Kid Cudi’s ‘Beautiful Trip’ lasts 37 seconds but it’s broken a chart record

Kid Cudi has broken an unexpected and odd record, his track ‘Beautiful Trip’ becoming the shortest U.S. Billboard Hot 100 hit ever.

It runs just 37 seconds. Now that’s brevity. ‘Beautiful Trip’ opens up the rapper’s latest album, titled Man on the Moon III: The Chosen and, honestly, you’d have been forgiven for just thinking of it as a short warm-up for the rest of the record, a brief blast to prepare for what’s to come.

Yet the short song had enough impact on listeners to break into the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, albeit at the anchoring 100th spot. Cudi won’t be complaining though: as per Billboard, the track has broken the record for the shortest entry in the chart by song length in its 62-year archives.

The previous record was held by Piko-Taro’s ‘PPAP (Pen Pineapple Apple Pen)’ and we’re eternally sorry that we’ve brought that sonic monstrosity back into your memory. ‘Beautiful Trip’ beat that track by eight seconds, although ‘PPAP’ did reach the higher position of 77 in October 2016.

Cudi’s seventh studio album, which was released on December 11th, was highly-anticipated. It’s the final instalment in his Man on the Moon trilogy of albums following 2009’s Man on the Moon: The End of Day and 2010’s Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager. 

The concept album sees the introspective Cudi wrapped in an internal struggle with an evil alter ego, Mr. Rager, as he hopes to rediscover his happiness.

Thanks to the efforts of Paul Haney of Joel Whitburn’s Record Research, below is a list of the shortest U.S. Billboard Hot 100 tracks of all-time.

The Shortest U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Hits