Lawd, Have Mercy! Time positive does fly. A yr in the past at the moment, Chloe Bailey, shook up the web when she dropped her long-awaited solo single, ‘Have Mercy’ on September 10, 2021. As a outcome to the web hype, the music debuted at quantity 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 13 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In January 2022 it was licensed gold by the RIAA.
The video launched on YouTube the identical day and racked up 4.7 million views within the first 24 hours. A yr later the video sits at 78 million views.
But let’s rewind…
Where It All Started…
On July 1, 2021, Chloe Bailey dropped a TikTok on her birthday that had the web in a frenzy. It was a snippet of the music ‘Have Mercy” with the caption that learn: “this is 23… HAVE MERCY COMING SOON 🍑🙌🏽” This is at present her highest considered TikTok at 20.8 Million.
Fans took their pleasure to Twitter as they waited and anticipated the discharge date of the brand new single.
@ChloeBailey Drop “Have Mercy” earlier than I throw hen nuggets at you?!??! 👀🙄
I’m simply enjoying…I like you…But nonetheless drop it. 👀
— Shannon T. © (@_TheeShannonT) September 1, 2021
Halle Shows Her Sis Some Love
One factor about Chloe and Halle is they’re going to journey and help one another, simply as sisters do!
go watch the video to #havemercy !!!! pic.twitter.com/zuZFFDkZKr
— Halle (@HalleBailey) September 10, 2021
The ‘Have Mercy’ Performances ATE Every time
Chloe hit the MTV Video Music Awards stage to carry out her new single simply two days after its launch. She went on to carry out the music at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in Oct and American Music Awards in November.
Although, the only didn’t obtain any awards, ‘Have Mercy’ was nominated in 2022 on the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album and Outstanding Soul/R&B Song. As properly as Video of the Year on the 2022 BET Awards & Best R&B Song on the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards.
And In Case You Thought So… She Is Not Done Yet
Since the discharge of ‘Have Mercy” Chlöe continues to give us countless bops such as: ’Treat Me’ and ’Surprise’. Fans are virtually begging for an album after Chloe took to IG with 4 totally different singles for listeners to take their choose.
“is affecting us as a generation because we are constantly comparing someone else best version to themselves online to the worst version of ourselves” she continues “we are all going through sh— and we just have to be open about it so none of us feel alone at the end of the day”
Congratulations to Chlöe on this one-year milestone! #TeaMates, drop a remark and inform us a few of your fav ‘Have Mercy’ moments!
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