Peak
1
Weeks
61
Score
15,116
Chart Year
2019
Scores & Rankings
Chart Performance
Peak Position1
Peak DateNov 30, 2019
Weeks at Peak3
Weeks Charted61
Weeks in Top 4061
Weeks in Top 1039
Weeks at #24
Weeks at #13
Scoring
Summary Calc7,966
Weekly Calc7,150
Total Score15,116
Rankings
Year Ranking#1
Decade Ranking#1
Billboard Year#1
Top 5000#14
Details
- Album
- Hollywood's Bleeding
- Label
- Republic Records
- Genre
- Indie pop
- Media Type
- DD
- Duration
- 3:35
- Composer(s)
- Austin Post;Louis Bell;Adam Feeney;Kaan Gunesberk;Billy Walsh
- Entered Chart
- Sep 14, 2019
- Peak Date
- Nov 30, 2019
- Released
- August 30, 2019
- Recorded
- August 8, 2018
- Catalog #
- Republic
Music Video
The music video, directed by Colin Tilley, was released on September 3, 2019. As of March 2024, it has over 650 million views on YouTube. It's a medieval-style metaphor of the main theme of the song, "running in circles" in a relationship and failing to put an end to it, thus ending up getting hurt. Post Malone plays a knight in armor who has to rescue a princess locked up in a tower (but endowed with magical powers). The princess, seeing the future through a magic mirror, discovers that Post will be defeated by the enemies and burned alive. Meanwhile, Post has a hallucination in which he sees the same future and is then buried alive by zombies, but the princess awakens him with a magic blue rose (which symbolizes the unattainable). Post goes to rescue her, succeeding. But the director's choice to show again, at the end of the video, Post staring at that tragic future during the hallucination, suggests that it's bound to happen.
Notes
"Circles" is a song by American musician Post Malone. It was released through Republic Records on August 30, 2019, as the third single from Malone's third studio album Hollywood's Bleeding (2019). It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for the week of November 30, 2019, topping the chart for three weeks, marking Post Malone's fourth number-one song, as well as his first solo effort to top the chart. The song also reached number one in Iceland, Malaysia, and New Zealand, as well as the top 10 in 20 additional countries. It was the most played song of 2020 on adult contemporary radio in the US and was also the second best-selling song in 2020 in the country. It is also certified Diamond in the US and Canada, 16× Platinum in Australia, and Gold or higher in 11 additional countries. It was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
We couldn't turn around 'Til we were upside down I'll be the bad guy now But, no, I ain't too proud I couldn't be there Even when I tried You don't believe it We do this every time Seasons change and our love went cold Feed the flame 'cause we can't let it go Run away, but we're running in circles Run away, run away I dare you to do something I'm waiting on you again So I don't take the blame Run away, but we're running in circles Run away, run away, run away Let go I got a feeling that it's time to let go I say so I knew that this was doomed from the get-go You thought that it was special, special But it was just the sex though, the sex though And I still hear the echoes (the echoes) I got a feeling that it's time to let it go, let it go Seasons change and our love went cold Feed the flame 'cause we can't let it go Run away, but we're running in circles Run away, run away I dare you to do something I'm waiting on you again So I don't take the blame Run away, but we're running in circles Run away, run away, run away Maybe you don't understand what I'm going through It's only me What you got to lose? Make up your mind, tell me What are you gonna do? It's only me Let it go Seasons change and our love went cold Feed the flame 'cause we can't let it go Run away, but we're running in circles Run away, run away I dare you to do something I'm waiting on you again So I don't take the blame Run away, but we're running in circles Run away, run away, run away
Chart History (61 weeks)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 14, 2019 | 7 | 119 |
| 2 | Sep 21, 2019 | 4 | 122 |
| 3 | Sep 28, 2019 | 9 | 117 |
| 4 | Oct 5, 2019 | 8 | 118 |
| 5 | Oct 12, 2019 | 7 | 119 |
| 6 | Oct 19, 2019 | 6 | 120 |
| 7 | Oct 26, 2019 | 4 | 122 |
| 8 | Nov 2, 2019 | 4 | 122 |
| 9 | Nov 9, 2019 | 3 | 123 |
| 10 | Nov 16, 2019 | 2 | 124 |
| 11 | Nov 23, 2019 | 2 | 124 |
| 12 | Nov 30, 2019 | 1 | 125 |
| 13 | Dec 7, 2019 | 1 | 125 |
| 14 | Dec 14, 2019 | 2 | 124 |
| 15 | Dec 21, 2019 | 2 | 124 |
| 16 | Dec 28, 2019 | 3 | 123 |
| 17 | Jan 4, 2020 | 5 | 121 |
| 18 | Jan 11, 2020 | 1 | 125 |
| 19 | Jan 18, 2020 | 3 | 123 |
| 20 | Jan 25, 2020 | 3 | 123 |
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