The fifth and sixth slots on the current Billboard Hot 100 belong to the same artist: Sabrina Carpenter.
My pick for Song of the Summer, ‘Espresso‘ currently sits at #5 after peaking at #3. It still boggles my mind that this song never reached #1. Maybe it still will.
Just below it is ‘Please Please Please,’ the second single from Carpenter’s upcoming album Short n’ Sweet.
Billboard’s #4 song of the week is a genre mashup by a little-known artist named Tommy Richman. Like so many hits these days, it got its start on TikTok.
A snippet of ‘Million Dollar Baby’ was uploaded to the social platform in a lo-fi clip shot in the recording studio and promptly racked up millions of views. When the record dropped later that week, it was already a hit.
This week’s #3 song is Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us,’ the fifth diss track the rapper released during his recent feud with Drake.
I had managed to not hear any of the dueling songs released by either artist until now, so I’m certainly not qualified to say who came out on top. That said, only one of the rappers scored a #1 hit with a song accusing his rival of pedophilia, so I’d say that makes Kendrick the winner.
In the #2 slot of this week’s Billboard Hot 100 is ‘I Had Some Help,’ a duet by Post Malone and Morgan Wallen. This song spent six weeks at #1 before being dethroned by Shaboozey, making it the year’s longest-running chart-topper so far.
Country music is really hitting its stride on the charts when one country song replaces another. The influx of more contemporary artists and sounds into the genre has been a recipe for crossover success.
It’s been a few months since I did an installment of ‘What the Kids are Listening To,’ wherein I feature the songs currently topping the Billboard Hot 100. This week’s lineup is pretty interesting, so the timing is good.
At #1 is Shaboozey with ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy).’ The Virginia country/hip-hop artist has been recording since 2014 but this is his first song to reach the Hot 100 as a lead artist. I learned his name when he appeared on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter earlier this year, a gig that set him up nicely for this breakout success.
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