On Monday, it was announced that Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” has broken the record for most consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Top 100 charts. The official count is 17 weeks with previous songs, “Despacito” and “One Sweet Day”, holding the record at 16 weeks.
I never liked this song and now I like it even less. The song is annoying, repetitive and frankly I never chose to listen to it on my own. But to be fair, any song that is going to be number 1 on the charts for that long is going to be considered overplayed by anyone. That doesn’t mean that each song that does that are equally worthy.
Billboard Hot 100: #1(=) Old Town Road, @LilNasX & @billyraycyrus [21 weeks]. *record breaking seventeenth week at #1*
— chart data (@chartdata) July 29, 2019