Lady Gaga’s New Single Matches Her Career-Starting Smash

Lady Gaga proved she was no one-hit wonder when she first broke out, scoring back-to-back No. 1 hits on the Hot 100. “Just Dance,” her collaboration with then-rising musician Colby O’Donis, rocketed her to the top spot immediately. She followed it up quickly with “Poker Face,” another champion. Both tracks remain among the most popular in a discography packed with pop smashes, and they rank as some of her longest-charting successes on the Hot 100.

Now, one of them has been bested by one of Gaga’s most recent singles, one which sounds absolutely nothing like its predecessors.

“Die With a Smile” Ties “Poker Face”

Last week, “Poker Face” was tied with “Die With a Smile” in Gaga’s discography as her third-longest-running success on the Hot 100. Both tunes had managed to find space on the roster of the most consumed songs in America for 40 weeks, but that tie has now been broken.

“Die With a Smile,” Gaga’s duet with Bruno Mars, holds on and earns a forty-first stay on the tally. Now, it stands alone as her third-longest-charting Hot 100 win, while “Poker Face” has been bumped slightly to fourth.

“Die With a Smile” Will Have to Wait to Advance Again

It will be about a month before “Die With a Smile” is able to advance again. “Shallow,” Gaga’s Oscar-winning track with Bradley Cooper, spent 45 weeks on the Hot 100. “Die With a Smile” will need to remain on the tally for yet another month after that before reaching the heights of “Just Dance,” which lived on the list for 49 frames and ranks as Gaga’s longest-charting release.

Radio Keeps “Die With a Smile” Alive

While eight more frames on the Hot 100 is quite a lot to accomplish, it’s entirely possible that “Die With a Smile” will match “Just Dance” one day — and perhaps even beat it. There’s even a shot at it becoming Gaga’s first tune to live on the Hot 100 for an entire year.

This frame, “Die With a Smile” sits at No. 7 on the Hot 100, dropping only one spot. Continued radio play is largely keeping the track alive, as the duet remains in heavy rotation across a number of pop formats. This week, the throwback track appears on four of Billboard’s radio tallies, and it lives inside the top 10 on all of them, even after 41 frames.