{"id":3433,"date":"2022-09-12T18:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T18:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2022-09-12T18:16:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T18:16:41","slug":"harry-styles-as-it-was-holds-atop-hot-100-late-night-talking-leaps-to-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3433","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles\u2019 \u2018As It Was\u2019 Holds Atop Hot 100, \u2018Late Night Talking\u2019 Leaps to No.\u00a03"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus, OneRepublic&#8217;s &#8220;I Ain&#8217;t Worried&#8221; hits the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, jumping 14-8.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/harry-styles\/\">Harry Styles<\/a>\u2018 \u201cAs It Was\u201d posts a 13th week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Styles\u2019 follow-up single, \u201cLate Night Talking,\u201d with both songs from his album&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>, surges from No. 12 to a new No. 3 Hot 100 high, following the arrival of new versions of \u201cTalking\u201d made available for purchase in the tracking week. Styles becomes the first artist with two songs in the chart\u2019s top three spots simultaneously this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs It Was\u201d concurrently returns to No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\/\">Radio Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart after a 13-week break, the longest between reigns for a song in the list\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/onerepublic\/\">OneRepublic<\/a>\u2018s \u201cI Ain\u2019t Worried\u201d jumps from No. 14 to No. 8 on the Hot 100, marking the band\u2019s fourth top 10 and first since 2014. The Ryan Tedder-fronted act also becomes the latest to have notched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/top-ten-hits-three-decades-21st-century\/\">top 10s in the 2000s, \u201910s and \u201920s<\/a>, and one of just three groups to earn the honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Sept. 17, 2022) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow (Sept. 13). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harry Styles - As It Was (Official Video)\" width=\"1165\" height=\"874\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/H5v3kku4y6Q?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs It Was,\u201d released on Erskine\/Columbia Records, tallied 68.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 2%), 15.8 million streams (up 3%) and 3,000 downloads sold (down 13%) in the Sept. 2-8 tracking week, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The single rebounds from No. 2 for a fifth week atop Radio Songs; rises 7-5 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>, after two weeks on top starting in its debut week in April; and drops 19-21 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\/\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>, following a week in charge in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>13 Weeks, 13 Songs<\/strong><br>\u201cAs It Was\u201d becomes one of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/hot-100-songs-longest-leading-no-1s\/\">just 13 songs<\/a>&nbsp;in the Hot 100\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/hot-100-64-years-fun-facts-ricky-nelson-lizzo-1235122282\/\">history<\/a>, dating to the chart\u2019s Aug. 4, 1958, inception, to reign for at least 13 weeks. It boasts the longest command since Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, ruled for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-week-by-week-number-one\/\">record 19 weeks<\/a>&nbsp;in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most Weeks Ever in Hot 100\u2019s Top Two<\/strong><br>\u201cAs It Was\u201d breaks the record for the most weeks spent in the Hot 100\u2019s top two positions, having logged 22 of its 23 weeks on the chart in the top two, from its April 16 debut through the newest, Sept. 17-dated survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Weeks in the Hot 100\u2019s Top Two:<br>22, \u201cAs It Was,\u201d Harry Styles, beginning April 16, 2022 (13 weeks at No. 1, 9 weeks at No. 2)<br>21, \u201cStay,\u201d The Kid LAROI &amp; Justin Bieber, Aug. 14, 2021 (7, 14)<br>19, \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 13, 2019 (19, 0)<br>18, \u201cUptown Funk!,\u201d Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, Jan. 17, 2015 (14, 4)<br>17, \u201cDespacito,\u201d Luis Fonsi &amp; Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, May 27, 2017 (16, 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cStay\u201d added its 21st week in the Hot 100\u2019s top two on the chart dated this April 9 \u2013 with Columbia having released the songs with the three longest runs in the Hot 100\u2019s top two ranks, all since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1 for 13 Weeks Over 23 Weeks<\/strong><br>\u201cAs It Was\u201d has now placed atop the Hot 100 for 13 weeks over a span of 23 weeks, from its debut through the current chart. (In its other 10 weeks on the list, it ranked at, as noted above, No. 2 for nine weeks, plus No. 3 for one frame.) The song extends the longest span of a title topping the tally in a single release cycle. (Overall, Mariah Carey\u2019s 1994 carol \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d holds the record for the longest stretch from a song\u2019s first to its most recent week at No. 1: two years and three weeks [Dec. 21, 2019-Jan. 8, 2022]).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Record Return to No. 1 on Radio Songs<\/strong><br>On the Radio Songs chart, \u201cAs It Was\u201d rebounds to No. 1 after 13 weeks between Nos. 2 and 3, during which Jack Harlow\u2019s \u201cFirst Class\u201d led for four frames and Lizzo\u2019s \u201cAbout Damn Time\u201d ruled for nine. That\u2019s easily the longest break between stints at the summit for a title since Radio Songs began in December 1990, surpassing three songs that each logged three-week gaps between No. 1 stays, most recently Drake\u2019s \u201cOne Dance,\u201d featuring WizKid and Kyla, in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before that, two songs traded turns atop Radio Songs over 12 weeks in 2001, for three blocks at a time each: Alicia Keys\u2019 \u201cFallin\u2019 \u201d (Aug. 18-Sept. 1; Sept. 29-Oct. 13) and Jennifer Lopez\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Real,\u201d featuring Ja Rule (Sept. 8-22; Oct. 20-Nov. 3). (<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s \u201cBetween the Bullets\u201d column in the Oct. 20, 2001, issue dubbed the run of hand-offs a \u201chip-hop flip-flop.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With \u201cAs It Was\u201d having first led Radio Songs beginning on the May 21 chart, as well as on the lists dated May 28, June 4 and 11 and now Sept. 17, it has reigned over a span of 18 weeks, the third-longest stretch of a song ranking at No. 1, after The Weeknd\u2019s \u201cBlinding Lights,\u201d which ruled for 26 weeks over a span of 28 weeks (2020), and Goo Goo Dolls\u2019 \u201cIris,\u201d which led for 18 weeks over a 19-week span (1998).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harry Styles - Late Night Talking (Official Video)\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/4VaqA-5aQTM?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Talking \u2018Talking\u2019<\/strong><br>Meanwhile, Styles\u2019 \u201cLate Night Talking\u201d surges 12-3 on the Hot 100, besting its previous No. 4 peak set upon its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/harry-styles-as-it-was-harrys-house-hot-100-number-one-1235078922\/\">June 4 debut<\/a>, concurrent that week with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/harry-styles-harrys-house-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235078807\/\">No. 1 Billboard 200 launch<\/a>&nbsp;of parent LP&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>&nbsp;(with 521,000 equivalent album units, the largest week for an album this year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTalking\u201d holds at its No. 4 high on Radio Songs (62 million, up 3%) and bounds 40-28 on Streaming Songs (9.2 million, up 8%), while sporting a 731% gain to 15,000 sold, digital and physical singles combined, as it wins the Hot 100\u2019s top Sales Gainer award. On Sept. 2, the song was released in Styles\u2019 official webstore with new digital artwork, along with an instrumental version for download (both for the standard $1.29) and the original version on cassette ($17.98), 7-inch vinyl ($15.98) and CD ($10.98).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to \u201cAs It Was\u201d and \u201cTalking,\u201d Styles is the first artist this year to claim two of the Hot 100\u2019s top three in a single week, and the first since Drake dominated with a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/drake-hot-100-history-way-2-sexy-number-one\/\">record nine simultaneous top 10s<\/a>, including the entire top five, on the Sept. 18, 2021, chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Lacy\u2019s \u201cBad Habit\u201d holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as it posts a fourth week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (20 million, down 2%) and earns the Hot 100\u2019s top Airplay Gainer nod (32.8 million, up 19%). It also leads the multi-metric\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rock-songs\">Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-rock-songs\/\">Hot Rock Songs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-alternative-songs\">Hot Alternative Songs<\/a>\u00a0charts for a third week each and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\/\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>\u00a0charts for a second frame each, a week after it became the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/steve-lacy-bad-habit-tops-rb-hip-hop-songs-alternative-1235135263\/\">first song to rule all five lists<\/a>\u00a0(dating to October 2012, when\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s main genre-based song charts adopted the Hot 100\u2019s methodology).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in the Hot 100\u2019s top five, Nicky Youre and dazy\u2019s \u201cSunroof\u201d rises 5-4 for a new best and Lizzo\u2019s \u201cAbout Damn Time\u201d descends 3-5, after two weeks at No. 1 beginning in late July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post Malone\u2019s \u201cI Like You (A Happier Song),\u201d featuring Doja Cat, climbs 8-6 for a new Hot 100 high and Nicki Minaj\u2019s \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d repeats at No. 7, three weeks after it roared in at No. 1, as it leads the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\/\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a fourth week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"OneRepublic - I Ain\u2019t Worried (From \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d) [Official Music Video]\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/mNEUkkoUoIA?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OneRepublic\u2019s \u201cI Ain\u2019t Worried\u201d charges 14-8 on the Hot 100, with 39.4 million in radio airplay audience (up 4%), 12.8 million streams (up 7%) and 6,000 sold (down 8%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band notches its fourth Hot 100 top 10 and first since 2014, when \u201cCounting Stars\u201d hit No. 2. The group also reached No. 8 with \u201cGood Life\u201d (2011) and No. 2 as featured on its breakthrough hit \u201cApologize\u201d by Timbaland (2007). OneRepublic becomes the 18th act with top 10s in the 2000s, \u201910s and \u201920s \u2013 and one of just three groups in those ranks, joining Coldplay and Maroon 5. (A week earlier, Britney Spears added her name to the list of all such acts with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/harry-styles-tops-hot-100-elton-john-britney-spears-debut-top-10-1235134940\/\">debut<\/a>&nbsp;of her and Elton John\u2019s \u201cHold Me Closer\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWorried\u201d is the first Hot 100 top 10 from the\u00a0<em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack, released in May; the set\u2019s \u201cHold My Hand\u201d by Lady Gaga reached No. 49 in June, as well as No. 2 on Digital Song Sales and No. 33 on Radio Songs. (The original\u00a0<em>Top Gun<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack yielded Berlin\u2019s No. 1 ballad \u201cTake My Breath Away,\u201d which led the list dated Sept. 13, 1986, plus Kenny Loggins\u2019 No. 2-peaking \u201cDanger Zone\u201d and Loverboy\u2019s No. 12 hit \u201cHeaven in Your Eyes\u201d the same year.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Kate Bush\u2019s \u201cRunning Up That Hill (A Deal With God)\u201d falls 4-9, after hitting No. 3, and Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cYou Proof\u201d re-enters the region, rising 13-10, after it debuted at its No. 6 high on the May 28 chart; the latter leads the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-songs\/\">Hot Country Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a fourth week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Sept. 17), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (Sept. 13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3433\" data-postid=\"3433\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3433 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, OneRepublic&#8217;s &#8220;I Ain&#8217;t Worried&#8221; hits the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, jumping 14-8. Harry Styles\u2018 \u201cAs It Was\u201d posts a 13th week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart. Meanwhile, Styles\u2019 follow-up single, \u201cLate Night Talking,\u201d with both songs from his album&nbsp;Harry\u2019s House, surges from No. 12 to a new No. 3 Hot 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Harry-Styles-As-It-Was-screenshot-billboard-15481.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}