The Official Top 100 biggest Hip-Hop Songs of all time

Packed with classics by Jay Z, Eminem, 50 Cent and Kanye West, but who finishes top of the pile?
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April on BBC Radio 1Xtra marks MC Month; and to celebrate, the station has exclusively revealed the UK's Official Top 100 Hip-Hop Songs of all time. 

The Top 100 is, of course, based on Official Charts Company data, combining sales (physical and download) and streaming equivalent sales.

At Number 1 is none other than Drake's mammoth single One Dance, which spent a whopping 15 weeks at Number 1 in 2016. With combined chart sales of 2.1 million, the track bests second place I'll Be Missing You by Puff Daddy ft Faith Evans by some 400,000 equivalent units.

The highest placing Number 2 hit is in third - Eminem and Rihanna's huge track Love The Way You Lie. This chart really is all about when tornadoes meet volcanoes with big tracks such as the Fugees' Killing Me Softly sitting back-to-back with Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise.

Elsewhere names such as Run DMC, Jay Z, Nelly, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kanye West and Outkast feature on the amazing list. Luckily for everyone out there, you will be able to hear the UK's Official Top 100 Hip-Hop Songs in full once again very soon on BBC iPlayer. 

The Official Top 100 All Time Hip Hop Singles

1 ONE DANCE DRAKE FT WIZKID & KYLA
2 I'LL BE MISSING YOU PUFF DADDY FT FAITH EVANS
3 LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE EMINEM FT RIHANNA
4 KILLING ME SOFTLY FUGEES
5 GANGSTA'S PARADISE COOLIO FT LV
6 SEE YOU AGAIN WIZ KHALIFA FT CHARLIE PUTH
7 LOSE YOURSELF EMINEM
8 IT'S LIKE THAT RUN DMC VS JASON NEVINS
9 CAN'T HOLD US MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/DALTON
10 STAN EMINEM
11 TOO GOOD DRAKE FT RIHANNA
12 DILEMMA NELLY FT KELLY ROWLAND
13 PASS OUT TINIE TEMPAH
14 EARTHQUAKE LABRINTH FT TINIE TEMPAH
15 TRAP QUEEN FETTY WAP
16 THRIFT SHOP MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/WANZ
17 THE MONSTER EMINEM FT RIHANNA
18 N****S IN PARIS JAY-Z & KANYE WEST
19 HOTLINE BLING DRAKE
20 HOLD ON WE'RE GOING HOME DRAKE FT MAJID JORDAN
21 AIRPLANES BOB FT HAYLEY WILLIAMS
22 GOLD DIGGER KANYE WEST FT JAMIE FOXX
23 EMPIRE STATE OF MIND JAY-Z FT ALICIA KEYS
24 STRONGER KANYE WEST
25 WITHOUT ME EMINEM
26 LOW FLO RIDA FT T-PAIN
27 HEY YA OUTKAST
28 IN DA CLUB 50 CENT
29 AMERICAN BOY ESTELLE FT KANYE WEST
30 THE REAL SLIM SHADY EMINEM
31 WRITTEN IN THE STARS TINIE TEMPAH FT ERIC TURNER
32 NUMB/ENCORE JAY-Z & LINKIN PARK
33 TAKE CARE DRAKE FT RIHANNA
34 GHETTO SUPASTAR (THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE) PRAS MICHEL FT ODB & MYA
35 NOT AFRAID EMINEM
36 FANCY IGGY AZALEA FT CHARLI XCX
37 NUMBER 1 TINCHY STRYDER FT N-DUBZ
38 PANDA DESIIGNER
39 CONTROLLA DRAKE
40 679 FETTY WAP FT MONTY
41 ME MYSELF & I G-EAZY FT BEBE REXHA
42 BECAUSE I GOT HIGH AFROMAN
43 212 AZEALIA BANKS FT LAZY JAY
44 SHUT UP STORMZY
45 STILL DRE DR DRE FT SNOOP DOGG
46 READY OR NOT FUGEES
47 MY NAME IS EMINEM
48 THE NEXT EPISODE DR DRE FT SNOOP DOGG
49 LIVE YOUR LIFE TI FT RIHANNA
50 BLACK WIDOW IGGY AZALEA FT RITA ORA
51 CHANGES 2PAC FT TALENT
52 ALL OF THE LIGHTS KANYE WEST FT RIHANNA
53 JUMP AROUND HOUSE OF PAIN
54 REGULATE WARREN G & NATE DOGG
55 FEELIN' MYSELF WILL I AM/CYRUS/KHALIFA
56 GHETTO GOSPEL 2PAC FT ELTON JOHN
57 MS JACKSON OUTKAST
58 FREAK OF THE WEEK KREPT & KONAN FT JEREMIH
59 SMACK THAT AKON FT EMINEM
60 BLACK BEATLES RAE SREMMURD FT GUCCI MANE
61 FRISKY TINIE TEMPAH FT LABRINTH
62 LONELY AKON
63 CRANK THAT (SOULJA BOY) SOULJA BOY TELLEM
64 BLACK AND YELLOW WIZ KHALIFA
65 DOWNTOWN MACKLEMORE/LEWIS/NALLY/MEL
66 SUCKER FOR PAIN LIL WAYNE/WIZ KHALIFA/IMAGINE
67 99 PROBLEMS JAY-Z
68 RIDE WIT ME NELLY FT CITY SPUD
69 I NEED A DOCTOR DR DRE FT EMINEM & SKYLAR GREY
70 RUN THIS TOWN JAY-Z FT RIHANNA & KANYE WEST
71 NOTHIN' ON YOU BOB FT BRUNO MARS
72 HOLY GRAIL JAY-Z FT JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
73 FORGOT ABOUT DRE DR DRE FT EMINEM
74 BEAUTIFUL AKON FT K OFFISHALL/C O'DONIS
75 NASTY GIRL NOTORIOUS BIG/DIDDY/NELLY
76 21 SECONDS SO SOLID CREW
77 SAME LOVE MACKLEMORE/LEWIS/LAMBERT
78 AYO TECHNOLOGY 50 CENT/TIMBERLAKE/TIMBALAND
79 CANDY SHOP 50 CENT
80 HARD KNOCK LIFE (GHETTO ANTHEM) JAY-Z
81 COMING HOME DIDDY DIRTY MONEY/SKYLAR GREY
82 MOCKINGBIRD EMINEM
83 POWER KANYE WEST
84 JUMPMAN DRAKE & FUTURE
85 TROUBLE IGGY AZALEA FT JENNIFER HUDSON
86 RAP GOD EMINEM
87 OOPSY DAISY CHIPMUNK
88 DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT SNOOP DOGG FT PHARRELL
89 BLACK SKINHEAD KANYE WEST
90 LOVE LOCKDOWN KANYE WEST
91 SHUT UP BLACK EYED PEAS
92 DRY YOUR EYES STREETS
93 I GOT 5 ON IT LUNIZ
94 PERFECT GENTLEMAN WYCLEF JEAN
95 WHEN I'M GONE EMINEM
96 DON'T GO WRETCH 32 FT JOSH KUMRA
97 HYPNOTIZE NOTORIOUS BIG
98 BEDROCK YOUNG MONEY FT LLOYD
99 BUZZIN MANN FT 50 CENT
100 YOUNG FOREVER JAY-Z FT MR HUDSON

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Collo Moseti Collo

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fetty wap above tupac?? wtf britons shd stick to country

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Kriti Punjabi

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Eminem still dominates this list on top of being the "Best Selling Rap Artist of All Time" plus "Best Selling Overall Artist of 2000s"

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TAYLOR

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Since when ''killing me softy'' by fugees is hip hop, and where are '' jump''. by kris kros and ''baby got back'' by sir mix a lot?

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CHRIS ROSS

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You NAILED it! All tracks on the REAL All Time Greatest Hip-Hop 100! And no where is NAS, Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, Ths Game, A Tribe Called Quest, NWA, Gangstar, Scarface, Ghetto Boys, LL, RUN DMC. Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Eric B, the original for God sakes Afrika Baambaata, Public Enemy, EPMD, MORE 2Pac, More Notorious ‘BIGGIE’ BIG, Black Sheep, Lord Finesse, Lords of Underground... Need I go on? They definitely have no business doing this! And since you are an obvious fan, every name I have here and yours, as well as actually all 1000 all time greatest hip-hop tracks I stream 24:7 on my live stream dedicated to just this! Please stop to hear as it’s totally free, totally running all the time!

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Asoma Monga Joel

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Where em at Booba, Birdman, Lil Wayne, Trey Songz, JaRule, Fat Joe, Rick Ross, Lil Kim, Nicole Sherzinger, Lil Uzi Vert, Young Thug, The Game,Usher etc...?

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CHRIS ROSS

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I mean, bruh, ever heard of Wu-Tang? NAS? Mobb Deep? You so have no business doing this!

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Jesuit_Feast

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Using this loose and somewhat bizarre definition there are clear omissions since Blondie 'Rapture', Bomb the Bass 'Beat Dis' amd even Neneh Cherry 'Buffalo Stance' would all likely qualify based on sales.

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Freddie Porter

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Streaming is the best thing to happen to Drake's career. He wasn't getting all these hits as a lead artist before streaming became so prominent

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Nu No

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Drake almost don't sell. He is a streaming artist only especially because he is being pushed on all playlists.

100 streams are 1 song sale and 1/10 of album sale. So just 50 streams are 1 song sale (as the other 50 do the 1/10 album sale). This is insane. Some songs I bought I listen to them more than 500 times and none of them I heard less than 200 or 300 times.

Whenever they decide to correct this non-sense streaming proportion than charts will change and all time charts will change as well.

Now on the TOP 100 best selling singles worldwide over 50 were released in the past 6 years (and without streaming they would not even be TOP 1000 as their pure sales are lame). I'm not saying that streaming should be removed but that Streaming proportion it's not real and does not represent at all the sales (taking into account listenings or economical porporcions also).

Before we had Albums and Singles artists and a few artists that did good on both. Now all singles artist do artificially great on albums charts as well because of streaming.

Despite all this the albums charts shows better what really is happening:

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-uks-official-top-40-biggest-rap-albums-of-the-millennium-revealed__22808/

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Konstantinos Tsokanas

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it can't be a list without this hit -single.....
I Know What You Want
Busta Rhymes, Mariah Carey

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Jack Hurst

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Why is Stormzy above 2pac? Are you mad!? Stormzy is a grime artist! 2pac is old school hip hop!! Where are Nas, Biggie, N.W.A, Salt n Pepa, Snoop? And that's just some of the big names! Uneducated!! I am aware that this is the UK top 100 so some of the old school stuff might not have made it over in the UK, but come on guys!! Sort it out!!

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Nu No

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All streams are ahead because streming is overrated on the comparations. 100 streams are 1 song sale and 1/10 album sale - that means that 50 streams are 1 song sale on this chart despite the artist need to have over 3000 streams to earn the same as 1 song sale (and even more for 1 physical single sale).

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Dan Love

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Why does Black Beatles have to be at number 60?

How is One Dance a hip hop song?

Does Drake even deserve to be in the list?

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Stephanie Gagnon

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It Says Hip Hop Songs.

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Johnny McVey

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One Dance is not a rap song!!!

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Kriti Punjabi

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Also according to Wikipedia One Dance has sold 12.5 million copies whereas Love the way you lie by Eminem has sold 12.8 million copies, so why is One Dance number one ?

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Nu No

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Don't believe those wikipedia numbers as they are not right. Real sales for "One Dance" are quite low as are just streaming equivalent and streams are really overrated

But that is not just UK and this is just for UK OFFICIAL CHARTS not worldwide.

But again, stream numbers are not real sales and the numbers they use to compare them are insanely low and unfair for sales. I mean 100 streams are equivalent to 1 song sale and also 1/10 album sale so in reality for certifications (and sales comparation) 50 streams are equivalent to 1 sale as the other 50 goes for albums. These numbers are quite low (I never heard only even 100 times each song or single I bought, at least 200 or 300 times each song).

Due to this completely out of proportion equivalence over 50 of the100 best selling songs worldwide ever were released on the past 6 years. That's not true at all and they will have to correct that ASAP. Streams are more like radio plays as 80% of the streams come from playlists pre-made (most of them by record labels) and not choosen songs. Also over 80% of the streams are free streams not paid.

Also a song needs to be streamed almost 3000 times to give the same amount of money to the artist that 1 song sale gives them.