December 7, 2020, Issue 734
The Year In Music: 2020
For the second consecutive year, Luke Combs is the most-heard artist at Country radio, followed by Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton, Sam Hunt and Morgan Wallen. Those top five overall performers are also the top five in the Male category. Topping the Female category is Maren Morris, who lands at No. 8 overall. Old Dominion are the top Duo/Group, landing at No. 14 overall, with Gabby Barrett as this year’s most-heard New Artist at No. 13 overall. Big Loud’s Wallen has the most-heard song of 2020 with “Chasin’ You,” and the top 10 are listed on page 9.
Luke Combs
Morgan Wallen
Old Dominion
A full breakdown of the year’s Top Maren Morris Performers and the Top 100 Most-Heard Songs of 2020 comprise much of Country Aircheck’s year-end print issue, out midmonth. As always, airplay info comes from our partners at Mediabase 24/7 and is based on singles that spent at least one week in the Top 50 during the 2020 chart year, which ran Nov. 10, 2019 to Nov. 7, 2020. Capitol/Nashville is your airplay chart Gabby Barrett share champ – now 12 years running – again staving off Columbia at No. 2. (continued on page 9)
Make Show Bones About It: The Bobby Bones Show raises $2.25 million during its annual two-day St. Jude radiothon with help from artists including Chris Stapleton, Dierks Bentley, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert and Sam Hunt. Pictured (back, l-r) are Ray Slater, Morgan Huelsman, Lunchbox (Dan Chappell), Bones, Amy Brown, Eddie Garcia and Scuba Steve (Stephen Spradlin); (front, l-r) Hillary Borden, Mike Deestro and Abby Anderson.
ACM Lifting Lives Doubles Down
“I’ve always loved being my own boss and being in control of my destiny to a certain extent. And I’ve always felt that if I continued to work hard and love the job, no one could take this touring gig away from me. I was sadly mistaken.” Those words could have been uttered by any number of country music professionals, and they’re indicative of motivations behind last week’s Giving Tuesday (12/1) re-opening of ACM Lifting Lives’ COVID-19 Response Fund. In this case, they were said by singer/ songwriter Jesse Terry, who proposed to his wife Jess at Nashville’s Bluebird Café Jesse Terry in 2010 before the couple began touring
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