The Kid Laroi and Miley Cyrus’ “Without You” and Lil Nas X’s “Montero” round out the top 10. It’s Cole’s fifth top-10 hit, and you can expect more of them once the rest of The Off-Season impacts the chart next week. After Polo G’s “Rapstar” at #7 comes the debut of another rap star, J. Masked Wolf’s “Astronaut In The Ocean” reaches a new #6 peak. Wild shit! I need an oral history of all the behind-the-scenes machinations here.Īfter former number ones “Peaches” (#3) and “Save Your Tears” (#4) comes Doja Cat and SZA’s “Kiss Me More” steady at #5.
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UPDATE: A full two days later than normal, Billboard has finally released this week’s Hot 100, and “Levitating” is NOT #1! Instead, Silk Sonic’s “Leave The Door Open” returns to the top spot this week, with Dua and DaBaby slotted in at #2, projections be damned. Hey, whatever it takes to get Dula Peep to the top. (Her breakthrough hit “New Rules,” although a #1 smash in the UK, only reached #6 in the US.) “Levitating” is the second #1 hit for DaBaby following last summer’s Roddy Ricch collab “Rockstar.” The song has been lingering in the top 10 for a while now thanks to radio airplay and TikTok’s “You want me, I want you” meme. Somewhat shockingly, it’s Lipa’s first #1 single in America, surpassing the #2-peaking “Don’t Start Now” to become her highest-charting hit to date. The songs manifested young romantic turmoil in a handful of ways, be it passionately emoting amidst swirling strings on “The One” or spitting bars over loose, nimble guitar riffs on “Lifeboats.” Although she sang on “Teenage Fantasy” about being too young to have figured out who she was, the variety of sounds felt more like a flex, as if she was showing off just how multifaceted her sound could be without compromising her identity.Īs I publish this column, Billboard hasn’t released its latest Hot 100, but here’s how it will go if projections hold true: More than a year past the release of Future Nostalgia and seven months since a remix featuring DaBaby was released as a single, Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” has reached #1 on the Hot 100. Smith’s 2018 debut album Lost & Found served up warm neo-soul grooves, lithe club pop, jazzy hip-hop excursions, heartrending piano balladry, and more. Within another year Kendrick Lamar had looped her into his own opulently curated release, the Black Panther soundtrack album, letting her swagger all over smoldering guitars and throttling less-is-more drums on “I Am.”īy then, she was ready to take her place as one of the new queens of British soul, able to traverse a spectrum between the earthier sounds of Lianne La Havas and the sleek commercial R&B of Ella Mai. “Jorja Interlude,” on which he rapped over her manipulated vocals, segued directly into “Get It Together,” a jazzy dance track that essentially functioned as a Jorja Smith showcase. An international spotlight followed a year later via Drake’s mixtape-as-playlist More Life. As a teenager, she scored a breakthrough single in 2016 with “Blue Lights,” evoking Rihanna as she referenced Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones, Part II” and interpolated Dizzee Rascal’s “Sirens” over plaintive chords and a hard-slapping beat.
She’s become an expert at such depressive metropolitan R&B since emerging half a decade ago out of Walsall, a small city or large town in England’s West Midlands. This is one of many modes Smith explores on Be Right Back, vibes she conjures as means of communicating heartbreak.
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