“Uptown Funk” Has Spent More Time At #1 Than Any Other Song This Decade

Something crazy happened this week, in that Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ ever-present “Uptown Funk” crossed the 13-week mark at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That means “Uptown Funk” is no longer the new “Happy.” Nor is it the new “Blurred Lines.” No, “Uptown Funk,” whether you still love it or are sick as hell of hearing the song blaring out of every possible speaker this point, is the zeitgeist party jam of the decade. (Well, so far, at least.)

To point, the stint of “Uptown Funk” at the top of the chart left “Blurred Lines” in the dust last week as far as the most weeks at #1 in the 2010s (the latter spent 12 weeks at the Hot 100 peak), and it passed both “Happy” (10 weeks) and Rihanna’s “We Found Love” (same) by three weeks ago.

So what’s left for “Funk” to conquer? As far as most weeks ever at the top of the Hot 100 goes, Billboard pointed out yesterday that Ronson and Mars’ juggernaut of a single is now tied at 13 weeks with Boyz II Men’s “End Of The Road” (1992) and Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine” (1998).

The next hurdle would be surpassing the 14 weeks the following six singles racked up:

“I Gotta Feeling” — The Black Eyed Peas (2009)

“We Belong Together” — Mariah Carey (2005)

“Candle in the Wind 1997″/”Something About the Way You Look Tonight” — Elton John (1997)

“Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” — Los Del Rio (1996)

“I’ll Make Love to You” — Boyz II Men (1994)

“I Will Always Love You” — Whitney Houston (1992)

After that, there’s just one more song to knock down — the big daddy of them all: Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s mammoth ballad “One Sweet Day,” which spent 16 weeks at #1 between December 1995 and March 1996.

Ohmygod — the ’90s denim. What were we talking about? Oh, right…”Uptown Funk.”

Do you think Mark and Bruno have the staying power to surpass Mimi and Boyz II Men and nab the longest-running Billboard Hot 100 #1 single of all time?

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