Troye Sivan is the third Australian to top a Billboard chart this week
It’s another day, another Australian bagging a chart crown in the United States.
Troye Sivan’s ‘You’ collaboration with Regard, featuring Tate McRae, rockets 4-1 on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, dated May 15.
And it does so in record time.
‘You’ climbs to the summit in just three weeks, an equal-best pace in the chart’s 17-year history.
The club tune is unmoved at its No. 4 peak on the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, scoring top Airplay Gainer honors for a second week.
It’s getting a lot of love on radio and online, as it climbs 32-30 on the Pop Airplay list, and notches 3.7 million U.S. streams and 1,200 download sales over the seven-day span.
‘You’ is “one of those songs that as soon as you hear it, you just vibe with it and catch yourself bumping your head to it,” Steve Pereira, Music Choice senior programmer, dance/EDM & Latin, tells Billboard. “The production is fun with a side of retro and I feel like everyone can relate to the lyrics in some ways.”
The two-time ARIA Award winner has had strong U.S. chart form since he embarked on a pop career in 2014. To date, Sivan’s landed four sets in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart, including his debut 2015 Blue Neighbourhood (No. 7) and its follow-up from 2018, Bloom (No. 4).
‘You’ dropped April 1 and is Sivan’s first release this year, his first with Regard and McRae, and it’s the follow-up to his 2020 EP In a Dream.
Sivan, who relocated from Los Angeles to Melbourne during the pandemic, and recently gave Architectural Digest a guided tour of his Victorian-era pad, is the third Aussie to nail a U.S. No. 1 this week.
He follows Masked Wolf, whose viral hit ‘Astronaut In the Ocean’ rules the Digital Song Sales survey for the first time, lifting 2-1 (on 12,500 sales), and The Kid LAROI whose ‘Without You’ improves 3-1 on both the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, the Kid’s first titles on each of those tallies.
As previously reported, ‘Astronaut In the Ocean’ (No. 7) and ‘Without You’ (No. 8) are both flying high on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming (audio and video), radio airplay and sales data.
This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.