{"id":1424,"date":"2019-05-13T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:40","slug":"lil-nas-xs-old-town-road-rules-billboard-hot-100-for-sixth-week-shawn-mendes-logic-eminem-debut-in-top-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; Rules Billboard Hot 100 for Sixth Week; Shawn Mendes, Logic &#038; Eminem Debut in Top Five"},"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\">Mendes scores a career-best No. 2 rank.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Nas X extends his reign atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;to a sixth 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>Meanwhile, two songs launch on the Hot 100 in the top five:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/shawn-mendes\">Shawn Mendes<\/a>debuts at a career-best No. 2 rank with &#8220;If I Can&#8217;t Have You&#8221; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/logic\">Logic<\/a>\u00a0enters at No. 5 with &#8220;Homicide,&#8221; featuring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/eminem\">Eminem<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated May 18), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 14).<\/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; leads the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8511123\/Streaming%20Songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a sixth week, with 104.1 million U.S. streams (up less than 1%) in the week ending May 9, according to Nielsen Music. &#8220;Road&#8221; set the weekly streaming record following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus, and now claims five of the seven biggest streaming weeks ever:<\/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>114.4 million, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, May 4, 2019<br>106.2 million, &#8220;In My Feelings,&#8221; Drake, Aug. 4, 2018<br>104.1 million, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, May 18, 2019<br>104 million, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, May 11, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; rebounds 2-1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a fourth week at No. 1, with 78,000 downloads sold (up 1%) in the week ending May 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, &#8220;Road&#8221; rises 6-4, with 77.6 million audience impressions, up 16%, in the week ending May 12, good for top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100 for the fourth time in five weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As &#8220;Road&#8221; marks Lil Nas X&#8217;s first Hot 100 entry, he boasts the longest-leading debut No. 1 (among artists billed as leads) since OMI ruled for six weeks in 2015 with his first Hot 100 hit, &#8220;Cheerleader.&#8221; No such rookie No. 1 has led longer since earlier in 2015, when Mark Ronson&#8217;s &#8220;Uptown Funk!,&#8221; featuring Bruno Mars, dominated for 14 weeks beginning that January. (Before then, Ronson tallied two top 10s as a writer and producer, of Amy Winehouse&#8217;s &#8220;Rehab,&#8221; a No. 9 hit in 2007, and Mars&#8217; &#8220;Locked Out of Heaven,&#8221; No. 1 for six weeks in 2012-13.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; concurrently adds a sixth week at No. 1 on both the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTJ-oqwxdZY\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mendes&#8217; &#8220;If I Can&#8217;t Have You&#8221; soars in at a personal-best No. 2 on the Hot 100, as it opens at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales (64,000) and No. 8 on Streaming Songs (24 million) and bounds 43-27 on Radio Songs (35.7 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mendes notches his fourth Hot 100 top 10, following &#8220;Stitches&#8221; (No. 4, 2015), &#8220;Treat You Better&#8221; (No. 6, 2016) and &#8220;There&#8217;s Nothing Holdin&#8217; Me Back&#8221; (No. 6, 2017). He easily achieves his highest debut, besting the No. 24 start (and peak) of his first entry, &#8220;Life of the Party,&#8221; in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Title disco-graphy: Upon its arrival, &#8220;If I Can&#8217;t Have You&#8221; is the second-highest-charting Hot 100 hit by that title. Yvonne Elliman&#8217;s song of the same name topped the chart exactly 41 years ago today (May 13, 1978). The classic was written by the Bee Gees and released from the\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Fever<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Me!,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/brendon-urie\">Brendon Urie<\/a>, dips to No. 3 from its No. 2 Hot 100 high reached a week earlier, when it made a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8510137\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-tops-hot-100-fifth-week\">record 98-spot vault<\/a>&nbsp;after its first full week of tracking. The collab falls from No. 1 to No. 4 on Digital Song Sales (29,000, down 85%) and 2-5 on Streaming Songs (26.8 million, down 47%), while ascending to the Radio Songs top 10 (13-10; 62.2 million, up 15%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift scores her 15th Radio Songs top 10, while Panic! at the Disco frontman Urie earns his first as a soloist; In December, Panic achieved its first No. 1 (with its first top 10), as &#8220;High Hopes&#8221; began a 14-week command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jonas-brothers\">Jonas Brothers<\/a>&#8216; former one-week leader &#8220;Sucker&#8221; holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Un79wc2iY-8\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Logic&#8217;s &#8220;Homicide&#8221; bounds in at No. 5 on the Hot 100, starting at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (36.3 million) and No. 3 on Digital Song Sales (42,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Logic lands his second Hot 100 top 10, after &#8220;1-800-273-8255,&#8221; featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid (No. 3, September 2017). Eminem earns his 21st top 10, tying JAY-Z for the third-most top 10s among rappers, after Drake (33) and Lil Wayne (24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Mendes and Logic&#8217;s entrances, the Hot 100 boasts two simultaneous top five debuts for the first time since Oct. 27, 2018, when songs also started at Nos. 2 and 5: Kodak Black&#8217;s &#8220;ZEZE,&#8221; featuring Travis Scott and Offset, and Bad Bunny&#8217;s &#8220;MIA,&#8221; featuring Drake, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Wow.&#8221; drops 3-6 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 2 and his and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/swae-lee\">Swae Lee<\/a>&#8216;s one-week No. 1 &#8220;Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)&#8221; descends 5-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/halsey\">Halsey<\/a>&#8216;s two-week Hot 100 No. 1 &#8220;Without Me&#8221; retreats 7-8, as it ties for the ninth-most weeks spent in the top 10 in the chart&#8217;s 60-year history. Halsey previously logged a then-record 32 weeks in the tier as featured on The Chainsmokers&#8217; &#8220;Closer&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most weeks in Hot 100&#8217;s top 10<br>33, &#8220;Girls Like You,&#8221; Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, 2018-19<br>33, &#8220;Shape of You,&#8221; Ed Sheeran, 2017<br>32, &#8220;Sicko Mode,&#8221; Travis Scott, 2018-19<br>32, &#8220;Closer,&#8221; The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, 2016-17<br>32, &#8220;How Do I Live,&#8221; LeAnn Rimes, 1997-98<br>31, &#8220;Uptown Funk!,&#8221; Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, 2014-15<br>30, &#8220;Smooth,&#8221; Santana feat, Rob Thomas, 1999-2000<br>29, &#8220;Party Rock Anthem,&#8221; LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett &amp; GoonRock, 2011-12<br>28, &#8220;Without Me,&#8221; Halsey, 2018-19<br>28, &#8220;That&#8217;s What I Like,&#8221; Bruno Mars, 2017<br>28, &#8220;You Were Meant for Me&#8221;\/&#8221;Foolish Games,&#8221; Jewel, 1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; keeps at No. 9 after reaching No. 7, winning top Streaming Gainer kudos (38.4 million, up 18 percent), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a>&#8216;s former eight-week No. 1 &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; slides 6-10.<\/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 (May 14), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1424\" data-postid=\"1424\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1424 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mendes scores a career-best No. 2 rank. Lil Nas X extends his reign atop the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;to a sixth week with &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;Billy Ray Cyrus. 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