Add another milestone to Ella Langley’s rapidly growing and already-historic résumé, as well as women’s current chart resurgence.
The singer-songwriter’s “Loving Life Again” lifts four spots to No. 8 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Sept. 19). It drew 18.6 million audience impressions (up 14%) Sept. 4-10, according to Luminate.
The song becomes Langley’s seventh Country Airplay top 10 — and the fourth from her album Dandelion, which becomes the first album by a woman in the 2020s to generate four top 10s at the format. It follows three No. 1 smashes: “Choosin’ Texas,” which led for three weeks in February-March; “Be Her” (four weeks, June); and “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” with Morgan Wallen (two weeks, August).
Released April 10, Dandelion has notched 17 weeks and counting at No. 1 on Top Country Albums. (“I Can’t Love You Anymore” was added to the set following the song’s April 24 arrival.)
Dandelion is the first album by a woman to house four Country Airplay top 10s since Kelsea Ballerini’s debut LP, The First Time, in 2015-17, via the No. 1s “Love Me Like You Mean It,” “Dibs” and “Peter Pan” and the No. 3-peaking “Yeah Boy.”
Just before Ballerini completed the feat, Carrie Underwood earned four Country Airplay top 10s from her album Storyteller in 2015-16: the No. 1s “Heartbeat” and “Church Bells” and the No. 2 hits “Smoke Break” and “Dirty Laundry.”
He ‘Knows’ the Top 10
Luke Bryan’s “Country and She Knows It” rises one place to No. 10 on Country Airplay (17.1 million, up 3%). As he scores his 38th top 10, he ties Jason Aldean for the most dating to his first week in the tier (Sept. 8, 2007); Kenny Chesney and Blake Shelton share third place with 34 each over that span.
It’s Still ‘You’
Meanwhile, Luke Combs’ “Be By You” tops Country Airplay for a fourth week (33.1 million, up 1%). It’s the ninth of his 21 No. 1s to reign for at least that long. It’s his sixth such leader of the 2020s, tying Wallen for the most this decade.
All charts dated Sept. 19 will update Tuesday, Sept. 15, on Billboard.com.
