Dua Lipa gave her blessing to Jack Harlow’s new song.
18.04.2022 - 23:13 / variety.com
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticLast week, Harry Styles set the high-water mark for weekly streams for a song in 2022 — and just one week later, that record has fallen. It now belongs to Jack Harlow, whose “First Class” debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 after picking up 54.6 million on-demand streams in its first week.Last week, Styles’ “As It Was” came out on top with 43.8 million streams.
This week, it predictably falls to a still-solid No. 2, with 32.3 million streams in its second frame.So as streaming goes, Harlow came out well ahead of Styles, in their respective opening weeks. However — and this is a big “but” — Styles was well ahead of Harlow when you look at the first-week radio airplay.
“First Class” got 4.1 million audience impressions at radio this week, less than a fourth of the 27.2 million radio ears Styles got in his debut last week. Harlow’s new song went instantly viral on TikTok in a big way, and it may be that radio has yet to be delivered the news about how big a star he is (or, alternately, how much people love a Fergie sample in 2022). So make what you will of the fact that Harlow did somewhat better at streaming and Styles did a lot better on the airwaves when they respectively came out of the box.
This is a race that will be fun for chart-watchers to keep track of in the coming weeks, and that’ll be a relief, since so many of the chart year so far has consisted of yawning at 2021 leftovers. No song had debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 at all in 2022 until these two tracks came along and did it back to back.All of this date comes via Luminate (formerly PMC Data), via Billboard.“First Class” represents Harlow’s second time on top of the Hot 100, but his first as a
.Dua Lipa gave her blessing to Jack Harlow’s new song.
Jack Harlow has revealed that he went to Dua Lipa to get her blessing for his new track which is named after the singer.Harlow released his new album ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’ on Friday (May 6). As well as featuring the likes of Drake, Lil Wayne, Pharrell and Justin Timberlake, the record includes the song ‘Dua Lipa’.Speaking on The Breakfast Club podcast, Harlow revealed that while Lipa has yet to acknowledge the song publicly, he did reach out to her in private ahead of its release.“I wanted to get her blessing, so I FaceTimed her and played it for her because I didn’t want her to be blindsided by that or feel like creeped out or anything,” he said.“If she had said, ‘Yo, I hate it. I don’t want it to come out,’ it wouldn’t have come out,” Harlow explained before revealing Lipa’s reaction to the track.
A.D. Amorosi If being laid-back, charismatic and contagious were elements of Jack Harlow’s success story on his 2020 major label debut “That’s What They All Say,” with this week’s “Come Home the Kids Miss You,” those virtues reveal themselves as the rapper-songwriter’s golden stock-in-trade.
Jack Harlow has opened up about Lil Nas X, saying that some of the homophobic reactions to the latter’s work shows there’s still much “progress to be made” in hip-hop.Harlow was speaking in an interview with The Guardian where he reflected on working with Lil Nas X on their 2021 hit ‘Industry Baby’.After calling him a “boundary pusher”, Harlow added that some of the reaction to Lil Nas X’s work showed there was still much work to be done in hip-hop when it comes to eradicating homophobia.“The totally inappropriate reaction to [Lil Nas X] lets you know that we still have some progress to be made,” Harlow said when speaking about LGBTQ+ artists in hip-hop.“And you hear it in passing; there’s still some homophobia going on. But he’s taking the hit that artists won’t have to take in the future.
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Jack Harlow‘s new album is out now!
Jack Harlow has shared the tracklist for his upcoming new album, ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’, which is set to arrive on Friday (May 6).The Kentucky rapper has already previewed the record with the release of singles ‘Nail Tech’ and ‘First Class’, the latter of which topped the Billboard 200 chart last month, giving Harlow his first-ever Number One as a lead artist.Earlier this evening (May 3), Harlow took to social media to reveal the full tracklist for his new album. Made up of 15 tracks, the rapper’s second studio album includes features from Drake, Lil Wayne, Pharrell and Justin Timberlake.The reveal comes after Harlow tweeted yesterday (May 2): “Strictly legends on my album.”Elsewhere on the tracklist, Harlow has a song called ‘Dua Lipa’, which is likely the same record he previewed on Instagram yesterday, where he appeared to shoot his shot at the pop star.Sharing a clip from what looks like a tour bus, he raps: “Dua Lipa, I’m tryna do more with her than do a feature/ I check the web, they out here chewin’ me up/Fuck it.”See the tracklist for ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’ below:A post shared by Jack Harlow (@jackharlow)Meanwhile, Harlow has responded to a clip of two NBA referees trying to work out who the rapper is.Last night (May 1) Jack Harlow was court side watching the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics play in the NBA playoffs when two of the referees were caught on camera trying to work out who the rapper was and what he did.“Who is Jack Harlow?” asked Scott Foster with fellow ref Ed Malloy replying “I have no idea.
Jack Harlow has responded to a clip of two referees trying to work out who the rapper is.Last night (May 1) Jack Harlow was watching an NBA basketball game between the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics when two of the referees were caught on camera trying to work out who the rapper was and what he did.“Who is Jack Harlow?” asked Scott Foster with fellow ref Ed Malloy replying “I have no idea. Who is he?”“I don’t know,” replied Foster.
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Thania Garcia Fergie’s 2007 pop hit “Glamorous” is seeing a mini streaming increase of 70% following Jack Harlow’s sample of the track in his hit single “First Class” — which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this month — according to data by Luminate (formerly MRC Data, formerly Nielsen Music, formerly SoundScan, etc.).Harlow’s strategic teasing of the track on TikTok helped to make the song an immediate success.
Harry Styles scores a second week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with As It Was.
Following a nail-biting race against Jack Harlow, Harry Styles claims a second week at Number 1 with As It Was.
Jack Harlow is heading for his first-ever UK Number 1 single this week with First Class. If he can hold off some stiff competition from Harry Styles, of course.
Jack Harlow has topped this week's Official Trending Chart, as First Class enters into a close battle for Number 1 in the UK.
Jack Harlow has Fergie to thank for his latest hit. The 24-year-old rapper samples “Glamorous” on his latest single, “First Class,” and it was a long time coming.“I grew up loving Fergie, like she literally inspired me,” the “What’s Poppin” rapper told ET’s Denny Directo at the Kids’ Choice Awards on Saturday. “When I was in 5th grade, I tried to perform 'Fergalicious' at the talent show," he added. «I have, like, a strong artistic connection to Fergie.
Jack Harlow has discussed the legacy of his rap hero Eminem, saying Marshall Mathers’ music is “forever immortal”.Harlow recently announced the release of his second studio album, ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’, and shared Fergie-sampling single ‘First Class’, which went viral on TikTok ahead of its release last week.The follow-up to 2020’s ‘That’s What They All Say’ is set to arrive on May 6 via Generation Now/Atlantic Records, and has already been previewed with the single ‘Nail Tech’.In a new cover feature with Rolling Stone, Harlow spoke of some of his musical heroes, and hit out at Eminem’s critics.“I think that shit is still forever immortal and we’re gonna get back to it,” Harlow said of Marshall Mathers’ music. “We’re a couple years away from everyone reviving that shit as a culture and being like, ‘Look at this shit.”He added: “Everyone’s gonna pay their rightful respects again.
Jack Harlow took to the stage of Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Award on Saturday, April 9.
Jack Harlow and Harry Styles have entered a very tight battle for Number 1 in the UK this week.
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