Singer Lil Nas X has reacted to his new single “J Christ” entering the charts at number 69, by joking that “we reached the funny number.”
The track is the queer artist’s first single in two years, but the chart figures seemingly didn’t deliver the “greatest comeback of all time” he promised ahead of its release.
Although “J Christ” made it into the top 100, it had a relatively low debut compared with previous hit “Old Town Road” which spent 19 weeks on top of the US Billboard Hot 100 – the longest-running number-one song since the chart began in 1958.
However, the artist has taken his latest song’s destiny in his stride and, as ever, joked about the situation on social media.
“We did it boys. We reached the funny number. Be very proud of yourselves. This is our moment”, he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.