Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Scores Record-Breaking 15th Week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay Chart

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Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” is present the sole longest-leading deed ever connected Billboard’s Pop Airplay illustration arsenic it adds a record-rewriting 15th week astatine No. 1 connected the database dated Oct. 4.

The opus surpasses Ace of Base’s “The Sign,” which ran up its 14-week reign consecutively from February done March 1994, for the longest No. 1 enactment since the ranking began successful October 1992.

“Ordinary,” connected Atlantic Records, archetypal topped Pop Airplay successful June and has led for each but 1 week since; Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” interrupted its No. 1 tally earlier successful September.

The Pop Airplay illustration ranks songs by play plays connected much than 150 mainstream apical 40 vigor stations monitored by Mediabase, with information provided to Billboard by Luminate.

Here’s a look astatine the longest starring Pop Airplay hits, each enduring smashes, from bops to ballads, implicit the chart’s 33-year history:

15 weeks astatine No. 1, “Ordinary,” Alex Warren, opening June 21, 2025
14, “The Sign,” Ace of Base, Feb. 12, 1994
13, “Stay,” The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber, Sept. 4, 2021
11, “Closer,” The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, Oct. 8, 2016
11, “Over and Over,” Nelly feat. Tim McGraw, Nov. 6, 2004
11, “Torn,” Natalie Imbruglia, April 25, 1998
11, “I Love You Always Forever,” Donna Lewis, Aug. 31, 1996
11, “One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, Dec. 9, 1995

“Ordinary” antecedently dominated the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and finished astatine No. 1 connected the Songs of the Summer chart. Among its different coronations, it led the Billboard Global 200 for 10 weeks and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. for 8 frames.

Warren precocious discussed the song’s wide entreaty with Billboard, saying, “When you constitute a song, you privation it to use to arsenic galore radical arsenic possible.”

All charts dated Oct. 4 volition update Tuesday, Sept. 30, connected Billboard.com.

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