1 hour ago, Incandescent Glow said:

This feels like a pure joke. Not a single female artist top country radio in SEVENTEEN years?!

I'm afraid to ask how long it was since a non-Taylor song topped this chart.

No, we were referring about country songs by female artists not topping the Pop radio chart.

And besides Taylor, no other female artist has topped the Pop chart with a country song, it's just extremely difficult, Pop radio is very hesitant towards country music.

1 minute ago, Ger said:

No, we were referring about country songs by female artists not topping the Pop radio chart.

And besides Taylor, no other female artist has topped the Pop chart with a country song, it's just extremely difficult, Pop radio is very hesitant towards country music.

Oh alright. Thank god. Feeling stupid but relieved because that seemed absolutely insane.

28 minutes ago, Libardes said:

Oww this is something.. wondering what was the last non taylor country song

Dolly Parton who had two #1 songs on the Hot 100 in the 80's only peaked at #2 at Pop radio on Radio & Records. in the 70's Olivia Newton-John had 2 #1 songs at Pop radio that were top 10 at Country and Debbie Boone hit #1 at Pop radio with a song that was top 10 at Country . their songs were more Pop then Country though.

Edited September 18Sep 18 by jdanton2

No recurrents again this week on Pop, but looking ahead to next week, Speed Demon and House Tour are finally eligible to go recurrent.

Country - Friday Update

TW	TW+	Artist	Title	Spins	Spin+	Bullet	Bullet+	Aud	Aud+
1	=	STELLA LEFTY	Boston	9566	+136	685	+46	41.483	+0.516
2	=	LUKE COMBS	Be By You	9119	-127	-243	-193	40.365	+0.024
3	=	KENNY CHESNEY	Carry On	7577	+111	285	+131	31.900	+0.461
4	=	MORGAN WALLEN	Been By Now	7803	+141	690	-12	29.840	+0.613
5	=	JOHN MORGAN	Kid Myself	7248	+31	573	-108	31.440	+0.166
6	=	ELLA LANGLEY	Loving Life Again	6521	+136	961	+8	26.172	+0.379
7	=	LAUREN ALAINA	All My Exes f/Chase Matthew	6154	+11	490	-170	26.237	+0.682
8	=	LUKE BRYAN	Country And She Knows It	5682	+5	398	-30	25.532	-0.399
9	+1	DAN + SHAY	Say So	5292	+66	663	-50	22.026	+0.115
10	-1	ZACH JOHN KING	Get To Drinkin'	5236	-4	362	-73	21.942	-0.097
11	=	RILEY GREEN	Think As You Drunk	4728	+40	156	-5	19.396	+0.032
12	=	LAINEY WILSON & JOHN MAYER	Phone, Keys, Wallet	4699	-37	224	-135	19.038	-0.116
13	=	ZACH TOP	South Of Sanity	4301	+35	136	+62	18.737	-0.156
14	=	LUKE COMBS	Rethink Some Things	4108	+145	658	+23	17.131	+0.282
15	+2	HUDSON WESTBROOK	Painted You Pretty	3779	+27	336	-47	15.709	+0.119
16	-1	JELLY ROLL	Hands Up	3687	-13	1	-77	15.284	-0.067
17	-1	HARDY	McArthur f/Church, Wallen, ...	3753	-33	42	-61	12.754	+0.114
18	+1	KOE WETZEL	Jaded f/Ella Langley	3362	+19	370	-87	15.380	-0.038
19	-1	JON PARDI	Boots Off	3306	-44	-36	-32	13.375	+0.172
20	=	GREYLAN JAMES	Water At A Wedding	3194	+21	153	+20	12.308	+0.070
21	=	RUSSELL DICKERSON	Worth Your Wild	2858	-2	224	+14	10.640	+0.283
22	=	KANE BROWN	Woman	2867	-57	-1347	+310	11.702	-0.094
23	=	MEGAN MORONEY	Medicine	2707	+7	263	-61	10.759	-0.021
24	=	BLAKE SHELTON	Let Him In Anyway	2804	+75	106	+94	9.829	+0.052
25	--	JASON ALDEAN	Anytime Soon	2259	--	410	--	9.176	--

12 hours ago, Wolf Alice said:

I think meant to be by Bebe rexha

Edit: apparently that peaked at #2 so Taylor with love story I think!? wow

Funny thing is she got blocked by an artist who later went country. I felt that Bebe moving to Pop and Maren moving to Country were big mistakes. I felt like Bebe fit the Country audience better and Maren fit the Pop audience better.

per wiki:

It became the first song to top both the country-radio and pop-radio charts and surpassed the number-three-peaking "You're Still the One" (1998) by Shania Twain as the highest-charting country crossover to pop radio.

I think Choosin' Texas will be our next new Pop #1. I expect it's updates to pick up.

6 hours ago, pride4jc1222 said:

No recurrents again this week on Pop, but looking ahead to next week, Speed Demon and House Tour are finally eligible to go recurrent.

Country - Friday Update

TW	TW+	Artist	Title	Spins	Spin+	Bullet	Bullet+	Aud	Aud+
1	=	STELLA LEFTY	Boston	9566	+136	685	+46	41.483	+0.516
2	=	LUKE COMBS	Be By You	9119	-127	-243	-193	40.365	+0.024
3	=	KENNY CHESNEY	Carry On	7577	+111	285	+131	31.900	+0.461
4	=	MORGAN WALLEN	Been By Now	7803	+141	690	-12	29.840	+0.613
5	=	JOHN MORGAN	Kid Myself	7248	+31	573	-108	31.440	+0.166
6	=	ELLA LANGLEY	Loving Life Again	6521	+136	961	+8	26.172	+0.379
7	=	LAUREN ALAINA	All My Exes f/Chase Matthew	6154	+11	490	-170	26.237	+0.682
8	=	LUKE BRYAN	Country And She Knows It	5682	+5	398	-30	25.532	-0.399
9	+1	DAN + SHAY	Say So	5292	+66	663	-50	22.026	+0.115
10	-1	ZACH JOHN KING	Get To Drinkin'	5236	-4	362	-73	21.942	-0.097
11	=	RILEY GREEN	Think As You Drunk	4728	+40	156	-5	19.396	+0.032
12	=	LAINEY WILSON & JOHN MAYER	Phone, Keys, Wallet	4699	-37	224	-135	19.038	-0.116
13	=	ZACH TOP	South Of Sanity	4301	+35	136	+62	18.737	-0.156
14	=	LUKE COMBS	Rethink Some Things	4108	+145	658	+23	17.131	+0.282
15	+2	HUDSON WESTBROOK	Painted You Pretty	3779	+27	336	-47	15.709	+0.119
16	-1	JELLY ROLL	Hands Up	3687	-13	1	-77	15.284	-0.067
17	-1	HARDY	McArthur f/Church, Wallen, ...	3753	-33	42	-61	12.754	+0.114
18	+1	KOE WETZEL	Jaded f/Ella Langley	3362	+19	370	-87	15.380	-0.038
19	-1	JON PARDI	Boots Off	3306	-44	-36	-32	13.375	+0.172
20	=	GREYLAN JAMES	Water At A Wedding	3194	+21	153	+20	12.308	+0.070
21	=	RUSSELL DICKERSON	Worth Your Wild	2858	-2	224	+14	10.640	+0.283
22	=	KANE BROWN	Woman	2867	-57	-1347	+310	11.702	-0.094
23	=	MEGAN MORONEY	Medicine	2707	+7	263	-61	10.759	-0.021
24	=	BLAKE SHELTON	Let Him In Anyway	2804	+75	106	+94	9.829	+0.052
25	--	JASON ALDEAN	Anytime Soon	2259	--	410	--	9.176	--

Funny thing is she got blocked by an artist who later went country. I felt that Bebe moving to Pop and Maren moving to Country were big mistakes. I felt like Bebe fit the Country audience better and Maren fit the Pop audience better.

Maren was always country tho? I actually thought bones might have gone #1 after the hozier feature but it didn't even go top 10 which is crazy

the Gabby Barrett song she did a remix with Charlie Puth peaked at #3 at Pop radio and then she disappeared after that.

Taylor Swift Extends Her Record With 16th Pop Airplay Chart No. 1, 'I Knew It, I Knew You'

Taylor Swift tallies her record-extending 16th No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart as "I Knew It, I Knew You" rises two spots to the top of the Sept. 26-dated list.

Bruno Mars ranks second with 13 Pop Airplay No. 1s, followed by Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Rihanna each with 11. (The chart began in October 1992.)

55 minutes ago, Ger said:

Taylor Swift Extends Her Record With 16th Pop Airplay Chart No. 1, 'I Knew It, I Knew You'

Taylor Swift tallies her record-extending 16th No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart as "I Knew It, I Knew You" rises two spots to the top of the Sept. 26-dated list.

Bruno Mars ranks second with 13 Pop Airplay No. 1s, followed by Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Rihanna each with 11. (The chart began in October 1992.)

gross

Boston is #1 on Billboard Country airplay this week: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bulletins.billboard.com/country/country_update_2026_0918.pdf

1 hour ago, pride4jc1222 said:

Boston is #1 on Billboard Country airplay this week: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bulletins.billboard.com/country/country_update_2026_0918.pdf

The way I knew it I, Knew you disappeared from the country charts. It's not even in the recurrents list

13 hours ago, Ger said:

Taylor Swift Extends Her Record With 16th Pop Airplay Chart No. 1, 'I Knew It, I Knew You'

Taylor Swift tallies her record-extending 16th No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart as "I Knew It, I Knew You" rises two spots to the top of the Sept. 26-dated list.

Bruno Mars ranks second with 13 Pop Airplay No. 1s, followed by Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Rihanna each with 11. (The chart began in October 1992.)

I wonder if she's built her lead enough to be safe from Bruno. Hopefully she can cross 20!

Bracing for huge spin drops!

Edited September 19Sep 19 by DevilsRollTheDice

Spins are lower today because some stations broadcast the iHeart Music Festival.

15 hours ago, Ger said:

Taylor Swift Extends Her Record With 16th Pop Airplay Chart No. 1, 'I Knew It, I Knew You'

Taylor Swift tallies her record-extending 16th No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart as "I Knew It, I Knew You" rises two spots to the top of the Sept. 26-dated list.

Bruno Mars ranks second with 13 Pop Airplay No. 1s, followed by Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Rihanna each with 11. (The chart began in October 1992.)

So it didn't peak at #1 on the country AI chart after all?

I thought it did

Country - Saturday Update

TW	TW+	Artist	Title	Spins	Spin+	Bullet	Bullet+	Aud	Aud+
1	=	STELLA LEFTY	Boston	9662	+96	739	+54	41.770	+0.287
2	=	LUKE COMBS	Be By You	8919	-200	-567	-324	39.753	-0.612
3	=	KENNY CHESNEY	Carry On	7631	+54	314	+29	32.082	+0.182
4	=	MORGAN WALLEN	Been By Now	7812	+9	546	-144	30.235	+0.395
5	=	JOHN MORGAN	Kid Myself	7309	+61	517	-56	31.745	+0.305
6	=	ELLA LANGLEY	Loving Life Again	6531	+10	770	-191	26.369	+0.197
7	=	LAUREN ALAINA	All My Exes f/Chase Matthew	6241	+87	473	-17	26.605	+0.368
8	=	LUKE BRYAN	Country And She Knows It	5647	-35	306	-92	25.140	-0.392
9	=	DAN + SHAY	Say So	5409	+107	701	+38	22.468	+0.442
10	=	ZACH JOHN KING	Get To Drinkin'	5219	-17	196	-166	21.726	-0.216
11	=	RILEY GREEN	Think As You Drunk	4739	+11	201	+45	19.302	-0.094
12	=	LAINEY WILSON & JOHN MAYER	Phone, Keys, Wallet	4658	-41	186	-38	18.947	-0.091
13	=	ZACH TOP	South Of Sanity	4278	-23	64	-72	18.788	+0.051
14	=	LUKE COMBS	Rethink Some Things	4122	+14	527	-131	17.139	+0.008
15	+1	JELLY ROLL	Hands Up	3705	+18	96	+95	15.311	+0.027
16	-1	HUDSON WESTBROOK	Painted You Pretty	3722	-57	178	-158	15.605	-0.104
17	=	HARDY	McArthur f/Church, Wallen, ...	3721	-32	11	-31	12.531	-0.223
18	=	KOE WETZEL	Jaded f/Ella Langley	3353	-9	319	-51	15.213	-0.167
19	=	JON PARDI	Boots Off	3338	+32	16	+52	13.455	+0.080
20	=	GREYLAN JAMES	Water At A Wedding	3228	+34	130	-23	12.471	+0.163
21	=	RUSSELL DICKERSON	Worth Your Wild	2872	+14	166	-58	11.011	+0.371
22	=	KANE BROWN	Woman	2817	-50	-1043	+304	11.571	-0.131
23	+1	BLAKE SHELTON	Let Him In Anyway	2811	+7	64	-42	9.886	+0.057
24	-1	MEGAN MORONEY	Medicine	2674	-33	124	-139	10.572	-0.187
25	=	JASON ALDEAN	Anytime Soon	2303	+44	379	-31	9.377	+0.201

12 hours ago, Green said:

The way I knew it I, Knew you disappeared from the country charts. It's not even in the recurrents list

I think they made a mistake here. It should have been allowed to chart this week, since this is its second declining week and has less than 20 charting weeks. Unless it really got less audience than the #60 song.

RECURRENTS

On Country Airplay, descending

titles below No. 10 in either

audience or detections are

moved to recurrent after 20

weeks, provided that they

are not still gaining enough

audience points to bullet or if

they rank below No. 10 and

post a third consecutive week

of (non-bulleted) audience

decline, regardless of total

chart weeks. Plus, songs that

ascend to a peak between Nos.

1 and 5 will remain on the

chart for one additional week

even if dropping below No. 10.

16 hours ago, jdanton2 said:

the Gabby Barrett song she did a remix with Charlie Puth peaked at #3 at Pop radio and then she disappeared after that.

she had kids in '21, '22, & '24 so her focus seems to be on her family

1 hour ago, jgamgr said:

So it didn't peak at #1 on the country AI chart after all?

I thought it did

It was blocked by Luke Combs

Taylor is still charting at Country on the HDD Building chart. also Choosin Texas is close to losing it's bullet at Pop at #6 . there is a chance that could go recurrent tomorrow night with it charting 33 weeks.

12 31 TAYLOR SWIFT | I Knew It, I Knew You Walt Disney/MCA/Republic 1455

Edited September 19Sep 19 by jdanton2

1 hour ago, Green said:

It was blocked by Luke Combs

So why did everyone including Taylor herself posted about being #1 on Country radio after13 years?

Was it #1 only on Mediabase?

1 hour ago, jgamgr said:

So why did everyone including Taylor herself posted about being #1 on Country radio after13 years?

Was it #1 only on Mediabase?

Yes. common for country. i believe carrie underwood had tons of mediabase #1s, bb #2

as for why, here's female-only billboard country radio toppers:

2021 - good ones, things a man oughta know = 4 wks

2022 - drunk, never wanted to be that girl = 2 wks

2023 - watermelon moon shine = 3 weeks

2024 - = 0 weeks

2025 - somewhere over laredo = 1 week [avg: 2 weeks/year in this timeframe]

Edited September 19Sep 19 by fridayteenage

8 hours ago, argentite said:

Spins are lower today because some stations broadcast the iHeart Music Festival.

Pull through Zara

POP
1. I Knew It, I Knew You: 15450 (+5) | 35.079 (-0.127)
2. Dracula (JENNIE Remix): 14289 (-119) | 42.893 (-0.344)
3. hate that i made you love me: 13251 (-190) | 38.971 (-0.422)
4. Risk It All: 12608 (-115) | 37.393 (-0.449)
5 (+1) Babydoll: 11646 (+92) | 27.525 (+0.298)
6 (-1) Choosin' Texas: 11523 (-74) | 22.529 (-0.204)
7. drop dead: 11132 (-256) | 26.068 (-0.695)
8. Mr. Know It All: 10067 (+57) | 21.432 (+0.139)
9. stupid song: 7989 (+25) | 18.230 (+0.024)
10. My Body Isn't Ready: 7693 (+18) | 16.270 (+0.125)

11. Hit the Wall: 6682 (-87) | 13.148 (-0.388)
12. Animal: 6528 (+50) | 15.779 (+0.300)
13 (+1) Boston: 6321 (-21) | 11.863 (-0.002)
14 (-1) petal: 6310 (-65) | 14.545 (-0.105)
15. Earrings: 6158 (-32) | 10.076 (-0.037)
16. Lush Life: 4383 (-33) | 14.726 (-0.077)
17. Repeat It: 4184 (-15) | 6.768 (-0.087)
18. Sue me: 3760 (-24) | 5.737 (+0.010)
19. Loser: 3645 (-32) | 7.188 (-0.165)
20. Bass Persuades: 3421 (+50) | 5.307 (+0.022)

21. Edge of the Earth: 2803 (-38) | 4.812 (-0.110)
22. SPEED DEMON: 2695 (-78) | 6.940 (-0.184)
23 (+1) Ever Since U Left Me (I Went Deaf): 2533 (+17) | 4.696 (+0.045)
24 (-1) Dai Dai: 2462 (-64) | 6.225 (-0.103)
25. Ring Tone: 2421 (-6) | 2.767 (+0.043)

I Knew It, I Know Payola out of the top 100 on streaming platforms yet #1, not even a billion dollar movie pushed it higher

POP
1. I Knew It, I Knew You: 15216 (-234) | 34.679 (-0.400)
2. Dracula (JENNIE Remix): 14118 (-171) | 42.681 (-0.212)
3. hate that i made you love me: 12966 (-285) | 38.791 (-0.180)
4. Risk It All: 12527 (-81) | 36.852 (-0.541)
5. Babydoll: 11645 (-1) | 27.842 (+0.317)
6. Choosin' Texas: 11445 (-78) | 22.457 (-0.072)
7. drop dead: 10645 (-487) | 25.111 (-0.957)
8. Mr. Know It All: 10043 (-24) | 21.346 (-0.086)
9. stupid song: 8024 (+35) | 18.405 (+0.175)
10. My Body Isn't Ready: 7668 (-25) | 16.600 (+0.330)

11. Hit the Wall: 6552 (-130) | 12.604 (-0.544)
12. Animal: 6547 (+19) | 15.759 (-0.020)
13. Boston: 6331 (+10) | 11.871 (+0.008)
14. petal: 6312 (+2) | 14.678 (+0.133)
15. Earrings: 6147 (-11) | 10.170 (+0.094)
16. Lush Life: 4386 (+3) | 14.537 (-0.189)
17. Repeat It: 4205 (+21) | 6.802 (+0.034)
18. Sue me: 3820 (+60) | 6.031 (+0.294)
19. Loser: 3696 (+51) | 7.258 (+0.070)
20. Bass Persuades: 3481 (+60) | 5.390 (+0.083)

21. Edge of the Earth: 2799 (-4) | 4.927 (+0.115)
22. SPEED DEMON: 2609 (-86) | 6.599 (-0.341)
23. Ever Since U Left Me (I Went Deaf): 2570 (+37) | 4.693 (-0.003)
24 (+1) Ring Tone: 2374 (-47) | 2.707 (-0.060)
25 (-1) Dai Dai: 2350 (-112) | 6.013 (-0.212)

Updates being affected by iHeart Media stations airing the iHeartRadio Music Festival.

Edited September 20Sep 20 by Ger