Blinding Lights

Released on November 29, 2019 as the second single ahead of The Weeknd's fourth studio album, After Hours (released March 20, 2020) Co-written and co-produced with Swedish pop hitmaker Max Martin, alongside Oscar Holter, Jason Quenneville (DaHeala), and Belly The Weeknd noted in a 2021 Billboard cover story that he was glad the track arrived 10 years into his career rather than as his debut single Recognized by music journalists for its deliberate sonic and aesthetic callback to 1980s synth-pop Analytical Benchmark — Chart Longevity: Logged 57 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (Feb 2020–Apr 2021) and 86 weeks in the Top 40, outlasting Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You' (33 weeks Top 10) Analytical Benchmark — Total Hot 100 Run: Spent 90 total weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing Imagine Dragons' 'Radioactive' (87 weeks)