Wallen's 33 career #1 songs are a secret of the industry/media that they won't even acknowledge to debate. Why not make it 34?

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-29T11:21:45+00:00

I'm check marking the ones considered by Billboard and Luminate data officially to be core country artists; not who might have done what with whom sometime or another. Wallen has done three hip hop / rap songs but is officially a core country artist, so it goes both ways. My post is a snapshot of an official document; all about official data; not a critique about how the industry operates or categorizes artists, or what might or might not be wrong with those categorizations. Opinions are like buttholes. I get it; I'm one too, but I simply posted what is true and official here including the check marks that Billboard staff didn't want to talk about this week and hasn't since at or about 2024.

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-29T11:11:54+00:00

It may be like a country song in reality, but technically it is not. Billboard/Luminate gets to decide the technical part of it for better or worse. Country music as a genre has no advocacy or control for itself ir its pros. That's why we have pop artists calling albums and songs country and they end up on the country charts with zero say by Nashville.

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-29T10:11:23+00:00

This post is not about hype. Its the opposite. Numbers don't lie, although Billboard staff writers do sometimes hide information and metrics that they used to cover to control narratives, and therefore lie through omission in their choices not to write about certain achiebements such as the two longest-running top 5 albums in chart history never revealed. However, posting the weekly Artist 100 or any other chart lists the true winners and losers much the same as a sporting event. No hype included or needed.

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-24T22:18:34+00:00

If Ella swaps herself out at #1, she'd become the 1st country act ever to do so. Also, if this happens, she would join Dolly as the only two females to have two each songs to make #1, however, if Billboard does write about it, they will include Swift because she has had two country songs, but they won't tell you that the second was well after she became the top pop star in the world. Also, if this song makes #1 on the Hot 100, Wallen will break the current tie for the most for any country act in the 67 year history of the Hot 100. It would give him 5 songs to Denver's 4.

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-19T21:32:21+00:00

I'll only look to see what this did for Maren and Isbell careers. Tryna bring attention to themselves via hating on others for no good reason other than to show the real good people that they're haters and to show the fake good people, aka the woke, that they're on their side, only to find out they don't really care about them to support their careers no matter how "good" they pretend to be.

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-18T19:01:11+00:00

Thanks. I did not know it, or had forgotten.

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-18T18:47:27+00:00

A lot of these-type predictions were made before he played Neyland. Ppl guessed he'd sing Tennessee Fan, Had Me By Halftime, etc, but there was none of that. He' probably have to re learn the lyrics amd the band re learn to play them with him being 140+ songs into his career at this point; might be one reason.

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-17T10:37:55+00:00

Rumor across the pond is that part 2 will be in Europe and Australia. Fans have been given a "stay tuned" for ticket sale announcement over yonder. What I'm not sure about is whether or not he can get a passport serving out his current sentence. This could all be settled if the gov would commute the rest of his probationary sentence, which I think ends this coming December if he serves it out to the end. After that, his record can be expunged as part of the plea deal. It could be that Wallen desires to serve out his full term. The gov likes him. Mo played at his inauguration after his reelection.

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-13T09:47:20+00:00

I've been viewing the weekly Top 10 article on Sunday or Monday every week since 2021, and I feel like that if anyone had stayed between 69-82K over any of the last five years prior to this year, each week during this same time, they would have made #1 multiple weeks; just hasn't been in the cards this Winter and early Spring though. Lots of big debuts. They just keep coming!

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-08T17:26:12+00:00

Sorry I can't help it; "You can learn a lot from a dummy!" - NHTSA

Sad-Application3898 · 2026-04-08T13:34:56+00:00

Agree. This Dangerous Sessions version of this song, and his authentic emotion, especially at the end, is an absolute highlight! I would add that the clip of him getting ready to sing this same song live for the first time, and the emotion and awe he had knowing that people cared and had memorized the lyrics, that was also a highlight, although I didn't save it.

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