10 weeks
Foreigner — "Waiting for a Girl Like You" (1981–1982)
Missy Elliott — "Work It" (2002–2003)
9 weeks
Donna Lewis — "I Love You Always Forever" (1996)
Shania Twain — "You're Still the One" (1998)
8 weeks
Shai — "If I Ever Fall in Love" (1992–1993)
Deborah Cox — "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (1998–1999)
Brian McKnight — "Back at One" (1999–2000)
Mario Winans featuring Enya and P. Diddy — "I Don't Wanna Know" (2004)
Ed Sheeran —"Thinking Out Loud" (2015) Justin Bieber — "Sorry" (2015–2016)
They did Deborah wrong.
The chart runs for all these are interesting.
Foreigner — "Waiting for a Girl Like You":
42-25-21-15-10-4-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-9-36-58-76-92
Donna Lewis — "I Love You Always Forever":
95-65-53-42-31-23-13-12-9-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-3-5-7-9-11-14-15-18-20-20-16-16-18-22-21-28-30-36-39-42-45
Shania Twain — "You're Still the One":
51-39-27-26-24-20-19-16-15-14-5-2-3-3-4-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-6-7-6-7-9-10-13-18-21-22-22-21-23-24-23
Shai — "If I Ever Fall in Love":
54-35-23-12-4-2-3-2-2-2-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-3-7-11-19-27-32-33-37-41-45
Deborah Cox — "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here":
52-35-29-23-17-10-8-5-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-4-3-5-6-7-7-10-17-28-34-43
Brian McKnight — "Back at One":
75-52-45-39-29-27-24-21-18-12-8-6-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-4-4-4-6-12-16-18-19-18-21-21-22-27-37-40-48
Mario Winans featuring Enya and P. Diddy — "I Don't Wanna Know":
72-63-38-26-22-11-9-4-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-4-6-11-18-17-24-29-34-38-47-47-50
Ed Sheeran —"Thinking Out Loud":
69-79-75-84-68-62-40-39-24-6-4-7-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-5-5-7-8-10-9-10-16-22-20-21-20-22-24-26-24-27-28-30-31-30-34-34-32-37-38-38-37-35-39-40-41-45
Missy & Foreigner kinda fell right out the chart after they peaked.
Justin is the first of the group to debut at the #2 position, none of the rest even debuted Top 40.
Hello is everything. I would hope it stays #1, but JB also deserves his #1s with either Sorry/LY/both of them. His songs have slayed this era, quality-wise.
A lot of number one hits also have 8+ weeks at number two.
- Always Be My Baby (9 weeks)
- The Way You Move (8 weeks)
- Shake It Off (8weeks)
- Poker Face (9 weeks)
- Exhale Shoop Shoop (11 weeks)
- Sexy And I Know It (8 weeks)
There might be more. Whitney song still holds the record for most weeks at number two.
Edit: "Gangsta's Paradise" had 8 weeks too, every week that "Fantasy" was at number one.
Shake It Off and Poker Face were stuck at #2 after topping the chart though, no?
come on adele... if she could break the osd record. would be great .... but its not happening only if she promotes it
I don't think it has to do with promo, it's just that the album is so big. Maybe that's the reason Uptown Funk came so close because the people had no interest in the parent album
Missy & Foreigner kinda fell right out the chart after they peaked.
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For some reason, the Hot 100 had a lot of really big drops in 1982. Foreigners 9-36 fall held the record for the biggest fall within the Top 40 for 25 years, but a Soundscan era Linkin Park song broke that record (6-39).
Work It actually had slightly better longevity than the song that kept it out of #1, Lose Yourself, but not by much.
Slay at Justin's 5th week of having 3 songs in the top 5.
Is there any chance of Sorry snatching next week? Or ever?
IT won't get next week. She is 100% gettin an 11th week on top and she will most likely even snatch a 12th week. if he still manages to be strong by then than maybe he could get a week on top..but by then LY will prob snatch and block Sorry anyways.
Really doubt that OOTW is bubbling under. It has 5k sales 5k airplay and some streams from Apple Music. That is absolutely not enough. If it were bubbling under it would have pretty big streams from Apple Music.
Sorry deserves number one it feels bigger than Hello tbh
Sorry has been bigger on Top 40, but Hello is a Giant compared to Sorry (and Sorry is pretty big). Unless you listen to nothing but Top 40, I'm not sure how you could think Sorry "feels bigger than Hello." I won't touch potential bias issues here.
Love Yourself is about to overtake Sorry as well on US Spotify with about 2,000 streams separating the two...Any day from now could happen
Sorry still leads easily on YouTube streaming, though (10.3M vs. 5.7M) and of course on airplay (177M vs. 66M). It should still remain in front of LY for some time.
And it's still selling amazingly. 
