Canadian R&B star The Weeknd spent last week occupying the Billboard Hot 100 throne with his bombtrack “Can’t Feel My Face,” but apparently too much of everything is not enough.
This week his song “The Hills” has moved up the ranks to be seated at the summit as his second chart-topping hit, making him one of only seventeen acts in history to control both the number one and two positions on the chart at the same time.
He is the first artist to occupy the peaks of both the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 for more than a week since Taylor Swift’s seven-week reign with “Shake” and “Blank Space,” from her album 1989
In the last 50 years of Billboard chart successes, only eleven acts have had two number ones back to back: The Beatles, Boyz II Men, Puff Daddy, Ja Rule, Nelly, OutKast, Usher, T.I., Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift and this just in, The Weekend.
If that did not make an impact, The Weeknd is additionally the first male artist to rise to the No. 1 spot with two hits since Eminem’s “Not Afraid” and “Love the Way You Life” in 2010.
Although The Weeknd’s song “Face” is losing traction 1-3 on the Hot 100, the hit continues to dominate the Radio Songs chart for the seventh week.
The Hot 100 and related charts will appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine Sept. 25.
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