Donald Glover ends Drake’s 15-week reign at No. 1 on the Billboard chart with a viral hit single

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• Donald Glover has scored his first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the Childish Gambino song “This Is America,” Billboard reports. 
• The track unseats a 15-week reign at the top of the chart from Drake’s latest singles, “Nice For What” and “God’s Plan.”
• The politically charged, viral music video for “This Is America” accounted for 68 percent of the track’s streaming total, according to Billboard. 

Donald Glover’s musical alter ego, Childish Gambino, has scored the multi-talented performer his first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with his new hit “This Is America,” Billboard reports. 

“This Is America,” bolstered by a politically charged, viral music video that spawned an array of thinkpieces on its social commentary and violent imagery, has ended a 15-week reign from Drake’s latest singles, “Nice For What,” which spent four straight weeks at No. 1, and “God’s Plan,” which previously spent 11 weeks at the top of the chart. 

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