As part of its new survey of the first 25 years of the 2000s, Billboard has compiled a list of the Top Hot 100 Songs of the 21st Century, based on performance on the Hot 100 from 2000 through the end of 2024, and the #1 song belongs to The Weeknd.
The Canadian star’s “Blinding Lights” tops the list thanks to the fact that from February 2020 to April 2021 it spent a record 57 weeks in the top 10 — including four weeks at #1. It also spent a record 86 weeks in the top 40.
While you might think the songs that spent the longest at #1 would be tops, the fact that “Blinding Light” is tops proves that it’s more about how long a song stays in the upper reaches of the chart than how long it spent in the pole position.
The rest of the top 10 proves this point, as well. The two songs that hold the record for the most weeks at #1 — “Old Town Road” and “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” both with 19 weeks — are nowhere to be found. And Dua Lipa‘s “Levitating,” which never even hit #1, is in the top 10 because it spent 77 weeks on the chart.
Coming in at #2 on the new list is 2015’s “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson, followed by 2021’s “Stay” by Justin Bieber and The Kid LAROI. Number four is “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO — remember them? That was #1 for six weeks in 2011. Number five is “I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas.
Here’s the rest of the top 10:
6. Ed Sheeran, “Shape of You”
7. Morgan Wallen, “Last Night”
8. The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey, “Closer”
9. Dua Lipa, “Levitating”
10. Mariah Carey, “We Belong Together”
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