‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ has been streamed some 17.5 million times in less than a week
A singer unknown to the battalion has just dethroned Taylor Swift at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which ranks the best record sales in the United States. This farmer by profession, named Oliver Anthony, owes his success to a song entitled “Rich Men North of Richmond” which he composed himself and whose lyrics castigating the elites are taken up at the top of their voices by the country’s conservatives.
In his song, the farmer denounces the harshness of the life of the working class and the most deprived in the face of the privileges of the rich and the elites of the first world power. Washington bureaucrats aspiring to “total control” of American society are directly targeted, so much so that the New York Post calls the track “a blue-collar political anthem”.
According to the Billboard site, this is the first time that an unknown songwriter who has never appeared in any charts has achieved such a feat. Released on August 11 on YouTube, at the top of a country ranking on Apple Music’s iTunes platform in two days, “Rich Men North of Richmond” has been streamed some 17.5 million times in less than a month. week. Riding on his incredible success, Oliver Anthony released a second track on Wednesday called “I want to go home”.