You can pretty much measure this numerically. At this point, 20 weeks at No. 1 for “Road” is not impossible to imagine. Where Fonsi, Daddy, and Bieber couldn’t close the deal, X and Cyrus bring the horses home: “Old Town Road” finally shunts Carey/Boyz to second place, takes first place all to itself, and shows no sign of slowing down. Foiled in their would-be Week 17 by a headline-mongering Taylor Swift, the three-man team had to settle for a tie with a now-24-year-old song that, until this week, proved impossible to beat: the monster-melisma duet “ One Sweet Day” by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, which also spent 16 weeks on top back in 1995 and ’96. Two years ago, 2017’s Song of the Summer, “ Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber, very nearly took the all-time crown with 16 weeks on top. Now in its 17 th week at No. 1-16 of those weeks with credited support by country veteran Billy Ray Cyrus-“Old Town Road” breaks out of a three-way tie for longest run on top. LOVE THESE MOMENTS! 🤠Ī post shared by Lil Nas X on at 11:30am PDTĮat your heart out, “ Baby Shark.” The zeal with which this army of school kids sang-screamed!-every word along with Lil Nas X says more than anything I could write about the cultural resonance of “Old Town Road,” the song that, today, sets the all-time record for longevity atop Billboard’s six-decade-old Hot 100 pop chart.
SAW THESE KIDS TURNIN UP TO OLD TOWN ROAD 5 DAYS AGO AND HAD TO COME THRU AND PERFORM ONE TIME.