In the United States , " Downtown " debuted on the '' Billboard '' Hot 100 chart dated September 12 , 2015 at number 94 . Its chart debut was fueled by sales of 11,000 digital downloads in its first two days , along with 886,000 domestic streams during the same period , nearly all from views of the song 's music video . The next week , following its first full week of availability and a performance at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards , the song jumped to number 18 with the week 's largest gain in digital download sales , having sold 95,000 copies and logged 5.7 million streams for the week . It has since peaked at number 12 . As of November 2015 , " Downtown " has sold 772,000 copies domestically . Macklemore and Ryan Lewis also performed the song live on '' The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon '' on September 9 , 2015
2015 MTV Video Music Awards
2015 MTV Video Music Awards
Downtown (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song)