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Even before “Something in the Orange” propelled genre-fluid singer-songwriter Zach Bryan into wider public awareness, he has been a consistent force on multiple Billboard charts.
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With his latest album, The Great American Bar Scene, just released, Billboard dives into Bryan’s journey on the Billboard charts. Bryan was born in Okinawa, Japan, but was raised in Oklahoma. He began writing songs in his teens, and enlisted in the U.S. Navy at age 17; he made music in his spare time while serving in the Navy, and finished serving at age 25. He started in music by uploading videos to YouTube in 2017.
Bryan’s first appearance on a Billboard chart was in 2020, when his second album, Elisabeth, landed on the Heatseekers Albums chart, while the set’s “Heading South” became his first entry on Billboard‘s Hot Rock and Alternative Songs chart, peaking at No. 27.
In May 2022, the success of Bryan’s songs “From Austin” and “Highway Boys” aided him in earning the No. 1 spot on Billboard‘s Emerging Artists chart. Another of his potent songs, “Something in the Orange,” became his first Billboard Hot 100 hit, peaking at No. 10 with 66 weeks on the chart. Since then, he’s amassed 42 Hot 100 entries, including a trio of top 10 hits on the chart, while his Kacey Musgraves collaboration “I Remember Everything” became both artists’ first Hot 100 chart-topper.
Bryan’s latest single, “Pink Skies,” peaked at No. 6 on the Hot 100, while he’s earned 21 top 10 hits on the Hot Rock and Alternative Songs chart to date, including his collaboration with The War and Treaty, “Hey Driver,” and “Sarah’s Place” featuring Noah Kahan.
Bryan’s genre-fluid style has earned him hits in multiple genre charts, including a dozen top 10 hits on the Hot Country Songs chart, including “East Side of Sorrow” and “28.”
He’s released a string of albums and EPs over the past few years, and made his Billboard 200 debut in June 2022 with his album American Heartbreak. In 2023, his self-titled album debuted at No. 1. In July 2024, he released The Great American Bar Scene, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and took the top spot on the Top Country Albums chart, the Top Rock and Alternative Albums chart and the Folk/Americana Albums chart.
Given Bryan’s prolific nature thus far, it seems likely that he will soon add to these Billboard stats with more music.
Watch the Billboard Explains video about Zach Bryan above.
The 2024 Paris Olympics are officially in full swing, and the French capital has been taken over by athletes, artists, fans and celebrities. BTS’ Jin was tapped to be South Korea’s official representative in the ceremonial torch relay. He led a 200-meter portion of the run that went by the Louvre Museum, before handing the […]
Soulja Boy responds to Drake‘s supposed “sneak diss” on his new song “Super Soak” with Lil Yachty.
The Atlanta rapper took Drake mentioning Soulja’s label Stacks on Deck (SODMG) as a response to him waking up and tweeting about how he disappointed he is in Drizzy the other day. “You disappointed me,” he wrote at the time. “Doing all them weak a– songs with them n—az look where It got u none of them n—az you collab with or took on tour had yo back.”
Then about a week later, Kai Cenat played “Super Soak” with Lil Yachty and Drake on his stream, where the Toronto rapper, said, “I’m watchin’ the moves, playin’ it close/ S.O.D., super soak.”
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Obviously, Big Draco felt the need to respond.
He hopped on Instagram Live and had a message for the OVO boss. “And Drake, you up here talkin’ about some S.O.D. super soak,” he said as he walk around his house. “Boy, stop playin’ wit’ me, boy. That better be a f—king shout out, n—a. If you in any way try to sneak diss me or play with me in any type of way, bruh, I’m tellin’ you, my n—a, Imma get on your a– … How the f—k you let Kendrick Lamar cook yo’ a– and then the first thing you respond is you tryna come at me.”
He later added: “Drake, you better keep that s—t light, my boy. This your first and only warning.” Soulja also suggested “this not gon’ be the best idea for you, family,” and then told Drake to “speak on how you feel” so they can “get to it.”
Billboard has reached out to Drake’s rep for comment.
It’s also relevant to point out, Soulja also has a song named “Super Soak” that he dropped in 2007.
It’s an exciting week in music, with some of the top music artists from every genre dropping some hot new tracks, albums, collaborations and more. Ice Spice unveiled her long-awaited debut album, Y2K!. The 10-song set features previously released singles “Phat Butt,” “Think U the S— (Fart)” and “Gimmie a Light.” “Think U the S— […]
If New York City ever needs to replace the Statue of Liberty, Ice Spice is here to take the torch. The 24-year-old celebrates her Big Apple roots with the “Oh Shhh…” video featuring Travis Scott, which arrived on Friday (July 26). Directed by George Buford, Ice Spice starts off the visual in a glass case […]
After days of rumors that Lady Gaga would be performing at the 2024 Olympics, the pop superstar was the first artist to take the stage in Paris during the Opening Ceremony Friday (July 26).
The show-stopping display opened on a gold staircase with a slew of dancers clad in black, holding fluffy pink pom poms that concealed the headliner’s face. After teasing her presence by doing a saucy dance with only her legs visible, the poms cleared from her face to show that Gaga, indeed, had arrived.
The Grammy winner continued to belt out the French-language “Mon Truc en Plume” (“My Thing With Feathers”) in a minutes-long, highly choreographed routine, at one point playing piano. In honor of the Games’ host country this year, the star opted for a vintage, Parisian cabaret-style performance, hamming up her movements with every opportunity.
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Gaga’s appearance came partway through the procession of the Olympic athletes on the Seine, with each country’s team arriving to the ceremony on boats waving patriotic flags. Elsewhere in the ceremony, the Olympic cauldron will be symbolically lit following a months-long torch relay, in which Snoop Dogg, BTS’ Jin and Pharrell Williams participated.
The A Star Is Born actress was previously rumored to be performing a duet of “La Vie en Rose” with Celine Dion, who is also reportedly set to take the stage on the Seine Friday. In the days leading up to her performance, Gaga was spotted greeting fans in Paris outside of her hotel.
Her trip to France comes in the midst of the singer teasing that her upcoming seventh album is in the works. She recently shared photos from the studio and wrote, “Happy as ever making music … feel so grateful, heart is peaceful. It’s like meditation. I can’t wait for you to hear what I’m working on.”
The singer is also closing in on the release of Joker: Folie à Deux, in which she stars as Harley Quinn opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role. A teaser trailer for the dark movie musical dropped earlier this year, promising an Oct. 4 theatrical release date.
Shaboozey scores his first No. 1 in his first appearance on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” ascends to the top of the tally dated Aug. 3. It increased by 14% to 31.4 million audience impressions July 19-25, according to Luminate. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts […]
Ahead of Ice Spice’s Y2K! debut arrival, The Bronx princess joined Kai Cenat for a livestream in NYC from the back of a U-Haul truck on Thursday night (July 25). Cenat traded the penthouse for a large vehicle, but still got the job done. Ice Spice and her producer RIOTUSA joined the stream for about […]
The Foo Fighters came to play on a picture-perfect Thursday night (July 25) in Cincinnati on the latest date of their Everything or Nothing At All summer stadium tour. After rocking warm-ups from Wolfgang Van Halen’s WVH and Akron, OH-native Chrissie Hynde’s Pretenders, the veteran band charged onto the stage at Great American Ball Park and got right to work with the one-two punch of “All My Life” and “No Son of Mine,” with the latter meandering through digressions into Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” and Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”
The hit-packed set touched on all the classics that fans — lead singer/guitarist Dave Grohl kept shouting out the group’s “OG” day ones throughout the night — were there for, including “The Pretender,” “Breakout,” and “My Hero,” in addition to an extended band introduction bit that included various members flashing their style on covers of songs by the Beastie Boys, Ramones and Nine Inch Nails.
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But the moment that likely swelled the hearts of the crossover areas in the rock and roll/baseball Venn diagram was when lead guitarist Chris Shiflett came out for the encore wearing a red “Cincinnati Invented Hustle” t-shirt that he’d picked up that day to show his support for the city’s disgraced hit king.
The choice was even more apt considering that HBO dropped its new four-part documentary series about baseball’s all-time hits leader this week, Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose, which touches on Rose’s illustrious career, as well as the betting scandal that resulted in the former Cincinnati Reds player and manager’s lifetime ban from the game and the Baseball Hall of Fame; Rose’s nickname as a player was Charlie Hustle in reference to his tenacious style of play.
Shiflett made sure the fans who filled the Reds’ home stadium got a glimpse at his homage to their beloved, tarnished local legend, swinging his guitar to the side a few times during the emotional, roiling encore tribute to Grohl’s late educator mother, Virginia, “The Teacher” to make sure they got the wink-wink reference; check out fan footage of the song, and the shirt, here. The show also featured the band’s nightly tribute to late drummer Taylor Hawkins, “Aurora,” with Grohl noting that it was Taylor’s favorite Foo Fighters song.
The Rose shout-out was just one of a handful of nods to the band’s ties to the Buckeye state during the raucous show that ran for nearly three hours and found the band veering from near speed metal tempos to a touching solo acoustic segment in which Grohl strummed an acoustic guitar for a hushed “Under You.” Earlier in the show, Grohl noted that he’d grown up in Warren, OH before moving to Virginia, and also referenced the fact that bassist Nate Mendel’s wife is from the Queen City. “He married a Cincinnati girl,” Grohl said. “Fellas, if you want to find a good girl, you come to Cincinnati.”
Kesha definitely isn’t a fan of Sen. JD Vance, much less his recently resurfaced comments about the country being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies.”
On her way inside LAX Thursday (July 25), a photographer asked the 37-year-old pop star for her thoughts on former president Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate — and she didn’t mince words. “Booooo! F–k that man,” she said, according to the video obtained by TMZ. “That’s all I have to say. F–k them all.”
Vance has been under fire this week thanks to an interview he gave Tucker Carlson in 2021, during which he said the U.S. is being run by “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
“It’s just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” the Ohio politician added at the time. “And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
As for whether the Democratic party is actually full of child-free cat parents, Kesha quipped, “It is, b—h! And this is what it looks like, honey.”
The “Joyride” artist also agreed that Vance’s assessment is sexist before endorsing Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign on her way into the airport. “Absolutely!” she said when asked whether she was supporting the sitting VP. “We ride.”
Kesha isn’t the only public figure who’s spoken out against the senator’s comments, which have been thrust back into public discourse after Trump appointed Vance his VP pick earlier this month. Jennifer Aniston recently criticized the rhetoric on Instagram Stories, writing, “Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day … I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.”
Pete Buttigieg, one of the Democrats Vance name-checked in his comments on Carlson’s show, fired back on CNN this week. “The really sad thing is he said that after [my husband] Chasten and I had been through a fairly heartbreaking setback in our adoption journey,” said the secretary of transportation, who is now Dad to two adopted kids. “He couldn’t have known that, but maybe that’s why you shouldn’t be talking about other people’s children.”
Vance, however, doubled down on his point in an interview with Megyn Kelly Friday (July 26). “The simple point that I made is that having children … I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way,” he said. “It’s not a criticism of people who don’t have children. This is about criticizing the Democratic party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.”
