{"id":1045,"date":"2018-06-25T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:50","slug":"xxxtentacions-sad-vaults-from-no-52-to-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100-following-rapper-singers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"XXXTentacion&#8217;s &#8216;Sad!&#8217; Vaults From No. 52 to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 Following Rapper\/Singer&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"field field-name-field-sub-headline field-type-text field-label-hidden\">The song, which reached a prior No. 7 high in March, surges after he was shot &amp; killed June 18.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/xxxtentacion\">XXXTentacion<\/a>\u00a0posthumously tops the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, as his single &#8220;Sad!&#8221; jumps from No. 52 to No. 1 for its first week atop the chart. The song, which had first peaked at No. 7 on March 31, reaches the summit after the rapper\/singer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/8461623\/xxxtentacion-shot-miami\">died June 18<\/a>\u00a0at age 20 after being shot in Deerfield, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first artist to top the Hot 100 posthumously in a lead role since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-notorious-big\">The Notorious B.I.G.<\/a>, with &#8220;Mo Money Mo Problems,&#8221; in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a deeper look at the top 10 of the Hot 100 (dated June 30), which blends all-genre streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (June 26).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sad!,&#8221; released on the Bad Vibes Forever label, and the 1,075th No. 1 in the Hot 100&#8217;s 59-year history (and XXXTentacion&#8217;s first), likewise leads the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart for the first time, surging from No. 34 (besting its prior No. 2 high), up 264 percent to 48.9 million U.S. streams in the week ending June 21, according to Nielsen Music (a higher sum than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8462352\/cardi-b-bad-bunny-j-balvin-i-like-it-vying-for-no-1-hot-100\">projected last week<\/a>\u00a0before all streaming data was compiled).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sad!&#8221; re-enters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>\u00a0at No. 5 (surpassing its previous No. 26 peak), up 659 percent to 26,000 downloads sold in the week ending June 21 (as it makes the Hot 100&#8217;s greatest gains in streaming and sales). While the track has not reached the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart, it nearly doubled its airplay audience to 2.9 million in the week ending June 24.<\/p>\n<p>The song is from XXXTentacion&#8217;s album\u00a0<em>?<\/em>, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8260857\/xxxtentacion-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart\">debuted at No. 1<\/a>\u00a0on the March 31-dated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8462423\/5-seconds-of-summer-third-no-1-album-billboard-200-chart\">bounds 24-3<\/a>\u00a0as the June 30 chart&#8217;s Greatest Gainer (94,000 equivalent album units, up 397 percent, in the week ending June 21).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sad!&#8221; concurrently takes over atop the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>\u00a0charts (where it had previously reached Nos. 4 and 3, respectively), becoming XXXTentacion&#8217;s first No. 1 on each ranking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgN-vvVVxMA\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>XXXTentacion becomes the eighth soloist to have topped the Hot 100 posthumously, and the first in a lead role in over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/static-major\">Static Major<\/a>\u00a0had become the last act to reach No. 1 following his death, as featured on Lil Wayne&#8217;s &#8220;Lollipop,&#8221; which began a five-week reign on May 3, 2008; Static Major died unexpectedly from internal bleeding Feb. 25 that year. Before Static Major,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/soulja-slim\">Soulja Slim<\/a>\u00a0led the Hot 100 posthumously as featured on Juvenile&#8217;s &#8220;Slow Motion,&#8221; for two weeks starting Aug. 7, 2004; Soulja Slim was shot and killed Nov. 26, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>XXXTentacion is the first artist to appear atop the Hot 100 posthumously in a lead role since The Notorious B.I.G., who earned two No. 1s following his March 9, 1997, shooting death: &#8220;Mo Money Mo Problems&#8221; (featuring Puff Daddy and Mase), which led for two weeks (Aug. 30 and Sept. 6, 1997), and &#8220;Hypnotize&#8221; (three weeks, beginning May 3, 1997).<\/p>\n<p>The other solo artists to crown the Hot 100 after they had died:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/john-lennon\">John Lennon<\/a>, with &#8220;(Just Like) Starting Over&#8221; (five weeks, 1980-81);\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jim-croce\">Jim Croce<\/a>, with &#8220;Time in a Bottle&#8221; (two, 1973-74);\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/janis-joplin\">Janis Joplin<\/a>, with &#8220;Me and Bobby McGee&#8221; (two, 1971); and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/otis-redding\">Otis Redding<\/a>, with &#8220;(Sittin&#8217; on the Dock of the Bay&#8221; (four, 1968).<\/p>\n<p>(Before his death, the chart success of XXXTentacion, born Jahseh Onfroy, was concurrent with numerous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8461690\/xxxtentacion-career-timeline\">controversies and legal troubles<\/a>. When he died, he was awaiting trial on over a dozen felony charges and allegations of domestic violence against his then-pregnant girlfriend.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/cardi-b\">Cardi B<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bad-bunny\">Bad Bunny<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/j-balvin\">J\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/j-balvin\">Balvin<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;I Like It&#8221; rises 3-2 on the Hot 100. It pushes 3-2 on Digital Song Sales (33,000, up 13 percent); dips 2-3 on Streaming Songs (although up 1 percent to 35.2 million); and jumps 15-11 on Radio Songs (66.4 million, up 25 percent). Balvin earns a new best Hot 100 rank, one-upping his prior No. 3 high set by &#8220;Mi Gente,&#8221; with Willy William and featuring Beyonc\u00e9, last October, while Bad Bunny likewise reaches a new high with his first Hot 100 top 10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\">Drake<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Nice for What&#8221; falls to No. 3 on the Hot 100 after seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. Still, the track returns to No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/summer-songs\">Songs of the Summer<\/a>\u00a0chart, which measures the top cumulative performing titles on the Hot 100\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8459408\/songs-of-the-summer-chart-returns-2018-drake-nice-for-what\">between Memorial Day and Labor Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mzB1VGEGcSU\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Juice WRLD&#8217;s &#8220;Lucid Dreams&#8221; jumps 6-4 on the Hot 100, becoming his first top five hit on the chart. It slips to No. 2 after a week atop Streaming Songs, but with an 11 percent gain to 43.2 million U.S. streams. It also ascends 26-21 on Digital Song Sales (15,000, up 16 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Notably, &#8220;Dreams&#8221; samples\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/sting\">Sting<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Shape of My Heart,&#8221; a single, which he wrote with Dominic Miller, from his 1993 album\u00a0<em>Ten Summoner&#8217;s Tales<\/em>. The LP debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (although &#8220;Shape&#8221; has never reached a\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0chart; it&#8217;s also not to be confused with Backstreet Boys&#8217; like-titled song, which was co-written by Max Martin and hit No. 9 on the Hot 100 in 2000).<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;Dreams,&#8221; Sting tallies his fifth top five Hot 100 hit as a writer, following his credits on his former band The Police&#8217;s &#8220;Every Breath You Take&#8221; (No. 1 for eight weeks in 1983) and follow-up &#8220;King of Pain&#8221; (No. 3, 1983); Dire Straits&#8217; &#8220;Money for Nothing&#8221; (three weeks, 1985); and Puff Daddy and Faith Evans&#8217; &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Missing You,&#8221; featuring 112 (11 weeks, 1997), which interpolates &#8220;Breath&#8221; (and serves as a tribute to The Notorious B.I.G.)<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top five,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/maroon-5\">Maroon 5<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Girls Like You,&#8221; featuring Cardi B, holds at No. 5 after reaching No. 4. It rules Digital Song Sales for a third week (52,000, down 1 percent) and adds top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100 for a third consecutive week, as it charges 36-19 on Radio Songs (46.9 million, up 46 percent). On Streaming Songs, it rises 6-5 (29 million, up 12 percent).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>&#8216;s former No. 1 &#8220;Psycho,&#8221; featuring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ty-dolla-sign\">Ty Dolla $ign<\/a>, falls 2-6 on the Hot 100;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ella-mai\">Ella Mai<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Boo&#8217;d Up&#8221; keeps at No. 7, after hitting a No. 6 high, while leading the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart for a sixth week; and Drake&#8217;s former 11-week leader &#8220;God&#8217;s Plan&#8221; drops 4-7 on the Hot 100. &#8220;Psycho&#8221; and &#8220;Plan&#8221; each depart the Hot 100&#8217;s top five after spending their first 16 and 21 weeks on the chart, respectively, in the region. (Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Shape of You&#8221; holds the record for the most time spent in the top five from a debut: 27 weeks, in 2017.)<\/p>\n<p>Capping the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;No Tears Left to Cry&#8221; is steady at No. 9, after debuting at its No. 3 peak, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/zedd\">Zedd<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/maren-morris\">Maren Morris<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/grey\">Grey<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;The Middle&#8221; descends 8-10, after reaching its No. 5 peak, as it leads Radio Songs for a seventh week (112 million, down 3 percent) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/dance-electronic-songs\">Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a>\u00a0for a 21st frame.<\/p>\n<p>Just outside the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, &#8220;Ape s**t&#8221; by The Carters (JAY-Z and Beyonc\u00e9) is the chart&#8217;s top debut, at No. 13, as it launches at No. 12 on Streaming Songs (24.1 million U.S. streams), while parent album\u00a0<em>Everything Is Love<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8462423\/5-seconds-of-summer-third-no-1-album-billboard-200-chart\">opens at No. 2<\/a>on the Billboard 200; Drake&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;m Upset&#8221; surges 28-15 on the Hot 100, surpassing its No. 19 debut and prior peak, following the first full week of tracking for its official video, which premiered June 13, as it jumps 11-6 on Streaming Songs (28.3 million, up 45 percent); and three other XXXTentacion songs re-enter at new peaks in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 20, all driven most heavily by streaming: &#8220;Moonlight&#8221; (No. 16; 27.5 million, up 266 percent); &#8220;Changes&#8221; (No. 18; 24.4 million, up 293 percent); and &#8220;Jocelyn Flores&#8221; (No. 19; 25.3 million, up 389 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly &#8220;Hot 100 Chart Moves&#8221; column and by listening (and subscribing) to\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/chart-beat\/id1082747004?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chart Beat Podcast<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pop-shop-podcast\/id720291560?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pop Shop Podcast<\/a>. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (June 26), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>magazine is on sale Friday (June 29).<\/p>\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1045\" data-postid=\"1045\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1045 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song, which reached a prior No. 7 high in March, surges after he was shot &amp; killed June 18. XXXTentacion\u00a0posthumously tops the\u00a0Billboard Hot 100, as his single &#8220;Sad!&#8221; jumps from No. 52 to No. 1 for its first week atop the chart. 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