Songs With the Most Weeks Atop All of Billboard’s Airplay Charts Combined: Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ & More

“When you write a song, you want it to apply to as many people as possible.”

Alex Warren marveled to Billboard in 2025 about the mass appeal of “Ordinary.” As of June 2026, the song’s reach has led to another Billboard record: It now has the most weeks — 107 — at No. 1 among all the radio airplay charts that it’s topped.

The ballad’s haul encompasses 34 weeks and counting atop Adult Contemporary, along with record reigns on Adult Pop Airplay (30 weeks), the all-format Radio Songs chart (27 weeks) and Pop Airplay (16 weeks). It’s also the only song to be No. 1 for six months or more on as many as three airplay lists.

“I think every single year there’s always that wedding song or love song,” Warren told Billboard in 2025, when the singer-songwriter’s smash crowned the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and wrapped at No. 1 on the annual Songs of the Summer chart. “I think ‘Ordinary,’ sonically, has been this exciting storytelling record. It’s a song about love, and love is killing it right now.”

“Ordinary” wrested the record from Miley Cyrus‘ “Flowers,” which ran up 106 weeks atop all the Billboard radio charts that it led. It and “Ordinary” are the only songs with triple-digit weeks totals at No. 1 counting all airplay surveys.

The two hits are among 22 select songs that have spent at least 52 weeks, or a full year, combined at No. 1 on Billboard airplay charts. Billboard publishes 25 radio airplay charts, dating to the Adult Contemporary tally’s July 17, 1961, launch. Country Airplay became the first airplay chart ranked by electronically monitored data as of the list dated Jan. 20, 1990; all current airplay charts (more than half of which began in the ‘90s) are based on data monitored by Mediabase and provided to Billboard by Luminate. Meanwhile, despite increased audio competition from streaming and other platforms, radio remains a valuable and coveted outlet for exposure, with the No. 1 hit on Radio Songs each week drawing upwards of 80 million audience impressions.

The 25 such surveys: Adult Alternative Airplay, Adult Contemporary, Adult Pop Airplay, Adult R&B Airplay, Alternative Airplay, Christian AC Airplay, Christian Airplay, Country Airplay, Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Gospel Airplay, (the seasonal-only) Holiday Airplay chart, Latin Airplay, Latin Pop Airplay, Latin Rhythm Airplay, Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Mainstream Rock Airplay, Pop Airplay, R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Radio Songs, Rap Airplay, Regional Mexican Airplay, Rhythmic Airplay, Rock & Alternative Airplay, Smooth Jazz Airplay and Tropical Airplay.

Below browse the earworms — with a leading three by Mariah Carey, followed by two by Adele — that have infused radio and spent the most cumulative weeks atop Billboard’s airplay charts (through rankings dated June 27, 2026). They’re some of the most familiar hits still prominent on airwaves: As Cyrus playfully asked the 2024 Grammys crowd when she performed “Flowers,” “Why are you acting like you don’t know this song?!”