It sold 327,000 digital downloads in its third week on the Hot 100, garnering the biggest sales week for a song in over five years, since Swift’s own ' Look What You Made Me Do' (2017) sold 353,000 copies in its first week. ' Anti-Hero', the lead single from American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's tenth studio album Midnights (2022), was the best-selling song of 2022. ' Anti-Hero' by Taylor Swift is 2022's best-selling song and longest-reigning chart-topper by a female artist. With 91 total weeks on the chart, the song dethroned The Weeknd's ' Blinding Lights' (2020) as the longest-charting song in Hot 100 history. ' Heat Waves' (2020) by English indie pop band Glass Animals topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100, after reaching number-one on the weekly charts in its 59th week, breaking the record for the longest journey to number one, surpassing the 35-week tally of Carey's ' All I Want for Christmas Is You' (1994). ' As It Was', the lead single from English singer Harry Styles' third studio album Harry's House (2022), debuted atop the Hot 100 and spent 15 weeks at the top spot-the most for any song in 2022, and the longest reigning number-one song by a soloist in the 64-year history of the chart, surpassing ' Candle in the Wind' (1997) by Elton John, ' I Will Always Love You' (1992) by Whitney Houston, and ' We Belong Together' (2005) by Mariah Carey. ' As It Was' by English singer Harry Styles topped the Hot 100 for 15 weeks, marking the longest-reigning number-one song by a solo act in Hot 100 history.

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