2019 was the year that one song dominated the billboardcharts and the discussion in a way that no single previously had in the 2010s
) released new songs, but each proved unable to knock Lil Nas X from his perch at No. 1, as his run on the chart started to threaten the same 16-week history Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee's Justin Bieber-featuring "Despacito" hadEventually, not only did "Old Town Road" pass the record for most weeks spent at No.
And while there may never again be a phenomenon quite like "Old Town Road" again, 2019 did see a couple other breakout stars who shared telling elements of Lil Nas X's narrative. Billie Eilish was another under-21 sensation who had built a following through social media, broken a lot of genre barriers and just generally crash-landed into a U.S. mainstream that didn't totally know what to do with her.
Meanwhile, Lizzo was another rapper who also crossed over so far into pop that it may prove tough for her to find her way back -- and she also did so thanks in large part to TIkTok virality. Her triumphant soul-hop singalong "Truth Hurts" was well over a year older than "Old Town Road" by the time its "I just took a DNA test, turns out...
The world of popular music at the end of the 2010s is a wildly unpredictable one, where new stars are minted overnight and old ones can return at full strength seemingly at a moment's notice, where genre's overall collapse makes radio playlists and Grammy ballots close to impossible to properly fill out, and where the future of the genre seems to mostly be in the hands of a bunch of kids.
Main Image: Lil Nas X performs onstage during WiLD 94.9's FM's Jingle Ball 2019 at The Masonic Auditorium on Dec. 8, 2019 in San Francisco.
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