Panic! at the Disco Joins Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls & Gotye for Rare Airplay Chart Achievement

Panic! at the Disco dances to its first No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Songs airplay chart as “High Hopes” climbs its way to the top. The band bests its prior peak on the survey, set when its first entry, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” reached No. 2 in August 2006.

While Panic’s 12-year, six-month and two-week span between its first week on Pop Songs and its first No. 1 was lengthy, it’s not a record: Coldplay completed a 16-year and two-month odyssey from its debut hit, “Yellow,” in March 2001 to its first leader, “Something Just Like This,” with The Chainsmokers, in May 2017.

Gotye had last earned such a triple crown, leading the three lists dated June 23, 2012, with “Somebody That I Used to Know,” featuring Kimbra. Before that, Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” topped the tree tallies at the same time for four weeks in March 2005, and Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” first achieved the feat on Aug. 1, 1998.

Watch the official music video here.

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