Iggy Azalea ProfileAustralian-bred rap sensation Iggy Azalea has made herself yet another piece of history, having claimed the record for the longest-leading #1 by a female rapper as her wildly successful Fancy, featuring Charli XCX, keeps its spot at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a sixth week in a row.
That makes Fancy a longer-serving #1 hit than previous record-holder Lil' Kim, who collaborated her way to five weeks at the top with Lady Marmalade in 2001.
The next-longest reign goes to Lauryn Hill and her 1998 hit Doo Wop (That Thing), which spent a fortnight at the top, with Shawna's week-long stint at #1 coming in 2003 courtesy of her featured status on Ludacris' Stand Up.
Fancy cleared a third week at the top of the Radio Songs chart, as well as notching up its seventh week at #1 on the Billboard Streaming Songs chart, though with listening figures down 5% to 11.1 million US streams, and the track finally being knocked off its perch on the Digital Songs chart, maybe – just maybe – the wheels are starting to slow on the Fancy runaway train.
Still, it's not like it's had a bad run – it has topped the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a sixth and eleventh week, respectively, and takes out #1 on the Songs Of The Summer chart for its fifth week in a row.
Hot on Fancy's heels is ascendant new track Rude, courtesy of Canadian reggae-pop quartet MAGIC!, which has risen to the #2 spot – breaking Azalea's hold on the top two places, as she had occupied #2 for five weeks thanks to featuring on Ariana Grande's Problem – and grown by 6% in listens, with Fancy still leading Rude by 14 percentage points.
The change means that Azalea can't quite lay claim to having bested The Beatles after all – they spent 10 weeks in a row at #1 and #2 simultaneously in 1964.
