 | 7 |
| "Trap Queen" | Fetty Wap | April 4, 2015 | 3 |
| "See You Again" † | Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth | April 25, 2015 | 15 |
| "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" | Silentó | August 8, 2015 | 9 |
| "Hotline Bling" | Drake | October 10, 2015 | 18 |
| "Me, Myself & I" | G-Eazy and Bebe Rexha | February 13, 2016 | 1 |
| "Summer Sixteen" | Drake | February 20, 2016 | 1 |
| "Me, Myself & I" ↑ | G-Eazy and Bebe Rexha | February 27, 2016 | 8 |
| "Panda" † | Desiigner | April 23, 2016 | 15 |
| "Don't Mind" | Kent Jones | August 6, 2016 | 1 |
| "Panda" † ↑ | Desiigner | August 13, 2016 | 2 |
| "Sucker for Pain" | Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa and Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla Sign featuring X Ambassadors | August 27, 2016 | 1 |
| "Too Good" | Drake featuring Rihanna | September 3, 2016 | 3 |
| "Broccoli" | DRAM featuring Lil Yachty | September 24, 2016 | 9 |
| "Black Beatles" | Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane | November 26, 2016 | 8 |
| "Bad and Boujee" | Migos featuring Lil Uzi Vert | January 21, 2017 | 12 |
| "iSpy" | Kyle featuring Lil Yachty | April 15, 2017 | 1 |
| "Humble" † | Kendrick Lamar | April 22, 2017 | 4 |
| "I'm the One" | DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne | May 20, 2017 | 13 |
| "Unforgettable" | French Montana featuring Swae Lee | August 19, 2017 | 2 |
| "Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)" | Cardi B | September 2, 2017 | 8 |
| "Rockstar" | Post Malone featuring 21 Savage | October 28, 2017 | 15 |
| "God's Plan" † | Drake | February 3, 2018 | 11 |
| "Nice for What" | Drake | April 28, 2018 | 4 |
| "This Is America" | Childish Gambino | May 19, 2018 | 2 |
| "Nice for What" ↑ | Drake | June 2, 2018 | 2 |
| "Psycho" | Post Malone featuring Ty Dolla Sign | June 16, 2018 | 1 |
| "Nice for What" ↑ | Drake | June 23, 2018 | 1 |
| "Sad!" | XXXTentacion | June 30, 2018 | 1 |
| "I Like It" | Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin | July 7, 2018 | 1 |
| "Nice for What" ↑ | Drake | July 14, 2018 | 1 |
| "In My Feelings" | Drake | July 21, 2018 | 11 |
| "Lucid Dreams" | Juice Wrld | October 6, 2018 | 1 |
| "Mona Lisa" | Lil Wayne featuring Kendrick Lamar | October 13, 2018 | 1 |
| "Lucid Dreams" ↑ | Juice Wrld | October 20, 2018 | 1 |
| "Zeze" | Kodak Black featuring Travis Scott and Offset | October 27, 2018 | 1 |
| "Sicko Mode" | Travis Scott | November 3, 2018 | 10 |
| "Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)" | Post Malone and Swae Lee | January 12, 2019 | 9 |
| "Please Me" | Cardi B and Bruno Mars | March 16, 2019 | 1 |
| "Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)" ↑ | Post Malone and Swae Lee | March 23, 2019 | 2 |
| "Wow" | Post Malone | April 6, 2019 | 1 |
| "Old Town Road" † | Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus | April 13, 2019 | 20 |
| "Truth Hurts" | Lizzo | August 31, 2019 | 7 |
| "Highest in the Room" | Travis Scott | October 19, 2019 | 1 |
| "Truth Hurts" ↑ | Lizzo | October 26, 2019 | 6 |
| "Roxanne" | Arizona Zervas | December 7, 2019 | 4 |