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Pop Culture Rewind: The Weeknd's Biggest No.1 Song On the Hot 100 | Billboard News
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9/6/2023
We're taking a look at the chart history of pop superstar The Weeknd and the moment his song 'Blinding Lights' became the greatest song of all time, spending a record 90 weeks on the Hot 100.
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From blinding us with his lights to saving us from our tears, The Weeknd has amassed
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quite the list of Billboard hits, including the biggest Hot 100 song of all time.
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We break it down in today's Pop Culture Rewind.
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Although The Weeknd had already been churning out music, he didn't first reach the Billboard
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Hot 100 until 2012, and it was with an assist from Drake on "Crew Love," a track from the
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fellow Canadian's album Take Care. Later that year, The Weeknd, real name Abel, grabbed his
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first solo track on the list with "Wicked Games." His first Top 10 was with who would become a
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frequent collaborator, Ariana Grande, on her "Love Me Harder" in 2014.
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The world had grown to know who he was, and by August 2015, he nabbed his first Hot 100
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No. 1 hit with "Can't Feel My Face." By 2021, he'd gone on to take the world's biggest stage
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at the Super Bowl and grab a total of nine No. 1 hits, including the biggest Hot 100 hit of all
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time, "Blinding Lights." That year, the massive song dethroned Chubby Checker's 1960 smash,
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"The Twist," as Billboard's greatest song of all time based on total weeks on the chart,
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as well as exact chart positions. The track spent 90 weeks on the Hot 100, with four of them at No. 1.
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After diving into TV and more, we know we still have so much more to come from The Weeknd.
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We'll have another huge moment for you next week in our Pop Culture Rewind.
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