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The Hot 100: this week's top songs, told as a story

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A hundred songs, one national mood

The Hot 100 is the chart that counts everything at once: what people stream on the train, what radio still spins, what gets bought, shared, and stuck in a stranger's head at the grocery store. It refreshes every week, and every week it tells the same story a different way — somebody's breakthrough, somebody's comeback, and one song at the top that, for seven days, belongs to everyone.

This week's edition has all of it. A dream-pop collaboration with a K-pop star sits at No. 1, a country singer holds three of the top ten at once, and a swing record first cut generations ago is charting alongside this year's pop. That's the Hot 100 at its best: not a ranking so much as a group photo of American listening, taken fresh each week.

Top 10 this week

The head of the chart, at a glance. The full hundred, playable top to bottom, is just below — and it refreshes itself from the live chart every time this page loads.

  1. Dracula (with JENNIE) — Tame Impala
  2. Choosin' Texas — Ella Langley
  3. Boston — STELLA LEFTY
  4. St. James Infirmary — Cab Calloway
  5. Been By Now — Morgan Wallen
  6. Be Her — Ella Langley
  7. Be By You — Luke Combs
  8. Something To Lose — STELLA LEFTY
  9. Loving Life Again — Ella Langley
  10. Should I Stay or Should I Go (Remastered) — The Clash

The full Hot 100

How to listen to a chart

Most people read a chart the way they read election results: check the top, nod, leave. Try it the other way once. Press Play All and let the whole hundred run in order — a hundred 30-second auditions, roughly fifty minutes, no skipping required and no account asked for. The hits blur together in the middle, and then something at No. 63 stops you cold. That stop is the chart working the way it was always supposed to: not telling you what to like, but putting everything in one line so you can pick your own winners.

Come back next week and the line will have moved. Songs climb because a clip went viral, fall because a newer story took their place, and occasionally — like a Cab Calloway record in this week's top five — something old walks back in and reminds everyone it never really left. The chart is a story that rewrites its own ending every seven days. This page is just where you can hear it.

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