{"id":16376,"date":"2019-07-03T07:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1808740"},"modified":"2019-07-03T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:39:35","slug":"lee-brice-seizes-top-song-spot-with-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/lee-brice-seizes-top-song-spot-with-rumor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Brice Seizes Top Song Spot With \u201cRumor\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:677651?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">34m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ObptpVRe6ek?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ObptpVRe6ek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>It was another long haul, but on this, its 43rd week on the charts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/lee-brice\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Brice<\/a>\u2019s \u201cRumor\u201d is America\u2019s most-played country song, according to <em>Billboard<\/em>. \u201cRumor\u201d is Brice\u2019s fifth No. 1 since he first entered the charts in 2007 with \u201cShe Ain\u2019t Right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brice\u2019s 2009 single, \u201cLove Like Crazy,\u201d still holds the endurance record for most weeks \u2014 56 \u2014 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> country charts.<\/p>\n<p>In the old-news-is-great-news category, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/luke-combs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a> <em>This One\u2019s for You<\/em> continues to hold the crown album position, where it\u2019s been for most of its 108-week chart life.<\/p>\n<p>Only three new albums debut this time around \u2014 Willie Nelson\u2019s <em>Ride Me Back Home<\/em>, galloping in at No. 2; Aaron Watson\u2019s <em>Red Bandana<\/em> at No. 7; and Koe Wetzel\u2019s <em>Harold Saul High<\/em> at No. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Older country fans \u2014 much older ones \u2014 may recall another country album that, like Wetzel\u2019s, touted a mythical high school. It was <em>Alive at the Johnny Mack Brown High School<\/em> in 1974 by Lester \u201cRoadhog\u201d Moran &amp; the Cadillac Cowboys a\/k\/a the Statler Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>There are also three new singles to acknowledge \u2014 Caroline Jones\u2019 \u201cChasin\u2019 Me\u201d (No. 54); Kane Brown\u2019s \u201cShort Skirt Weather\u201d (No. 56); and Ingrid Andress\u2019 \u201cMore Hearts Than Mine\u201d (No. 59).<\/p>\n<p>Completing the Top 5 singles array, in descending order, are Blake Shelton\u2019s \u201cGod\u2019s Country,\u201d Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cWhiskey Glasses,\u201d Eric Church\u2019s \u201cSome of It\u201d and Luke Combs\u2019 \u201cBeer Never Broke My Heart\u201d (which arrives in this peak territory after only an eight-week climb).<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:274a4177-e3b6-4fef-95b9-750534e7ad80\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Last week\u2019s No. 1 song, Thomas Rhett\u2019s \u201cLook What God Gave Her,\u201d now resides at No. 11.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 3 through No. 5 albums are Combs\u2019 <em>The Prequel<\/em> (EP), the eponymous <em>Dan+ Shay<\/em> and Rhett\u2019s <em>Center Point Road<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you reckon this year\u2019s \u201csummer song\u201d will be?<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1808740\/lee-brice-seizes-top-song-spot-with-rumor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 34m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] It was another long haul, but on this, its 43rd week on the charts, Lee Brice\u2019s \u201cRumor\u201d is America\u2019s most-played country song, according to Billboard. \u201cRumor\u201d is Brice\u2019s fifth No. 1 since he first entered the charts in 2007 with \u201cShe Ain\u2019t Right.\u201d Brice\u2019s 2009 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:54:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}