‘Old Town Road’ yeehaws its way to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 trendynewstoday.com/old-town-road-yeehaws-its-way-to-no-1-on-the-billboard-hot-100
By Chloe Bryan2019-04-09 15:01:40 UTC Lil Nas X’s viral hit “Old Town Road” has reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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The TikTok mainstay — which is definitely a country song, you monsters — shot from 15 to the top spot, no doubt pushed by the remix featuring Billy Ray Cyrus that came out on Friday. It’s also Lil Nas X’s birthday! hitting #1 on billboard on my birthday wow — nope (@LilNasX) April 9, 2019 “Old Town Road” was also No. 1 on the R&B/hip-hop and rap charts. It remained absent from the country chart, from which it was cruelly removed after failing to “embrace enough elements of today’s country music.” (This was not very cowboy of Billboard.) According to Stereogum, it’s the second-shortest song to ever hit No. 1. The shortest was “Stay,” a 1960 doo-wop track by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs.
https://youtu.be/7ysFgElQtjI It also samples Nine Inch Nails’ “34 Ghost IV,” which means it’s also the first credited No. 1 song for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The good this song is doing for the world truly knows no bounds.
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