{"id":1514,"date":"2019-08-05T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T03:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1514"},"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-18th-week-lil-teccas-ranom-reaches-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; Rules Billboard Hot 100 for 18th Week, Lil Tecca&#8217;s &#8216;Ran$om&#8217; Reaches Top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Road&#8221; extends its record reign on the Hot 100 and ties for the longest command on both the Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, extends its record run atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100-60th-anniversary\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, leading the list for an 18th week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week ago, &#8220;Road&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8524235\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-longest-number-one-hot-100\">rewrote the mark for the most time atop the chart<\/a>, as, with a 17th frame at No. 1, it bested &#8220;Despacito&#8221; by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, featuring Justin Bieber, and &#8220;One Sweet Day&#8221; by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, which ruled for 16 weeks each, in 2017 and 1995-96, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in the latest Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, Lil Tecca makes his first visit to the region, as &#8220;Ran$om&#8221; surges from No. 19 to No. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s run down the top 10 of this history-making week on Hot 100 (dated Aug. 10), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 6).<\/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 an 18th 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 61-year archives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 1<br><em>18, &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 13, 2019<\/em><br>16, &#8220;Despacito,&#8221; Luis Fonsi &amp; Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, May 27, 2017<br>16, &#8220;One Sweet Day,&#8221; Mariah Carey &amp; Boyz II Men, Dec. 2, 1995<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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart for a record-padding 18th week, with 67.4 million U.S. streams, down 7%, in the week ending Aug. 1, according to Nielsen Music. &#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 17 of the song&#8217;s 18 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; concurrently spends a 14th week atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart, up 3% to 47,000 downloads sold in the week ending Aug. 1. The track breaks out of a four-way tie for the second-most weeks spent atop the tally, trailing only &#8220;Despacito,&#8221; which ruled for 17 weeks. (The Chainsmokers&#8217; &#8221; Closer,&#8221; featuring Halsey, in 2016; Mark Ronson&#8217;s &#8220;Uptown Funk!,&#8221; featuring Bruno Mars, in 2015; and Flo Rida&#8217;s &#8220;Low,&#8221; featuring T-Pain, in 2007-08, led for 13 weeks each.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aiding its profile, a new remix of &#8220;Road&#8221; featuring RM of BTS, dubbed &#8220;Old Town Road (Seoul Town Road Remix),&#8221; was released July 24 and, thus, its first full streaming and sales tracking week (July 26-Aug. 1) is reflected on the latest, Aug. 10-dated Hot 100. The RM remix is the fourth official reworking of &#8220;Road,&#8221; following releases with Cyrus; Diplo; and Young Thug and Mason Ramsey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>, where it reached No. 2, &#8220;Road&#8221; retreats 14-17, with 43.8 million audience impressions, down 6%, in the week ending Aug. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Road&#8221; 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 an 18th week each, tying for the longest command in the history of each tally. On Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs, the track matches the 18-week domination of Drake&#8217;s &#8220;One Dance,&#8221; featuring WizKid and Kyla, in 2016. On Hot Rap Songs, &#8220;Road&#8221; equals the 18-week rules of Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Hotline Bling&#8221; (2015-16); Iggy Azalea&#8217;s &#8220;Fancy,&#8221; featuring Charli XCX (2014); and Missy &#8220;Misdemeanor&#8221; Elliott&#8217;s &#8220;Hot Boyz,&#8221; featuring NAS, EVE and Q-Tip (1999-2000). (Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs began as an all-encompassing genre chart in October 1958 and Hot Rap Songs launched in March 1989.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; additionally tops the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/summer-songs\">Songs of the Summer<\/a>\u00a0chart for a 10th frame, having led the list each week since its annual return after Memorial Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Billie Eilish&#8217;s &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; notches an eighth total week at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as it holds at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (45.9 million, down 10%), No. 4 on Radio Songs (93.3 million, up 4%) and No. 5 on Digital Song Sales (20,000, down 10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking up at &#8220;Road&#8221; the entire time that it has ranked at No. 2 on the Hot 100, &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; is (as of now) the 10th non-No. 1 in the chart&#8217;s history to peak at the runner-up spot for at least eight weeks. Here&#8217;s a recap of the No. 2-peaking songs to spend the most time in second place:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeks Peaking at No. 2, Title, Artist, Peak Date<br>10, &#8220;Work It,&#8221; Missy &#8220;Misdemeanor&#8221; Elliott, Nov. 16, 2002<br>10, &#8220;Waiting for a Girl Like You,&#8221; Foreigner, Nov. 28, 1981<br>9, &#8220;You&#8217;re Still the One,&#8221; Shania Twain, May 2, 1998<br>9, &#8220;I Love You Always Forever,&#8221; Donna Lewis, Aug. 4, 1996<br><em>8, &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221; Billie Eilish, June 8, 2019<\/em><br>8, &#8220;Thinking Out Loud,&#8221; Ed Sheeran, Jan. 31, 2015<br>8, &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Wanna Know,&#8221; Mario Winans feat. Enya &amp; P. Diddy, April 24, 2004<br>8, &#8220;Back at One,&#8221; Brian McKnight, Nov. 20, 1999<br>8, &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s Supposed to Be Here,&#8221; Deborah Cox, Dec. 5, 1998<br>8, &#8220;If I Ever Fall in Love,&#8221; Shai, Nov. 21, 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the continued Hot 100 rule of &#8220;Road,&#8221; both it and &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; dip by 6% in overall metrics, as the former sports a 1.2-to-1 points difference over the latter for a second consecutive week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello&#8217;s &#8220;Senorita&#8221; keeps at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 2 high on the chart dated July 6. The duet claims the Hot 100&#8217;s top Airplay Gainer award for a second week, up 22% to 81.4 million in radio reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lizzo&#8217;s &#8220;Truth Hurts&#8221; rises 5-4 for a new best Hot 100 rank, swapping spots with Khalid&#8217;s No. 3-peaking &#8220;Talk&#8221; (4-5), which leads Radio Songs for an eighth week (133 million, down 1%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>&nbsp;for a 15th week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6L_k74BOLag\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Brown&#8217;s &#8220;No Guidance,&#8221; featuring Drake, blasts 11-6 for a new Hot 100 peak, after debuting at its prior No. 9 highpoint in June. Following the premiere of the song&#8217;s nine-minute official video on July 26, the track charges with dual top Streaming and Sales Gainer honors on the Hot 100, as it jumps 10-3 on Streaming Songs (39.8 million, up 64%) and 36-10 on Digital Song Sales (13,000, up 120%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Radio Songs, &#8220;No Guidance&#8221; ascends 13-10 (51 million, up 10%), marking Brown&#8217;s 16th top 10, and first since &#8220;Don&#8217;t Wake Me Up&#8221; in 2012. Drake scores his 22nd Radio Songs top 10, extending his record for the most among males dating to the chart&#8217;s December 1990 inception; overall, only Rihanna (29) and Mariah Carey (23) have earned more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber&#8217;s No. 2-peaking &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221; slips 6-7 on the Hot 100; Post Malone&#8217;s &#8220;Goodbyes,&#8221; featuring Young Thug, drops 7-8, after debuting at its No. 3 peak three weeks earlier; and Jonas Brothers&#8217; former one-week No. 1 &#8220;Sucker&#8221; descends 8-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1XzY2ij_vL4\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, Lil Tecca makes his first trip to the tier, as &#8220;Ran$om&#8221; roars 19-10. With its official video directed by Cole Bennett, the first Hot 100 entry for the 16-year-old Queens, New York-based rapper (real name: Tyler Sharpe) continues its sprint up Streaming Songs, climbing 7-4 (38.5 million, up 36%). It also gains by 59% to 6.1 million airplay audience and 50% to 4,000 sold.<\/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 @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 6), 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-1514\" data-postid=\"1514\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1514 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Road&#8221; extends its record reign on the Hot 100 and ties for the longest command on both the Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts. Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, extends its record run atop the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100, leading the list for an 18th week. 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