{"id":225028,"date":"2019-07-29T22:16:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T02:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=225028"},"modified":"2019-07-29T22:16:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T02:16:59","slug":"lil-nas-x-sets-new-billboard-record-for-most-weeks-at-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/29\/lil-nas-x-sets-new-billboard-record-for-most-weeks-at-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X sets new Billboard record for most weeks at No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lil Nas X accomplishes the feat this week as his country-trap song spends its 17th week on top of the Hot 100 chart. (File Photo<\/a>: @lilnasx\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 It’s one sweet day for Lil Nas X: The breakthrough rapper’s viral \u201cOld Town Road\u201d has broken the Billboard record set by Mariah Carey’s \u201cOne Sweet Day\u201d for most weeks at No. 1.<\/p>\n

Lil Nas X accomplishes the feat this week as his country-trap song spends its 17th week on top of the Hot 100 chart. Carey and Boyz II Men’s duet set the record in 1996, and the only song to come close to breaking it was the ubiquitous international hit \u201cDespacito,\u201d which tied the 16-week record in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cYEEE TF HAWWW,\u201d Lil Nas X tweeted Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOld Town Road,\u201d which has achieved most of its success through audio streaming, was originally a solo song but 20-year-old Lil Nas X added Billy Ray Cyrus to the track. The song also has remix versions featuring Diplo, Young Thug, Mason Ramsey and BTS, and Billboard counts the original song and its remixes as one when calculating chart position, thus helping \u201cOld Town Road\u201d stay on top.<\/p>\n

\u201cOld Town Road\u201d initially was in a bit of controversy in March when Billboard removed it from its country charts, deeming it not country enough (it peaked at No. 19 on the country charts). But the drama didn’t hurt the song; it only propelled it.<\/p>\n

Songs have come close to displacing \u201cOld Town Road\u201d from the top spot \u2014 including Billie Eilish’s \u201cBad Guy\u201d and a pair of Taylor Swift singles \u2014 but ultimately were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Swift was successful in 2017 when her song \u201cLook What You Made Me Do\u201d stopped Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber’s \u201cDespacito\u201d from reaching a 17th week at No. 1. Celine Dion’s \u201cBecause You Loved Me\u201d ended Carey and Boyz II Men’s epic run in 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 It’s one sweet day for Lil Nas X: The breakthrough rapper’s viral \u201cOld Town Road\u201d has broken …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":224018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-mesfin-fekadu","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225033,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225028\/revisions\/225033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}