Jason Mraz makes history with 71-week chart run
Jason Mraz 's "I'm Yours" may be the longest running song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart , but the hippie-friendly jam has been around even longer. Mraz has played the song on tour for five years, and he said fans at live shows always responded differently to it, inspiring him to release the song as a single. "The song was really born into the crowd. ... I noticed almost an immediate response to it and people really celebrated in a different way during that song," he said in a phone interview. "And then by having those three years to jam to the song, it gave us the opportunity to do something simple, yet spirited" in the studio. "And now of course, that we've been playing with people really owning it on the record, it's taken it to a whole new level," he said. "I'm Yours" first charted in May 2008, hit No. 6 in September 2008 and has spent 71 weeks on Bill...