Benson Boone achieves his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart, as “Beautiful Things” rises a spot to the top of the survey dated March 29. The song leads in its 55th week on the chart, wrapping the longest climb to No. 1 in the list’s history.
(The Adult Contemporary chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 80 radio stations in the format monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.)
The coronation is the latest for the song, which previously hit No. 1 on the all-genre U.S.-based Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts, as well as the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. It also crowned the Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay radio rankings.
“Beautiful Things,” on Night Street/Warner Records, debuted, at No. 15, on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 2024. It reached No. 2 that March and, except for one week over the holidays, has placed continuously in the top 40. It ranked at No. 12 on the most recently published, March 22-dated chart.
Here’s a look at the songs to take the most scenic trips to the summit since Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart began with the edition dated July 17, 1961:
- 55 weeks, “Beautiful Things,” Benson Boone, reached No. 1 on chart dated March 29, 2025
- 42 weeks, “If You’re Gone,” matchbox twenty, Oct. 6, 2001
- 41 weeks, “Circles,” Post Malone, Aug. 8, 2020
- 40 weeks, “The Bones,” Maren Morris, Sept. 5, 2020
- 39 weeks, “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix),” Elton John & Dua Lipa, May 21, 2022
Early last year, Boone reflected on the musical origin of “Beautiful Things,” with its unconventional build from gentle intro to full-on guitars. “The structure of the song did take a long time to figure out because we didn’t know if we should do it all slow, and then do one chorus at the end, or if we should do three choruses,” he said. “It took us two weeks — after we had already built out production — to redo everything, and that’s where we finally cracked the code. I’m very happy with the way it turned out.”
All charts dated March 29 will update Tuesday, March 25 on Billboard.com.
