It's the song that's going to break Combs at AC for sure, and will accompany Love You Anyway up the airplay chart at country. LYA is the stronger country hit, just as Last Night has proven to be a much faster riser than One Thing at a Time for Wallen in country airplay. Will Love You Anyway or One Thing at a Time cross over to AC as well? I don't think so, but the Wallen tune has a much better shot, unless Luke's song gets a remix that dumps all the fiddle licks, including the extended one in the bridge. But I really can't see it. Ditching the banjo in Love Story gave Taylor Swift a pop crossover hit, but that song wasn't nearly as country to begin with as Luke's current chart climber.
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What happened to rock on the charts?
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More analysis on the rise of country songs on CHR radio:
www.countryinsider.com
Country is the new rock. As we've said, the impact is even greater if you look at streaming numbers.
Is Country Having A Moment At CHR? Current Trends Suggest That's The Case.
It's been nearly four decades since country songs crossing to pop radio were a regular occurrence, but currently at CHR, country is making noise again. Three titles in the top
Country is the new rock. As we've said, the impact is even greater if you look at streaming numbers.
Well if it will replace some of this indie pop stuff I’m fine with it. I’d rather hear Rhythmic mixed with this newer country than have to sit through Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles and Niall Horan and Cinderella snapped. Personal anecdote there. 😊More analysis on the rise of country songs on CHR radio:
Is Country Having A Moment At CHR? Current Trends Suggest That's The Case.
It's been nearly four decades since country songs crossing to pop radio were a regular occurrence, but currently at CHR, country is making noise again. Three titles in the top
Country is the new rock. As we've said, the impact is even greater if you look at streaming numbers.
On "Don't Forget the Lyrics", the way the band played "Dangerous Woman" by Ariana Grande, it sure sounded like rock to me. I wouldn't have associated her with rock.
Those are not indie.
And I’m the other way. I prefer to stream WNEW/New York over listening to my local Hot AC because they play very little Country.
Different strokes for different folks
Country Insider reports that for the first time in over 20 years, there are two country songs in the Top 5 of Billboard's Hot 100:
www.countryinsider.com
Those same two songs are at the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.
Hot 100 Has Two Top 5 Country Records For First Time Since 2000.
For the first time in more than 20 years, country music has two records in the Top 5 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Luke Combs’ “Fast Car” reached No. 4
Those same two songs are at the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.
Also an interesting note on the Hot 100: “Calm Down” by Rema and Selena Gomez has pushed its way to #3. Some thoughts:
1) Of all these years and lots of hits along the way, I’m pretty sure this is Gomez’s first appearance in the top 3. Fascinating.
2) Afrobeats has had a few hits scattered throughout the top 40 over the last couple years, but none as big as this. Could this be a breakthrough moment for Afrobeats at CHR/Hot AC?
1) Of all these years and lots of hits along the way, I’m pretty sure this is Gomez’s first appearance in the top 3. Fascinating.
2) Afrobeats has had a few hits scattered throughout the top 40 over the last couple years, but none as big as this. Could this be a breakthrough moment for Afrobeats at CHR/Hot AC?
Second. Her first was Lose You To Love Me.
That is strange how long songs are in the charts these days. It was fall of last year when it arrived. Years ago, it would be recurrent by now.
I think Luke Combs is a huge talent and love his latest album, but the phenomenon that "Fast Car" has become is hard for me to fathom. Combs' version is pretty much a note-for-note copy of Chapman's, and the arrangement has few country elements. I kind of understand the AC exposure, especially if Columbia's intention was to break Combs as an AC (and possibly CHR) artist, but nothing else on the album has a prayer of working outside of country, IMO. And that "Fast Car" is doing better on country radio that the song Columbia sent there ("Love You Anyway") is nearly as puzzling -- although as you recall, Combs' fan base was nearly evenly split between that song and "Five Leaf Clover" as a radio single when polled, so maybe "Love You Anyway" was a disappointing choice for more of Combs' fans than the label may have anticipated, hurting "Love You Anyway" at country radio.Country Insider reports that for the first time in over 20 years, there are two country songs in the Top 5 of Billboard's Hot 100:
Hot 100 Has Two Top 5 Country Records For First Time Since 2000.
For the first time in more than 20 years, country music has two records in the Top 5 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Luke Combs’ “Fast Car” reached No. 4
Those same two songs are at the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.
You should look at the country charts. Songs can take a year or more to peak there!
Completely forgot about that one. Thanks for the correction!
It's interesting how some songs can now be immediate hits while others can take nearly a year to peak! These are both fairly new phenomena. Years ago, Bing Crosby was being interviewed and talked about how songs might take two years to become popular and remain so for two years. This may have been before sound recordings.
It's called popular taste. The Beatles put out several records in the US before their appearance on Ed Sullivan. Those songs got very limited airplay. They ended up re-releasing those songs afterwards, and they all went to #1.
But part of the issue was that the first releases were on indie labels and had little fanfare and promotion. Until the Beatles “exploded” US radio did not follow or care about British charts so nobody was watching what happened in England with them.
Before streaming, songs didn't immediately go to the top of the charts. When the Beatles held the top five positions in 1964, it took awhile for those songs to rise to those levels. When Taylor Swift held the top ten positions, she did it the first week! On the other end of the scale, songs didn't used to take a year to peak in popularity. I can think of no examples of this before this century and possibly this decade, without going back to Bing Crosby's vaudeville memory!
Not exactly true. It depends on what chart you're talking about. The airplay charts don't include streaming (although some formats include Sirius or Music Choice). Garth Brooks released a song called More Than a Memory in 2007 that debuted at #1 in the Hot Country Chart. That was the first song to do that. That was not because of streaming, but airplay.
The Taylor Swift songs were on the Billboard Hot 100, and it includes streaming.
That was because The Beatles were, initially, rejected by EMI's U.S. arm, Capitol Records. The Beatles, and their management, seriously wanted to break into the U.S. market. That's why they licensed recordings to Vee-Jay records (1963's "Introducing The Beatles" album, and singles on Vee-Jay and their Tollie subsidiary), and Swan Records (the single "She Loves You"). Add to that
M-G-M Records getting a hold of The Beatles 1962 recordings with Tony Sheridan, and releasing, as a single, the groups rendition of "My Bonnie". All of these became hits at about the same time Capitol released "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
And on my Top 40 in Ecuador, it was not until "We Can Work it Out" in late 1965 that we had a real hit based on listener feedback (none were produced or sold at retail in the country). We got about zero from "I Want To Hold Your Hand", some interest in "We Can Work It Out" and the start of a following with "Ticket To Ride". "Help!" moved things backwards but then "We Can Work it Out" followed by Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields and All You Need Is Love were big.
Sidebar: I remember first hearing I Am The Walrus on a Jukebox in San Remo, Italy in '67 (I believe it released in Europe before the USA)
I'd say the biggest hits by them as a group in Ecuador were Hey Jude, Something, and Come Together... all just before the breakup.
I mention this in detail because many people don't realize that big artists don't always have their big hits in the same proportion of sales and popularity in different cities and, in this, case continents and countries.
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