Myles Smith’s “Stargazing” shoots to No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts (dated Dec. 14).
The song crowns its second and third radio rankings, after it led Alternative Airplay for a week in September.
The folk-inflected hit, on It’s OK To Feel/RCA Records, becomes the first initial entry on each ranking to top the tallies for an English soloist.
In the quarter-century-plus that Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Alternative Airplay have coexisted, “Stargazing” is the 17th song overall to lead each list. (See list, below.)
Smith and co-writers Peter Fenn and Jesse Fink penned most of “Stargazing,” in Malibu, Calif., in about 15 minutes, followed by an exclusive premiere at a time optimal for the song’s title.
“I get back to West Hollywood at 2 or 3 in the morning, and I play the day-of demo,” Smith recalled to Billboard earlier this year. “I remember my manager waking up on the sofa like, ‘What is this?’ Everyone in the house is running and jumping around. For my team — my harshest critics, after my mum — to give me that genuine reaction, I knew I was on to something.”
Songs to Hit No. 1 on Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay & Alternative Airplay Charts:
Title, Artist, Year(s), Song Reached No. 1
- “Stargazing,” Myles Smith, 2024
- “Too Sweet,” Hozier, 2024
- “Enemy,” Imagine Dragons X JID, 2022
- “High Hopes,” Panic! at the Disco, 2018
- “Thunder,” Imagine Dragons, 2017
- “Feel It Still,” Portugal. The Man, 2017
- “Stressed Out,” Twenty One Pilots, 2015-16
- “Royals,” Lorde, 2013
- “We Are Young,” fun. feat. Janelle Monáe, 2012
- “Somebody That I Used To Know,” Gotye feat. Kimbra 2012
- “Use Somebody,” Kings of Leon, 2009
- “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” Green Day, 2004
- “The Reason,” Hoobastank, 2004
- “Every Morning,” Sugar Ray, 1999
- “Slide,” Goo Goo Dolls, 1998-99
- “Iris,” Goo Goo Dolls, 1998
- “Tubthumping,” Chumbawamba, 1997
Among the 17 songs above, Smith is the eighth artist to send a first entry on each chart to No. 1, joining fellow soloists JID, Lorde, Monáe, Gotye and Kimbra, as well as groups fun. and Chumbawamba. The latter band is the only English act other than Smith to score such a triple with a breakthrough hit.
All charts dated Dec. 14 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Dec. 10.
