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

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In the weeks before Justin Bieber’s headlining performance at this month’s Coachella festival — the 32-year-old teen-pop survivor’s first major concert after a lengthy stretch in the celebrity wilderness — speculation began to mount that he planned to play only songs from his recent “Swag” and “Swag II” albums.And indeed, for 45 minutes or so last Saturday, it seemed like that was what he’d come to do as he sang new song after new song on Coachella’s giant main stage.But then he pulled out a laptop, fired up YouTube and started singing along with some of his old hits — a thrilling subversion of our expectations for a big festival set and a poignant act of self-examination by an artist who’s lived more than half of his life on our screens.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’s encompassed virtually every major shift in pop music over the last two decades.Entertainment & Arts From Justin Bieber and his laptop to high-production headlining sets from Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G, here are the highlights of the Coachella music festival.Ahead of Coachella’s second weekend, then, here’s a list, ranked from worst to best, of every hit that Bieber has put inside the Top 10 of Billboard’s 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’t here, not least among them “Lonely,” 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’s gamesmanship or Billboard’s methodological quirks.Yet these 27 songs tell a fascinating story about a boy, about a man, about a talent possibly more vital today than ever before.Co-written and co-produced by the guy who would la...