It’s another bad week to be a country music-hating, Jason Aldean-bashing liberal. For the first time in Billboard Chart history, the top three songs on the Hot 100 are by country artists. Aldean has taken the top spot from the man that has owned it since March, another target of liberal venom, Morgan Wallen. Bringing up third is Luke Combs and his cover of the Tracy Chapman classic “Fast Car.”
Combs, who the left also has taken potshots at, calling his cover of the Tracy Chapman classic “racist” despite Chapman supporting the song, is the only one of the top three that hasn’t been swirled in controversy and cancellation attempts yet. In an age where so much music is electronic, with auto-tuned vocals and computer tracks in concert, having actual musicians at the top of the charts is a rarity.
The Billboard Hot 100 was introduced in August of 1958, and quickly became the standard for how we view popular music. The Hot 100 isn’t simply the top 100 country or pop, or hip-hop song. The compilation blends all genres of music and measures sales data, streaming, and airplay to gain a comprehensive understanding of what fans are buying as well as what radio is playing.
For three songs of any single genre to be at the top of the chart is rare. For three country songs, it is unprecedented. It is also a mirror of our country. What we are seeing on the charts is a direct pushback against cancel culture and the left. Conservative country fans are using their money, and thus their power to make their voices heard, and they are speaking loudly.
Morgan Wallen, the man that has owned the top spot since March, was an ascending artist in Nashville with a bright future. When he made the unfortunate lapse in judgment of using a banned word when referring to his white friend, he was immediately canceled by Nashville, his record label, and radio. However, since money talks, his fans spoke loudly with theirs and pushed Wallen to the top of the charts, where he has remained for over two years.
For Jason Aldean, the affable singer and unapologetic conservative, has been a chart-topper for over a decade. In fact, Aldean was the Artist of the Decade for the 2010s. When he released his current number 1 hit, “Try That In A Small Town,” back in May, it barely dented the charts, stalling out in the 30s before fading into obscurity. However, when he released the now famous music video July, the left immediately began cancellation attempts, breathing new life into an old song.
Unreal. U guys rock. 🔥 Charleston, Atlanta, and Tuscaloosa – y’all are up next! pic.twitter.com/leUOMMBq8g
— Jason Aldean (@Jason_Aldean) August 1, 2023
The subsequent attention and uproar from the cancel culture crowd once again emboldened country music fans to seek out the song and speak with their dollars. Aldean, never one to shy away from controversy spoke about the uproar during a recent concert in Cincinnati: “It’s been a long week and I’ve seen a lot of stuff suggesting I’m this, suggesting I’m that. I feel like everybody’s entitled to their opinion. You can think something all you want to; it doesn’t mean it’s true. What I am is a proud American. I’m proud to be from here … I love my country, I love my family, and I will do anything to protect that, I can tell you that right now.”
The success of Wallen, Aldean, and Combs stands as proof that Americans are sick of cancel culture and the left. Not only is it unprecedented for three country artists to dominate, the fact that it’s three white, likely conservative men from a genre that is often miscast as redneck, racist music stands in stark contrast to what the media wants us to believe America is. America has spoken, and it sounds like country.
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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