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Brown dominates Billboard chart

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 – Kane Brown debuted in first on Billboard Top 200 chart with "Experiment." The disc, of course, also topped the Billboard Top Country Albums chart for the week ending Nov. 24. He scored a triple with "Lost Up" in first on the Hot Country Songs chart, knocking out the long-running "Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line.

On the albums chart, Luke Combs was second with "This One's For You. Dan + Shay were third with their self-titled disc. Chris Stapleton was fourth with "Traveller" and Brown fifth with his debut album.

Stapleton also was 12th with "From A Room: Volume 1." "George Strait's "50 Number Ones" went from 27 to 13. Elvis Presley's "The Classic Christmas Album" jumped from 34 to 16. Maren Morris went from 39 to 33 with "Hero." Keith Urban was at 39 with "Ripcord," up 4. Taylor Swift was at 40 with "Fearless," up 5.

On the Hot Country Songs chart, "Meant to Be" from Florida Georgia Line and Bebe Rexha was second. Combs was third with "She Got the Best of Me." Dan + Shay were fourth with "Tequila" and fifth with "Speechless."

Thomas Rhett was up 4 to 13 with "Sixteen." Luke Bryan stood at 26 with "What Makes You Country," up 3.

Brown jumped from 47 to 28th with "Homesick." Brown's "Good As You" went from 45 to 32. Keith Urban was 36th, up 8, with "Never Coming Down." Florida Georgia Line was 41st with "Talk You Out of It." Brown was 42nd with "Baby Come Back to Me."

On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Dailey & Vincent were first with "The Sounds of Christmas." The Gibson Brothers debuted in second with "Mockingbird." "Hot Rize: 40th Anniversary Bash" from Hot Rize was third. Steep Canyon Rangers were fourth with "Out in the Open" and The Devil Makes Three fifth with "Chains Are Broken."

On the Americana/Folk Albums chart, Stapleton was first "Traveller." Pistol Annies fell to second with "From A Room: Volume I." Bob Dylan was third with "More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series." Kacey Musgraves' "Golden Hour" was fourth and Hozier fifth with his self-guided debut.

On the overall top 200, Combs was 25th with "This One's For You," Dan + Shay were 48th, Stapleton 52nd, and Brown 57th.


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CD review - Different Man 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 ...
CD review - Experiment 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 ...
CD review - Kane Brown First look at the cover for Kane Brown's full-length debut album, and you may experience a "Homeboy" moment. The young man appears like the tattooed model for Eric Church's song of the same name. Although Brown is categorized as bro-country in some quarters, the actual music he makes is much better than you might expect. This is one case where you shouldn't judge the book by its cover. Although the album includes a lustful song like "Pull It Off," which is a ...


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