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2019"Old Town Road" sets chart longevity recordLil Nas X single becomes longest-running number oneLil Nas X's genre-blending single "Old Town Road", featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, surpassed the previous record for longest-running number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It eventually spent 19 weeks atop the chart. The song's viral rise via TikTok made it a landmark case study in social-media-driven music success.
2019El Paso and Dayton mass shootingsTwo shootings kill 32 people within 13 hoursA gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in an attack targeting Hispanic shoppers, followed less than a day later by a shooting that killed 9 people in Dayton, Ohio. The back-to-back attacks intensified national debate over gun control and domestic extremism in the United States. The El Paso attack was investigated as domestic terrorism.