{"id":118012,"date":"2018-09-08T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T22:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=118012"},"modified":"2018-09-08T21:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T01:11:30","slug":"machine-gun-kellys-rap-devil-diss-track-rockets-top-5-us-itunes-sales-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/09\/08\/machine-gun-kellys-rap-devil-diss-track-rockets-top-5-us-itunes-sales-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Gun Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;Rap Devil&#8221; Diss Track Reaches #1 On US iTunes Sales Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b> After generating hype (and tens of millions of streams) on YouTube, Machine Gun Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;Rap Devil&#8221; finally launched on iTunes Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>By 9PM ET, the Eminem diss track had reached #1 on the all-genre US iTunes sales chart.<br \/>\n====<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Machine Gun Kelly released an Eminem diss track entitled &#8220;Rap Devil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The song made its iTunes bow Saturday &#8212; and quickly shot into the upper reaches of the US song sales chart.  It is #4 as of press time at 6PM ET.<\/p>\n<p>MGK released &#8220;Rap Devil&#8221; (a play on &#8220;Rap God&#8221;) as a response to Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;Not Alike.&#8221;  Featured on the new album &#8220;Kamikaze,&#8221; that song finds Eminem criticizing MGK for a shot on Tech N9ne&#8217;s &#8220;No Reason.&#8221;  It also references a 2012 incident in which MGK called Eminem&#8217;s then-sixteen-year-old daughter Hailie &#8220;hot as fuck,&#8221; which prompted a beef between the two rappers.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Dragons&#8217; &#8220;Natural&#8221; currently holds the #1 position on iTunes.  Kane Brown&#8217;s &#8220;Homesick&#8221; is #2, while 5 Seconds Of Summer&#8217;s &#8220;Youngblood&#8221; is #4.  Lauren Daigle&#8217;s &#8220;You Say&#8221; directly follows &#8220;Rap Devil&#8221; at #5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eminem diss is selling well on iTunes.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[58,4053,11547],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Machine Gun Kelly&#039;s &quot;Rap Devil&quot; Diss Track Reaches #1 On US iTunes Sales Chart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: After generating hype (and tens of millions of streams) on YouTube, Machine Gun Kelly&#039;s &quot;Rap Devil&quot; finally launched on iTunes Saturday. 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