# 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 |
| 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 |