{"id":403033,"date":"2026-04-17T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:31:13","slug":"justin-biebers-biggest-hits-ranked-from-worst-to-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403033\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber’s biggest hits, ranked from worst to best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the weeks before Justin Bieber\u2019s headlining performance at this month\u2019s Coachella festival \u2014 the 32-year-old teen-pop survivor\u2019s first major concert after a lengthy stretch in the celebrity wilderness \u2014 speculation began to mount that he planned to play only songs from his recent \u201cSwag<\/a>\u201d and \u201cSwag II<\/a>\u201d albums.<\/p>\n

And indeed, for 45 minutes or so last Saturday, it seemed like that was what he\u2019d come to do as he sang new song after new song on Coachella\u2019s giant main stage. But then he pulled out a laptop, fired up YouTube and started singing along with some of his old hits \u2014 a thrilling subversion of our expectations for a big festival set and a poignant act of self-examination by an artist who\u2019s lived more than half of his life on our screens.<\/p>\n

For the singer, Bieberchella was clearly a trip down memory lane. But it also offered the audience a chance to look back on a career that\u2019s encompassed virtually every major shift in pop music over the last two decades.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Coachella\u2019s second weekend, then, here\u2019s a list, ranked from worst to best, of every hit that Bieber has put inside the Top 10 of Billboard\u2019s flagship singles chart, the Hot 100. Pop, of course, is an art as much as a science, meaning statistics get you only so far: Some important Bieber songs aren\u2019t here, not least among them \u201cLonely,\u201d which may be his finest vocal performance but stalled out at No. 12 on the chart. Other throwaways made it on the list thanks to Bieber\u2019s gamesmanship or Billboard\u2019s methodological quirks.<\/p>\n

Yet these 27 songs tell a fascinating story about a boy, about a man, about a talent possibly more vital today than ever before.<\/p>\n

27. \u2018Never Say Never\u2019 (peaked at No. 8 in March 2011)<\/p>\n

Co-written and co-produced by the guy who would later top the Hot 100 with \u201cRude\u201d by the band Magic, this booming kiddie-rap track was introduced as the theme song for Jaden Smith\u2019s 2010 remake of \u201cThe Karate Kid\u201d before Bieber used it in a 2011 concert film of the same title. The voice is high; the beat is blah.<\/p>\n

26. \u2018Monster\u2019 (peaked at No. 8 in Dec. 2020)<\/p>\n

Just a month after he dropped \u201cLonely,\u201d Bieber returned to his teen-idol woes \u2014 far less movingly, alas \u2014 in this dreary duet with Shawn Mendes.<\/p>\n

25. \u2018Stuck With U\u2019 (peaked at No. 1 in May 2020) \"\" <\/p>\n

The nicest thing you can say about the doo-woppy \u201cStuck With U\u201d is that Bieber and Ariana Grande donated the song\u2019s proceeds to first responders navigating the early months of the COVID pandemic. Do not rewatch the video unless you want to be reminded of the smiley horrors of Zoom life.<\/p>\n

24. \u2018No Brainer\u2019 (peaked at No. 5 in Aug. 2018)<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll get to Bieber\u2019s convivial 2017 hook-up with DJ Khaled and friends. As for this shameless sequel, Khaled\u2019s \u201canother one\u201d tag has never been less necessary.<\/p>\n

23. \u2018Cold Water\u2019 (peaked at No. 2 in Aug. 2016)<\/p>\n

Sleek. Pretty. Forgettable.<\/p>\n

22. \u2018As Long as You Love Me\u2019 (peaked at No. 6 in Sept. 2012)<\/p>\n

How high was Bieber riding as he prepared to release 2012\u2019s \u201cBelieve\u201d LP? High enough to swipe the title of the Backstreet Boys\u2019 classic teen-pop ballad for this junior-dubstep jam. Stick around (or don\u2019t) for Big Sean\u2019s guest verse about needing \u201cyou\u201d to spell both \u201cus\u201d and \u201ctrust.\u201d<\/p>\n

21. \u2018Holy\u2019 (peaked at No. 3 in Oct. 2020)<\/p>\n

In which Bieber and Chance the Rapper preach about marriage like two horny youth pastors.<\/p>\n

20. \u2018Anyone\u2019 (peaked at No. 6 in Jan. 2021)<\/p>\n

What if Phil Collins had recorded \u201cIn Your Eyes\u201d instead of Peter Gabriel?<\/p>\n

19. \u201810,000 Hours\u2019 (peaked at No. 4 in Oct. 2019)<\/p>\n

Timed to commemorate his and Hailey Baldwin\u2019s wedding among the salt marshes of South Carolina, Bieber\u2019s crack at high-gloss country music was warmly welcomed by the Nashville establishment; it even spent two weeks atop Billboard\u2019s Country Airplay chart. No surprise, really: To listen to earlier stuff by Dan + Shay, Bieber\u2019s collaborators on \u201c10,000 Hours,\u201d is to hear how extensively white-soul singing had reshaped country by the early 2010s.<\/p>\n

18. \u2018I Don\u2019t Care\u2019 (peaked at No. 2 in May 2019)<\/p>\n

Has any would-be song of the summer ever song-of-the-summered harder? Bieber and Ed Sheeran\u2019s breezy dancehall bro-down was clearly modeled on the sound \u2014 and the success \u2014 of Sheeran\u2019s \u201cShape of You.\u201d (Call it \u201cShape of II.\u201d) Yet the duo\u2019s chemistry feels real enough to believe that all of these hooks \u2014 hey, they just happened.<\/p>\n

17. \u2018I\u2019m the One\u2019 (peaked at No. 1 in May 2017)<\/p>\n

Bieber\u2019s first Khaled collab has a merry bounce that softens the braggadocio from him, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne, whose verse opens pricelessly like so: \u201cLooking for the one?\/ Well, b\u2014, you looking at the one.\u201d Fun chart fact per Billboard: The week after \u201cI\u2019m the One\u201d bowed atop the Hot 100, Bieber became the first artist ever to score new No. 1s back to back when his remix of \u201cDespacito\u201d replaced \u201cI\u2019m the One.\u201d<\/p>\n

16. \u2018Boyfriend\u2019 (peaked at No. 2 in April 2012)<\/p>\n

A decade after Justin Timberlake stepped out from NSYNC, JB blatantly ripped JT\u2019s \u201cLike I Love You\u201d for this heavy-breathing flirtation. \u201cBaby, take a chance or you\u2019ll never, ever know\/ I got money in my hands that I\u2019d really like to blow,\u201d Bieber pants over a spacey, Neptunes-style groove. (Later, he suggests fondue.) In an ironic twist, given the song\u2019s all-grown-up-at-18 energy, \u201cBoyfriend\u201d was blocked from No. 1 by \u201cWe Are Young\u201d from Jack Antonoff\u2019s old band, Fun.<\/p>\n

15. \u2018Ghost\u2019 (peaked at No. 5 in April 2022) \"\" <\/p>\n

A hurtling lost-love lament that doubles as a farewell to a departed grandparent (as in the song\u2019s music video, which stars the late Diane Keaton).<\/p>\n

14. \u2018Let Me Love You\u2019 (peaked at No. 4 in Oct. 2016)<\/p>\n

In the final Top 10 hit of Bieber\u2019s EDM era, a pleading tenderness in the singer\u2019s vocals cuts appealingly against DJ Snake\u2019s strobing Sahara Tent beat.<\/p>\n

13. \u2018Baby\u2019 (peaked at No. 5 in Feb. 2010)<\/p>\n

New puppy, old love.<\/p>\n

12. \u2018Yummy\u2019 (peaked at No. 2 in Jan. 2020)<\/p>\n

\u201cHop in the Lambo, I\u2019m on my way\/ Drew House slippers on with a smile on my face,\u201d Bieber sings \u2014 not the last time he\u2019d plug one of his or his wife\u2019s brands in a lyric. A country remix with Florida Georgia Line adds shout-outs to Waffle House and Chick-fil-A.<\/p>\n

11. \u2018What Do You Mean?\u2019 (peaked at No. 1 in Sept. 2015)<\/p>\n

The path to Bieber\u2019s first No. 1 on the Hot 100 was cleared by a better, more interesting song that reframed him as a dreamboat experimentalist. (More on that one in a minute.) But if \u201cWhat Do You Mean?\u201d deploys a more conventional tropical-house production, it\u2019s still built around one of the singer\u2019s loveliest vocals. And the fake pan flute still hits.<\/p>\n

10. \u2018Despacito\u2019 (peaked at No. 1 in May 2017)<\/p>\n

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee\u2019s pop-reggaeton seduction had already found an enormous audience among Latin music fans when Bieber jumped on a remix after hearing the song in a Colombian nightclub. Yet the star\u2019s presence \u2014 in a Spanish-language chorus whose lyrics Bieber learned phonetically over the course of a four-hour recording session \u2014 turned \u201cDespacito\u201d into a global juggernaut. In the U.S., the song became the first Spanish-language chart-topper since \u201cMacarena\u201d two decades earlier; it also became something of a protest tune amid the anti-immigrant rhetoric of President Trump\u2019s first term in office. Said Scooter Braun, Bieber\u2019s then-manager, in a 2017 interview<\/a> with The Times: \u201cA song in Spanish is all over pop radio in an America where young Latino Americans should feel proud of themselves and their families\u2019 native tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. \u2018Essence\u2019 (peaked at No. 9 in Oct. 2021)<\/p>\n

Like \u201cDespacito,\u201d this slinky Afrobeats track was a hit before Bieber got involved. (Among its fans: President Obama, who put it on his best of 2020 list.) What distinguishes the version with Bieber is how gently he slides between the Nigerian singers Wizkid and Tems, who both joined him for a rendition of \u201cEssence\u201d at Coachella.<\/p>\n

8. \u2018Stay\u2019 (peaked at No. 1 in August 2021)<\/p>\n

At a mere 2 minutes and 22 seconds, this breakneck electro-pop duet with Australia\u2019s the Kid Laroi (who also put in a cameo at Coachella) is the shortest of Bieber\u2019s 27 Top 10 singles. Yet with 63 weeks on the Hot 100, it\u2019s also his longest-lived chart hit \u2014 and his most-streamed song on Spotify.<\/p>\n

7. \u2018Intentions\u2019 (peaked at No. 5 in June 2020)<\/p>\n

\u201cStay in the kitchen cooking up, got your own bread\/ Heart full of equity, you\u2019re an asset.\u201d<\/p>\n

6. \u2018Beauty and a Beat\u2019 (peaked at No. 5 in Jan. 2013) \"\" <\/p>\n

The most fondly remembered of Bieber\u2019s teen-idol hits anticipates the EDM makeover to come even as it stays rooted in his squeaky-clean persona: \u201cWe\u2019re gonna party like it\u2019s 3012 tonight\u201d is truly something only a kid would say. Seven months after \u201cBeauty and a Beat\u201d peaked on the Hot 100, Bieber was infamously caught on video urinating in a mop bucket in a New York City restaurant kitchen; this song would be his last Top 10 single for more than two years.<\/p>\n

5. \u2018Peaches\u2019 (peaked at No. 1 in April 2021)<\/p>\n

A sumptuous R&B jam about procuring one\u2019s peaches from Georgia and one\u2019s weed from California, this three-way joint with Daniel Caesar and Giveon was nominated for record and song of the year at the 2022 Grammys. (It lost both prizes to another sumptuous R&B jam in Silk Sonic\u2019s \u201cLeave the Door Open.\u201d) Extra props here for the vivid contrast among the singers\u2019 voices and for the Kool & the Gang-ish synth solo at the end.<\/p>\n

4. \u2018Love Yourself\u2019 (peaked at No. 1 in Feb. 2016)<\/p>\n

A sick burn delivered oh so sweetly.<\/p>\n

3. \u2018Where Are \u00dc Now\u2019 (peaked at No. 8 in July 2015)<\/p>\n

Behold the dreamboat experimentalist. In search of a fresh sound after Bucketgate, Bieber found it with Skrillex and Diplo, veteran dance-music producers who took a morose piano ballad that Bieber and his frequent accomplice Poo Bear had demoed and turned it into a glimmering boudoir-rave fantasia. \u201cI was like, \u2018Diplo, Skrillex \u2014 I don\u2019t really know if that\u2019s, like, where I wanna go,\u2019\u201d Bieber later told<\/a> the New York Times. \u201cThey did it, I was like, \u2018Oh my gosh, this is blowing my mind.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

2. \u2018Daisies\u2019 (peaked at No. 2 in July 2025)<\/p>\n

Is putting a nine-month-old song at No. 2 on this list an act of recency bias? Maybe. But what a song! Against a bracingly lo-fi guitar lick played by his pal Mk.gee, Bieber sings with beautifully understated soul about coming into an emotional maturity he admits he avoided for too long.<\/p>\n

1. \u2018Sorry\u2019 (peaked at No. 1 in Jan. 2016)<\/p>\n

A plea, a flex, a come-on \u2014 this delirious pop masterpiece contains multitudes. \u201cIs it too late now to say sorry?\u201d Bieber asks, and the trick of a song born from a branding problem is that it summons the sensation of endless ascent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the weeks before Justin Bieber\u2019s headlining performance at this month\u2019s Coachella festival \u2014 the 32-year-old teen-pop survivor\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4754,177613,369,177612,177614,93,114024,61,60,281,28976,738,278,64202,37370,177615,19695,36130,5403],"class_list":{"0":"post-403033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-chance","9":"tag-big-hit","10":"tag-billboard","11":"tag-coachella-festival","12":"tag-despacito","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-hot","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-justin-bieber","18":"tag-list","19":"tag-month","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-no","22":"tag-one","23":"tag-rapper-preach","24":"tag-singer","25":"tag-song","26":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}