GLOBAL — Jackson Wang’s latest single “Drive You Home” with production powerhouse Internet Money unveil “Drive You Home”, via 88rising, distributed by 12Tone Music LLC has received major love around the world just on its first week.
Featuring production from David Stewart (BTS – “Dynamite”) and Nick Mira (Juice Wrld – “Lucid Dreams”, Lil Tecca – “Ransom”, Internet Money & Gunna ft. Don Toliver & Nav – “Lemonade”), “Drive You Home” tells a heartbreaking, emotional story of a long night told in reverse.
Listeners will notice that “Drive You Home” samples and interpolates the iconic 1984 single “Drive” from the legendary new wave band The Cars. The ’80s-inspired love song blends sentimental guitar-driven melodies with booming hip-hop percussion that features the musician’s most affecting and confident vocal performance to-date.
Since release, the record has received the following achievements:
- Over 36.9K concurrent viewers on YouTube during the official music video premiere with 28K likes.
- Official music video acquired 2.7M views within the first 12 hours of premiere and landed a peak trend at #11 across the global platform. Less than 24 hours after the video premiered “Drive You Home” official music video landed 3x more in streams than “LMLY” and 3.79x more in streams than “100 Ways.”
- Across iTunes, reached #1 in 6 markets across all genres and in the Pop genre. In addition, DHY ranked in the top 3 in 22 markets across all genres and in the Pop genre.
- On Spotify New Music Friday for the US (3.7M Followers), “Drive You Home” was the only track featured by an international Asian artist. In addition, “Drive You Home” was placed in the top 11 tracks in a total of 44 New Music Friday playlists across the globe.
- “Drive You Home” lands in a total of New Music Daily playlists in 20 different markets at Apple Music.
- At Pandora, Jackson is featured on the New In Pop playlist at #1 with cover, beating out Billie Eilish, Bruno Mars, Anderson Paak, and Clean Bandit.
- Germany becomes the #2 country to stream “Drive You Home” at Spotify due to playlist adds on New Music Friday Deutschland at #10 (683K Followers) and #22 on Topsify’s Top Hits Playlist (371K Followers).
- “Drive You Home” has been added to 449 playlists at Spotify – including official playlists and listener-curated playlists, reaching a total of 11.49M users. LMLY, since its release in March 2021, has been added to a total of 3K playlists, while only reaching 3.96M listeners.
- “Drive You Home” was Shazam’d 2.7K times on its first day of release, while LMLY and 100 Ways were Shazam’d 2K times & 1.5K times on their first days, respectively.
The song samples the iconic 1984 single “Drive” from the legendary new wave band The Cars, and is a collaboration with the chart-topping Internet Money producer collective-hip-hop’s go-to producers of the moment (Juice WRLD – “Lucid Dreams”, Lil Tecca).
ICYMI: Watch the music video below: