Ella Langley’s Team-Ups Reflect a Bigger Country Chart Trend
Collaborations, meaning songs on which more than one artist is billed, account for 18% of the positions on Billboard ’s Sept.
5-dated Hot Country Songs chart and 20% of those on Country Airplay.
For comparison among other genres, that’s more than double the share on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (8%) and not far behind Hot Latin Songs (26%) and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (30%).
The pairings have become a defining feature of country’s current chart moment, and no artist embodies that trend this week more than Ella Langley .
Langley has the highest ranking collaboration on both current charts.
“I Can’t Love You Anymore,” with Morgan Wallen, ranks at No.
5 on Hot Country Songs and No.
3 on Country Airplay, where it recently spent two weeks at No.
1.
Meanwhile, “Jaded,” with Koe Wetzel, places at No.
8 on Hot Country Songs, giving Langley the top two collaborative titles on that chart, where it debuted at No.
25 the week before.
All told, Langley has logged nine collaborations on Hot Country Songs, five of them top 10 hits, with partners ranging from Riley Green and Miranda Lambert to BigXthaPlug, Luke Bryan and HARDY.
On Country Airplay, she has charted six team-ups, three of which have reached No.
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