{"id":2447733,"date":"2019-08-19T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=873072"},"modified":"2019-08-19T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:29:40","slug":"rs-charts-megan-thee-stallions-hot-girl-summer-charges-to-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/rs-charts-megan-thee-stallions-hot-girl-summer-charges-to-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"RS Charts: Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s \u2018Hot Girl Summer\u2019 Charges to Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/MeganTheeStallion.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cHot Girl Summer,\u201d a boisterous collaboration between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/megan-thee-stallion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_megan-thee-stallion\" data-tag=\"megan-thee-stallion\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nicki-minaj\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicki-minaj\" data-tag=\"nicki-minaj\">Nicki Minaj<\/a>, debuted at Number One on the<\/span> <em><span>RS<\/span><\/em> <span>100 this week with 17.8 million streams in the period of August 9th to August 15th. \u201cHot Girl Summer\u201d started as a meme before transforming into a song with help from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ty-dolla-ign\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ty-dolla-ign\" data-tag=\"ty-dolla-ign\">Ty Dolla $ign<\/a>, who sings a radio-ready hook, and co-producers Juicy J, Bone Collector, and Crazy Mike, who are responsible for the single\u2019s pummeling beat.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/charts\/songs\"><em><span>Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em><\/a> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/charts\/songs\">Top 100 chart<\/a> tracks the most popular songs of the week in the United States. Songs are ranked by Song Units, a number that combines audio streams and song sales using a custom weighting system. The chart does not include passive listening like terrestrial radio or digital radio. The<\/span> <em><span>Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em> <span>Top 100 chart is updated daily, and each week<\/span> <em><span>Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em> <span>finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Megan Thee Stallion vaulted to the top of the latest singles chart, two other rappers also enjoyed strong debut weeks. Nine songs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rick-ross\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rick-ross\" data-tag=\"rick-ross\">Rick Ross<\/a>\u2019<\/span> <em><span>Port of Miami II<\/span><\/em> <span>appeared on the latest<\/span> <em><span>RS<\/span><\/em> <span>100, joining his previously released Drake collaborations, \u201cGold Roses\u201d and Money in the Grave.\u201d And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/trippie-redd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trippie-redd\" data-tag=\"trippie-redd\">Trippie Redd<\/a> placed four new tracks on the chart<\/span><span>, including \u201cSnake Skin,\u201d which debuted at Number 28 thanks to 5.2 million streams.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There weren\u2019t a lot of debuts from non-rap this week. Katy Perry\u2019s \u201cSmall Talk,\u201d co-written and co-produced by Charlie Puth, just missed the Top 40, arriving at Number 42. Looking towards next week, Taylor Swift\u2019s new song \u201cLover\u201d and a pair of Young Thug tracks, \u201cHot\u201d and \u201cBad Bad Bad,\u201d are off to strong starts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rs-charts-top-100-megan-thee-stallion-nicki-minaj-873072\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHot Girl Summer,\u201d a boisterous collaboration between Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj, debuted at Number One on the RS 100 this week with 17.8 million streams in the period of August 9th to August 15th. \u201cHot Girl Summer\u201d started as a meme before transforming into a song with help from Ty Dolla $ign, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 12:11:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}