The weekly Billboard Hot 100 is topped precisely the way it was topped in each of the past ten weeks: by Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk (featuring Bruno Mars).”
The blockbuster single from Ronson’s “Uptown Special” thus spends an eleventh consecutive week as America’s hottest song. Since the inception of the Hot 100, only eighteen other songs have spent eleven weeks or more in the #1 position.
Monotonous at its peak, the Hot 100 features a shakeup at #2. Long the chart’s runner-up, Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” slips to #3 this week. Maroon 5’s “Sugar” now holds the #2 position.
In reaching #2, “Sugar” becomes the band’s highest-charting single since “One More Night.” That tune, which was cut from the band’s “Overexposed” album, spent multiple weeks at #1.
“Maps” and “Animals,” the previous singles from the band’s current album “V,” peaked at #6 and #3, respectively.
Also in the top ten this week: Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” (#4), Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney’s “FourFiveSeconds” (#5), The Weeknd’s “Earned It” (#6), Taylor Swift’s “Style” (#7), Sam Smith’s “Lay Me Down” (#8), Pitbull’s “Time of Our Lives (featuring Ne-Yo)” (#9) and Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” (#10).
