Last week, Lady Antebellum’s “Bartender” overtook Dierks Bentley’s “Drunk on a Plane” to claim the number one spot on the Mediabase country airplay chart.
This week, it withstood a challenge from Kenny Chesney’s “American Kids” to retain its #1 spot.
Mediabase’s official airplay chart is now live, and it reveals that “Bartender” will spend a second week at number one.
Despite losing steam this week, the song’s country format spin count of 7,623 bested the 7,609 garnered by #2 song “American Kids” during the August 31-September 6 tracking period.
“Bartender” also won the audience impression game with a total of 55.32 million this week. “Kids” settled for 54.99 million.
Dustin Lynch’s “Where it’s At” (#3, 7,275 spins), Cole Swindell’s “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight” (#4, 7,095 spins) and Luke Bryan’s “Roller Coaster” (#5, 6,897 spins) completed the top five.
Other country airplay news for the week between August 31 and September 6:
— Sam Hunt’s “Leave the Night On” climbs three places to #14.
— Blake Shelton’s “Neon Light” surges five places to a new peak of #18. Its weekly spin gain of 750 was third only to those of Garth Brooks’ “People Loving People” (which launched this week) and Luke Bryan’s “Roller Coaster.”
— Despite launching on the fourth day of the tracking period, Brooks’ “People Loving People” still earned enough spins (2,343) to reach #25. Since Billboard’s chart is audience based on inclusive of Sunday, it will land even higher on that publication’s Country Airplay chart.
