Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves Score Their First Ever Number One Songs on the Hot 100

Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves’ “I Remember Everything” is the Number One song in the country, Billboard announced on Tuesday, topping the Hot 100 chart this week and dethroning Oliver Anthony’s unexpected viral populist anthem “Rich Men North of Richmond” for the top slot in the process. Bryan’s self-titled new album also debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200, beating out Travis Scott’s Utopia. Additionally, it opened at Number One on Billboard’s Country, Rock & Alternative, Rock, and Americana album charts.

“I Remember Everything” marks the first time that either Musgraves or Bryan topped the Hot 100, and the first time Musgraves has had a single that even cracked the Top 20. The duet won out in a particularly competitive week for the singles chart, going up against Luke Combs’s “Fast Car,” which remains at Number Two, while Doja Cat’s fast-rising “Paint the Town Red, is now at Number Three. “Last Night” by Morgan Wallen dropped to four and Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” is at five. “Rich Men North of Richmond,” whose digital sales dropped nearly 71 percent compared to the previous week, fell to Number Six.

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Despite some encouragement from Musgraves last week to download “I Remember Everything,” its success was driven mainly by its 32 million streams, the most of any song on the chart. “I Remember Everything” had topped both Spotify and Apple Music’s U.S. charts last week. It marks the fourth consecutive country track to top the Billboard chart, as the genre has seen one of its most successful years on the charts in recent memory.

Bryan and Musgraves’ Number One comes as traditional sales plummeted 70 percent last week for “Rich Men North of Richmond.” Despite the drop, Anthony’s streams kept comparably steady at over 2.5 million per day, suggesting the song could have legs in the Top 10 in the weeks ahead.

It’ll be a competitive race to the top again next week, as Doja’s “Paint the Town Red” continues to garner more streams; the singer also released her latest single, “Demons,” on Friday. Nicki Minaj’s “Last Time I Saw You,” which had overtaken “Rich Men North of Richmond” to top the iTunes sales chart since its release last week, could be a strong contender as well, along with the seemingly unstoppable trio of “Fast Car,” “Cruel Summer,” and “Last Night.”

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