{"id":3801,"date":"2023-06-26T17:54:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2023-06-26T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:56:25","slug":"morgan-wallen-luke-combs-make-for-country-hits-at-nos-1-2-on-hot-100-for-first-time-in-42-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3801","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen &amp; Luke Combs Make for Country Hits at Nos. 1 &amp; 2 on Hot 100 for First Time in 42\u00a0Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wallen&#8217;s &#8220;Last Night&#8221; leads for a 12th week, while Combs&#8217; &#8220;Fast Car&#8221; pulls into the runner-up spot.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\/\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLast Night\u201d logs a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/hot-100-songs-longest-leading-no-1s\/\">12th week<\/a>&nbsp;at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/luke-combs\/\">Luke Combs<\/a>\u2019 cover of Tracy Chapman\u2019s \u201cFast Car\u201d rides to No. 2, up from No. 3, on the Hot 100. Thanks to \u201cLast Night\u201d and \u201cFast Car,\u201d country hits infuse the chart\u2019s top two positions simultaneously for the first time in over 42 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/rema\/\">Rema<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/selena-gomez\/\">Selena Gomez<\/a>\u2019s \u201cCalm Down,\u201d at No. 3 on the Hot 100, hits No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\/\">Radio Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, marking each artist\u2019s first leader on the all-format airplay list and dethroning Miley Cyrus\u2019 \u201cFlowers\u201d after 18 weeks on top, a run tied for the second-longest in the chart\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated July 1, 2023) will update on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (June 27). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Morgan Wallen - Last Night (One Record At A Time Sessions)\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/bUjPPBxbQrQ?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wallen\u2019s \u201cLast Night,\u201d released on Big Loud\/Mercury\/Republic Records, drew 72.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 4%) and 29.8 million streams (up 1%) and sold 7,000 downloads (down 3%) in the June 16-22 tracking week, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/morgan-wallen-last-night-hot-100-number-one-1235285151\/\">first led<\/a>&nbsp;the Hot 100 in March, becoming Wallen\u2019s initial leader on the ranking, posts a 14th week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart; rises 3-2 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\/\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>, following a week on top; and holds at its No. 4 high on Radio Songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, \u201cLast Night\u201d tops&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-songs\/\">Hot Country Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, which employs the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a milestone 20th week \u2013 surpassing \u201cYou Proof\u201d (May-December 2022) for Wallen\u2019s longest rule among his seven Hot Country Songs No. 1s. \u201cLast Night\u201d is now one of only seven titles to have led Hot Country Songs for 20 or more weeks since the chart became an all-encompassing genre reflection in 1958; Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line\u2019s \u201cMeant To Be\u201d spent a record 50 frames at No. 1 in 2017-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast Night\u201d concurrently leads Country Airplay for an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/luke-combs-two-songs-country-airplay-chart-top-10\/\">eighth week<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 tying for the chart\u2019s second-longest command ever, below \u201cYou Proof\u201d (10 weeks) \u2013 and bullets at its No. 8 high on both Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay, having become Wallen\u2019s ninth No. 1 on Country Airplay and his first top 10 on the two pop lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, \u201cLast Night\u201d posts a fourth week atop\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/summer-songs\">Songs of the Summer chart<\/a>, having ranked at No. 1 each week since the survey\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/songs-of-the-summer-chart-returns-2023-morgan-wallen-1235346631\/\">returned<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast Night\u201d is from Wallen\u2019s album&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>, which adds a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/morgan-wallen-one-thing-at-a-time-14-weeks-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235361020\/\">14th week at No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;on the Billboard 200. The album and song have, respectively, led the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously for 10 weeks \u2013 making the set just the fourth ever to have topped the Billboard 200 for at least that long while one or more of its songs have ruled the Hot 100. It\u2019s the first LP to achieve the feat in over 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Weeks for Albums &amp; Their Songs Topping the Billboard 200 &amp; Hot 100 Simultaneously:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>13: Soundtrack,&nbsp;<em>Saturday Night Fever<\/em>; \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive\u201d (4; Bee Gees), \u201cNight Fever\u201d (8; Bee Gees), \u201cIf I Can\u2019t Have You\u201d (1; Yvonne Elliman), 1978<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12: Whitney Houston,&nbsp;<em>The Bodyguard<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack; \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d 1992-93<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10: Morgan Wallen,&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>; \u201cLast Night,\u201d 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10: Michael Jackson,&nbsp;<em>Thriller<\/em>; \u201cBillie Jean\u201d (7), \u201cBeat It\u201d (3), 1983<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fast Car\" width=\"1165\" height=\"874\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/aXmmyuIqZyo?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke Combs\u2019 version of Tracy Chapman\u2019s \u201cFast Car\u201d (which hit No. 6 on the Hot 100 in August 1988) ascends to a new No. 2 Hot 100 high, from No. 3, with 51.3 million in radio reach (up 21%), 21.2 million streams (up 4%) and 10,000 sold (down 3%) \u2013 as it rises 2-1 on Digital Song Sales, marking Combs\u2019 third leader on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Wallen\u2019s \u201cLast Night\u201d at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and Combs\u2019 \u201cFast Car\u201d at No. 2, country hits (as defined by titles that have reached&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart, where they also currently place at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively) rank in the Hot 100\u2019s top two simultaneously for the first time in over 42 years \u2013 since the chart dated March 7, 1981, when Eddie Rabbitt\u2019s \u201cI Love a Rainy Night\u201d and Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201c9 to 5\u201d placed at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively. (The latter two songs also teamed up in the top two on the charts dated Feb. 21 and 28, 1981.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pair of country songs appearing in the Hot 100\u2019s top five for the first time in nearly a quarter-century continues the genre\u2019s surge this year; as analyzed by Hit Songs Deconstructed, country tied pop as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/state-of-hot-100-top-10-q1-2023-hit-songs-deconstrcuted\/\">most prominent primary genres<\/a>\u00a0in the chart\u2019s top 10 in Q1 2023, marking country\u2019s best such showing in over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also notably, with \u201cLast Night\u201d at No. 1 and \u201cFast Car\u201d No. 2 on Streaming Songs, this week marks the first in which the two most-streamed songs in the U.S. are country titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, \u201cLast Night\u201d and \u201cFast Car\u201d rank at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on Country Airplay \u2013 as the Hot 100 and Country Airplay boast the same top two for the first time (dating to the Country Airplay chart\u2019s inception in 1990; the Hot 100 began in 1958). \u201cFast Car\u201d also bullets in the top 25 of Adult Contemporary, Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Chapman, who solely wrote \u201cFast Car,\u201d achieves a new highest Hot 100 rank as a songwriter: \u201cGive Me One Reason,\u201d which she also penned solo, and which became her other top 10 as a recording artist, hit No. 3 in June 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rema, Selena Gomez - Calm Down (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/WcIcVapfqXw?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rema and Selena Gomez\u2019s \u201cCalm Down\u201d rebounds to its No. 3 Hot 100 high, from No. 4. It concurrently climbs to No. 1 on Radio Songs (87.3 million, up 1%), marking each artist\u2019s first leader on the airplay survey; it\u2019s Rema\u2019s first entry and Gomez\u2019s first No. 1 among nine top 10s. \u201cCalm Down\u201d unseats Miley Cyrus\u2019 \u201cFlowers\u201d after 18 weeks atop Radio Songs, a dominance tied for the second-longest in the chart\u2019s archives (which date to 1990). The Weeknd\u2019s \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d notched a record 26 weeks at No. 1 in 2020, while \u201cFlowers\u201d equaled the 18-week reign of Goo Goo Dolls\u2019 \u201cIris\u201d in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rema released the original version of \u201cCalm Down\u201d in February 2022 as a single from his debut solo LP,&nbsp;<em>Rave &amp; Roses<\/em>. Its remix with Gomez&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/rema-selena-gomez-calm-down-listen-1235131194\/\">arrived last August<\/a>, and that version\u2019s official video&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/selena-gomez-rema-calm-down-remix-music-video-1235135586\/\">premiered in September<\/a>. The song concurrently tops the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-u-s-afrobeats-songs\/\">Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 43rd week, extending the longest reign since the ranking&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/afrobeats-songs-chart-first-anniversary-calm-down-tems-burna-boy-1235295679\/\">began<\/a>&nbsp;over a year ago (in partnership with music festival and global brand&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/afro-nation\/\">Afro Nation<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyrus\u2019 \u201cFlowers\u201d dips 2-4 on the Hot 100, after eight weeks at No. 1 beginning upon its debut in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Durk\u2019s \u201cAll My Life,\u201d featuring J. Cole, keeps at No. 5 on the Hot 100, after it launched at its No. 2 best. It tops the multi-metric\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\/\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\/\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>\u00a0charts for a fifth week each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toosii\u2019s \u201cFavorite Song\u201d holds at No. 6 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 5; Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cKarma,\u201d featuring Ice Spice, rises 9-7, three weeks after it vaulted to its No. 2 high following the release of its remix with Ice Spice; and SZA\u2019s \u201cKill Bill\u201d slips 7-8, after it became her first No. 1, for a week in April, as it tallies a 27th week atop the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\/\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and 21 Savage\u2019s \u201cCreepin\u2019 \u201d drops 8-9, after reaching No. 3, and Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma\u2019s \u201cElla Baila Sola\u201d repeats at No. 10 after reaching No. 4 \u2013 the best rank ever for a regional Mexican song \u2013 as it logs a 12th week at No. 1 on the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/latin-songs\/\">Hot Latin Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated July 1), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (June 27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3801\" data-postid=\"3801\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3801 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wallen&#8217;s &#8220;Last Night&#8221; leads for a 12th week, while Combs&#8217; &#8220;Fast Car&#8221; pulls into the runner-up spot. Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cLast Night\u201d logs a&nbsp;12th week&nbsp;at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart. Plus,\u00a0Luke Combs\u2019 cover of Tracy Chapman\u2019s \u201cFast Car\u201d rides to No. 2, up from No. 3, on the Hot 100. 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