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A Woman Is Finally Having Fun at the Top of the Country Charts


Were the past few years a worrisome trend or just a blip?

Outside of Langley’s “love me,” country programmers continue to snub fun songs by women with hit potential, like Dasha’s TikTok-viral stomp “Austin” (which peaked at No. Even Lainey Wilson, the most successful woman in the genre right now, isn’t immune: Her rubber-burning love song “Hang Tight Honey” was one of country’s most dynamic singles in years, yet stalled out at No. But Langley is still an outlier on the week’s full chart — the next song by a woman is Koe Wetzel and Jessie Murph’s “High Road,” about a turbulent relationship, at No.

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