Chappell Roan Crowns Pop Airplay Chart With ‘Good Luck, Babe!’
Written by djfrosty on September 13, 2024
Chappell Roan rules Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart with her first entry on the survey as “Good Luck, Babe!” ascends to the top of the list dated Sept. 21.
The track, released on KRA/Amusement/Island Records and promoted to radio by Republic, gained by 9% in plays Sept. 6-12. (The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on over 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.)
The singer-songwriter, who first reached Billboard’s charts in October 2023, when she entered Emerging Artists and her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess debuted on the Billboard 200, among other rankings, lands her first leader on an airplay chart with “Good Luck, Babe!” (a stand-alone single).
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The song has additionally risen to No. 6 on the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100. It has drawn 404 million in radio audience and 357 million official on-demand streams and sold 48,000 through Sept. 5.
“Good Luck, Babe!” also marks a first for Island Records: As the song supplants Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” after two weeks at No. 1, the label links back-to-back leaders for the first time in the Pop Airplay chart’s 32-year history.
Plus, Island boasts four Pop Airplay No. 1s in 2024; prior to “Good Luck, Babe!” and “Please Please Please,” Carpenter led with “Espresso” for three weeks in July and “Feather” for a week in April. Island had previously logged as many as two No. 1s in a single year (in 2005 and 2017).
Meanwhile, Republic has promoted seven Pop Airplay No. 1s this year, the most among all labels; in addition to Chappell Roan and Carpenter’s hits, it led via Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen (two weeks, August); Ariana Grande’s “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” (two weeks, May-June); and Taylor Swift’s “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” (one week, March).
Chappell Roan is concurrently scaling Pop Airplay with “Hot To Go!” The track, from The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, jumps 22-17 (up 15% in plays).
All charts dated Sept. 21 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Sept. 17.