Jason Aldean, Megan Moroney Add Country Airplay Top 10s, LOCASH Leads Again
Aldean adds his 40th top 10, while Moroney earns her second.
Jason Aldean rings up his milestone 40th top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as he hoists “Whiskey Drink” three spots to No. 8 on the list dated April 19. The song rose by 8% to 18.6 million audience impressions April 4-10, according to Luminate.
The single, which Kurt Allison, Jonathan Edwards, Tully Kennedy and John Morgan co-wrote, is from Aldean’s LP Highway Desperado. In November 2023, the set arrived as his 12th top 10 on Top Country Albums.
Aldean has the eighth-most Country Airplay top 10s since the chart launched in 1990. Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw and George Strait are tied for first with 61 each. He also scores simultaneous Country Airplay top 10s for the first time. He’s featured on Morgan’s “Friends Like That,” which pushes 5-4 for a new best (24.3 million, up 10%).
Aldean’s run of Country Airplay top 10s began in 2005 when “Hicktown” reached No. 10 that October. “Why” followed, becoming his first of 25 No. 1s in May 2006.
Moroney Is A-‘Okay’
Megan Moroney earns her second Country Airplay top 10 as “Am I Okay?” hops 13-10 (16.5 million, up 9%). The Savannah, Ga., native wrote the song with Jessie Jo Dillon and Luke Laird, and Kristian Bush produced it. The single is from Moroney’s same-named LP, which entered Top Country Albums at its No. 3 peak last July, marking her second top 10. Her Lucky hit No. 10 in May 2023.
Moroney notched her first Country Airplay top 10 with her rookie single, “Tennessee Orange” (No. 4, June 2023). She then added two top 20 hits: “Can’t Break Up Now,” with Old Dominion (No. 19, May 2024), and “I’m Not Pretty” (No. 14, July 2024).
Making Themselves at ‘Home’
LOCASH, the duo of Preston Brust and Chris Lucas, tops Country Airplay for a career-high second week with “Hometown Home” (29.9 million, down 1%). The act previously led with “I Know Somebody” for a week in October 2016.
