Now, he has spent a whopping 18 weeks in 2020 at the top of the Hot 100, and has become one of the most in-demand artists in music. This time last year, Roddy Ricch was still a rising hip-hop talent from Compton who had yet to release a proper album or move beyond the lower reaches of the Hot 100. Its costar also happens to be a superstar now. What Is Your Song of the Summer 2020? Vote! (Week 9)ģ. Maybe that speaks to why it had a wider reach than anything he put out before.” Case in point: there are scores of covers of “Rockstar” on YouTube, many of them turning the hook into the basis for an acoustic ballad, and a few with over a 1 million views each. “That’s the one thing that I noticed with this song, that he’s using the melodic hook on this. “Before ‘Rockstar,’ he hadn’t really used melody that much,” notes Chery. The result is a single by one of rap’s biggest new stars that also invites in traditional pop listeners looking for a catchy chorus. Yet DaBaby’s latest album finds him incorporating more traditional refrains into his songs, and “Rockstar,” constructed around the rapper’s warbled hook, offers a soothing tone atop a guitar lick and producer SethInTheKitchen’s booming percussion. Prior to the release of Blame It On Baby, DaBaby was best known for songs that eschewed pop hooks in favor of relentless bars: “Suge,” “Bop” and the intro to last year’s Kirk all became top 20 hits with nary a melodic chorus in sight. “Rockstar” switched up his approach (in a good way). “Because of the cadence of his releases, I was wondering at what point he was going to maybe get to a point where people feel like he’s saturating himself… But ultimately, the album has such staying power, and ‘Rockstar’ as well.”Ģ. “He’s a natural star and charismatic,” says Chery of DaBaby. With his agile flow and alignment with some of the biggest mainstream stars in music, DaBaby’s more-is-more approach has made him an A-lister in a little more than a year’s time. Meanwhile, both of his most recent albums topped the Billboard 200 chart, despite being released less than seven months apart.ĭaBaby Talks Pop Smoke Guest Verse & Rap’s 2020 MVP Debate: 'It's a Close Race, Ain't It?'Īnd while “Rockstar” is now DaBaby’s biggest career hit, he’s appeared on two songs, Jack Harlow’s “What’s Poppin?” remix and Pop Smoke’s “For The Night,” that entered the top 10 during its reign at No. The tonnage strategy has proven effective: beginning with his breakthrough hit “Suge” in spring 2019, DaBaby has become a regular presence in the Hot 100’s upper reaches, scoring top 40 hits with artists ranging from Post Malone to Camila Cabello to Megan Thee Stallion. How did “Rockstar” grow into such a behemoth? Here are the five ways in which DaBaby and Roddy Ricch’s smash collaboration became the Song of the Summer front-runner:ĭaBaby’s first studio album, Baby on Baby, was released in March 2019 since then, the Charlotte rapper has been unyielding in his output, releasing two more full-lengths - Kirk last September and Blame It On Baby in April - as well as hopping on more than 30 songs as a featured artist over the past 18 months. Carl Chery, head of urban music at Spotify, thinks it could end up being the biggest song of 2020: “If it keeps going like this, DaBaby has a shot at being in that conversation.” “The song is a perfect storm - the consumption has been through the roof, internal research has been consistently strong, and it has shown no burn on it,” says Dion Summers, VP of urban programming at Sirius XM. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs for a seventh week each. 2 on this week’s all-genre Radio Songs chart with 62.1 million airplay audience impressions. on-demand streams to date, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data - as well as a huge airplay hit, up to No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, with 471.1 million U.S. “Rockstar” is both a streaming juggernaut - this week, the song spends its ninth week at No. Then, one song raced out to the lead, and just kept sprinting: “Rockstar,” the smash single by DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch, spends its fifth straight week and seventh total frame atop the Hot 100 this week, and is now the presumptive favorite for this year’s Song of the Summer crown. One year after Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” basically eliminated all drama from the Song of the Summer contest by spending nearly the entire season atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the 2020 showdown included multiple hits with a real shot at supremacy - from Doja Cat’s “Say So” to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage” to The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” to the Lady Gaga/Ariana Grande collaboration “Rain On Me,” all of which spent at least one week at No. A few weeks after Memorial Day, the race for this year’s Song of the Summer still looked like it was going to be a competitive one.
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