The song passes David Bowie's 9-minute, 57-second-long 'Blackstar.'
Songs are noticeably succinct in 2019, with, for instance, 19-week Billboard Hot 100 leader "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X the shortest No. 1 hit by song length since 1965.
Still, the record for the lengthiest Hot 100 hit by run time is rewritten this week, as Tool's "Fear Inoculum" debuts at No. 93 on the Aug. 17-dated tally, becoming the first song in the chart's history to make the list with a time exceeding 10 minutes. At 10 minutes and 21 seconds, it bests David Bowie's "Blackstar," which, running 9:57-long, reached No. 78 in 2016.
Here's an updated look at the longest, as well as shortest, Hot 100 hits all-time (as researched by the invaluable Paul Haney of Joel Whitburn's Record Research, and going by the longest version of a song for the first list and the shortest for the second):