Michael Ray’s self-titled debut album officially arrived Friday.
“Kiss You in the Morning,” the lead single from that album, is now the #1 song on Mediabase’s country radio singles chart.
Up one place from last week’s position, the former iHeartRadio “On the Verge” pick seizes the throne from Luke Bryan’s “Kick the Dust Up.”
Not simply the leader in terms of Mediabase chart points, “Kiss You” also ranks as the week’s most-played and most-heard country radio song. It received a whopping ~8,524 plays (#1, +527) and ~56.481 million audience impressions (#1, +2.464 million) during the August 2-8 tracking week.
Its weekly spin count is the greatest in the history of the Mediabase panel.
Zac Brown Band’s “Loving You Easy” claims the #2 position this week (+3). While the song enjoyed sizable weekly gains of its own, its weekly airplay (~7,772) and audience (~52.007 million) markedly trail those achieved by the Michael Ray tune.
Frankie Ballard’s “Young & Crazy” (#3, +1), Luke Bryan’s “Kick the Dust Up” (#4, -3) and Sam Hunt’s “House Party” (#5, +3) complete the Top 5. The Sam Hunt song is making its inaugural appearance in that portion of the chart.
