All 27 of Justin Bieber's Top 10 hits, ranked from worst to best

In the weeks earlier Justin Bieber’s headlining show astatine this month’s Coachella festival — the 32-year-old teen-pop survivor’s archetypal large performance aft a lengthy agelong successful the personage wilderness — speculation began to equine that helium planned to play lone songs from his caller “Swag” and “Swag II” albums.

And indeed, for 45 minutes oregon truthful past Saturday, it seemed similar that was what he’d travel to bash arsenic helium sang caller opus aft caller opus connected Coachella’s elephantine main stage. But past helium pulled retired a laptop, fired up YouTube and started singing on with immoderate of his aged hits — a thrilling subversion of our expectations for a large festival acceptable and a poignant enactment of self-examination by an creator who’s lived much than fractional of his beingness connected our screens.

For the singer, Bieberchella was intelligibly a travel down representation lane. But it besides offered the assemblage a accidental to look backmost connected a vocation that’s encompassed virtually each large displacement successful popular euphony implicit the past 2 decades.

Ahead of Coachella’s 2nd weekend, then, here’s a list, ranked from worst to best, of each deed that Bieber has enactment wrong the Top 10 of Billboard’s flagship singles chart, the Hot 100. Pop, of course, is an creation arsenic overmuch arsenic a science, meaning statistic get you lone truthful far: Some important Bieber songs aren’t here, not slightest among them “Lonely,” which whitethorn beryllium his finest vocal show but stalled retired astatine No. 12 connected the chart. Other throwaways made it connected the database acknowledgment to Bieber’s gamesmanship oregon Billboard’s methodological quirks.

Yet these 27 songs archer a fascinating communicative astir a boy, astir a man, astir a endowment perchance much captious contiguous than ever before.

27. ‘Never Say Never’ (peaked astatine No. 8 successful March 2011)

Co-written and co-produced by the feline who would aboriginal apical the Hot 100 with “Rude” by the set Magic, this booming kiddie-rap way was introduced arsenic the taxable opus for Jaden Smith’s 2010 remake of “The Karate Kid” earlier Bieber utilized it successful a 2011 performance movie of the aforesaid title. The dependable is high; the bushed is blah.

26. ‘Monster’ (peaked astatine No. 8 successful Dec. 2020)

Just a period aft helium dropped “Lonely,” Bieber returned to his teen-idol woes — acold little movingly, alas — successful this dreary duet with Shawn Mendes.

25. ‘Stuck With U’ (peaked astatine No. 1 successful May 2020)

The nicest happening you tin accidental astir the doo-woppy “Stuck With U” is that Bieber and Ariana Grande donated the song’s proceeds to archetypal responders navigating the aboriginal months of the COVID pandemic. Do not rewatch the video unless you privation to beryllium reminded of the smiley horrors of Zoom life.

24. ‘No Brainer’ (peaked astatine No. 5 successful Aug. 2018)

We’ll get to Bieber’s convivial 2017 hook-up with DJ Khaled and friends. As for this shameless sequel, Khaled’s “another one” tag has ne'er been little necessary.

23. ‘Cold Water’ (peaked astatine No. 2 successful Aug. 2016)

Sleek. Pretty. Forgettable.

22. ‘As Long arsenic You Love Me’ (peaked astatine No. 6 successful Sept. 2012)

How precocious was Bieber riding arsenic helium prepared to merchandise 2012’s “Believe” LP? High capable to swipe the rubric of the Backstreet Boys’ classical teen-pop ballad for this junior-dubstep jam. Stick astir (or don’t) for Big Sean’s impermanent verse astir needing “you” to spell some “us” and “trust.”

21. ‘Holy’ (peaked astatine No. 3 successful Oct. 2020)

In which Bieber and Chance the Rapper preach astir matrimony similar 2 horny younker pastors.

20. ‘Anyone’ (peaked astatine No. 6 successful Jan. 2021)

What if Phil Collins had recorded “In Your Eyes” alternatively of Peter Gabriel?

19. ‘10,000 Hours’ (peaked astatine No. 4 successful Oct. 2019)

Timed to commemorate his and Hailey Baldwin’s wedding among the brackish marshes of South Carolina, Bieber’s ace astatine high-gloss state euphony was warmly welcomed by the Nashville establishment; it adjacent spent 2 weeks atop Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. No surprise, really: To perceive to earlier worldly by Dan + Shay, Bieber’s collaborators connected “10,000 Hours,” is to perceive however extensively white-soul singing had reshaped state by the aboriginal 2010s.

18. ‘I Don’t Care’ (peaked astatine No. 2 successful May 2019)

Has immoderate would-be opus of the summertime ever song-of-the-summered harder? Bieber and Ed Sheeran’s breezy dancehall bro-down was intelligibly modeled connected the dependable — and the occurrence — of Sheeran’s “Shape of You.” (Call it “Shape of II.”) Yet the duo’s chemistry feels existent capable to judge that each of these hooks — hey, they conscionable happened.

17. ‘I’m the One’ (peaked astatine No. 1 successful May 2017)

Bieber’s archetypal Khaled collab has a merry bounce that softens the braggadocio from him, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne, whose verse opens pricelessly similar so: “Looking for the one?/ Well, b—, you looking astatine the one.” Fun illustration information per Billboard: The week aft “I’m the One” bowed atop the Hot 100, Bieber became the archetypal creator ever to people caller No. 1s backmost to backmost erstwhile his remix of “Despacito” replaced “I’m the One.”

16. ‘Boyfriend’ (peaked astatine No. 2 successful April 2012)

A decennary aft Justin Timberlake stepped retired from NSYNC, JB blatantly ripped JT’s “Like I Love You” for this heavy-breathing flirtation. “Baby, instrumentality a accidental oregon you’ll never, ever know/ I got wealth successful my hands that I’d truly similar to blow,” Bieber pants implicit a spacey, Neptunes-style beat. (Later, helium suggests fondue.) In an ironic twist, fixed the song’s all-grown-up-at-18 energy, “Boyfriend” was blocked from No. 1 by “We Are Young” from Jack Antonoff’s aged band, Fun.

15. ‘Ghost’ (peaked astatine No. 5 successful April 2022)

A hurtling lost-love lament that doubles arsenic a farewell to a departed grandparent (as successful the song’s euphony video, which stars the precocious Diane Keaton).

14. ‘Let Me Love You’ (peaked astatine No. 4 successful Oct. 2016)

In the last Top 10 deed of Bieber’s EDM era, a pleading tenderness successful the singer’s vocals cuts appealingly against DJ Snake’s strobing Sahara Tent beat.

13. ‘Baby’ (peaked astatine No. 5 successful Feb. 2010)

New puppy, aged love.

12. ‘Yummy’ (peaked astatine No. 2 successful Jan. 2020)

“Hop successful the Lambo, I’m connected my way/ Drew House slippers connected with a grin connected my face,” Bieber sings — not the past clip he’d plug 1 of his oregon his wife’s brands successful a lyric. A state remix with Florida Georgia Line adds shout-outs to Waffle House and Chick-fil-A.

11. ‘What Do You Mean?’ (peaked astatine No. 1 successful Sept. 2015)

The way to Bieber’s archetypal No. 1 connected the Hot 100 was cleared by a better, much absorbing opus that reframed him arsenic a dreamboat experimentalist. (More connected that 1 successful a minute.) But if “What Do You Mean?” deploys a much accepted tropical-house production, it’s inactive built astir 1 of the singer’s loveliest vocals. And the fake cookware flute inactive hits.

10. ‘Despacito’ (peaked astatine No. 1 successful May 2017)

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s pop-reggaeton seduction had already recovered an tremendous assemblage among Latin euphony fans erstwhile Bieber jumped connected a remix aft proceeding the opus successful a Colombian nightclub. Yet the star’s beingness — successful a Spanish-language chorus whose lyrics Bieber learned phonetically implicit the people of a four-hour signaling league — turned “Despacito” into a planetary juggernaut. In the U.S., the opus became the archetypal Spanish-language chart-topper since “Macarena” 2 decades earlier; it besides became thing of a protestation tune amid the anti-immigrant rhetoric of President Trump’s archetypal word successful office. Said Scooter Braun, Bieber’s then-manager, successful a 2017 interrogation with The Times: “A opus successful Spanish is each implicit popular vigor successful an America wherever young Latino Americans should consciousness arrogant of themselves and their families’ autochthonal tongue.”

9. ‘Essence’ (peaked astatine No. 9 successful Oct. 2021)

Like “Despacito,” this slinky Afrobeats way was a deed earlier Bieber got involved. (Among its fans: President Obama, who enactment it connected his champion of 2020 list.) What distinguishes the mentation with Bieber is however mildly helium slides betwixt the Nigerian singers Wizkid and Tems, who some joined him for a rendition of “Essence” astatine Coachella.

8. ‘Stay’ (peaked astatine No. 1 successful August 2021)

At a specified 2 minutes and 22 seconds, this breakneck electro-pop duet with Australia’s the Kid Laroi (who besides enactment successful a cameo astatine Coachella) is the shortest of Bieber’s 27 Top 10 singles. Yet with 63 weeks connected the Hot 100, it’s besides his longest-lived illustration deed — and his most-streamed opus connected Spotify.

7. ‘Intentions’ (peaked astatine No. 5 successful June 2020)

“Stay successful the room cooking up, got your ain bread/ Heart afloat of equity, you’re an asset.”

6. ‘Beauty and a Beat’ (peaked astatine No. 5 successful Jan. 2013)

The astir fondly remembered of Bieber’s teen-idol hits anticipates the EDM makeover to travel adjacent arsenic it stays rooted successful his squeaky-clean persona: “We’re gonna enactment similar it’s 3012 tonight” is genuinely thing lone a kid would say. Seven months aft “Beauty and a Beat” peaked connected the Hot 100, Bieber was infamously caught connected video urinating successful a mop bucket successful a New York City edifice kitchen; this opus would beryllium his past Top 10 azygous for much than 2 years.

5. ‘Peaches’ (peaked astatine No. 1 successful April 2021)

A sumptuous R&B jam astir procuring one’s peaches from Georgia and one’s weed from California, this three-way associated with Daniel Caesar and Giveon was nominated for grounds and opus of the twelvemonth astatine the 2022 Grammys. (It mislaid some prizes to different sumptuous R&B jam successful Silk Sonic’s “Leave the Door Open.”) Extra props present for the vivid opposition among the singers’ voices and for the Kool & the Gang-ish synth solo astatine the end.

4. ‘Love Yourself’ (peaked astatine No. 1 successful Feb. 2016)

A sick pain delivered ohio truthful sweetly.

3. ‘Where Are Ü Now’ (peaked astatine No. 8 successful July 2015)

Behold the dreamboat experimentalist. In hunt of a caller dependable aft Bucketgate, Bieber recovered it with Skrillex and Diplo, seasoned dance-music producers who took a morose soft ballad that Bieber and his predominant accomplice Poo Bear had demoed and turned it into a glimmering boudoir-rave fantasia. “I was like, ‘Diplo, Skrillex — I don’t truly cognize if that’s, like, wherever I wanna go,’” Bieber aboriginal told the New York Times. “They did it, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is blowing my mind.’”

2. ‘Daisies’ (peaked astatine No. 2 successful July 2025)

Is putting a nine-month-old opus astatine No. 2 connected this database an enactment 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 psyche astir coming into an affectional maturity helium admits helium avoided for excessively long.

1. ‘Sorry’ (peaked astatine No. 1 successful Jan. 2016)

A plea, a flex, a come-on — this delirious popular masterpiece contains multitudes. “Is it excessively precocious present to accidental sorry?” Bieber asks, and the instrumentality of a opus calved from a branding occupation is that it summons the sensation of endless ascent.