Obama Debuts on Billboard R&B Chart

He's the former leader of the free world, and now a chart-climbing R&B hit-maker. Former President Obama gets a credit on "One Last Time (44 Remix)," a gospel-inspired remix of a song from Hamilton, which debuts at the No. 22 spot on Billboard's Hot R&B Songs chart with 307,000 on-demand US streams and 9,000 downloads in the week ending Dec. 27. Released by Lin-Manuel Miranda on Dec. 22, the song featuring original Hamilton cast member Christopher Jackson, gospel musician BeBe Winans, and Obama—who begins George Washington's farewell address around the 1:40 mark—is part of a series of "Hamildrops" benefiting multiple nonprofits, per the Hollywood Reporter. (Obama also helped Miranda with a rap.)