{"id":1622,"date":"2019-07-30T09:47:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2019-07-30T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:48:46","slug":"lil-nas-x-beats-us-singles-chart-record-with-old-town-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/lil-nas-x-beats-us-singles-chart-record-with-old-town-road\/music\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas x beats US singles chart record with Old Town Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Old Town Road has become a viral rap song and is now the longest running number one in US chart history. The song by Lil Nas X has topped the Billboards Hot 100 for 17 weeks. It has gained 72.5 million streams and 46,000 downloads in the past seven days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The rapper&#8217;s real name is Montero Hill and recorded the song last October using a backing track he bought online for \u00a324.70 ($30). By March this year, Lil Nas X\u00a0 had signed a deal with Columbia Records and the song gained early press coverage after it was banned by Billboard&#8217;s country charts for failing to &#8220;embrace enough elements of today&#8217;s country music&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r7qovpFAGrQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The longest reigning number ones in the US are:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>13 April 2019:\u00a0<\/strong>Old Town Road, Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus (17 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>27 May 2017:\u00a0<\/strong>Despacito, Luis Fonsi &amp; Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber (16 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2 December 1995:\u00a0<\/strong>One Sweet Day, Mariah Carey &amp; Boyz II Men (16 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>17 January 2015:<\/strong>\u00a0Uptown Funk, Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars (14 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>11 July 2009:<\/strong>\u00a0Gotta Feeling, The Black Eyed Peas (14 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>4 June 2005:\u00a0<\/strong>We Belong Together, Mariah Carey (14 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>11 October 1997:<\/strong>\u00a0Candle in the Wind\/Something About the Way You Look Tonight, Elton John (14 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>3 August 1996:\u00a0<\/strong>Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio (14 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>27 August 1994:<\/strong>\u00a0I&#8217;ll Make Love to You, Boyz II Men (14 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>28 November 1992:\u00a0<\/strong>I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston (14 weeks)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mariah Carey has congratulated the rapper on Instagram, saying:<\/strong> &#8220;Sending love &amp; congrats to @lilnasx on breaking one of the longest running records in music history! We&#8217;ve been blessed to hold this record with a song that means a great deal to @BoyzIIMen and myself and has touched so many.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Keep living your best life! One Sweet Day will always hold a special place in my heart and I want to thank anyone who&#8217;s ever told me how this song has affected them and their loved ones.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lil Nas X took to all social medias to comment on the news and he thanked everyone for helping him\/supporting his music, &#8220;thank you to every single person\u261d\ufe0f who has been apart of this journey&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\ud83e\udd20 <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jesH1CNqYH\">pic.twitter.com\/jesH1CNqYH<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 nope (@LilNasX) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1155911402827046913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He warned that &#8220;it\u2019s just the beginning!&#8221; for his music&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Town Road has become a viral rap song and is now the longest running number one in US chart history. The song by Lil Nas X has topped the Billboards Hot 100 for 17 weeks. It has gained 72.5 million streams and 46,000 downloads in the past seven days. The rapper&#8217;s real name is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[696,25,698,697,699,371],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-lil-nas-x","tag-music","tag-music-record","tag-old-town-road","tag-record","tag-us"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}