{"id":61608,"date":"2023-11-28T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/11\/28\/how-did-jack-harlow-score-his-third-no-1-in-three-years-with-lovin-on-me\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:33","slug":"how-did-jack-harlow-score-his-third-no-1-in-three-years-with-lovin-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/11\/28\/how-did-jack-harlow-score-his-third-no-1-in-three-years-with-lovin-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Jack Harlow Score His Third No. 1 in Three Years With \u2018Lovin on\u00a0Me\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tTaylor Swift, Drake and now Jack Harlow<\/a>. That\u2019s the complete list of artists who\u2019ve scored new No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> in each of the past three calendar years \u2014 with the latter artist completing the trifecta with his new chart-topper \u201cLovin on Me.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLovin\u201d climbs from 2-1 on the Hot 100 this week (dated Dec. 2), following his Lil Nas X collab \u201cIndustry Baby\u201d (2021) and his solo smash \u201cFirst Class\u201d (2022) to the chart\u2019s apex. Like \u201cFirst Class,\u201d the song was extensively teased on TikTok before its release, building up anticipation for its debut.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHow has Harlow continued scoring these smashes? And will he one day also have the consistent major album success of a Drake or Swift? Billboard<\/em> staffers debate these questions and more below. <\/p>\n

\n\t1. Jack Harlow\u2019s \u201cLovin on Me\u201d climbs 2-1 on the Hot 100 this week, giving him a new No. 1 hit in a third straight year \u2014 the only artist besides Drake and Taylor Swift on as long a streak. On a scale from 1-10, how surprised are you to see Harlow\u2019s name along with those two others for that benchmark? <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tEric Renner Brown<\/strong>: I\u2019d quantify my mild surprise as a 3. Not so much because Harlow strung together three consecutive years with a Hot 100 topper \u2013 even in 2021, it was fairly clear he had the juice as far as pop-rap goes \u2013 but because\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0him, Drake, and Taylor have achieved this distinction. To come at this question another way, my surprise is primarily in terms of the artists who scored Hot 100 No. 1s in 2021, and then missed the chart\u2019s top slot in at least one of the two following years. At the end of 2021, Lil Nas X and BTS were both omnipresent and it felt like a strong possibility that Cardi B would have a new album (with ostensibly huge singles) the following year. Instead, 2021 was the last year any of them topped the chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tKyle Denis<\/strong>: Maybe about a 6? When you think about it, it\u2019s not really that<\/em> surprising. Jack Harlow is a charismatic young talent with really broad appeal, and it\u2019s not like he makes music that staunchly rejects mainstream conventions. Nonetheless, after the soft commercial reception of\u00a0Jackman<\/em>\u00a0earlier this year and his relative absence from the headlines, another No. 1 hit does come as a bit of a surprise. Then again, when you have a hold on TikTok in the way that Jack Harlow does, there\u2019s always a hit in your back pocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJosh Glicksman<\/strong>: A high 7. Sure, Harlow has become one of the bigger names in music over the past few years, but I doubt that your casual top 40 listener would know him as an answer to that trivia question. Still, he\u2019s done an excellent job of picking collaborations, samples and, perhaps most importantly, the\u00a0right\u00a0<\/em>singles since 2021. It\u2019s hard to overemphasize the last point: Three of his last five singles as a lead artist have gone to No. 1. Harlow and his team clearly have a spot-on understanding of what is going to latch onto the mainstream ear in a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n

\n\tJason Lipshutz<\/strong>: A 9 \u2014 and that\u2019s not due to anything against Jack Harlow, but just because of how his singles discography has oscillated between quickly evaporating tracks and No. 1 smashes. Unlike artists like Taylor Swift and Drake, who routinely send singles to the top of the Hot 100 regardless of the commercial rollout or affiliated project, Harlow has the ability to put out singles and projects with little Hot 100 heat (this year\u2019s Jackman<\/em> album didn\u2019t produce a single top 40 entry, for instance), but then follow them up with songs that build TikTok anticipation and immediately explode on streaming services. It\u2019s a singular skill, which makes a feat like \u201cLovin on Me\u201d so unexpected.<\/p>\n

\n\tAndrew Unterberger<\/strong>: A 7. Clearly Harlow\u2019s crossover instincts are strong \u2014 we even named him one of the 10 greatest pop stars<\/a> of 2022 \u2014 but it does feel like he has to prove himself each time out in a way that most cemented A-listers are mostly beyond needing to do. Striking gold like this three years in a row is quite tough to do for an artist on Harlow\u2019s (still very high) commercial level.<\/p>\n

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