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"Old Town Road" achieved a rare feat in Billboard history when it simultaneously charted on the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Country Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts in March 2019. [a] However, Billboard quietly removed "Old Town Road" from its Hot Country chart for "not [embracing] enough elements of today's country music". [37]
Montero Lamar Hill (born April 9, 1999), better known by his stage name Lil Nas X (/ n ɑː z / NAHZ), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.He rose to prominence with the release of his 2019 country rap single "Old Town Road," the longest-running number-one song (at 19 weeks) since the U.S. Billboard Hot 100's 1958 inception. [3]
Giddyap! The official music video for “Old Town Road,” the Western-themed 2019 breakout from Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, has joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club. The achievement ...
[11] [12] One of the first examples of this phenomenon is the song "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X, which started as a meme on TikTok, and became one of the biggest songs of 2019 and the longest-running number-one song in the history of the US Billboard Hot 100.
In the past year, TikTok has become a monstrous force in the music industry. Now that its viral songs are climbing the Billboard charts, what's next?
TikTok also played a major part in making "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X one of the biggest songs of 2019 and the longest-running number-one song in the history of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. [119] [120] [121] TikTok has allowed many music artists to gain a wider audience, often including foreign fans.
The song's music video broke the records for the biggest music video premiere on YouTube, with 1.66 million concurrent viewers, and the most-watched music video within 24 hours, with 86.3 million views in its first day. [50] It became the fastest video to reach 100 million views, in just 32 hours, [51] and 200 million views, in seven days. [52]
All three songs released in 2023, along with two new songs "All I Wanna Be" and "Falls Into Place" were released as part of the new EP Falls Into Place on October 20, 2023, after four years from the release of the previous EP. [22] On November 10, 2023, Mason Ramsey released a Christmas country cover of the song "Run Rudolph Run". [23]