Michael Caudill for Billboard
Oliver Anthony Music’s hit song “Rich Men North of Richmond” spends its second week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. A week earlier, the song shot to the top, making the singer-songwriter the first artist to top the survey without no previous chart record by any means. It has now become the most played song of the week, is still the best-selling single, and gains more radio airplay.
Additionally, Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” jumped from number 15 to number 5 on the Hot 100, making it her seventh career top 10 hit.
The Hot 100 mixes all types of broadcast in the United States (official audio and official video), radio broadcast and sales data; the latter metric reflects purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; Individual digital sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from plan calculations. All charts (as of September 2, 2023) will be updated on Billboard.com tomorrow (August 29). For all the chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
“Rich Men North of Richmond” drew 22.9 million views (up 31%) and sold 117,000 downloads (down 20%) in the tracking week of August 18-24, according to Luminate. The song, which did not get airplay, also achieved 2.3 million audience impressions (an increase of 310%).
The song recorded a second week at number one on the Digital Song Sales chart and went up 4-1 on the Streaming Songs chart. Notably, it achieves a rare second-week increase in views for a Hot 100 debuting song: Of the 34 songs to debut atop the Hot 100 this decade, it’s the second-highest increase in views (17.5 million to 22, 9 million) in its second week. , after Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” (43.2 million to 62.7 million) on the charts from May 29 to June 5, 2021, and Rodrigo’s success was fueled by his debut album which reached number 1 on the Billboard 200. sour.
As mentioned above, “Richmond” also debuted on Country Airplay at #45, with 90% of total airplay (2 million of 2.3 million available) from Billboard reporting stations on the chart.
“Richmond” has become a focus of interest for both the political right and left since its official launch on August 11, and even spurred the initial talking point of the first GOP presidential primary debate last Wednesday. August 23rd. “What bothers me is seeing people get involved in the politics of this,” Anthony responded in a YouTube clip).
Written by singer-songwriter and former Farmville, Virginia factory worker Christopher Anthony Lunsford (whose stage name honors his grandfather, Oliver Anthony), the song created an online sensation for the first time, including on TikTok, where it has 2.1 millions. followers (up from 1.5 million a week ago), before it was posted on August 11 on the radiowv YouTube account, which highlights unsigned US and country acts in the Virginia/West Virginia area.
Richmond leads at the same time chartThe Hot Country Songs chart, which uses the same methodology as the Hot 100, fell for a second week.
The song also unsurprisingly aroused the curiosity of chart-topping fans. Writing in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, Jesper Tan noted that the second Oliver Anthony Music act to have “Music” in their name topped the Hot 100, after C+C Music Factory’s “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).” in 1991. Tan also reached No. 1 with the word “music” in their titles: Wild Cherry’s “Play That Funky Music” in 1976 and Madonna’s “Music” in 2000.
Additionally, Jeff Lerner notes that “Richmond” is the eighth Hot 100 No. 1 to name an American city in its title (two of which are odes to Philadelphia), and the first since 1985:
Rich Men of North Richmond, Oliver Anthony Music (2023) “Theme From Miami Vice” Jan Hammer (1985) “Freedom of Philadelphia” Elton John (1975) The Night Chicago Died (Paper Lace) (1974) “TSOP ( The Philadelphia Sound)» MFSB (1974) El Paso, Marty Robbins (1960) «The Battle of New Orleans» Johnny Horton (1959) Kansas City, Wilbert Harrison (1959)
(Lerner adds that The Monkees’ 1966 “Last Train to Clarksville” is “not on this list as lyricist Bobby Hart insists he wrote the song about a fictional town, not the real Clarksville, fig.”) . Baauer’s 2013 Shake’s “Harlem” also doesn’t count, since Harlem is a borough of New York City. The last city named to top the Hot 100 #1 before “Richmond”? The capital of Cuba, as “Havana” Cabello de Camila, with Young Thug, in 2018.)
Luke Combs’ version of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” marked its seventh week at number two on the Hot 100, holding steady at the number, and Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” maintained its third position, after 16 weeks on the Hot 100. number one. Especially because of the lack of cooperation. Thanks to “Richmond,” “Fast Car” and “Last Night,” country hits (as defined by Hot Country Songs) reached the top three of the Hot 100 in a week for the third time after the same week. Songs released a week ago, Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town”, “Last Night” and “Fast Car” were at number 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the Hot 100 on August 5.
Meanwhile, he stars in the movie “Last Night.” chartSummer Songs chart in its thirteenth week, having topped it every week since the chart’s return.
Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” maintained its fourth position on the Hot 100, after peaking at number three.
Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” debuted at 15-5 on the Hot 100, with 22.6 million live viewers (up 37%), 21.1 million streams (up 49%) and 5,000 copies sold (an increase of 81%). ), taking first place in broadcast honors and a sales winner.
The song, which debuted at No. 15 on the Hot 100 two weeks ago and has since gone viral on TikTok, became Doja Cat’s seventh top 10 hit, behind “Vegas” (No. 10 peak, Oct. of 2022); Post Malone’s “I Like You (A Happier Song)” (#3, October 2022); “The Woman” (No. 7, May 2022); “Need to Know” (No. 8, November 2021); “Kiss Me More” featuring SZA (#3, July 2021); and “Say It” with Nicki Minaj (No. 1, 1 week, May 2020).
Meanwhile, “Paint the Town Red” samples Dionne Warwick’s record-breaking hit “Walk on By,” which peaked at No. 6 on the Hot 100 in 1964. With its inclusion, legendary songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David appeared on the charts. Hot 100 charts. For the first time since Twista’s “Slow Jamz,” featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, which ran for a week in 2004; This song samples Luther Vandross’s version of his Warwick colleague’s 1964 release “A Home Ain’t a Home”.
Bacharach, who passed away on February 8, penned seven of the Top 100 top 100 hits, which dominated four separate decades (the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 2000s). David passed away in 2012. Notably, the Songwriters Hall of Fame presents annually (this year to Post Malone) the Hal David Starlight Award, which the organization says is given to “talented young songwriters who are making a significant impact.” in the music”. «. Industry with his original songs.
“Paint the Town Red” simultaneously topped the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (5-1) and Hot Rap Songs (4-1) charts. Doja Cat earned her second spot on the top of the chart, after “Say So,” and her first on the latter.
After peaking at number three on the Hot 100, Rima and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” fell 5-6, sitting at number ten on the Radio Songs chart (83.5 million, down 3%). It topped the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs chart for its fifty-second week, extending the chart the longest since the chart began over a year ago.
Gunna’s “Fukumean” repeated at number seven on the Hot 100, having peaked at number four, and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” fell 6-8, after debuting at number one for the third time in July.
Rounding out the top 10 of the Hot 100 are two hits from the soundtrack. Barbie: The Album: Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” fell 8-9, after peaking at number seven, despite earning the highest Airplay Gainer on the chart (57.7 million, an increase of 16%), and “Barbie World » by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, featuring Aqua. , down from 9-10, also after moving up to 7th place.
Again, for all the chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on Twitter and Instagram and all charts (as of September 2), including the full Hot 100, will be updated on Billboard.com tomorrow (29 of August). .
Luminate, the independent data provider for chart Charts Completes a comprehensive review of all data provided and used to compile the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and data validation. In alliance with chartData deemed suspect or unverifiable is removed, using specific criteria, before final calculations for the scheme are performed and published.
2023-08-28 18:26:54
#Oliver #Anthony #Musics #Richmond #Tops #Hot #Week #Billboard
