The use of her song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” in the series has shot it up the charts in a way it didn't even when the song was released in 1985! In fact, it's the oldest song to EVER reach No. 1 on Billboard's streaming charts earning 29 million streams in the week from June 3-9.
The first number-one song of the Billboard Hot 100 was "Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson, on August 4, 1958.
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
37 years after its original release. It gave Bush the record for the longest time ever a song has taken to ascend to Number 1.
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The song debuted at Number 1 when he was aged 99 years and 11 months, making him the oldest artist ever to land a chart-topper.
When the track reached No. 1, Stevie became the youngest solo artist to have topped the Billboard Hot 100 – though another future Motown superstar, Michael Jackson, was aged just 11 years 155 days when The Jackson Five's “I Want You Back” topped the Billboard charts in January 1970.
Jessica Smith played the part of 'Baby Sun' in the Teletubbies TV programme. Her giggle was used on The Teletubbies 1997 chart-topper "Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!" Though not credited for this 'performance,' she is the youngest person to have appeared on a no. 1 single.
With over 3 billion views, the most popular song on YouTube is "Despacito." Released by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee in 2017, this Latin pop sensation took the world by storm and became a viral hit.
The Beatles have the most No. 1 hits of all time: 20. Though unclear for how long, the Beatles still reign supreme as the artist with the most No.
Cher's career as a recording artist spans seven decades and she is the only artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each of the past six decades.
American popstar Miley Cyrus has beaten the record made jointly by Harry Styles' 'As It Was' and Justin Bieber and The Kid LAROI's 'Stay' by becoming the fastest ever artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify with her hit 'Flowers'.
Clocking in at 10 minutes 21 seconds, “Fear Inoculum” was the longest entry in Hot 100 history, and the first to exceed 10 minutes. Previously, David Bowie's “Blackstar” held the record at 9 minutes 57 seconds.
With the release of her single "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" in early '88, Whitney Houston set the record as the only artist ever to reach the milestone of seven consecutive No. 1 hits on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Taylor Swift, 'Midnights,' 2022
The blockbuster, though, set new bars for every artist: With 10 top 10s, it reset the record for the most top 10 Hot 100 hits from any album, and – even more – all 10 hits occurred in the same week, the first Hot 100 top 10 shutout in history.
Abel Tesfaye, more commonly known as The Weeknd, is statistically the most popular musician on the planet, and no one else even comes close. The 33-year-old Canadian singer's success has seen him set two new Guinness World Records titles: Most monthly listeners on Spotify – 111.4 million (as of 20 March 2023)
With 44 years since her last number one, "Wuthering Heights" in 1978, Bush surpassed Tom Jones's 42-year gap between number ones and replaced Cher as the oldest female solo chart-topping artist at 63 years and 11 months.
Kate, 63, reached number one this week with Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), which was originally released 37 years ago. It had originally charted at number three in the UK on its release and charted again at number 12 in 2012, but received renewed attention after featuring in Netflix's Stranger Things.
March became the youngest female artist with a number-one hit, at 15, in late April 1963, a record that still stands for the Billboard Hot 100.
The earliest fragment of musical notation is found on a 4,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet, which includes instructions and tunings for a hymn honoring the ruler Lipit-Ishtar. But for the title of oldest extant song, most historians point to “Hurrian Hymn No.
Atithi Gautam K. C. (born 15 August 2006, Lalitpur district of Nepal) is known as the youngest singer in the world to release a professional solo album. Atithi's self-titled debut album was released at the age of three on 18 July 2010. The album included nine Nepali-language songs.