{"id":1498,"date":"2019-07-22T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:39","slug":"lil-nas-xs-old-town-road-rules-billboard-hot-100-for-record-tying-16th-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; Rules Billboard Hot 100 For Record-Tying 16th Week"},"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\">The song matches the reigns of &#8220;Despacito&#8221; &amp; &#8220;One Sweet Day.&#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>, rules the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;for a 16th week, tying the record for the most time tallied at No. 1 in the chart&#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>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; matches Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee&#8217;s &#8220;Despacito,&#8221; featuring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\">Justin Bieber<\/a>, and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men&#8217;s &#8220;One Sweet Day,&#8221; which spent a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6077132\/longest-leading-hot-100-no-1s\">record 16 weeks at No. 1<\/a>\u00a0on the Hot 100 in 2017 and 1995-96, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated July 27), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (July 23).<\/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>With a 16th week atop the Hot 100 for &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; here&#8217;s a look at the 10 longest-leading No. 1s in the chart&#8217;s archives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 1<br><em>16, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, beginning April 13, 2019<\/em><br><em>16, &#8220;Despacito,&#8221; Luis Fonsi &amp; Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, May 27, 2017<\/em><br><em>16, &#8220;One Sweet Day,&#8221; Mariah Carey &amp; Boyz II Men, Dec. 2, 1995<\/em><br>14, &#8220;Uptown Funk!,&#8221; Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, Jan. 17, 2015<br>14, &#8220;I Gotta Feeling,&#8221; The Black Eyed Peas, July 11, 2009<br>14, &#8220;We Belong Together,&#8221; Mariah Carey, June 4, 2005<br>14, &#8220;Candle in the Wind 1997&#8243;\/&#8221;Something About the Way You Look Tonight,&#8221; Elton John, Oct. 11, 1997<br>14, &#8220;Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix),&#8221; Los Del Rio, Aug. 3, 1996<br>14, &#8220;I&#8217;ll Make Love to You,&#8221; Boyz II Men, Aug. 27, 1994<br>14, &#8220;I Will Always Love You,&#8221; Whitney Houston, Nov. 28, 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As on the Hot 100, &#8220;Road&#8221; (on Columbia Records) leads the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8523187\/Streaming%20Songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 16th week, a likewise record-tying mark, equaling the run of &#8220;Despacito.&#8221; &#8220;Road&#8221; rules Streaming Songs with 86.2 million U.S. streams, up 22%, in the week ending July 18, according to Nielsen Music. Helping power the surge, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8520212\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-remix-video-mason-ramsey-young-thug-billy-ray-cyrus\">new remix of &#8220;Road,&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/young-thug\">Young Thug<\/a>&nbsp;and Mason Ramsey, was released July 12 (and accounts for less than a quarter of the song&#8217;s overall streams in the tracking week).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; set the record for the top streaming week (143 million) following the April 5 arrival of its remix solely with Cyrus (who has been billed on 15 of the song&#8217;s 16 weeks atop the Hot 100) and claims nine of the 11 biggest streaming frames to date, including the top three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; spends a 12th week atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart with 45,000 downloads sold (up 4%; under 15% from the Young Thug and Ramsey remix), in the week ending July 18. On&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>, where it reached No. 2, &#8220;Road&#8221; retreats 8-10, with 53.5 million audience impressions, down 18%, in the week ending July 21.<\/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 16th week each and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/summer-songs\">Songs of the Summer<\/a>&nbsp;chart for an eighth frame, having&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8520151\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-leads-songs-of-the-summer-chart\">topped the tally each week<\/a>&nbsp;since its annual return after Memorial Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2pnXjQCegVc\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; notches a sixth total week at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as it pushes 4-2 on Streaming Songs (55.7 million, up 39%), as it wins the top Streaming Gainer award on the Hot 100, and 7-2 on Digital Song Sales (33,000, up 64%) and keeps at No. 5 on Radio Songs (85 million, up 7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as a new remix of &#8220;Road&#8221; helped boost the song in the latest tracking week, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8519280\/billie-eilish-justin-bieber-bad-guy-remix\">remix of &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; with Justin Bieber was released Thursday (July 11)<\/a>&nbsp;afternoon, just ahead of the July 12-18 streaming and sales tracking week that fed this week&#8217;s July 27-dated charts. (The Bieber remix accounts for around a third of streams and less than half of sales for &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; in the tracking week.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With each song helped by respective new remixes, &#8220;Road&#8221; increases by 13% in overall metrics on the July 27 Hot 100 and &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; bounds by 32%. Despite the latter&#8217;s greater growth, &#8220;Road&#8221; sports a 1.3-to-1 points difference over &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221; after leading by 1.5-to-1 last week (and 1.9-to-1 two weeks ago).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead to next week, does &#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; appear likely to notch a record-breaking 17th week atop the Hot 100, besting &#8220;Despacito&#8221; and &#8220;Day&#8221;? Notably, &#8220;Despacito&#8221; in its 16th week at No. 1 also held a 1.3-to-1 points lead over its runner-up, DJ Khaled&#8217;s &#8220;Wild Thoughts,&#8221; featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller. And, &#8220;Day&#8221; in its 16th No. 1 frame led Brandy&#8217;s &#8220;Sittin&#8217; Up in My Room&#8221; by a 1.2-to-1 margin. Still, neither challenger went on to dethrone the song above it: Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Look What You Made Me Do&#8221; vaulted 77-1 following its first full tracking week to unseat &#8220;Despacito,&#8221; while Celine Dion&#8217;s &#8220;Because You Loved Me&#8221; soared 5-1 to supplant &#8220;Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With no songs appearing likely to blast to the top, as Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Look&#8221; or Dion&#8217;s &#8220;Because&#8221; did, or to debut at No. 1, and with &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; possibly regressing significantly in the second tracking week for its Bieber remix (moreso than &#8220;Road,&#8221; given the greater gains for the former on this week&#8217;s charts), the stage could be set for &#8220;Road&#8221; to rewrite history with a 17th week at No. 1 on next week&#8217;s Hot 100, dated Aug. 3 and whose top 10 is scheduled to be revealed next Monday, July 29.<\/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>Beyond the Hot 100&#8217;s top two contenders,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ed-sheeran\">Ed Sheeran<\/a>\u00a0and Bieber&#8217;s No. 2-peaking &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221; ascends 6-3. As previously reported, the duet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8523142\/ed-sheeran-justin-bieber-i-dont-care-no-1-pop-songs-chart\">hits No. 1 on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart<\/a>, while parent album\u00a0<em>No.6 Collaborations Project<\/em>\u00a0launches as Sheeran&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8523132\/ed-sheeran-no-6-is-no-1-star-studded-collaborations-project-debuts-no-1-billboard-albums-chart\">third No. 1 on the Billboard 200<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top five,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/shawn-mendes\">Shawn Mendes<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/camila-cabello\">Camila Cabello<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Se\u00f1orita&#8221; climbs 5-4, after debuting at its No. 2 high, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/khalid\">Khalid<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Talk&#8221; backtracks 4-5, after reaching No. 3, as it leads Radio Songs for a sixth week (133.3 million, essentially even week-over-week), as well as the streaming-, airplay- and sales-fueled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 13th frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lizzo\">Lizzo<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Truth Hurts&#8221; rebounds to its Hot 100 peak so far (7-6), scoring top Airplay Gainer kudos (65 million, up 24%), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Goodbyes,&#8221; featuring Young Thug, falls 3-7 in its second week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jonas-brothers\">Jonas Brothers<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;Sucker&#8221; is steady at No. 8 on the Hot 100, after spending a week at No. 1 upon its debut in March, and Post Malone and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/swae-lee\">Swae Lee<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)&#8221; holds at No. 9, after logging a week at No. 1 in January. &#8220;Sunflower&#8221; spends a 31st week in the top 10, becoming just the seventh single ever to reach the longevity milestone; Maroon 5&#8217;s &#8220;Girls Like You,&#8221; featuring Cardi B, and Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Shape of You&#8221; share the record with 33 weeks each totaled in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capping the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chris-brown\">Chris Brown<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;No Guidance,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\">Drake<\/a>, returns to the tier (12-10), after debuting at its No. 9 high five weeks ago.<\/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 (July 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 (July 26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1498\" data-postid=\"1498\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1498 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song matches the reigns of &#8220;Despacito&#8221; &amp; &#8220;One Sweet Day.&#8221; Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;Billy Ray Cyrus, rules the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;for a 16th week, tying the record for the most time tallied at No. 1 in the chart&#8217;s&nbsp;six-decade history. &#8220;Road&#8221; matches Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee&#8217;s &#8220;Despacito,&#8221; featuring\u00a0Justin Bieber, and Mariah Carey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus-collage-2019-billboard-15481.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}