For the first time in his career — whether as part of One Direction or as a solo artist — Niall Horan has a #1 hit at pop radio.<\/p>\n
Up one place, his “Slow Hands” earns #1 on this week’s Mediabase pop radio airplay chart.<\/p>\n
The hit single received ~18,062 spins during the September 17-23 tracking period. The format-leading count tops last week’s mark by 692 plays.<\/p>\n
Prior to releasing “Slow Hands,” Horan had never gone higher than #4 at pop radio (he reached that point with One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” and “Story Of My Life”). His previous solo single “This Town” peaked outside the Top 10.<\/p>\n
Shortly after midnight, Horan Tweeted about the achievement.<\/p>\n
“Found out today that ‘Slow Hands’ is the #1 song in the US this week,” wrote Horan. “Thank you all so much for supporting the song.<\/p>\n
“You’ve no idea how much this means to me . There’s no way when I wrote this song did I think it would do stuff like this. Thank you so much”<\/p>\n
Charlie Puth’s “Attention,” the previous #1, falls to #2 on this week’s pop chart. It received ~16,819 spins this week (-1,289).<\/p>\n
Played ~16,563 times (+1,243), Liam Payne’s “Strip That Down (featuring Quavo)” rises one spot to #3. Shawn Mendes’ “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” falls one place to #4 with ~14,509 spins (-1,063).<\/p>\n
Up one place, Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” earns #5 on the strength of its ~13,407 spins (+839).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horan’s “Slow Hands” reaches the top of the pop radio airplay chart.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[3913,7608,9597,7472,6608,2511,8888,145],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n