Luke Combs & Josh Ross Dominate Country Airplay

0:00On April 24th, Luke Combs just made history again on Billboard's country airplay chart, dated May 2nd. His track, sleepless in a hotel room, holds the number one spot for its third week straight, pulling in 32.3 million audience. Impressions. Right behind it at number two is, days like these, which climbed up two spots with nearly 30 million impressions. This marched the second time, Combs has owned the top two spots with solo tracks, no features needed. He first did it back in September 2023, with love you anyway at number one and fast car at number two. No other artist has pulled off two uncollaborated hits there at once. Morgan Wallen and Luke Bryan got close but leaned on duets. Shifting gears to rising stars, Canadian singer Josh Ross snags his second top ten hit as, hate how you look, jumps from 15 to 10, hitting 17 million impressions. His debut, single, again, took 60 weeks to crack the top ten before peaking at number two.

1:02This one's moving twice as fast in just 31 weeks. Radio folks are loving it. Marcy Braun from Chicago's WUSN says the song's been top ten solids since late February. Rich Davis out in Minneapolis as that Josh hasn't missed a beat for them, keeping listeners hooked. On the newcomer front, Stella Lefty drops her first chart entry with Boston, Boeing at number 53 and 1.2 million impressions. It's also the debut for her, label, Atlantic Outpost, spotlighting fresh singer songwriters. Combs dominating while new voices breaking country airplay stays wide open. This has been Music News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.