Tyler Hubbard scores his first chief as a solo act on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart as “5 Foot 9” ascends to No. 1 on the survey dated Nov. 19. The track elevated by 5% to 31.5 million viewers impressions within the Nov. 7-13 monitoring week, in response to Luminate.
Hubbard is half of duo Florida Georgia Line, with Brian Kelley, who can be working solo after pausing their joint profession. The twosome has achieved 16 Nation Airplay No. 1s, amongst 19 prime 10s. With “5 Foot 9,” Hubbard makes historical past as the primary artist to have topped the chart each with a duo/group and as a soloist, relationship to the record’s January 1990 inception.
“To have my solo single go No. 1 is de facto particular and I’m grateful to nation radio, the followers and everybody who has supported me and made this attainable,” Hubbard tells Billboard.
FGL’s run began in 2012 with its launch smash “Cruise,” which led Nation Airplay for 3 weeks beginning that December. (On the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Scorching Nation Songs chart, “Cruise,” helped by a pop remix with Nelly, dominated for twenty-four weeks in 2012-13 and is tied for the fourth-longest reign within the chart’s historical past.) The tandem most just lately dominated Nation Airplay as featured on Chase Rice’s “Drinkin’ Beer. Talkin’ God. Amen.” for per week in August 2021. Earlier than that, the duo’s “Lengthy Reside” led for per week that April.
“5 Foot 9” is Hubbard’s second Nation Airplay entry aside from Kelley. “Undivided,” with Tim McGraw, reached No. 16 in Might 2021.
Hubbard is the second artist to succeed in the Nation Airplay summit after constructing a chart résumé as a part of a hitmaking nation duo. Wynonna Judd rattled off three straight preliminary leaders as a solo act in 1992: “She Is His Solely Want,” “I Noticed the Mild” and “No One Else on Earth.” She and her mom Naomi Judd, as The Judds, rang up 14 No. 1s on Scorching Nation Songs in 1984-89 (which was then based totally on radio airplay).
Additionally of word, Darius Rucker blasted out of the gate as a solo nation act with three consecutive Nation Airplay leaders in 2008-09 (not counting vacation tracks): “Don’t Suppose I Don’t Suppose About It,” “It Gained’t Be Like This for Lengthy” and “Alright.” Hootie & The Blowfish, with Rucker as frontman, achieved six prime 10s, together with three prime 10s, on the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Scorching 100 – and topped a number of pop, grownup and rock airplay charts – in 1994-96. The rock-based band has logged one Nation Airplay entry: “Maintain On” (No. 30, October 2019).
Hubbard co-penned “5 Foot 9” with Jaren Johnston (of The Cadillac Three) and Chase McGill, and co-produced it with Jordan Schmidt.
Hubbard will launch his self-titled debut solo album Jan. 27. The Georgia-raised singer-songwriter co-wrote every of the LP’s 18 tracks. He launched the six-song EP Dancin’ within the Nation, which arrived at No. 12 on the Prime Nation Albums chart dated Sept. 3. On the Nov. 19-dated survey, it ranks at No. 41 with 5,000 equal album models earned within the Nov. 4-10 monitoring week.
‘Down Dwelling’ Is Up
Jimmie Allen notches his fourth Nation Airplay prime 10 as “Down Dwelling” climbs 11-10 (17.3 million, up 3%).
Allen co-wrote the track with Rian Ball, Cameron Bedell and Tate Howell. It’s the lead single from Allen’s full-length Tulip Drive, launched in June.
“Down Dwelling” follows Allen’s team-up with Brad Paisley, “Freedom Was a Freeway,” which topped Nation Airplay for per week in February, granting Allen his third chief (and Paisley his twentieth). Allen’s first entry, “Finest Shot,” began a three-week rule in November 2018 and “Make Me Need To” led for per week in March 2020. Moreover, Allen’s duet with Noah Cyrus, “This Is Us,” reached No. 48 in October 2020.
