John Morgan Earns His First Country Airplay Top 10 With Jason Aldean Collab ‘Friends Like That’

John Morgan’s “Friends Like That,” featuring Jason Aldean, hits the top 10 of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated March 15), rising two spots to No. 10.

During the Feb. 28-March 6 tracking week, the single advanced by 6% to 16.8 million audience impressions, according to Luminate.

The 29-year-old Morgan — from Sylva, N.C. — reaches the Country Airplay top 10 with his first entry as a billed recording artist. He co-wrote it (with Brent Anderson, Will Bundy and Lydia Vaughn), and all six songs on his project Remember Us?, released in October 2023.

Morgan has co-penned four other Country Airplay hits, all recorded by Aldean. Two led for three weeks each — “If I Didn’t Love You” with Carrie Underwood in 2021, and “Trouble With a Heartbreak” in 2022 – and “That’s What Tequila Does” reached No. 5 in 2023. Fellow current single “Whiskey Drink” jumps 17-14 (12.7 million, up 12%).

Aldean adds his 39th Country Airplay top 10, and first since “Let Your Boys Be Country,” which hit No. 3 last July. He first reached the region with the No. 10-peaking “Hicktown” in 2005 and followed with his first of 25 chart-toppers, “Why,” in 2006.

Jelly Roll Ties Longest Reign

Jelly Roll’s “Liar” dominates Country Airplay for a fourth frame, up 4% to a new weekly best 32.5 million in audience. He matches his longest command, among seven consecutive No. 1s, encompassing all his entries dating to his first in 2022 — “Need a Favor” led for four weeks in 2023. “Liar” is the first song by an artist with no other billed acts to rule for at least four weeks since Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” ran up a seven-week tab at No. 1 last August-September.