Alex Warren, a former influencer who was one of many founders of the TikTok content material home referred to as the Hype Home, is one in every of music’s rising stars for the time being. Rolling Stone famous that Warren is one in every of a number of ascendant male pop stars who mainly appears like a contestant on The Voice, whereas the Switched On Pop podcast designated him as a part of a wave of worship-influenced artists peppering the charts proper now. “Burning Home,” Warren’s track about his unfavorable expertise on the Hype Home, is throughout pop radio. His energy ballad “Odd” is even larger. In actual fact, as of at present it has grow to be Warren’s first #1 hit.
As Billboard stories, “Odd,” which beforehand peaked at #2, rises from #4 to the highest of the Sizzling 100 this week. It seems to be like radio (up 15%) and observe gross sales (up 24%) had been what pushed him excessive, knocking off final week’s chart-topper “What I Am” by Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae right down to #2. “Odd” hit #1 in its sixteenth week on the chart, a comparatively prolonged climb to the summit. Billboard notes that different songs with lengthy paths to the highest this yr, Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile” and Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “luther,” each caught round at #1 for fairly some time, and “Odd” is generic radio manna, so we could also be in for lots extra weeks of this track battling it out with the Wallen/McRae track. Yeesh.
