Time flies when female artists aren’t catching much of a break. Maren Morris has reached No. 1 on Billboard’s country airplay chart with the title song from her second album, “Gir…
has reached No. 1 on Billboard’s country airplay chart with the title song from her second album, “Girl” — and she’s the first woman to do so since Kelsea Ballerina topped that chart with “Legends” in February 2018.over the weekend between performances at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, knowing that her female-centric song had just gone No. 1 on the Mediabase country radio chart and was poised to do so on Billboard’s. “Every sophomore album from an artist is terrifying.
Even putting gender parity discussions aside, there has been talk in the country music industry this year that country radio should show her as much love as possible, lest pop claim her in their stead. Morris has been vocal about keeping country as her home base, but should she mount a pop crossover effort again, there would be plenty of takers, since “The Middle,” a one-off had her taking the lead vocal on a track by Zedd & Grey, was one of the most ubiquitous pop singles of 2018.
“The reason why it’s such a big deal to talk about her song going No. 1 is because it doesn’t happen very often for women,” said her bandmate in the Highwomen, long-established hit Nashville song crafter Natalie Hemby. “It’s a positive, but it’s frustrating for me as a songwriter to write songs for women in country and they don’t get the same shot as a lot of boys who just come in and out and we don’t really know their names, even as they shoot up to No. 1.
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