Seven years after releasing her first batch of songs on streaming services, Chappell Roan is now officially a Billboard Hot 100 artist.
The pop singer-songwriter earns her first entry on the Hot 100 on April 20 with “Good Luck, Babe!” The song, released April 5 via KRA International/Amusement/Island/Republic, opens at No. 77 with 6.6 million official streams, 67,000 in radio audience and 1,000 downloads sold in the U.S. through April 11, according to the Luminate. Chappell co-wrote the song with Justin Tranter and Dan Nigro, who also produced it. He performed it live for the first time on Friday (April 12) during his Coachella set.
Chappell Roan (real name Kayleigh Amstutz; the stage name is a tribute to her late grandfather, Dennis Chappell, and the song “The Strawberry Roan”), of Willard, Mo., who first arrived Advertising signchart in October 2023 with her debut full-length, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. The set debuted at No. 3 on the Heatseekers Albums. It debuted at No. 127 on the Billboard 200 on April 6 and rises to a new high of No. 66 on the latest chart.
Chappell Roan was originally signed to Atlantic Records in 2015 and released a five-track EP. School nightsbefore leaving the label in 2020. She then teamed up with songwriter-producer Nigro – the top hitmaker who has worked with Olivia Rodrigo, Conan Gray and Caroline Polachek – on her songs 'Pink Pony Club' and 'Naked in Manhattan.”
“My music [at that time] it reflected the feelings of my first time in a gay club, my first time falling in love with a woman, my first time feeling homesick,” he said. Advertising sign last year. “I had to go through all these experiences, this pain and suffering, to be reborn to where I am now.”
Chappell Roan maintained a cult following before her arrival on the Hot 100. Her music draws from '80s disco and early 2000s pop hits. On tour, she invites local drag queens to open for her and donates a part from ticket sales to For the Gworls, an organization that raises money to help black transgender people.
“Especially as a queer person who has the privilege of making money from the queer community to support myself, it's important to redistribute the funds,” she said. Advertising sign.
Chappell Roan is currently on her Midwest Princess tour. Later this month, he will join Rodrigo on the European leg of the latter's Guts World tour. Along with the second weekend of Coachella, he is also scheduled to appear at Boston Calling, Governors Ball and Bonnaroo.
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