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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When you look at

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Speaker 1: the artists that normally set benchmarks on Billboards Hot one hundred,

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Speaker 1: it's household names like the weekend are in a Grande

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Speaker 1: or imagine dragons, which is why it's all the more

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Speaker 1: surprising that the act who just broke the record for

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Speaker 1: longest charting song in Hot one hundred history is an

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Speaker 1: electro indie rock group out of England. It's Glass Animals

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Speaker 1: Heatwaves just past the Weekends Blinding Lights to spend weeks

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Speaker 1: on the Hot one hundred more than any other artist

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Speaker 1: in the chart sixty four year history. Frontman Dave Bailey

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Speaker 1: telling Billboard, all I can say is well, when I

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Speaker 1: wrote this song, I was writing about missing someone I

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Speaker 1: love very dearly. Never in my wildest dreams that I

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Speaker 1: think it would lead to so much love and connection

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Speaker 1: across the globe. Thank you to everyone who's helped this

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Speaker 1: song reach so many people. One key to the record

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Speaker 1: was Glass Animal Steady Climb setting another record by taking

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Speaker 1: fifty nine weeks to rise to the number one spot

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Speaker 1: in March, slowest ever to rise. That's direct from Hollywood