Rexha/Florida Georgia Line, Brown lead charts
On the songs chart, Brown stayed second with "Heaven" and Jason Aldean third with "You Make It Easy." Jordan Davis' "Singles You Up' was fourth with Thomas Rhett fifth with "Marry Me."
Kenny Chesney jumped from 37 to 11 with his new single "Get Along." Carrie Underwood debuted at 20 with "Cry Pretty." Aldean debuted at 32 with "I'll Wait for You."
Carly Pearce was at 38 with "Hide the Wine," up 3. Brothers Osborne climbed 5 to 39 with" Shoot Me Straight." Maren Morris' "Rich" was at 42, up 4. Jake Owen was at 43, debuting with "Made For You." Sir Roosevelt, which includes Zac Brown, was at 47, up 3, with "Something 'Bout You."
On the Top Country Albums chart, last week's number one, "Golden Hour" from Kacey Musgraves, fell to second. Blackberry Light debuted at three with "Find a Light." "Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin," debuted in third. Chris Stapleton's "Traveller" was fifth.
"Johnny Cash Forever Words" from various artists debuted at nine. Old Dominion was 22nd with "Happy Endings,' Up 3. Morris' "Hero" was at 28, up 3. David Lee Murphy debuted at 35 with "No Zip Code." George Strait was at 38 with "Icon 2: George Strait."
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Mipso debuted in first with "Edges Run." The Wailin' Jennys were second with "Fifteen," Alison Krauss third with "Windy City," Steve Martin And the Steep Canyon Rangers fourth with "The Long-Awaited Album" and Rhonda Vincent and the late Daryle Singletary fifth with "American Grandstand."
Musgraves topped the Americana/Folk Albums chart with Blackberry Smoke second. "Traveller" was third, "Johnny Cash: Forever Words" fourth and Stapleton's "From a Room: Volume 1" fifth.
On the overall Top 200, Brown was 27th, Musgraves 29th, Blackberry Smoke 31st, "Restoration" 36th and "Traveller" 47th. The country and Top 200 charts use different criteria.
More news
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- 01/29/25: Brown releases new version of "Says I Can" with a little help
- 01/24/25: Brown, Myers, Springsteen, McNown drop new music
- 01/17/25: Brown looks to "Gorgeous"
- 11/22/24: Browns let their bodies do the talking
- 10/10/24: Brown announces new album, tour
- 09/19/24: Jelly Roll, Brown host NYE bash
CD reviews
It's easy to be skeptical about Kane Brown's country music credibility, as he often times releases music that has more in common with R&B than anything honky tonk-ready. Those who watched Brown perform "Grand" on the MTV VMAs this year, might not even know there's a country music bone in his body. That cut is far more in The Weeknd stylistic spectrum than the rest of the album, though. In contrast, "I Love You Like I Love Country Music," which is getting ...
When Florida Georgia Line sing about how much they love their country with "I Love My Country," this lightning rod duo must certainly be aware that not everybody loves 'their' country. 'Their' country doesn't always match the country music of George Strait, after all, who is name-dropped in said song. Strait is just too stylistically straight, for instance, to ever work in the sort of hip-hop cadence that drives "Ain't Worried About It. ...
There's not a lot of room for argument to say that men singing country music today are different than the stars on the old Porter Wagoner show. Many have ditched the cowboy hat. They're hip-hop fans, video game junkies and spent most of their teenage money on tattoos. Kane Brown checks all these boxes and more. He's biracial, for example, subverting a country culture that seemed a little too exclusive for this century. And he built his following via the internet, not in clubs (a ...
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