Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' “Die With a Smile” climbs three places to No. 1 of Bulletin boardAdult Pop Airplay Chart (dated December 7).
The ballad, on Streamline/Atlantic/Interscope/ICLG, becomes Gaga's first radio chart-topper and Mars' fourth. He previously reigned as a featured on “Uptown Funk!” by Mark Ronson for one week in 2015 and with his own “When I Was Your Man” (two weeks, 2013) and “Just the Way You Are” (five, 2010).
Among the 12 Adult Pop Airplay Top 10s, Gaga had reached No. 2 of the previous best with two hits: “Shallow,” with Bradley Cooper, in 2019 and “The Edge of Glory,” in 2011.
Gaga tops Adult Pop Airplay 15 years, 11 months and two weeks after she first appeared on the chart dated December 20, 2008, when she debuted “Just Dance,” featuring Colby O'Donis (as way to the top of No. 7 ). It ends the longest wait for a first No. 1 dating back to an initial visit on the chart since leading Elton John and Britney Spears' “Hold Me Closer” for one week in March 2022. John entered (with “Blessed”) on the chart dated March 16, 1996 , when the catalog was first published in Bulletin boardprinted version of it. Spears hit the charts in March 1999 with her breakthrough classic, “…Baby One More Time.”
The Adult Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly airplay on 80 top 40 adult radio stations tracked by Mediabase, with data provided by Bulletin board from Luminate.
Gaga tops her overall radio chart resume as she also has eight No. 1 Pop Airplays, four on Dance/Mix Show Airplay and two on the all-format Radio Songs chart.
“Die With a Smile” topped the Billboard Global 200 chart for eight weeks in September-October, the longest of any song this year. It has logged over 100 million streams worldwide in each of the last 13 weeks (through the chart dated December 7), the longest such streak since the survey began in September 2020.
On the Billboard Hot 100, “Die With a Smile” reached No. 2 high. It has charted in the top 10 for all 15 weeks on the chart so far, dating back to its entry in late August – the most frames in the region consecutively from a debut week for any of Gaga's 18 top 10s, going up one. Applause', which spent its first 14 weeks on the chart in the top 10 in 2013.
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