Canadian famous singer The Weeknd’s album Starboy’s track ‘Die for You’, which was released in 2016, has risen to no. 1 at last on Billboard’s all-format Radio Songs chart.
The song, on XO/Republic Records, gained by 5% to 85.2 million airplay audience impressions in the Jan. 27-Feb. 2 tracking week, according to Luminate. As previously reported, the song rebounds to its No. 6 high on the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100.
The Weeknd added his fifth Radio Songs No. 1, following ‘Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)’ (for four weeks), ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ (seven), and ‘The Hills’ (five), all in 2015, and ‘Blinding Lights’, which dominated for a record 26 weeks in April-October 2020.
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On Pop Airplay, The Weeknd likewise landed his fifth leader, with ‘Die for You’ following ‘Earned It’ (one week), ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ (four weeks), ‘Blinding Lights’ (six) and ‘Save Your Tears’ (four, 2021).
‘Die for You’ completes the longest journey from a title’s release to its coronation on Radio Songs since the chart began in 1990. It tops the tally over six years after its arrival on Starboy, sparked by a surge of interaction on TikTok in recent months, which led Republic to officially promote it to the radio.
Since Starboy, which became The Weeknd’s second of four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart, where it ruled for five weeks beginning in December 2016, he has tallied four more top 10s: EP My Dear Melancholy, (No. 1 for one week in April 2018); After Hours (No. 1, four weeks, April 2020); best-of collection The Highlights (No. 2, February 2021) and Dawn FM (No. 2, January 2022).
