Madonna ranks second with 38 Hot 100 top 10s. The album features guest appearances from Daft Punk, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, and Future. It was released on November 25, 2016, through XO and Republic Records. Meanwhile, the Beatles continue to defend their No 1 ranking on Billboard‘s Greatest of All-Time Hot 100 Artists chart with a record 20 No 1 singles on the weekly Hot 100, among their 34 top 10s. Starboy is the third studio album by Canadian singer the Weeknd.

The singer, now 80, still performs around the US. This 2017 Clio Music Bronze winning entry titled The Weeknd - Starboy Album Experience was entered for The Weeknd by Universal Music Group, New York. The song went on to become the only single to top the Billboard Hot 100 twice, in two separate chart runs. It was a moderate hit but did not receive cult success until Chubby Checker released a cover version in July 1960. That’d be scary for me.”īillboard’s rankings are based on total weeks on the chart as well as exact chart positions, with adjustments made to account for chart turnover rates during various periods.Īmerican pop favourite the Twist was written and originally released in 1958 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side to Teardrops on Your Letter. TV host Matt Doran flew 10,000 miles to have an interview with Adele only to have it cancelled because he told her he hadn’t listened to her new album. “So I’m glad Blinding Lights happened when it happened as opposed to it being the first single I’ve ever dropped. “By the time Blinding Lights happened, I was 10 years into my career and established as a music figure in the industry,” Tesfaye said. I just count my blessings, and I’m just grateful.”īlinding Lights was 2020’s biggest song both in terms of sales and size, cementing the Canadian singer’s status as a global pop star a decade after first surfacing with introspective R&B and moody ballads. “I don’t think has hit me yet,” Abel Tesfaye, 31, otherwise known as The Weeknd, told Billboard upon learning of the song’s new status.

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