222/InterscopeMaroon 5‘s hit “Girls Like You” is spending a fifth week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it’s reached a couple new milestones as a result.
“Girls Like You” is now the second-longest-running number one hit for Adam Levine and the guys, following their nine-week 2012 #1 “One More Night.” It passes “Moves Like Jagger,” which ruled for four weeks in 2011.
In addition, “Girls Like You” has been #1 on Billboard’s airplay-based Radio Songs chart for 13 weeks. That means it just passed Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” to score the title of longest-running #1 this decade. You’d have to go all the way back to 2007 to find a song that held the top spot longer: Alicia Keys’ “No One,” which ruled for 14 weeks.
If it “Girls Like You” can hang on at #1 for five more weeks, it’ll tie The Goo Goo Dolls “Iris” for the longest-running #1 hit of all time on the Radio Songs chart, which has been around since 1990.
In other Maroon 5 news, comedian Amy Schumer has called for the band to decline to perform at the Super Bowl to protest the NFL’s policy on players taking a knee in response to racial injustice.
Schumer’s suggestion followed a report that Rihanna had declined the Super Bowl gig for that reason. But at this point, Maroon 5 hasn’t actually been confirmed as the Super Bowl headliner.
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