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The new single received pickups from 157 Mediabase-monitored pop stations this week.<\/p>\n<p>As was the case at hot adult contemporary radio, Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;willow&#8221; ranks as a close second on the pop add board. The &#8220;evermore&#8221; single received 154 playlist adds in conjunction with this week&#8217;s report, the first since December 8 (prior to the song&#8217;s release).<\/p>\n<p>Justin Bieber&#8217;s new &#8220;Anyone&#8221; also received an impressive showing of support, earning third place with 105 adds.<\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd&#8217;s &#8220;Save Your Tears&#8221; lands in fourth with 41 pickups, and an add count of 36 slots Black Eyed Peas &#038; Shakira&#8217;s &#8220;Girl Like Me&#8221; in fifth.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s other notable pop radio options: Megan Thee Stallion&#8217;s &#8220;Body&#8221; (6th-most, tie), Ritt Momney&#8217;s &#8220;Put Your Records On&#8221; (6th-most, tie), Foushee&#8217;s &#8220;Deep End&#8221; (8th-most, tie), All Time Low&#8217;s &#8220;Monsters (featuring blackbear)&#8221; (8th-most, tie), and Miley Cyrus&#8217; &#8220;Prisoner (featuring Dua Lipa)&#8221; (10th-most).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop radio embraced a trio of new singles, with &#8220;Afterglow&#8221; taking first place.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[14363,947,13300,9141,8854,6960,314,14396,96,12106,116,14215,293,145,791,14324],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ed Sheeran&#039;s &quot;Afterglow&quot; Erupts As Pop Radio&#039;s Most Added Song; Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber Singles Also Post Big Add Counts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ed Sheeran&#039;s &quot;Afterglow&quot; tops the first Mediabase pop radio add board of 2021. 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