• Kirk Franklin has the most number-one songs on Hot Gospel Songs. • Tasha Cobbs Leonard has the most number-one songs for a female artist on Hot Gospel Songs. • Lecrae has the most number-one debuts (4), all of which were in 2014. • "Work It Out" by Dr. Charles G. Hayes & the Warriors featuring Dianne Williams, was the first number-one recorded by a group. It succeeded Mary Mary's "Heaven", which had a record-setting 8 weeks at number-one. • On the charts dated June 15, 2014, Kirk Franklin became the first artist to top all five of Billboard's main Gospel charts simultaneously —
Long, Live, Love topped
Top Gospel Albums, whilst "OK" topped Gospel Digital Song Sales and "Love Theory" led Hot Hot Gospel Songs, Gospel Airplay and Gospel Streaming Songs. • With the album
Jesus Is King (2019), Kanye West became the first artist to occupy the entire top 10 on both
Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs, monopolizing the top 11 of the latter. • In April 2021, Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music became the first groups with multiple number-one debuts on Hot Gospel Songs, when "Talking to Jesus" replaced their first number-one "Jireh" within the same month. replacing Koryn Hawthorne's "Won't He Do It" which accumulated 41 weeks in 2018, and surpassing Tamela Mann's 25 week reign with “
Take Me to the King.” • In April 2025, Cece Winans' "Come Jesus Come" set a record 58-week journey to number-one, surpassing Ricky Dillard & New G’s “Amazing”, which took 47 weeks to reach number-one in December 2014. ==Notes==