André 3000 has surpassed Tool for the longest Hot 100 hit of all time. As Billboard reports, his track “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” charted at #90 on the Hot 100 this week — it’s the first song on his new instrumental album New Blue Sun. It clocks in at 12 minutes and 20 seconds, longer than Tool’s “Fear Inoculum,” which is 10 minutes and 21 seconds and debuted at #93 back in 2019. André 3000’s track notched 5.8 million streams over the past week.

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    11 months ago

    I listened to the entire thing twice (I do that with all albums I don’t hate) and thought it was incredible mediocre. The comments on YouTube make me think people have never heard ambient music before with how much they’re hyping it up.

    I’m happy for Andre that he can just do whatever he wants in life but…yeah. There is nothing about the album that makes me want to relisten. He wrote most of it on the fly while recording. The best parts are the track names

    Fantano was pretty excited for it but still only gave it a 6/10