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How many seconds long is the shortest Billboard number one hit ever?

97 seconds

Background

The shortest number one hit was Stay by Maurice Williams at just 97 seconds. It hit number one in the USA in 1960. That was long before the TikTok era. Today songs are getting shorter again to work better on social media. The average song now runs around 3 minutes.

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