Megan Thee Stallion Takes ‘Thin Ice’ to No. 68 on the Hot 100

Megan Thee Stallion just took a freestyle all the way to the Billboard Hot 100. “Thin Ice,” from her Tina Tuesday series, debuts at No. 68 on the chart dated November 7, the highest-charting new song of the week in any genre.

This was never a traditional single campaign. Megan dropped the performance on YouTube on October 20, just her in an empty industrial space, direct to camera with no guest artist, then moved it to streaming. The momentum was real: daily U.S. on-demand streams jumped 152 percent in late October, from 98,000 to 247,000 a day.

The chart numbers put it in bigger company. This is Megan’s 45th Hot 100 entry of her career and her first unaccompanied entry on the chart this year. Among female rappers, only Nicki Minaj and Cardi B have more Hot 100 entries all time.

Produced by Buddah Bless and built around a sample of Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff,” “Thin Ice” keeps the focus squarely on her voice. A weekly freestyle was not supposed to chart like this. This one did.

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