(pictured), "Old Town Road" charted at number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 for a record-setting nineteen weeks. In the United States, the original version of "Old Town Road" reached number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 in the week ending April 13, 2019; In the following week, it and the newly released remix featuring Billy Ray Cyrus received a combined 143 million streams, surpassing
Drake's "
In My Feelings", which in the previous year had amassed 116.2 million in the same period, as the song with the highest single-week streaming figure in the country. This song also became Cyrus's biggest hit in the U.S. since "
Achy Breaky Heart" peaked at number four on the
Billboard Hot 100 27 years prior. "Old Town Road" continued to exceed 100 million streams in each of the eight following weeks, and in June 2019, was responsible for the three highest weekly U.S. streaming totals in the history of digital music, as well as nine of the eleven highest overall. The single had sold 1.6 million digital copies in the United States by February 2020. "Old Town Road" topped the Hot 100 for 19 consecutive weeks from April 13 to August 17, 2019. On August 24, it was finally unseated by
Billie Eilish's "
Bad Guy" which had waited in the runner-up spot for nine nonconsecutive weeks. "Old Town Road" holds the record for the most consecutive weeks at number one on the Hot 100 chart, surpassing the previous record of 16 weeks achieved by both "
One Sweet Day" by
Mariah Carey and
Boyz II Men (1995–96), and "
Despacito" by
Luis Fonsi and
Daddy Yankee featuring
Justin Bieber (2017). Its record has since been tied by "
A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by
Shaboozey, which achieved 19 consecutive weeks on the chart dated November 25, 2024, while Carey's "
All I Want for Christmas Is You" broke its record for longest-running number one song in December 2025, achieving 20 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the chart dated December 20, 2025 ("Christmas" has since achieved 22 non-consecutive weeks at number one as of the chart dated January 3, 2026). In July 2019, "Old Town Road" also became the first number-one single on the
Rolling Stone Top 100 chart when it held the position in the chart's inaugural edition. In accordance with their methodologies,
Billboard and
Rolling Stone each assign a single position to "Old Town Road" on their respective charts by combining the performance figures of every released version of the song determined to be sufficiently similar to the original. The former publication credits the entirety of the song's chart run solely to the remix featuring Cyrus. France and Norway (eight weeks each), Austria (six weeks); Switzerland (five weeks), Denmark, Germany and Ireland (four weeks each), Portugal (three weeks), and the United Kingdom (two weeks) — and charted within the top ten in more than five others. The remix featuring Cyrus achieved a record 19-weeks run at number one on the
Canadian Hot 100, and peaked within the top five in more than five other markets. "Old Town Road" achieved a rare feat in
Billboard history when it simultaneously charted on the
Billboard Hot 100,
Hot Country Songs and
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts in March 2019. However,
Billboard quietly removed "Old Town Road" from its Hot Country chart for "not [embracing] enough elements of today's country music". Lil Nas X said he was "extremely disappointed" by the decision. In an interview,
Time reporter Andrew R. Chow brought up
Billboards decision to remove "Old Town Road" from the country chart but to keep it on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart, asking Lil Nas X if he considered "Old Town Road" a country song. Lil Nas X replied, "The song is country trap. It's not one, it's not the other. It's both. It should be on both [charts]." where it ultimately won. The exclusion of "Old Town Road" brought criticism of the evaluation of the work of non-white artists in the country genre, with the
Rolling Stone writer Elias Leight referring to
Beyoncé, another black artist, whose song "
Daddy Lessons" failed to be considered a country song by
The Recording Academy in 2016. In light of the criticism,
Billboard later stated that the decision to remove "Old Town Road" from the Hot Country Songs chart had nothing to do with Lil Nas X's race. In response,
Sony Music Nashville CEO Randy Goodman told
Billboard that his team had started testing the song in some country radio markets, adding "it would be negligent not to look at it". ==Music video==