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In the United States, "Sad!" debuted at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the week beginning March 12, 2018, becoming XXXTentacion's highest debuting and highest-charting song in the country, [7] gaining 66 million streams in 12 days. [24] The song later rose to number seven, making "Sad!" XXXTentacion's first top ten entry in the US. [25]
On March 1, 2018, X announced he was releasing two songs from his then-upcoming album ?, saying on Instagram "Dropping two songs from my album tonight at 12:00 am est, play them more times than you can count." [1] "Changes" was released on March 2, 2018, on Spotify, Deezer, iTunes/Apple Music and Tidal alongside "Sad!". [2] [3]
The song contains an acoustic sound blending with trap elements, [2] "morose 808s", and a looped sample of XXXTentacion's vocals, of the lyrics "Why am I so in love? I don't know why". I don't know why".
Following XXXTentacion's death on June 18, 2018, "Sad!" topped the Billboard Hot 100, where XXXTentacion became the first act to earn a posthumous Hot 100 number-one single as a lead artist since The Notorious B.I.G. with "Mo Money Mo Problems" in 1997.
The late rapper had nine songs hit the Billboard 100 charts this week, joining 12 other solo rappers to have nine or more songs chart simultaneously
[67] [68] In June 2018, XXXTentacion was murdered, and like Peep, his albums 17 and ? charted the following week, along with his hit song "SAD!" charting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. [69] In September 2018, a posthumous collaboration between the two artists, "Falling Down" was released and became certified platinum in the US. [70]
XXXTentacion released his debut studio album, 17 in August 2017 [6] to commercial success. [7] Following the release of the album, he announced he was quitting music due to negativity and backlash, [8] though he eventually signed a $6 million one-album deal with Caroline Distribution [9] and released A Ghetto Christmas Carol EP on his SoundCloud on December 11, 2017.
In an interview with Complex, Lil Peep’s friend and producer Smokeasac described emotionally exhausting 10-hour studio sessions hearing the voice of his late associate on loop. “I would get ...