Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘WAP’ achieves historical feat on Billboard hot 100

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s joint hit, ‘WAP,’ have proceed to interrupt obstacles because it obtain an historic document on Billboard Sizzling 100 this week.

Since its August 7 debut, the Ayo the Producer-helmed minimize which largely

samples Frank Ski‘s 1992 membership anthem ‘Whores within the Home’ has been bumping

from homes, automobiles, and possibly even outer house if the out-of-this-world figures

connected to its first-week gross sales efficiency are any indication.

Making historical past alongside the way in which, look inside to see how the tune which premiered at 1

on the refreshed Sizzling 100 sailed to the highest.

Already licensed Gold by the RIAA (which denotes gross sales equivalence of 500,000)

inside its first 7 days of availability, ‘WAP’s opening garnered the biggest industrial

response in years.

Listed below are ‘WAP’s official first-week numbers:

Streaming – 93 million U.S
Digital Downloads – 125,000 downloads
Radio airplay – 11.6 million radio airplay viewers

Alongside the position on the Sizzling 100 are placements in historical past books for Cardi.

Whereas the chart championship marks Megan’s second reign, it’s B’s third.

Along with her first two ‘Bodak Yellow’ and ‘I Like It’ each climbing to the tally’s summit in

2017 and 2018 respectively, ‘WAP’s 2020 reign makes her the primary feminine rapper to

have three 1 hits and first feminine rapper to have 1 hits in two totally different a long time.

For Stallion, she trots into historical past books for not solely being the youngest feminine rapper

to gather two 1 hits, however she additionally did it the quickest as ‘Savage,’ her inaugural chart-topper, rose to the highest simply three months in the past.