Chase Rice
Alexa King*Chase Rice earns his fourth top 10 on Billboard's airplay-, sales- and streaming-based Hot Country Songs chart, as "Drinkin' Beer. Talkin' God. Amen.," featuring Florida Georgia Line, leaps 13-8 on the July 10-dated list.
The track surged by 66% to 6.5 million U.S. streams in the week ending July 1, according to MRC Data, helped by more prominent placement on Amazon Music's Country Heat playlist beginning June 25. It also gained by 10% to 1,300 sold.
On Country Airplay, the song rises 8-7, up 11% to 21.6 million impressions in the week ending July 4.
"God," which Rice co-wrote, becomes his fourth Hot Country Songs top 10. He last reached the tier with "Eyes on You," which peaked at No. 3 in April 2019. "Eyes" became Rice's first Country Airplay No. 1, leading for two weeks the following month.
FGL, the duo of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, banks its 20th Hot Country Songs top 10, a sum that includes six leaders. Notably, Rice co-penned FGL's debut hit "Cruise," which reigned for a then-record 25 weeks in 2012-13, aided by its remix with Nelly.
Meanwhile, FGL doubles up in the Hot Country Songs top 10 with its latest Nelly team-up, "Lil Bit," which holds at its No. 3 high. It drew 11.3 million streams in the tracking week (up 9%) and ascends 2-1 on Country Streaming Songs, marking FGL's fifth leader on the chart and Nelly's first.
GARY GETS BACK Gary Allan's first studio set since 2013, Ruthless, enters Top Country Albums at No. 8 with 11,000 equivalent album units earned (9,000 in album sales) in its first tracking week.
The release, which Allan produced with Tony Brown, Greg Droman, Jay Joyce and Mark Wright, awards Allan his ninth Top Country Albums top 10, with all having arrived in the tier. His last album, Set You Free, bowed atop the tally in February 2013, becoming his third No. 1.
PERFECT 10 Luke Combs' "Forever After All" dominates Hot Country Songs for a 10th week and Country Airplay for a sixth frame.
"Forever," which arrived at the Hot Country Songs summit last November and has now added nine more weeks in a row at No. 1, drew 32.8 million in airplay audience and 10.4 million streams and sold 3,600 in the tracking week.
Combs banks his second single to top Hot Country Songs for double-digit weeks, after "Beautiful Crazy" reigned for 11 in 2019. The only other acts with multiple such No. 1s since the chart began as a multi-metric genre ranking in 1958: Florida Georgia Line (three) and Sam Hunt (two). Only 28 of 1,565 total No. 1s, or less than 2%, have dominated for 10 or more weeks each.
On Country Airplay, "Forever" is the 22nd No. 1 to rule for six or more weeks, among 866 total toppers, or just over 2%, since the chart originated in 1990. It's Combs' second, after "Beautiful Crazy" ruled for seven frames in 2019. Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw have each charted three such No. 1s, while Faith Hill, Toby Keith, Lonestar and Keith Urban have also tallied two apiece.
NEWS
Supergrass are teasing an upcoming announcement with fans, according to a new post.
The British band, fronted by Gaz Coombes, shared a cryptic new post across their social media channels this morning (September 13), suggesting to fans that a new announcement is on the way.
Posted at 9am BST, the post simply shared artwork of the band’s logo in red, alongside next Monday’s date, September 16. In the caption, the band simply wrote: “Sign up now”, alongside a link to their website’s homepage.
Upon clicking the link, the page prompts fans to sign up for future updates, and asks them to input both their email address and the country they live in. Check out the post below.
While details on the announcement remain sparse, the post has already caught fans’ attention, with some speculating that the news could be around the upcoming 30th anniversary of their debut album, ‘I Should Coco’.
Released in May 1995, the release marked the record that first put the band on the map, and contained singles ‘Mansize Rooster’, ‘Caught By The Fuzz, ‘Lose It’ and ‘Lenny’. It also saw Coombes and Co. nominated at the 1995 Mercury Prize, and contained what would soon become their biggest track to date, the Ivor-Novello winning ‘Alright’.
At time of writing, the band haven’t shared any further indication as to whether the announcement is related to the huge upcoming milestone – whether it be an anniversary tour or reissue – nor whether it has anything to do with new music that could be on the way.
The band’s last studio album was ‘Diamond Hoo Ha’, which arrived in 2008. Since then, they have shared remastered versions of both their 1999 self-titled album and their 2003 record ‘Life On Other Planets’.
In other news around the band, last year it was reported that the band’s frontman joined Johnny Marr onstage last month to perform The Smiths‘ classic ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ at Lakefest 2023.
Before then, Coombes opened up about how “nervous” he was about reuniting Supergrass following the success of his solo albums.
Supergrass split up in 2010 but reunited for a series of live shows in 2019. They released a live album in 2020, Live On Other Planets, to celebrate their 25th anniversary and raise money for grassroots venues affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Having got into a flow and the last two albums having done so well, it seemed a bit odd, like a backward step,” he said. “But then I was confident that I could operate both things together and it seems that I did, because I was obviously writing this record mainly during the reunion so I feel like I made best use of both things.”
Coombes’ fourth solo album, ‘Turn The Car Around’, came out in January of last year.
