For the first time since 2014, OneRepublic has a song on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart.
“I Ain’t Worried,” the Ryan Tedder-led band’s contribution to the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack, debuts at No. 43 on the survey dated July 9.
In the June 24-30 tracking week, “Worried” earned 7.8 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate, an 8% boost over the previous frame.
The band’s only previous appearance on Streaming Songs, which began in 2013, came with “Counting Stars.” The song, a No. 2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, debuted at No. 49 on the Sept. 21, 2013, survey and rose as high as No. 6 three different weeks (Dec. 21-28, 2013, and Feb. 1, 2014) before spending its final week on the tally to date on Oct. 18, 2014.
Though rare, OneRepublic’s seven-year break from Streaming Songs isn’t unheard of. For example, earlier this year, Alicia Keys returned to the chart on “City of Gods,” on which she’s co-billed with Fivio Foreign and Kanye West, when the song debuted at No. 18 (Feb. 26). It was the first time she’d reached the list since the run of “Girl on Fire,” which peaked at No. 14 (March 23-30, 2013) and last appeared on June 29, 2013 – an eight-year gap. This year, Becky G also returned to Streaming Songs with “Mamii,” alongside Karol G, when it debuted at No. 5 Feb. 26; it was her first time on the survey since the No. 8-peaking “Shower,” which enjoyed its last week on the ranking on Nov. 29, 2014. (It can be noted that both of the aforementioned acts returned to the chart with the help of co-lead artists; OneRepublic’s feat, doing so solo, is even rarer.)
Concurrently, “Worried” jumps 78-62 on the multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, a new peak. It’s the band’s highest-ranking song since “Wherever I Go” peaked at No. 55 in July 2016.
The song also leaps 21-18 on Digital Song Sales, garnering 3,300 downloads, up 4%. Its weekly download count has remained fairly consistent since release, debuting on Digital Song Sales June 11 with 3,500 purchases and peaking thus far with 3,600 in a single week (June 18) while going no lower than 2,900 (June 25).
Though the song has not yet made a radio chart (with a previous single, “West Coast,” concurrently bulleting at No. 21 on Adult Pop Airplay), “Worried” has begun to find early footing, bubbling under the Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay charts.
The Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack, on which “Worried” is featured, debuted at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 dated June 11 and currently ranks at No. 53. Since release, it has earned 96,000 equivalent album units.
