Locations

## ***Locations***Single by BJAYE

"**Locations**" (stylized in all lowercase) is the lead single and title track from BJAYE's fourth studio album of the same name. It was released on May 24, 2030, through Republic Records.

## Background

On November 4, 2029, BJAYE was on an Instagram Live, and talked about working on the first song for his next album and said the first song recorded was the lead single for the album. He also played a snippet of the song.

On April 17, 2030, BJAYE posted a slow-motion video of him walking with background vocals to the song with the word caption "locations" and launched a countdown on his website counting down to May 23, 2020 at 9pm PST.

BJAYE revealed the single's official cover art on May 21, 2030. On the same day, he posted a 15 second snippet of the finished song on his social media.

"Locations" is a mid-tempo song blending pop over trap beats, plucked guitar, saxophone, keyboard and violin. Its lyrics see BJAYE extend romantic and sexual feelings to his new love interest. The song was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who embraced its easy and mellow sound.

He explained that the song is about “where you can see your relationship going in future".

## Commercial performance

Commercially, the song debuted atop of the US *Billboard* Hot 100, being BJAYE's ninth chart-topping single and extending his record for the second most number-one debuts by a black artist (7). With this song debuting at number 1, he became the first black male artist to have all his lead singles debut at number one with 4. This makes his seventh number one song to debut on the chart & his sixth solo. The song has spent 6 consecutive weeks at number one. The song debuted at the top slot on the Streaming Songs chart with 75.3 million U.S. streams and debuted at number one on the Digital Songs chart with 134,000 digital downloads sold in its first week. "Locations" debuted at the summit of *Billboard*'s Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, becoming his fifth song to simultaneously debut atop both *Billboard* Global charts. "Locations" stayed stable at number one in its second week, with over 35.6 million on-demand streams, allowing it to spend a second week atop the Streaming Songs chart. The track was also the Hot 100's top Airplay gainer of the week, with over 45.5 million audience impressions (up 50% from the previous week). "Locations" spent a total of 22 weeks within the top 10 of the *Billboard* Hot 100.

Locations was the #1 song on *Billboard's* Pop Songs Radio Airplay Chart for seven consecutive weeks in a row. It was certified gold in the UK.

In the United Kingdom, Locations debuted atop of the charts with 80,000 units and 15.6m streams, it stayed stable at number one for 3 consecutive weeks.

## Live performance

On August 25, 2030, BJAYE performed the first live performance of "Locations" at the 2030 MTV Video Music Awards.

## Music video

The song's official music video, was released along with the song on May 24, 2030. It features cameos from Ariana Grande, as well as Mason, Kyler, and Jacob Davis.

## Trivia

* The song was nominated at the 73rd Annual Grammy Awards for "Best Pop Solo Performance".
* "Locations" was included in the set list for the The Locations Tour.
* "Locations" has more than one billion streams on Spotify.