How did “Rockstar” grow into such a behemoth? Here are the five ways in which DaBaby and Roddy Ricch’s smash collaboration became the Song of the Summer front-runner:ĭaBaby’s first studio album, Baby on Baby, was released in March 2019 since then, the Charlotte rapper has been unyielding in his output, releasing two more full-lengths - Kirk last September and Blame It On Baby in April - as well as hopping on more than 30 songs as a featured artist over the past 18 months. Carl Chery, head of urban music at Spotify, thinks it could end up being the biggest song of 2020: “If it keeps going like this, DaBaby has a shot at being in that conversation.” “The song is a perfect storm - the consumption has been through the roof, internal research has been consistently strong, and it has shown no burn on it,” says Dion Summers, VP of urban programming at Sirius XM. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs for a seventh week each. 2 on this week’s all-genre Radio Songs chart with 62.1 million airplay audience impressions. on-demand streams to date, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data - as well as a huge airplay hit, up to No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, with 471.1 million U.S. “Rockstar” is both a streaming juggernaut - this week, the song spends its ninth week at No. Then, one song raced out to the lead, and just kept sprinting: “Rockstar,” the smash single by DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch, spends its fifth straight week and seventh total frame atop the Hot 100 this week, and is now the presumptive favorite for this year’s Song of the Summer crown. One year after Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” basically eliminated all drama from the Song of the Summer contest by spending nearly the entire season atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the 2020 showdown included multiple hits with a real shot at supremacy - from Doja Cat’s “Say So” to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage” to The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” to the Lady Gaga/Ariana Grande collaboration “Rain On Me,” all of which spent at least one week at No. So the references to cops in the lyrics were no mistake.A few weeks after Memorial Day, the race for this year’s Song of the Summer still looked like it was going to be a competitive one. DaBaby also brought up his own experiences with police brutality in the remix. For the 2020 BET Awards, DaBaby opened his performance of the song with a white police officer kneeling on his neck, recreating the brutal way in which Floyd died. DaBaby added that "Rockstar" was one of the last songs he recorded before he put it out and, since social distancing guidelines prohibit gatherings, DaBaby added: "I haven't performed 'Rockstar' not one time."ĭaBaby let "Rockstar" adapt to the events of 2020 and he created a Black Lives Matter remix of the song, according to Rolling Stone, where he paid tribute to George Floyd. "During the pandemic, I've been the longest lasting artist on Billboard," he said. DaBaby addressed this in an interview with XXL from December 2020. The music video, directed by Reel Goats, features DaBaby and Roddy Ricch in combat against a zombie apocalypse and the opening themes make reference to a global pandemic, which is apropos since the song was released during the coronavirus pandemic.
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