After a week of controversy, meme-making, and some of the most sublime shitposting the internet has ever seen, "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" — Lil Nas X's Call Me By Your Name-referencing new single, which arrived last week with an ultra-horny, ultra-biblical video — has hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
The track unseats Justin Bieber's "Peaches", which itself was No. 1 for one week, displacing Cardi B's "Up". Lil Nas X responded to the news on Twitter with a sweet, rare display of earnestness: "y’all told a 19 year old who had just escaped the lowest point of his life that he would never have a hit again.
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