Barack Obama Lands On Hot R&B Chart With 'Hamilton' Collab

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Is there anything this man can't do?!

Barack Obama is seriously living his best former President life, which apparently includes becoming a chart-topping R&B artist. The 44th President of the United States conquered a new and frankly surprising feat this weak by earning the No. 22 spot on Billboard's Hot R&B chart for his Hamilton remix of "One Last Time" (a.k.a. the "44 Remix"). The track, which also features Christopher Jackson and Bebe Winans, dropped ahead of the holiday season last month and had already garnered 307,000 on-demand U.S. streams and 9,000 downloads sold in the week ending December 27, according to Nielsen Music.

Obama has Lin-Manuel Miranda to thank for the chart-topping hit as the three-time Tony Award winner is said to have been the one to recruit the former President for the song. Sadly though, 44 didn't lend his singing voice to the track (don't we all love a good Obama singing moment), but instead granted listeners with his smooth reading voice as he read some of George Washington's final words as president.

The release of the remixed "One Last Time" was the final "Hamildrop" — which was Hamilton content released each month in 2018 that aimed to raise money for several different nonprofits — of the year. 

While the song marks the first time Obama landed and stuck on a Billboard chart, he has been there before. The Hollywood Reporter writes that he "previously appeared on two now-defunct Billboard charts" for the DVD of his inauguration, A Moment in History: The Inauguration of Barack Obama, which hit No. 6 on the TV DVD Sales tally in March 2009, and his collab with JX Cannon on the song "Pop Off," which reached No. 10 on Billboard + Twitter Emerging Artists in December 2015.

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