Billboard Unveils the Hot 100 Songs of 2010

1. Ke$ha - Tik Tok
2. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
3. Train - Hey, Soul Sister
4. Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls
5. Usher feat. will.i.am - OMG
6. B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams - Airplanes
7. Eminem feat. Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie
8. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
9. Taio Cruz - Dynamite
10. Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris - Break Your Heart
11. B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You
12. Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull - I Like It
13. Young Money feat. Lloyd - Bedrock
14. Jason Derulo - In My Head
15. Rihanna - Rude Boy
16. Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce - Telephone
17. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
18. Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
19. Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me
20. The Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be
21. Jay-Z + Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
22. Usher feat. Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love
23. Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars - Billionaire
24. Eminem - Not Afraid
25. Iyaz - Replay
26. David Guetta feat. Akon - Sexy Chick
27. The Script - Breakeven
28. Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug
29. The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
30. Owl City - Fireflies
31. Trey Songz feat. Fabolous - Say Aah
32. Drake - Find Your Love
33. Lady Gaga - Alejandro
34. Jason Derulo - Ridin' Solo
35. Nelly - Just A Dream
36. Ludacris - How Low
37. Far East Movement feat. Dev and The Cataracs - Like A G6
38. Timbaland feat. Justin Timberlake - Carry Out
39. Michael Buble - Haven't Met You Yet
40. Flo Rida feat. David Guetta - Club Can't Handle Me
41. Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne - Down
42. La Roux - Bulletproof
43. Jason Derulo - Whatcha Say
44. Justin Bieber - Baby
45. Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me
46. Taylor Swift - Mine
47. Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)
48. Kris Allen - Live Like We're Dying
49. Rihanna feat. Jeezy - Hard
50. Jay-Z feat. Mr. Hudson - Young Forever
51. Ke$ha feat. 3OH!3 - Blah Blah Blah
52. Trey Songz feat. Nicki Minaj - Bottoms Up
53. Jay Sean feat. Sean Paul - Do You Remember
54. OneRepublic - All The Right Moves
55. Orianthi - According To You
56. Ludacris feat. Nicki Minaj - My Chick Bad
57. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
58. The Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway
59. Ke$ha - Take It Off
60. Drake - Over
61. Neon Trees - Animal
62. Maroon 5 - Misery
63. B.o.B feat. Rivers Cuomo - Magic
64. Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
65. New Boyz feat. Ray J - Tie Me Down
66. Nicki Minaj - Your Love
67. Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A.
68. Chris Brown feat. Tyga & Kevin McCall - Deuces
69. Britney Spears - 3
70. Shontelle - Impossible
71. Drake feat. Kanye West, Lil Wayne, & Eminem - Forever
72. Boys Like Girls feat. Taylor Swift - Two Is Better Than One
73. 3OH!3 feat. Ke$ha - My First Kiss
74. Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone
75. The Black Eyed Peas - Rock That Body
76. OneRepublic - Secrets
77. Selena Gomez & The Scene - Naturally
78. Alicia Keys - Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)
79. DJ Khaled feat. T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross, & Snoop Dogg - All I Do Is Win
80. Kevin Rudolf feat. Birdman, Lil Wayne, & Jay Sean - I Made It (Cash Money Heroes)
81. Sugarland - Stuck Like Glue
82. Usher feat. Plies - Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)
83. Usher - There Goes My Baby
84. Taylor Swift - Today Was A Fairytale
85. Timbaland feat. Drake - Say Something
86. Beyonce - Sweet Dreams
87. Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
88. Carrie Underwood - Undo It
89. Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber - Eenie Meenie
90. Lil Wayne feat. Drake - Right Above It
91. Miranda Lambert - The House That Built Me
92. The Band Perry - If I Die Young
93. Paramore - The Only Exception
94. Lady Antebellum - American Honey
95. Sara Bareilles King Of Anything
96. Daughtry - Life After You
97. Uncle Kracker - Smile
98. Cali Swag District - Teach Me How To Dougie
99. Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
100. Jerrod Niemann - Lover, Lover

Lady Gaga Is Billboard's 2010 Artist of the Year, Ke$ha Takes Top New Act

This was the year everyone went gaga for Lady Gaga.

The shape-shifting pop star takes home Billboard's top artist of the year honors, just a year after she earned top new artist applause. The last time an act made a move from "new" to "top" faster was in 2006, when Chris Brown snared both titles concurrently. Before that, the last woman to graduate nearly as fast was Whitney Houston, who was our top new artist of 1985 and then became the top artist the following year.

Billboard's year-end music recaps are based on chart performance during the chart year that began with last year's Dec. 5 issue and ended with the Nov. 27, 2010, issue. The year-end Top Artists list ranks the best-performing acts of the year derived from activity on two charts: the Billboard 200 albums tally and the Billboard Hot 100 singles list.

Since we created the top overall artist category with our year-end recaps in 1981, only seven women have taken home the trophy, including Gaga. Taylor Swift nabbed it in 2009, preceded by LeAnn Rimes (1997), Alanis Morissette (1996), Mariah Carey (1991), Whitney Houston (1986) and Madonna (1985).

Gaga takes the artist of the year honor thanks in part to the chart performance of her first two albums, "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster" (both on Streamline/KonLive/Cherrytree/Interscope), which rank at Nos. 4 and 13, respectively, on the year-end Top Billboard 200 Albums tally. Four singles from those albums appear on the Hot 100 Songs roundup, led by "Bad Romance" at No. 8.

Swift is 2010's No. 2 artist of the year -- not too shabby for the Big Machine singer who was our top artist last year. With her one-two punch in 2009 and 2010, it marks the first time an act has been one of the top two artists in successive years since Destiny's Child was the top artist in 2000 and 2001. Narrowing the accolade among only soloists, Garth Brooks was the last to do so, when he was the No. 1 act in 1992 and 1993. The last woman? Mariah Carey, who was No. 1 in 1991 and No. 2 in 1992.

Swift has two albums in the top 10 of the year-end Billboard 200 tally, the first time an artist has done so since 1992. "Fearless" (2009) is at No. 7 while the just-released "Speak Now" is at No. 9. Brooks was the last to claim two albums in a year-end top 10, when he finished 1992 with "Ropin' the Wind" at No. 1 and "No Fences" at No. 6.

"Speak Now" charted for only three weeks during the 2010 chart year, making its No. 9 placing a stunning achievement. Ranking on the year-end tally is determined by a title's weekly charting sales. So, "Speak Now" made up for its short chart life in the chart year with massive sales: It moved 1.6 million units in those three weeks, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Elsewhere, neither Gaga nor Swift charted on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums tally, marking the first time neither of the top two artists of the year have done so since 1997, when Rimes and Spice Girls came in at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on that chart.

So, last year Gaga was our new artist and then became the top artist this year. Could Ke$ha, who snags the throne on 2010's Top New Artists list, win the big prize in 2011? This year the Kemosabe/RCA singer celebrates not just her new artist win but also her crowning of the Hot 100 Songs roundup, where her debut charting single "TiK ToK" is tops. The track spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the weekly Hot 100 list.

The last time an act's first charting single became the top song of the year was only two years ago, when Flo Rida reigned with "Low." However, since Billboard began producing year-end recaps in 1946, no woman -- until Ke$ha -- had managed the feat.

Two steps behind Ke$ha on the new artist tally is Susan Boyle, who earns her ranking mostly on the strength of her two hit albums, "I Dreamed a Dream" and "The Gift." The former spent six weeks atop the Billboard 200 and finishes 2010 as the No. 1 Top Billboard 200 album.

At No. 2 on the year-end Billboard 200 albums list is Eminem's "Recovery." All of the rapper's albums -- save for his debut, "The Slim Shady LP" -- have finished among the year-end top 10 Billboard 200 albums. He's ranked in the top two twice before: in 2005 with "Encore" (No. 2) and in 2002 with "The Eminem Show" (No. 1).

Eminem also ends 2010 as the No. 3 artist of the year, and with Gaga and Swift at Nos. 1 and 2, he's our top male artist.

Country trio Lady Antebellum is the highest-ranking group on the top artist recap, coming in at No. 4. It's the first time a country act is the biggest group of the year.

Since Billboard began compiling year-end combined pop artist categories in 1977 (for males, females and duo/groups, respectively) no country act had ever finished the year as the top overall duo/group.

Lady A also takes home the No. 2 honor on the Hot 100 Songs recap with its Capitol Nashville single "Need You Now," which spent two weeks at No. 2 on the weekly tally, but lingered for 42 weeks within the top 40 during the eligibility period. A country single last reached such heights on the year-end Hot 100 tally in 2000, when Faith Hill's "Breathe" was the top Hot 100 song.

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TIME’s Top 10 Albums and Songs of 2010

Kanye West has TIME on his side. The magazine has crowned the rapper’s fifth project My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the best album of 2010, saying, “He delivered the musical equivalent of a one-handed back handspring.” Yeezy’s “POWER” also makes the editors’ top 10 songs, along with hits from Drake, Janelle Monáe, and Eminem, while Cee Lo Green claims the No. 1 spot with his Grammy-nominated “F**k You.” Find out who else made the lists below.

Top 10 Albums

1. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
3. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening
4. The National, High Violet
5. Drake, Thank Me Later
6. Sufjan Stevens, Age of Adz
7. The Black Keys, Brothers
8. Yeasayer, Odd Blood
9. Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
10. Beach House, Teen Dream

Top 10 Songs

1. Cee Lo Green, “F**k You”
2. Janelle Monáe, “Tightrope”
3. Kanye West, “POWER”
4. Arcade Fire, “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”
5. Eminem featuring Rihanna, “Love the Way You Lie”
6. Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp”
7. Jónsi, “Animal Arithmetic”
8. Drake, “Find Your Love”
9. Elizabeth Cook, “All the Time”
10. Sleigh Bells, “Rill Rill”

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