{"id":1306078,"date":"2019-03-19T10:31:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804073"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:31:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:31:20","slug":"maren-morris-girl-debuts-as-top-country-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/maren-morris-girl-debuts-as-top-country-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Maren Morris\u2019 Girl Debuts as Top Country Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:666335?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\">37m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Women may be scarce on <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s country charts, but this week one of them boasts the genre\u2019s bestselling album. And it\u2019s about damn time.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re referring, of course, to the debut of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/maren-morris\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Maren Morris<\/a>\u2019 much-anticipated <em>Girl<\/em>. Apart from its country eminence, it also rolls in at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 all-formats rankings. The excitement surrounding the album boosts Morris\u2019 previous collection, <em>Hero<\/em>, from No. 42 to No. 26.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X0vXCY-h9ks?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\/X0vXCY-h9ks?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>Meanwhile, the unsinkable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/luke-combs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a>\u2019 \u201cBeautiful Crazy\u201d crowns the airplay chart for the third week in a row.<\/p>\n<p>No other albums debut this week, but <em>The Essential John Denver<\/em> comes back aboard at No. 36.<\/p>\n<p>There are two new songs to celebrate \u2014 Travis Denning\u2019s \u201cAfter a Few\u201d (arriving at No. 58) and Combs\u2019 \u201cHouston, We Got a Problem\u201d (No. 60). Returning to action are Walker Hayes\u2019 \u201c90\u2019s Country\u201d (No. 55) and Zac Brown Band\u2019s \u201cSomeone I Used to Know\u201d (No. 59).<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 through No. 5 albums, in that order, are Combs\u2019 <em>This One\u2019s for You<\/em> (last week\u2019s No. 1), Florida Georgia Line\u2019s <em>Can\u2019t Say I Ain\u2019t Country<\/em>, the self-titled <em>Dan + Shay<\/em> and Kacey Musgraves\u2019 <em>Golden Hour<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the Top 5 songs array are Chris Stapleton\u2019s \u201cMillionaire,\u201d Riley Green\u2019s \u201cThere Was This Girl,\u201d Jason Aldean\u2019s \u201cGirl Like You\u201d and Brett Young\u2019s \u201cHere Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A tip of the hat to the newest additions to the Country Music Hall of Fame \u2014 Brooks &amp; Dunn, Ray Stevens and retired RCA Records chief Jerry Bradley.<\/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\/1804073\/maren-morris-girl-debuts-as-top-country-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 37m ago Women may be scarce on Billboard\u2019s country charts, but this week one of them boasts the genre\u2019s bestselling album. And it\u2019s about damn time. We\u2019re referring, of course, to the debut of Maren Morris\u2019 much-anticipated Girl. Apart from its country eminence, it also rolls in at No. 4 on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1306078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 23:02:48","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}