Lil Nas X has returned to a familiar place: the No. Billboard announced Monday that the singer and rapper’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” had topped its flagship singles chart almost two years to the date since his “Old Town Road” began its record-setting 19-week run at No. AdvertisementAnd like “Old Town Road,” which rode a wave of controversy over whether it should be classified as a country song, “Montero” benefited from widespread debate on social media. This time Lil Nas X, 21, set off an old-fashioned satanic panic with the song’s eye-popping music video, in which he rides a stripper pole to hell and gives the devil a lap dance. “Old Town Road,” which was streamed a whopping 143 million times in one seven-day period in April 2019.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 06, 2021 00:00 UTC