"Hot Girl Summer" is a song by American rapper Megan Thee Stallion featuring Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj and American rapper Ty Dolla Sign. It was written by all three artists, as well as Isaac Bynum, Jatavia Johnson (from City Girls), Miles "Lil Yachty" McCollum, Michael "Crazy Mike" Foster, Derrick Carrington, Jordan "Juicy J" Houston and Georges Olivier, with production by Bone Collection, Juicy J and Crazy Mike.[1] "Hot Girl Summer" was released on August 9, 2019 by 300 Entertainment.[2] Commercially, the song debuted and peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Megan's highest peaking song at the time on the chart.[3] On Billboard'sRhythmic Songs, it also became Megan Thee Stallion's first number one, Minaj's eighth (surpassing Mariah Carey for the third-most No. 1s on this chart among female artists since the chart's 1992 inception) and Ty Dolla Sign's third.[4]
Background
In July 2019, the term "hot girl summer" went viral on social media and subsequently became a meme prior to the release of the song.[5] The title originally stems from a line on "Cash Shit" where the rapper calls herself "thee hot girl".[6] The phrase also appeared on the artwork for her 2019 mixtape Fever.[7] Megan first teased the song in a tweet on July 18, stating "I feel like it’s only right I drop a hot girl summer song before the summer is over."[8] On July 28, 2019, Megan posted a snippet of the song to her Instagram.[9] She also revealed the release date to be August 2 but it was later postponed to August 9.[2] On August 5, 2019, it was announced that the song would feature Nicki Minaj which turned out to be the cause for the delay.[10][11] Minaj revealed that the collaboration almost did not happen due to her almost losing her voice.[12] The song samples "Act Up" by the City Girls.[13]
Megan performed the song for the first time at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, where it won an award for Best Power Anthem, in a medley with "Cash Shit".[15]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
^"ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select SINGLES DIGITAL - TOP 100 and insert 201933 into search. Retrieved August 31, 2019.