Miley Cyrus’ “Used To Be Young” ascends to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Pop Airplay chart (dated Dec. 16).
The ballad, on Columbia Records, becomes Cyrus’ second leader on the list, after “Flowers” dominated for 17 weeks beginning in March – the most among songs by women since the survey began in Billboard’s pages in March 1996.
(The Adult Pop Airplay chart reflects plays on over 80 reporting adult top 40-formatted stations. Airplay is monitored by Mediabase and provided to Billboard by Luminate.)
“Used To Be Young” also returns to its No. 4 high on the Pop Airplay chart and holds at its No. 8 best on Adult Contemporary.
In between “Flowers” and “Used To Be Young,” Cyrus hit the Adult Pop Airplay top 10 with “Jaded,” which rose to No. 10 in September. The same month, “Used To Be Young” launched at its No. 8 peak on the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, becoming Cyrus’ 12th top 10.
“Flowers,” notably, has topped Adult Contemporary for 34 weeks (through its most recent frame at No. 1 on the Dec. 2-dated chart), the longest command for a song by a woman in the ranking’s history. It also ruled Pop Airplay for 10 weeks. The single’s 61 total weeks atop Adult Contemporary (34), Adult Pop Airplay (17) and Pop Airplay (10) place it in a tie for the longest combined command on the three charts, matching The Weeknd’s run with “Blinding Lights” in 2020-21.
Meanwhile, “Flowers” rules Billboard’s 2023 year-end Radio Songs and Adult Pop Airplay Songs charts. All charts dated Dec. 16 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Dec. 12.
