{"id":974360,"date":"2020-01-10T11:24:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=931776"},"modified":"2020-01-10T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:24:52","slug":"just-how-big-was-old-town-road-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/just-how-big-was-old-town-road-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Big Was \u2018Old Town Road\u2019 In 2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As if the fact that it didn\u2019t leave your head from April to August wasn\u2019t proof enough, the data backs it up: \u201cOld Town Road\u201d was, by our count, the most massive song of 2019. Lil Nas X<\/a>\u2019s breakout hit rides to Number One on the inaugural year-end Rolling Stone<\/em> Top 100 Songs Chart<\/a>, which uses data from Alpha Data to rank the most popular songs of 2019 in the U.S. by a combination of streams and sales.<\/p>\n

\u201cOld Town Road,\u201d a disruptor of a song<\/a> that took any lingering genre divisions and squashed them under its Gucci cowboy boot, pulled in 8.7 million total song units last year. No song came close, with the Number Two song, Post Malone<\/a> and Swae Lee\u2019s \u201cSunflower,\u201d pulling in 6.3 million units. Thanks in part to a string of remixes featuring the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus, Lizzo<\/a>, and Young Thug,  \u201cOld Town Road\u201d wasn\u2019t just a massive hit but also was a particularly sticky one \u2060\u2014 spending 17 weeks as the Number One song in the U.S., according to Alpha Data \u2060\u2014 thanks to a string of remixes featuring the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus, Lizzo, and Young Thug. <\/span><\/p>\n