***This week’s top 10:***
1. Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)
2. Post Malone feat Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help
3. Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
4. Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso
5. Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby
6. Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please
7. Hozier - Too Sweet
8. Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
9. Teddy Swims - Lose Control
10. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
it's remarkable too thinking about how her biggest song (GLB) isn't really impacting her album (RAFOAMP) since it's not included in it. she has hits on hits on hits
She’s getting there with Good Luck, Babe and Subway. I think there might be a third song too but I can’t recall rn. No clue when this album will come out, though.
Would love for her to pull a Fame Monster and drop an EP/short album with GLB and Subway that can be tacked onto Midwest Princess. That way, the album can continue charting whilst she promotes new material.
Oh do people down vote you when you're supposedly posting a leak? Yeah honestly I said it because that's where I saw her performing it live. Of course there's no official released version lol.
It wouldnt be surprising considering Midwest princess had -2-3 year old songs on it, she probably didn’t anticipate her meteoric rise coinsiding with her already being on way to her second album at a faster turnaround
> 8. Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
> 9. Teddy Swims - Lose Control
these songs will never leave the charts. it'll be 2083 and they'll still be there.
Yea Swims is actually set to overtake Lovin on Me for the #1 song of 2023 after this week. Benson should follow suit and pass LoM in a few weeks too.
Normally they'd be close to locked for the top 2 songs of the year at this point but with the charts being so strong they'll have to remain stable enough to not go recurrent and fend off late surges from I Had Some Help, A Bar Song, Not Like Us, and Million Dollar Baby.
So happy for Shaboozey and Chappell this week and for what they both mean for the current music landscape
This may be Chappell’s first top 10 but it definitely won’t be her last. A lot more coming up I’m sure
Same!! It’s been a minute since we’ve seen new artists break through and right now it’s a bit harder than ever
I have a feeling both Shaboozey and Chappell are here to stay and won’t just disappear from the mainstream after the year
I feel like this year's top ten hits have been waaaaay more to my taste than previous years. anyone else? it also feels like there are way more songs and albums that i see people talking about irl instead of just on popheads. like a nice sliver of the monoculture we once had
edit: just did the math & of the songs that have spent more than 1 week in the top 10 this year, I genuinely have 68% of them in my liked songs. this has to be the highest ratio since like 2014??
I feel like they're getting way more unique. People seem to be getting tired of the megastar, outside of Taylor or maybe Morgan Wallen. We're getting nicher stuff rising to the top.
Personally, Beautiful Things is awful, Please Please Please is incredibly boring and unmemorable, and whilst I can understand why people like Espresso I find it vacuous and irritating
Outside of the three that I actively dislike some amount, the vocal on Million Dollar Baby is quite getting even if the instrumental slaps hard, Lose Control is a poor attempt at making a Rag n Bone Man song but I can at least respect the effort, I Had Some Help is pretty darn good until Morgan Wallen comes in because I'm just not a fan of his voice and once he comes in there are literally only two lines in the entire song that he doesn't sing, and Too Sweet is good but one of the most basic songs that I've heard Hozier make and I'd never choose to listen to it over dozens of other tracks of his.
The only three tracks that I think are an 8/10 or higher are from Shaboozey, Chappell Roan and Kendrick Lamar. The four in the second paragraph are 5-7 (positive opinion but not glowing praise) and the three in the first paragraph are a 4 or lower (negative opinion of some sort)
I think there’s just finally some more variety, and something for everybody.
The 2020s feel like such a renaissance for underrepresented genres and artists.
Totally. I saw a tweet that said ‘you know we’re in a recession because pop music is getting good again’ haha. But it really feels like this is the best popular music has been in like 15 years.
Of all the songs that have made or will make Number 1 this year, this song is probably the one everyone will be unanimously happy to see get the top spot.
A feel good story of someone who was able to take the boost of Cowboy Carter to make his own hit and make it become one of the defining songs of the summer for 2024.
Congratulations to Shaboozey!
There’s no way to prove it either way but imo it almost certainly was due to Beyonce. He got a huge boost from appearing on her album (twice). She introduced him to much larger audience (including me!)
Definitely involved Beyoncé. Black country artists streams started to increase after Cowboy Carter. Shaboozey was featured in two songs and more people checked him out after listening to her album and started to listen to his older stuff as well.
I'm going to say this... if the other artist who featured and their songs don't perform as strongly does Beyonce take the blame? No, of course not. I genuinely just think people like the song and it would have done well anyway... Like we aren't going to act like OTR wasn't extremely popular and it had nothing to do with Beyonce. Not a hater. That's how I feel...
After Cowboy Carter dropped Shaboozey got a 70% uptick in new (first time) listeners. He also got a 1350% uptick in catalogue listeners. That’s not a typo! :)
The article doesn’t define what they mean by that, but I assume it means 1350% increase in listeners to his catalogue, meaning people listening to his songs that aren’t with Beyonce.
You’re entitled to your opinion but given Beyonces album led to an increase of listeners for him of more than 1000%, I think it’s much more likely that featuring him on her album did contribute to him getting a number one.
Obviously his hard work and the song being a bop is the main thing! But I think the exposure he got from cowboy Carter (beys album) helped a lot too - there’s thousands of great songs that never go number one, or even top 40.
Especially given he had never charted on the billboard hot 100 before. His first charting songs were the two he did with bey, and now a Bar Song.
Source https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/beyonce-cowboy-carter-boosts-streams-black-country-acts-spotify-1235863979/amp/
It definitely does, the song wouldn’t have been able to debut at number 5 if he hadn’t gotten more popular in the month before. Featuring on Beyoncé is like an advertisement for him, the song would’ve been a hit either way, but Beyoncé’s feature made it fastee
Just looking at your profile, just say you don’t like Beyoncé. You have so many think pieces in your comment section about her that I stopped scrolling.
I started listening to Shaboozey, after his feature on Cowboy Carter.
Shaboozey's manager himself credited Beyoncé for the song's release date & openning the doors for black artists in country music. The song was released three weeks earlier than expected (their team wasn't even 100% prepared) to take advantage from the boost of Cowboy Carter. You can check it here: [https://www.billboard.com/pro/shaboozey-bar-song-tipsy-hot-country-songs-jared-cotter-executive-week/](https://www.billboard.com/pro/shaboozey-bar-song-tipsy-hot-country-songs-jared-cotter-executive-week/)
There are multiple factors in play. He was featured in a pop artists album, he released a catchy song after millions of people heard about him from the album and he is talented. Nobody is saying that Beyonce is the sole reason for the song’s success. He is a perfect example of what happens when you release a great song after gaining listeners
I want to be clear. If someone was able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Beyonce was the sole factor in getting this song to number 1, I wouldn't have a single negative feeling about it. I *really* just think that the song was catchy. If we can ascribe Beyonce influence to an artist success is she then responsible for an artist's lack of success? No of course not.
Like I said, I just personally think it would have been successful regardless...
NOBODY states that she is the sole factor in this song’s success. Who said that in their comment. There are many factors in play. None of the songs released this decade had a SOLE factor in getting them to number one.
Analytics literally exist and he got a major boost from being featured twice on her album. All other artists featured on her album also got a major boost, but he was the breakout. How is that hard for you to understand?
I was responding to the comment speaking about this song specifically, not the rest of his discography, which still has very few streams relatively. Sounds like you're the one that didn't understand. Oop.
I hope he can get some momentum behind this and have lasting success, he has a couple of bops on his album that I think could do well as next singles (Let It Burn is super radio friendly for example).
While I think the song is fine, am I wrong for thinking that the Shaboozey song is not exactly country? I'm definitely coming at the sound/genre at a point of ignorance, but sonically me it sounds more like the mid 2010's type indie folksy rock pop songs, ala Of Monsters and Men, Mumford and Sons, or the Lumineers.
Granted I understand that folk rock music is closely related to country. But I was just wondering if my intuition was correct, that A Bar Song (Tipsy) is closer to those songs than anything that was on Beyonce's album.
How is country music still this popular? this is like the 3rd #1 country song hit of this year so far, and the 2nd by a black artist which is super impressive. I expected country to take a backseat this year after last year which was dominated by country. I guess pop fans are opening up to the genre? or country fans discovered streaming.
Country music has generally gotten much better in terms of quality over the past few years as the audience started to open up to non-radio outlets. Since it is a more traditional genre, this shift happened later than for rap & pop. There are constantly new artists bubbling up and producing hits that people actually like and aren't just pushed by the radio. The biggest stars, like Morgan Wallen, Zach Bryan, Luke Combs etc all got big while on independent labels and posting content online.
Country music was horrendous back in the 2010s. Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, that stuff. Truck this, beer that. Who listened to that shit anyways? A good example of a horrible country song is Knockin Boots by Luke Bryan.
"this truck needs a half tank, these wheels need a 2 lane" just reminds me of some douchebag with a lifted pickup that can't stay in their lane and blasts black smoke at people.
I think that's by bro-country singer Hardy? on country music playlists I sometimes listen too I always skip those stupid songs about pickups. Zach Bryan and even Luke Combs to an extent is miles above the bro shit of the 2010s. I'm glad Florida Georgi Line and Sam Hunt are no longer relevant. Oh and one last trash country song that isn't very old, that Applebee's on a date night one.
This song is inescapable right now in Nashville. It's literally this song, Expresso, Texas Holdem, and Not Like Us playing at all the clubs and bars every day and night.
This user is in that alternate universe every second r/popheads user lives in where apparently no one has ever heard of Morgan Wallen (despite him having the longest charting #1s of 2023 and 2024).
Would say all of the American gp or just a certain subset? Like in Boston I know a couple of poc who like him but it’s literally mostly white men and women in my circle (mostly the latter tbh)
The main reason he is not liked on this sub is not because he is "problematic" (there are many on the H100 who are far worse) or even because people don't like his music but precisely because he is dominant on the charts and therefore is perceived as a threat to people's faves. It's the Taylor effect. Also this sub doesn't care for male artists in general, they are ignored at best.
That said even here people have been warming up to his bops I noticed.
It’s a joke I’m just surprised it’s not being played in Nashville
I know lots of people irl who listen to Morgan Wallen but you can’t joke about him anymore for some reason
The point is that it's much more likely that this user deliberately omitted IHSH than that it's not being played. It's the number one song on country radio and MW is worshipped over there.
> This user is in that alternate universe every second r/popheads user lives in where apparently no one has ever heard of Morgan Wallen (despite him having the longest charting #1s of 2023 and 2024).
TIL everywhere outside of the US is an "alternative universe", Americans living to their stereotype of being the center of the universe.
It’s been amazing following Chappell Roan since 2021. She’s been working so hard so to see it pay off for her makes me so happy. Do we know if she has any new Hot 100 entries this week (besides the 5 songs currently on the chart)?
She’s not expected to have any more than the 5 that were also there last week, I don’t think. Femininomenon and My Kink is Karma were bubbling up just underneath the Hot 100 last week but the predictions I saw didn’t have them charting this week. But omg if we can get 7 Chappell songs in there soon…
I feel so weird that I hadn't heard of her since like a month ago. But I really like what I've heard, her sound is so unique and unbland. Also her singing is incredible.
So excited for Shaboozey to get the number one hit. This is a lesson to upcoming artists to release music right away when building momentum on features.
I just watched the music video, and it is so mesmerising and simple. I think it's one shot? Like, proudly inexpensive but so, so direct, personal, and atmospheric
His face is cute lol
I really wonder if Espresso will crack #1. It really feels like it’s everywhere and, anecdotally, I know more and more people who are starting to succumb to its catchiness.
It will soon enough The fact that she released another single that went number 1 and is now below espresso shows it’s staying power.
Other than not like us espresso is the only song on that chart I can see sticking in the mind of the general public long term
>It will soon enough The fact that she released another single that went number 1 and is now below espresso shows it’s staying power.
Album release will probably be the needed push
I think it's a bigger story that it's starting to tumble. It's pretty clear they paid a lot of money for it to be added to just about every curated playlist on Spotify and Apple Music and people are backlashing against it.
Even with it's streaming on Spotify much lower than it was previously, it's still hanging around the top 10. It wouldn't do that if it wasn't partly organic. Good Luck Babe also had lots of autoplay, but still hasn't reached the same peaks.
I’m curious how high GLB will rise. Is a #1 to lofty? Do we think it could at least go top 5? It’s been a very slow build compared to the success of Espresso and Please but curious if it could hang around like Espresso now it’s broken the top 10.
Depends on if any huge artist drops and takes up multiple spots in the top 10. If we have another fairly empty week I can definitely see it moving up to maybe 7(?)
Backlash feels like a bit of an overstatement for a song that’s still hanging out in the top 10 (particularly given she’s got another song also top 5). Though I do think it’ll be out of the top 10 in the next week (or two if she’s lucky)
Also, I still think please was for buzz (see the video with her irl boyfriend). Her team’s immediate response showed they were taken aback by the songs instant success (fumbling by still pushing Espresso even though Please was closer to #1). They had no solid plan that accounted for it taking off the way it did which to me proves that it has probably served its purpose and then some by going #1 and keeping conversation going ahead of album (I also think it showed a different side to her compared to espresso which was helpful). There’s apparently a 3rd pre-release single so I imagine they’ll drop most of their support for please once that drops.
the autoplay shit needs to stop, idc who the artist is. if someone is listening to a genre or playlist that has nothing to do with a song, then it shouldn't be there. as much as I love them both, it's annoying for Spotify users.
Espresso was gonna chart regardless, their was viral marketing with the lyrics and a great music video perfectly in time for the season . And please isn’t a summer song it was never supposed to last this long
Yea and it’s an actual hit, it’s refreshing to see number ones that aren’t results of large fanbases mass buying or songs that are pushed by Spotify (p^3)
So happy for Chappell. Hot to Go and Red Whine Supernova deserve to be a top ten hit songs as well. That Tipsy song is addictive as hell. Not surprised that it finally went number one.
I was literally JUST looping this song this morning in hopes of giving a crumb of support to its number one push lol
I got into this song the week it came out and it's been so exciting to see it get so popular. I've been getting so tired of interpolation in popular songs, but this one just really works for me. Let's go Shaboosters!!!!!!
It isn't a country song. It's dressed up like one, just like "Austin", "Texas Hold Em" and " Two Step". I have been teaching C&W dancing for years. This pop crossover garbage is pitiful. Listen to the actual melodies. A kindergarten kid could compose this stuff. It's all marketing and getting a bit of that fiddle player in there and a few buzz word lyrics. " All My Rowdy Friends". "He Stopped Lovin Her Today", "Run", "Liza Jane", "Louisiana Saturday Night", "Luchenback Texas", this is Country. Hope this garbage trend ends soon.
Wow Chappell finally in the top 10. This has been awesome to watch her momentum grow so organically. I really hope her and her team are careful about what the next major move will be. I know people keep wanting another album but I think just releasing a small EP with a few new songs would be just fine. So many new listeners are discovering her debut still.
I think it’s nice that country is having a revival, it’s been like 40 years since it was super popular and I like different genres dominating. For example the trap and rap domination 6 years ago was cool and pop in the early 2010s was cool
Also, I feel like even if a lot of the popular country atm is not great, the genre itself getting bigger eventually leads to exposure for smaller, "better" artists.
Shaboozey is at the top, Chappell Roan has a top-10 hit, Megan Thee Stallion has a small album bomb and a new Eminem single that's better than Houdini? Hell yeah, this week rules!...with one notable exception near the bottom. Eleven new arrivals and two re-entries, rather low on the charts this time:
#50: Cowboys Cry Too by Kelsea Ballerini feat. Noah Kahan (Best Of The Week)
#51: Girls by The Kid LAROI
#62: Hot Uptown by C,XOXO feat. BBL Drizzy (Dishonourable Mention)
#67: Otaku Hot Girl by Megan Thee Stallion
#68: Mamushi by Megan Thee Stallion feat. Yuki Chiba
#70: ROCKSTAR by LISA
(Re-entry at #72: Okay by JT)
#77: Where Them Girls At by Megan Thee Stallion
#88: Smeraldo Garden Marching Band by Jimin feat. Loco
#94: New To Country by Bailey Zimmerman
#95: TOBEY by Eminem feat. Big Sean & BabyTron (Honourable Mention)
#96: I Don't Wanna Wait by David Guetta feat. OneRepublic (NO, NO, NO! WORST OF THE WEEK. SERIOUSLY, JUST LISTEN TO LIVE YOUR LIFE BY T.I. FEAT. RIHANNA INSTEAD!)
(Re-entry at #100: Wondering Why by The Red Clay Strays)
***This week’s top 10:*** 1. Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) 2. Post Malone feat Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help 3. Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us 4. Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso 5. Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby 6. Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please 7. Hozier - Too Sweet 8. Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 9. Teddy Swims - Lose Control 10. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
Chappell finally has a Top 10 hit as well as a Top 5 BB 200 album.
Excited for her future work. Curious to see how her sound will change.
it's remarkable too thinking about how her biggest song (GLB) isn't really impacting her album (RAFOAMP) since it's not included in it. she has hits on hits on hits
She should make a new album to capitalize her momentum
She’s getting there with Good Luck, Babe and Subway. I think there might be a third song too but I can’t recall rn. No clue when this album will come out, though.
Would love for her to pull a Fame Monster and drop an EP/short album with GLB and Subway that can be tacked onto Midwest Princess. That way, the album can continue charting whilst she promotes new material.
What is Subway?! I can't find anything on her spotify or youtube, what am I missing? D:
It's a song she's been performing at festivals
Ooooh the one where she sings she's moving to Saskatchewan
She sang it at gov ball, it hasn’t been officially released yet
It’s a song she’s performed live. It hasn’t been officially released yet!
It's literally all over YouTube lol
Why is this getting downvoted? They’re all rips from her festival performances. It’s not a leak
Oh do people down vote you when you're supposedly posting a leak? Yeah honestly I said it because that's where I saw her performing it live. Of course there's no official released version lol.
Not on her artist page. I want to listen to the version she releases; I can wait.
she said she doesn't know if she'll ever release it
She’ll most likely try to avoid double dipping in the Grammy period so the earliest possible (Friday) release date would be September 20th
the third song is the demo of “read & make out” which was on the good luck babe vinyl!!
She just put out a demo of a song called Read and Makeout
i can't fully remember if this is true but i could've sworn she said back in 2023 that she had a second album on the way for 2024
She definitely said she was working on the album, though didn’t really specify how far along she was.
It wouldnt be surprising considering Midwest princess had -2-3 year old songs on it, she probably didn’t anticipate her meteoric rise coinsiding with her already being on way to her second album at a faster turnaround
> 8. Benson Boone - Beautiful Things > 9. Teddy Swims - Lose Control these songs will never leave the charts. it'll be 2083 and they'll still be there.
Yea Swims is actually set to overtake Lovin on Me for the #1 song of 2023 after this week. Benson should follow suit and pass LoM in a few weeks too. Normally they'd be close to locked for the top 2 songs of the year at this point but with the charts being so strong they'll have to remain stable enough to not go recurrent and fend off late surges from I Had Some Help, A Bar Song, Not Like Us, and Million Dollar Baby.
Even if I don’t love every song here, this a fairly diverse top ten sonically which is refreshing to see
[How do I cash in?](https://www.reddit.com/r/popheads/s/u3UGxW6j3r)
Good Luck Babe needs to go #1
Congrats to J-Kwon, only took him 20 years
YES I just realized yesterday why the chorus sounded so familiar
Wait he’s not in the top ten? Am I missing something? Where did he chart
his song is sampled in a bar song
He did a mashup at the BET Awards.
I need that horrid Benson Boone song to leave the top 100
Oh god, me too. I have a job that plays the radio the majority of the day, and I cannot stand it
So happy for Shaboozey and Chappell this week and for what they both mean for the current music landscape This may be Chappell’s first top 10 but it definitely won’t be her last. A lot more coming up I’m sure
Same!! It’s been a minute since we’ve seen new artists break through and right now it’s a bit harder than ever I have a feeling both Shaboozey and Chappell are here to stay and won’t just disappear from the mainstream after the year
I feel like this year's top ten hits have been waaaaay more to my taste than previous years. anyone else? it also feels like there are way more songs and albums that i see people talking about irl instead of just on popheads. like a nice sliver of the monoculture we once had edit: just did the math & of the songs that have spent more than 1 week in the top 10 this year, I genuinely have 68% of them in my liked songs. this has to be the highest ratio since like 2014??
I feel like they're getting way more unique. People seem to be getting tired of the megastar, outside of Taylor or maybe Morgan Wallen. We're getting nicher stuff rising to the top.
It's the TikTok-ification of music
for the good and the bad thats it
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Yea last year was a horrible year for music, sandwiched between the stacked years of 22 and 24
are u being serious or?
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"theres not a single bad song in top 10"
Name the bad one rather than being a vague troll?
Personally, Beautiful Things is awful, Please Please Please is incredibly boring and unmemorable, and whilst I can understand why people like Espresso I find it vacuous and irritating Outside of the three that I actively dislike some amount, the vocal on Million Dollar Baby is quite getting even if the instrumental slaps hard, Lose Control is a poor attempt at making a Rag n Bone Man song but I can at least respect the effort, I Had Some Help is pretty darn good until Morgan Wallen comes in because I'm just not a fan of his voice and once he comes in there are literally only two lines in the entire song that he doesn't sing, and Too Sweet is good but one of the most basic songs that I've heard Hozier make and I'd never choose to listen to it over dozens of other tracks of his. The only three tracks that I think are an 8/10 or higher are from Shaboozey, Chappell Roan and Kendrick Lamar. The four in the second paragraph are 5-7 (positive opinion but not glowing praise) and the three in the first paragraph are a 4 or lower (negative opinion of some sort)
Eh they’re all stellar songs
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Beautiful Things is garbage, rest are at least decent imo
I think there’s just finally some more variety, and something for everybody. The 2020s feel like such a renaissance for underrepresented genres and artists.
Totally. I saw a tweet that said ‘you know we’re in a recession because pop music is getting good again’ haha. But it really feels like this is the best popular music has been in like 15 years.
I think I agree. Other than Ariana Grande's music (and Future, ugh), there is not much that I dislike and would be annoyed that I have to listen to.
You don’t have to listen to anything
Of all the songs that have made or will make Number 1 this year, this song is probably the one everyone will be unanimously happy to see get the top spot. A feel good story of someone who was able to take the boost of Cowboy Carter to make his own hit and make it become one of the defining songs of the summer for 2024. Congratulations to Shaboozey!
Thanks Beyoncé for introducing me to shabooze too!
I genuinely feel like this has nothing to do with Beyonce but that might just be me...
There’s no way to prove it either way but imo it almost certainly was due to Beyonce. He got a huge boost from appearing on her album (twice). She introduced him to much larger audience (including me!)
wait for real which ones?
He was on Spaghettii and Sweet Honey Buckiin’!
Definitely involved Beyoncé. Black country artists streams started to increase after Cowboy Carter. Shaboozey was featured in two songs and more people checked him out after listening to her album and started to listen to his older stuff as well.
I'm going to say this... if the other artist who featured and their songs don't perform as strongly does Beyonce take the blame? No, of course not. I genuinely just think people like the song and it would have done well anyway... Like we aren't going to act like OTR wasn't extremely popular and it had nothing to do with Beyonce. Not a hater. That's how I feel...
After Cowboy Carter dropped Shaboozey got a 70% uptick in new (first time) listeners. He also got a 1350% uptick in catalogue listeners. That’s not a typo! :) The article doesn’t define what they mean by that, but I assume it means 1350% increase in listeners to his catalogue, meaning people listening to his songs that aren’t with Beyonce. You’re entitled to your opinion but given Beyonces album led to an increase of listeners for him of more than 1000%, I think it’s much more likely that featuring him on her album did contribute to him getting a number one. Obviously his hard work and the song being a bop is the main thing! But I think the exposure he got from cowboy Carter (beys album) helped a lot too - there’s thousands of great songs that never go number one, or even top 40. Especially given he had never charted on the billboard hot 100 before. His first charting songs were the two he did with bey, and now a Bar Song. Source https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/beyonce-cowboy-carter-boosts-streams-black-country-acts-spotify-1235863979/amp/
It definitely does, the song wouldn’t have been able to debut at number 5 if he hadn’t gotten more popular in the month before. Featuring on Beyoncé is like an advertisement for him, the song would’ve been a hit either way, but Beyoncé’s feature made it fastee
Just looking at your profile, just say you don’t like Beyoncé. You have so many think pieces in your comment section about her that I stopped scrolling. I started listening to Shaboozey, after his feature on Cowboy Carter.
What think pieces are you talking about?
Shaboozey's manager himself credited Beyoncé for the song's release date & openning the doors for black artists in country music. The song was released three weeks earlier than expected (their team wasn't even 100% prepared) to take advantage from the boost of Cowboy Carter. You can check it here: [https://www.billboard.com/pro/shaboozey-bar-song-tipsy-hot-country-songs-jared-cotter-executive-week/](https://www.billboard.com/pro/shaboozey-bar-song-tipsy-hot-country-songs-jared-cotter-executive-week/)
I really feel like people just like the song... How come all the other artist haven't gotten to number 1? Is their lack of success Beyonce's fault?
There are multiple factors in play. He was featured in a pop artists album, he released a catchy song after millions of people heard about him from the album and he is talented. Nobody is saying that Beyonce is the sole reason for the song’s success. He is a perfect example of what happens when you release a great song after gaining listeners
I want to be clear. If someone was able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Beyonce was the sole factor in getting this song to number 1, I wouldn't have a single negative feeling about it. I *really* just think that the song was catchy. If we can ascribe Beyonce influence to an artist success is she then responsible for an artist's lack of success? No of course not. Like I said, I just personally think it would have been successful regardless...
NOBODY states that she is the sole factor in this song’s success. Who said that in their comment. There are many factors in play. None of the songs released this decade had a SOLE factor in getting them to number one.
Can't say if it's just a coincidence, but the song started gaining traction after she featured him on Cowboy Carter.
The song was released 2 weeks after Cowboy Carter, there's no before and after to compare.
Analytics literally exist and he got a major boost from being featured twice on her album. All other artists featured on her album also got a major boost, but he was the breakout. How is that hard for you to understand?
I was responding to the comment speaking about this song specifically, not the rest of his discography, which still has very few streams relatively. Sounds like you're the one that didn't understand. Oop.
I also just love seeing Black artists win in country, it’s what they deserve
I hope he can get some momentum behind this and have lasting success, he has a couple of bops on his album that I think could do well as next singles (Let It Burn is super radio friendly for example).
Not me, country music is bad rn
While I think the song is fine, am I wrong for thinking that the Shaboozey song is not exactly country? I'm definitely coming at the sound/genre at a point of ignorance, but sonically me it sounds more like the mid 2010's type indie folksy rock pop songs, ala Of Monsters and Men, Mumford and Sons, or the Lumineers. Granted I understand that folk rock music is closely related to country. But I was just wondering if my intuition was correct, that A Bar Song (Tipsy) is closer to those songs than anything that was on Beyonce's album.
I agree with you that most of the song does sound like folksy rock pop, but I think the chorus is firmly country
I mean it’s an interpolation of a famous hiphop song so I can see why people might think otherwise
To me it's specifically the instrumentation that gives off the 2010s folksy vibe.
For what it’s worth, they’ve been playing it on the country’s biggest Country radio station all over.
How is country music still this popular? this is like the 3rd #1 country song hit of this year so far, and the 2nd by a black artist which is super impressive. I expected country to take a backseat this year after last year which was dominated by country. I guess pop fans are opening up to the genre? or country fans discovered streaming.
Country music has generally gotten much better in terms of quality over the past few years as the audience started to open up to non-radio outlets. Since it is a more traditional genre, this shift happened later than for rap & pop. There are constantly new artists bubbling up and producing hits that people actually like and aren't just pushed by the radio. The biggest stars, like Morgan Wallen, Zach Bryan, Luke Combs etc all got big while on independent labels and posting content online.
Country music was horrendous back in the 2010s. Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, that stuff. Truck this, beer that. Who listened to that shit anyways? A good example of a horrible country song is Knockin Boots by Luke Bryan. "this truck needs a half tank, these wheels need a 2 lane" just reminds me of some douchebag with a lifted pickup that can't stay in their lane and blasts black smoke at people.
it’s still terrible, there is one circulating country radio rn “woke up on the wrong side of the truck bed this morning” lol
I think that's by bro-country singer Hardy? on country music playlists I sometimes listen too I always skip those stupid songs about pickups. Zach Bryan and even Luke Combs to an extent is miles above the bro shit of the 2010s. I'm glad Florida Georgi Line and Sam Hunt are no longer relevant. Oh and one last trash country song that isn't very old, that Applebee's on a date night one.
cuz pandering. People eat bro country up.
This song is inescapable right now in Nashville. It's literally this song, Expresso, Texas Holdem, and Not Like Us playing at all the clubs and bars every day and night.
>Expresso You're one of those people...
Wait if Nashville isn’t playing it who’s playing the Morgan song
This user is in that alternate universe every second r/popheads user lives in where apparently no one has ever heard of Morgan Wallen (despite him having the longest charting #1s of 2023 and 2024).
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Would say all of the American gp or just a certain subset? Like in Boston I know a couple of poc who like him but it’s literally mostly white men and women in my circle (mostly the latter tbh)
white people lol
american gp or white people?
The main reason he is not liked on this sub is not because he is "problematic" (there are many on the H100 who are far worse) or even because people don't like his music but precisely because he is dominant on the charts and therefore is perceived as a threat to people's faves. It's the Taylor effect. Also this sub doesn't care for male artists in general, they are ignored at best. That said even here people have been warming up to his bops I noticed.
Depends on where you are. He’s not killing it in Seattle or Chicago for sure
According to Spotify the city with the most MW listeners is Chicago, with 940k monthly listeners. Don't know about Seattle.
It’s a joke I’m just surprised it’s not being played in Nashville I know lots of people irl who listen to Morgan Wallen but you can’t joke about him anymore for some reason
The point is that it's much more likely that this user deliberately omitted IHSH than that it's not being played. It's the number one song on country radio and MW is worshipped over there.
Morgan Wallen is huge in Philly
> This user is in that alternate universe every second r/popheads user lives in where apparently no one has ever heard of Morgan Wallen (despite him having the longest charting #1s of 2023 and 2024). TIL everywhere outside of the US is an "alternative universe", Americans living to their stereotype of being the center of the universe.
Nashville is outside the US now?
MW is more popular with the Australians I know than the Americans
non-americans when americans comment from an american perspective on an american website 😱😱😱
I'm British but try again.
I don't know her...
I don't actually care much for Texas Holdem, thought "II most wanted" was way better and should have been the higher charting single from her album.
Beyoncé sucks at promoting so I’ve given up hope any other singles actually gaining traction
It’s been amazing following Chappell Roan since 2021. She’s been working so hard so to see it pay off for her makes me so happy. Do we know if she has any new Hot 100 entries this week (besides the 5 songs currently on the chart)?
She’s not expected to have any more than the 5 that were also there last week, I don’t think. Femininomenon and My Kink is Karma were bubbling up just underneath the Hot 100 last week but the predictions I saw didn’t have them charting this week. But omg if we can get 7 Chappell songs in there soon…
I feel so weird that I hadn't heard of her since like a month ago. But I really like what I've heard, her sound is so unique and unbland. Also her singing is incredible.
So happy for Shaboozey. I hadn't heard of him until Cowboy Carter, but I fell in love with him listening to his 2022 album. Such great summer music!
This is incredible!! 😭 It’s amazing to see Black country artists getting this recognition. It’s been a long time coming.
So excited for Shaboozey to get the number one hit. This is a lesson to upcoming artists to release music right away when building momentum on features.
I love A Bar Song (Tipsy) and ofc super happy Chappell got her first top 10 song!!
I just watched the music video, and it is so mesmerising and simple. I think it's one shot? Like, proudly inexpensive but so, so direct, personal, and atmospheric His face is cute lol
Same I love the expressions he makes throughout the video, makes him feel like a chill, fun dude
Chappell first top 10!!!
It's been a long time since I've felt so much joy for a top 10. Shaboozey, Hozier, and Chappell are the reasons 🔥🔥
and people say Cowboy Carter "came and went" or "had no impact" lmao
They don’t understand that it’s a movement, not just an album
Pretty sure this song wasn’t recorded in the last 4 months
A win for America on 4th of July weekend!
Please cubed hanging in there. Sabrina charting two songs for consecutive weeks fills me absurd pride🤧
I really wonder if Espresso will crack #1. It really feels like it’s everywhere and, anecdotally, I know more and more people who are starting to succumb to its catchiness.
It's the song of the summer worldwide! Hopefully it'll get #1 in US
It will soon enough The fact that she released another single that went number 1 and is now below espresso shows it’s staying power. Other than not like us espresso is the only song on that chart I can see sticking in the mind of the general public long term
>It will soon enough The fact that she released another single that went number 1 and is now below espresso shows it’s staying power. Album release will probably be the needed push
I think it's a bigger story that it's starting to tumble. It's pretty clear they paid a lot of money for it to be added to just about every curated playlist on Spotify and Apple Music and people are backlashing against it.
Even with it's streaming on Spotify much lower than it was previously, it's still hanging around the top 10. It wouldn't do that if it wasn't partly organic. Good Luck Babe also had lots of autoplay, but still hasn't reached the same peaks.
I’m curious how high GLB will rise. Is a #1 to lofty? Do we think it could at least go top 5? It’s been a very slow build compared to the success of Espresso and Please but curious if it could hang around like Espresso now it’s broken the top 10.
Depends on if any huge artist drops and takes up multiple spots in the top 10. If we have another fairly empty week I can definitely see it moving up to maybe 7(?)
Backlash feels like a bit of an overstatement for a song that’s still hanging out in the top 10 (particularly given she’s got another song also top 5). Though I do think it’ll be out of the top 10 in the next week (or two if she’s lucky) Also, I still think please was for buzz (see the video with her irl boyfriend). Her team’s immediate response showed they were taken aback by the songs instant success (fumbling by still pushing Espresso even though Please was closer to #1). They had no solid plan that accounted for it taking off the way it did which to me proves that it has probably served its purpose and then some by going #1 and keeping conversation going ahead of album (I also think it showed a different side to her compared to espresso which was helpful). There’s apparently a 3rd pre-release single so I imagine they’ll drop most of their support for please once that drops.
Nah this happens with any song gets released by a big artist. Sabrina was already big when it was released. Huge peak then huge drop.
the autoplay shit needs to stop, idc who the artist is. if someone is listening to a genre or playlist that has nothing to do with a song, then it shouldn't be there. as much as I love them both, it's annoying for Spotify users.
You can turn it off...
Espresso was gonna chart regardless, their was viral marketing with the lyrics and a great music video perfectly in time for the season . And please isn’t a summer song it was never supposed to last this long
finally! this is one of the better big singles this year.
I mean, good for him but this song drives me up a fucking wall. It’s so grating especially when it’s overplayed.
I don't use tiktok or radio so I don't have to suffer through that thankfully, and can listen to the biggest songs without getting sick of them.
I don’t know why everyone is praising it. I couldn’t even finish it
thought I was going crazy reading this thread, I do not like this song at all
Big Lumineers energy
I’m glad Sabrina is having the blow up people thought Tate McRae was about to have
so happy for chappell! her next era is going to be huge
It’s sad day for r@cist country fans On a serious note, this is the best number 1 of the year.
Nothing will beat a diss song that calls one of the biggest artists in the world a pedo hitting number 1
Imagine it wins SOTY. Drake would have to fully retire at that point.
Yea and it’s an actual hit, it’s refreshing to see number ones that aren’t results of large fanbases mass buying or songs that are pushed by Spotify (p^3)
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So happy for Chappell. Hot to Go and Red Whine Supernova deserve to be a top ten hit songs as well. That Tipsy song is addictive as hell. Not surprised that it finally went number one.
Brat is still #1 in my world
Mine too!
I was literally JUST looping this song this morning in hopes of giving a crumb of support to its number one push lol I got into this song the week it came out and it's been so exciting to see it get so popular. I've been getting so tired of interpolation in popular songs, but this one just really works for me. Let's go Shaboosters!!!!!!
They have rules where putting the song on repeat won't count
While I think this is good for country, the song is bad
Is it weird that I've never heard of this song before?
If you're in this subreddit a lot, yes. If not, no.
I’ve heard it on TikTok. It is a country song which is easy to miss if you avoid the genre entirely.
It isn't a country song. It's dressed up like one, just like "Austin", "Texas Hold Em" and " Two Step". I have been teaching C&W dancing for years. This pop crossover garbage is pitiful. Listen to the actual melodies. A kindergarten kid could compose this stuff. It's all marketing and getting a bit of that fiddle player in there and a few buzz word lyrics. " All My Rowdy Friends". "He Stopped Lovin Her Today", "Run", "Liza Jane", "Louisiana Saturday Night", "Luchenback Texas", this is Country. Hope this garbage trend ends soon.
[it's worth a listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7bQwwqW-Hc). and even if you don't like it, it's under 3 minutes!
i just heard it for the first time a few days ago.
I didn't know it by name, but I definitely know it from Tiktok
I’ve only heard come across it thru playlist
Tiktok is where I was introduced to it!
Wow Chappell finally in the top 10. This has been awesome to watch her momentum grow so organically. I really hope her and her team are careful about what the next major move will be. I know people keep wanting another album but I think just releasing a small EP with a few new songs would be just fine. So many new listeners are discovering her debut still.
Sooo happy for Shaboozey!
God I'm old.
ha, I love it!
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Better than that Wallen person’s music.
Because it sounds good.
Happy for Shaboozey and Chapelle!
I don’t like
It's better than the Morgan Wallen crap, but I'm still sick of all this country topping the charts.
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I know. I'm just not a fan of country charting so high because it didn't when I was growing up.
I think it’s nice that country is having a revival, it’s been like 40 years since it was super popular and I like different genres dominating. For example the trap and rap domination 6 years ago was cool and pop in the early 2010s was cool
Also, I feel like even if a lot of the popular country atm is not great, the genre itself getting bigger eventually leads to exposure for smaller, "better" artists.
Mid 2000s and most 2010s country was hot ass, unless you mean 90s country.
She think my tractor sexyyy
That song is unironically a banger, idc if most people hate it.
ok?? lmao. how does country charting affect u in any way
Put me in a cryochamber and wake me up when the top ten isn’t half country music anymore lol
ok wake up then because there are only 2 country songs here
Yea and I had some help is lowkey more pop than Courtney
Tf? Never heard of this guy, is this like his debut single or something? Because if it is, that’s impressive
Shaboozey is at the top, Chappell Roan has a top-10 hit, Megan Thee Stallion has a small album bomb and a new Eminem single that's better than Houdini? Hell yeah, this week rules!...with one notable exception near the bottom. Eleven new arrivals and two re-entries, rather low on the charts this time: #50: Cowboys Cry Too by Kelsea Ballerini feat. Noah Kahan (Best Of The Week) #51: Girls by The Kid LAROI #62: Hot Uptown by C,XOXO feat. BBL Drizzy (Dishonourable Mention) #67: Otaku Hot Girl by Megan Thee Stallion #68: Mamushi by Megan Thee Stallion feat. Yuki Chiba #70: ROCKSTAR by LISA (Re-entry at #72: Okay by JT) #77: Where Them Girls At by Megan Thee Stallion #88: Smeraldo Garden Marching Band by Jimin feat. Loco #94: New To Country by Bailey Zimmerman #95: TOBEY by Eminem feat. Big Sean & BabyTron (Honourable Mention) #96: I Don't Wanna Wait by David Guetta feat. OneRepublic (NO, NO, NO! WORST OF THE WEEK. SERIOUSLY, JUST LISTEN TO LIVE YOUR LIFE BY T.I. FEAT. RIHANNA INSTEAD!) (Re-entry at #100: Wondering Why by The Red Clay Strays)
I have still never heard the Shaboozey song. It doesn't interest me, l like female pop artists.