With “Blinding Lights” breaking all records on the Hot 100 chart, Billboard has confirmed that this is the most successful song of all time.

Today (November 24), Billboard officially announced the ranking of the most successful songs on the Hot 100. Among them, Blinding Lights by male singer The Weeknd was honored as the biggest hit of all time. grand.

Although released at the end of 2019, throughout 2020, Blinding Light has always been one of the most prominent songs. Immediately after its release, Blinding Lights “made waves” on all fronts, becoming one of the most listened to hits of 2020. The song broke all records on the Billboard Hot chart when it remained in the US. Top 5 continuously for 43 weeks, top 10 for 57 weeks and top 100 for 90 weeks. This is an unbelievable achievement for a song. Billboard also announced that The Weeknd is the artist whose song has charted on the Billboard chart for the longest time ever.

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(Photo: Brian Ziff/Billboard)

Blinding Light and the previous album After Hours were nominated empty-handed at the 63rd Grammy Awards. This made not only fans but also many artists extremely angry. Even legendary Elton John affirmed that Starboy’s voice completely deserved to receive the Record of the Year award for this famous hit.

Therefore, the fact that Blinding Lights overthrew Chubby Checker’s The Twist (1960) to become the most successful hit of all time on Billboard can be considered a worthy reward in The Weeknd’s music career.