Platinum-certified single achieves longest post-peak run on country charts
GRAMMY-winning superstar Maren Morris makes history this week again with her platinum-certified “The Bones.” The single achieves the longest post-peak run on the Country Aircheck/Mediabase radio chart, nine weeks following its second week at No. 1 in February. The song was also the first solo female back-to-back No. 1 since 2012 .
The monumental growth of “The Bones” also sees the song reach the top 20 at Top 40 radio this week, while last week the track rose to No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Pop Songs and Mediabase Hot A.C. charts. Moreover, “The Bones” is spending its sixth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. When the song first earned No. 1 on the chart in February — which followed the chart-topping stint of “Girl ” last summer — it marked the first time since 2016 that a solo country female artist had two No. 1’s from the same album. “The Bones” was also No. 1 on SiriusXM The Highway’s Hot 30 in July.
2020 is off to an incredible start for Morris. Over the weekend she performed the duet version of “The Bones” with Hozier as part of Global Citizen’s special broadcast One World: Together At Home, marking her first performance since welcoming her first child in March.
Also in March, Morris received RIAA gold certification for her critically lauded album Girl, which shattered the record for the largest ever debut streaming week for a country album by a woman, with 23.96 million streams in its first week. In addition, Morris played her biggest show to date for more than 60,000 fans at the Houston Rodeo, and she leads the 2020 ACM Awards nominations this year with five nods including Female Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for Girl. And her latest single, “To Hell & Back,” was the second most-added at country radio upon impact, with 41 first week stations.
Later this year Morris will embark on RSVP: The Tour throughout North America, including festival dates at Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience and Railbird Festival and headline stops in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Colorado’s storied Red Rocks Amphitheatre and many more. Supporting acts James Arthur, Ryan Hurd and Caitlyn Smith are confirmed for select dates. The tour kicks off in June.
