{"id":1312999,"date":"2019-07-30T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T17:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809664"},"modified":"2019-07-30T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T17:18:57","slug":"maren-morris-gets-the-girl-to-no-1-at-country-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/maren-morris-gets-the-girl-to-no-1-at-country-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Maren Morris Gets the \u201cGirl\u201d to No. 1 at Country Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:676495?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\">20m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Champagne and rose petals for everyone! After keeping its eye on the prize for 28 weeks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/maren-morris\">Maren Morris<\/a>\u2019 \u201cGirl\u2019 is finally the Miss America of country airplay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGirl\u201d is Morris\u2019 third No. 1, preceded by \u201cI Could Use a Love Song\u201d in 2018, and \u201cCraving You\u201d with Thomas Rhett in 2017. Additionally, she shared rare air with Zedd and Grey on \u201cThe Middle\u201d (pop chart, 2018). It\u2019s the first No. 1 by a solo female country artist since Kelsea Ballerini\u2019s \u201cLegends\u201d in February 2018.<\/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>Luke Combs continues to top the country albums rankings with <em>This One\u2019s for You<\/em>, which, after 112 weeks on the chart, might more aptly be called <em>This One\u2019s for Him<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the news is sparse farther down the listings. We see the debut of only one new single \u2014 Maddie &amp; Tae\u2019s \u201cDie From a Broken Heart,\u201d bowing at No. 50 \u2014 and nary a new album in sight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXilD_wv5u0?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\/yXilD_wv5u0?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>There are, however, five returning albums \u2014 Jimmy Buffett\u2019s <em>Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett\u2019s Greatest Hit(s)<\/em>, (back at No. 32); Hank Williams Jr.\u2019s <em>35 Biggest Hits<\/em> (No.40); Alabama\u2019s <em>The American Farewell Tour<\/em> (No. 47); <em>The Essential Dixie Chicks<\/em> (No. 48); and Jason Aldean\u2019s <em>My Kinda Party<\/em> (No. 50).<\/p>\n<p>Completing the Top 5 songs cluster, in descending order, are Combs\u2019 \u201cBeer Never Broke My Heart,\u201d Dan + Shay\u2019s \u201cAll to Myself,\u201d Aldean\u2019s \u201cRearview Town\u201d and Justin Moore\u2019s \u201cThe Ones That Didn\u2019t Make It Back Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WHvx5D-zDfo?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\/WHvx5D-zDfo?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>Eric Church\u2019s \u201cSome of It,\u201d last week\u2019s No. 1, now stands at No. 6.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 through No. 5 albums are <em>Dan + Shay<\/em>, Combs\u2019 <em>The Prequel EP<\/em>, Morgan Wallen\u2019s <em>If I Know Me<\/em> and Chris Stapleton\u2019s <em>Traveller<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More I cannot tell you.<\/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\/1809664\/maren-morris-gets-the-girl-to-no-1-at-country-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 20m ago Champagne and rose petals for everyone! After keeping its eye on the prize for 28 weeks, Maren Morris\u2019 \u201cGirl\u2019 is finally the Miss America of country airplay. \u201cGirl\u201d is Morris\u2019 third No. 1, preceded by \u201cI Could Use a Love Song\u201d in 2018, and \u201cCraving You\u201d with Thomas Rhett in [&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-1312999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 03:42:30","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\/1312999","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=1312999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}