North America "Blinding Lights" debuted at number 11 on the
Billboard Hot 100 on the issue dated December 14, 2019, In its 12th week on the chart, the song became the Weeknd's tenth top ten hit by rising to a new peak at number ten. On the issue dated March 28, 2020, the song rose two places to reach number two. The song reached number one on
R&B/Hip-Hop Songs on April 4, 2020, leading for 11 non-consecutive weeks. The song also reached number one on
R&B Songs chart on March 7, 2020, where it became his seventh number one on the chart, making him the artist with the most number ones on the chart's history and also attaining a record-breaking reign of 48 weeks. On March 30, 2020, the song rose to number one on the
Billboard Hot 100, dethroning
Roddy Ricch's "
The Box" on the issue dated April 4, 2020. "Blinding Lights" spent four weeks atop the Hot 100 and finished 2020 as the
year's top Billboard Hot 100 song. The following year, it ranked at number three on the year-end chart, becoming the first single to finish in the top three on two occasions. "Blinding Lights" spent 57 weeks in the top ten of the
Billboard Hot 100 and 43 weeks in the top five, breaking the record for the most time logged in the region over the chart's 62-year history. On April 13, the song reached number one on
Pop Songs chart, where it led for 6 non-consecutive weeks, as it slid to number two on the Hot 100. It later rose back up to number one for the two following weeks. On May 18, the song became his first number one on the
Adult Pop Songs chart, leading for 20 non-consecutive weeks. On November 7, "Blinding Lights" became his first number one on the
Adult Contemporary chart, where it led for 35 non-consecutive weeks. "Blinding Lights" topped
Radio Songs for a record-breaking 26 weeks, passing
Goo Goo Dolls' "
Iris", which held the record as the longest-running chart-topper for almost 22 years. "Blinding Lights" fell out of the Hot 100 for the week dated January 2, 2021, but it re-entered at number 3 the next week, breaking the three-way tie for the highest song to re-enter the Hot 100. Meanwhile, "Blinding Lights" tied for the most time totaled in the Hot 100's top three, 21 weeks, equaling the sums of The
Chainsmokers' "
Closer" and
Mark Ronson's "
Uptown Funk!". In the process, the song also attained the longest chart run of any Hot 100 chart-topper in
Billboard history, surpassing the 68-week run by
LMFAO's "
Party Rock Anthem" (2011–12). On November 23, 2021, the song surpassed "
The Twist" (1960) as the
number-one song of all time in
Billboard Hot 100 history. On April 5, 2022, "Blinding Lights" was awarded a
Diamond certification from the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling ten million units in the United States. "Blinding Lights" also became producer Max Martin's 23rd Hot 100 number one single as a writer, 21st as producer, and his first in both credits since
Justin Timberlake's "
Can't Stop the Feeling!" (2016). Martin has the third-most as writer, behind
Paul McCartney (32) and
John Lennon (26), and the second-most as producer, behind
George Martin (23). The Weeknd became the first artist to simultaneously lead
Billboards five primary charts on March 30, topping the Hot 100,
Billboard 200,
Artist 100, Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers. The next week, he topped the Hot 100, Billboard 200 and Artist 100 once more, achieving the feat for a fourth time. On the
Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, the song debuted at number two, where it was blocked from the top spot by the Weeknd's own "
Heartless". The song also became the Weeknd's second entry on the chart. It later rose to number one on the chart following the release of
After Hours. In the singer's native Canada, "Blinding Lights" debuted at number two on the
Canadian Hot 100, one place higher than "Heartless". It later managed to reach number one after the release of its parent album on the issue dated April 4, 2020, becoming the Weeknd's fifth number-one single in the country. It spent seven weeks atop the chart, tying "
Starboy" as his longest-running chart-topper. In May 2021, "Blinding Lights" dropped off the Canadian Hot 100 after 75 weeks on the chart, leaving it one week short of the all-time record set by "
I Gotta Feeling" by the
Black Eyed Peas in 2010. For the first half of 2020, "Blinding Lights" was the top Canadian song overall, with 484,000 units. It has been certified Diamond by
Music Canada for selling 800,000 units.
Europe, Oceania and Latin America In the United Kingdom, "Blinding Lights" debuted at number 12 on the
UK Singles Chart on December 6, 2019 – for the week ending date December 12, 2019. It eventually peaked at the top of the chart in February 2020, becoming the Weeknd's first number-one single in Britain. After two weeks at number one, it dropped a place number two. However it rebounded to number one the week after, and remained there for three consecutive weeks. The week after it fell a place to number two and also stayed at the runner-up spot for another week. The following week, it once again rebounded to number one, and stayed there for another three consecutive weeks. Overall, the single spent eight non-consecutive weeks atop the singles chart. It dropped to number two on April 24, 2020 – for the week ending April 30, 2020 – after the Weeknd used
Twitter to ask people to support its close rival, a charity single, "
You'll Never Walk Alone", by
Michael Ball and
Captain Sir Tom Moore, and make it number one for Moore's 100th birthday. As a result, "Blinding Lights" dropped a place to number two and remained at number two the following week, behind another charity single, "
Times Like These". According to the
Official Charts Company, "Blinding Lights" became Britain's biggest-selling song of 2020 with 2.2 million combined sales, including 250 million streams and 195,000 downloads. "Blinding Lights" has been certified 6× Platinum by the
British Phonographic Industry for selling 3,600,000 units. Elsewhere in Europe, the song topped the charts in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland. It also peaked within the top ten of the charts in Belarus, Hungary, Malta, North Macedonia, Russia, Romania, Spain, and Ukraine. In Australia, it topped the
ARIA Charts for eleven non-consecutive weeks. It is the sixth longest-running number-one of all-time in the country, tied with songs such as
Spice Girls's "
Wannabe",
Drake's "
God's Plan" and
Bryan Adams' "
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", as well the fifth longest by a foreign act. "Blinding Lights" has been certified 13× Platinum by the
Australian Recording Industry Association for selling 910,000 units. In New Zealand, the song topped the
New Zealand Singles Chart for four non-consecutive weeks. In Latin America, "Blinding Lights" topped the charts in Bolivia and Mexico. It also reached the top 10 in Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Puerto Rico and Uruguay, as well as the top 20 in Argentina, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru. It also charted in Brazil and Colombia, peaking at numbers 51 and 66 respectively.
Global "Blinding Lights" was the
best-selling global single of 2020, earning 2.72 billion subscription stream equivalents globally. For this feat, it was awarded the IFPI Global Digital Single Award by the
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). On February 24, 2021, it became the first song by a Canadian artist and only the fourth song in history to pass two billion plays on the platform; it also broke the record for the fastest song to do so, in under 15 months. On June 15, 2022, it became the first song by a Canadian artist and only the second song in history to surpass three billion streams, and also broke the record for the fastest song to do so. On January 1, 2023, "Blinding Lights" overtook
Ed Sheeran's "
Shape of You" to become the
most streamed song of all time on the platform, with over 3.332 billion streams at the time. On January 12, 2024, it became the first song to pass the 4 billion stream mark on Spotify. ==Music video==