http://www.theofficialcharts.com/top40_singles.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(Charlie_Chaplin_song)#Michael_Jackson_version

These are three songs that might prospectively break that record:
Anberlin – Feel Good Drag (40 Weeks)
Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire (46 Weeks)
Shinedown – Second Chance (42 Weeks)

Although that Shinedown track is falling fast and probably won’t make it another month, “Sex on Fire” is actually getting recurrent-equivelant airplay while still being on the chart! (ditto with MGMT’s “Kids”, which got a kick in airplay after the video was finally released and has remained on the chart for only 34 weeks, but the single went Gold just this week)

Also, AllAccess and Mediabase are reporting that “1901″ by Phoenix, my favorite song of the year, will debut somewhere between #31 and #37 next week on the Billboard Modern Rock/Alternative chart. That settles it: Alternative has finally returned to its own chart (Silversun Pickups, Cage the Elephant, Manchester Orchestra, Metric and Yeah Yeah Yeahs all getting sizable hits? Yeah, alternative – or at least the indie rock subgenre – is making swell business now) and kicked out the WTF Hard Rock stuff like Guns ‘n’ Roses.

Thanks, and exactly right — I should have stated this a bit more clearly. This is, in fact, the line Billboard uses when a song is allowed to reappear; the magic words are “actively promoted to radio.”

This brings up a point I didn’t have room for in the Michael Jackson discussion above — the rare instances in the last couple of decades where Billboard has allowed an oldie to chart again (an actual oldie, not just a recent-but-20-week-old song, like the Ting Tings’).

I call it “The ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Rule.” In 1992, Billboard allowed that Queen chestnut, which had already had a successful Top 10 run in 1976 on Elektra, to chart again because new label Hollywood was actively promoting it to radio in the wake of Freddie Mercury’s death and Wayne’s World. The exception was invoked again in 1994 when Curb was actively promoting a dance remix of the Four Seasons’ “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)” to radio (normally a mere remix of an essentially unchanged song wouldn’t be allowed to re-chart).

These oldie-oldie instances are distinct from a case like the Ting Tings, even though the rationale is the same. The fact is, Billboard allows a handful of recent songs like “That’s Not My Name” to reappear on the Hot 100 at least once or twice a year; these cases are not all that rare. (A label very belatedly gets radio to start playing a months-old song, and they ask the magazine for an exception because it’s finally catching on.) But the “Bohemian Rhapsody” instances are very rare, because Billboard needs to be convinced the oldie is being promoted and played like a current pop hit. This is why no amount of iTunes sales could get Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” onto the Hot 100 in 2008, and why none of these Michael Jackson songs, as you point out, are going to be allowed to chart now.

Thanks for the comments.

First of all, some curious facts about Anberlin:

a) They’re a Christian rock band (OK, maybe not that important, but nevertheless amusing to point out)
b) The most likely biggest Alternative hit of 2009 still hasn’t charted on the Hot 100 yet. It did trouble the Bubbling Under chart for some weeks, but that was it.
c) I have my theory over it: “Feel Good Drag” didn’t pull the very common trick these days of rising simultaneously on the Alternative and Mainstream Rock charts.
d) The strangest here is that anyone who listens to the song agrees that it might be a better fit for Mainstream Rock stations than Alternative ones – though given rock radio’s state of affairs these days, that is basically a moot point.

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