{"id":1596,"date":"2025-09-04T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/1596\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:36:11","slug":"bigxthaplug-goes-all-the-way-for-first-no-1-on-hot-rap-songs-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/1596\/","title":{"rendered":"BigXthaPlug Goes ‘All The Way’ for First No. 1 on Hot Rap Songs Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBigXthaPlug<\/a> lights up Billboard\u2019s charts this week with multiple achievements on the lists dated Sept. 6. The rapper claims his first No. 1 on the Hot Rap Songs<\/a> chart with \u201cAll the Way,\u201d featuring Bailey Zimmerman<\/a>, while its parent album, I Hope You\u2019re Happy, launches in the top two on both the Top Rap Albums<\/a> and Top Country Albums<\/a> charts, and is the most-streamed rap album of the week.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll the Way,\u201d released and promoted through BigXthaPlug\/United Masters, ascends from the runner-up rank to crown the Hot Rap Songs survey in its 21st chart week. For its coronation on the multi-metric chart, the song registered 13.9 million official streams, 1,000 sales downloads and 12.5 million radio airplay impressions in the United States for the tracking week of Aug. 22-28, according to Luminate, gains of 29%, 38% and 9%, respectively, compared with the previous week.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the country-rap collaboration\u201dAll the Way\u201d topped the Hot Country Songs chart upon its debut on the April 11, 2025, list, the single becomes the first track to have reached No. 1 on both Hot Country Songs and the Hot Rap Songs charts; the former list began in October 1958, while the latter premiered in April 1989.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe incumbent champ debuted at No. 3 on Hot Rap Songs, maintaining the rank for its first 11 weeks on the chart as Kendrick Lamar and SZA\u2019s runaway hit \u201cLuther\u201d and Drake\u2019s \u201cNokia\u201d dominated the top two spots. \u201cAll the Way\u201d has yet to exit the top five since its arrival and ousts \u201cLuther\u201d for the summit this week after the former champ\u2019s unprecedented 33 nonconsecutive weeks in charge.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn needing 21 weeks to reach the summit of Hot Rap Songs, \u201cAll the Way\u201d wraps the fifth-longest climb to No. 1. Here\u2019s a recap of its related company:<\/p>\n

\n\tWeeks to No. 1, Song, Artist, Date Reached No. 1
28, \u201cPo Pimp,\u201d Do or Die feat. Twista, Oct. 26, 1996
22, \u201cDrank in My Cup,\u201d Kirko Bangz, May 26, 2012
22, \u201cWatch Me,\u201d Silento, Aug. 8, 2015
22, \u201cBig Energy,\u201d Latto, April 9, 2022
21, \u201cAll the Way,\u201d BigXthaPlug feat. Bailey Zimmerman, Sept. 6, 2025<\/p>\n

\n\tAs \u201cAll the Way\u201d goes the distance on the Hot Rap Songs chart, its parent album, I Hope You\u2019re Happy, opens at No. 2 on Top Rap Albums with 47,000 equivalent album units. The debut passes Take Care, which peaked at No. 3 last October, for the artist\u2019s best showing on the chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tI Hope You\u2019re Happy also starts at No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart and becomes only the third album to reach the top two spots on both Top Rap Albums and Top Country Albums since their co-existence beginning in 2004. It follows two Colt Ford projects: 2012\u2019s Declaration of Independence, which topped the country chart and reached No. 2 on the rap side, while 2014\u2019s Thanks for Listening reversed the results. (Country and rap albums are defined as those eligible or that have appeared on Billboard\u2019s Top Country Albums and Top Rap Albums charts.)<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the all-genre Top Streaming Albums<\/a> chart, I Hope You\u2019re Happy launches at No. 3 behind Morgan Wallen\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem (No. 1) and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack (No. 2).<\/p>\n

\n\tIncluding \u201cAll the Way,\u201d BigXthaPlug logs seven songs on the Hot Rap Songs chart. The chart-topper joins four debuts: \u201cBox Me Up,\u201d featuring Jelly Roll (No. 6), \u201cPray Hard,\u201d featuring Luke Combs (No. 15), the Darius Rucker-assisted title track (No. 19) and \u201cAbout You,\u201d featuring Tucker Wetmore (No. 23). Plus, previous release \u201cHell at Night,\u201d featuring Ella Langley jumps 6-3 in its third frame, while \u201cHome,\u201d featuring Shaboozey, returns at No. 17 for a third week on the chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BigXthaPlug lights up Billboard\u2019s charts this week with multiple achievements on the lists dated Sept. 6. The rapper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,2525,2526,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-country","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}