Lil Nas X’s “Outdated City Street” units document for longest-running No. 1 hip-hop tune
Lil Nas X’s “Outdated City Street” has been a bonafide viral hit ever since its launch. Now, the smash single has formally set a Billboard charts document because the longest-running No. 1 hip-hop tune.
As Billboard reviews, “Outdated City Street” that includes Billy Ray Cyrus has claimed the No. 1 spot on the Sizzling 100 for a record-breaking 13 straight weeks. Lil Nas X topped a trio of hip-hop hits — Eminem’s “Lose Your self,” the Black Eyed Peas’ “Increase Increase Pow,” and Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s “See You Once more” — whose streak ended at 12 weeks.
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The 20-year-old rapper’s reign this week additionally makes “Outdated City Street” solely the 12th tune ever — throughout all genres — to carry onto the No. 1 rating for this size of time. Since Billboard launched the Sizzling 100 within the 1920s, sixteen weeks is the longest any single has clenched the highest slot. If Lil Nas X manages to remain sturdy till then, his “Outdated City Street” joins a really elite group of simply two songs to make it that far: Mariah Carey and Boyz II Males’s “One Candy Day” and “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, and Justin Bieber.
Revisit “Outdated City Street”, that tune that makes nation music dads and fifth graders alike go buck wild, beneath.
On Sunday, the final day of Pleasure month, Lil Nas X got here out publicly on social media. The rapper additionally made a shock look at Glastonbury over the weekend, performing “Outdated City Street” alongside Miley Cyrus and father Billy Ray. Lil Nas X dropped his new 7 EP final week, and can assist it with a handful of tour dates and summer season pageant appearances. Seize tickets right here.
