I have been spending a lot of time with Country & Western music this past year. I have always dabbled but this last year I have really enjoyed do a deep dive on the genre obviously Ken Burns documentary was a great companion for this journey as it placed the spotlight on some artist I would not have and connected some dots. I have also been excited by the number or really good Country Music albums to come out this year. I normally might find 1 or 2 records a year that I enjoy but this year I would have a tough time narrowing a list down to a top 20. All that to say, Jon Pardi's new album dropped on Friday and it pretty good especially for a borderline mainstream artist. That made me wonder if it was actually popular with Mainstream Corporate Country. I have heard artist such as Luke Combs and Chris Stapleton have broken though with a more traditionalist bent so I figured this might be on list and for singles it turns out that is the First single was currently at #23 which is cool and seems about right. Then I started looking through the rest of the list and there was a lot on their that I was aware of but not a particular fan of (Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, etc...) but I was quite surprised by the song that has been #1 FOR THE PAST 11 WEEKS!!!!
I don't really have any issue with this being the the #1 song on the Billboard Charts novelty/dance trend songs tend to preform really well on the charts like this. My bigger point is even though I have been actively following and learning about the genre over the past year. I am so in a bubble that I didn't even know this song existed until just right now. It's weird to me that something like this could clearly be a thing and I, someone spends lots of time researching, listening, discussing music could be that out of the loop. I have just been musing about this all day at work and wanted to get it out of my head.
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