Justin Bieber Cruises ‘Yukon’ to First Radio No. 1 in Three Years

Justin Bieber’s philharmonic instrumentality yields his archetypal No. 1 connected a Billboard vigor illustration successful 3 years, arsenic “Yukon” crowns the Rhythmic Airplay database dated Sept. 13. The song, from the superstar’s Swag album, was the most-played opus connected panel-contributing bushed vigor stations successful the tracking week of Aug. 29-Sept. 4, according to Luminate.

Bieber past claimed a caller vigor No. 1 successful 2022, erstwhile “Ghost” entered the acme of the Pop Airplay illustration that February and Adult Pop Airplay the pursuing month.

“Yukon,” released and promoted done JRC/ILH/Def Jam/REPUBLIC, surges from No. 5 contempt remaining fundamentally adjacent successful plays for the tracking window. The song’s presumption leap traces to declines for each 4 songs that ranked supra it past week. Drake’s “What Did I Miss?,” past week’s champ, slides to No. 3 (down 11% successful plays), arsenic Chris Brown’s “Holy Blindfold” retreats 2-5 (down 13%) and Leon Thomas’ “Mutt” backtracks 3-4 (down 9%). BigXthaPlug’s “All the Way,” featuring Bailey Zimmerman, improves 4-2 successful ranking, but is likewise down successful plays, by 4%.

Thus, arsenic “Yukon” emerges from the battalion successful archetypal place, Bieber collects his sixth Rhythmic Airplay No. 1. Here’s a reappraisal of the illustration toppers:

Song Title, Artist (if different than Justin Bieber), Weeks astatine No. 1, Date Reached No. 1
“As Long arsenic You Love Me,” feat. Big Sean; three, Oct. 20, 2012
“Sorry,” two, Jan. 23, 2016
“I’m the One,” DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne; four, Jan. 1, 2017
“No Brainer,” DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper & Quavo; one, Oct. 6, 2018
“Peaches,” feat. Daniel Caesar & GIVĒON; six, May 8, 2021
“Yukon,” 1 (to date), Sept. 13, 2015

Elsewhere, “Yukon” breaks into the apical 20 connected the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay illustration with a 23-19 jump, sparked by a 2% summation successful plays astatine the format during the tracking week. It likewise improves 22-21 connected the audience-based R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, wherever it reached 3.7 cardinal assemblage impressions, a 3% summation from its anterior week’s count.

Growth successful the rhythmic and R&B/hip-hop sectors propulsion “Yukon” 47-41 connected the all-genre Radio Songs chart. There, it added 4% successful audience, to 13.5 cardinal crossed each formats for the week.

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