Luke Combs Scores 24th Country Airplay Top 10 With “Back in the Saddle”
Luke Combs lands his 24th top 10 hit on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Back in the Saddle” trots from No. 11 to No. 10 on the Sept. 13-dated ranking. The track gained 8% in audience impressions—rising to 17.5 million during the Aug. 29–Sept. 4 tracking week, according to Luminate.
Co-written by Combs alongside Dan Isbell and Jonathan Singleton, “Back in the Saddle” was co-produced by Combs and Singleton with Chip Matthews and serves as the lead single from Combs’ forthcoming album.
Just a week earlier, Combs reached No. 2 with “Backup Plan” featuring Bailey Zimmerman. Earlier in the year, his collaboration with Post Malone, “Guy for That,” climbed to No. 5 in March, while his solo track “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” topped the chart for two weeks last fall, marking his 18th No. 1.
Since debuting on Country Airplay in April 2017 with his first No. 1 hit “Hurricane,” the Asheville, N.C. native has racked up an unmatched run of success. Combs began his career with a record-breaking streak of 14 consecutive No. 1s and now boasts 24 top 10s—the most in that period. Morgan Wallen follows with 21, while Thomas Rhett ranks third with 17.
Shaboozey’s “Good News” Holds at No. 1
Shaboozey’s “Good News” continues its reign atop the Country Airplay chart for a second consecutive week, growing 4% to 32.4 million in audience. The Northern Virginia artist first broke through with his genre-blending smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which dominated for seven weeks beginning in August 2024. That feat surpassed Carrie Underwood’s 2006 classic “Jesus, Take the Wheel” as the longest-running No. 1 debut by an artist launching their country career.
Of the 11 tracks that have reached No. 1 on Country Airplay for the first time in 2025, “Good News” is the eighth to hold the top spot for multiple weeks—matching the total number of multi-week chart-toppers in all of 2024. For comparison, 2023 produced 12 such multi-week No. 1s.
