This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain european top 100 singles chart because it has insufficient inline citations. This is a list of singles that charted in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, an all-genre singles chart, in 2012. Sixty-two singles charted in the top ten during the year. Fifty acts scored a top-ten hit, with seventeen achieving their first hits as lead or featured artists.

Following her death on February 11, 2012, singer Whitney Houston placed three re-entries in the top fifty of the Hot 100 on the week ending February 25, 2012, led by “I Will Always Love You” at number seven. Phillip Phillips’s “Home” became the first song to enter the top ten in separate chart runs in a single calendar year when it re-entered on the weeks ending August 18, 2012 and December 8, 2012 . Madonna featuring Nicki Minaj and M. I Will Always Love You” originally entered the top ten and peaked at number one on the week ending November 28, 1992, spending 16 weeks in the tier in its first chart run. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending January 7, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending January 14, 2012.

The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending January 28, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending February 11, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending February 18, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending February 25, 2012.

The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending March 3, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending March 10, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending March 24, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending August 18, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending September 22, 2012.

The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending October 27, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending November 17, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending December 8, 2012. The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending December 29, 2012. Whitney Houston Returns to Hot 100’s Top 10″.