# 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.
There were only nine songs that topped the Hot 100 in 2002, the second lowest number in Billboard history. Eminem's "Lose Yourself" was the longest running #1 of the year, spending 12 weeks at #1 with eight of its weeks in 2002 and another four in 2003. Ashanti's "Foolish" and Nelly's "Dilemma" both spent 10 weeks at #1.
"Lose Yourself" also held the record for the longest rap song to stay at number one; it would eventually be 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 by spending 19 weeks at #1 in 2019.
Nickelback's "How You Remind Me", which spent 4 weeks at #1 between 2001 and 2002, ended up topping the year-end list.
Ja Rule had multiple songs on this list. Rule earned his first number one hit "Always on Time" as a lead artist, and replaced himself on "Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)" with Jennifer Lopez.
| No. | Title | Artist(s) |
| 1 | "How You Remind Me" | Nickelback |
| 2 | "Foolish" | Ashanti |
| 3 | "Hot in Herre" | Nelly |
| 4 | "Dilemma" | Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland |
| 5 | "Wherever You Will Go" | The Calling |
| 6 | "A Thousand Miles" | Vanessa Carlton |
| 7 | "In the End" | Linkin Park |
| 8 | "What's Luv?" | Fat Joe featuring Ashanti |
| 9 | "U Got It Bad" | Usher |
| 10 | "Blurry" | Puddle of Mudd |
| 11 | "Complicated" | Avril Lavigne |
| 12 | "Always on Time" | Ja Rule featuring Ashanti |
| 13 | "Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)" | Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule |
| 14 | "The Middle" | Jimmy Eat World |
| 15 | "I Need a Girl (Part One)" | P. Diddy featuring Usher and Loon |
| 16 | "U Don't Have to Call" | Usher |
| 17 | "Family Affair" | Mary J. Blige |
| 18 | "I Need a Girl (Part Two)" | P. Diddy featuring Ginuwine, Loon and Mario Winans |
| 19 | "Gangsta Lovin'" | Eve featuring Alicia Keys |
| 20 | "My Sacrifice" | Creed |
| 21 | "Without Me" | Eminem |
| 22 | "Hero" | Enrique Iglesias |
| 23 | "All You Wanted" | Michelle Branch |
| 24 | "Get the Party Started" | Pink |
| 25 | "Hero" | Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott |
| 26 | "Wasting My Time" | Default |
| 27 | "One Last Breath" | Creed |
| 28 | "Whenever, Wherever" | Shakira |
| 29 | "I'm Gonna Be Alright" | Jennifer Lopez featuring Nas |
| 30 | "Oh Boy" | Cam'ron featuring Juelz Santana |
| 31 | "Heaven" | DJ Sammy featuring Yanou and Do |
| 32 | "Hey Baby" | No Doubt featuring Bounty Killer |
| 33 | "Girlfriend" | NSYNC featuring Nelly |
| 34 | "Just a Friend 2002" | Mario |
| 35 | "Soak Up the Sun" | Sheryl Crow |
| 36 | "Don't Let Me Get Me" | Pink |
| 37 | "Nothin'" | N.O.R.E. |
| 38 | "Oops (Oh My)" | Tweet featuring Missy Elliott |
| 39 | "A Moment Like This" | Kelly Clarkson |
| 40 | "Addictive" | Truth Hurts featuring Rakim |
| 41 | "Happy" | Ashanti |
| 42 | "No Such Thing" | John Mayer |
| 43 | "Just Like a Pill" | Pink |
| 44 | "Down 4 U" | Ja Rule featuring Ashanti, Charli Baltimore and Vita |
| 45 | "Can't Get You Out of My Head" | Kylie Minogue |
| 46 | "Superman (It's Not Easy)" | Five for Fighting |
| 47 | "Cleanin' Out My Closet" | Eminem |
| 48 | "Halfcrazy" | Musiq Soulchild |
| 49 | "Lights, Camera, Action!" | Mr. Cheeks |
| 50 | "Still Fly" | Big Tymers |
| 51 | "A Woman's Worth" | Alicia Keys |
| 52 | "7 Days" | Craig David |
| 53 | "Hey Ma" | Cam'ron featuring Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey |
| 54 | "Work It" | Missy Elliott |
| 55 | "Move Bitch" | Ludacris featuring Mystikal and I-20 |
| 56 | "Can't Fight the Moonlight" | LeAnn Rimes |
| 57 | "Escape" | Enrique Iglesias |
| 58 | "More Than A Woman" | Aaliyah |
| 59 | "Hella Good" | No Doubt |
| 60 | "I Love You" | Faith Evans |
| 61 | "Gotta Get thru This" | Daniel Bedingfield |
| 62 | "Pass the Courvoisier, Part II" | Busta Rhymes featuring P. Diddy and Pharrell |
| 63 | "Lose Yourself" | Eminem |
| 64 | "Butterflies" | Michael Jackson |
| 65 | "What About Us?" | Brandy |
| 66 | "Underneath Your Clothes" | Shakira |
| 67 | "Rainy Dayz" | Mary J. Blige featuring Ja Rule |
| 68 | "Differences" | Ginuwine |
| 69 | "If I Could Go!" | Angie Martinez featuring Lil' Mo and Sacario |
| 70 | "The Whole World" | Outkast featuring Killer Mike |
| 71 | "Underneath It All" | No Doubt featuring Lady Saw |
| 72 | "Caramel" | City High featuring Eve |
| 73 | "Luv U Better" | LL Cool J |
| 74 | "Gimme the Light" | Sean Paul |
| 75 | "Gone" | NSYNC |
| 76 | "Livin' It Up" | Ja Rule featuring Case |
| 77 | "Rollout (My Business)" | Ludacris |
| 78 | "Here Is Gone" | Goo Goo Dolls |
| 79 | "No More Drama" | Mary J. Blige |
| 80 | "Days Go By" | Dirty Vegas |
| 81 | "Baby" | Ashanti |
| 82 | "The Good Stuff" | Kenny Chesney |
| 83 | "We Thuggin'" | Fat Joe featuring R. Kelly |
| 84 | "Good Morning Beautiful" | Steve Holy |
| 85 | "Rock the Boat" | Aaliyah |
| 86 | "Drive (For Daddy Gene)" | Alan Jackson |
| 87 | "Standing Still" | Jewel |
| 88 | "Anything" | Jaheim featuring Next |
| 89 | "Full Moon" | Brandy |
| 90 | "Uh Huh" | B2K |
| 91 | "A New Day Has Come" | Celine Dion |
| 92 | "Turn Off the Light" | Nelly Furtado |
| 93 | "Living and Living Well" | George Strait |
| 94 | "My List" | Toby Keith |
| 95 | "Hands Clean" | Alanis Morissette |
| 96 | "Sk8er Boi" | Avril Lavigne |
| 97 | "Long Time Gone" | Dixie Chicks |
| 98 | "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" | Alan Jackson |
| 99 | "Like I Love You" | Justin Timberlake |
| 100 | "I Do!!" | Toya |