Andre 3000's ambient flute album, New Blue Sun, has set a new Billboard Hot 100 record. The track, "I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time,” is now the lengthiest track to appear on the chart in its almost 70-year history.

The track debuted at No. 90 on the Hot 100, has a runtime of 12 minutes and 20 seconds. Previously, Taylor Swift's “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)" had the record when it topped the Billboard Hot 100 in November 2021 with a 10 minute and 13 second run time. New Blue Sun debuted at No. 30 on the Billboard 200 after earning just over 24,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.

Andre spoke about the album with NPR.

“I don’t want to troll people,” he said. “I don’t want people to think, ‘Oh, this André 3000 album is coming!’ And you play it and like, ‘Oh man, no verses.’ So even actually on the packaging, you’ll see it says, ‘Warning: no bars.’ It’s letting you know what it is off the top. But also, I love rap music because it was a part of my youth. So I would love to be out here with everybody rapping, because it’s almost like fun and being on the playground."

He admitted that he would love it if he had some raps to deliver to folks but it just isn't in the cards right now. “I would love to be out here playing with everybody, but it’s just not happening for me," he said. "This is the realest thing that’s coming right now. Not to say that I would never do it again, but those are not the things that are coming right now. And I have to present what’s given to me at the time. So the title, ‘I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time’ [is] because this album is about wind and breathing. In that way, it is true. It is literally blowing me this way and I’m blowing flutes and I’m blowing digital instruments.”