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An Unlikely Artist Just Broke the Record for Longest Run Ever on The Hot 100 · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When you look at
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Speaker 1: the artists that normally set benchmarks on Billboards Hot one hundred,
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Speaker 1: it's household names like the weekend are in a Grande
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Speaker 1: or imagine dragons, which is why it's all the more
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Speaker 1: surprising that the act who just broke the record for
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Speaker 1: longest charting song in Hot one hundred history is an
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Speaker 1: electro indie rock group out of England. It's Glass Animals
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Speaker 1: Heatwaves just past the Weekends Blinding Lights to spend weeks
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Speaker 1: on the Hot one hundred more than any other artist
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Speaker 1: in the chart sixty four year history. Frontman Dave Bailey
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Speaker 1: telling Billboard, all I can say is well, when I
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Speaker 1: wrote this song, I was writing about missing someone I
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Speaker 1: love very dearly. Never in my wildest dreams that I
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Speaker 1: think it would lead to so much love and connection
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Speaker 1: across the globe. Thank you to everyone who's helped this
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Speaker 1: song reach so many people. One key to the record
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Speaker 1: was Glass Animal Steady Climb setting another record by taking
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Speaker 1: fifty nine weeks to rise to the number one spot
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Speaker 1: in March, slowest ever to rise. That's direct from Hollywood