{"id":1434,"date":"2019-05-20T13:11:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:40","slug":"lil-nas-xs-old-town-road-tops-billboard-hot-100-for-seventh-week-ed-sheeran-justin-biebers-i-dont-care-debuts-at-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; Tops Billboard Hot 100 for Seventh Week, Ed Sheeran &#038; Justin Bieber&#8217;s &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8217; Debuts at No. 2"},"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\">Plus, Billie Eilish earns her first top five hit with &#8220;Bad Guy.&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billy-ray-cyrus\">Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a>, leads the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a seventh week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song fends off\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ed-sheeran\">Ed Sheeran<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\">Justin Bieber<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care,&#8221; which blasts in at No. 2. Plus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>achieves her first top five Hot 100 hit, as &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; bounds from No. 9 to No. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated May 25), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2Ov5jzm3j8\"><\/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\/8512166\/Streaming%20Songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a seventh week, with 103.1 million U.S. streams (down 1%) in the week ending May 16, according to Nielsen Music. The song set the weekly streaming record following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus, and now claims six of the eight 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; 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; May 4, 2019<br>106.2 million, &#8220;In My Feelings,&#8221; Aug. 4, 2018<br>104.1 million, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; May 18, 2019<br>104 million, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; May 11, 2019<br>103.1 million, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; May 25, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volume for &#8220;Road&#8221; should surge on next week&#8217;s charts (dated June 1) following the Friday (May 17)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8511996\/lil-nas-x-video-old-town-road\">premiere of its official video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track dips to No. 2 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart, after four weeks at No. 1, with 69,000 downloads sold (down 12%) in the week ending May 16.<\/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; pushes 4-3, with 83.8 million audience impressions, up 8%, in the week ending May 19. It also takes over atop both the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rhythmic-40\">Rhythmic Songs<\/a>&nbsp;(2-1) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/biz\/charts\/mainstream-r-and-b-hip-hop\">Mainstream R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop<\/a>&nbsp;(7-1) format airplay charts, marking Lil Nas X&#8217;s first No. 1s on any&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;radio rankings. Cyrus, meanwhile, scores his first No. 1 on an airplay tally since his breakthrough smash &#8220;Achy Breaky Heart&#8221; dominated Country Airplay for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-airplay\/1992-06-27\">five weeks in May and June 1992<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; concurrently crowns 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 for a seventh week each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y83x7MgzWOA\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheeran and Bieber&#8217;s &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/video\/bbnews051019sheeran-8510942\">released at midnight ET Friday, May 10<\/a>, soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 2, as it opens at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (77,000) and No. 3 on Streaming Songs (34.1 million) and charges 33-13 on Radio Songs (49.1 million). Like &#8220;Road,&#8221; the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8511923\/justin-bieber-ed-sheeran-i-dont-care-video\">official video for &#8220;Care&#8221; premiered Friday (May 17)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top 10 totals:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bieber banks his 15th Hot 100 top 10 and Sheeran adds his seventh. While &#8220;Care&#8221; marks their first song co-billed as artists, Sheeran co-wrote two Bieber top 10s: &#8220;Love Yourself&#8221; (No. 1 for two weeks in February 2016) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/major-lazer\">Major Lazer<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Cold Water,&#8221; featuring Bieber and MO (No. 2, August 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bieber and Sheeran also contributed vocals to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-dicky\">Lil Dicky<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8509102\/lil-dicky-earth-hot-100-debut-interview\">recent No. 17 Hot 100 hit<\/a>&#8220;Earth,&#8221; in the roles of, respectively, a baboon (who&#8217;s like a man, just less advanced, and \u2026 they have other differences \u2026) and a koala bear (that sleeps all the time; so what? It&#8217;s cute).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1 in sales:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bieber adds his ninth Digital Song Sales No. 1 and 30th top 10. Sheeran scores his fourth No. 1 and 10th top 10.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>&nbsp;leads all artists with 16 No. 1s and 45 top 10s on the tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most No. 2 debuts:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Bieber extends his mark for the most No. 2 entrances on the Hot 100 to four. He previously opened at the runner-up spot with &#8220;Boyfriend&#8221; (April 14, 2012), &#8220;Sorry&#8221; (Nov. 14, 2015) and &#8220;Cold Water&#8221; (Aug. 13, 2016). Of those songs, &#8220;Sorry&#8221; went on to hit No. 1 (for three weeks).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Care&#8221; is the 28th single to debut at No. 2 on the Hot 100. Mariah Carey made the first such arrival with &#8220;Always Be My Baby&#8221; (April 6, 1996), which subsequently reigned for two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More Max Martin:<\/strong>&nbsp;Sheeran and Bieber co-wrote &#8220;Care&#8221; with Max Martin, among the song&#8217;s six authors. Martin boasts&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/7378263\/max-martin-hot-100-no-1-hits-as-a-songwriter\">22 Hot 100 No. 1s<\/a>&nbsp;and nine hits that have hit No. 2 (including &#8220;Care&#8221;). He last reached such heights as a writer via Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I&#8217;m Bored,&#8221; which debuted at its No. 2 peak in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jonas-brothers\">Jonas Brothers<\/a>&#8216; former one-week Hot 100 leader &#8220;Sucker&#8221; rises 4-3 and becomes the trio&#8217;s first No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/adult-pop-songs\">Adult Pop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;airplay chart. It spends a fifth week atop&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/pop-songs\">Pop Songs<\/a>, where it&#8217;s also the act&#8217;s first No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DyDfgMOUjCI\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Billie Eilish notches her first top five Hot 100 hit as &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; roars 9-4, besting its prior No. 7 peak. The track returns to its No. 2 high on Streaming Songs (from No. 3), up 4% to 39.9 million U.S. streams; rises 11-8 on Digital Song Sales (15,000, up 15%); and debuts at No. 43 on Radio Songs (24.1 million, up 42%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Wow.&#8221; rebounds 6-5 on the Hot 100, after hitting 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; rises 7-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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; revisits the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 and its No. 7 high (from No. 11), as it rules Radio Songs for a second week (106.6 million, up 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Me!,&#8221; featuring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/brendon-urie\">Brendon Urie<\/a>, drops 3-8 on the Hot 100, after arriving at No. 2 two weeks ago, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/khalid\">Khalid<\/a>\u00a0re-enters the top 10 (12-9) with his No. 8-peaking &#8220;Talk,&#8221; which becomes his fourth Radio Songs top 10 (12-6; 70.2 million, up 21%, good for top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100). &#8220;Talk&#8221; tops the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart for a fourth week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/halsey\">Halsey<\/a>&#8216;s two-week No. 1 &#8220;Without Me&#8221; backtracks 8-10, as it ties for the eighth-most weeks spent in the top 10 in the chart&#8217;s 60-year history:<\/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;Without Me,&#8221; Halsey, 2018-19<br>29, &#8220;Party Rock Anthem,&#8221; LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett &amp; GoonRock, 2011-12<\/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 21), 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 (May 24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1434\" data-postid=\"1434\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1434 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Billie Eilish earns her first top five hit with &#8220;Bad Guy.&#8221; Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;Billy Ray Cyrus, leads the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;chart for a seventh week. The song fends off\u00a0Ed Sheeran\u00a0and\u00a0Justin Bieber&#8216;s &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care,&#8221; which blasts in at No. 2. 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