The Weekend’s ‘Blinding Lights’ Take the Lead on Billboard Hot 100 Charts.

The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" lifts from No. 2 to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 tunes diagram, turning into the pop/R&B vocalist/ lyric maker's fifth chief on the rundown.

The track is from The Weeknd's new LP After Hours, which takes off in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 LP charts, denoting his fourth driving title, as the set beginnings with the most equal units earned in seven days so far this year.

"Blinding Lights," discharged on XO/Republic Records, turns into the 1,097th No. 1 throughout the entire existence of the Hot 100, which propelled on Aug. 4, 1958.

The Weeknd's fifth Hot 100 No. 1 trails After Hours lead single "Heartless" which drove the Dec. 14, 2019-dated outline, and this week takes off 16-4; "Starboy," including Daft Punk (multi week, January 2017); "The Hills" (a month and a half, October-November 2015); and "Can't Feel My Face" (three weeks, August-September 2015).

Since his first week at No. 1, on Aug. 22, 2015, The Weeknd ties Justin Bieber and Drake for the Top Hot 100 pioneers.

"Blinding Lights" simultaneously turns into The Weeknd's second No. 1 on the Streaming Songs graph (after "The Hills"), flooding 5-1, up 54% to 32.1 million U.S. streams in the week finishing March 26, as indicated by Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It pushes 5-3 on Radio Songs, picking up by 15% to 82.2 million all-design airplay crowd impressions in the week finishing March 29, while positioning at No. 3 on Digital Song Sales (after it drove the March 28-dated diagram), with 15,000 sold.

"Blinding Lights" goes through a fifth week on the Hot R&B Songs graph, where it's The Weeknd's seventh No. 1, and turns into his 6th No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (with the two rankings utilizing the equivalent multi-metric strategy as the Hot 100).

The Weeknd (genuine name: Abel Tesfaye) includes his third Hot 100 No. 1 as a co-maker and has co-composed each of the five of his pioneers as a craftsman.

In the interim, "Blinding Lights" was co-composed and co-delivered by, among others, pop titan Max Martin, who gains his 23rd Hot 100 No. 1 as an author. In the Hot 100's files, just Paul McCartney (32) and John Lennon (26) have scored more, because of their chronicles in The Beatles and as soloists. Martin had last driven as an author by means of Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling!," for seven days in May 2016.

Martin procures his 21st Hot 100 No. 1 as a maker, and furthermore his first in that job since Timberlake's "Feeling." The aggregate is second just to that of another acclaimed Martin: late Beatles maker Sir George Martin, who totaled 23 (last gratitude to Elton John's 14-week 1997-98 No. 1 "Candle in the Wind"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight").

"Blinding Lights" stops the 11-week Hot 100 rule of Roddy Ricch's "The Box," which plunges to No. 2. The last proceeds on the Hot Rap Songs diagram, where it leads for a thirteenth week.

Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" keeps at No. 3 on the Hot 100, subsequent to coming to No. 2, as it logs a third week on Radio Songs (98.2 million, basically even week-over-week).

Underneath The Weeknd's "Heartless" at No. 4 on the Hot 100 (up 157% to 19.4 million streams), Post Malone's "Circles" rehashes at No. 5, in the wake of indenting three weeks at No. 1, and Future's "Life Is Good," including Drake, slips 4-6, subsequent to topping at No. 2 for about two months.

Harry Styles' "Adore You" holds at its No. 7 Hot 100 high and Justin Bieber's "Intentions," highlighting Quavo, in like manner keeps at its No. 8 best.

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