Post Malone & Morgan Wallen’s ‘I Had Some Help’ Makes Quickest Climb to No. 1 on Country Airplay Chart Since 2007

Jim Asker
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Established pop star Post Malone scores his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, ascends from No. 2 in just its seventh week on the survey (dated June 29).

The breakup song increased by 6% to 31.5 million audience impressions June 14-20, according to Luminate. Post Malone and Wallen wrote it with Louis Bell, Ernest, Ashley Gorley, Hoskins, Ryan Vojtesa and Chandler Paul Walters.

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“Help” wraps the fastest trip to No. 1 on Country Airplay since Garth Brooks’ “More Than a Memory” became the only hit in the survey’s 34-year history to arrive at the summit, in September 2007. Among songs that rose to No. 1 from another rank, “Help” completes the speediest sprint since Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” reached the top in its seventh week in July 2004. Notably, the average rise to No. 1 this decade is 33 chart weeks.

Post Malone logged one prior Country Airplay entry, as featured on an update of Joe Diffie’s “Pickup Man,” which hit No. 44 in January. (The original dominated for four frames beginning in December 1994.)

Post Malone is set to release his upcoming album, F-1 Trillion, Aug. 16, as he revealed via a billboard in Nashville Tuesday (June 18).

Meanwhile, “Help” grants Wallen his 13th Country Airplay No. 1. He’s charting an additional song in the list’s upper reaches: “Cowgirls,” featuring Ernest, hops 6-3 (26.3 million, up 16%).

“Help” has spent five weeks running at No. 1 on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs (through the charts dated June 22).

Young’s ‘Young’ Is Top 10

Chris Young achieves his 18th Country Airplay top 10 as “Young Love & Saturday Nights” pushes 11-10 (18.9 million, up 5%). The song, which he co-penned, is his first to hit the tier since his team-up with Mitchell Tenpenny, “At the End of the Bar,” which became Young’s 11th No. 1, for a week in August 2022.

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