Jacob Webster
Doja Cat, already one of many greatest radio acts of the 2020s, expands her attain as “Agora Hills” rolls to No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart dated April 20. The tune climbs from No. 3 to rule the record after a 19% surge in weekly performs that made it the most-played tune on U.S. monitored mainstream R&B/hip-hop radio stations within the week of April 5–11, in line with Luminate.
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“Agora Hills,” launched on Kemosabe/RCA Records, offers Doja Cat her first No. 1 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay by means of her eighth look on the chart. The singer/rapper’s earlier greatest was a No. 8 end for “Juicy,” with Tyga, in 2020.
While Doja Cat is new to the throne on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, the hitmaker has been a radio drive within the roughly 5 years since her mainstream breakthrough. She has collected eight No. 1s on the Pop Airplay chart since 2020 – together with “Hills,” which dominated for one week in March – and has probably the most leaders on the chart within the 2020s, 4 forward of second-place acts Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.
Likewise, Doja Cat is likely one of the decade’s prime dogs on the Rhythmic Airplay chart, the place she has scored 11 No. 1s, all, together with two-week champ “Agora Hills,” for the reason that begin of 2020. In that point, she’s second solely to Drake’s 13 champs for probably the most chart-toppers on the radio format.
The “Agora Hills” reference to the core R&B/hip-hop viewers and programmers comes following a shift in Doja Cat’s musical type on her most recent album, Scarlet. The set is a full embrace of the rap facet that she sometimes showcased on her prior albums and in visitor options. Doja Cat lately doubled down on the period, releasing a deluxe version entitled Scarlet 2 CLAUDE, on April 5. The expanded set’s impression hits this week’s chart, inflicting Scarlet to rally 34-8 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, with 28,000 equal models for the April 5–11 monitoring week, up 142%. (Both the usual and deluxe editions are mixed into one itemizing for monitoring and charting functions.)
Elsewhere, “Agora Hills” pushes 5-3 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, which ranks songs by mixed viewers totals from grownup R&B and mainstream R&B/hip-hop stations. There, the observe vaults to 14.6 million in viewers, up 17% from final week. The former Pop Airplay champ sits at No. 5 on the format’s latest rating, although it added 2% extra performs prior to now week. Similarly on Rhythmic Airplay, the ex-leader repeats at No. 6 on the latest record and primarily retains even in performs for the week.
Thanks to regular efficiency on the codecs, “Agora Hills” stays at No. 3 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart, after having posted seven weeks at No. 2 in February-March. In the latest monitoring week, it rises to 65.2 million in whole viewers, an 8% enchancment over the earlier interval.
