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Teddy Swims’ ‘Lose Control’ or Benson Boone’s ‘Beautiful Things’: Which Big-Voiced Breakout Hit Will Be Bigger in 2024?
This week’s Five Burning Questions looks at two explosive singles that are burning up the Hot 100 this week.
1s from male country singers (Morgan Wallen’s 16-week chart-topper “Last Night,” plus Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” Oliver Anthony Music’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” and Zac Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves), not to mention Luke Combs’ No. Teddy Swims and Benson Boone’s respective approaches have little in common, but their hits capitalize on a moment in which genre matters less than ever in the upper reaches of the Hot 100, so that “Lose Control” and “Beautiful Things” can intermingle with rap by 21 Savage, R&B by SZA, pop by Tate McRae and Afropop by Tyla in the top 20. With rap’s cultural dominance and chart supremacy slipping since the turn of the decade, pop being reinvented in the mold of Taylor Swift and SZA, and the Zach Bryans and Jelly Rolls of the world pointing the way to country’s future, this is just kinda where we are — and I’d expect a whole lot more Benson Boones and Teddy Swimses to emerge as the new stars of 2024 before all is said and done.
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