{"id":1319191,"date":"2020-03-31T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1819743"},"modified":"2020-03-31T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T17:00:13","slug":"time-enough-for-counting-kenny-rogers-dealt-this-weeks-no-1-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/time-enough-for-counting-kenny-rogers-dealt-this-weeks-no-1-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Enough for Counting: Kenny Rogers Dealt This Week\u2019s No.1 Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:691387?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 \/>\n46m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Way to go, Gambler! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1819320\/country-legend-kenny-rogers-dies-at-81\/\">The late Kenny Rogers<\/a> has scored another No. 1 album. Released in 2018, <em>The Best of Kenny Rogers: Through the Years<\/em> has dislodged, however momentarily, Luke Combs from the rankings real estate he\u2019s occupied for the past eons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7hx4gdlfamo?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=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7hx4gdlfamo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rogers last topped the country albums chart between 1985 and 1986 with <em>The Heart of the Matter<\/em>. He also returns to the albums chart at No. 25 with <em>Daytime Friends: The Very Best of Kenny Rogers<\/em>, a collection first released in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>A good week for Kelsea Ballerini, too, whose album <em>Kelsea<\/em> glides in at No. 2 in its first week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h_rIwc6CDuU?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\/h_rIwc6CDuU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rogers and Ballerini have the only new packages in the Top 25, but <em>The Ultimate Dolly Parton<\/em> returns to action at No. 14.<\/p>\n<p>And while we\u2019re passing around bouquets, a big one if you please for Luke Bryan, whose steamy \u201cWhat She Wants Tonight\u201d comes to a boil at No. 1 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> country airplay chart just 23 weeks after it debuted. It\u2019s Bryan\u2019s 22nd No. 1 on <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s country airplay chart since he first hit the peak in 2010 with \u201cRain Is a Good Thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q4webhCu8bY?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\/q4webhCu8bY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>The No. 2 through No. 5 songs are Brett Young\u2019s \u201cCatch,\u201d Jake Owen\u2019s \u201cHomemade\u201d (last week\u2019s No. 1), Jordan Davis\u2019 \u201cSlow Dance in a Parking Lot\u201d and Kane Brown\u2019s \u201cHomesick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We call your attention to two new singles \u2014 Florida Georgia Line\u2019s \u201cI Love My Country,\u201d saluting at No 18, and Luke Bryan\u2019s \u201cOne Margarita,\u201d sloshing in at No. 59. Dillon Carmichael\u2019s \u201cI Do for You\u201d is back at No. 46.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2sqTi-pmrNs?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\/2sqTi-pmrNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rounding out the Top 5 albums, in descending order, are Luke Combs\u2019 <em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em> (last week\u2019s No. 1) and <em>This One\u2019s for You<\/em>, and Morgan Wallen\u2019s <em>If I Know Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We just wonder, Luke, if what she wants tonight is social distancing.<\/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\/1819743\/time-enough-for-counting-kenny-rogers-dealt-this-weeks-no-1-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 46m ago Way to go, Gambler! The late Kenny Rogers has scored another No. 1 album. Released in 2018, The Best of Kenny Rogers: Through the Years has dislodged, however momentarily, Luke Combs from the rankings real estate he\u2019s occupied for the past eons. Embedded from www.youtube.com. Rogers last topped the country [&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-1319191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 15:51:29","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\/1319191","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=1319191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}