Oliver Anthony Music’s ‘Wealthy Males North of Richmond’ enjoys a second week atop the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart as the primary artist to launch on the high with no prior chart historical past.
Final week, Oliver Anthony made headlines as the primary artist to launch atop the Billboard Scorching 100 chart with no prior charting historical past. This week, the singer-songwriter’s viral hit, “Wealthy Males North of Richmond,” has loved a two-week run to date on the high of the chart, gaining radio airplay because it continues because the top-selling observe and most-streamed music of the week.
That marks the one’s second week at No. 1 on the Digital Music Gross sales chart whereas it leaps 4-1 on Streaming Songs. Notably, of the 34 songs to premiere on the high of the Scorching 100 this decade, “Wealthy Males North of Richmond” is just the second to extend in streams in its second week (from 17.5 million to 22.9 million), following Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U,” (from 43.2 million to 62.7 million) — which was boosted by the No. 1 Billboard 200 albums chart arrival of her debut launch, “Bitter.”
“Wealthy Males North of Richmond” gained 22.9 million streams — up 31% from the primary week — and bought 117,000 downloads (down 20%) within the monitoring week of August 18-24, in keeping with knowledge from Luminate. “Richmond” additionally sits atop Billboard’s Scorching Nation Songs chart for the second week.
With out receiving radio promotion, the music has notched 2.3 million airplay viewers impressions — up 310% from final week. Additional, “Richmond” debuted on the Nation Airplay at No. 45, with 90% of its general airplay (2 million of two.3 million) from the chart’s panel of reporting stations.
Curiously, “Richmond” is just the eighth Scorching 100 No. 1 music within the chart’s historical past to reference a US metropolis in its title — and the primary since 1985’s “Miami Vice Theme” by Jan Hammer. Different songs on that checklist embrace 1975’s “Philadelphia Freedom” by Elton John, “The Evening Chicago Died” by Paper Lace in 1974, “The Sound of Philadelphia (T.S.O.P.)” by MFSB in 1974, Marty Robbins’ 1960 hit “El Paso,” 1959’s “The Battle of New Orleans” by Johnny Horton, and Wilbert Harrison’s “Kansas Metropolis,” additionally from 1959.