Billie Eilish’s ‘Bad Guy’ tops Billboard Hot 100, ends 19-week run for Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’
Sorry, “Old Town Road” fans: A new song has finally climbed to the top of the charts.
According to Billboard, singer-songwriter Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” took the No. 1 spot this week from Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus, whose hit “Old Town Road” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a record 19 weeks.
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Billboard tweeted that the 17-year-old Eilish, whose song was No. 2 for nine weeks, “is the first artist born in the 2000s to have a No. 1 song on the #Hot100.”
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Lil Nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, took to Twitter to congratulate Eilish.
“U deserve this!!” he wrote.
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Cyrus echoed the sentiment.
“Well deserved,” he tweeted. “Your persistence paid off. Thanks everybody. It was a hell of a ride.”
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