Teddy Swims’ ‘Lose Control’ Hits No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

“Lose Control” drew 59.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 9%) and 23.2 million streams (down 2%) and sold 8,000 (down 34%) in the week ending March 21, according to Luminate.

The single rises 5-3 on the Radio Songs chart; holds at No. 4, after reaching No. 3, on Streaming Songs; and falls to No. 6 after three nonconsecutive weeks atop Digital Song Sales.

The song spends a second week at No. 1 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart. It rose to No. 2 on Adult Alternative Airplay in January and ascends to the top five (6-4) on Pop Airplay.

Two new versions of “Lose Control” arrived during the tracking week: a Tiësto remix (March 19) and a radio edit (March 21). They joined the previously available original version; a cappella, instrumental, piano and strings versions; slowed down and sped up mixes; a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Session recording; a live version recorded at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, with Freak Freely; and a goddard. remix.

Teddy Swims, real name Jaten Dimsdale, from Conyers, Ga., first appeared on Billboard’s charts in 2021, after he broke through with a viral cover of Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You” in mid-2019. (He signed to Warner Records on Christmas Eve 2019.) As a co-writer, he topped the Country Airplay chart via Thomas Rhett’s “Angels Don’t Always Have Wings” for a week in September 2023.

“I’m super grateful that person [broke my heart],” Teddy Swims recently told Billboard of the origin of “Lose Control.” “I think it’s so great to know that that pain is necessary because … pain is paying the bills still. I’m trying to stop putting myself in positions to get hurt, because you’ll always have to do that, but they say the best revenge is success.”

The song is from Teddy Swims’ debut full-length, I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I). The set hit a No. 25 high on the March 16-dated Billboard 200 chart.

Of the LP’s title, he mused that therapy might “change the fabric of my being. It’s just, like, my little tics and my little anxiety that I have, my own ways – which is not a right way to go about it. But … I’m comfortable in my existence.”

“Lose Control” completes the longest climb to No. 1, by weeks on the chart, for a title by a solo male ever on the Hot 100. Overall, it finishes the fifth-steadiest rise to the summit.

Most chart weeks to No. 1 on the Hot 100:

Teddy Swims scores his first Hot 100 No. 1 as a writer, as well as a recording artist. He co-penned “Lose Control” with Julian Bunetta, Infamous and Mikky Ekko – all of whom also lead the list for the first time – and Josh Coleman, who previously topped the Hot 100 as a writer of Katy Perry’s “E.T.,” featuring Ye (then known as Kanye West), for five weeks in 2011, and Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R,” for a week in 2010.

“When it was finished, I was showing everybody before the song came out,” Teddy Swims told Billboard of “Lose Control” last year. “I just felt that energy, like, ‘This is lighting in a bottle.’ I knew this was going to change my life.”

As “Lose Control” leads the Hot 100, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” rises from No. 3 to a new No. 2 high.

With both songs on Warner Records, the label lands the Hot 100’s top two spots simultaneously for the first time since the chart dated April 6, 2013, when Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop,” featuring Wanz (on Macklemore/ADA/Warner [then Warner Bros.]), tallied its fifth of six weeks at No. 1 and Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” (on Jeffree’s Mad Decent/Warner) placed at No. 2 following five weeks in charge. (Warner logged six weeks at Nos. 1 and 2 concurrently thanks to those songs, with “Harlem Shake” on top the prior five frames.)

“Lose Control” is the fourth song with the word “lose” in its title to emerge victorious on the Hot 100. The winners circle:

Plus, three songs with “lost” in their titles have triumphed on the Hot 100: “Lost in Your Eyes,” by Debbie Gibson (1989), “Lost in Emotion,” by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam (1987) and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” by The Righteous Brothers (1965).

(In perhaps an upset, no songs with “win” or “won” have taken the Hot 100’s top prize.)

Also notable in the Hot 100’s top 10, Cardi B’s “Enough (Miami)” debuts at No. 9. Released March 15, the song starts with 14.5 million streams, 8.8 million in radio audience and 37,000 sold (as it opens as her seventh Digital Song Sales leader).

Cardi B notches her 12th Hot 100 top 10, and first on her own since “Up,” which became her fifth No. 1 in March 2021.

(305 in top 10: Miami appears in the title of a Hot 100 top 10 for a second time – Jan Hammer’s “Miami Vice Theme” sped to No. 1 for a week in 1985.)

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Ariana Grande’s “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” drops to No. 3 a week after it soared in as her ninth No. 1. Still, it tops Streaming Songs for a second week (26.3 million, down 19%) and claims the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award (12.4 million, up 168%).

Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me” rebounds 5-4 on the Hot 100, following six nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning last December, as it notches a 10th week atop the Radio Songs chart (73.9 million, down 2%). It adds a 15th week each atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multimetric methodology as the Hot 100.

“Carnival,” by Ye and Ty Dolla $ign and featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, falls 4-5 on the Hot 100 after a week at No. 1 two weeks earlier.

Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” keeps at No. 6 after two weeks atop the Hot 100 earlier this month. It rules the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a sixth week.

Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves, advances 9-7 on the Hot 100, after it led for a week upon its debut last September. It tops the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs charts for a 30th week each.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Tate McRae’s “Greedy” repeats at No. 8, after reaching No. 3, and Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” rebounds 13-10, following four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning last October.

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