Two New Hot 100 Records

The Black Eyed Peas and Jason Mraz both break Billboard records this week.
Here is an excerpt from today's Billboard Bulletin.


Two longevity records will be shattered on the Billboard
Hot 100 chart to be released on Billboard.biz Thursday
(Aug. 20) morning. With an eighth consecutive week at
No. 1 for "I Gotta Feeling," the Black Eyed Peas will have
held the top slot for an unprecedented 20 straight weeks,
having previously led the list for the prior 12 frames with
"Boom Boom Pow," the lead single from its Billboard 200-
topping album "The E.N.D." Also entering the record
books is Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours," which spends an extraordinary
70th week on the Hot 100. The track debuted
on the May 3, 2008, chart and peaked at No. 6 nearly a year
ago, on Sept. 20, 2008. The song has resided within the
top 40 of the list in all but the first 12 weeks of its chart
life, dropping 23-29 on the latest tally.

The Black Eyed Peas' 20-week string atop the Hot 100
surpasses Usher's run of 19 consecutive weeks achieved
in 2004 with "Yeah!" and "Burn."

For Mraz, his never-say-die single overtakes the weekson-
chart mark held for nearly 11 years by LeAnn Rimes'
signature hit "How Do I Live." That ubiquitous track spent
69 weeks on the Hot 100, with its final frame occurring
on the Oct. 10, 1998, chart.