{"id":1478,"date":"2019-06-24T12:29:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:40","slug":"lil-nas-xs-old-town-road-leads-billboard-hot-100-for-12th-week-new-taylor-swift-drake-songs-debut-in-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; Leads Billboard Hot 100 for 12th Week, New Taylor Swift &#038; Drake Songs Debut in 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\">Swift&#8217;s &#8220;You Need to Calm Down&#8221; launches at No. 2.<\/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>, dominates the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;for a 12th week. The single is just the 20th in the Hot 100&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8468122\/hot-100-turns-60-chubby-checker-the-twist-the-beatles\">six-decade history<\/a>&nbsp;to reign for at least that long and is the first since Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee spent a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6077132\/longest-leading-hot-100-no-1s\">record-tying<\/a>&nbsp;16 weeks on top with &#8220;Despacito,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\">Justin Bieber<\/a>, in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in a busy top 10 on the Hot 100,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>&nbsp;soars onto the chart at No. 2 with &#8220;You Need to Calm Down&#8221; and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\">Drake<\/a>&nbsp;launches at No. 7 with &#8220;Money in the Grave,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rick-ross\">Rick Ross<\/a>. With the latter song&#8217;s bow, Drake adds his 35th Hot 100 top 10, breaking out of a tie with The Beatles for the second-best total all-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated June 29), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (June 25).<\/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;Old Town Road&#8221; (on Columbia Records) leads the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8517224\/Streaming%20Songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 12th week, with 91.6 million U.S. streams, down 8%, in the week ending June 20, according to Nielsen Music. &#8220;Road&#8221; set the record for the top streaming week ever (143 million) following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus and claims nine of the 11 biggest streaming frames to date, including the top three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; drops to No. 2 after eight weeks atop the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>\u00a0chart with 59,000 downloads sold, down 16%, in the week ending June 20. On\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>, where it reached No. 2, &#8220;Road&#8221; holds at No. 3, with 95.8 million audience impressions, down 3%, in the week ending June 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; concurrently leads 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 12th week each and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/summer-songs\">Songs of the Summer<\/a>&nbsp;survey for a fourth frame, following the seasonal survey&#8217;s annual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8514283\/songs-of-the-summer-chart-returns-2019-old-town-road-number-one\">return after Memorial Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next week, Lil Nas X&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8516912\/lil-nas-x-7-ep\">EP&nbsp;<em>7<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;should make a notable debut on various album charts. Released June 21, the set features both the Cyrus and original versions of &#8220;Road.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dkk9gvTmCXY\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift&#8217;s &#8220;You Need to Calm Down&#8221; bounds onto the Hot 100 at No. 2, marking her 24th top 10, a sum that now only 12 artists have achieved. It follows &#8220;ME!,&#8221; featuring Brendon Urie, which reached its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8510137\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-tops-hot-100-fifth-week\">No. 2 high on the May 11 chart<\/a>. Both songs are from her album&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8515910\/taylor-swift-you-need-to-calm-down-lover-album-release-date-cover\">due Aug. 23<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Calm&#8221; opens atop Digital Song Sales with 79,000 sold, marking Swift&#8217;s record-extending 17th No. 1 on the chart (ahead of runner-up Rihanna&#8217;s 14). Helped by its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/video\/taylor-swift-shares-star-studded-you-need-to-calm-down-video-billboard-news-8516185\">star-studded official video<\/a>, &#8220;Calm&#8221; starts at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (39 million) and No. 50 on Radio Songs (24.2 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; outpaces &#8220;Calm&#8221; by a less than two-to-one points lead on the Hot 100 (1.8 to 1), after eight weeks of &#8220;Road&#8221; outperforming its closest weekly competition by such a wide margin; only one song has tallied more weeks leading No. 2 titles by at least a two-to-one points gap: Whitney Houston&#8217;s &#8220;I Will Always Love You,&#8221; for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8221656\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-drake-taylor-swift-dominant-hot-100-hits\">nine weeks in 1992-93<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also reflecting the scope of the Hot 100 reign for &#8220;Road&#8221;: if &#8220;Calm&#8221; peaks at No. 2, it would likely become the sixth song to stop at the runner-up spot blocked by &#8220;Road,&#8221; which would break the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8512215\/old-town-road-hot-100-no-1s-that-have-kept-the-most-songs-peaking-at-no-2-ask-billboard\">record for keeping the most No. 2 hits from reaching No. 1<\/a>; Bryan Adams&#8217; &#8220;(Everything I Do) I Do It for You,&#8221; in 1991, and Percy Faith and His Orchestra&#8217;s &#8220;Theme From&nbsp;<em>A Summer Place<\/em>&#8221; (1960) each held off five No. 2 hits each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, &#8220;Road&#8221; has kept these six songs peaking below it at No. 2 on the Hot 100: &#8220;Wow.&#8221; by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>; &#8220;ME!,&#8221; Swift featuring Urie; &#8220;If I Can&#8217;t Have You,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/shawn-mendes\">Shawn Mendes<\/a>; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ed-sheeran\">Ed Sheeran<\/a>&nbsp;and Bieber; &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>; and &#8220;Calm,&#8221; Swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221; it descends to No. 3 on the Hot 100 after three weeks at its No. 2 best. It keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (43.8 million, up 13%) and No. 4 on Digital Song Sales (21,000, up 1%) and becomes Eilish&#8217;s first Radio Songs top 10 (13-9; 58.6 million, up 16%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/khalid\">Khalid<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Talk&#8221; slips to No. 4 on the Hot 100 from its No. 3 high, with top Airplay Gainer honors for a fourth week (up 8% to 114.7 million). The track tops Radio Songs for a second week and becomes Khalid&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8517195\/khalid-talk-tops-pop-songs-airplay-chart\">third No. 1<\/a>\u00a0on the mainstream top 40-based\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/pop-songs\">Pop Songs<\/a>\u00a0airplay chart, while ruling the streaming-, airplay- and sales-fueled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart for a ninth frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also reflecting the scope of the Hot 100 reign for &#8220;Road&#8221;: if &#8220;Calm&#8221; peaks at No. 2, it would likely become the sixth song to stop at the runner-up spot blocked by &#8220;Road,&#8221; which would break the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8512215\/old-town-road-hot-100-no-1s-that-have-kept-the-most-songs-peaking-at-no-2-ask-billboard\">record for keeping the most No. 2 hits from reaching No. 1<\/a>; Bryan Adams&#8217; &#8220;(Everything I Do) I Do It for You,&#8221; in 1991, and Percy Faith and His Orchestra&#8217;s &#8220;Theme From&nbsp;<em>A Summer Place<\/em>&#8221; (1960) each held off five No. 2 hits each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, &#8220;Road&#8221; has kept these six songs peaking below it at No. 2 on the Hot 100: &#8220;Wow.&#8221; by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>; &#8220;ME!,&#8221; Swift featuring Urie; &#8220;If I Can&#8217;t Have You,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/shawn-mendes\">Shawn Mendes<\/a>; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ed-sheeran\">Ed Sheeran<\/a>&nbsp;and Bieber; &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>; and &#8220;Calm,&#8221; Swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221; it descends to No. 3 on the Hot 100 after three weeks at its No. 2 best. It keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (43.8 million, up 13%) and No. 4 on Digital Song Sales (21,000, up 1%) and becomes Eilish&#8217;s first Radio Songs top 10 (13-9; 58.6 million, up 16%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/khalid\">Khalid<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Talk&#8221; slips to No. 4 on the Hot 100 from its No. 3 high, with top Airplay Gainer honors for a fourth week (up 8% to 114.7 million). The track tops Radio Songs for a second week and becomes Khalid&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8517195\/khalid-talk-tops-pop-songs-airplay-chart\">third No. 1<\/a>\u00a0on the mainstream top 40-based\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/pop-songs\">Pop Songs<\/a>\u00a0airplay chart, while ruling the streaming-, airplay- and sales-fueled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart for a ninth frame. <\/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 (June 25), 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 (June 28). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1478\" data-postid=\"1478\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1478 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swift&#8217;s &#8220;You Need to Calm Down&#8221; launches at No. 2. Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;Billy Ray Cyrus, dominates the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;for a 12th week. 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