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Good Luck Finding“Old Town Road”Signs

There are over 1，000 No.1 singles（单曲）in the 61-year history of Billboard's Hot 100 Chart（公告牌百强单曲榜）.Some lasted long while o__1__did not.Now，the longestrunning record is no l__2__held by One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey or Despacito by Justin Bieber.Both songs held the top spot（排名位置）for 16 weeks.

The new champion is American rapper Lil Nas X's Old Town Road.As of August 16,this hot country song has ruled the chart for 19 weeks.Who knows when it will stop?

Old Town Road first became p__3__on TikTok（抖音海外版）.It focuses on America's cowboy fashion and culture.Do you know how popular this song is in the U.S.？In Wellesley，Massachusetts，people have been stealing street signs from a road.Why？Because it shares the s__4__name as the song！

According to the town's website,the signs have been s__5__at least three times in recent months.“Now the street sign posts are empty,”the city wrote.“We are waiting for the song's popularity to fade away.”But that could take a while.

The song's popularity has also created an unlikely tourist attraction in the District of Sicamous in Canada.Fans there were stopping to p__6__for photos on Old Town Road.After many of the road signs went missing,some local companies even made 100 copies of the sign.They started selling them for＄25.These copies sold out so quickly that the district might have to o__7__more.

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