Amid intensified conversation about the gender disparity on country radio, a female artist tops the Mediabase country radio singles chart for a second straight week.<\/p>\n
Seizing the throne from Kelsea Ballerini, whose “Love Me Like You Mean It” slips to #5 this week, is Carrie Underwood. Up two places this week, Underwood’s single “Little Toy Guns” reaches the apex of the listing.<\/p>\n
Not simply the leader in Mediabase chart points, “Little Toy Guns” also received the most tracking week airplay. Its weekly spin count of ~8,019 tops the ~7,865 mark garnered by Blake Shelton’s #2 “Sangria.”<\/p>\n
Shelton’s tune, however, reached a larger audience during the June 21-27 tracking week. It received ~57.131 million audience impressions, while “Little Toy Guns” scored ~56.155 million.<\/p>\n
In addition to receiving the greatest number of audience impressions from Mediabase stations, “Sangria” is also the real-time leader on the Billboard panel. It thus appears poised to reach #1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart and thus render “Little Toy Guns” a Mediabase-only #1.<\/p>\n
That fate is nothing new for Underwood, whose recent singles “See You Again” and “Two Black Cadillacs” (among others) topped only the Mediabase listing.<\/p>\n
“Little Toy Guns” becomes Underwood’s eighteenth career #1 hit on Mediabase (including the “Remind Me” duet that initially appeared on Brad Paisley’s “This is Country Music”). With Hot 100 #1 “Inside Your Heaven” and Hot Country Songs #1 hits “Somethin’ Bad” and “Something in the Water” included, Underwood can claim a total of 21 career chart toppers.<\/p>\n
— Also in this week’s Mediabase Top 5: Tim McGraw’s #3 “Diamond Rings and Old Barstools (with Catherine Dunn)” and Jason Aldean’s #4 “Tonight Looks Good on You.” The latter is making its first Top 5 appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[390,42,3748,1372,2935,3625,652],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n