Doja Cat’s ‘Vegas’ Shines At Pop Radio

“Vegas” by Doja Cat makes the greatest gain in plays among the top 10 of the Mainstream Top 40 chart — 1,261 more plays week over week, according to Luminate — as it pushes from No. 5 to No. 4. (She concurrently spends a second week at No. 1 as a featured artist on Post Malone’s “I Like You [A Happier Song].”)

Notably, “Vegas,” from the Elvis movie soundtrack, samples Big Mama Thornton’s 1952 classic “Hound Dog,” which Elvis Presley famously covered and subsequently sent to No. 1 on multiple Billboard charts in 1956. One location especially welcoming of “Vegas” is Presley’s home state of Mississippi. Says Matt Mony, program director of WYOY Jackson, Miss., which played the song 84 times during the week of Sept. 26-Oct. 2: “The ‘Hound Dog’ sample really gives us something that stands out. With so many people here visiting Tupelo [where Presley was born], we truly got a hit that felt like it belonged to Mississippi.”—GARY