The Weeknd has broken the record for the longest-charting song in the US, with his song Blinding Lights – first released in November 2019 – spending 88 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. The record was previously held by rock band Imagine Dragons, whose song Radioactive spent 87 weeks on the chart between 2012 and 2014. Taken from the album After Hours, Blinding Lights climbed the chart during early 2020 and spent four weeks at No 1 in April that year. Blinding Lights’ 89 consecutive weeks in the UK chart – eight of those at No 1 – means it is closing in on Lewis Capaldi’s record of 100 consecutive weeks in the UK Top 100, for his ballad Someone You Loved. “Big day for Blinding Lights,” he wrote.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2021 07:52 UTC