Lauren Alaina & Chase Matthew’s ‘Exes’ Takes the Pair to No. 1 on Country Airplay

Lauren Alaina and Chase Matthew earn their fourth and second No.

1, respectively, on Billboard ’s Country Airplay chart (dated Oct.

24) as “All My Exes” jumps four spots on 31 million audience impressions, up 28% week over week, Oct.

9-15, according to Luminate.

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1 on Country Airplay Chart With ‘Darlin’ ‘ Written by Alaina, Jimmy Gutch, Ben Johnson and Whitney Phillips, the song draws on a relationship of the American Idol alum’s in her early 20s.

She had last reached the summit alongside HARDY and Devin Dawson on “One Beer” in 2020.

Matthew’s “Darlin’” was a three-week leader last November.

“All My Exes” is the third collaborative No.

1 this year, among 20 total new chart-toppers, after Ella Langley and Morgan Wallen’s “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” which led for two weeks in August, and Shaboozey and Jelly Roll’s “Amen,” a two-week No.

1 in the spring.

Despite that 15% share, and with collaborations having accounted for just 8% of the chart’s 998 No.

1s since its January 1990 launch, such leaders have risen each decade — from 2% in the 1990s to 5% in the 2000s, 9% in the 2010s and 20% in the 2020s.

Even so, team-ups have come in waves, from 31% of all No.