The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” posts Associate in Nursing new 21st week at #1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B Songs chart because the hit single retains the highest slot on the list dated Gregorian calendar month.

“Lights” overtakes a trio of tracks that shared the previous record of twenty weeks – Drake’s “One Dance,” that includes WizKid and Kyla, The Weeknd’s own “Starboy,” that includes barmy Punk, and Bruno Mars’ “That’s What I Like” – since the ranking began in 2012. The Weeknd’s wiz standing, unsurprisingly, has translated into “Lights” enjoying sturdy success with every one of the 3 pursuit metrics that issue into the recent R&B Songs chart’s calculation: radio airplay, song sales, and streaming.

Within the airplay realm, “Lights” has another landmark week, because it ties the record for many weeks leading the all-genre Radio Songs chart (all airplay, no matter format, factors into Hot R&B Songs). The airplay strength has returned from multiple genre formats, as “Lights” dominated the Pop Songs airplay chart for 6 weeks between Apr and Gregorian calendar month and climbed to a pair of on throbbing songs in Apr.

“Lights” has racked up 19 weeks and enumeration at #1 on the R&B Streaming Songs chart, the fourth-longest run since the list began in 2013. The Weeknd owns 3 of these four spots, together with current champ “The Hills,” that clocked 27 weeks in 2015-16.