# Morgan Wallen Just Accomplished Something No Artist in the History of Billboard’s Country Airplay Chart Has Ever Done

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/morgan-wallen-just-accomplished-something-no-artist-in-the-history-of-billboards-country-airplay-chart-has-ever-done/
- Published: 2026-11-02T18:19:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-03T04:04:58+00:00
- Original publisher: American Songwriter
- Original article: https://americansongwriter.com/morgan-wallen-just-accomplished-something-no-artist-in-the-history-of-billboards-country-airplay-chart-has-ever-done/
- Topics: Art, Culture, Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- “Been By Now” is Wallen’s fourth Country Airplay No. 1 of 2026.
- He is the first country singer with four No. 1s in three consecutive years.
- Wallen reached 23 Country Airplay No. 1s in eight years.

## Summary

Morgan Wallen’s “Been By Now” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, giving him four chart-toppers in 2026 alone. The milestone makes him the first country singer to score at least four No. 1s in three consecutive years, extending a run that also included 2024 and 2025.

Wallen has now earned 23 Country Airplay No. 1s in eight years, reaching that total faster than Luke Bryan, who took nearly a decade. He has recorded four or more No. 1 hits in a year four times, including 2023, while Garth Brooks did so in 1991 and 1993 and Luke Combs in 2021. Ella Langley also joined the group of artists with four No. 1s in a year, with “I Can’t Love You Anymore”, featuring Wallen, as her fourth.

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