What Khalid Songs Made Him Massively Successful? | Billboard Explains
Khalid’s newest album, ‘Sincere,’ dropped and we’re rewinding time and taking you back to where it all started. What hits did Khalid release that made him so wildly successful? Keep watching to find out!
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00:00I feel like this is the one full of music that I've been harboring over the past half decade
00:05just for the perfect moment and I feel like no moment is more perfect than that.
00:10Khalid just dropped his new album Sincere and to celebrate we're looking back at some of his
00:14impressive chart achievements. This is Billboard Explains Khalid's massive chart success.
00:25Khalid made his Billboard chart debut in 2016 with Location.
00:30It spent 5 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart and became his first Billboard Hot 100 hit,
00:36peaking at No. 16. His follow-up single Young, Dumb & Broke was also a hit,
00:41topping the Hot R&B Songs chart for 11 weeks and getting up to No. 18 on the Hot 100.
00:47Both songs appeared on his debut album American Teen, which ruled the top R&B
00:51albums chart for 18 weeks and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200.
00:56Soon after Khalid racked up his first three Hot 100 top 10 hits thanks to a series of collabs.
01:02He teamed up with Logic and Alicia Cara on 1-800-273-8255, which reached No. 1 in 2017.
01:10The next year his duet with Normani, Love Lies, got to No. 9 and in 2019 he joined
01:16forces with Benny Blanco and Halsey on East Side, another No. 9 hit.
01:21The same year Khalid added two more top 10s with his single Better,
01:29which peaked at No. 8 and Talk, racing to the No. 3 spot.
01:33Those two songs were off of Khalid's sophomore album Free Spirit,
01:37which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
01:40In total he has racked up 32 Hot 100 hits in his career, with 5 making it to the top 10.
01:46Khalid also made Billboard history becoming
01:48the first artist to hold the entire top 5 simultaneously on the Hot R&B Songs chart.
01:54Earlier this year he picked up two more top 10s on the Hot R&B Songs chart
01:58with his tracks Please Don't Fall In Love With Me and Adore You.
02:02He has also proven to be a force in multiple genres and has had different
02:06singles make the R&B, Pop, Rap, Latin, Dance and Rock genre charts.
02:12With the release of his new album, we can't wait to see how he continues to heat up the charts.
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