Most thrilling chart runs in recent memory?

[avamaxstan]

In your opinion, which songs had the most unexpected/shocking/thrilling chart run to watch and follow? (both Hot 100 and radio)


1) Running Up That Hill (2022) - most unbelievable chart run of all time IMO (and deserved #1 Hot 100 but blocked by radio's obsession with As It Was)

2) Levitating - from late-era single release, to slow build over an entire year, to the biggest song in the country and blocked from #1 by a highly controversial shady move by Billboard, to the year-end #1 and the biggest female single of the decade so far.

3) Heat Waves - I first heard it in 2020 as a random unknown track, only for it to become the longest running song in Billboard history and the 2022 year-end #1.

[rainie]

came here to say the latter two you mentioned, but in a similar vein calm down, blinding lights, and cruel summer were both pretty wild to watch

also idk how interesting id find it now, but i remember cheap thrills by sia being the first chart run that made me go wow :0

[Daenerys]

In before the mentions of Who Knew, and U & Ur Hand come up.

I imagine Womanizer was also a bit of a wowzer considering it was Britney's first number one in about a decade, and first Top 40 in years.

Kelly Clarkson probably has a few too. 

[jasper0102]

Something In The Orange

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

first thing that obviously came to mind was "Hello" by Adele managing to sneak at the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End of 2015 WITHIN JUST THREE WEEKS, and at the time I was just 14 and was starting to be interested at Year-End charts as well (I don't have a Pulse acc at the time)

I would also say "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons within the same vein as "Heat Waves" and "Blinding Lights", but the two had to avoid recurrency rules, while "Radioactive" didn't

[Fire]

old town road probably

but honestly the first chart run i ever tracked was the at40 hot ac run for treat you better by shawn mendes lmao (random, ik)

[rainie]

Sept 11, 2023 17:44:53 GMT -5 jasper0102 said:

Something In The Orange

good call, this has to be one of the most satisfying runs in decent memory (especially when it + golden hour managed to sneak a week in the top 10 and make you look didn't)

[kcdawg13]

Sure Thing, a song which was huge R&B hit in 2011 and never had a chance to crossover to pop radio because of the EDM/electropop dominance of that era, being able to come back and get a long run at #1 on pop radio in 2023 because the landscape has changed.