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Posted by: Mack. 8th April 2019, 03:48 PM

This from US rapper Lil Nas X which entered the UK Top40 at #39 on Friday and it has continued to climb on Spotify.


What do you make of this?

Posted by: Cucumberella 8th April 2019, 04:07 PM

ooh really like this!

Posted by: jakewild 8th April 2019, 04:08 PM

banger

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 8th April 2019, 04:10 PM

The original is decent, this lifts it up to another level!

Posted by: Liаm 8th April 2019, 04:11 PM

This SLAPS *.* Especially the remix.

I'm interested to hear more as this melding of country with trap is so so good, Sam Hunt did some R&B influences but this is taking it even further! There's been controversy with Billboard as they took this off the Country chart and it would have been #1 if it was kept on!

Posted by: Moses 8th April 2019, 05:54 PM

Like this on first listen (the remix), tbh reminds me of the Justin Timberlake album last year which was some sort of country/funk/Timbaland fusion.

Posted by: BridgeCow 8th April 2019, 06:50 PM

Yeah it’s a tune u can’t lie

Posted by: Liаm 8th April 2019, 11:18 PM

Hot 100 #1 *.*

Posted by: Bré 8th April 2019, 11:23 PM

I don't know if I want to see country trap becoming a proper trend but I'm here for it for this one song at least - crazy that it's got to #1 on the Hot 100 already and could well be coming for UK #1 this week or next as well! *.*

(Billy Ray's verse on the remix is genuinely not bad as well xx)

Posted by: LMLou 9th April 2019, 07:38 AM

It’s managed to get to #1 Without the remix even counting yet
The margins are going to be huge next week

Posted by: Bjork 9th April 2019, 07:42 AM

didn't think he was gonna make it this week without the billy ray cyrus version

Posted by: DannyAdelante 9th April 2019, 04:08 PM

I LOVE this song! It's taken off over here. Love the Country and Hip-Hop vibes combined.

March Madness, the annual three week, 64 team college basketball competition just finished last night, with Virginia beating Texas Tech in the Final. Texas Tech were 200-1 to reach the final before the season, and were the Cinderella story of the tournament (think of it as Plymouth Argyle or Exeter City reaching the FA Cup Final). They are from Lubbock, a small-ish university city in west Texas with about 350 miles from the next nearest city. It's Cowboy country out there. Anyway, they adopted this song as their anthem a few weeks ago, and they have been going crazy celebrating each unlikely win by blasting this in the changing room.

Posted by: Mack. 15th April 2019, 02:50 PM

Managed to climb 37 places to #2 back on Friday in the UK. Strong contender for #1 on Friday? We'll have to wait and see.

Posted by: Bjork 15th April 2019, 03:00 PM

1000% sure #1

Posted by: Moses 15th April 2019, 03:57 PM

The more I hear it the more I think of The Lonely Island or Lil Dicky...

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th April 2019, 05:53 PM

It's #1 in today's update so hopefully it can stay there!

Posted by: mdh 15th April 2019, 10:16 PM

The remix kind of ruins it, but the original is brill

Posted by: Theonix 16th April 2019, 06:50 AM

I think the remix is absolute genius. I've had it in my head constantly for well over a week - Billy Ray's "rap" is excellent

Edit - the remix is now #1 on the Hot 100 with 143 million streams, breaking the previous record of most streams in a single week set by In My Feelings. Glad it's set to be the UK #1 this week too after being cheated of it last week by the stupid rules regarding Thursday streams

Posted by: Bjork 16th April 2019, 07:02 AM

it wasn't cheated last week, wouldn't have been #1, Lewis was too far ahead

Posted by: JosephAvery 16th April 2019, 11:20 AM

Indeed, Lewis was miles ahead, Lil Nas X had no chance...

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 16th April 2019, 04:47 PM

Posted by: Theonix 29th April 2019, 05:27 PM

Just when I thought I couldn't bop any more to this

Posted by: Bjork 29th April 2019, 05:48 PM

guess it's all to keep the #1 in the US
bye Taylor

Posted by: gavindeejay 29th April 2019, 08:44 PM

Wow! This is great!

Posted by: lewistgreen 1st May 2019, 05:59 PM

This is a blatant troll but imagine!!

Posted by: danG 1st May 2019, 06:43 PM

Him leaving out Nicki Minaj tho

Posted by: LMLou 1st May 2019, 06:49 PM

Prediction says this will stay at #1 in US with quite a big lead

Posted by: jakewild 1st May 2019, 06:52 PM

thanos!

Posted by: Mack. 13th May 2019, 02:28 PM

I don't think many would have thought Billy Ray Cyrus would play a part in a UK #1 in 2019.

Posted by: lewistgreen 14th May 2019, 09:09 AM

Video is apparently coming on Friday!

Posted by: lewistgreen 17th May 2019, 06:57 PM

Posted by: Theonix 18th May 2019, 09:45 AM

Omg the Diplo cameo!!! I died 🤣

Posted by: Mack. 20th May 2019, 01:39 PM

This is a great music video from Lil Nas X. This one of my favourite urban tunes of the year so far.

Posted by: Theonix 11th June 2019, 07:28 AM

#1 for a 10th week on the Hot 100! *.*

Posted by: Bré 11th June 2019, 12:40 PM

This still apparently has 3x the chart points of #2 on the Hot 100 and it increased in all categories this week, looking like it has a very strong chance of beating the record for most weeks at #1 ('only' 7 weeks to go until it overtakes 'One Sweet Day' and 'Despacito'). Oh my x

The consistency of its astronomical streaming numbers is unbelievable.

Posted by: dobbo 11th June 2019, 05:15 PM

No doubt aided by the fact it's such a short song^ I expect a lot of avid fans will play it 2 maybe 3 times in a "sitting"

And it would in some ways be quite befitting for it to be the longest running #1 ever. When I think of billboard I think of rap & country so this is the THE ultimate song in that respect.

Still overrated as hell tho.

Posted by: Mack. 18th June 2019, 11:40 AM

And #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 for an 11th week.

Posted by: Theonix 2nd July 2019, 07:44 AM

Old Town Road is #1 on the Hot 100 for a record 13th week, the longest running hip hop #1 in chart history! Only three more weeks until it matches One Sweet Day and Despacito's all genre record

In other news, Lil Nas X finally performed the song in the UK on Sunday at Glastonbury during Miley Cyrus's set, with Billy Ray too *.* Watch from 2:35 (he also performed Panini solo but no one cares about that)

Posted by: Mack. 8th July 2019, 02:43 PM

Well, this is different...

Posted by: LMLou 12th July 2019, 04:37 AM

New remix out with Young Thug and Mason Ramsey (yeah that Wallmart yodel Kid). Doubt this will boost UK sales or streams much at all

Posted by: lewistgreen 12th July 2019, 06:42 AM

Posted by: Bré 12th July 2019, 03:22 PM

Best timeline confirmed

Mason's verse *.

Posted by: jakewild 12th July 2019, 04:10 PM

i hate it when lyric videos tell me how wrong i've been singing

Posted by: Bré 12th July 2019, 06:39 PM

Pretty sure some of the lyrics are actually wrong in this video lol x

Posted by: Mack. 15th July 2019, 12:54 PM

Mason Ramsey's verse, well..... is interesting.

Posted by: Theonix 15th July 2019, 09:37 PM

15th week at #1 in the US, the record will likely be his in 2 weeks with the new remix!

Posted by: Bré 15th July 2019, 09:42 PM

Apparently Billie has closed his lead a lot (from 1.9:1 last week to 1.5:1 this week) and this tracking week only includes one day with the Bieber remix so it might actually be quite close for week 16. I think if he does get that then he'll very likely get to at least 17 though.

Posted by: Rhoda Camel 15th July 2019, 09:43 PM

i hope he gets it! absolute tune. the new remix is crap tho

Posted by: Bré 15th July 2019, 10:12 PM

You ain't got no giddy up so giddy out my way xx

Posted by: Jade 15th July 2019, 10:18 PM

Lil Nas X & Richard X remix tbh - Liberty X who??

Posted by: Cqmerqn 16th July 2019, 06:37 PM

New music video out

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 16th July 2019, 06:39 PM

Anthony Fantano making a cameo!

Posted by: Cqmerqn 18th July 2019, 08:49 PM

Dolly Parton remix out Friday

Posted by: lewistgreen 18th July 2019, 09:12 PM

LMAO NO WAY

Posted by: Jade 18th July 2019, 09:25 PM

This is the gift that keeps on giving *.*

Posted by: Liаm 18th July 2019, 09:29 PM

DOLLY OMGG *.*

Posted by: Jαsє 18th July 2019, 09:30 PM

OMG THE PINK HORSE

Posted by: Bré 18th July 2019, 11:13 PM

I so hope that's real but I'm not sure if it is x

Posted by: Cqmerqn 19th July 2019, 06:24 PM

New music video (!!!) out now

Posted by: SKOB 19th July 2019, 08:11 PM

YASS hope Dolly will be on it, getting that #1 hit

Posted by: Bré 22nd July 2019, 06:06 PM

This has got the 16th week at #1, its lead over 'bad guy' only reduced to 1.3:1. Feels like the record should be in the bag now unless 'bad guy' / something else gets another huge boost from somewhere during the week.

Posted by: Rhoda Camel 22nd July 2019, 06:25 PM

Posted by: coi 22nd July 2019, 06:25 PM

Wow, it actually looks like it's gonna break the record then!

Posted by: Cqmerqn 22nd July 2019, 07:49 PM

Posted by: Jack 22nd July 2019, 07:56 PM

The song is decent but I can't understand why it's been SO huge.

Posted by: danG 22nd July 2019, 09:08 PM

I hope it does it now. just cos that mariah song is so boring and does not deserve it.

Posted by: Rhoda Camel 22nd July 2019, 09:09 PM

QUOTE(Cqmerqn @ Jul 22 2019, 08:49 PM)

Posted by: dobbo 22nd July 2019, 09:12 PM

QUOTE(danG @ Jul 22 2019, 10:08 PM)

Posted by: Cqmerqn 22nd July 2019, 09:41 PM

Tbh Despacito felt a lot bigger, but I’m all for Lil Nas getting that record!

Posted by: Dircadirca 23rd July 2019, 05:02 AM

Go Lil Nas X! It feels like more power to the people than ever before considering that he's doing this largely on streams & sales while radio continue to drop it in favour of Khalid's light blue wallpaper. I love Billie but her getting to #1 because of a crappy Justin Bieber remix would be the worst timeline.

Posted by: Bjork 23rd July 2019, 05:57 AM

One sweet day was #1 for 16 weeks thanks to payola & airplay... at least this and Despacito are driven by sales... I think Despacito is the biggest song, this has taken advantage from memes and YT, think Despacito used less gimmicks to do it...

Posted by: pspross 23rd July 2019, 07:09 PM

Such an unusual combination. I can get used to it though.

Posted by: dannjohn 23rd July 2019, 08:45 PM

i've not actuallyheard this lol... 'despacito' was much bigger... but then again i don't think 'old kent road' is AS big here?

Posted by: Rhoda Camel 23rd July 2019, 08:56 PM

old kent road LMFAO

Posted by: Dircadirca 25th July 2019, 04:51 AM

The absolute mad man is at it again

Posted by: ITz Cody 25th July 2019, 04:56 AM

isn't the dolly parton remix also coming soon?

Posted by: Dexton 25th July 2019, 09:55 AM

I hope so

We need a Spanglish version too and then like a remix pack of Kygo, The Chainsmokers and Zedd

Posted by: Bjork 25th July 2019, 11:40 AM

maybe it will be #1 in the US forever I could see the appeal of adding Billy Ray Cyrus but some of the latest remixes are kinda useless

Posted by: Voodoo 27th July 2019, 02:48 PM

He is getting really desperate & pathetic by releasing those countless remixes & videos just for getting curious streams.

Posted by: blacksquare 27th July 2019, 04:19 PM

QUOTE(Voodoo @ Jul 27 2019, 03:48 PM)

He is getting really desperate & pathetic by releasing those countless remixes & videos just for getting curious streams.

Posted by: JosephAvery 27th July 2019, 04:27 PM

Besides, I know if I were that close to breaking the record for most weeks at #1, I'd be doing everything I could to make it happen!

Posted by: Rhoda Camel 27th July 2019, 04:28 PM

little mix - bounce back needing to take note x

Posted by: Theonix 29th July 2019, 06:30 PM

The Billboard record is officially his!!

Posted by: Bré 29th July 2019, 06:42 PM

Mariah vanquished. It could yet spend another week or two there as well.

I'm seeing a lot of people on Reddit speculating that this might make Billboard change their rules to not allow remixes to be combined into one chart entry. I hope they don't do that, it is a rule that can be exploited to some extent clearly but it's not like people consume every new remix as if it's a totally new song.

Posted by: coi 29th July 2019, 07:44 PM

The record has actually been broken, wow!

And it still has a lead of 1.2:1 as well.

Posted by: Bjork 29th July 2019, 07:52 PM

wow, good for him

wouldn't surprise me if Billboard makes some rule change now to prevent a similar situation in the future... Drake could do it and bring a new singer for a new version every week, one week Rihanna, one week Beyonce... and would be #1 forever

Posted by: Dircadirca 30th July 2019, 01:25 AM

We live in the presence of a king

With regards to Billboard changing rules, I'm not sure I see the motivation. We've had remixes be the sole reason songs go to #1 in the past, and we've had streaming result in runs that seem extended beyond common sense as well. But mainly keep in mind that if Lil Nas X breaking a long standing record seems significant, don't forget that for the entire 1980s, songs were almost never lasting more than 3-4 weeks at #1, and then Billboard started tracking airplay more accurately and suddenly Boyz II Men made/matched the record 3 times in the space of 3 years, with a lot of help from a passive component. "Old Town Road" just happens to have had its stars align more so than anything else ("Uptown Funk" & "Despacito" would both also be on 17 weeks if not for their successors bolting to #1 out of nowhere).

(Also it would look like Billboard are still mad about the whole Hot Country thing 5 months later, when they should be grateful at how much traffic Lil Nas X has driven).

Posted by: Bjork 30th July 2019, 06:17 AM

I agree with all that
I personally give zero value to One Sweet Day being one 16 weeks when it was 100% due to airplay bought by her husband. The singles chart in the late 90s/early 00s is a joke cos no one was buying singles anymore and in the pre-download days it was all airplay.

and I know songs had had remixes with guests, but usually the 1 remix, only 1, not 1 every week like Lil Nas X... thats why I think Billboard will change the rule

anyway Ariana is coming to stop his run last #1

Posted by: blacksquare 30th July 2019, 06:33 AM

Posted by: Cqmerqn 30th July 2019, 07:06 AM

People still had to actually listen to this remixes though and they did!

Posted by: Bjork 30th July 2019, 07:54 AM

I know I know and I'm up for it, just saying Billboard is probably seeing it differently

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 30th July 2019, 08:16 AM

Good on him!

It's a waaaay better track than 'One Sweet Day' and 'Despacito' so I'm happy.

Posted by: Jay ☆ 30th July 2019, 03:20 PM

QUOTE(Bjork @ Jul 30 2019, 07:17 AM)

Posted by: Voodoo 30th July 2019, 03:34 PM

It’s because he had 17985 remixes.

Posted by: ITz Cody 30th July 2019, 04:58 PM

Flopriah and Desflopcito could never *.*

Posted by: Rhoda Camel 30th July 2019, 05:00 PM

it's probably the first time i've ADORED a massive chart entry in so long

love her

Posted by: TheSnake 30th July 2019, 05:04 PM

Well done to Lil Nas X (and Billy Ray Cyrus) for breaking the US chart record, saw it on the news this morning. It will be interesting to see how the follow up does to Old Town Road, and whether he will keep his unique country influenced trap style (I hope he does).

Posted by: Bjork 30th July 2019, 05:26 PM

^he's already charted with PANINI

Posted by: Riser 31st July 2019, 05:37 AM

QUOTE(Bjork @ Jul 30 2019, 02:17 AM)

Posted by: Bjork 31st July 2019, 06:27 AM

my bad, didn't know, I genuinely thought all these years that no one was buying singles in the US in the early 00s in the pre-itunes days and that it was all airplay

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 31st July 2019, 08:32 AM

Where did you get "her husband bought all the airplay" from anyway though?

Posted by: Bjork 31st July 2019, 08:49 AM

that's nothing new, people have been talking about forever, google it, Mariah has had accusations of payola since day 1

Mariah got married to this Mottola guy who was the owner of Columbia and people were saying he bought airplay time for Mariah in lots of stations, not sure if the rumours are true obviously

Posted by: dobbo 31st July 2019, 02:36 PM

Kamaliya could never...

Posted by: Bré 5th August 2019, 05:44 PM

And the 18th week is now confirmed, so Billy Ray Cyrus has now also beaten the old record (he was technically still tied before as the first #1 week for 'Old Town Road' was before his remix came out).

Billy Ray Cyrus already had the record for most consecutive weeks at #1 on the US album chart in the SoundScan era as well (with 'Some Gave All' which also spent 17 weeks in a row at #1), what kind of king!!

Posted by: danG 5th August 2019, 05:56 PM

only a real icon of country music. when will Bebe Rexha?

Posted by: Theonix 5th August 2019, 06:00 PM

We stan a gay icon! Still absolutely loving this, and long may his reign continue!

Posted by: George.keh 5th August 2019, 06:19 PM

Rihanna coming to end his reign

Posted by: shadow2009 5th August 2019, 09:48 PM

Happy he broke the record but they NEED to push Panini now or he's one hit wonder for life.

Posted by: Bré 6th August 2019, 12:08 PM

'Panini' has been doing fine for itself, has been top 10 on US Spotify since release! I hope it can pick up more now but I'd say it's already done enough to say he's not a one hit wonder. He'll just probably never have another hit coming anywhere remotely close to OTR of course, and it remains to be seen if he'll make any more impact with future releases. The longevity of 'Panini' so far is an encouraging sign I think.

Posted by: Bjork 6th August 2019, 12:13 PM

so far Panini has been #16 in the US and #25 in the UK, so you cannot call him 1 hit wonder

Posted by: Dircadirca 6th August 2019, 01:06 PM

What I think could still happen is that he ends up becoming one of those artists who *technically* had another hit in the coat-tails of the big hit, but one that is quickly forgotten as a footnote because people like the novelty of a one hit wonder. If you look up a list online of famous one hit wonders, half of them aren't even that. Arguably it was the case for Billy Ray Cyrus until this year

But honestly Lil Nas X strikes me as savvy enough to keep his career going. He seems fairly well-liked as a person behind the song too.

Posted by: Mack. 6th August 2019, 01:08 PM

I'll be very surprised if he had the longevity hit like 'Old Town Road' has. 'Panini' has been consistent staying in the Top 40 for a few weeks in the UK.

Posted by: dobbo 9th August 2019, 08:26 PM

QUOTE(Dircadirca @ Aug 6 2019, 02:06 PM)

What I think could still happen is that he ends up becoming one of those artists who *technically* had another hit in the coat-tails of the big hit, but one that is quickly forgotten as a footnote because people like the novelty of a one hit wonder. If you look up a list online of famous one hit wonders, half of them aren't even that. Arguably it was the case for Billy Ray Cyrus until this year

Posted by: Mack. 13th August 2019, 02:11 PM

And it extends its stint at #1 to 19 weeks in the US.

Posted by: Bjork 13th August 2019, 02:14 PM

hope it's the last, no one is buying or streaming it anymore, it's just #1 cos of its Youtube views which is silly :/

Posted by: JosephAvery 13th August 2019, 02:18 PM

It's #3 on iTunes and #10 combined on Spotify. That's not no-one, it's actually still very notable...

Posted by: dobbo 13th August 2019, 03:19 PM

Question now is:

a) can he beat Black Eyed Peas record of 26 consecutive weeks at the top
b) can he beat Usher's record of 28 weeks at the top in a calendar year


Hopefully the answer to both of these is a resounding NO

Posted by: LMLou 13th August 2019, 03:28 PM

It'll be a shame If bad guy never gets the number one now after spending nine weeks at #2 behind OTR, but I can see Señorita being the next number one.

Posted by: Bjork 13th August 2019, 04:06 PM

QUOTE(JosephAvery @ Aug 13 2019, 04:18 PM)

Posted by: shadow2009 13th August 2019, 04:58 PM

Where the hell is the Panini video? It's so annoying how they're waiting so long. It was filmed ages ago and he's doing absolutely no promo for it and it's not even being added to any playlists...WTF?

Posted by: Bré 13th August 2019, 06:33 PM

QUOTE(Bjork @ Aug 13 2019, 03:14 PM)

Posted by: shadow2009 13th August 2019, 07:07 PM

Confirmed to be doing Panini at the VMA's!

Posted by: coi 19th August 2019, 08:25 PM

Old Town Road is no longer US #1, it's down to #3!

Posted by: Bré 19th August 2019, 08:31 PM

What a flop.

'Panini' video now pls.

Posted by: Bjork 19th August 2019, 09:16 PM

QUOTE(Bré @ Aug 13 2019, 08:33 PM)

It is literally still #1 on both the sales and streaming charts...

Posted by: Bré 19th August 2019, 09:27 PM

It was, and still is, #1 on the Streaming Songs chart which includes both audio and video streaming. Billboard doesn't even have separate charts for them. I don't see why YouTube streaming would be any less 'legitimate' than any other form of streaming anyway? If anything surely you should be defending it considering how much you hate passive streaming from playlists counting to charts, which is an issue that doesn't exist (or at least only exists in a very very limited capacity) on YouTube...

For that matter 'Old Town Road' is still #1 on the sales chart again this week as well, so the only reason it's lost the #1 on the Hot 100 is that its radio airplay has died much faster than that of 'bad guy'.

Posted by: shadow2009 24th August 2019, 11:46 AM

Lol, Panini has went to ACR this week before the video has even been released.

Posted by: Atonement 24th August 2019, 12:42 PM

QUOTE(Bré @ Aug 19 2019, 11:27 PM)

Posted by: SKOB 24th August 2019, 01:11 PM

His team really lost the ball with Panini, should've been pushed harder immediately after OTR got that 17th week... Wonder if he already has a new single waiting (that's not on 7 EP)

Posted by: shadow2009 24th August 2019, 06:16 PM

QUOTE(SKOB @ Aug 24 2019, 02:11 PM)

Posted by: Mack. 2nd September 2019, 01:37 PM

Yes, I think that they would push 'Rodeo' now during the next few weeks.