“Blinding Lights” had held the longevity record on the Hot 100 since August 2021, when it overtook Imagine Dragons' “Radioactive.” The latter track spent 87 weeks on the chart and had held the mark since 2014, when it surpassed Jason Mraz's “I'm Yours” (76 weeks, 2008-09).
“Heat Waves” by @GlassAnimals is officially the longest-charting Hot 100 hit in HISTORY (91 weeks). Dave Bayley of Glass Animals told Billboard of the achievement, "Wow, all I can say is wow. Many of you know when I wrote this song I was writing about missing someone I loved very dearly.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100. In August 2019, Lil Nas X's “Old Town Road” clocked its 19th week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, setting the record for longest stay at No. 1 of any song in the history of the chart.
Morgan Wallen rewrites the record for the most songs simultaneously charted on the Billboard Hot 100, as he sends 36 songs onto the survey (dated March 18, 2023) – the entirety of his new album, One Thing at a Time. Of those 36 songs, 27 are debuts, also a new one-week record.
Harry Belafonte (37 weeks)
1 on the very first weekly Billboard 200 chart. Calypso is tied with the South Pacific soundtrack as the longest-running No. 1 album of the 1956-59 period.
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. 1 songs of all time.
1. 'Blinding Lights' by The Weeknd (3.59 billion streams)
1. "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.
The current number one pop song on iTunes right now is Flowers by Miley Cyrus. Related Charts: Top new pop songs, iTunes top pop albums, and iTunes top 100 songs.
Kid Cudi's Man On The Moon III: The Chosen cut “Beautiful Trip” is officially the shortest song to ever enter the Billboard Hot 100. Clocking in at just 37 seconds, “Beautiful Trip” debuted right at No. 100.
Drake has achieved eleven number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and twelve number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard hailed him as the "Artist of the 2010s Decade" and the 16th Greatest Artist of all time.
The average song length on the Billboard Hot 100 chart is now 20 seconds shorter than it was five years ago, clocking in at three minutes, 30 seconds. It has nothing to do with artists having less to say or complex focus groups showing shorter audience attention spans.
The 1980s group, 2 Live Crew, made everyone sound like they were just writing the encore for the school play and Lil' Jon (see below) holds a Guinness World Record with 295 cusses in just one song: 2004's "Real N----- Roll Call," with Ice Cube.
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)
Taylor Swift has once again made music history by claiming every single top 10 spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart at once. No other artist has ever held all 10 spots at the same time, according to Billboard.
Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché. It is believed to be the second-most recorded pop song in history, after "Yesterday" by The Beatles. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.
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No, the most recorded song of all time is, in fact, 'Summertime' by George Gershwin. Forget the 4,000 versions of 'Yesterday' and 6,600 recordings of 'Amazing Grace' — 'Summertime' has been recorded no less than 67,591 times by the likes of Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, and Sam Cooke.
Mariah Carey (USA) has topped the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on 19 different occasions.
Top-selling artists worldwide as of 2022
Perhaps unsurprisingly, British rock band The Beatles are top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, with 183 million units certified sales. Second is Garth Brooks with over 157 million units sales, followed by Elvis Presley with 139 million units.
Talk about a dream come true. For 23 years, no artist had matched Michael Jackson's record of five No. 1s from a single album (Bad).