Juice WRLD And Young Thug’s ‘Bad Boy’ Debuts in Top 10 on Hot RnB/Hip-Hop Songs Chart! The late Juice WRLD has added a new top 10 to his catalogue on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart as his latest collaboration with Young Thug, “Bad Boy,” debuts at No. 9 on the list dated January 30.
According to MRC Data, “Bad Boy” begins with 18.5 million U.S. streams in the week ending January 21, in its debut frame, enough to open at Position 2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart. As it only trails SZA’s “Good Days” on that ranking, “Bad Boy” begins as the week’s most streamed rap title and crowns the Rap Streaming Songs list.
Song streams may also have received a major publicity boost as Cole Bennett, who heads Lyrical Lemonade, a multimedia company that partnered with Juice WRLD on the majority of his music videos, announced that “Bad Boy” contains the last footage that he and the rapper shot together before Juice WRLD’s demise in December 2019.
Besides, the single also sold up to 2,000 downloads in the same period, prompting a Pos. 12 start on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart. Airplay fortunes are almost non-existent, as with most new releases that have yet to receive an active promotional push to radio programmers from their record labels. The track’s initial full week at radio yields 88,000 in format audience in the week ending January 24 (from 25 plays), well below the threshold of the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, whose anchor spot track – Cordae’s “Gifted,” featuring Roddy Ricch, registered a whopping 1.9 million (from 635 plays).
Elsewhere, “Bad Boy” kicks off at Pos. 7 on Hot Rap Songs and at Position 22 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
As “Bad Boy” arrives, Juice WRLD registers his 11th top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In addition, it’s the late artist’s 9th to debut in the region; his only pair to start outside the top 10 were his breakthrough hit “Lucid Dreams,” which debuted at Pos. 38 in May 2018 and “Life’s A Mess,” featuring Halsey, which entered at Pos. 40 after a partial week of streaming and sales.
