"I Had Some Help" | ||||
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Single by Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen | ||||
Released | May 10, 2024 | |||
Genre | Country pop | |||
Length | 2:58 | |||
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"I Had Some Help" on YouTube |
"I Had Some Help" is a song by American rapper and singer Post Malone featuring American country music singer Morgan Wallen. It was released as the lead single from Malone's upcoming sixth album through Republic and Mercury Records on May 10,2024.
The song debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 with the highest single-week streaming figure since 2020,marking Malone's sixth and Wallen's second number-one song. It also debuted No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart and peaked atop the charts in Australia,Canada,Ireland and Norway.
On March 20,2024,Malone previewed a snippet of the song through social media after a different snippet of a previous version leaked earlier,which had a problem with the mixing. [1] On May 2,2024,the two artists took to social media to announce the title of the song and its release date. [2]
On May 10,2024,Malone and Wallen released the official music video,which was filmed in Joshua Tree,California and directed by Chris Villa,with both artists playing leading roles. [3]
"I Had Some Help" earned 167 first-week adds at country radio,making it only the second song in history to clear the panel in its first week after Garth Brooks in 1997 with "Longneck Bottle". [4] It also broke Spotify's single-day country streaming record with nearly 14 million streams,debuted at No. 1 on the streaming platform's Global Daily chart and became its top male collaboration debut of all time,in addition to topping Apple Music's Global chart and Pandora's Top Thumb Hundred chart,upon release. [4]
In the United States,"I Had Some Help" debuted at number 18 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart dated May 18,2024,before climbing to number nine the following week,making it the first song to reach the Top 10 in two weeks or fewer since Brooks' "More Than a Memory" debuted at number one in September 2007. It also additionally ranks at No. 20 on both Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay. [5] [6] [7] On the Billboard Hot 100,"I Had Some Help" debuted at number one on the chart dated May 25,2024,with first-week figures of 76.4 million official streams,31.1 million radio airplay audience impressions and 69,000 copies sold. It registered the highest first-week streaming figure since Billboard removed YouTube song user-generated content from its chart metrics in,surpassing Taylor Swift and Post Malone's song "Fortnight". It is Malone's sixth number-one single,fifth as lead artist,and second number-one debut. Post Malone now holds the record as the fastest male artist to accumulate two No. 1 debuts on Billboard Hot 100 history,"Fortnight" and "I Had Some Help",within just four weeks. [7]
On the Billboard Global 200,it debuted at No. 1 with 119 million streams and 81,000 sold worldwide in the week. It is the third Global 200 No. 1 that has topped Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart,after Beyoncé's "Texas Hold ‘Em" and Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)". [8]
"I Had Some Help" is the fastest song to hit in the US Radio Songs Top 10 in 2024. It’s also the first song to reach the US Radio Songs top 10 in as few as three weeks that has also hit the US Country Airplay chart’s top 10. [9]
On April 28,2024,Malone and Wallen both performed their own sets at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio,California,and Wallen brought Malone out to perform the song with him for the first time ahead of its release. [10] On May 16,2024,Malone performed the song at 59th Academy of Country Music Awards in Frisco,Texas.
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