{"id":1308282,"date":"2019-04-10T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1805241"},"modified":"2019-04-10T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:00:03","slug":"george-straits-honky-tonk-time-machine-debuts-as-top-country-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/george-straits-honky-tonk-time-machine-debuts-as-top-country-album\/","title":{"rendered":"George Strait\u2019s Honky Tonk Time Machine Debuts as Top Country Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:671637?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\">23m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Ring the bells and fire the cannon. The <em>Billboard<\/em> country charts are finally churning this week with lots of new music.The eternal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/george-strait\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">George Strait<\/a> rockets in at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s albums chart with <em>Honky Tonk Time Machine<\/em>. That package also surfaces at No. 4 on The Billboard 200 all-genres rankings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LdS6c2e9IrQ?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\/LdS6c2e9IrQ?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>But shed no tears for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/luke-combs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a>, whose <em>This One\u2019s for You<\/em> Strait\u2019s debut demotes to the No. 2 niche. Combs\u2019 \u201cBeautiful Crazy\u201d remains the most-played country song for the seventh week in a row.<\/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;}\"><\/p>\n<p><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=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Five other albums make their first appearance this week in the Top 50. They are <em>Greetings From . . . Jake Owen<\/em> (No. 8), Steve Earle and the Dukes\u2019 <em>Guy<\/em> (No. 14), <em>Now That\u2019s What I Call Country, Volume 12<\/em> (No. 27), LOCASH\u2019s <em>Brothers<\/em> (No. 34) and <em>This Is Eli Young Band: Greatest Hits<\/em> (No. 46).<\/p>\n<p>There are three new songs to celebrate \u2014 Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road\u201d (No. 53), Kip Moore\u2019s \u201cThe Bull\u201d (No. 57) and King Calaway\u2019s \u201cWorld for Two\u201d (No. 60).<\/p>\n<p>The No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 albums, in that order, are Dan + Shay, Maren Morris\u2019 <em>Girl<\/em> and Chris Stapleton\u2019s <em>Traveller<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the Top 5 songs array are Brett Young\u2019s \u201cHere Tonight,\u201d Michael Ray\u2019s \u201cOne That Got Away,\u201d Riley Green\u2019s \u201cThere Was This Girl\u201d and Old Dominion\u2019s \u201cMake It Sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you caught the Academy of Country Music\u2019s award show Sunday (April 7), you heard a lot of new songs that are likely to show up here soon \u2014 and maybe some that won\u2019t.<\/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\/1805241\/george-straits-honky-tonk-time-machine-debuts-as-top-country-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 23m ago Ring the bells and fire the cannon. The Billboard country charts are finally churning this week with lots of new music.The eternal George Strait rockets in at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s albums chart with Honky Tonk Time Machine. That package also surfaces at No. 4 on The Billboard 200 all-genres [&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-1308282","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 05:42:46","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\/1308282","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=1308282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}