Harlow’s ‘Lovin’ On Me’ returns to No.1 on charts

DETROIT — Now that the holiday music takeover has ended, Jack Harlow’s “Lovin’ On Me” — which borrows from Detroit R&B singer Cadillac Dale’s 1995 song “Whatever (Bass Solique)” — returns to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.

The song rises eight spots to No. 1 on the chart released Monday. The song previously hit No. 1 in November, before ceding the top spot to Christmas divas Brenda Lee (three weeks for her “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”) and Mariah Carey (two weeks for “All I Want for Christmas Is You”).

“Lovin’ on Me,” which was produced by hitmaker Oz along with Nik D and Sean Momberger, resurrects the chorus to Cadillac Dale’s “Whatever (Bass Solique),” which finds Dale singing, “I don’t like no whips and chains and you can’t tie me down/ but you can whip your lovin’ on me, baby.”

Dale, born Delbert Greer, is now a 56-year-old living in Windsor, who says the request to sample his song came out of nowhere.

“This fell in my lap, man,” Dale told The News in November. “I was laying in bed with my wife pillow talking when the actual message came through and this all began.”

Harlow performed the song during his halftime performance at the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving game, and Dale and Harlow met for the first time that day on the sidelines at Ford Field. “He was very, very genuine,” Dale said of Harlow, the 25-year-old Kentucky native. If Harlow performs the song at next month’s Grammy ceremony, Dale says it’s his dream to introduce the performance.

Throughout the holiday season, Harlow’s track — which has been streamed 241 million times on Spotify — was Billboard’s highest-charting non-holiday single. Last week, the song shared real estate in the Top 10 with Christmas staples by Bobby Helms, Wham!, Burl Ives, Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Jose Feliciano and the Ronettes, in addition to Lee and Carey.