What are your records for the most time a song has spent in the lower regions of your chart before cracking the higher areas?

 

Here are mine:

 

Most Weeks in Top 100 before reaching Top 40:

Lost Frequencies & Netsky - Here With You (63-67-63-66-63-56-53-69-47-31-...) {9 weeks}

Relient K - Candy Hearts (70-62-56-65-66-74-87-97-39-...) {8 weeks}

 

The 'old format' hasn't allowed any songs in the Top 40 to spend long in there before reaching a higher level so none more specific yet but hopefully the 'new format' can provide some anomalies!

 

Yours?

longest time to reach top 10:

Era Istrefi - Bonbon (24-22-21-17-15-20-32-44-53-58-50-51-73-39-40-34-44-36-6-...) (18 weeks)

Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix) (81-95-74-35-60-75-95-x-79-96-63-47-48-29-12-8-...) (14 weeks, 15 incl. time spent outside top 100)

Starley - Call On Me (Ryan Riback Remix) (46-35-41-44-44-46-67-94-62-18-17-12-11-9-...) (13 weeks)

Imany - Don't Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix) (32-44-36-53-73-43-37-15-14-12-11-7-...) (11 weeks)

Nora En Pure feat. Dani Senior - Tell My Heart (85-70-75-74-62-64-80-81-x(14)-53-22-10-...) (10 weeks, 24 incl. time spent outside top 100)†

Sonny Fodera feat. Alex Mills - Always Gonna Be (50-44-43-28-30-27-34-30-22-11-10-...) (10 weeks)

Martin Jensen - Solo Dance (95-85-71-33-34-15-18-23-20-6-...) (9 weeks)

 

longest time to reach top 20:

Martin Solveig feat. Ina Wroldsen - Places (91-56-34-67-76-35-47-51-60-77-61-70-62-62-70-52-29-34-29-28-24-28-30-26-18-...) (24 weeks)

Watermät - Fade (40-40-41-24-48-65-23-28-29-30-31-34-26-30-25-22-17-...) (16 weeks)

French Montana feat. Swae Lee - Unforgettable (66-50-39-30-35-38-41-38-39-41-40-29-27-22-20-...) (14 weeks)

Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix) (81-95-74-35-60-75-95-x-79-96-63-47-48-29-12-...) (13 weeks, 14 incl. time spent outside top 100)

Frenship feat. Emily Warren - Capsize (71-29-46-35-38-42-38-17-15-12-10-...) (10 weeks)

Nora En Pure feat. Dani Senior - Tell My Heart (85-70-75-74-62-64-80-81-x(14)-53-22-10-...) (10 weeks, 24 incl. time spent outside top 100)†

Starley - Call On Me (Ryan Riback Remix) (46-35-41-44-44-46-67-94-62-18-...) (9 weeks)

 

longest time to reach top 40:

Zonderling - Sonderling (2016 Edit) (90-77-88-66-62-59-65-54-48-48-47-42-37-...) (12 weeks)

Mahama vs. Wolf Tide - Spoke The Words (68-66-54-74-62-61-72-70-60-53-47-34-...) (11 weeks)

ALMA - Karma (49-54-53-55-58-67-53-81-72-65-33-...) (10 weeks)

Childish Gambino - Redbone (79-76-62-50-61-65-72-64-54-x(11)-42-34-...) (10 weeks, 21 incl. time spent outside top 100)

Nora En Pure feat. Dani Senior - Tell My Heart (85-70-75-74-62-64-80-81-x(14)-53-22-...) (9 weeks, 23 incl. time spent outside top 100)†

Arcade Fire - Everything Now (98-78-72-55-54-51-42-42-34-...) (8 weeks)

Boehm feat. Molly Moore - Swallow My Pride (91-79-99-78-64-74-69-48-28-...) (8 weeks)

Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis 2.0 (77-76-75-63-91-53-52-49-38-...) (8 weeks)

 

† 'Tell My Heart' re-entered and charted top 40 due to release of vocal mix, the chart run is combined with original instrumental 'Lake Arrowhead'.