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Lil Nas X is having a peaceful transfer of power, happily acknowledging his Billboard chart records being broken by the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Shaboozey.
Last week, Billboard confirmed that Kendrick‘s “Not Like Us” broke the record for most weeks atop their Hot Rap Songs chart (at 21 weeks then, but now at 22) – which passed the 20-week streak of Nas’ 2019 smash, “Old Town Road.”
Then this week, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” broke the record for most weeks at No. 1 on the Canadian Hot 100 at 20 weeks, surpassing the 19-week streak of “Old Town Road.”
In back-to-back posts to X on Wednesday (October 16), Nas shared a post about each stat and wrote the same message while interchanging their names: “it was a good run ! the horses are officially actually in the back now! Congratulations to [Kendrick/Shaboozey]!”
He still holds one important record on the charts, however, as “Old Town Road” remains the longest-leading No. 1 in Hot 100 chart history at 19 weeks.
Lil Nas X gave country music a new identity with his breakthrough hit “Old Town Road” back in 2019, but he still wishes that stakeholders of the genre gave him his props.
In an interview with BBC in May, the 25-year-old rapper and singer reflected on the aforementioned song not being included on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart due to, according to those in charge, the fact that it did not “embrace enough elements of today’s country music.”
Though he is “happy” for Beyoncé‘s recent success with Cowboy Carter, the Georgia native admitted: “I wish this would have happened for me. I wasn’t even able to experience this.”
In April, the Destiny’s Child alum topped Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart thanks to her latest project, making her the first Black woman to ever do so.
According to Billboard, Cowboy Carter debuted atop the tally with 407,000 equivalent album units in its first week. Twenty-three of the album’s 27 songs have also made it to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, bringing her career total Billboard Hot 100 songs to 106. She is now just the 17th artist and only the third woman to ever bag this accolade.
Ten other songs from the album also cracked the top 50, including the Post Malone collaboration “Levii’s Jeans,” “Bodyguard,” and The Beatles cover “Blackbird.”
