Bebe Rexha Renders Billboard’s ‘Hot Country Songs’ Chart Meaningless with #1 Record
Game over. All efforts to stave off the irrelevancy of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in the face of installing a pop star in the history books as the owner of the most successful single in the genre’s history ultimately failed.
This week, the song “Meant To Be” by pop star Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line officially spent its 35th week atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, making it the longest-charting #1 hit in the chart’s nearly 70-year history. It passed Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Backroad” to earn the distinction, but what you won’t see mentioned amid all the fanfare and hoopla over the accomplishment is the dubious way the designation was earned.
“Meant To Be” is not some monster summer hit that’s ever-present and ubiquitous throughout culture, ear-worming its way into the hearts of America and defining country music for the current era. Instead, it earned its historic run at #1 due to a couple of dubious distinctions. The first is the current rules for the Hot Country Songs chart first implemented in 2012 that give spins on pop and adult contemporary radio credit on the country charts. Though “Meant To Be” has long since disappeared or been backlisted in the majority of country radio station’s playlists, and is not being listened to en masse by country fans, it continues to grade incredibly well due to spins across non-country radio platforms.
When the new chart rules were installed in 2012, concerns from multiple genres were registered for how the charts were being tabulated due to the hypothetical scenario we’re seeing unfold at this very moment, where a non-genre song or artist could monopolize a genre-specific chart. Billboard was deaf on the issue then, and remains deaf on the issue now, not even mentioning in their puff piece on the new Bebe Rexha record that it was the 2012 chart rules that aided and abetted the accomplishment.
Beyond Billboard’s skewed rules—which subjugates all songs and artists before the 2012 rules changes to competing on a completely unfair playing field—Bebe Rexha and “Meant To Be” have benefited very specifically from shady placement on massive playlists, including Red Music’s country playlists on YouTube, as well as premier Spotify placement.
But “Meant To Be” doesn’t even pass the smell test. The song itself is innocuous pop, but unlike “Body Like a Backroad,” or the previous modern-day champion atop the Hot Country Songs chart—Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise”—“Meant To Be” doesn’t mark any significant sonic shift in country music, it isn’t resonating in a way that would be considered influential in the genre, and it’s not even memorable to most listeners. “Cruise” helped launch Bro-Country, and “Body Like a Backroad” brought EDM-style “country” music to the forefront. “Meant To Be” is just a generic pop song regarded in passing.
And possibly most concerning is there is no stopping here. Right now there are no legitimate candidates for who or what might dethrone Bebe Rexha and “Meant To Be” at the top of the charts. Some fingered Florida Georgia Line’s new single “Simple” as a possible candidate to be the next #1, but it slipped two spots this week on the Hot Country Songs from #4 to #6. Without the benefit of pop spins, streams, and downloads, it may be difficult to impossible to stop “Meant To Be” in the near term. It could have many more weeks and months at #1 before descending, making the record more difficult to break or rectify in the future.
And the issue with “Meant To Be” is not just one of pop vs. country. With so few spots on country radio being given to women artists, a song like “Meant To Be” further erodes opportunities to country women who’ve shown loyalty to the genre, and don’t send their own songs to pop radio.
But the time for bellyaching might be over. Clearly Billboard is deaf and blind to the impact of this issue, almost flaunting their nonchalant attitude towards the fair concern levied by fans and media alike about this clear and present issue, unwilling to enact reasonable tweaks to the system to make sure ridiculous aberrations like a pop star with a mild, non culturally-impacting pop song doesn’t dominate the country charts for well over half a calendar year and counting.
What Billboard has done is rendered what is supposed to be the industry’s premier song index for the country genre completely laughable and irrelevant. Henceforth, country fans, artists, and industry should only pay attention to the pre-2012 Hot Country Songs chart, and only rely on the Country Airplay chart as a reasonable metric of the resonance and staying power of a particular track, and obviously only in the radio environment (which has it’s own pitfalls and problems).
The inevitable has now happened. And now all that’s left to be determined is how long the charade of Bebe Rexha’s “Meant To Be” #1 will continue forth, shading out actual country artists, with each week offering further embarrassment to Billboard, and further validation to the fair concerns for the flaws in their system.
August 1, 2018 @ 9:21 am
Did you really think that Billboard was going to do anything to prevent this from happening?
August 1, 2018 @ 9:21 am
Realistically but unlikely, there needs be an alternative chart. One that resembles pre 2012 criteria. Billboard sadly have the monopoly.
August 1, 2018 @ 9:31 am
The thing that kills me is this quote from the “Ringer” article that you link to in your scrolling headlines:
“The argument, from Billboard’s perspective, is that the new chart rules better reflect objective reality. ‘It’s not really controversial here, because we know that Florida Georgia Line is a country act, and we know that ‘Meant to Be’ is a country song,’ Zellner says.”
That’s insane. The song has not performed that well on Country Radio, or even in Country streaming playlists. It’s value is almost entirely in the Pop/Spotify world. And yet it will have the distinction of smashing the record for longest running #1 Country song. What the hell? Billboard has completely lost any value as a publication of record here.
August 3, 2018 @ 11:43 pm
Florida Georgia Line is not country. It’s what Nashville robber barons want you to call it. These clowns can’t hold a candle to real new country artists who tell Nashville to fck themselves and record and produce on small labels and are more concerned about songwriting and content than how many morons will listen to whatever the image dept. wants you to wear on stage.
Cody Jenks, Elizabeth Cook, Margo Price, Whitey Morgan, Hayes Carll are just a few of the real singer/songwriters that have more real country music in their fingertip than all of the top 40 artists combined. And they are happy to be on XM Outlaw Country where real discerning music fans listen.
August 1, 2018 @ 9:33 am
In fact, Joel Whitburn is going to have his new Billboard country chart book listings use the Country Airplay chart for 2012 on forward charts.
August 1, 2018 @ 2:13 pm
I assume they will also use the Airplay chart for all the stats in the back of the book because these super long number ones totally warp the artist rankings and the like.
August 1, 2018 @ 9:58 am
Maybe …..just MAYBE this kind of ” fake chart” nonsense will become so blatantly stupid that even folks with only half a brain will come to totally ignore it the same way they ignore the Steven Tyler, Jessica Simpson and Cyndi Lauper ” country” albums . Sure , this kind of bullshit will always be around …and likely more-so in these desperate , cross-marketing times . But the further this crap can be pushed to its limits , the sooner the pendulum will swing back to some semblance of sanity . Wouldn’t it be refreshing and comforting to see SANITY become trendy again on even a small but meaningful scale ?
August 1, 2018 @ 4:57 pm
Follow the money.
August 1, 2018 @ 9:58 am
Perhaps her next dominating hit could be named “Body like a Wide Load”.
August 1, 2018 @ 10:02 am
I wonder if we should have a “musical event” chart. I’m not a huge fan of collaborations. It used to be fun when it was done now and then and it was fun cut on a CD, but now every act is going to be forced to team up with someone from another genre to cut a No. 1 single. There will be copycats. We have already seen them. If this song was No. 1 for a million weeks on the collaboration chart, who cares? It doesn’t even have to be outside the genre, put Carrie/Miranda’s song and Eric Church and Keith Urban’s song on that chart, too.
I think it would solve a lot of problems.
August 1, 2018 @ 10:11 am
The most aggravating part of this is it lays out a blueprint for future pop starlets to exploit the country genre to launch their careers. It was bad enough we had Sam Hunts and Maren Morrises paying lip service to country music to launch careers that would never make it in pop. Now we have the Bebe Rexhas of the world slapping a country label on boring, minor pop hits, and boom, instant stardom. What a joke.
August 1, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
Yup, I said this a few weeks back. It is very true and likely will happen. Look for a flood of failed pop artists to come into country with pop music.
August 1, 2018 @ 10:22 am
Reminds me of the messy Hot 100 chart. It had been dominated by mostly unknown hip-hop/trap songs that obviously took advantage of Spotify to reign the chart. It’s actually mostly irrelevant too, since the songs on top aren’t even popular. I actually believe that if people wanna know what really are the most popular and hot songs around, go to the Pop Songs chart instead. It’s also kinda anti-streaming (the key to the hip-hop music reign) because Taylor Swift’s Delicate is on top despite performing poorly on the streaming platforms.
August 1, 2018 @ 2:21 pm
Yep, the Hot 100 has it’s own issues especially in the times like a few weeks back with Drake having 20 something songs debut in the top forty. That is not what the chart has historically been about. I mean should every song on Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ or Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ all have been charting at once? Because those are the two biggest selling albums of original material in history and all the songs on them were certainly listened to more than most of the other songs charting at the time. Or if you want to go more current what about Adele’s last two albums. They were huge in context to the number of albums sold nowadays.
I think a bigger question is how much is Spotify or streaming in general an accurate gauge of popularity. Actually buying a specific song is an obvious commitment. And even radio with all it’s outdated flaws reaches a lot of people all at one time when they play a song.
August 2, 2018 @ 4:14 am
I mean should every song on Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ all have been charting at once?
Yes, besides The Lady In My Life. 🙂
August 2, 2018 @ 8:50 am
Yeah nine songs on the album seven went top ten. But not all at once in the first week of release when no one is familiar with them.
August 2, 2018 @ 9:07 am
Oh I know. I just meant that’s the only song on thriller I don’t like 🙂
August 1, 2018 @ 10:47 am
Still interesting to me in these time that here in Canada radio stations are FORCED TO PLAY Canadian content ( 33% of radio content ..hey ..talk about protectionist laws ) . Sure there’s some OK stuff and a TON of outright crap …just like every country , I’m sure ….but in reality we’re being forced to listen to stuff we wouldn’t , perhaps , choose to otherwise . It’s as ‘fake’ a representation of tastes and trends as a Billboard chart .
August 1, 2018 @ 11:54 am
Wouldn’t it be great if they used that Canadian content requirement to play Lindi Ortega and Corb Lund instead of shitty artists like Brett Kissel or Tebey?
August 1, 2018 @ 12:38 pm
no kidding adrien . corb is a more cultural-oriented artist than both artists you referenced ( crap bro -kiddie stuff )……and preserving culture is the supposed mandate of that ridiculous crtc law…….how ‘ bout some ian tyson ?
August 1, 2018 @ 5:11 pm
I personally like Brett Kissel. And Tebey’s pretty good too ???????????????? But in all seriousness, there’s room for everyone in the genre. Some are more traditional, others more pop. At the end of the day, bashing artists like Me or Brett on a message board isn’t going to change anything. One more thing, if you’d rather hear more traditional leaning country, there’s plenty of awesome stations on Sirius XM, or playlists on Spotify /Apple Music that cater to that sound ????????
August 1, 2018 @ 8:10 pm
”One more thing, if you’d rather hear more traditional leaning country, there’s plenty of awesome stations on Sirius XM, or playlists on Spotify /Apple Music that cater to that sound ????????”
Yes…there are indeed options , Tebey. This particular site is dedicated to SAVING COUNTRY MUSIC , as you are obviously already aware. Saving the hallmarks and traditions of the genre in terms of instrumentation, substance -driven narratives and GREAT vocal and instrumental talents is what this is about here. Every song played on ‘ country ‘ radio that doesn’t subscribe to those traditions – a good song , a great song , a crappy song – TAKES EXPOSURE FROM ARTISTS THAT DO subscribe to and believe in the importance of saving those traditions.
People like FGL and Rexha and their ‘ handlers ‘ are more often than not , it seems ,either unaware of those traditions or simply do not care about saving them and are first and foremost interested in making a dollar in this biz regardless of how it may affect the genre long term .
There is not only a sadness with this approach in terms of the great artists and material being overlooked but in terms of what music the next generation is being ‘ inspired ‘ by . Thanks to commercial/mainstream outlets who absolutely refuse to play tradition and ‘older artists’ the roots of GREAT country interpretations vocally and musically of GREAT COUNTRY material are being completely marginalized to where a younger generation won’t know WHAT to look for and why …..let alone WHERE to find it . The genre is being systematically gutted and taken advantage of by pop/hip-hop/and bastardizations of both.
I’m not suggesting that we should be denying ANYONE the opportunity to make a living playing whatever music they want to write and/or perform and feel passionate about . In fact more power to them. BUT I will trot out my seemingly ageless argument once again . Where’s the line ? Do we want jazz music played by machines ? Do we want Gospel music that is so generic-sounding and insincere that it becomes bereft of any emotional foundation ? Do we really want to hear a genre like Bluegrass music played with samples and machines ?
There needs to be a place for everything as you say . But slowly and surely the place that was once called COUNTRY radio has become all but indistinguishable from pop stations and in fact is playing the exact cuts more often than ever ….or generic ‘ country ‘ songs that have borrowed so heavily from pop sonics that it has become a gross misnomer to even label it as such , much less afford it airtime ( by law or by corporations calling the shots ).
We’re not here laying in the bushes looking to way-lay or sabotage anyone’s passions or career aspirations . We’re just trying to be vigilant about affording traditonal writers , singers , musicians and producers THEIR rightful opportunities for exposure via the mainstream outlets that have all but forsaken them .
Best of luck in your endeavors Tebey and thanks for reading OUR viewpoints and commenting .
August 2, 2018 @ 12:34 pm
I find it interesting that you read this site. Who on Canadian radio can be classified as more traditional? And like Albert says where do you draw the line?
And sorry for calling you shitty, I’m not trying to demean you as an individual.
August 4, 2018 @ 8:40 am
It’s all good. I personally love traditional country music. Believe it or not, I grew up on it. We actually do a medley of old school country in my set cause it’s fun as hell to play????????. Anyways, this is a very interesting debate and I don’t necessarily disagree with your opinion. I too wish more traditional leaning artists could be played side by side with poppier current artists on mainstream radio. I think country music has simply evolved with the times, as it should. But for the most part, even the poppier country music still has lyrics that are true to the genre. And isnt that what country music is about? The lyrical content? My current single ‘Denim On Denim’ may have a poppy production, but the actual song is about meeting a girl in a country bar and two stepping with her 🙂 See what I mean?
More traditional sounding songs do still make it on the air. Like the band Midland. Or the current Gord Bamford single ‘Dive Bar’, which I wrote.
Music moves in circles. I have no doubt country music will at some point circle back to its sonic roots, if only for a minute. Thanks for the discussion! Been a fun debate.
August 5, 2018 @ 1:41 pm
” We actually do a medley of old school country in my set cause it’s fun as hell to play????????”
THIS is encouraging , Tebey …. . It may be that your medley is the introduction to country’s traditions and roots that a young/new listener has been missing in order to better appreciate the genre’s history and cultural importance . Well done ….and thank you .
August 1, 2018 @ 5:57 pm
Define canadian content, Colter wall?
August 1, 2018 @ 8:14 pm
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/cancon.htm
August 1, 2018 @ 11:07 am
Good grief, how are people not sick of this by now? The first time I heard it I thought was a so-so track, not terrible for a country/pop crossover, but nothing to write home about. I was tired of it after a couple more spins on the radio, and I actually like FGL. Rexa has a decent voice and I appreciate good r&b/pop, but this song just never struck me as a track with staying power. It’s fairly generic and both artists have far better songs in their respective catalogs. I’m baffled.
August 1, 2018 @ 10:21 pm
Couldn’t agree more. I like Rexha’s voice better when paired with electronic productions (like I Got You and I’m A Mess), not some boring song with piano and trap beats called “Meant To Be”.
August 3, 2018 @ 3:00 pm
And, that’s the thing–it’s just a horrible song.
I listen to many genres. I can appreciate good songs, even ones that I don’t particularly care for. I can pick out some aspect or another and note that it was well done. It could be the tune, the vocal, a particular riff, the lyrics, or a brilliant instrumental performance–something.
There is nothing catchy, interesting, intellectual, or generally good about this song. It is a blight on radio. It’s sad that it’s been magically-classified as “country.”
August 1, 2018 @ 11:53 am
Is that Gina Lollobrigida in a wig?
August 2, 2018 @ 10:15 am
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August 1, 2018 @ 12:01 pm
Well, at least there is a woman involved. That should make some here happy considering the plethora of comments in many articles decrying the lack of female representation on the charts. Are we all happy now? Maybe next Rihanna can have a duet with Sam Hunt and it will be the next chart-topper with, oh yes, female representation on the charts again.
Being somewhat cynical here and am not trying to create a stir. But I think the point has been well-made about this subject and do not see a reason to constantly restate it in many posts such as the two most recent on the SAME DATE:
“Laura Jane was an important personality to Flatland Cavalry, and the Texas music scene where women are often too far and few between.”
and
“They will tell you that women can’t make it in country music these days, and it’s certainly true that it appears to be more difficult than ever. And if you think it’s tough being a woman in country music, try being a woman in country music who is actually making country music, which might put you in the most marginalized category of them all. Add on top of that no significant radio play or a major label behind you, and on the surface an artist like Sarah Shook has little to no chance to make it in the music business.”
O.K. We get it.
August 1, 2018 @ 12:42 pm
It appears to me that Tequila by Dan + Shay, Get Along by Kenny Chesney, and Mercy by Brett Young are the current best contenders to take the #1 spot. I really like all of those a lot more than Meant To Be, so I’m rooting hard for one of them to make it. Tequila is only 4 spots behind it on the Hot 100 and Meant To Be has been dropping pretty steadily, so that’s probably the best bet. I wouldn’t be surprised if Meant To Be fell off #1 in the next week or two.
August 1, 2018 @ 2:09 pm
Generally a good way to look at this chart in a bigger picture is just to look at the Hot 100 because they just take the Hot Country Songs rankings from that. So Rexha is at 20 this week down from 17 last week and Dan and Shay are at 24 up one from last week so they are getting close, by far the closest any song has been in months. But Dan and Shay are going to start losing airplay faster so will they hold up to pass Rexha as it falls will be the question. Brett Young is at 33 this week but not sure that song will have the legs when radio drops off in a couple of weeks. Maybe it will if Rexha falls fast enough.
August 1, 2018 @ 6:31 pm
Dan + Shay might be the closest candidates considering they sent tequila to adult contemporary radio and it’s doing pretty well
August 1, 2018 @ 2:28 pm
The obvious fix to this is to remove the non country airplay from the mix. This would still cause issues because the crossover songs would still get bigger streaming numbers because of there exposure to the wider pop audience but at least that would make things a little fairer.
And in the same vein the Hot 100 should only be for songs declared as singles. Drake doesn’t get to have 20 songs debut and then 18 of them disappear forever the next week. And they only count the official video for streams. None of this viral video crap that totally skews things.
August 1, 2018 @ 6:36 pm
The solution is that country songs chart should be based on COUNTRY airplay along with streaming and sales. Country radio is just too obnoxious to admit they’ve done wrong cause country songs never ever have this level of reception on pop radio
August 1, 2018 @ 2:54 pm
I know stuff like this is important, and I’m glad there are people like Trigger calling it out. But man, I really don’t give a damn.
There is so much other good independent music and so many ways to listen, it’s tempting to say who cares? The only thing I would wish of course is that the better, real artists be more able to make a living….
In genreal, I just say fuck the mainstream. The mainstream in any genre generally sucks. I think these guys say it well (“reacting” to In Color by Jamey Johnson). They also present a refreshing view of Country music from an “outsiders” perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKq6uVRSBX4
August 1, 2018 @ 4:26 pm
Their reaction to George Strait’s “I Can Still Make Cheyenne” is pretty great too. Reaction videos are typically a waste of time imo, but these guys help me listen to songs I’ve heard countless times with fresh ears.
August 1, 2018 @ 4:33 pm
Yeah I agree. I liked Elephant by JI. Their reaction was pretty heartfelt and made me remember how I felt the first time I heard it.
August 1, 2018 @ 3:58 pm
Well boys in was fun while it lasted. Mainstream Country is just a pop subgenre now.
August 1, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
Yeah boys and girls, good game…good game. Safe to assume nobody want’s a participation trophy?
August 1, 2018 @ 5:07 pm
Rexha is a Romanian. You guys are all thinking like Americans. I wonder how the Chinese use Billboard, and whether Billboard has global aspirations. That might explain a lot.
Hollywood scripts suck because they have to be translated. To facilitate that, eighth grade (or less) reading comprehension is the LCD. And you’re surprised when dumbass Rexha songs dominate the charts of global commerce?
Come on. This is about economic models and money in a world without nations.
August 1, 2018 @ 5:20 pm
So “Meant To Be”, has been at #1 basically since Thanksgiving (how apropos, considering how much of a turkey it is in terms of quality).
But again, this is not an issue of “pop/country” or “crossover”, because things like this have been going on since the 1950s. People tend to forget that history.
The problem, in my opinion, is that this seems to be the culmination of a trend that has actually been going on since at least the end of the 1980s, when, in part if not entirely because of Garth Brooks, the country music world morphed from being a musical style to a lifestyle, then a huge industry, and now to where it is now: a cold-blooded business almost exclusively. This to me seems to be one way to explain how a harebrained, fly-by-night pairing of two “dudes” with almost no real grounded understanding of country music and a blonde bombshell with absolutely none can be so obscenely successful.
But “Meant To Be” is neither country, nor pop. To me, it is just gutless corporate crap, put out there by an industry that is so infatuated with coming out with the latest “fad” that it doesn’t realize, and probably doesn’t even CARE, how this could totally explode in their faces, and not only end the industry itself, but totally destroy country music as we’ve known it as a whole.
August 1, 2018 @ 5:57 pm
It’s not country,they need to call it new rap instead of new country
August 1, 2018 @ 5:58 pm
What exactly is the significance of the chart? and what makes it so hard to change
August 2, 2018 @ 10:10 am
See my comment below?
August 1, 2018 @ 6:15 pm
The only reason I know who Bebe is because she’s occasionally mentioned on this site. I really don’t care what she’s doing or what billboard is doing.
August 1, 2018 @ 7:37 pm
Just more proof that It’s politics and money, not music, that runs the industry.
August 1, 2018 @ 11:46 pm
The only connection between Bebe Rexha and George Strait is that I can still make Cheyenne is capable of reducing me to tears. Rexha brings me to the verge of tears.
August 2, 2018 @ 2:49 am
Still reporting this bullshit I see.
August 2, 2018 @ 8:33 am
I’ll stop reporting on bullshit when bullshit stops happening. If nobody speaks up, how will folks know there’s opposition to what’s happening?
August 2, 2018 @ 4:20 am
Is it time to have the conversation “is Babe Rexha the greatest female country singer of all-time”?
August 2, 2018 @ 6:39 am
I just googled the “chart” and am happy to say I listen to or have heard only one charter and that’s Stapleton.
Life’s to short to care about pop music charts.
August 2, 2018 @ 10:10 am
Let’s see if I have this straight:
The Hot Country Songs chart has been changed to skew the ratings to favor non-traditional outlets (streaming, etc).
The record labels return a far lower percentage of the profit to the artist from non traditional outlets than from traditional sales (just ask Jason Isbell how much his payouts went up when he went to Southeastern–his own label).
So, Billboard is skewing the chart towards a distribution system that puts more cash in the pockets of the record labels at the expense of artists. Billboard is a private company (I think–right?), as are most/all labels, so we’ll never know how much back door cash is flowing to Billboard from the labels.
Promoting pop singers also fits with Billboard’s move into celebrity gossip and fashion and bullshit.
If Nash can’t be the ubiquitous country brand evidently Billboard will.
Follow the money, indeed.
I don’t mind companies making money. I do mind them manipulating people for it.
August 3, 2018 @ 1:05 pm
It would be interesting for someone to ask the guys of FGL what they think about this, that this song has broken the record set by George Strait. And it’s too late regarding this song but if all Country Artists are aware of the charting rules being different now, hopefully it would be another deterrent to teaming up with Pop singers.
Wondering if with these new rules of charting, there can (at least) be an asterisk attached to songs like this, that break records in ‘Country’ bec of the ‘Pop’ charting. At least it could ‘preserve’ the records of those who made music before these new rules, and show the difference…………. And at the very least people who care about this will know the difference, and will consider what George Strait accomplished to be far superior to this.
August 4, 2018 @ 7:57 am
”It would be interesting for someone to ask the guys of FGL what they think about this, ”
I think the key word here Nan is ‘think’. Does FGL come across as a band that THINKS ?
These guys have jumped on every music , fashion , gesture and hair -style trend that’s come down the pike WITHOUT having to ‘think’ or be the least bit original .When ‘trend’ is your complete mantra you don’t need to think at all . Someone else will dress you and make your lunches ….., y’know….just like mom used to .
I’d be more curious about whether they even knew who George Strait is .
August 5, 2018 @ 2:56 pm
I saw your response and can’t tell if you’re mad at them or me—-If me then read the rest of my comment, it’s obvious whose side I’m on. I put that bec without them singing (the few lines) I thought it wouldn’t be considered “Country”; if that’s the case them off it and this mess never happened. If Country Artists are aware of the charting today, will they still make songs with Pop singers. Hopefully no, of course. I’m relatively new on here, this Wonderful Site. I didn’t know before this that FGL were cons. to be single- handedly destroying Country music, first ‘Cruise’ now this. I do have their 2nd album/CD and ‘Dirt’ is a decent Country song. They Can make okay music, hopefully from now on. I still would like for them to be asked about this.
August 14, 2018 @ 6:31 pm
I could puke.