André 3000 has the longest song to chart in the US
The OutKast singer André 3000 has broken the previous record for the longest-ever song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
The rapper recently issued his latest solo album, New Blue Sun. The record’s opening track, ‘I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a “Rap” Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time’, entered the chart at 90.
The song has an impressively protracted title, like many of its neighbours on the album; however, the new record concerns runtime rather. At 12 minutes and 20 seconds long, the song is the longest-ever to enter the US charts.
André 3000 breaks a previous record held by Tool, who entered the charts in August 2019 with the 10-minute and 21-second track ‘Fear Inoculum’. The metal band’s song entered the US chart at number 93.
Prior to Tool’s record in 2019, the title was held by the late David Bowie, who entered the chart with his final album’s title track, ‘Blackstar’. The LP was released in January 2016, just two days before the star’s death.
‘I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a “Rap” Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time’ is also André 3000’s first song to enter the Billboard Hot 100 since ‘Play the Guitar’, his 2012 collaboration with B.O.B.
While these lengthy tracks have entered the lower regions of the chart, the longest-ever song to top the Billboard Hot 100 is Taylor Swift’s 2021 song ‘All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)’.
André previously said of his new album of flute instrumentals: “New Blue Sun was something that I realized, whoa, I really want people to hear it. I really want to share it. That’s my only gauge. I have to like it as a person, as an artist myself, because if I don’t like it I can’t expect nobody else to like it.”
Listen to André 3000’s ‘I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a “Rap” Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time’ below.
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