Chappell Roan x 2: ‘Hot to Go!’ Joins ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ in Pop Airplay Chart’s Top 10
Written by djfrosty on October 8, 2024
It’s twice as nice for Chappell Roan as she charts her first two entries on Billboard’s Pop Airplay ranking in the top 10 simultaneously. “Good Luck, Babe!,” which became her first No. 1, leading the Sept. 21-dated list, places at No. 5 on the Oct. 12-dated chart, while “Hot to Go!” jumps three spots to No. 9.
Both songs were released on KRA/Amusement/Island Records and are being promoted to radio by Republic. 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.
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Roan becomes the first artist to lodge two initial Pop Airplay chart entries in the top 10 at the same time since Iggy Azalea just more than a decade ago. For 11 weeks in June-August 2014, the rapper’s breakthrough singles, both of which hit No. 1, ranked in the top 10 together: “Fancy,” featuring Charli XCX, and Ariana Grande’s “Problem,” featuring Azalea.
No artist until Roan had charted two maiden Pop Airplay hits in lead roles on both songs in the top 10 together since Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. For two weeks in May 2013, their “Thrift Shop,” featuring Wanz, and “Can’t Hold Us,” featuring Ray Dalton, spared space in the tier.
The last artist before Roan to boast two first Pop Airplay hits without any other billed acts in the top 10 simultaneously? Avril Lavigne, 22 years ago, for five weeks in September-October 2002 with “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi.”
The only other acts to chart two initial Pop Airplay hits without any guests in the top 10 simultaneously did so in the mid-1990s (following the survey’s 1992 start): Hootie & The Blowfish, Real McCoy and Ace of Base.
To date, Alpha Media-owned KBFF Portland, Ore., leads all Pop Airplay reporters with more than 2,000 plays of “Good Luck, Babe!” Bonneville International’s KMVQ San Francisco ranks first with nearly 1,000 spins for “Hot to Go!”