Even ‘Better’: Morgan Wallen Earns 21st Top 10 on Country Airplay Chart
Morgan Wallen banks his 21st top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Aug. 30) as “I Got Better” hops three spots to No. 10. It increased by 18% to 16 million audience impressions Aug. 15-21, according to Luminate.
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Wallen co-wrote the song with ERNEST, HARDY, Chase McGill, Blake Pendergrass and Ryan Vojtesak. Joey Moi produced it.
The single is Wallen’s fifth top 10 from his LP I’m the Problem, which has led Top Country Albums for 13 straight weeks since it opened atop the May 31-dated survey with 493,000 equivalent album units earned. The 37-song blockbuster has also dominated the all-format Billboard 200 for 11 weeks.
“I Got Better” follows four Country Airplay No. 1s from the set: “Just in Case” (four weeks); the title track (eight); “Love Somebody” (three); and “Lies Lies Lies” (one week).
Notably, nearly two-thirds of the way through 2025, Wallen has a chance to tie his own record: In 2024, he became the first artist to roll up five Country Airplay leaders in a single year since the list launched in 1990: “Lies Lies Lies”; “Cowgirls” (featuring ERNEST); “Man Made a Bar” (featuring Eric Church); and Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” and Thomas Rhett’s “Mamaw’s House,” both featuring Wallen.
Currently on tour, Wallen will make his debut at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., on Aug. 22-23 with featured acts Miranda Lambert, Corey Kent and Zach John King.
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Thomas Rhett’s “After All the Bars Are Closed” controls Country Airplay for a third week (32.9 million, up 8%).
The Rhett co-write, his 21st career No. 1, becomes his third to lead for three or more weeks. His longest reigning No. 1 is “Die a Happy Man,” which ran up a six-week command in 2016. He first logged a multiweek run at the summit with his first leader, “It Goes Like This,” for three weeks in 2013.
All charts dated Aug. 30 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Aug. 26.
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