The Weeknd’s smash-hit Blinding Lights achieves major musical milestone in remaining in Billboard Top 10 for a full year
The Weeknd‘s banner start to the year continued with a special milestone Monday.
The Toronto-based musician’s hit Blinding Lights is the first song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to remain in the Top 10 for an entire year, Variety reported on Monday.
The upbeat track from the artist, whose full name is Abel Tesfaye, previously set a record by remaining in the Top 5 for 43 weeks.
Major feat: The Weeknd’s hit Blinding Lights is the first song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to remain in the Top 10 for an entire year, Variety reported on Monday. The artist, 31, was snapped last month in Florida
The previous Top 10 record was held by Post Malone, whose Circles spent 39 weeks in the upper part of the charts.
The next milestone on tap is the Imagine Dragons’ streak of 87 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 with their 2012 track Radioactive.
The impressive feat comes after the recording artist delivered a rousing rendition of the song at the Super Bowl last month; and after a controversy after The Weeknd, 31, his song and its album After Hours were snubbed in Grammy nominations.
The Can’t Feel My Face artist in January told Billboard that the lack of nominations felt like ‘an attack’ on him professionally.
High-profile: The Weeknd performed the song last month at the Super Bowl LV Halftime Show
Unexpected: The Weeknd, his song and its album After Hours were snubbed in Grammy nominations
‘We did everything right, I think. I’m not a cocky person. I’m not arrogant. People told me I was going to get nominated. The world told me.
‘Like, “This is it; this is your year.” We were all very confused.’
Other tracks in the past three decades that were named Billboard’s hit of the year – that did not go on to be nominated for Grammys – include Kesha’s TiK ToK in 2009; Lifehouse’s Hanging by a Moment in 2001; Next’s Too Close in 1998; and Los del Río’s Macarena in 1996.