Morgan Wallen Notches Record Fifth Country Airplay No. 1 in a Single Year With ‘Lies Lies Lies’

Morgan Wallen earns his 15th No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Lies Lies Lies” ascends a spot to the top of the tally dated Nov. 23. During the Nov. 8-14 tracking week, it drew 30.3 million audience impressions, according to Luminate.

The song was written by Jessie Jo Dillon, Josh Miller, Daniel Ross and Chris Tompkins, and produced by Joey Moi. It’s the lead single from an upcoming Wallen album.

Notably, Wallen rounds up his fifth Country Airplay chart-topper of 2024 – marking the first time that an act has amassed five No. 1s in a single year dating to the list’s January 1990 launch. “Lies Lies Lies” follows “Cowgirls” (featuring Ernest), which led for a week in in July; Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” (featuring Wallen; four weeks, June-July); “Man Made a Bar” (featuring Eric Church; one week, April); and Thomas Rhett’s “Mamaw’s House” (featuring Wallen; one week, March).

Luke Combs (2021) and Garth Brooks (1991 and 1993) each collected four new Country Airplay No. 1s in single years, while Wallen ranked at the summit with four songs in 2023, including “You Proof,” which first led in 2022. (Brooks remains the only act to notch as many as four new No. 1s all as a lead artist in a single year, in both 1991 and 1993).

McGraw Ties for Most Top 10s

Tim McGraw claims his own slice of Country Airplay history, scoring his record-tying 61st top 10 as “One Bad Habit” bounds 11-5 (24 million, up 40%).

Marc Beeson, Aaron Eshuis and Tony Lane wrote the song, which McGraw produced with Byron Gallimore.

McGraw matches Kenny Chesney and George Strait for the most Country Airplay top 10s. Alan Jackson is next with 51, followed by Keith Urban (44), Toby Keith (42) and Brooks & Dunn (41).

Plus, with “One Bad Habit” climbing to No. 5, McGraw pads his lead for the most top five Country Airplay hits: 55. Strait is second with 53 and Chesney has 50.

McGraw last reached the Country Airplay top tier with “Standing Room Only,” which hit No. 2 last November. He earned his first top 10 with the No. 8-peaking “Indian Outlaw” in April 1994. Follow-up “Don’t Take the Girl” became his first of 29 No. 1s when it dominated for its first of two frames the next month. He most recently led with two hits in 2016: his own “Humble and Kind” (one week, that June) and as featured on Florida Georgia Line’s “May We All” (two weeks, December).

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