Myles Smith’s “Stargazing” completes triple triumph on the pop, adult and alternative airplay charts

Myles Smith’s “Stargazing” shoots to No. 1 billboard‘s Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts (dated December 14).

The song caps his second and third radio rankings after topping Alternative Airplay for a week in September.

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The folk hit on It’s OK To Feel/RCA Records is the first entry in any ranking to top the chart by an English soloist.

In the more than quarter century that pop airplay, adult pop airplay and alternative airplay have coexisted, “Stargazing” becomes the 17th song overall to top each list. (See list below.)

Smith and his co-writers Peter Fenn and Jesse Fink wrote the majority of “Stargazing” in Malibu, California, in about 15 minutes, followed by an exclusive premiere at a time optimal for the song’s title.

“I come back to West Hollywood at 2 or 3 a.m. and play the demo the day of the game,” Smith remembers billboard Earlier this year. “I remember my manager waking up on the sofa and asking, ‘What is that?’ Everyone in the house is running and jumping around. For my team – my harshest critics after my mother – to give me that sincere response, I knew I was on to something.”

Songs that reach #1 on the Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Alternative Airplay charts:

Title, artist, year(s), song reached number 1

• “Stargazing,” Myles Smith, 2024

• “Too Sweet,” Hozier, 2024

• “Enemy,” Imagine Dragons X JID, 2022

• “High hopes”, panic! at the disco, 2018

• “Thunder,” Imagine Dragons, 2017

• “Feel It Still”, Portugal. The Man, 2017

• “Stressed Out,” Twenty One Pilots, 2015-16

• “Royals,” Lorde, 2013

• “We are young”, funny. feat. Janelle Monae, 2012

• “Someone I Used to Know”, Gotye feat. Kimbra 2012

• “Use Somebody,” Kings of Leon, 2009

• “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” Green Day, 2004

• “The Reason”, Hoobastank, 2004

• “Every Morning,” Sugar Ray, 1999

• “Slide,” Goo Goo Dolls, 1998-99

• “Iris,” Goo Goo Dolls, 1998

• “Tubthumping,” Chumbawamba, 1997

Among the 17 songs mentioned above, Smith becomes the eighth artist to achieve a debut No. 1 entry on each chart, joining fellow soloists JID, Lorde, Monáe, Gotye and Kimbra, as well as the group fun. and Chumbawamba. The latter band are, alongside Smith, the only English band to achieve such a triple with a groundbreaking hit.

All December 14th charts will be updated on Tuesday, December 10th on Billboard.com.

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