Jack Harlow's "Glamorous" Pattern Boosts Fergie's Streaming Numbers

Nostalgia wins once more as Jack Harlow’s pattern of a Fergie traditional boosts the singer’s streaming numbers. For his newest single, “First Class” — which topped the Billboard Scorching 100 chart earlier this month — Harlow sampled Fergie’s 2007 smash hit “Glamorous.” Information from Luminate reveals that there is been a subsequent 70 % streaming enhance within the former Black Eyed Peas member’s Y2K pop single, as reported by Selection.

Previous to its current sampling, “Glamorous” had 3,225,900 on-demand whole streams. After Harlow’s single blew up, Fergie’s music was boosted to five,474,100 whole streams. Digital music gross sales for the pop observe elevated from 400 to 900 — a 125 % enhance.

Harlow first teased his single on TikTok, which primed the observe to develop into a trending hit on the platform. In keeping with Selection, the music acquired 54 million streams after its April 8 launch and scored Harlow his first-ever solo No. 1 hit. In an interview with Leisure Tonight, Harlow revealed that his choice to pattern Fergie’s music was impressed by his childhood reference to the singer.

“I grew up loving Fergie, like she actually impressed me,” he stated on the Youngsters’ Selection Awards. “Once I was in fifth grade, I attempted to carry out ‘Fergalicious’ on the expertise present. I’ve, like, a powerful inventive connection to Fergie. I have been wanting to try this for some time, and it simply got here collectively, and I figured it is time.” He added, “I am curious what number of youngsters know that, ‘trigger I used to be a child when this was out.”

Paying homage to the classics is all the time a wise transfer for artists, and in Harlow’s case, it looks as if a pattern paid off huge time.