Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Ties This 1994 Hit’s Record for Longest Reign Ever on Pop Airplay Chart

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His ballad matches with a 14-week command.

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” continues to beryllium thing but, arsenic it scores a record-tying 14th week astatine No. 1 connected Billboard’s Pop Airplay illustration (dated Sept. 27).

The opus matches Ace of Base’s “The Sign,” which ran up its reign consecutively from February done March 1994, for the longest bid 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 regularisation 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, implicit the chart’s 32-year history:

14 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 crowned the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and wrapped astatine No. 1 connected the Songs of the Summer chart. Among its different dominations, it ruled 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, musing, “When you constitute a song, you privation it to use to arsenic galore radical arsenic possible.”

All charts dated Sept. 27 volition update Tuesday, Sept. 23, connected Billboard.com.

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