Lil Durk nabs his first lead-role No. 1 on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart as his track “All My Life,” featuring J. Cole, rules the list dated July 1. The single seizes the top spot — after just six weeks — with a 21% burst in plays that made it the most-played song on U.S. monitored rhythmic radio stations in the week ending June 22, according to Luminate. In addition to the chart crown, “All My Life” also wins the weekly Greatest Gainer honor for the largest increase in plays among the chart’s 40 titles.
While “All My Life” secures Lil Durk’s maiden Rhythmic Airplay No. 1, the Chicago rapper previously visited the summit in a featured role on Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” which ruled for five weeks in October 2020. For J. Cole, “All My Life” gives the rap superstar his third Rhythmic Airplay champ, after “Work Out” led for one week in 2011, as did “Middle Child” in 2019.
“All My Life” shoots to No. 1 on Rhythmic Airplay in just six weeks on the chart and wraps the fastest climb to the top since Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” also needed six frames to its coronation in October 2022. The track joins a short-list as one of only eight songs to conquer the radio format in six weeks or less of the 74 total No. 1s since 2020:
Shortest Time to No. 1 on Rhythmic Airplay in the 2020s:
Five weeks – “Toosie Slide,” Drake, reached No. 1 on May 9, 2020
Five – “First Class,” Jack Harlow, May 21, 2022
Six – “The Box,” Roddy Ricch, Feb. 22, 2020
Six – “Up,” Cardi B, March 20, 2021
Six – “Peaches,” Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon, May 8, 2021
Six – “Way 2 Sexy,” Drake featuring Future & Young Thug, Oct. 23, 2021
Six – “Super Freaky Girl,” Nicki Minaj, Oct. 1, 2022
Six – “All My Life,” Lil Durk featuring J. Cole, July 1, 2023
Elsewhere, “All My Life” wins a second term atop Rap Airplay after it improved 16% in audience in the latest tracking week. As on Rhythmic Airplay, the big boost there yields another Greatest Gainer prize. The track also rallies 6-3 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, where it added 12% in audience to 14.4 million, and climbs 28-26 on Pop Airplay thanks to a 49% swell in plays for the week.
“All My Life” appears on Lil Durk’s Almost Healed album, released on May 26. The set led Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for two weeks, and its first-week units of 125,000 gave the rapper the best start of his career for any of his solo, non-collaborative albums.
