amaican dancehall star Sean Paul has returned to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as a featured artiste on Sia’s ‘Cheap Thrills’.
The song unseated Drake’s One Dance, which led the chart for 10 weeks. It’s Sean Paul’s fourth number one while Australian singer Sia is making her debut at the top of the chart.
Cheap Thrills represents Sean Paul’s first number one song in 10 years – the longest break between chart toppers by an artiste since Dr Dre hit number one as a featured artiste on Crack a Bottle in 2009, 12 years after the rapper was at the top of the charts as a fearured artiste on Blackstreet’s No Diggity.
Sean Paul’s previous chart toppers were: Get Busy (2003); Beyonce’s Baby Boy (2003), on which he featured; and Temperature (2006).