{"id":1319438,"date":"2020-04-14T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1820258"},"modified":"2020-04-14T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:00:58","slug":"sam-hunt-takes-first-album-in-six-years-southside-straight-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/sam-hunt-takes-first-album-in-six-years-southside-straight-to-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hunt Takes First Album in Six Years, Southside, Straight to the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:682182?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 \/>\n42m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/sam-hunt\">Sam Hunt<\/a>, who last topped the country albums chart in 2014 with his debut collection, <em>Montevallo<\/em>, is back on the summit again this week with <em>Southside<\/em>. It\u2019s also secured him a No. 5 bow on the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200 all-genre chart. <\/p>\n<p>Past radio releases included on the album include \u201cBody Like a Back Road,\u201d \u201cDowntown\u2019s Dead,\u201d and \u201cKinfolks.\u201d His newest <em>Southside<\/em> single is \u201cHard to Forget,\u201d entering the Top 10 at country radio this week at No. 9.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wxhv_HsEIl4?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\/Wxhv_HsEIl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>And let\u2019s ring our bells and shake our tambourines, too, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/brett-young\">Brett Young<\/a>, whose \u201cCatch\u201d reigns as the No. 1 airplay single. This is Young\u2019s fifth consecutive champion song, his first one having been \u201cIn Case You Didn\u2019t Know\u201d in 2017. For the record, it took \u201cCatch\u201d 46 weeks to reach the peak.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the Top 5 songs array are Gabby Barrett\u2019s \u201cI Hope,\u201d Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani\u2019s \u201cNobody But You,\u201d Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cChasin\u2019 You\u201d and Ingrid Andress\u2019 \u201cMore Hearts Than Mine.\u201d Jordan Davis\u2019 \u201cSlow Dance in the Parking Lot,\u201d last week\u2019s No. 1 single, has waltzed back to No. 7.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K3LLA6vNcQk?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\/K3LLA6vNcQk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>More good news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/ashley-mcbryde\">Ashley McBryde<\/a> debuts on the country album chart with <em>Never Will<\/em>, entering at No. 5. Her initial major label album, <em>Girl Going Nowhere<\/em>, reached No. 7 in 2018. The lead single from the new project, \u201cOne Night Standards,\u201d rises to No. 28 with a bullet, her highest-charting single to date.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 albums, in that order, are Luke Combs\u2019 <em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em> and <em>This One\u2019s for You<\/em> and Wallen\u2019s <em>If I Know Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l0EiV423j0M?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\/l0EiV423j0M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three albums make a comeback this week: John Prine\u2019s <em>The Tree of Forgiveness<\/em> (at No. 12), Tim McGraw\u2019s <em>Greatest Hits<\/em> (No. 20) and Lady Antebellum\u2019s <em>Ocean<\/em> (No. 23).<\/p>\n<p>And two new songs check in: Lee Brice\u2019s \u201cOne of Them Girls\u201d (No. 30) and Jason Aldean\u2019s \u201cWhat I Got\u201d (No. 50). Brandon Lay\u2019s \u201cFor My Money\u201d returns at No. 60.<\/p>\n<p>So how about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1820218\/loretta-lynn-eight-decades-of-honest-heartfelt-music\/\">wishing Loretta Lynn a happy birthday<\/a>? She\u2019d love to hear from 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<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1820258\/sam-hunt-takes-first-album-in-six-years-southside-straight-to-the-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 42m ago Sam Hunt, who last topped the country albums chart in 2014 with his debut collection, Montevallo, is back on the summit again this week with Southside. It\u2019s also secured him a No. 5 bow on the Billboard 200 all-genre chart. Past radio releases included on the album include \u201cBody Like [&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-1319438","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 20:06:04","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\/1319438","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=1319438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}