In reply to DIABETES UNBOTHERED.

I actually think this record WILL be broken at some point. The reality is that we are now in an era where streaming dominates, and 5-month reigns at the top are possible.

Congrats to Lil Nas X on this achievement, and he certainly broke the record in a technical sense, but it's hard to compare this to One Sweet Day, for example, which charted in a very different chart universe. Using the metrics that kept One Sweet Day at the top for 16 weeks, OTR would have relinquished the crown weeks ago -- simply b/c streaming did not exist in the 90s., and OTR's sales/airplay stats would not still rank the highest among all songs.