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In the United States, the original version of "Old Town Road" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the week ending April 13, 2019; [62] at one minute and 53 seconds in length, it became the shortest number-one single since "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" by Herman's Hermits in 1965 and the fifth-shortest in the history of the chart. [63]
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]
[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.
Lil Nas X spent $50 total to record the original “Old Town Road” track in less than an hour at an Atlanta studio before he released it on Dec. 3, 2018 — and it went viral on TikTok. The ...
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.
Ahead, find the best TikTok songs of 2022 and from the app's early days — and while you're at it, you might as well give us a follow, too. 😉 "About Damn Time" by Lizzo "As It Was" by Harry Styles
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]