Cody Johnson achieves his first No. 1 on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart (dated March 26), with ” ‘Til You Can’t.” The song increased by 14% to 25.4 million audience impressions in the week ending March 20, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data.
The track was penned by Matt Rogers and Ben Stennis, and produced by Trent Wilmon.
“I’ve worked for over 15 years in the country music industry,” Johnson muses to Billboard. “I’ve played just about every bar, honky-tonk, nightclub and festival there is along the way, with the goal always in mind of having my brand of country music played at the level to achieve a No. 1 hit. God’s timing is perfect, and here we are.”
He continues, “The road to this point hasn’t always been easy or fun, but something worth achieving is rarely an easy task. Thanks to everyone who has had a hand in making ‘ ‘Til You Can’t’ such a special song for me and my family. It means the world to us.”
The 34-year-old Johnson, from Sebastopol, Texas, earns his first No. 1 in his sixth appearance on Country Airplay. He logged his former high with “On My Way to You” (No. 11, June 2019) – his first single after signing with Warner Music Nashville. His first chart entry, “Who I Am,” reached No. 40 in May 2017. “Can’t” follows Johnson’s collaboration with Reba McEntire, “Dear Rodeo,” which hit No. 34 in December 2020.
“Can’t” is the lead single from Johnson’s Human: The Double Album, which arrived on Top Country Albums at its No. 3 high last October, marking his fourth top 10. On the March 26-dated chart, the set pushes 10-9, up 3% to 9,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 17.
The track tops Hot Country Songs for a fourth frame, also up by 48% to 8,400 downloads sold, as it rules Country Digital Song Sales for a fourth week. (It was discounted to 69 cents in the iTunes Store March 4-17.) It additionally corralled 7.8 million U.S. streams in the tracking week.
Record-Tying Record
Morgan Wallen’s second LP, Dangerous: The Double Album, rules Top Country Albums for a record-matching 50th week. The set – which won for album of the year at the 2022 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards March 7 – earned 46,000 equivalent units (up 1%) in the week ending March 17.
Dating to the launch of Top Country Albums in January 1964, Dangerous equals the reigns of Luke Combs’ This One’s for You and Shania Twain’s Come On Over, starting in June 2017 and November 1997, respectively.
Sporting 30 songs, Dangerous blasted in at No. 1 on Top Country Albums, as well as the all-genre Billboard 200, with 265,000 units on the charts dated Jan. 23, 2021.
Meanwhile, current Dangerous single “Wasted On You” jumps 35-27 on Country Airplay (3.9 million, up 64%).
A Lot to ‘Say’
Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson’s “Never Say Never” enters the top 10 on both Hot Country Songs (11-8) and Country Airplay (12-9). The duet earned 16.2 million impressions, up 21%, among Country Airplay reporters, drew 6.1 million streams and sold 3,200 (up 57%).
Swindell adds his 11th top 10 on each list. His latest follows “Single Saturday Night,” which became his sixth Country Airplay No. 1 and rose to No. 4 on Hot Country Songs last July.
Wilson, who won for new female artist of the year prior to the ACM Awards March 7, performed her debut hit, “Things a Man Oughta Know” – which won for song of the year – at the festivities. She earns her second top 10s on each tally, after “Things” led Country Airplay and hit No. 3 on Hot Country Songs last September.
‘Home’ Run
Elle King and Miranda Lambert’s “Drunk (and I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” hits the Hot Country Songs top 10 (12-10). On Country Airplay, it bumps 4-3 (21.6 million, up 7%), while sporting 4.3 million streams and 2,300 sold.
King claims her second Hot Country Songs top 10, following her feature on Dierks Bentley’s “Different for Girls” (No. 3, 2016). Lambert adds her 17th top 10 and first since “Settling Down,” which reached No. 6 last June.
“Drunk” enters the Hot Country Songs top 10 in its 55th week on the chart, wrapping the second-longest trip to the tier, after Chris Stapleton’s “Millionaire,” which climbed to No. 10 in its 56th frame in February 2019, before peaking at No. 4.
“Drunk” has scored multi-format support. It hit new highs of No. 4 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and No. 47 on the Billboard Hot 100 (March 19), after reaching No. 12 on Adult Pop Airplay last September.
And ‘This’
Luke Combs sends his 14th consecutive career-opening proper single to the Country Airplay top 10 as “Doin’ This” lifts 13-10 (15.2 million, up 15%). All 13 previous tracks reigned, with “Cold as You” having paced the tally last November.
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