uptown funk topped the billboard charts for 14 consecutive weeks in 2015.
which song topped the billboard charts for 14 consecutive weeks in 2015?
uptown funk
the single debuted at number 65 on the "billboard" hot 100 chart on 21 november 2014 due to digital sales, making it ronson's first entry on the hot 100. due to the release of the official video and a performance on "saturday night live", it subsequently sold 110,000 digital copies. the song became the hot 100's top digital gainer of the week and peaked at number 18 on 28 november 2014. in its third week, the track rose to number eight on the "billboard" hot 100, after the video's first full tracking week. it became ronson's first top 10 as an artist. it debuted on the component charts of streaming songs and radio songs at number 26 and 46, respectively. on the week of 10 december 2014, "uptown funk" ascended to number five, with sales of 152,000 copies. it marked mars' eleventh top five on the "billboard" hot 100. in its fourth week, the single peaked at number three on the "billboard" hot 100, selling 170,000 copies and achieving a 49 million airplay audience, thus receiving airplay gainer honors. the following week after "the voice" performance, the recording stayed at number three for the second consecutive week. it was the biggest gainer in digital songs (244,000) , streaming (7.9 million), airplay audience (63 million), becoming the fifth song to top all three "categories". ronson became the second lead male artist to top digital songs with a debut single, since sam smith's "stay with me" (2014). on 31 december 2014, the track rose to number two on the "billboard" hot 100 with 432,000 copies sold, 8.8 million streams and reached the top ten on radio songs with a 68 million audience. in its seventh week, "uptown funk" topped the "billboard" hot 100, with 382,000 downloads sold, 10 million u.s. streams and a 76 million airplay audience. it became ronson's first and only number-one single in the country and mars' sixth. it became one of the longest running number-one singles on the "billboard" hot 100 and the second longest-running number-one single of the 2010s decade topping the chart for 14 consecutive weeks. it is also ronson and mars' longest single to hold the top position. it was replaced by wiz khalifa's "see you again" (2015) featuring charlie puth. it topped the "billboard" hot 100 year-end chart.
uptown funk
the album debuted at #1 on the us billboard 200, selling 715,000 copies, outperforming nelly's previous effort "country grammar" (2000), which debuted at number 3 selling 235,000 copies. with the single, "hot in herre" debuting at #1 on the us billboard hot 100 that week, nelly was in possession of the top spot on 10 different "billboard" charts. within 2 weeks of its release, "nellyville" remained atop the "billboard" 200, selling 450,000 and 340,000 copies, respectively, surpassing 1.5 million copies in sales in its 3rd week. in its fourth week, "nellyville" replaced atop the chart by dave matthews band's "busted stuff". the former album was positioned at #2 on the "billboard" 200, with its sales decreasing to 305,000 copies. in the 5th week, it sold 271,000 copies, dropping from #2 to #3, and in its sixth week, it sold 244,000 copies remaining at number 3. "nellville" reached to #2 and sold 210,000 units in its 7th week of release and in its 8th week, topping the "billboard" 200, accumulating to 4 non-consecutive weeks atop. the album sold 185,000 copies that week. "nellyville" 4-week #1 run and sales were, according to "billboard", largely in part to the success of the album's singles, "hot in herre" and "dilemma". the former track was number one on the hot 100 prior to the album's release, maintaining a third week atop the chart, when "nellville" made its debut. the song topped the hot 100 for 7 consecutive weeks before being replaced by its successor, "dilemma", which topped the chart for 10 non-consecutive weeks, selling worldwide over 7.6 million copies. on june 25, 2002, "nellyville" was certified sex-tuple platinum by the recording industry association of america (riaa) for shipments of over 6 million copies in the united states of america. on march 16, 2011, the album sold 6,490,000 copies in the united states, becoming the fourteenth best-selling rap album of all time.
nellyville