Podcasts about billboard's hot country songs

Our guest is a three-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer who has earned 40 No. 1 singles to date. He was named Songwriter of the Year by the Academy of Country Music in 2014 and 2019. Hot Country Songwriter of the Year by Billboard in 2015. This writer co-produced Kacey Musgraves' 2012 award-winning debut album, ‘Same Trailer Different Park,’ which earned him the Grammy for Best Country Album, and her 2015 follow-up, ‘Pageant Material.’ He's also produced debut albums for Sam Hunt (‘Montevallo’), Old Dominion (‘Meat and Candy’), Midland (‘On the Rocks’), Walker Hayes (‘boom.’) and more. In 2016, he arranged and produced "Forever Country," a collaborative song featuring Luke Bryan, Faith Hill, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood and more to commemorate the CMA's 50th anniversary celebration. "Forever Country" debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, making it the third song to debut at No. 1 on the chart since it began in 1958. He earned a five-times-platinum No. 1 co-writing "Body Like a Back Road," by Sam Hunt, which was the longest-reigning No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Song chart by a solo artist, spending 34 weeks atop the chart. Last year, our guest announced his co-presidency of Monument Records (with industry veteran Jason Owen) in conjunction with Sony Records, adding "label head" to his impressive list of accomplishments. He earned his latest No. 1 song with Old Dominion's “Make It Sweet“ and was named to Billboard's 2018 Country Power Players list. He also co-wrote Kacey Musgraves' "Space Cowboy," which recently won Best Country Song at the Grammys. This summer he will serve as a producer on NBC’s new musical competition series “Songland.” And The Writer Is…Shane McAnally! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bebe Rexha analyzes her smash "Meant to Be," with Florida Georgia Line, with Hit Songs Deconstructed's Dave and Yael Penn, and Gary and Trevor, as the song spends a record-extending 50th week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Urban, owner of 16 No. 1s on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, and Universal Music Group Nashville president Cindy Mabe are this week's special guests. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On her 23rd birthday this past September, Kelsea Ballerini saw her latest single "Peter Pan" go to the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts simultaneously, making her the first solo female artist to top both in the same week. It's the third single Ballerini dropped from her debut album The First Time and also the third to go No. 1 on the charts - a fact she was still trying to make sense of when she joined Soul Sisters to take stock of this crazy moment she's having. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.