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Young Nudy achieves a milestone feat as his song “Peaches & Eggplants” featuring 21 Savage pushes 14-7 to reach the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The track advances on the list dated Sept. 23 after the release of its remix with Latto and Sexyy Red on Sept. 8. (As the original version of “Peaches & Eggplants” contributes most of the week’s activity, the song’s chart listing is not updated to include Latto and Sexxy Red.)
“Peaches & Eggplants” becomes the East Atlanta, Ga.-native’s second Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs top 10 and matches his prior such hit, 2022’s “Umbrella” with Metro Boomin and 21 Savage, for his best career peak on the list. Unlike “Umbrella,” however, an album cut from Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains album that debuted at its peak and spent five weeks on the chart, “Peaches & Eggplants” has steadily worked its way up, cracking the top 10 in its 19th week on the list.
For featured artist 21 Savage, who is also Young Nudy’s cousin, “Peaches & Eggplants” is his 28th visit to the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs’ top 10, and his second debut in the region in 2023, following his and Rob49’s supporting spots on Travis Scott’s “Topia Twins,” which launched at No. 10 last month.
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In the latest tracking week, Sept. 8 -14, “Peaches & Eggplants” garnered 11.7 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate, up 68% from 7 million in the prior week. The surge powers a 23-6 flight on R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs, where it captures the week’s Greatest Gainer tag for the biggest increase among the chart’s 25 titles.
In the radio world, the song also registered 11.7 million audience impressions across all formats, a 5% lift compared with the previous frame. On the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, “Peaches & Eggplants” scores another top 10 placement, moving 11-10 thanks to 9.6 million impressions from that format, up 8% in that sector. Plus, the song holds at No. 10 for a third week on Rap Airplay, with a 4% boost in the latest tracking week.
Elsewhere, “Peaches & Eggplants” rallies 11-6 on Hot Rap Songs and 51-33 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion drum up a top five debut on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart as “Bongos” starts at No. 4 on the list dated Sept. 23. The track, released Sept. 8 via Atlantic Records, begins as the genre’s best-selling and one of the three most-streamed tracks of the week, and becomes […]
Jimmy Buffett’s posthumously released single “Bubbles Up” debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Digital Song Sales chart with 8,000 downloads sold in the U.S. Sept. 8-14, according to Luminate.
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Buffett, who died Sept. 1 at age 76, replaces himself atop Rock Digital Song Sales, where his signature song, 1977’s “Margaritaville,” led the Sept. 16-dated ranking (16,000 sold, up 8,415%, Sept. 1-7). The latter ranks at No. 3 on the latest list with 3,000 sold.
“Bubbles Up” is Buffett’s second career No. 1 on a Billboard songs chart as the only credited artist on a newly released song: “Margaritaville” led the Adult Contemporary chart dated May 28, 1977. He last topped Billboard album charts with new music thanks to his most recent LP, Life on the Flip Side, in 2020.
“Bubbles Up” is joined by “My Gummie Just Kicked In” (No. 5; 3,000 sold) and “Like My Dog” (No. 6; 2,000) as new Buffett tunes on Rock Digital Song Sales. All three songs arrived Sept. 8 and are set to be on Equal Strain on All Parts, Buffett’s 32nd studio album, due Nov. 3.
Buffett music accounts for eight of the Rock Digital Song Sales chart’s 25 positions. In addition to the four tunes noted above, classics “A Pirate Looks at Forty” (No. 12; 1,400 sold), “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” (No. 16; 1,100), “Cheeseburger in Paradise” (No. 18; 1,000) and “Son of a Son of a Sailor” (No. 22; 1,000) also place on the Sept. 23 tally.
“Bubbles Up” additionally begins at No. 2 on Country Digital Song Sales and No. 4 on the all-format Digital Song Sales chart, while its sales and 908,000 official U.S. streams send it to a No. 47 debut on the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs survey.
Fans flocked to the icon’s trademark feel-good sound following his passing of complications from skin cancer. In the Sept. 1-7 tracking week, his song catalog surged by 1,476% to 78.6 million official on-demand streams and 7,022% to 103,000 paid downloads in the U.S.
Rising jazz artist Laufey scores her first entry on the Billboard 200 albums chart with her sophomore release Bewitched, debuting at No. 23 on the Sept. 23-dated list. Further, the set launches atop both the Traditional Jazz Albums and overall Jazz Albums charts – marking the first No. 1 on both rankings for the 24-year-old Icelandic singer-songwriter […]
Myke Towers’ “Lala” takes the Puerto Rican artist to No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart as the viral hit jumps 2-1 on the overall Latin tally dated Sept. 16. The new champ follows a double win, as the song commanded the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. and Latin Rhythm Airplay charts each for at least one week.
“Lala” is one of 23 tracks on Towers’ latest album La Vida Es Una, which granted him a third straight top 10 on Top Latin Albums (No. 9 high in April). The single blew up on TikTok after the music video dropped July 28, with over 5 million clips pouring into the platform to ignite a successful radio campaign. (Activity directly on the TikTok platform does not currently count toward the Billboard charts.)
“Lala” pushes to No. 1 on Latin Airplay in its eighth week despite a 1% dip in audience impressions, with 8.7 million, earned in the U.S. during the Sept. 8-14 tracking week, according to Luminate.
The new champ arrives just five months after Towers’ “Ulala,” with Daddy Yankee, took over the overall ranking for one week (April 8-dated list). With the new hit, Towers nabs his ninth No. 1, dating back to “Caramelo,” with Ozuna and Karol G, his first and longest-leading entry, three weeks atop in 2020.
In addition to its new Latin Airplay domination, “Lala” previously ruled Global Excl. U.S. and Latin Rhythm Airplay: On the former, it vaulted from No. 13 to No. 1 in July with 70.4 million streams outside the U.S. (drops 3-4 on the current tally); on the latter, it rebounds to its No. 1 peak for a second week in charge.
Further, the viral activity for “Lala” fueled a rise in streams, peaking at No. 4 on the multimetric Hot Latin Songs on the Aug. 12-dated list, which blends airplay, digital sales, and streams. There, the song dips 5-6 with 7.94 million U.S. streams, that’s a 7% decline from the week prior.
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Chencho Corleone Smokes His Way into The Top 10: Elsewhere on Latin Airplay, Chencho Corleone’s “Un Cigarrillo” checks into the top 10 at its new No. 3 peak. The single flies from No. 18 as the Greatest Gainer of the week powered by a 56% gain in audience impressions, to 8.1 million.
With “Un Cigarrilo,” Corleone acquires his fourth top 10. He visited the upper region three times prior through a trio of rulers, starting with his first No. 1, “Desesperados,” with Rauw Alejandro, in 2022. “Me Porto Bonito,” with Bad Bunny, followed for one week in command in Aug. 2022, while “Podemos Repetirlo,” with Don Omar, crowned the Sept. 16-dated chart. It falls 1-7 on the current tally.
Beyond its top 10 entry on Latin Airplay, “Un Cigarrilo” pushes 8-2 for its new peak on Latin Rhythm Airplay.
There’s a new No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart: FamousSally and YB’s “Wassup Gwayy,” which debuts atop the Sept. 23-dated survey.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50, which launched a week ago, is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity Sept. 11-17. (Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.)
“Wassup Gwayy” was released in June and has taken off on TikTok thanks in large part to uploads by users referencing the song’s lyrics “In the cut with my twin, we be vibin’,” with videos featuring not only actual twins, but friends and even people and their pets dancing along.
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One of the most high-profile proponents of the trend? Drake, who was seen dancing to the song with a young fan in early September.
Rappers FamousSally and YB have not yet made a Billboard chart outside the TikTok Billboard Top 50. Still, in the tracking week (Sept. 8-14) for Billboard’s streaming-, airplay- and sales-based song charts dated Sept. 23, “Wassup Gwayy” earned 548,000 official U.S. streams, up 39% from 395,000 Sept. 1-7, according to Luminate.
“Wassup Gwayy” is the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s second No. 1 in the list’s two weeks of existence; the inaugural No. 1, Sexyy Red’s “SkeeYee,” drops to No. 2 on the Sept. 23 tally.
Chrisette Michele’s “Epiphany (I’m Leaving)” is another big mover on the latest ranking, leaping from No. 33 to No. 4. “Epiphany” is Michele’s lone Billboard Hot 100 entry as a lead artist to date, having peaked at No. 89 in May 2009. The 14-year-old tune has returned to prominence in 2023 sparked by a dance challenge largely set to the lyric “So I think I’m just about over being your girlfriend,” which kicks off the chorus.
“Epiphany” isn’t the only song from the 2000s/early ’10s in the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10. It’s followed by a trio of tracks in J. Dash’s “Wop,” featuring Flo Rida; Cee-Lo Green’s “I’ll Be Around,” featuring Timbaland; and Usher’s “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home),” featuring Plies, which round out the tier at Nos. 8-10, respectively.
“Wop,” released in 2007, has had multiple runs of virality over the years, initially reaching Billboard’s charts in 2011 and peaking on the Hot 100 in 2013 (No. 51), hitting critical mass that year when Miley Cyrus uploaded a video of herself twerking in a unicorn costume to the tune. The song has continued to be popular for choreography routines on TikTok and other platforms and leaps 17-8 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“I’ll Be Around,” which peaked at No. 52 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in January 2004, is scoring a viral bump due to dances using the song and surges 42-9 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, while “Hey Daddy,” a No. 24 Hot 100 hit in May 2010, premieres on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 thanks to uploads largely populated with women using a filter adding facial hair to their faces.
Check out the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart here to see additional debuts from Cardi B, HUS, Harry Styles and more.
Styx’s “Renegade” reigns on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for August 2023, after it was heard in the season premiere of Showtime’s Billions.
Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of August 2023.
“Renegade,” a No. 16 hit for Styx on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1979, lands at No. 1 following its synch in Billions’ Aug. 11 episode, which coronated the premiere of its seventh and final season.
In August 2023, “Renegade” earned 5.1 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads, according to Luminate.
The song reigns over Massive Attack’s “Teardrop,” which bows at No. 2. It was heard in the series premiere of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, a newcomer to Amazon Prime Video’s slate of programming that first aired Aug. 4.
“Teardrop,” which bubbled under the Hot 100 in 1998, garnered 1.5 million streams in August 2023.
Music from the continuation of the second season of Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty dots much of the remainder of the Top TV Songs top 10. The July 2023 list featured Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” heard in the show’s fourth episode of its second season (July 21), at No. 1, and the final three episodes of season 2 aired in August.
“Exile,” by Taylor Swift and featuring Bon Iver, leads the pack of The Summer I Turned Pretty songs at No. 3 (15.6 million streams, 4,000 downloads), followed by Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” at No. 4 (22.7 million streams, 3,000 downloads). In all, four of the chart’s 10 songs are from the Amazon series.
See the full top 10, also featuring music from Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Hard Knocks and What We Do in the Shadows, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)1. “Renegade,” Styx, Billions (Showtime)2. “Teardrop,” Massive Attack, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon Prime Video)3. “Exile,” Taylor Swift feat. Bon Iver, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)4. “Party in the USA,” Miley Cyrus, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)5. “Dear Mr. Fantasy,” Traffic, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (HBO)6. “I Can’t Stand the Rain,” Ann Peebles, Hard Knocks (HBO)7. “Jump Around,” House of Pain, What We Do in the Shadows (FX)8. “Free Fallin’,” Tom Petty, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)9. “All the Small Things,” Blink-182, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)10. “I Feel Love,” Donna Summer, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (HBO)
The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week (for the upcoming charts dated Sept. 23), one of rap’s most self-contained stars aims for his third straight No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – though one of the summer’s biggest new releases still stands in his way.
Rod Wave, Nostalgia (Alamo): Florida singer-rapper Rod Wave continues to quietly build his case as one of the most consistently successful artists in popular music. Without any major breakout Hot 100 hits – he’s reached the top 30 seven times to date, but still never the top 10 – Wave has nonetheless hit the Billboard 200’s top 10 with each of his five official sets so far, and topped the chart with his last two albums: 2021’s SoulFly and 2022’s Beautiful Mind.
Two of those top 30 Billboard Hot 100 hits (the No. 16-peaking “Fight the Feeling” and the No. 26-debuting “Call Your Friends”) arrived in advance of his new LP, Nostalgia, which was released on Friday (Sept. 15). As has traditionally been the case with Wave’s albums, the 18-track Nostalgia is relatively short on big-name features – though he does get one major lift from guest rapper 21 Savage on “Turks & Caicos.”
The album’s performance will rely solely on its digital performance, as it is not yet available for any kind of physical purchase. However, Wave has been regularly dominant on streaming since his breakthrough at the end of the 2010s, and Nostalgia appears to be no exception so far — five days after its release, the album still claims 15 of the top 18 spots on Apple Music’s real-time chart. It’ll need robust numbers to get by Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts in its second week, though: The 302,000 units that album debuts with on this week’s Billboard 200 was the year’s fourth-biggest total so far, and the set remains strong in streams and sales.
Mitski, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans): Indie darling Mitski made a huge jump into the mainstream at the beginning of the decade, becoming a massive favorite on TikTok over the pandemic and cashing in on her newfound visibility with a top five Billboard 200 debut for her Laurel Hell album in early 2022. She looks to keep that momentum going with this month’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, which is available in four vinyl variants (as well as on cassette and CD), and which eschews the sparkling synth-pop of its predecessor’s singles for the dustier singer-songwriter balladry of some of its deeper cuts. It’s already paid off with one breakout hit: “My Love Mine All Mine” climbs to a new high of No. 50 on Spotify’s Daily Top Songs USA chart today.
Dan + Shay, Bigger Houses (Warner Bros. Nashville): After nearly breaking up following their tour in support of 2021’s Good Things, the hitmaking country duo of Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney make a big return this week with their Bigger Houses album. The set, released in five variants on vinyl and two on CD (with signed copies available in both formats), should sell well – but it might not be as big a performer on streaming as past sets, since none of the advance songs have really taken off there yet (“Save Me the Trouble” has been the highest Hot 100-charter so far, at a modest No. 84.). The duo has a streak to protect with Houses: Each of their four full-lengths to date have reached the Billboard 200’s top 10.
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Diddy, The Love Album: Off the Grid (Love/Motown): Diddy’s long-awaited Love Album is his first solo release in 17 years, and his first major release of any kind since 2010’s cult classic Last Train to Paris set as part of Diddy – Dirty Money. The new album has no advance hits to support it, but it does have volume on its side: both with its length (23 tracks) and a robust guest list that includes such big-name guests as The Weeknd, 21 Savage, Justin Bieber, H.E.R., Jazmine Sullivan, Swae Lee, Mary J. Blige, Summer Walker and Babyface.
Sleepy Hallow, Boy Meets World (Winners Circle/RCA): Two years after hitting the Billboard 200’s top 20 with debut album Still Sleep?, New York rapper Sleepy Hallow returns with sophomore set Boy Meets World. The set includes a handful of the one-offs he’s released over those two years (like 2022 Hot 100 hit “Die Young”), as well as new collabs with hitmakers Fivio Foreign and Doechii – the latter on “Anxiety,” which has already found some early success on TikTok.
Thirty Seconds to Mars, It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day (Concord): One of the biggest rock bands of the late ‘00s and early ‘10s, the Jared Leto-led 30STM scored their best Billboard 200 debut in 2018, with their America album. That set finally gets its follow-up this month with the more pop- and electronic-influenced It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day, with 13 separate vinyl variants available to attract the kind of sales that powered America’s debut. Beautiful Day won’t have the advantage its predecessor did of being able to count concert ticket/album sale redemption offers towards its final tally, though, with such bundles being removed from BB200 calculations in July 2020.
BE:FIRST’s “Mainstream” debuts at No. 1 on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Sept. 20, tracking the week ending Sept. 17.
The fourth single by the seven-member boy band sold 169,197 CDs in its first week, which is 12,890 more than their previous single “Smile Again” that launched with 156,307 copies. “Mainstream” hits No. 2 for physical sales, while being campaign-propelled to No. 1 for downloads (54,835 units), radio, and video views. The track also hits No. 5 for streaming with 7,550,928 weekly streams, also powered by a campaign offering stickers and other goodies to winners. The popular BMSG group is set to perform live for the first time on Music Station’s three-hour special next week (Sept. 29), and will be premiering the song’s performance on the long-running music program.
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YOASOBI’s “Idol” rises 4-2 on this week’s chart after being crowned the first No. 1 song on Billboard Japan’s inaugural Global Japan Songs Excl. Japan chart unveiled Sept. 14, which ranks popular Japanese songs outside of Japan. The record-breaking mega-hit that sat atop the Japan Hot 100 for 21 weeks returns to No. 1 for streaming with 10,676,391 streams, while coming in at No. 6 for downloads (6,411 units), No. 45 for radio, and No. 4 for video views.
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Ado’s “Show” jumps 8-3 after dropping digitally Sept. 6. While downloads slipped 2-3 with 11,222 units, streaming rose significantly from No. 15 to No. 3 with 8,691,618 streams. The latest track by the “New Genesis” singer is collecting points in a balanced way, coming in at No. 2 for video and No. 6 for radio.
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The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from Sept. 11 to 17, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English Twitter account.
Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up column, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. This week: SZA’s second SOS smash benefits from a new acoustic version with a superstar guest, while TikTok helps Mitski and Tate McRae score some of their best numbers in years with their respective new singles.
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Justin Bieber Hitting “Snooze” Could Make for SZA’s Second Top 5 Hit
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It’s been the slowest of burns, but “Snooze,” the swaying mid-album highlight from SZA’s blockbuster SOS, has grown into the album’s second smash hit, following the Billboard Hot 100-topping “Kill Bill.” The song has now spent 13 weeks atop Billboard‘s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, and hit a new peak of No. 7 on the Hot 100 a few weeks ago (on the chart dated Sept. 9), following the release of its captivating and star-studded music video. And now one of those guest stars — pop superstar Justin Bieber — might help the song rise even higher on next week’s chart, thanks to his appearance on the song’s new acoustic version.
With the debut of “Snooze (Acoustic)” on Friday (Sept. 15), the total official on-demand U.S. streams for “Snooze” (which includes the new acoustic version) has jumped to 12.1 million for the four-day period of Sept. 15-18, up from 7.5 million streams during the same period the week before (Sept. 8-11) — a gain of 61%, according to Luminate. (The song also more than doubled in sales, from 800 to 1,700). The resulting boost should give it a another shot of caffeine on the Hot 100 next week, perhaps resulting in it jumping from its current No. 8 placement to the chart’s top five — becoming just SZA’s second single to do so. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Mitski’s ‘Love’ Radiates on Streaming
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Over the course of her career, Mitski has watched songs belatedly go viral and translate TikTok trends into major streaming numbers; “Washing Machine Heart,” for example, transformed from a back-half highlight of 2018’s Be the Cowboy into one of her most-streamed songs years after its release. Yet the acclaimed indie singer-songwriter has never enjoyed a hit single from a current album, and STILL hasn’t yet hit the Hot 100 chart.
Both may change if “My Love Mine All Mine,” the heartbreaking, waltzing ballad from Mitski’s new album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, continues its upward trajectory on streaming platforms. The lilting hook from the song is already getting some TikTok play, with Laufey (an artist recently familiar with scoring a viral hit) posting, “Nobody talk to me rn mother mitski just dropped and it’s perfect.”
Mitski released Inhospitable last Friday (Sept. 15), but daily streams of “My Love Mine All Mine” have increased since then – debuting with 466,000 official on-demand U.S. streams on Friday, and earning 659,000 streams on Monday (Sept. 18), according to Luminate. Meanwhile, its eye-popping music video (also released last Friday) has earned 522,000 YouTube views to date, and the song has bumped up to No. 50 on Spotify’s daily Top Songs USA chart. After last year’s Laurel Hell earned Mitski her first top 10 entry on the Billboard 200 albums chart, she’s hoping that the early breakout hit from its follow-up earns some more firsts on the singles charts. – JASON LIPSHUTZ
TikTok Snippet Campaign Nets Big Streaming Returns for Tate McRae’s “Greedy”
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After several weeks of teasing, Tate McRae’s “Greedy” has debuted to immediately sizable streaming returns. According to Luminate, the breezy, self-assured pop track – which marks McRae’s first solo release in almost a year – collected over 6.3 million official on-demand audio streams during the period of September 15-18, pulling over 1.2 million streams each day. The song enjoyed a total of 1.99 million streams on its first full day of release.
“Greedy” is a successful example of a concerted TikTok-focused promotional plan. Instead of getting carried to success by a random runaway trend, McRae steadily teased snippets of “Greedy” for weeks on end, dating back to August 4. “Oh s—t, u guys want this one?” she cheekily captioned the post, which has since garnered over one million likes and 8.1 million views on the platform. Between the track’s melodic nod to Nelly Furtado and Timbaland’s “Promiscuous” and lyrics that flaunt tongue-in-cheek self-confidence, “Greedy” quickly went viral on TikTok, spawning tens of thousands of videos of users lip-syncing their favorite lines – particularly the lyric “Obvious that you want me, but I said/ I would want myself/ Baby, please believe me.” McRae encouraged her fans’ use of the snippet by stitching their videos and cheering them on.
Several different TikTok sounds – all with over 30,000 posts each – went viral on the platform, with a slightly sped-up version gaining the most traction (105,900 posts). The track’s official music video, which features choreography from Sean Bankhead, garnered over 1.8 million views in five days.
Already having reached the top 10 of both US Apple Music Pop and Spotify Global, “Greedy” is shaping up to be a particularly successful single for McRae. At the very least, the early numbers have proven that McRae, RCA label head Peter Edge and Sony Music CEO Rob Stringer made the right decision in choosing to push “Greedy.” – KYLE DENIS