Morgan Wallen Replaces Himself at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs With ‘I Got Better’

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Plus, Luke Combs controls Country Digital Song Sales with 3 caller tracks.

Morgan Wallen’s “I Got Better” rises to No. 1 connected Billboard’s Hot Country Songs illustration (dated Oct. 18), becoming his 12th vocation leader.

The opus pulled 13.2 cardinal authoritative U.S. streams, 31 cardinal successful vigor assemblage (up 5% successful some metrics) and 1,000 sold (up 10%) Oct. 3–9, according to Luminate. Boosting the song’s reach, its authoritative video premiered Oct. 1.

Here’s a look astatine Wallen’s twelve Hot Country Songs No. 1s, with “I Got Better” dethroning his ain “What I Want” aft 20 weeks connected top:

“I Got Better,” Oct. 18, 2025 (one week to date)
“What I Want” feat. Tate McRae, opening May 31, 2025 (20 weeks)
“I’m the Problem,” Feb. 15, 2025 (one)
“Love Somebody,” Nov. 2, 2024 (one)
“I Had Some Help,” Post Malone feat. Wallen, May 25, 2024 (seven)
“Last Night,” Feb. 18, 2023 (25)
“You Proof,” May 28, 2022 (19)
“Thought You Should Know,” May 21, 2022 (one)
“Don’t Think Jesus,” April 30, 2022 (one)
“Wasted connected You,” Jan. 23, 2021 (11)
“7 Summers,” Aug. 29, 2020 (one)
“Whiskey Glasses,” May 18, 2019 (two)

Dating to Wallen’s archetypal week atop Hot Country Songs with the archetypal of his 12 No. 1s, nary 1 other has much than 4 leaders successful that agelong (led by Luke Combs).

“I Got Better” marks Wallen’s 4th Hot Country Songs No. 1 from his medium I’m the Problem, the 2nd specified feat for the superstar. One Thing astatine a Time produced arsenic many, with the sets presently placing astatine Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, connected Top Country Albums. Plus, with his Dangerous: The Double Album astatine No. 3, 11 of his 12 Hot Country Songs leaders look connected projects successful the medium chart’s apical 3 spots.

Combs Drops ‘The Prequel’

Luke Combs claims the apical 3 ranks connected Country Digital Song Sales, each with caller debuts: “Days Like These” (No. 1; 2,800 sold), “My Kinda Saturday Night” (No. 2; 2,700 sold) and “15 Minutes” (No. 3; 2,100 sold). The songs arrived Oct. 3, collectively packaged nether the rubric The Prequel. He ups his totals to 11 No. 1s and 45 apical 10s connected the chart.

“Days Like These” concurrently opens astatine No. 25 connected Hot Country Songs, besides via 4.3 cardinal streams, and “15 Minutes” enters astatine No. 46 (2.6 million).

Combs’ existent radio-promoted single, “Back successful the Saddle,” rises 8-7 for a caller Hot Country Songs high. It rides 8-5 connected Country Airplay (23.9 cardinal successful audience, up 7%).