He’s gonna ride the top of the chart ’til he can’t no more… Lil Nas X just broke the record for longest sitting #1 on the Hot 100 singles chart! He beat Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men with his breakout song “Old Town Road.”
According to NPR, a big part of his success came from his ability to leverage the charts with various remixes. Billboard allows remix tallies to add to the original’s tallies which keep him on top as long as they aren’t too different from the original. And it worked. Lil Nas X has 5 official remixes out of the song.
You don’t have to like the song (maybe you should), but you gotta hand it to him that his strategy was on point. Congrats, Lil Nas X!
