Sam Hunt claims eighth No 1 single

The song is featured on Southside

Multi-platinum-selling country star Sam Hunt claims his eighth career No. 1 with “Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s.” The track has ascended to the top of both the Country Aircheck/Mediabase and Billboard Country charts this week. The Georgia native co-wrote the single with Zach Crowell, Chris LaCorte, Josh Osborne and Ernest K Smith.

“My buddy, Josh Osborne, called me one afternoon when I was driving home from Nashville. He called me with this idea, ‘I Bet Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s.’ He said, ‘I feel like it sounds like you.’ I said, ‘Man, I love it. Let’s write that,’” recalls Hunt. “So, fast forward several months we did a little writing retreat outside town, rented a little cabin and wrote the song. It was kind of the ninth hour in terms of the second record coming out. Typically, I don’t know for sure that a song is going to be on a record until it’s finished, and I listen to it and I’m like, ‘yeah, okay. This is going to work for the record.’ But that one, I would sit and write the track listing and I would put ‘Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s’ on the track listing before we even wrote the song, and I knew I had to get it right.”

The track appears on Hunt’s platinum-certified sophomore album, Southside. The album is Hunt’s second No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart following his 3x platinum debut album Montevallo. Like its predecessor, Hunt wrote every track on Southside including his chart-topping “Hard to Forget,” the record-breaking “Body Like A Back Road,” and “Kinfolks.”

Upon its release a year ago, Southside was celebrated by the RIAA as one of only four albums, and the only country project, to reach platinum status in the first half of 2020.

Buddy Iahn
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