charts discussion Pop Girls With Most Hits On The European Hot 100

[Wildcat]

The European Hot 100 Singles was compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine from March 1984 until December 2010. The chart was based on national singles sales charts in 17 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, 

Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

 

The final chart was published on December 11, 2010, following the news of Billboard closing their London office and the final number one single on the chart was "Only Girl (in the World)" by Rihanna. Here's a list of all the pop girl singles that reached the Top 10 on this international chart.

 

Madonna - 44 Top 10 hits

#1 Like A Virgin
#5 Material Girl
#6 Crazy For You
#1 Into The Groove
#8 Gambler
#6 Dress You Up
#1 Live To Tell
#1 Papa Don't Preach
#1 True Blue
#4 Open Your Heart
#1 La Isla Bonita
#2 Who's That Girl
#5 Causing A Commotion
#1 Like A Prayer
#1 Express Yourself
#5 Cherish
#9 Dear Jessie
#1 Vogue
#4 Hanky Panky
#3 Justify My Love
#3 Rescue Me
#2 This Used To Be My Playground
#1 Erotica
#9 Deeper And Deeper
#4 Secret
#8 You'll See
#1 Don't Cry For Me Argentina
#2 Frozen
#9 Ray Of Light
#2 The Power Of Good-Bye
#2 Beautiful Stranger
#1 American Pie
#1 Music
#2 Don't Tell Me
#8 What It Feels Like For A Girl
#3 Die Another Day
#2 American Life
#3 Hollywood
#1 Me Against The Music
#1 Hung Up
#1 Sorry
#1 4 Minutes
#2 Give It 2 Me
#2 Celebration

 

Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears - 19

#1 The Locomotion
#1 I Should Be So Lucky
#2 I Got To Be Certain
#8 Je ne sais pas pourquoi
#1 Especially For You
#3 Hand On My Heart
#2 Tears On My Pillow
#6 Better The Devil You Know
#9 Give Me Just A Little More Time
#9 Confide In Me
#8 Where The Wild Roses Grow
#7 Spinning Around
#1 Can't Get You Out Of My Head
#7 In Your Eyes
#6 Love At First Sight
#2 Slow
#8 Red Blooded Woman
#2 I Believe In You
#3 Two Hearts

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#1 ...Baby One More Time
#3 Sometimes
#2 (You Drive Me) Crazy
#2 Born To Make You Happy
#1 Oops! I Did It Again
#1 Lucky
#3 Stronger
#9 Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know
#5 I'm A Slave 4 U
#8 Overprotected
#2 I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
#1 Me Against The Music
#1 Toxic
#2 Everytime
#2 My Prerrogative
#7 Do Somethin'
#2 Gimme More
#6 Piece Of Me
#1 Womanizer

 

Beyoncé + Destiny's Child - 15

#1 Independent Women Part 1
#2 Survivor
#5 Bootylicious
#1 Lose My Breath
#5 Soldier
#10 Emotion
#1 Crazy In Love
#3 Baby Boy
#8 Check On It
#2 Déja Vú
#7 Irrepaceable
#1 Beautiful Liar
#1 If I Were A Boy
#7 Sweet Dreams
#1 Telephone

 

Mariah Carey - 13

#8 I'll Be There
#1 Without You
#7 Endless Love
#4 All I Want For Christmas Is You
#4 Fantasy
#6 One Sweet Day
#9 My All
#2 When You Believe
#4 Heartbreaker
#1 I Know What You Want
#8 It's Like That
#4 We Belong Together
#3 Touch My Body

 

Rihanna - 12

#2 Pon De Replay
#1 S.O.S
#2 Unfaithful
#1 Umbrella
#1 Don't Stop The Music
#3 Take A Bow
#2 Disturbia
#4 Live Your Life
#2 Russian Roulette

#2 Rude Boy
#1 Love the Way You Lie
#1 Only Girl (In The World)

 

Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez - 10

#6 Saving All My Love For You
#1 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
#2 I'm Your Baby Tonight
#1 I Will Always Love You
#6 I'm Every Woman
#9 I Have Nothing
#2 When You Believe
#9 It's Not Right But It's Okay
#1 My Love Is Your Love
#1 Could I Have This Kiss Forever

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#1 Genie In The Bottle
#8 What A Girl Wants
#2 Nobody Wants To Be Lonely
#6 Lady Marmalade
#3 Dirrty
#3 Beautiful
#3 Fighter
#9 Can't Hold Us Down
#3 Ain't No Other Man
#1 Hurt

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#4 If You Had My Love
#5 Waiting For Tonight
#2 Love Don't Cost A Thing
#6 Play
#3 I'm Real
#5 Ain't It Funny
#4 Jenny From The Block
#4 All I Have
#1 Get Right
#7 Control Myself
 

P!nk - 9

#6 Lady Marmalade
#1 Get The Party Started
#9 Don't Let Me Get Me
#3 Just Like A Pill
#8 Trouble
#2 Stupid Girls
#10 Who Knew
#8 U+Ur Hand
#1 So What

 

Céline Dion, Gwen Stefani, Shakira  - 8

#6 Because You Loved Me
#8 It's All Coming Back To Me Now
#3 Tell Him
#1 My Heart Will Go On
#4 Immortality
#5 I'm Your Angel
#4 A New Day Has Come
#2 I'm Alive

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#1 Don't Speak
#5 Hella Good
#1 Let Me Blow Ya Mind
#6 What You Waiting For
#2 Rich Girl
#5 Hollaback Girl
#5 Wind It Up
#1 The Sweet Escape

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#1 Whenever, Wherever
#2 Underneath Your Clothes
#5 La Tortura
#1 Hips Don't Lie
#1 Beautiful Liar
#4 She Wolf

#1 Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)

#10 Loca

 

Lady Gaga, Nelly Furtado  - 7

#3 Just Dance
#1 Poker Face
#7 Love Game
#3 Paparazzi
#1 Bad Romance
#1 Telephone
#2 Alejandro

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#10 Turn Off The Light
#5 Promiscuous
#2 Maneater
#2 Say It Right
#1 All Good Things (Come To An End)

#1 Give It To Me

#1 Broken Strings

 

Katy Perry, Janet Jackson  - 6

#1 I Kissed A Girl
#1 Hot N' Cold
#10 If We Ever Meet Again
#1 California Gurls
#5 Teenage Dream
#9 Firework

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#9 What Have You Done For My Lately
#7 That's The Way Love Goes
#1 Scream
#6 Got Til It's Gone
#1 Together Again
#3 All For You

 

Anastasia, Avril Lavigne  - 5

#2 Complicated
#9 Sk8er Boi
#8 Don't Tell Me
#1 Girlfriend
#4 When You're Gone

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#1 I'm Outta Love
#2 Paid My Dues
#2 Left Outside Alone
#2 Sick And Tired
#3 I Belong to You (Il Ritmo della Passione

 

Cher, Paula Abdul, Alicia Keys - 3

#1 The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)
#1 Believe
#3 Strong Enough

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#2 Straight Up
#5 Opposites Attract
#9 Rush Rush

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#3 Fallin'
#7 My Boo
#2 No One

Edited February 27, 2022 by Wildcat

[Cryptique]

why did they stop doing this chart?

[Wildcat]

11 minutes ago, Cryptique said:

why did they stop doing this chart?

Billboard closed their London office.

[Kevin Parker]

B-but I thought Kylie was a nobody 

[ChrisTheLoner]

Britney, Kylie, and Madonna being top 3 

 

Rihanna having the last #1 on the chart 

[Roberto]

Gaga would have achieved more with BTW, TEOG, Judas, Applause, Shallow and Rain On Me. Still incredible. 

 

Pink having so many is the real shock to me. 

[naval23]

Nelly Furtado has 2 additional #1s @Wildcat

 

Give It To Me

Broken Strings

 

She owned 2007 with the #1 European Album and #2 and #4 European song of the year 

 

 

Edited February 26, 2022 by naval23

[Wildcat]

5 minutes ago, naval23 said:

Nelly Furtado has 2 additional #1s @Wildcat

 

Give It To Me

Broken Strings

 

She owned 2007 with the #1 European Album and #2 and #4 European song of the year 

Omg, slay a bit let me update the OP, I also forgot Rihanna's "Rude Boy" hihi

 

[rihannabiggestfan]

All of Anastacia and Cher's top 10s being top 3

[MALAMENTE]

Selena managed to get herself a Top 20 hit which is great

[Zoe_]

Rihanna would be #2 but the chart got cancelled. 

[skizzo]

A shame this chart ended. However, it was heavily influenced by the UK, French and German chart. It was also a bit difficult to determine a song's success cause sometimes a song would chart at very different times in each country, especially the 90s and 00s. France for example always got their singles super late, and the UK super early.

[Julia Fox]

You didn’t count Waka Waka and Loca for Shakira 

[naval23]

1 hour ago, skizzo said:

A shame this chart ended. However, it was heavily influenced by the UK, French and German chart. It was also a bit difficult to determine a song's success cause sometimes a song would chart at very different times in each country, especially the 90s and 00s. France for example always got their singles super late, and the UK super early.

Interesting didnt know this. Is it because UK, Germany and France are the biggest markets?

 

 

[naval23]

Nelly's "I'm Like a Bird" peaking at #15 but making #57 on the year end chart - longevity always wins 

[skizzo]

27 minutes ago, naval23 said:

Interesting didnt know this. Is it because UK, Germany and France are the biggest markets?

Indeed. For example, a #1 song in France, without charting anywhere else, would go top5/top3 in the chart.

[Mystic Boy]

2 hours ago, skizzo said:

A shame this chart ended. However, it was heavily influenced by the UK, French and German chart. It was also a bit difficult to determine a song's success cause sometimes a song would chart at very different times in each country, especially the 90s and 00s. France for example always got their singles super late, and the UK super early.

And most of the songs were a frontloaded mess so these peaks doesn't mean these songs were hits

[Wildcat]

2 hours ago, Samsom said:

You didn’t count Waka Waka and Loca for Shakira 

Thanks! Added.

46 minutes ago, Mystic Boy said:

And most of the songs were a frontloaded mess so these peaks doesn't mean these songs were hits

According to whom, exactly ?

 

I just checked and even a minor hit like "Dress You Up" by Madonna charted for six months. Would you care to mention the frontloaded ladies? 

[Julia Fox]

20 minutes ago, Wildcat said:

Thanks! Added.

Yw! Also Loca peaked at 7 not 10 

[Julia Fox]

Dido has 5 songs reached top 10 too

-Here With Me 

-Thank You

-Stan

-White Flag 

-Do They Know It’s Christmas

[naval23]

5 hours ago, skizzo said:

Indeed. For example, a #1 song in France, without charting anywhere else, would go top5/top3 in the chart.

Wow super interesting! I noticed Britney's "Crazy" making top 10 of 1999 and #69 the next year-end and had massive longevity on the European Hot 100 with 17 weeks in the top 10 - I didn't realize how massive it was in France wow 

[naval23]

4 hours ago, Wildcat said:

Thanks! Added.

According to whom, exactly ?

 

I just checked and even a minor hit like "Dress You Up" by Madonna charted for six months. Would you care to mention the frontloaded ladies? 

It's kind of true - a lot of those top 10 hits had very poor year-end positions because European charts were more frontloaded (some served longevity though!)

 

Ex: Britney's "I'm Not a Girl" #2 peak, #66 year-end

Mariah's "I Know What You Want", #1 peak/ #50 year end

 

[unclefloprry]

Britney 

[Mystic Boy]

35 minutes ago, naval23 said:

It's kind of true - a lot of those top 10 hits had very poor year-end positions because European charts were more frontloaded (some served longevity though!)

 

Ex: Britney's "I'm Not a Girl" #2 peak, #66 year-end

Mariah's "I Know What You Want", #1 peak/ #50 year end

 

This !

Just a quick look. Songs like Rescue me, Dear Jessie, Slave 4 U, You'll See, Give it to me, Do Something, Trouble, Control Myself were FAR from being actual hits

[americanshameless]

3 minutes ago, Mystic Boy said:

This !

Just a quick look. Songs like Rescue me, Dear Jessie, Slave 4 U, You'll See, Give it to me, Do Something, Trouble, Control Myself were FAR from being actual hits

Crying over a decade old defunct chart… lmfao  

 

Britney