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Chartbreaker: How Role Model (And Some Famous Friends) Turned a Showstopping Live Moment Into a Breakout Hit
Role Model's 'Sally, When the Wine Runs Out' has become the alt-pop artist's breakthrough hit on the charts. Meet Billboard's May 2025 Chartbreaker.
The deluxe, titled Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye), featured four new tracks — but “Sally” emerged early on as “something we could jump off of,” says Sam Riback, Interscope Geffen A&M co-president and head of pop/rock A&R. Weeks after its release, he started writing again, and out came “Longest Goodbye” and “Sally,” the latter of which he calls “a new ending to the chapter…I think that this song felt like a breath of fresh air in that way of, ‘Oh, there’s somewhat of a positive spin here.’ ” In terms of the next onstage Sally, Role Model has his eyes on Kacey Musgraves, teasing that they’re on a few of the same festival lineups this summer, including Iowa’s Hinterland and Aspen’s Up In the Sky, both scheduled for August.
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