Woah (song)

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"Woah"
Lil Baby - Woah.png
Single by Lil Baby
from the album My Turn
ReleasedNovember 8, 2019 (2019-11-08)
Genre Trap [1]
Length3:03
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Quay Global
Lil Baby singles chronology
"Down Like That"
(2019)		"Woah"
(2019)		"Highest in the Room" (remix)
(2020)
Music video
"Woah" on YouTube

"Woah" is a single by American rapper Lil Baby from his second studio album My Turn (2020). [2] [3] The song was released through Quality Control Music and Universal Music Group on November 8, 2019. "Woah" became Lil Baby's third number one on the Billboard Streaming Songs chart, following 2018's "Yes Indeed" and "Drip Too Hard". [2] It also debuted at number one on the Rolling Stone 100. [4]

Contents

Background

On November 1, 2019, Lil Baby posted a preview of the single on the app Triller . [5] [6] The dance move he displayed during the clip was described as hitting "The Woah". [7] The song marked his first release as a solo artist since "Back On". [8]

Critical reception

Dewayne Gage of Rolling Stone explained that the song, as being "built on a bed of heavy hitting 808s and suspenseful piano", enables the rapper to perform "with a canvas to sing and stretch his vocals as he describes how far he's come since embarking on a full-time rap career only two years ago". [9] Tom Breihan at Stereogum thought that the song is "a fairly standard Atlanta trap song". However, the rapper "has a way with a hook, and there's something hypnotic about the way he settles into that misspelled title word". [1]

Commercial performance

Following its release, "Woah" reached number 1 on Apple Music within 24 hours. [10] The song debuted at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100. [11] On the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, the song debuted at number one, making it the sixth song to do so, eleventh overall, and became Lil Baby's first number one song in the United States. [4]

Music video

The song's official video was released on December 6, 2019. [12] In it, Lil Baby is seen with "exotic cars drifting all around him". He performs a series of dances, including the song's namesake dance challenge, the Woah. The video features cameos from fellow rappers Lil Durk and Lil Marlo, as well as members of Lil Baby's family. Billboard 's Michael Saponara called the visuals "energetic". [12]

Live performances

Lil Baby performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on January 6, 2020. [13]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [27] Silver200,000‡
United States (RIAA) [28] 5× Platinum5,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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