Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Hits No. 1 on Adult Contemporary Chart

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The coronation follows its grounds reign connected Pop Airplay.

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” adds different illustration achievement, hitting No. 1 connected Billboard’s Adult Contemporary vigor airplay survey (dated Oct. 25).

In September, the song, connected Atlantic Records, became the longest-leading deed ever connected Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart, moving up its reign to 16 weeks astatine No. 1. It surpassed Ace of Base’s “The Sign,” which had held the grounds since 1994, erstwhile it ruled for 14 weeks.

Extra bonzer “Ordinary” illustration action: Warren’s smash besides spends a 21st week astatine No. 1 connected Adult Pop Airplay, one-upping The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (in 2020) for the longest bid for a opus by a pb antheral soloist. Overall, conscionable 3 songs person led longer than “Ordinary”: Santana’s “Smooth,” featuring Rob Thomas (25 weeks, 1999-2000), Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” (23 weeks, 2023-24) and The Calling’s “Wherever You Will Go” (23 weeks, 2001-02).

“Ordinary” antecedently topped the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and finished astatine No. 1 connected the Songs of the Summer chart.

“Ordinary” leads Adult Contemporary with 11.3 cardinal successful audience, according to Luminate, making it the astir heard opus astatine the format Oct. 10-16. (As of this week, the illustration is based connected audience, aft being measured by plays, to amended bespeak songs’ wide scope and impact. For example, a play connected a vigor presumption successful greeting thrust successful a large marketplace present counts toward the illustration much than an overnight play successful a smaller market.)

Meanwhile, “Ordinary” is the archetypal opus released successful 2025 to apical Adult Contemporary this year. It’s besides conscionable the 2nd way to ascend to the acme this year, aft Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” successful March. Last twelvemonth by precocious October, 2 songs had besides deed No. 1 for the archetypal time, arsenic the format continues to trust heavy connected catalog favorites.