Ryan Smith
Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” marked its seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Then, “All My Life” by Lil Durk featuring J. Cole rose to the Hot 100 at number two, achieving a career-highest ranking for each artist.
In addition, Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy Chapman’s classic “Fast Car” goes from No. 11 to No. 9 on the Hot 100.
The Hot 100 mixes all US airplay (official audio and official video), radio airplay, and sales data. All charts (dated May 27, 2023) will be updated on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 23). For all chart news, you can follow @Billboard and @Billboardcharts on Twitter and Instagram.
Wallen’s Last Night, released on Big Loud/Mercury/Republic Records, drew 63.3 million broadcast viewership impressions (up 5%), 33 million streams (down 4%) and sold 9,000 downloads (down 6%) in May 12th. -18 week tracking, according to Luminate.
The song, which first topped the Hot 100 in March, becoming its first chart-topper, adds a ninth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and ranks No. 2 in Digital Song Sales, after a week on top, and a No. 5 hit on Radio Songs.
“Last Night” also tops the Country Airplay chart for a third week, after becoming the number one track ruling the Hot 100 and Country Airplay simultaneously, and continues to climb into the top twenty on Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay, and Adult Contemporary.
“Last Night” concurrently tops the Hot Country Songs chart, which uses the same methodology as the Hot 100, for its fifteenth week. It became only the twentieth song to top both charts — and having now ruled the Hot 100 for seven weeks, it claims the longest reign of those twenty songs, surpassing Kenny Rogers’ “Lady” and Johnny Horton’s “The Battle of New Orleans”, which spent six weeks at number one on the Hot 100 in 1980 and 1959, respectively.
As previously stated, the parent album one thing at a time dominating the Billboard 200 for its eleventh week, including its entire stay on the chart to date. It boasts the most consecutive number of weeks at number one since Titanic Connect 16 soundtrack in 1998. one thing at a time It is also the first album to spend its first 11 weeks on the chart at the top since Whitney Houston Whitney He also refereed his first 11 shots in 1987; The only other title to score multiple or more weeks at number one from debut is Stevie Wonder Songs in the key of life (13 in 1976-77), dating from the 1956 launch of the scheme.
Lil Durk’s “All My Life”, featuring J. Cole, debuted at number two on the Hot 100, with 30.9 million streams, 10.8 million in radio audience and 3,000 sold from its May 12 through May 18 release.
Both artists match the top 100 placements of their careers. Lil Durk earned his third Top 10 — and first in a lead role — after his featured roles in Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later” (No. 2, Aug. 2020) and “In the Bible” (No. 7, Sept. 2021), the latter featuring Also Jevon. J. Cole counts his eleventh top-ten hit (and first as a featured artist); He previously had second place with the song “my.life” with 21 Savage and Morray in May 2021.
The new collaboration also opens atop the multi-scale Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts. In the former, Lil’ Durk earns his third captain and J. Cole, his second captain. In the latter, they each scored No. 1 for the second time.
Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” debuted at number three on the Hot 100, after eight weeks at number one since its debut in January. Posts 14 weeks atop the Radio Songs Top (91.2 million audience, basically up week after week).
“Flowers” ties for the seventh longest reign since Radio Songs began in December 1990, and is one of only 10 songs with at least 14 weeks at number one (it also moves within a week of tying the longest reign for Columbia Records singles, held by Adele’s “Easy On Me”.)
Most Weeks at No. 1 on Radio Songs:
26, “Blinded by the lights,” The Weeknd, 2020
18, “Iris”, Goo Goo Dolls, 1998
16, “Girls Like You”, Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, 2018
16, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, 2005
16, “Don’t Speak,” No Doubt, 1996-1997
15, “Easy On Me,” Adele, 2021-22
14, “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus, 2023
14, “High Hopes,” Panic! At the Disco, 2018-19
14, “No One”, Alicia Keys, 2007-08
14, “Because You Loved Me,” Celine Dion, 1996
SZA’s “Kill Bill” is down 2-4 on the Hot 100, four weeks after claiming its number one spot. It is ruling the multi-measure Hot R&B Songs chart for its twenty-second week.
“Ella Baila Sola” by Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma fell to No. 5 on the Hot 100 from its highest charting of No. 4—the best ever for a Regional Mexican song. The collaboration adds a seventh week at number one on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart.
“Calm Down” by Rima and Selena Gomez dropped from the fifth spot on the Top 100 to the sixth spot. It’s been topping the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs chart for a thirty-eighth week, extending the longest base since the rating began more than a year ago (in partnership with music festival and global brand Afro Nation).
Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, and 21 Savage’s “Creepin'” is down 6-7 on the Hot 100, after peaking at #3, and Toosi’s “Favorite” is holding steady at its #8 peak.
The Luke Combs faithful remake of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” shot to the Top 10 on the Hot 100, going 11-9 with 19.5 million streams (down 2%), 13 million total radio viewership impressions (up 51%) and 8,000 sold. (15% increase).
As with Wallen’s “Last Night,” Combs’ “Fast Car” is a pop/adult hit, charting at 28-21 as the highest-grossing country airplay and leading 31-23 on Adult Pop Airplay and 37- 35 on Pop Airplay.
Combs claims to have been ranked third on the world’s top 100, after “The Kind of Love We Make” (No. 8, Oct. 2022) and “Forever After All” (No. 2, Nov. 2020).
Written solely by Chapman, “Fast Car” reached No. 6 on the Hot 100 in August 1988 and went on to win the singer-songwriter a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1989. Combs’ cover marks the first remake (not including samples or interpolations) of The Top 100 Hundred of the 1980s also reached the region since “We Are the World 25: For Haiti” was charted at No. 2 by artists of Haiti in 2010, behind USA Africa original “We Are the World” that dominated for four weeks in 1985.
Taylor Swift rounded out the top 10 on the charts, charting at number ten, and became her only song to hold the number one song with the longest running, for eight weeks in November and January. It adds a 28th week in the top 10, also extending its longest stay in the category.
Again, for all chart news, you can follow Billboard and @Billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all the charts (dated May 27), including the entire Hot 100, will be updated on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 23).
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