Lainey Wilson & Kelsea Ballerini Bring the Charts to Oz With Hot Country Songs Moves for ‘Somewhere Over Laredo’ & ‘Emerald City’

Lainey Wilson logs her ninth top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart dated Nov. 29, as “Somewhere Over Laredo” rises 11-9. The track pulls 4.1 million official United States streams (up 3%), 24.6 million in radio audience (up 8%) and 1,000 in sales (up 36%) during the Nov. 14-20 tracking week, per Luminate.

Wilson co-wrote the Jay Joyce-produced track, which interpolates 1939’s iconic “Over the Rainbow.”

The Baskin, Louisiana, native is quickly growing her footprint among country’s most successful women. Of the top 100 artists by count of top 10s on Hot Country Songs in the last 10 years, Wilson’s nine tie her with Maren Morris for third among solo women behind Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, who have logged 17 and 10, respectively. Including ties for fifth (Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan’s 15), eighth (Blake Shelton, Dan + Shay and Florida Georgia Line’s 11), and ninth (Carrie Underwood and Old Dominion’s 10), Wilson places comfortably in the top quarter overall at No. 10, tying both Maren Morris and Cole Swindell. Narrow the lens to the last five years and her rise looks even sharper: Wilson trails only Swift among solo women and places fourth overall behind Morgan Wallen (37), Luke Combs and Taylor Swift (14 tie) and Zach Bryan (13).

Kelsea Ballerini, meanwhile, makes her own Hot Country Songs impression with two titles. She bows at No. 36 with “Emerald City” (2.9 million streams). The track sits just behind “I Sit in Parks,” which rises 14% (37-32) and logs 3.3 million streams. Both appear on Mount Pleasant, her new six-song EP, which opens at No. 9 on Top Country Albums with 13,000 equivalent album units. “Emerald City” becomes Ballerini’s 24th charted title on the list, seven of which have made the top 10 since 2015’s breakthrough “Love Me Like You Mean It.”