Oscar winner and R&B/hip-hop cornerstone Will Smith jumps 4 spots to No. 1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart (dated Dec. 21) with “You Can Make It” that includes Fridayy and Sunday Carrier. The tune marks each and every act’s first chief at the record.
Right through the Dec. 6-12 monitoring week, the collab, which Smith co-wrote, larger via 24% in performs, in line with Luminate.
“I’m so venerated to have the No. 1 gospel report within the nation for the primary time ever in my occupation,” Smith tells Billboard. “‘You Can Make It’ is one of these deeply non-public tune for me, so I’m thankful that it hooked up with radio and my fanatics such a lot. Thanks to gospel radio for the popularity. I’m excited to convey extra song to my fanatics in 2025!”
Smith, who starred on this 12 months’s hit movie Dangerous Boys: Journey or Die along Martin Lawrence, regulations Gospel Airplay along with his first access at the chart. He has scored a couple of No. 1s as a soloist at the Billboard Sizzling 100: “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” in 1998, and “Wild Wild West” that includes Dru Hill and Kool Mo Dee in 1999. He broke via within the past due Nineteen Eighties/early ‘90s as (the latter) part of duo D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Contemporary Prince, who reached a No. 4 Sizzling 100 top with “Summertime” in 1991, and because the lead on NBC’s The Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air.
Whilst Smith leads a Billboard radio rating for the primary time since 1999, when “Wild Wild West” dominated Rap Airplay for 8 weeks that June-July, he spent a lot of the years since that specialize in his movie occupation, starring in and generating a couple of hit motion pictures. In 2022, he received the most efficient actor Oscar for his function in King Richard.
In July, “You Can Make It” arrived at its No. 3 perfect at the multimetric Sizzling Gospel Songs chart, the place it turned into each Smith and Fridayy’s first access.
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