{"id":1393,"date":"2019-04-22T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:41","slug":"lil-nas-xs-old-town-road-leads-billboard-hot-100-for-third-week-sam-smith-normani-bts-halsey-hit-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; Leads Billboard Hot 100 for Third Week; Sam Smith &#038; Normani, BTS &#038; Halsey Hit Top 10"},"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\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Dancing With a Stranger&#8221; rises 12-7 &amp; &#8220;Boy With Luv&#8221; launches at No. 8. Plus, Jonas Brothers&#8217; &#8220;Sucker&#8221; tops the Radio Songs chart.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Nas X leads the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;for a third week with &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billy-ray-cyrus\">Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two songs are new to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/sam-smith\">Sam Smith<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/normani-kordei\">Normani<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Dancing With a Stranger&#8221; darts from No. 12 to No.&nbsp; 7 and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bts\">BTS<\/a>&nbsp;blasts onto the chart at No. 8 with &#8220;Boy With Luv,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/halsey\">Halsey<\/a>. The latter song, from BTS&#8217; new album,&nbsp;<em>Map of the Soul: Persona<\/em>, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8507977\/bts-map-of-the-soul-persona-no-1-album-billboard-200-chart\">launches at No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>, is the act&#8217;s second Hot 100 top 10 and the highest-charting for a K-pop group, besting BTS&#8217; own &#8220;Fake Love,&#8221; which debuted and peaked at No. 10 in June 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jonas-brothers\">Jonas Brothers<\/a>&#8216;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8501890\/jonas-brothers-sucker-no-1-hot-100\">former Hot 100 leader<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;Sucker,&#8221; at No. 6, takes over atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, marking the sibling trio&#8217;s first No. 1 on the airplay tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated April 27), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ysFgElQtjI\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As on the Hot 100, &#8220;Road&#8221; rules the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8508055\/Streaming%20Songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a third week, with 125.2 million U.S. streams (down 12%) in the week ending April 18, according to Nielsen Music. The sum is the second-best ever, after the track drew a record 143 million clicks a week earlier, following the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/8505789\/lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus-old-town-road-remix\">April 5 arrival<\/a>&nbsp;of its remix with Cyrus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an updated look at the 10 biggest streaming weeks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total Weekly U.S. Streams, Title, Artist, Chart Date<br>143 million, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 20, 2019<br>125.2 million, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 27, 2019<br>116.2 million, &#8220;In My Feelings,&#8221; Drake, July 28, 2018<br>106.2 million, &#8220;In My Feelings,&#8221; Drake, Aug. 4, 2018<br>103.1 million, &#8220;Harlem Shake,&#8221; Baauer, March 2, 2013<br>101.7 million, &#8220;God&#8217;s Plan,&#8221; Drake, March 3, 2018<br>97.6 million, &#8220;Harlem Shake,&#8221; Baauer, March 9, 2013<br>95.4 million, &#8220;In My Feelings,&#8221; Drake, Aug. 11, 2018<br>93.8 million, &#8220;Thank U, Next,&#8221; Ariana Grande, Dec. 15, 2018<br>92.8 million, &#8220;God&#8217;s Plan,&#8221; Drake, March 10, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; tops the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a second week with 91,000 downloads sold (down 26%) in the week ending April 18. It continues to advance in radio airplay, powering 33-18 on Radio Songs (45.2 million audience impressions, up 57%, in the week ending April 21), as it wins the Hot 100&#8217;s top Airplay Gainer award for a second week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; concurrently posts a third week at No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>\u00a0charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>&#8216;s solo single &#8220;Wow.&#8221; rises from No. 3 on the Hot 100 back to its No. 2 peak, swapping spots with his and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/swae-lee\">Swae Lee<\/a>&#8216;s former one-week leader &#8220;Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)&#8221; (2-3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capping the Hot 100&#8217;s top five are two former No. 1s:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; (which reigned for eight weeks) and Halsey&#8217;s &#8220;Without Me&#8221; (two), at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonas Brothers&#8217; &#8220;Sucker,&#8221; which soared in as their first No. 1 on the March 16-dated Hot 100, becomes their likewise first leader on Radio Songs, rising from No. 3 (92.1 million, up 13%). The group had previously charted two titles in the lower rungs of the airplay tally, &#8220;When You Look Me in the Eyes&#8221; and &#8220;Burnin&#8217; Up,&#8221; both in 2008. As previously reported, &#8220;Sucker,&#8221; the lead single from Jonas Brothers&#8217; first album in a decade,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8508029\/jonas-brothers-announce-happiness-begins-album\">Happiness Begins<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8508029\/jonas-brothers-announce-happiness-begins-album\">, due June 7<\/a>, concurrently becomes their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8507993\/jonas-brothers-first-pop-songs-chart-no-1-sucker\">first No. 1 on the Pop Songs airplay chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/av5JD1dfj_c\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam Smith and Normani&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing With a Stranger&#8221; surges 12-7 on the Hot 100. The duet jumps 6-2 on Radio Songs (84.1 million, up 15%); 16-11 on Digital Song Sales (12,000, up 5%); and 34-30 on Streaming Songs (16.1 million, up 3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith adds sixth Hot 100 top 10, following &#8220;Stay With Me&#8221; (No. 2, 2014), as featured on Disclosure&#8217;s &#8220;Latch&#8221; (No. 7, 2014) and his own &#8220;I&#8217;m Not the Only One&#8221; (No. 5, 2014), &#8220;Lay Me Down&#8221; (No. 8, 2015) and &#8220;Too Good at Goodbyes&#8221; (No. 4, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normani has now ascended to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 in both of her solo visits, after hitting No. 9 with &#8220;Love Lies,&#8221; with Khalid, in September 2018. As a member of Fifth Harmony, she reached the region with &#8220;Work From Home,&#8221; featuring Ty Dolla $ign (No. 4, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XsX3ATc3FbA\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BTS&#8217; &#8220;Boy With Luv,&#8221; featuring Halsey, vaults onto the Hot 100 at No. 8, marking the septet&#8217;s second top 10 and the highest-charting entry for a K-pop group. It surpasses BTS&#8217; own &#8220;Fake Love,&#8221; which debuted and peaked at No. 10 in June 2018. BTS becomes the first K-pop group with multiple Hot 100 top 10s and the second K-pop act overall to achieve the feat, after PSY, who hit No. 2 with &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221; in 2012 and No. 5 with &#8220;Gentleman&#8221; in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halsey, meanwhile, collects her fifth Hot 100 top 10, after her featured turn on The Chainsmokers&#8217; &#8220;Closer&#8221; (12 weeks at No. 1 in 2016) and her own &#8220;Bad at Love&#8221; (No. 5, 2018), &#8220;Eastside,&#8221; with Benny Blanco and Khalid (No. 9, this January), and &#8220;Without Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Luv&#8221; launches at No. 5 on Streaming Songs with 29.9 million U.S. streams, marking BTS&#8217; second top 10 and best rank on the chart (passing the No. 7 high of &#8220;Fake Love&#8221;) and the top streaming week for any K-pop act, outpacing the 27.4 million that &#8220;Fake Love&#8221; logged upon its debut. Halsey earns her third Streaming Songs top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Luv&#8221; enters Digital Song Sales at No. 3 (31,000), becoming BTS&#8217; fourth top 10 and Halsey&#8217;s fifth. The collaboration also boasts 9.7 million in radio reach and rises 35-29 on Pop Songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; returns to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 (11-9), after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8506406\/billie-eilish-earns-first-hot-100-top-10\">debuting at No. 7 two weeks earlier<\/a>, when parent album&nbsp;<em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8505964\/billie-eilishs-when-we-all-fall-asleep-where-do-we-go-debuts-at\">began atop the Billboard 200<\/a>. The song re-enters the tier with top Sales Gainer honors (12,000, up 13%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/cardi-b\">Cardi B<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bruno-mars\">Bruno Mars<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;Please Me&#8221; drops 7-10, after reaching No. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week, and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/chart-beat\/id1082747004?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">Chart Beat Podcast<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pop-shop-podcast\/id720291560?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Shop Podcast<\/a>\u00a0and follow\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\">@billboard<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboardcharts\" target=\"_blank\">@billboardcharts<\/a>. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (April 23), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0magazine is on sale Friday (April 26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1393\" data-postid=\"1393\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1393 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dancing With a Stranger&#8221; rises 12-7 &amp; &#8220;Boy With Luv&#8221; launches at No. 8. Plus, Jonas Brothers&#8217; &#8220;Sucker&#8221; tops the Radio Songs chart. Lil Nas X leads the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;for a third week with &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;Billy Ray Cyrus. 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