Billboard Names The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights As The Song Of The Year

[Brother Leon]

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Sometimes the best songs are ones you think you’ve heard before -- but from a different artist and a different time. “Blinding Lights” is like that. The opening drumbeat is a DeLorean back to Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.” The amphetamine synth conjures fond memories of leopard-print-era Rod Stewart’s “Young Turks” -- or maybe that other guy with the avian hairdo, Mike Score from A Flock of Seagulls? And isn’t that spooky B-movie organ from Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me”? Whoah, stop thinking so much, dude, and let Abel Tesfaye’s Drambuie-drenched vocals bathe you in euphoria as you bop around your home in an M-95 mask, punching your fist to the “Hey!-Hey!-Hey!”’s, and giving thanks to Max Martin and The Weeknd for making a magical and much-needed tonic for troubled times. -- FRANK DIGIACOMO

Well deserved :clap1:

[Jake.]

This is deserved :clap1:

[Shaun]

fair enough tbh.... but it came out in 2019 :unsure:

[Crimson Dynamo]

smallest boy LT will be pleased

[Smithy]

It’s June?

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

I think they mixed #1 and #14 up

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

smallest boy LT will be pleased

That’s such a strange name you should change it or he’ll get bullied at school

[Brother Leon]

It’s June?

There’s no catching Abel now. 2020 is his year :worship:


Adele is not included.

[JerseyWins]

Don't get me wrong it's a solid song but it's not even his best song of the year or Song of the Album :joker:

Heartless >>>>>

[Brother Leon]

Don't get me wrong it's a solid song but it's not even his best song of the year or Song of the Album :joker:

Heartless >>>>>

Faith or After Hours if I’m being honest, but Blinding Lights is third and is hit of the year for sure tbf.

[Brother Leon]

Not only is it the most streamed and biggest song this year; but the Song is STILL in top 10 of streams for UK and US and Top 5 for downloads nearly 8 months later.

Pretty much one of the few #1s this Year that’s actually had longevity and was actually organically successful... especially in Pop. True King **** :clap1:


And to think when it first came out, Heartless was doing much better and looked like the hit :laugh: Only Adele is stopping this man from deservedly sweeping award season.

[Brother Leon]

History is made.


The Weeknd's former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 "Blinding Lights" holds at No. 5, as it tops the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-extending 27th week.

As for its Hot 100 longevity, "Lights" spends a 28th week in the top five, breaking the record for the most time logged in the region over the chart's 62-year history

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Very Well deserved. Biggest hit there’s been for a while.

[DouglasS]

It’s a good song and deserving of the title :clap1:

[Brother Leon]

Only real music is gonna last
All the other bull**** is here today and gone tomorrow

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Now broke the longest Top 10 record.


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Pretty insane longevity on the song considering it’s been a weird year where you can count on one hand the songs that have actually had real staying power.

Grammys better not pigeon hole this as R&B only now :fist:

[Swan]

It's more synthy than it is R&B.

[Smithy]

Completely snubbed at the Grammys :umm2:

[Brother Leon]

Completely snubbed at the Grammys :umm2:

I don’t even know what the **** happened.

You just have to laugh at this point :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

That’s such a strange name you should change it or he’ll get bullied at school

his currently 6 foot 2

you tell him