Zach Top Surges on Charts, Sets Rodeo Record, Promises New Album

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Neotraditionalist Zach Top is the biggest new thing in country music. And he’s only getting bigger.

Albums do one of two things in the charts. They either go up or down. If they go down, they fall from their debut position, usually never to return to the prominence of their debut week. And if they keep going up, they tend to stick at the very top of the charts for a long time, often for years. That is the current trajectory for Zach Top’s 2024 album Cold Beer & Country Music.

The album has been doing well ever since its debut on April 5th, 2024. But here in 2025, it’s done better week over week, breaking into the Top 5 on the country charts, surpassing Zach Bryan’s recent albums, and now competing with Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, and Jelly Roll for chart supremacy. Top’s also broke into the Top 40 in the Billboard 200, meaning yes, he’s now a Top 40 all-genre artist.

Check out the sales numbers below for Cold Beer & Country Music for the first weeks of 2025, and notice how they’re rising week to week. If they continue on this trend, he’s likely to be in the Top 3 in country music soon.

Week 9 – 18,375 Albums – 4.6% Country #5 All #33
Week 8 – 17,572 Albums – 0.7% Country #6 All #36
Week 7 – 17,447 Albums – 3.5% Country #6 All #38
Week 6 – 16,849 Albums – 1.2% Country #10 All #49
Week 5 – 16,652 Albums – 8.6% Country #11 All #54
Week 3 – 15,526 Albums – 4.8-% Country #9 All #48
Week 2 – 16,309 Albums – 8.7% Country #8 All #45
Week 1 – 15,006 Albums – Country #10 All #51

This same popularity has translated into the live space for the reigning Saving Country Music Artist of the Year. Not only is he selling out any venue he posts on his calendar immediately, he recently set the 2025 attendance record at Rodeo Houston by selling 70,865 tickets, and on a Tuesday night no less (3-11). He beat out Reba McEntire and Brad Paisley among others to achieve that feat before Journey finally topped Zach on Friday (72,109).

And for those hoping for more where that came from, Zach Top might deliver sooner than later. During a Spotify Q&A at Rodeo Houston, Top shared, “I just went in and tracked a few more songs to finish out the second record. So we got that finished up and are getting it mixed right now. It’ll come out at some point in the summer. I’m not sure exactly when yet, but there will be a new record coming this summer.”

A new album from Zach Top might shoot straight to #1, and might knock Cold Beer & Country Music out of the way to get there. Meanwhile Top is also doing well on radio with his viral hit “I Never Lie” currently sitting at #7 on the Mediabase chart, and is likely to get to #1 before summer.

We’ve witnessed major chart surges by non-radio country artists over the last many years, including multiple albums from Zach Bryan and Purgatory by Tyler Childers. But Zach Top is the first purely country artist to accomplish this, and it’s probably a sure bet he’s breaking down barriers for other throwback country performers in the process.

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