Travis Scott Garners his First-ever Hot 100 No. 1 Hit With 'Sicko Mode'

Cross Travis Scott's name off the list of the biggest stars without a Hot 100 No. 1 hit. This week, the ascendant hip-hop A-lister plugs one of the few remaining holes on his resume with his Astroworld single "Sicko Mode" climbing to No. 1.

It's a hard earned Hot 100-topper: "Sicko" reaches No. 1 in its 17th week on the chart, having debuted at No. 4 back in August and spending four non-consecutive weeks at No. 2. In the past week, Scott also released a new Skrillex-helmed remix version of the smash hit, and even pleaded with audiences during a recent sold-out show at New York's Madison Square Garden that they had to help get the song to pole position. (With the imminent debut of the music video for Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" -- the previous three-week-reigning No. 1 -- last Friday, Nov. 30, competition was about to get much tougher at the chart's top.)  
 
The song's journey to No. 1 has been long-winding enough that it may have overshadowed just how unlikely it remains that it was even in range in the first place. Despite Scott's recent graduation to superstar status with the blockbuster numbers posted by Astroworld, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in August with 537,000 in equivalent album units earned -- before 2018, he'd never even scraped the Hot 100's top ten as a lead artist, coming closest with the No. 16-peaking "Antidote" in 2015, and with his sole appearance in the chart's top tier coming via a guest spot on Drake's "Portland" (No. 9, 2017). But "Sicko Mode" is one of four such hits Scott has launched to the region this year alone -- also including his own No. 8-debuting "Stargazing," and feature credits on Kodak Black's "ZEZE" (No. 2) and Lil Wayne's "Let It Fly" (No. 10).