![]() ![]() It’s a whole lot closer sonically to what country stars like Sam Hunt or Kane Brown have been doing recently than is is to any actual rap. 10 Cool New Pop Songs to Get You Through The Week: Kylie Minogue, Conan Gray, (G)I-DLE & More. That sound works pretty well, but it’s not even remotely rap. On Brown’s 2019 self-titled EP, we hear what that means: drawling, bluesy country songs over big 808 thunks. But he’s also spent time in the Nashville world, developing a style that he calls trailer trap. He got his start as a pop-rap producer, working with people like Pitbull and Fergie. Brown, like Lil Nas X, comes from Atlanta. But he has won the acceptance of the country system, which isn’t easy to do. ![]() This won’t happen with “The Git Up,” which spent a week at #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart before Gwen Stefani’s boyfriend’s Southern rock power ballad reclaimed the top spot.īlanco Brown is not an internet-savvy teenager, and he has not turned “The Git Up” into a cause. In being rejected by the country authorities, Lil Nas X took hold of that perception - of a racist and set-in-its-ways country-music governing body - and used it to leapfrog into the pop mainstream. The kid knows what he’s doing.) When “Old Town Road” was banished from the country chart, it became a sort of internet cause, which helped fuel its rise. ![]() ![]() (This was one of many, many canny decisions that Lil Nas X has made. When Lil Nas X uploaded “Old Town Road” to SoundCloud, he labeled the song “country” - partly because it sort of is a country song, and partly because that genre tag made the song more likely to appear on various SoundCloud charts. Blanco Brown would still like to repeat it.Ī big part of the “Old Town Road” legend is that the song appeared exactly once on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. At this point, “Old Town Road” seems likely to break the record for the longest-reigning #1 single. And before anyone has any idea what’s happening, a cultural phenomenon is born. (The beat samples an old Nine Inch Nails instrumental, but neither teenager has any idea who that is.) The Atlanta teenager records a bunch of non-sequitur cowboy-based lyrics over it, pushes it hard on social media, and blows up via the social-media app TikTok. Struggling with Git It Become a better singer in 30 days with these videos Yeah (Yeah) Uh Colli Park in the house Slick we got Bun be (Bun B) Ying Yang Twins Check it out Colli Park drop them beats that'll rock ya world (Thats Right) We got Bun B and Ying Yang in this thang So get get get get get get it girl Get it get it get it girl Get it get it get it girl Get it get it get it girl Get it. A 19-year-old Atlanta kid buys a beat from a Dutch teenager. By this point, the story of “Old Town Road” feels like music-industry legend, even as the song remains #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. He has also been featured in a myriad of additional publications including TIME Magazine, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, NPR, Genius, Taste of Country, and Complex. The viral track USA Today said has “infrastructure in place to turn his viral success into a big breakout summer,” was shared on April 26 via SoundCloud, along with a social video of Blanco performing the dance which has since spawned nearly three billion viral views and millions of user-generated videos using #TheGitUpChallenge. Watch Blanco perform at the star-studded two-hour LIVE event at 8pm ET on FOX. Praised for his unique live performance, with Rolling Stone naming him one of their CMA Fest 2019 “ 20 Best Artists and Shows We Saw,” Blanco will perform “The Git Up” at the Teen Choice Awards, on August 11. Additionally, “The Git Up” has claimed several positions on other Billboard charts including: #1 Country Streaming Song (five weeks), #1 Country Digital Song Sales (five weeks), #18 The Hot 100 and #31 Pop Songs. Reclaiming the #1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart, for its third week, the track is also the #1 most-Shazamed Country song both in the US and globally (surpassing more than one million Shazams). Blanco Brown’s “ The Git Up” has taken the world by storm as it climbs seven positions into the Top 25 on the Top 40 radio Chart and the remains the top-selling digital Country song in the United States this week via Nielsen Music (and second-selling song all-genre) for its fifth week. ![]()
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