Nate Smith’s “World on Fire” leads Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Feb. 24) for a 10th week, tying for the longest domination within the survey’s 34-year historical past. It matches Morgan Wallen’s “You Proof,” which started its rule in October 2022.
Previously, two hits shared the mark for the longest Country Airplay command – eight weeks every – for almost 20 years: Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” in 2003, and Lonestar’s “Amazed,” in 1999.
In the Feb. 9-15 monitoring week, “World on Fire,” launched on Arista Nashville/RCA Nashville, drew 30.8 million in viewers, in response to Luminate.
The music, which Smith wrote with Ashley Gorley, Taylor Phillips and Lindsay Rimes, the lattermost of whom solely produced it, is the second straight career-opening Country Airplay chief for Smith. The Paradise, Calif., native first dominated with “Whiskey on You” for two weeks final February. Both songs are on the deluxe version of his debut self-titled LP. The set arrived at its No. 6 excessive on Top Country Albums final May.
“The crazy thing about this song is that it wasn’t even supposed to come out!,” Smith lately informed Billboard. (*1*)
Smith, in the meantime, debuts at No. 40 (2.5 million) on the most recent Country Airplay chart along with his latest single, “Bulletproof,” launched Feb. 8.
Gwen & Blake Are Back
Also notably, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton debut at No. 35 on Country Airplay with “Purple Irises” (2.7 million). The music is the pair’s third collaboration to have hit the chart, following two No. 1s in 2020: “Nobody but You” (for two weeks that May) and “Happy Anywhere” (one week, that December).
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