Clive Davis was a chart enthusiast even before he became a music industry legend. In his 1974 biography Clive: Inside the Record Business (which he co-wrote with James Willwerth), he explained his fascination with charts, which, he said, grew out of an earlier fascination with baseball statistics and Variety’s lists of top box-office hits.

“It was an extension of the star syndrome,” he wrote, “measuring how singers did against each other, watching their songs climb the Hit Parade. I was a reader of charts and statistics, and I found an excitement in them which is hard to explain, as if they represented a form of energy.” (Emphasis in the original.)

Since Davis was a chart fan to begin with, imagine what a kick it must have been for him to see his companies’ records ascend to the top spot on Billboard Hot 100, especially in the nearly four decades that he directly oversaw day-to-day operations at a succession of labels: CBS (Columbia and Epic), Arista and J Records.

According to Davis’ official bio, the exec was appointed vp and general manager of Columbia Records in 1966. In 1967, he was named president of the company. He oversaw Columbia and Epic and, in the early 1970s, signed a deal with Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff’s famed Philadelphia International Records, which had two No. 1 hits on the Hot 100 in 1972-73.

Davis was fired from CBS in May 1973 for reasons that have never been entirely clear, but which most certainly had nothing to do with his ability to do the job. Afterwards, he wasted no time in re-establishing his career: In January 1975, his Arista Records (named after his high school honors society) landed its first No. 1 Hot 100 hit with Barry Manilow’s “Mandy.” Again, Davis signed agreements that brought in more talent, especially in the burgeoning Black music area. He made an agreement with L.A. Reid and Babyface to form LaFace Records in October 1989. And in 1994, Davis and producer/entrepreneur Sean “Puffy” Combs (later known as Diddy) entered into a 50/50 joint venture that resulted in the creation of Bad Boy Records.

In 2000, Davis was forced out of Arista for age reasons (he was 68 at the time). But again, he wasted no time in re-establishing himself. That same year, he formed J Records (Jay was his middle name), which in August 2001 landed its first No. 1 Hot 100 hit with Alicia Keys’ “Fallin’.” (Both Manilow’s “Mandy” and “Fallin’” received Grammy nods for record of the year. In addition, “Fallin’” won song of the year.)

In November 2002, Davis became president/CEO of the RCA Music Group, assuming responsibility for RCA, Jive, Arista, LaFace and J. In April 2008, he was appointed chief creative officer of all of Sony Music Entertainment, which, as his official bio notes, represented “a change in operational responsibility but an expansion of the artists he would now creatively be responsible for.”

Our focus here is on the 36 years he was the top man at an individual label, not the later years when he oversaw entire label groups. He had 11 No. 1 hits by Whitney Houston in those years, more than any other artist. Elsewhere, he had four with TLC (on LaFace/Arista), and three each with Simon & Garfunkel, Sly & the Family Stone, Manilow, Billy Ocean (on Jive/Arista), Milli Vanilli and Puff Daddy (on Bad Boy/Arista).

Here’s a list of all the Hot 100 No. 1 hits at Davis-headed labels in those 36 years. The dates represent the date each single first reached No. 1, followed by the artist’s name and title of the record, the number of weeks the song held the top spot and the label.

Jan. 1, 1966: Simon & Garfunkel, “The Sounds of Silence,” (two weeks, Columbia)

Sept. 3, 1966: Donovan, “Sunshine Superman” (one week, Epic)

Oct. 21, 1967: Lulu, “To Sir With Love” (five weeks, Epic)

June 1, 1968: Simon & Garfunkel, “Mrs. Robinson” (three weeks, Columbia)

Feb. 15, 1969: Sly & the Family Stone, “Everyday People” (four weeks, Epic)

Feb. 14, 1970: Sly & the Family Stone, “Thank You (Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)” (two weeks, Epic)

Feb. 28, 1970: Simon & Garfunkel, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (six weeks, Columbia)

March 20, 1971: Janis Joplin, “Me and Bobby McGee” (two weeks, Columbia)

July 24, 1971: Raiders, “Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)” (one week, Columbia)

Dec. 4, 1971, Sly & the Family Stone, “Family Affair” (three weeks, Epic)

Aug. 26, 1972: Looking Glass, “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)” (one week, Epic)

Sept. 23, 1972: Mac Davis, “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me” (three weeks, Columbia)

Nov. 4, 1972: Johnny Nash, “I Can See Clearly Now” (four weeks, Epic)

Dec. 16, 1972: Billy Paul, “Me and Mrs. Jones” (three weeks, Philadelphia International)

March 24, 1973: The O’Jays, “Love Train” (one week, Philadelphia International)

May 26, 1973: The Edgar Winter Group, “Frankenstein” (one week, Epic)

Jan. 18, 1975: Barry Manilow, “Mandy” (one week, Arista) 

Jan. 3, 1976: Barry Manilow, “I Write the Songs” (one week, Arista)

Jan. 17, 1976: The Bay City Rollers, “Saturday Night” (one week, Arista)

Sept. 23, 1977: Barry Manilow, “Looks Like We Made It” (one week, Arista)

July 25, 1981: Air Supply, “The One That You Love” (one week, Arista)

Aug. 11, 1984: Ray Parker Jr., “Ghostbusters” (three weeks, Arista)

Nov. 3, 1984: Billy Ocean, “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run” (two weeks, Jive/Arista)

Oct. 26, 1985: Whitney Houston, “Saving All My Love for You” (one week, Arista)

Jan. 18, 1986: Dionne & Friends, “That’s What Friends Are For” (four weeks, Arista)

Feb. 15, 1986: Whitney Houston, “How Will I Know”  (two weeks, Arista)

May 17, 1986: Whitney Houston: “Greatest Love of All” (three weeks, Arista)

July 5, 1986: Billy Ocean, “There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)” (one week, Jive/Arista)

April 18, 1987: Aretha Franklin & George Michael, “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)” (two weeks, Arista)

June 27, 1987: Whitney Houston, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” (two weeks, Arista)

Sept. 26, 1987: Whitney Houston, “Didn’t We Almost Have It All” (two weeks, Arista)

Jan. 9, 1988: Whitney Houston, “So Emotional” (one week, Arista)

Feb. 20, 1988: Expose, “Seasons Change” (one week, Arista)

April 9, 1988: Billy Ocean, “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car” (two weeks, Jive/Arista)

April 23, 1988: Whitney Houston, “Where Do Broken Hearts Go” (two weeks, Arista)

July 1, 1989: Milli Vanilli, “Baby Don’t Forget My Number” (one week, Arista)

Sept. 23, 1989: Milli Vanilli, “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You” (two weeks, Arista)

Nov. 25, 1989: Milli Vanilli, “Blame It on the Rain” (two weeks, Arista)

April 7, 1990: Taylor Dayne, “Love Will Lead Me Back” (one week, Arista)

Dec. 1, 1990: Whitney Houston, “I’m Your Baby Tonight” (one week, Arista)

Feb. 23, 1991: Whitney Houston, “All the Man That I Need” (two weeks, Arista)

Nov. 28, 1992: Whitney Houston, “I Will Always Love You” (14 weeks, Arista)

March 12, 1994: Ace of Base, “The Sign” (six weeks, Arista)

Jan. 28, 1995: TLC, “Creep” (four weeks, LaFace/Arista)

July 8, 1995: TLC, “Waterfalls” (seven weeks, LaFace/Arista)

Nov. 25, 1995: Whitney Houston, “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” (one week, Arista)

July 27, 1996: Toni Braxton, “You’re Makin’ Me High” / “Let It Flow” (one week, LaFace/Arista)

Dec. 7, 1996: Toni Braxton, “Un-Break My Heart” (11 weeks, LaFace/Arista)

March 22, 1997: Puff Daddy (feat. Mase), “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” (six weeks, Bad Boy/Arista)

May 3, 1997: The Notorious B.I.G., “Hypnotize” (three weeks, Bad Boy/Arista)

June 14, 1997: Puff Daddy & Faith Evans (feat. 112), “I’ll Be Missing You” (11 weeks, Bad Boy/Arista)

Aug. 30, 1997: The Notorious B.I.G. (feat. Puff Daddy & Mase), “Mo Money Mo Problems” (two weeks, Bad Boy/Arista)

Feb. 14, 1998: Usher, “Nice & Slow” (two weeks, LaFace/Arista)

April 25, 1998: Next, “Too Close” (five weeks, Arista)

Oct. 3, 1998: Monica, “The First Night” (five weeks, Arista)

Feb. 13, 1999: Monica, “Angel of Mine” (four weeks, Arista)

April 10, 1999: TLC, “No Scrubs” (four weeks, LaFace/Arista)

Sept. 18, 1999: TLC, “Unpretty” (three weeks, LaFace/Arista)

Oct. 23, 1999: Santana feat. Rob Thomas, “Smooth” (12 weeks, Arista)

April 8, 2000: Santana feat. The Product G&B, “Maria Maria” (10 weeks, Arista)

Aug. 18, 2001: Alicia Keys, “Fallin’” (six weeks, J)

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If you’re looking to upgrade your TV for something more advanced, modern and sleek, you’ll want to consider some of the latest premium TV models from Sony. Available at Best Buy now, the new Sony TVs are made for gaming, watching movies and TV shows, though they’re also fine-tuned to let you stream your favorite music playlist and experience live sports at home, with pristine audio and picture quality. For a limited time, you can save up to $300 on select models at BestBuy.com.

Our pick: The Sony 65-inch BRAVIA 7 II True RGB 4K TV is the company’s latest TV that offers more vivid and brighter colors in picture quality. While sharpness and detail are important in a 4K Ultra HD TV, Sony’s new model shines with brilliant and precise color volume, thanks to its True RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) LED display.

The Sony big screen TV is on sale right now for $2,299.99 (regularly $2,599.99) at Best Buy. But act fast and shop now, as these Sony TV deals end on Sunday (July 5).

With True RGB, picture quality is brighter and vibrant with deeper, richer and more accurate color contrast that pops. This is ideal for gaming, especially with a PlayStation 5 since Sony makes both the 4K TV and console. Watching live sports, meantime, gets more immersive, with active color and action shifts for high-paced motion.

The Sony BRAVIA 7 II True RGB 4K TV is also great for rooms that get direct sunlight that would otherwise cut through picture quality and dull images. The contrasts on screen remain crisp and clear, even in daylight.

As far as audio, Sony’s newest 4K TV sounds as good as it looks with cinema-like audio, thanks to the company’s “Acoustic Multi-Audio+” feature that matches and balances picture with sound for a layered viewing experience.

It also has Sony’s “3D Surround Upscaling” settings for a wider range of audio that’s crisp, clear and detailed with advanced 3D audio. The TV also enhances dialogue and voices with its “Voice Zoom 3” feature, so you don’t have to turn up the volume to hear characters talking to each other in a movie or TV show. The Sony BRAVIA 7 II True RGB 4K TV makes your experience more memorable.

Other features to note: the 4K TV runs built-in Google TV with Gemini AI for voice navigation, controls and recommendations. It features popular video and music streaming apps, including Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, YouTube, Spotify and others.

Beginning on Monday, June 22, the Sony BRAVIA 7 II True RGB 4K TV is available with prices starting at $1,599.99 at Best Buy. It ranges from 50 inches to 98 inches in size (though we’re partial to the now-industry standard 65-inch model above). Learn more about Sony’s new 4K TV deals at BestBuy.com.

The Sony TV deals come on the heels of Best Buy’s “Tech Fest” savings event, which offer up to 50% off home theater products, gaming consoles and accessories, audio gear and more.

For more product recommendations, check out our roundups of the best Xbox deals, studio headphones and Nintendo Switch accessories.

Olivia Rodrigo achieves her third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as her third studio release, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, launches atop the list dated June 27. The set bows with 485,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending June 18, according to Luminate — marking Rodrigo’s biggest week ever by units, and the largest week of 2026 for any album by a soloist.

Rodrigo also topped the Billboard 200 with her two previous studio albums, GUTS (in 2023) and SOUR (2021).

The new album was preceded by a pair of top five-charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100: its lead-off track “drop dead” (No. 1 in May) and “the cure” (No. 5 in June).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new June 27, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on June 23. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’s 485,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 273,000 (Rodrigo’s best sales week and the largest sales week for a woman in 2026; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 211,000 (equaling 218.41 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, the largest streaming week of 2026 by a woman; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

The album’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across more than 15 physical variants (including two signed editions). Of the album’s opening-week sales, vinyl purchases comprised 164,000 — Rodrigo’s biggest week on vinyl and the largest week of 2026 by a woman.

Rodrigo will embark on The Unraveled Tour beginning on Sept. 25 in Hartford, Conn., and continuing through at least May 10, 2027, in London.

Rodrigo’s new album is the only debut in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200. Drake’s ICEMAN cedes the No. 1 slot after spending its first four weeks atop the Billboard 200, as the set dips 1-2 in its fifth week on the list (105,000 equivalent album units earned, down 21%). Four former No. 1s follow ICEMAN, as Ella Langley’s Dandelion falls 2-3 (84,000, down 4%), Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is down 3-4 (78,000, down 2%), Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide slips 4-5 (71,000, up 5%) and Michael Jackson’s Thriller is a non-mover at No. 6 (53,000, down 4%).

Jackson’s Number Ones rises a spot to No. 7 on the Billboard 200 (49,000 equivalent album units earned, down 4%), Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time climbs 9-8 (39,000, down 4%), Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is up a spot to No. 9 (35,000, down 1%) and BTS’ chart-topping ARIRANG ascends 11-10 (34,000, down less than 1%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

Ella Langley is opening up about the role faith has played in her life.

During a stop on her Dandelion Tour on Thursday (June 18), the 27-year-old country singer paused her concert at Zoo Amphitheatre in Oklahoma City to deliver a heartfelt message to fans about overcoming struggles and finding purpose through God.

In fan-captured footage from the show, Langley began by telling the crowd that she reads the Bible “almost every single day” and explained that she now turns to her faith rather than other destructive coping mechanisms.

“Instead of trying to go to other things like I have before — either men or drugs or other feelings — to try and make myself feel a certain way, I go to him first,” the singer-songwriter said, pointing toward the sky.

Langley then reflected on a difficult period in her life.

“Last year I didn’t think I wanted to be here anymore,” she said. “And when I’m standing here right now, I’m so grateful for the day that I was given today. The only thing that has changed my mind on that situation is our God.”

The “Choosin’ Texas” hitmaker did not elaborate on the challenges she faced last year, but in August 2025 she canceled multiple opening dates on tours with Morgan Wallen and Riley Green to focus on her health.

Billboard has reached out to Langley’s representatives for additional comment.

“The thing I thought I was cut out to do my whole entire life, I didn’t know if I could do it,” she told the crowd, adding that it can be difficult to face criticism on social media when others do not know what someone is experiencing behind the scenes.

“But I’ll tell you right now, the thing that changed my mind is I realized that I have a purpose in this life,” the singer continued. “And my purpose is to stand up here, share my testimony, to be honest with my crowd, to be honest with my fans, to write the best songs that I can write, to put on the best show that I can put on, and that’s all I can do.”

Langley closed her remarks with an encouraging message to the audience.

“I just want you to remember that there’s one North Star and we all know who that is,” she said. “So if you just wake up and focus on that every day, you give 1% better than you gave the day before, you’re going to get through it. And you’re going to be back to living life, I promise you.”

Langley has made historic strides on the Billboard charts, recently becoming the first woman to earn three simultaneous top 10 hits on the Country Airplay chart with “Be Her,” “Choosin’ Texas” and her Wallen collaboration, “I Can’t Love You Anymore.”

Langley’s sophomore album, Dandelion, also spent two weeks atop the Billboard 200 in April. Her tour in support of the project continues through August.