“That’s still the question.” None of this made much of a difference to Lil Nas X four months ago. He released “Old Town Road ... country music establishment rejecting the work of ...

Lil Nas X's 2019 smash, "Old Town Road" — specifically, the remix version featuring Billy Ray Cyrus — has become the most Platinum-certified song in the history of the Recording Industry ...

fans and executives alike have been scrambling to work out the method behind his one-song success. Of the dissections of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” which has sat at the top of music charts ...

Late last year, a delightfully strange song began to make its way around the teen-favorite social app TikTok. Equal parts country twang and hip-hop bass, “Old Town Road” lent itself well to ...

And its performer is black, still a relative rarity in the country music industry. And yet not even four months have passed since Billboard heaved Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” off the same ...

Billboard spoke to YoungKio about how he got his start in producing, connecting with Lil Nas X, and wanting Young Thug on the remix for "Old Town Road." By Carl Lamarre This week, Lil Nas X’s ...

Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" and Blanco Brown's "The Git Up" pulse with history and humor. This is FRESH AIR. Rock critic Ken Tucker has a review of two country music hits with a hip-hop ...

Prior to hitting No. 1, the song gained traction when Billboard made the controversial choice to exclude "Old Town Road" from the country charts, even after Nashville legend Billy Ray Cyrus ...

For the sixth week in a row, "Old Town Road" sits atop the Billboard Top 100. It is obviously the Song of the Spring, an honor that I, an Internet writer, am legally allowed to bestow. But you'd ...

At the moment, “Old Town Road” holds sole ownership over third place, as it just passed a handful of songs that had reached 14 weeks. It’s worth noting that “Old Town Road” could face a ...

Behind the unlikely success of “Old Town Road”—the current hit song that combines hip-hop and country styles—is a 40-year-old executive whose savvy in building audiences on streaming-music ...