It’s a massive week for American singer The Weeknd as hit smash hit single ‘Blinding Lights’ makes history this week by becoming the first song in history to spend a full year inside the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10.
The former number one places at number three this week as it logs its 52nd week in the region.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated March 13) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 9). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” rebounds 5-3 on the Hot 100. The smash spent four weeks at No. 1 last April-May, eventually finishing as the Hot 100’s top hit of all of 2020, and adds a record-extending 52nd week in the top 10, becoming the first song in the history of the chart (which began Aug. 4, 1958) to total a full year’s time in the top 10. After debuting at No. 11 on the chart dated Nov. 14, 2019, it reached the top 10 on Feb. 29, 2020, and has spent all but two frames in the top tier since (ranking at Nos. 11 and 18 for two weeks in December).
The song also ties for the most time totaled in the Hot 100’s top three, 21 weeks, equaling the sums of The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk!”
Further, the song achieves a record-padding 43rd week in the Hot 100’s top five (no other song has logged more than 27 weeks in the region) and becomes one of just nine hits to have totaled at least 65 weeks on the chart overall, and the first since OneRepublic’s “Counting Stars” wrapped a 68-week run in October 2014. Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” spent a record 87 weeks on the Hot 100 in 2012-14. The song also notches a record-extending 48th week at No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart.
The Weeknd’s other current Hot 100 top 10, “Save Your Tears,” is steady at No. 6, two weeks after reaching its No. 4 high. It becomes his 11th top 10 on Radio Songs (13-10; 42.9 million, up 6%), where, to note yet another superlative, “Blinding Lights” reigned for a record 26 weeks in April-October 2020.
