Diplo, Lil Nas X, and Billy Ray Cyrus debut the first live performance of "Old Town Road" Sunday night at the Stagecoach Festival
The Stagecoach Festival has become to country music kind of like what Coachella is to the indie music world... it's even held at the same place, on the Empire Polo Club grounds in the desert of Southern California. It's where the hottest names in country and some pop crossover artists join forces to put on a huge, presumably memorable festival experience for the 80,000 attendees.
Apparently on the night of Sunday April 28, the biggest moment of the festival happened after the official headliners were on their way home. DJ Diplo was performing for the event's official after-party when he pulled rapper Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus onstage to perform the hugest pop song on the planet right now. "Old Town Road". Love it or hate it (and everyone seems to do one or the other), "Old Town Road" has been atop theBillboard Hot 100 singles chart for three consecutive weeks, and the crowd went berserk to see its live debut.
Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus with his left-handed LTD TL-6
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Billboard's official statement, repeated across the media, was that the song “incorporates references to country and cowboy imagery [but] does not embrace enough elements of today's country music to chart in its current version.” Billboard added that its “decision to take the song off of the country chart had ...
1 Song Ever on Hot 100 | Billboard News. Lil Nas X's “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, rules the Billboard Hot 100 for a 16th week, tying the record for the most time tallied at No.
Many news outlets are saying. Old Town Road made about 15 million dollars. and they had to pay 9in Nails quite a bit of royalties. because that's where the sample came from.
Lil Nas X began creating memes to promote "Old Town Road" before it was picked up by TikTok users. The song's first music video is composed entirely of footage and clips from the 2018 Western action-adventure game, Red Dead Redemption 2.
In early 2019, Lil Nas X burst on the scene with his genre-bending song “Old Town Road.” Initially rejected by the country music establishment, Billy Ray Cyrus hopped on a remix to help him out and magic was made. The song inspired three more remixes and has been the No.
While “Old Town Road” was initially released in December, it made national headlines in March after it was removed from the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for “not [embracing] enough elements of today's country music.” Critics pointed to the song's lyrics as proof that the “country-trap” song was a parody that ...
“Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, has become the highest certified song ever by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), reaching 14-times platinum status in the U.S. — accumulating 14 million in equivalent song units.
His rise to fame started with “Old Town Road,” which quickly became a massive hit and set the record for the most weeks at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100. Such success often comes with awards recognition, so it's not a surprise that the song was nominated for three Grammys, taking home two of those.
Side note: The sample Lil Nas X used for “Old Town Road” was actually from Nine Inch Nails, which means they've been getting a big share of “Old Town Road” profits. But he isn't bothered.
According to Nielsen Music's year-end report, the country-trap track was streamed just under 2.5 billion times, and that's only looking at the most popular streaming sites and only in the U.S. The final official figure shared by the data-driven company is 2,499,608,000 plays.
“For all intents and purposes, 'Old Town Road' was the biggest record of the year,” says Phil Guerini, VP of music strategy for Disney Channels Worldwide and GM of the Radio Disney Network, who played Lil Nas X's “Old Town Road” on KDIS (a nationally broadcast Top 40 station) and KRDC (a national country station).
1 single on the Hot 100 chart with “Bad Guy,” officially dethroning Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus' summer hit “Old Town Road” after 19 weeks. The rapper, 20, congratulated Eilish on Twitter, writing, “U deserve this!”
It was originally released independently on December 3, 2018. The song later gained popularity on the social video sharing app TikTok. "Old Town Road" has been officially remixed four times, featuring a different array of guest artists including Billy Ray Cyrus, Diplo, Young Thug, Mason Ramsey and RM.
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