Thania Garcia After enjoying a historic opening week on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart, Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” now spends a second week topping a list that also includes fresh releases from Doja Cat, Olivia Rodrigo and Gunna.
The single first launched to No. 1 in the tracking week ending Aug. 17, making Anthony the first artist ever to notch the achievement with no prior chart history.
The country-folk song drew nearly 23 million streams in the last week — that’s an increase of 31% — and also earned 2.3 million airplay audience impressions for a spike of 310%.
It also continued to overperform in digital download sales, logging 117,000 sales for the week ending Aug. 24, per Luminate.
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