'Old Town Road': Ken Burns isn't shocked about Billboard chart record

'Country is one of the parents of rock and roll with R&B; the porousness of it is the theme,' Ken Burn says.

Kelly LawlerLil Nas X performs onstage during day 3 of the 2019 CMA Music Festival on June 8, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Legendary documentary director Ken Burns isn't at all shocked about the chart dominance of Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus' "Old Town Road," especially after making a 16-hour documentary series about the history of country music.

This week,"Road" overtook Mariah Carey's"One Sweet Day" for most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard chart. Carey set the record in 1996, and the only song to come close to breaking it was"Despacito," which tied the 16-week record in 2017. This milestone is even more notable after the controversy caused when Billboard, at the beginning of the song's reign, chose to remove the original version from its country music chart for having too much hip-hop influence.

Ken Burns of "Country Music A Film By Ken Burns" speaks during the PBS segment of the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association Press Tour.Burns also points out that one of the legends of country music also had hip hop and rap influences.

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