Re-Charting The Chart

Every week we will take a look at the top 30 Mediabase Country Chart. We will re-rank the songs on the chart based on the quality and overall enjoyment of each song. Next to each song I will provide the ranking that we would give it and the actual ranking on the Mediabase chart in parenthesis (From America’s Music Charts). Songs that are in the color red are songs that are either recurrent or in danger of going recurrent soon, while blue is for songs that I predict will go to number 1 at some point. At the end of each ranking there will be some thoughts about the current chart as well as any news or updates that are deemed important. I hope everyone enjoys this weekly post and feel free to comment/agree/disagree with anything you see.

1. Zac Brown Band “My Old Man” (19)  up 1 A
2. Midland “Drinkin’ Problem” (17) up 2 A-
3. Drake White “Makin’ Me Look Good Again” (30) up 4 B+
4. Raelynn “Love Triangle” (27) up 2 B+
5. Old Dominion “No Such Thing As a Broken Heart” (23) up 4 B
6. Brothers Osborne “It Ain’t My Fault” (24) up 1 B
7. Darius Rucker “If I Told You” (8) up 3 B
8. Dan and Shay “How Not To” (7) up 3 B 
9. Josh Turner “Hometown Girl” (9)  down 3 C+
10. Luke Combs “Hurricane” (2) no change C
11. Kenny Chesney “Bar At The End of the World” (21) down 12 C
12. Kip Moore “More Girls Like You” (28) up 3 C
13. Brett Eldredge “Somethin’ I’m Good At” (29) up 1 C
14. Justin Moore “Somebody Else Will” (20) up 2 C-
15. Tim Mcgraw & Faith Hill “Speak to a Girl” (22) up 1 C-
16. Billy Currington “Do I Make You Wanna” (26) up 2 C-
17. Blake Shelton “Every Time I Hear That Song” (12) up 5 C-
18. Rascal Flatts “Yours If You Want It” (13) up 1 C-
19. Brett Young “In Case You Didn’t Know” (4) no change C-
20. Cole Swindell & Sellout “Flatliner” (16) up 2 D
21. Dylan Scott “My Girl” (14) up 1 D
22. Thomas Rhett & Maren Morris  “Craving You”  (18) up 3 D- 
23. Keith Urban & Carrie Underwood “The Fighter” (11) up 2 F
24. Kelsea Ballerini “Yeah Boy” (3) no change F
25. Dierks Bentley “Black” (5) no change F
26. Lady Antebellum “You Look Good” (15) up 1 F
27. Chris Lane “For Her” (25) down 1 F
28. Brantley Gilbert “The Weekend” (6) up 1 F
29. Florida Georgia Line & Another Boy Band “Boy Band’s Are Lit” (10) up 2 F
30. Sam Hunt “Body Like a Backroad” (1) no change F

New To The Top 30: “Makin’ Me Look Good Again.” Drake White has a terrific voice and is one of the good guys in mainstream country who doesn’t simply do what everyone else does.

“More Girls Like You.” It says a lot about country radio that I see this as the 11th best song in the top 30. Kip Moore has some good songs in his catalog but none of them have had success on radio, only the bad ones have had success. His last album was just a mess and it certainly wasn’t country. This song is just your run of the mill generic country song but it’s not anything that makes me run screaming so it’s almost top 10 on my chart!

Songs That Left The Top 30:  “Any Ol’ Barstool”

“There’s a Girl”

Songs In Danger Of Going Recurrent: “Love Triangle”

“Hometown Girl”

“Yours If You Want It”

“Body Like a Back Road.” I genuinely hate this piece of shit and the song is horrible too. At least “Hurricane” is about to pass this on Mediabase but this is a monster hit. To the people that say genre doesn’t matter get ready to have country radio be straight R&B music in the next year.