Stats: Longest Running #1's on Hot Single Sales

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Below are songs that spent 10+ weeks at #1 on Billboard's "Hot Single Sales" which ranks the top selling physical singles. Physical singles being CD singles most commonly sold throughout the 90's, which faded very hugely in the 2000's and only take a few hundred copies sold to go #1 with Digital Singles being the new thing. This is not the Digital chart prevent any confusion.

28 Weeks at #1:

High School Musical Cast - What Time Is It? [2007]
Was #1 Best-Selling Physical Single of 2007, and #2 Best-Selling of 2008.

17 Weeks at #1:

Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You [1991]

16 Weeks at #1:

Tag Team - Whoomp! There It Is [1993]

15 Weeks at #1:

Adele - Skyfall [2012]

14 Weeks at #1:

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You [1992] Elton John - Candle In The Wind 1997 [1997]
N' Sync - Girlfriend [2002]

13 Weeks at #1:

Los Del Rio - Macarena [1995]

12 Weeks at #1:

Boyz II Men - End of the Road [1992] Kid Rock - Picture [2003]

11 Weeks at #1:

Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You [1994] Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day [1995] Madonna - Die Another Day [2002] Clay Aiken - This Is The Night / Bridge Over Troubled Water [2003]
Fantasia - I Believe [2004] Lady Antebellum - Just a Kiss [2011]

10 Weeks at #1:

R. Kelly - Bump N Grind [1994] MercyMe - I Can Only Imagine [2003]

Ones from 2000-present shouldn't really be taken as serious as the 90's one. The ones in the 90's were from when singles actually sold like digital singles today, with physical singles dead the ones in today's century lasted that long because the artist had a big fanbase. American Idol ones naturally also sold good.

I'm probably missing a few so tell me if I am.

Erotic

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Reinvention

Yass legend! Get that James Bond promo.

GagaChicago

iHype.

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Corbin his impact*

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Last big physical single ever.

Eternium

Can you make separate charts for everything post-2001 since the chart stopped mattering then?

iHype.

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Can you make separate charts for everything post-2001 since the chart stopped mattering then?

17 Weeks at #1: Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You [1991]
16 Weeks at #1: Tag Team - Whoomp! (There It Is) [1993]
14 Weeks at #1: Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You [1992]
14 Weeks at #1: Elton John - Candle In The Wind [1997]
13 Weeks at #1: Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) [1996]
12 Weeks at #1: Boyz II Men - End of the Road [1992]
11 Weeks at #1: Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You [1994]
11 Weeks at #1: Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day [1995]
10 Weeks at #1: R.Kelly - Bump N' Grind [1994]

Eternium

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17 Weeks at #1: Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You [1991]
16 Weeks at #1: Tag Team - Whoomp! (There It Is) [1993]
14 Weeks at #1: Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You [1992]
14 Weeks at #1: Elton John - Candle In The Wind [1997]
13 Weeks at #1: Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) [1996]
12 Weeks at #1: Boyz II Men - End of the Road [1992]
11 Weeks at #1: Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You [1994]
11 Weeks at #1: Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day [1995]
10 Weeks at #1: R.Kelly - Bump N' Grind [1994]

Considerably more accurate, though I think we should add Madonna's song just because it's one of the best ever.

And bow to legends like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey being the only females on the list.

I'm shocked Elton had so few weeks at #1. His first few weeks must have been HUGE following Diana's funeral and then they fell off really quickly. People were not here for that song to smash again.

iHype.

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Considerably more accurate, though I think we should add Madonna's song just because it's one of the best ever.

And bow to legends like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey being the only females on the list.

I'm shocked Elton had so few weeks at #1. His first few weeks must have been HUGE following Diana's funeral and then they fell off really quickly. People were not here for that song to smash again.

14 weeks was still huge.

Remind you in 1997-1998 Physical Sales were still good, so artists could still pull off 100k-200k in a week. It was probably after 14 weeks some new single did like 100k and finally knocked him down.

Eternium

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14 weeks was still huge.

Remind you in 1997-1998 Physical Sales were still good, so artists could still pull off 100k-200k in a week. It was probably after 14 weeks some new single did like 100k and finally knocked him down.

I didn't mean to belittle his success. It is like one of the best-selling singles of all-time and it came out before digital sales, I just expected him to have more weeks at #1 because he had two separate releases for the single and each time the single was absolutely gigantic.

Phil

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SeanXtina

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Corbin Bleu, his impact. Who else but the king of pop.

rbautz

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14 weeks was still huge.

Remind you in 1997-1998 Physical Sales were still good, so artists could still pull off 100k-200k in a week. It was probably after 14 weeks some new single did like 100k and finally knocked him down.

The first week sales in the US was: 3,5mil

Lover

11 weeks?

Cockney Cupcake

Adele

Save-Me-Oprah

Nachoz

Ashley