{"id":20195,"date":"2019-11-19T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1814880"},"modified":"2019-11-19T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T22:06:09","slug":"what-you-see-is-luke-combs-topping-airplay-albums-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/what-you-see-is-luke-combs-topping-airplay-albums-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"What You See Is Luke Combs Topping Airplay, Albums Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:685028?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\"><br \/>\n27m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Let us all shed a tear for Luke Combs who now faces a Christmas that can\u2019t possibly be as joyful as this week has become. Where to start? <\/p>\n<p>His new album, <em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>, not only tops the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200 (ranking all genres), but is also the best-selling one of all genres in Canada, Australia and England.<\/p>\n<p>Put into numbers, that amounts to 173,000 equivalent albums sold in the US and 74 million on-demand streams, the latter figure making it the largest streaming week ever for a country album.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7kqqmr2HWI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7kqqmr2HWI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>To add to the fireworks, Combs\u2019 current single \u2014 \u201cEven Though I\u2019m Leaving\u201d \u2014 has just reached No. 1 on the country airplay chart after a brisk 15-week scramble.<\/p>\n<p>And let us not forget that Combs was just crowned CMA\u2019s male vocalist and his \u201cBeautiful Crazy\u201d was named song of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Santa couldn\u2019t deliver that many gifts that fast if Rudolph had a rocket suppository.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rItv9i6c7AY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rItv9i6c7AY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elsewhere on the charts, there are two returning albums: <em>The Essential Elvis Presley<\/em>, back at No. 15, and Burl Ives\u2019 <em>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>, sliding into No. 22.<\/p>\n<p>There are also two new songs and one returnee: Chris Lane\u2019s \u201cBig, Big Plans\u201d (No. 57), Ashley McBryde\u2019s \u201cOne Night Standards\u201d (No. 60) and Cody Johnson\u2019s \u201cNothin\u2019 on You\u201d (No. 58), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 through No. 5 albums, in that order, are Combs\u2019 <em>This One\u2019s for You<\/em>, Miranda Lambert\u2019s <em>Wildcard<\/em> (last week\u2019s No. 1), Old Dominion\u2019s <em>Old Dominion<\/em> and Dan + Shay\u2019s <em>Dan + Shay<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0lxA1FXOiv0?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0lxA1FXOiv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marching in directly behind \u201cEven Though I\u2019m Leaving\u201d within the Top 5 songs lineup are Old Dominion\u2019s \u201cOne Man Band,\u201d Thomas Rhett\u2019s \u201cRemember You Young,\u201d Chris Janson\u2019s \u201cGood Vibes\u201d and Keith Urban\u2019s \u201cWe Were.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Brantley Gilbert and Lindsay Ell\u2019s \u201cWhat Happens in a Small Town,\u201d last week\u2019s No. 1 song, now stands at No. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Are those Christmas bells I hear ringing or is my tinnitus back?<\/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<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1814880\/what-you-see-is-luke-combs-topping-airplay-albums-charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 27m ago Let us all shed a tear for Luke Combs who now faces a Christmas that can\u2019t possibly be as joyful as this week has become. Where to start? His new album, What You See Is What You Get, not only tops the Billboard 200 (ranking all genres), but is also [&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-20195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 15:46:43","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\/20195","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=20195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}