Different week at Billboard, same result: Brown, Rexha/FGL lead charts
The top five on the songs chart remain the same with Thomas Rhett second with "Marry Me," Jason Aldean third with "You Make It Easy," Brown fourth with "Heaven" and Chris Stapleton fifth with "Broken Halos."
Brett Young's "Mercy" was at 23, up 8. Scotty McCreery debuted at 34 with "This Is It." Chris Young jumped 10 to 35 with "Hangin' On." Maren Morris debuted at 49 with "Rich" and Kacey Musgraves 50th with "Butterflies."
On the albums chart, Stapleton was second with "Traveller." Luke Bryan held fifth with "What Makes You Country." Rhett was fourth with "Life Changes" and Luke Combs fifth with "This One's For You."
Alan Jackson jumped 10 to 9 with "Precious Memories Collection." Blake Shelton stood at 13 with "Texoma Shore," up 5. Bryan was up 4 to 18 with "Crash My Party." Kelsea Ballerini was at 29 with "Unapologetically," up 3. Bryan's "Kill the Lights" moved up 6 to 30.
George Strait was at 33 with "Icon 2: George Strait." Brett Eldredge's self-titled disc was at 36, up 5. Garth Brooks' "The Ultimate Hits" was up 5 to 39. Taylor Swift was 40th with "Fearless," up 7. Morgan Wallen's self-titled EP was at 45 in its first week.
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers held first with "The Long-Awaited Album." Alison Krauss was second with "Windy City." Bradley Walker's "Blessed: Hymns And Song of Faith" was third, one ahead of "Accomplice One" from Tommy Emmanuel CGP. The Wailin' Jennys rounded out the top five with "Fifteen."
On the Americana/Folk Albums chart, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats debuted in first with "Tearing At the Seams." Stapleton was second, third and fourth with "Traveller," "From a Room: Volume 1" and "From a Room: Volume 2." Joan Baez was second with "Whistle Down the Wind."
On the Billboard Top 200, Brown was 27th, "Traveller" 38th, Bryan 39th, Rhett 44th and Combs 53rd.
More news for Kane Brown
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- 10/10/24: Brown announces new album, tour
- 09/19/24: Jelly Roll, Brown host NYE bash
- 06/20/24: Brown becomes a father, again
- 03/01/24: Leon, Brown go for "The One (Pero No Como Yo)"
- 11/15/23: Brown/Presley "Blue Christmas" video released
- 09/22/23: Brown "Can Feel It"
- 09/21/23: Brown plans to be "In the Air"
CD reviews for Kane Brown
It's easy to be skeptical about Kane Brown's country music credibility, as he often times releases music that has more in common with R&B than anything honky tonk-ready. Those who watched Brown perform "Grand" on the MTV VMAs this year, might not even know there's a country music bone in his body. That cut is far more in The Weeknd stylistic spectrum than the rest of the album, though. In contrast, "I Love You Like I Love Country Music," which is getting ...
There's not a lot of room for argument to say that men singing country music today are different than the stars on the old Porter Wagoner show. Many have ditched the cowboy hat. They're hip-hop fans, video game junkies and spent most of their teenage money on tattoos. Kane Brown checks all these boxes and more. He's biracial, for example, subverting a country culture that seemed a little too exclusive for this century. And he built his following via the internet, not in clubs (a ...
First look at the cover for Kane Brown's full-length debut album, and you may experience a "Homeboy" moment. The young man appears like the tattooed model for Eric Church's song of the same name. Although Brown is categorized as bro-country in some quarters, the actual music he makes is much better than you might expect. This is one case where you shouldn't judge the book by its cover.
Although the album includes a lustful song like "Pull It Off," which is a ...
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