Benny Blanco’s debut single as a lead artist ‘Eastside,’ recently toped the Pop Songs chart after 31 weeks. The song, which features Halsey and Khalid, broke the record set by Alessia Cara’s ‘Here’ for the longest climb to number one in the chart’s history. The song debut on the chart back in July of last year, and still hangs around in the chart’s top ten, sitting at #6 over a month after the song fell from #1.



‘Eastside’s slow climb is an increasingly common thing occurring in the landscape of radio these days. Songs are taking extremely long times to climb the chart, and are having extended stays in the chart’s top ten. Of the 15 songs that have taken at least 20 weeks to reach number one on the chart, nearly half (7) were released in the last three years, including the 24 week climb of Khalid and Normani’s ‘Love Lies.’ Last year, Lauv’s ‘I Like Me Better’ took a record 35 weeks to reach the top ten on the chart, smashing a 20 year record of 31 weeks set by Edwin McCain’s ‘I’ll Be.…