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This week’s No. 1 song is in the bottom half of the Hot 100. Here’s why

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" Lose Control " by Teddy Swims is the new No. 1 song on Billboard 's Hot 100 this week .
It's the record for most weeks on the Hot 100 , total, and it's been reset three times this decade .
The Weeknd’s COVID bop “Blinding Lights” set the mark in 2021 .
Alex Warren rose to fame as a YouTuber and TikTok influencer who lived in, and even helped launch, a collab house.
He was one of the founding members of the Hype House , a Los Angeles content-creator collective.
He signed to Atlantic Records in 2022 and began issuing anthemic singles like “ Headlights ” It took two years for him to crack the Hot 100 .
The same week Alex Warren's breakthrough hit rises to No. 1 , he scores his second Top 40 hit, “ Bloodline ,” which debuts at No. 32.
"Ordinary” has been streamed more than 20 million times a week; it spent four weeks as the most streamed song at Spotify and other digital service providers.
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