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‘Ruin My Soul’ Turns into Beyoncé’s First Solo No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 14 Years

ByRomeo Minalane

Aug 9, 2022
‘Ruin My Soul’ Turns into Beyoncé’s First Solo No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 14 Years

Beyoncé has been no stranger to the end location on the Billboard Hot 100, nevertheless in most sleek years, that’s been by utilizing  featured appearances on songs co-fronted by Megan Thee Stallion and Ed Sheeran. However she’s returned to reign over the chart as a solo artist with “Ruin My Soul,” which ascends to the No. 1 command after having first hit the Hot 100 six weeks within the past. It reaches that pinnacle within the the same chart week that sees her “Renaissance” album debuting on the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1.

The closing time Beyoncé stood atop the songs chart by herself used to be abet in 2008, when “Single Females (Set up aside a Ring on It)” dominated the Hot 100 for four weeks.

Since then, she’d shared the No. 1 location with Sheeran for 5 weeks with their 2017 duet on “Excellent,” and took retain of all of it over again with a single week in 2020 when she and Megan went to the end with a remix of the latter artist’s “Savage.”

Sooner than these collaborations, she’d had 5 No. 1s on her bear between 2003-2008. Figuring within the extra most sleek collabs, the artist now has her eight No. 1s to her name, following the four she’d had in 1999-2001 as a member of Future’s Child. It’s now been 23 years and three weeks since her first No. 1, DC’s “Bills, Bills, Bills.”

The July 29 start of “Renaissance” used to be clearly a super trust upping consumption for “Ruin My Soul” and pushing it to No. 1. Billboard reported that Luminate’s info for the week showed streams up 114%, to 18.9 million for the most sleek frame, and downloads up 113%, touchdown at 13,000. However one other main factor is actual how the song’s radio play has been on a leisurely incline over the closing six weeks and used to be up one other 8% this week, to 61.7 million airplay impressions.

Even with the persevering with airplay elevate, the song holds at No. 4 on the final Radio Songs chart, nevertheless “Ruin My Soul” makes a super soar on the Streaming Songs chart, from No. 25 to No. 3.

It’s possible the song might possibly possibly well search for one other elevate in consumption next week, as the most sleek chart duration doesn’t consist of the start of “The Queens Remix,” which seen traditional Madonna field matter, including snippets of “Vogue,” being constructed-in into “Ruin My Soul.” The remix garnered loads of consideration from the Gloomy females artists whom Beyoncé calls out as influences or heroes in freshly added verses.

Records of Beyoncé returning to the end of the Hot 100 follows conclude on the heels of her triumph atop the Billboard 200, where “Renaissance” debuted at No. 1 with 332,000 album equivalent models, her first time in that location since her closing solo studio album, “Lemonade,” came out in 2016.

Altogether, between her personnel and solo efforts, Billboard reports that Beyonce has spent 60 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart, indicative of the extra or less multi-week runs some of those 12 songs had on the end.

Beyoncé’s ascent formula that Lizzo’s “About Rattling Time” had to vacate the end location after touchdown there for two weeks. Sooner than that, Harry Kinds’ “As It Modified into” had regarded indomitable, with a 10-week reign.

This week, Lizzo got bumped to No. 2, which bumped Kinds to No. 3. However one crowning command that Lizzo has no longer vacated is the No. 1 location on the Radio Songs chart. With a exiguous 3% airplay elevate, “About Rattling Time” maintained its dominance of radio with 93.9 million target audience airplay impressions, silent correctly forward of the 61.7 million for “Ruin My Soul.”

Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” used to be pushed down a location on the Hot 10, as correctly, slipping to No. 4 from its No. 3 height to this level. The “Stranger Issues”-pushed oldie silent stands at No. 1 on three Billboard airplay charts: hot rock & quite loads of songs, hot rock songs and hot quite loads of songs.

Three songs crashed the end 10 of the Hot 100 for the first time. Steve Lacy’s “Spoiled Behavior” jumped 5 spots to No. 7. Lacy has been a fixture of both the rock/quite loads of and R&B/hip-hop album charts. And Nicky Youre and Dazy’s collaboration, “Sunroof,” moved up three positions to No. 9.

Barely a few holdovers within the end 10 consist of tracks by Future with Drake and Tems, Jack Harlow, the pairing of Spoiled Bunny and Chencho Corleone, and a second hit from Kinds (“Late Evening Talking”).

Beyoncé had extra to catch an even time in Hot 100 info this week: All 16 of the tracks from “Renaissance” made the chart. After “Ruin My Soul,” the two utterly different songs to land within the end 20 were “Cuff It” at No. 13 and “Alien Celeb” at No. 19. With these included, she has now had 81 songs appear within the Hot 100 in her submit-Future’s Child occupation.

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