Doechii’s “Anxiety” rises a spot to No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart dated May 24.
The song becomes Doechii’s first leader on the list. She hit a previous No. 3 peak with her first entry, “What It Is (Block Boy),” featuring Kodak Black, in November 2023.
Notably, “Anxiety” interpolates Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” (featuring Kimbra), which ruled Pop Airplay for three weeks in 2012. It’s not the first Pop Airplay No. 1 to have reworked a prior leader; Latto’s 2023 No. 1 “Big Energy,” via a remix, samples Mariah Carey’s 1995 leader “Fantasy” (with both stemming from Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love”), while Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You,” from 2017, gives partial writing credit to three authors of TLC’s 1995 No. 1 classic “No Scrubs.”
(“Somebody That I Used to Know” itself samples Luiz Bonfá’s “Seville,” from 1967.)
Meanwhile, “Anxiety” follows the chart-topping crossover success of “Somebody That I Used to Know.” “Anxiety” led Rhythmic Airplay for two weeks earlier in May. It concurrently climbs 7-6 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, 15-14 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay and 21-16 on Adult Pop Airplay.
Gotye’s smash ruled Adult Alternative Airplay, Adult Contemporary, Adult Pop Airplay, Alternative Airplay, Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Pop Airplay and the all-format Radio Songs chart. It dominated the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks and finished 2012 as the year’s top song.
“Anxiety,” on Top Dawg/Capitol/ICLG, surged by 11% in pop radio plays May 9-15. (The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.) Leading supporters for the song among Pop Airplay reporters include KMVQ and KYLD San Francisco, WBBM Chicago and SiriusXM’s Hits 1.
On March 29, Doechii was honored with the 2025 Woman of the Year award at Billboard’s Women in Music celebration. “I cannot believe it was just two years ago I stood on this stage and accepted the Billboard Rising Star Award,” she said in her acceptance speech. “And here I am … Always go full out, always go hard and always be fab.”
All charts dated May 24 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, May 20.
