There's a way to target the testing in a way that focuses on P1 and not the day trippers. The catch is will P1 stick with this song for the two or three months it will take to get it to #1? Aldean was quickly replaced in the Hot 100 by Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs. That tells me that this was a quick burn song and may not have the passion to go beyond Top 10. It's a very dark song, in terms of imagery and tone. Not the kind of summer song that gets people on the dance floor. Luke Bryan has them beat there.
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Any CHR's play "Try That In A Small Town"?
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There's a way to target the testing in a way that focuses on P1 and not the day trippers. The catch is will P1 stick with this song for the two or three months it will take to get it to #1? Aldean was quickly replaced in the Hot 100 by Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs. That tells me that this was a quick burn song and may not have the passion to go beyond Top 10. It's a very dark song, in terms of imagery and tone. Not the kind of summer song that gets people on the dance floor. Luke Bryan has them beat there.
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Summer is fading away. By the time "Try That in a Small Town" enters the top five, it will likely be early October and the slower songs will be in the ascendancy. Look at what's being sent to radio now and you'll find a bunch of tunes that are targeting colder-weather airplay. The new Carly Pearce tune was sent a couple of weeks ago and hasn't even cracked the top 40 yet. Watch it accelerate as soon as the kids are back in school.
Again, the stories refer to the Hot 100, which largely represents those numerous non-country Looky Lous I described in my previous post. Maybe the song will fade, as you predict, but all I know is what I see in the airplay chart and hear on the country stations I listen to regularly here.
You have to subscribe to Billboard newsletters to read this, but they address the difference between the charts here:
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How a 2012 Chart Change May Have Influenced Country’s 2023 Hot 100 Trifecta
How a big change to the Hot Country Songs chart in 2012 may have influenced country music's Hot 100 trifecta.
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Yeah, I've always been a chart purist. Genre charts should be airplay only.You have to subscribe to Billboard newsletters to read this, but they address the difference between the charts here:
How a 2012 Chart Change May Have Influenced Country’s 2023 Hot 100 Trifecta
How a big change to the Hot Country Songs chart in 2012 may have influenced country music's Hot 100 trifecta.
Mediabase charts are airplay only. Billboard has both.
Today's Mediabase country chart update has "Try That in a Small Town" with a bullet number of 382, higher than any song in the top 50 other than Luke Combs' "Love You Anyway" and Bailey Zimmerman's "Religiously," although that number has slipped 104 points since yesterday, so maybe the cool-off has begun. It did gain 48 spins in the last 24 hours, putting it midpack among the songs gaining airplay. Parmalee's "Girl in Mine" was up 98 and "Religiously" was up 81, but other chart climbers barely moved the meter. Morgan Wallen's "Everything I Love" added only 1 spin, Lainey Wilson's 'Watermelon Moonshine" just 13. Maybe you can clarify these numbers, and their significance, further. You'll find them at the bottom of this page.
That looks like the building chart, which is the week to date. The airplay chart isn't going to show the kind of big movement you see in a daily all-genre streaming chart. Things move slower because other songs are growing at the same time.
Looking at the daily numbers, I predict a two spot increase when the next weekly chart comes out, from 17 to 15. That follows a five step jump last week. So yes, it has cooled down, as has the controversy.
Why does anyone think the Aldean track should become a hit on CHR? It's rubbish and not exactly the kind of song that most CHR listeners would relate to...
It doesn't hit me as a modern CHR super track, but neither does "Fast Car" by Luke Combs. As for the song, itself, I think it's really good.
Because as stated in the OP, it went to #1 in the Billboard Hot100. That's usually an indication of a hit.
But as you stated, this #1 ranking is driven by You Tube views and other sources (not Radio airplay). There's no upside for any CHR stations deciding to play the song. I doubt the audience on those stations are clamoring for it...
Totally agree. Besides the message, the whole feel of the song is wrong for today's CHR. Those crunchy guitar chords would be as out of place on a CHR station as a mandolin solo would be.
All I did was answer your question.
Can someone tell me how Morgan Wallen is getting played at CHR? All I know about him is that he was caught using a racial slur and was briefly banned by country stations. I guess they all rescinded the ban which I guess is not surprising. But how in the world is the CHR audience able to tolerate his apparent racism? I’m not trying to start anything here, I am just really perplexed and trying to understand. How did he get from racial slur to CHR spins?
YouTube, or Spotify, is your friend. Listen to "You Proof" or "Last Night," his two crossover hits. He's not singing about white pride or vigilantism. He's singing about relationships and drinking, hardly controversial topics in pop or country music, to a trap beat with country undertones. In "You Proof," Wallen is drinking to erase a memory; in "Last Night," it's more complex and he's wondering if the relationship is over or not after both of them "let the liquor talk" last night.
You're assuming that pop fans -- at least the white ones -- were aware of, and outraged by, his use of the N-word while drunk. My guess is that most of them don't care and just like a new (to them) artist making a different kind of pop music. As for Black fans, who knows? Again, he's not going off against Black people in his music.
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