As of 2024, the category ranks the year’s best-performing acts based on activity on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 songs ... Top Artists twice: Drake (2018, 2021 ...

As of 2024, the Top New Artists recap ranks the year’s best-performing breakthrough acts based on activity on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 songs survey, as well as ...

(In 2018, the Billboard staff released a list ... "New Rules" started to creep its way up the Hot 100 at the end of 2017. It entered the top 10 in early 2018, thanks to its brain-sticking refrain ...