After an early release last week, Gwen’s latest collaboration with rapper Eminem, “Kings Never Die”, debuted at #80 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #8 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs making it the highest charting new entry. According to Billboard, “Kings Never Die” was downloaded 35,000 times and was streamed 1.2 million times “with 49 percent stemming from Spotify plays” (which also helped it come in at #35 on the Digital Songs chart). It’s excellent to see the track chart so high considering it has yet to be promoted properly.
“Kings Never Die” is said to be the upcoming and second single from the Southpaw film soundtrack and an official lyrics video is expected soon, too.
NDC’s peek-a-boo put together a list of where “Kings Never Die” made it’s debut on the charts:
“Kings Never Die”: Chart – Peak position
Australia (ARIA) – 94
Canadian Digital Songs (Billboard) – 36
Canadian Hot 100 (Billboard) – 53
US Billboard Hot 100 – 80 (Hot Shot Debut)
US Digital Songs (Billboard) – 35
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) – 23
US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard) – 19
US R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs (Billboard) – 8
Billboard Twitter Top Tracks – 36
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KND is also #27 in the UK RnB singles top 40! (wouldn’t class it as an R&B song but there you go) 🙂
Sixth solo charting hit? Don’t they mean sixth collaboration charting hit?
Can someone explain what the purpose of a lyric video is? (Not trying to be sassy, I’m genuinely asking.) Is it just a tool to help boost sales? Generate buzz before the release of an official video? Is there always an official music video released after a lyric video?
I think sometimes lyric videos are released with out proper videos after… We’ll see
Yeah, I did a little research of my own and L.A.M.B. alone had six, lol.
Jenny, as somebody pointed out on the Billboard site, it seems that they were referring to the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, not the Hot 100.
@Keithers Yes, these are exactly the purposes of a lyric video 😉 Streams are very important these days (Miley’s “Wrecking Ball” got to #1, because of millions of people streaming the video) and that’s why it’s clever to have more “videos” out to stream. Ususally a “real” video is released some time after the lyric video was released. Once the lyric video is out blogs and music sites will post about it and generate some buzz again.
Erm, I’m pretty syre Gwen had more than 6 solo songs on the Hot 100
According to wikipedia she’s got at least 14 – 15 charting solo songs. I’ve noticed for a while that Billboard’s page is messed up.
Ah! i didn’t realize it helps add to the streaming number. Makes sense! Thanks @Bob and @YYY!
^ Yeah! That’s why it’s important to keep streaming it on youtube, spotify, apple music, etc. especially when a song is released.
the lack of interested on promoting songs, bores me.
Eminem discusses KND and collaborating with Gwen
(26:39 – 28:46)
https://youtu.be/zgaut_MSD8U
According to a couple of sites the song will be sent to radio (at least in Italy for now) on July 31.