{"id":96495,"date":"2024-08-16T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/08\/16\/shaboozey-carrie-underwood-faith-hill-more-acts-who-topped-country-airplay-for-4-or-more-weeks-with-breakthrough-hits\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T16:07:22","slug":"shaboozey-carrie-underwood-faith-hill-more-acts-who-topped-country-airplay-for-4-or-more-weeks-with-breakthrough-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/08\/16\/shaboozey-carrie-underwood-faith-hill-more-acts-who-topped-country-airplay-for-4-or-more-weeks-with-breakthrough-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaboozey, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill & More: Acts Who Topped Country Airplay for 4 or More Weeks With Breakthrough\u00a0Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tShaboozey<\/a> dominates Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Country Airplay<\/a> chart (dated Aug. 24) for a fourth week with \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy)\u201d \u2013 gaining entrance to a select group of artists\u2019 breakout hits that have led for at least that long over the chart\u2019s 34-year history.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe song by the Virginia native (born Collins Obinna Chibueze) drew 30.5 million audience impressions at the format Aug. 9-15, according to Luminate. The single, on American Dogwood\/EMPIRE, with country radio promotion by Magnolia Music, concurrently crowns the Pop Airplay chart<\/a> for a second week.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cA Bar Song\u201d is only the ninth country career-establishing No. 1 at the format to reign for four-plus weeks \u2013 and the second among the three most recent Country Airplay leaders, after Post Malone\u2019s \u201cI Had Some Help\u201d (featuring Morgan Wallen) ruled for four beginning in June. (Before that, however, no such song had achieved the feat in over 18 years.)<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat makes \u201cA Bar Song\u201d so special, and a hit at multiple formats, from country and pop to rhythmic? Travis Daily, who in May became<\/a> Cumulus Media vp of country, after being named brand and content manager of the chain\u2019s WKDF and WSM-FM Nashville in April, tells Billboard<\/em>, \u201cI have a kid in college who sends me music almost daily, and he sent me the song one night as I was packing for my move to Nashville. My first reaction was, \u2018This is exactly what we need to stand out on WKDF when I get to town.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter listening multiple times, I began thinking that this is going to take off before I even get a chance to drive across the country [from Salt Lake City],\u201d Daily says. \u201cSome people think it\u2019s a mystery that it\u2019s doing so well, which kind of baffles me. We have a great song by a very talented artist that our audience seems to love. Passion for this song is almost unheard of.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cSome country programmers don\u2019t like when pop stations play our country hits,\u201d Daily further muses. \u201cI would argue that songs like this give me a chance to convert some audience into becoming fans of the greatest format in the world, which is obviously country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, browse the songs that have topped Country Airplay for four or more weeks by artists making their first major inroads at the format (counting acts\u2019 first entries on the chart as a lead artist or their initial songs promoted to country radio). They include memorable rookie anthems by acts that went on to become some of country\u2019s biggest names.<\/p>\n