Post Malone & Morgan Wallen Need No ‘Help’ Ruling Country Airplay for Fourth Week
Written by djfrosty on July 12, 2024
Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, commands Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated July 20) for a fourth week, becoming the first song to lead that long among the 15 singles that have scored their initial weeks atop the tally in 2024.
The collaboration increased by 1% to 33 million audience impressions July 5-11, according to Luminate.
The song became Post Malone’s first Country Airplay No. 1 (and Wallen’s 13th), after he notched 10 leaders on Rhythmic Airplay and five on Pop Airplay beginning in 2016. His new album, F-1 Trillion, is due Aug. 16; second single “Pour Me a Drink,” featuring Blake Shelton, ranks at No. 34 on Country Airplay (3 million, up 37%).
Post Malone “deserves to be a superstar in country music, primarily because he is being real,” WJVC Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y., program director Phathead tells Billboard. “He’s put together a team that created one of the best songs we’ve heard, while singing it with the biggest act in the format. And he has a monster to follow with Shelton. A good boss in any business is only as good as the people around them. Great to see Post put his ego aside.”
Wallen 1, 2 for 3rd Week
For the first time in Country Airplay’s 34-year history, an act has ranked at Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously for three weeks, as Wallen’s “Cowgirls,” featuring Ernest, holds at its No. 2 high (31.6 million, up 4%). Luke Bryan locked up the top two spots for two weeks in May-June 2014, while Luke Combs landed such a double-up for a week in September 2023.
Speaking of Combs, he earns his 21st consecutive career-opening top 10 single on Country Airplay as “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” pushes 11-10 (17.5 million, up 8%). The song introduces the soundtrack to the film Twisters, with both due July 19.
Baldridge Makes History
Drew Baldridge’s “She’s Somebody’s Daughter (Reimagined)” rises 10-8 on Country Airplay (19.3 million, up 5%). After becoming only the second self-released single ever to reach the top 10, it’s now the sole highest-charting, passing Aaron Watson’s “Outta Style,” which peaked at No. 10 in 2017.