“When you write a song, you want it to apply to as many people as possible.”
Alex Warren marveled to Billboard in 2025 about the mass appeal of “Ordinary.” As of June 2026, the song’s reach has led to another Billboard record: It now has the most weeks — 107 — at No. 1 among all the radio airplay charts that it’s topped.
The ballad’s haul encompasses 34 weeks and counting atop Adult Contemporary, along with record reigns on Adult Pop Airplay (30 weeks), the all-format Radio Songs chart (27 weeks) and Pop Airplay (16 weeks). It’s also the only song to be No. 1 for six months or more on as many as three airplay lists.
“I think every single year there’s always that wedding song or love song,” Warren told Billboard in 2025, when the singer-songwriter’s smash crowned the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and wrapped at No. 1 on the annual Songs of the Summer chart. “I think ‘Ordinary,’ sonically, has been this exciting storytelling record. It’s a song about love, and love is killing it right now.”
“Ordinary” wrested the record from Miley Cyrus‘ “Flowers,” which ran up 106 weeks atop all the Billboard radio charts that it led. It and “Ordinary” are the only songs with triple-digit weeks totals at No. 1 counting all airplay surveys.
The two hits are among 22 select songs that have spent at least 52 weeks, or a full year, combined at No. 1 on Billboard airplay charts. Billboard publishes 25 radio airplay charts, dating to the Adult Contemporary tally’s July 17, 1961, launch. Country Airplay became the first airplay chart ranked by electronically monitored data as of the list dated Jan. 20, 1990; all current airplay charts (more than half of which began in the ‘90s) are based on data monitored by Mediabase and provided to Billboard by Luminate. Meanwhile, despite increased audio competition from streaming and other platforms, radio remains a valuable and coveted outlet for exposure, with the No. 1 hit on Radio Songs each week drawing upwards of 80 million audience impressions.
The 25 such surveys: Adult Alternative Airplay, Adult Contemporary, Adult Pop Airplay, Adult R&B Airplay, Alternative Airplay, Christian AC Airplay, Christian Airplay, Country Airplay, Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Gospel Airplay, (the seasonal-only) Holiday Airplay chart, Latin Airplay, Latin Pop Airplay, Latin Rhythm Airplay, Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Mainstream Rock Airplay, Pop Airplay, R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Radio Songs, Rap Airplay, Regional Mexican Airplay, Rhythmic Airplay, Rock & Alternative Airplay, Smooth Jazz Airplay and Tropical Airplay.
Below browse the earworms — with a leading three by Mariah Carey, followed by two by Adele — that have infused radio and spent the most cumulative weeks atop Billboard’s airplay charts (through rankings dated June 27, 2026). They’re some of the most familiar hits still prominent on airwaves: As Cyrus playfully asked the 2024 Grammys crowd when she performed “Flowers,” “Why are you acting like you don’t know this song?!”
107 weeks, “Ordinary,” Alex Warren
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: June 7, 2025
Adult Contemporary: 34 weeks at No. 1
Adult Pop Airplay: a record 30 weeks at No. 1
Radio Songs: a record-tying 27 weeks at No. 1
Pop Airplay: a record 16 weeks at No. 1
106 weeks, “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Feb. 25, 2023
Adult Contemporary: a record 57 weeks at No. 1
Radio Songs: 18 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 17 weeks
Pop Airplay: 10 weeks
Dance/Mix Show Airplay: 4 weeks
87 weeks, “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: April 18, 2020
Adult Contemporary: 35 weeks at No. 1
Radio Songs: 26 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 20 weeks
Pop Airplay: 6 weeks
74 weeks, “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: March 4, 2017
Latin Rhythm Airplay: 20 weeks at No. 1
Latin Airplay: 19 weeks
Latin Pop Airplay: 18 weeks
Dance/Mix Show Airplay: 7 weeks
Pop Airplay: 5 weeks
Radio Songs: 5 weeks
72 weeks, “Blurred Lines,” Robin Thicke feat. T.I. + Pharrell
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: July 13, 2013
Adult R&B Airplay: 17 weeks at No. 1
R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 12 weeks
Pop Airplay: 10 weeks
Rhythmic Airplay: 10 weeks
Radio Songs: 11 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 6 weeks
Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 6 weeks
72 weeks, “Somebody That I Used To Know,” Gotye feat. Kimbra
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Feb. 25, 2012
Adult Contemporary: 19 weeks at No. 1
Adult Alternative Airplay: 13 weeks
Alternative Airplay: 12 weeks
Rock & Alternative Airplay: 7 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 6 weeks
Dance/Mix Show Airplay: 6 weeks
Radio Songs: 6 weeks
Pop Airplay: 3 weeks
71 weeks, “High Hopes,” Panic! at the Disco
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Nov. 17, 2018
Rock & Alternative Airplay: 17 weeks at No. 1
Alternative Airplay: 16 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 15 weeks
Radio Songs: 14 weeks
Pop Airplay: 6 weeks
Dance/Mix Show Airplay: 3 weeks
71 weeks, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Aug. 4, 2018
Adult Contemporary: 36 weeks at No. 1
Radio Songs: 16 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 14 weeks
Pop Airplay: 5 weeks
69 weeks, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: May 28, 2005
Radio Songs: 16 weeks at No. 1
R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 14 weeks
Pop Airplay: 10 weeks
Rhythmic Airplay: 10 weeks
Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 9 weeks
Adult R&B Airplay: 8 weeks
Dance/Mix Show Airplay: 2 weeks
65 weeks, “Feel It Still,” Portugal. The Man
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: July 8, 2017
Alternative Airplay: a record-tying 20 weeks at No. 1
Rock & Alternative Airplay: 17 weeks
Adult Alternative Airplay: 11 weeks
Dance/Mix Show Airplay: 5 weeks
Radio Songs: 5 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 4 weeks
Pop Airplay: 3 weeks
65 weeks, “Danza Kuduro,” Don Omar & Lucenzo
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Nov. 13, 2010
Latin Rhythm Airplay: a record 29 weeks at No. 1
Tropical Airplay: 18 weeks
Latin Airplay: 15 weeks
Latin Pop Airplay: 3 weeks
63 weeks, “Shape of You,” Ed Sheeran
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Feb. 25, 2017
Adult Contemporary: 24 weeks at No. 1
Radio Songs: 12 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 12 weeks
Pop Airplay: 9 weeks
Dance/Mix Show Airplay: 6 weeks
61 weeks, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Dec. 13, 2008
Holiday Airplay: a record 61 weeks at No. 1
57 weeks, “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Feb. 12, 2011
Adult Contemporary: 19 weeks at No. 1
Adult Alternative Airplay: 14 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 13 weeks
Radio Songs: 6 weeks
Pop Airplay: 5 weeks
56 weeks, “Easy on Me,” Adele
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Nov. 13, 2021
Adult Contemporary: 24 weeks at No. 1
Radio Songs: 15 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 10 weeks
Pop Airplay: 7 weeks
56 weeks, “Dilemma,” Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Aug. 17, 2002
Radio Songs: 12 weeks at No. 1
Rhythmic Airplay: 11 weeks
Rap Airplay: 10 weeks
R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 9 weeks
Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 9 weeks
Pop Airplay: 5 weeks
56 weeks, “One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Dec. 9, 1995
Radio Songs: 13 weeks at No. 1
Adult Contemporary: 13 weeks
Pop Airplay: 11 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 10 weeks
Rhythmic Airplay: 9 weeks
55 weeks, “Be Without You,” Mary J. Blige
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Jan. 7, 2006
R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 15 weeks at No. 1
Adult R&B Airplay: 14 weeks
Radio Songs: 9 weeks
Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 6 weeks
Pop Airplay: 4 weeks
Rhythmic Airplay: 4 weeks
Dance/Mix Show Airplay: 3 weeks
53 weeks, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” Green Day
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Dec. 11, 2004
Alternative Airplay: 16 weeks at No. 1
Mainstream Rock Airplay: 14 weeks
Adult Pop Airplay: 11 weeks
Adult Alternative Airplay: 8 weeks
Pop Airplay: 4 weeks
53 weeks, “In Da Club,” 50 Cent
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Feb. 8, 2003
Rap Airplay: 12 weeks at No. 1
Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 10 weeks
R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 9 weeks
Rhythmic Airplay: 9 weeks
Radio Songs: 9 weeks
Pop Airplay: 4 weeks
52 weeks, “No Guidance,” Chris Brown feat. Drake
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Aug. 3, 2019
R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 27 weeks at No. 1
Adult R&B Airplay: 11 weeks
Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 10 weeks
Rhythmic Airplay: 4 weeks
52 weeks, “Ginza,” J Balvin
Date of first week at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart: Sept. 12, 2015
Latin Pop Airplay: 25 weeks at No. 1
Latin Rhythm Airplay: 15 weeks
Latin Airplay: 12 weeks