Luke Combs achieves his 24th top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Back in the Saddle” moseys 11-10 on the Sept. 13-dated tally. During the Aug. 29-Sept. 4 tracking week, it increased by 8% to 17.5 million audience impressions, according to Luminate.
Combs co-authored the song with Dan Isbell and Jonathan Singleton, while Combs and Singleton co-produced it with Chip Matthews. The single introduces Combs’ upcoming album.
A week earlier, Combs hit No. 2 on Country Airplay with “Backup Plan,” with Bailey Zimmerman. Before that, Post Malone’s “Guy for That,” featuring Combs, reached No. 5 in March and Combs’ “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” led for two weeks last fall, becoming his 18th No. 1.
Combs, from Asheville, N.C., snapped off a career-opening-record 14 consecutive Country Airplay No. 1s. His 24 top 10s dating to his rookie appearance in the region in April 2017 with “Hurricane,” which led for two weeks, mark the most in that span. Morgan Wallen is second with 21, followed by Thomas Rhett with 17.
More ‘Good News’
Shaboozey’s “Good News” tops Country Airplay for a second week (32.4 million, up 4%). The Northern Virginia native’s first entry, the multi-genre smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” dominated for seven weeks beginning in August 2024, surpassing Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus, Take the Wheel” in 2006 as the longest-leading hit on the list ever to establish a country career (counting acts’ first titles on the chart as a lead artist or their initial songs promoted to country radio).
Meanwhile, of the 11 songs that have risen to No. 1 on Country Airplay for the first time in 2025, “Good News” is the eighth to lead for more than one week, matching the number of multi-frame rulers in all of 2024. In 2023, 12 new No. 1s reigned for multiple weeks.
