A Look Back at Lil Nas X’s Record-Breaking Year on Top
It's been a year since Lil Nas X pulled off the impossible.
Throughout the summer of 2019, the music newcomer and his genre-bending debut single "Old Town Road" proved to be inescapable.
The earworm of a track, with its unique country-trap sound, had made a quick star of its creator, first going viral thanks to TikTok before hitting No.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the middle of April, where it stayed.
And stayed.
And stayed.
By the end of July, it was clear the track had the sort of ineffable alchemy that most artists only dream of, destined to do what no other song had done in more than a decade: Unseat Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day" as the longest-running No.
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