How to Use chart-topper in a Sentence

chart-topper

noun
  • This has chart-topper written all over it.
    — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The new chart-topper also delivers a rare songwriting feat for Green.
    — Russ Penuell, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The band’s first-ever chart-topper also gives Nuñez’s his third consecutive on the chart.
    — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This achievement also earns Karol G her 20th chart-topper and Feid his 11th.
    — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The song, off the 1991 album Heart in Motion, gave Grant her first chart-topper as a solo artist.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • With this being her 14th chart-topper, Swift now ties with Jay-Z for most number one debuts among solo artists.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Thanks to its ruling, the French DJ celebrates his fourth consecutive chart-topper.
    — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Scherzinger had been a chart-topper in the aughts, but hadn’t achieved solo success, and her all-girl act yielded to the Katys, Rihannas and Gagas of the next decade.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
  • While the Spotify numbers and numerous headlines in the press suggest intrigue and growth, West End Girl is far from a chart-topper yet.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
  • On Thursday evening, at 36 years old, the chart-topper officially became the youngest-ever female inductee to the institution.
    — P. Claire Dodson, Vogue, 12 June 2026
  • The lovelorn song — a dual chart-topper on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl.
    — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This year’s career highlight was producing and A&R-ing for Kehlani—earning her trust to lead the creative process behind her powerful chart-topper Folded.
    — Essence, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Bad Bunny kicked off the year with his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which became his fourth Billboard 200 chart-topper.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The song, which has a writing and producer credit from country legend Miranda Lambert, was Langley’s first Hot 100 chart-topper.
    — Annie Harrigan, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart-topper concurrently vaults 12-2 on Global Excl.
    — Gary Trust, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The final night of the festival will bring Billboard 200 chart-topper Megan Moroney to the Capital One JamFest stage.
    — Annie Harrigan, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2026
  • After not becoming a breakout hit, one performance with Justin Timberlake at the CMA Awards turned him into an overnight sensation, and the full-length into both a bestseller and a chart-topper.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The studio’s most recent release was the Netflix chart-topper The Rip starring Affleck, Damon, Steven Yeun and Teyana Taylor.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
  • But within the past few months, amid controversy surrounding the polarizing presence of ICE agents in American cities, the former chart-topper has embraced right-wing political leanings — and has lost a slew of fans in the process.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There, among many undergraduates, aspiring songwriters with the same pedigree as Morgan Wallen collaborator and chart-topper Blake Pendergrass will have the opportunity to hone their creative craft.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 15 Aug. 2025
  • With chart-topper Dierks Bentley and rising star Zach Top sharing the stage, Boise country fans had lots to celebrate Friday night at the Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 4 Aug. 2025
  • So the writer-director finally decided to purposefully deliver on that sentiment, and the result is the Ben Affleck–Matt Damon Netflix chart-topper, The Rip.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The Apprentice, Last Vegas, Mary Shelley, and Brian Banks, in addition to exec producing the Netflix chart-topper Purple Hearts.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Ayala’s latest single not only marks his first chart-topper, but also his first charting entry with Azteca Music Group’s COLMENA Music.
    — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Play gives Sheeran his second chart-topper of 2025 following the success of +–=÷× (Tour Collection), a greatest hits compilation that encompasses his Mathematics album series, which took the top spot in June.
    — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The Billboard 200 chart-topper has collaborated with the likes of Vybz Kartel, Spice, Sean Paul, Skillibeng, YG Marley, Ding Dong and Popeye Caution.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The band recorded albums in 1970 (another chart-topper) and ’71 before an exhausted Clayton-Thomas quit, only to return in 1975 and tour under the BS&T banner over the next three decades while also recording more than a dozen solo LPs.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
  • As Lamborghini continues to produce a powerhouse fleet of vehicles, the Urus SE is just another example of excellence earning the Lamborghini Urus SE, a chart-topper award in Grasso’s Garage as its high-performance SUV of the year.
    — Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The song became a Billboard Country Airplay chart-topper and Billboard Hot 100 top 15 hit recorded by Jelly Roll and the lead single from Jelly Roll’s Billboard 200 chart-topping album Beautifully Broken.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Liza Chasin is producing for 3Dot Productions — the company behind chart-topper The Life List, which has a deal at Netflix — alongside Hayley Stool and Ross Greenburg, with Marla Messing, Jill Mazursky, and Krista Smith exec producing.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026

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