Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Ties This 1994 Hit’s Record for Longest Reign Ever on Pop Airplay Chart

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” continues to be anything but, as it scores a record-tying 14th week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart (dated Sept. 27).

The song matches Ace of Base’s “The Sign,” which ran up its reign consecutively from February through March 1994, for the longest command since the ranking began in October 1992.

“Ordinary,” on Atlantic Records, first topped Pop Airplay in June and has led for all but one week since; Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” interrupted its rule earlier in September.

The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.

Here’s a look at the longest leading Pop Airplay hits, all enduring smashes, over the chart’s 32-year history:

“Ordinary” previously crowned the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and wrapped at No. 1 on the Songs of the Summer chart. Among its other dominations, it ruled the Billboard Global 200 for 10 weeks and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. for eight frames.

Warren recently discussed the song’s mass appeal with Billboard, musing, “When you write a song, you want it to apply to as many people as possible.”

All charts dated Sept. 27 will update Tuesday, Sept. 23, on Billboard.com.

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