"levitating" topped the us year-end hot 100 for 2021, marking the first time in 20 years that a song that did not reach number one on the weekly chart topped the year-end chart, since lifehouse's "hanging by a moment" in 2001. it also topped the year-end canadian hot 100 for 2021. it also became the longest-running song in the top ten by a lead female in "billboard" history, breaking the record set by leann rimes' "how do i live".