The Top-Selling New Country Artist of the Past Three Years Becomes 2018’s First Artist To Achieve Consecutive Weeks at #1 on Billboard Top Country Albums Chart
History-Making Singer/Songwriter Became First Artist In History To Top All 5 Billboard Country Charts With His Breakthrough Album, #1 Hit “What Ifs” and #1 Current Single, “Heaven”
Nashville, TN – Kane Brown’s Gold-Certified self-titled debut album remains #1 on Billboard Top Country Albums Chart this week, marking the breakthrough singer/songwriters fourth week to top the Country Albums chart. With his return to #1, the breakthrough star becomes 2018’s first artist to achieve consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart.
Remaining country’s best-selling new-artist debut of the past three years, the 24-year-old entertainer first topped the Billboard Top Country Albums chart when Kane Brown debuted #1 and concurrently entered the Top 10 all-genre Billboard 200 chart in December 2006.
In October 2017, Brown made history as he revisited the top Country Album position when he released the Deluxe Edition of his self-titled album which debuted 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums and Top 5 on Billboard 200 Charts. This same week, The singer/songwriter became the first artist ever to top all 5 Billboard Country Charts with his breakthrough #1 Top Country Album; #1 debuting Country Digital Song, “Heaven”; and #1 Country Airplay, Hot Country Song and Country Streaming Song, the Platinum-certified “What Ifs” featuring Lauren Alaina. The 24-year-old entertainer also made history in 2015 when his country EP made the highest debut in the Nielsen SoundScan era.
His current single, “Heaven,” is currently #3 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Chart, #8 On Demand Country Audio Streams and Top 30-and-climbing at country radio.
Less than a month ago, on Friday, December 15, the breakthrough vocalist sold out his first-ever headline arena concert at Landers Center, outside of Memphis, TN. Before 7,000-plus fans, the 24-year-old entertainer was surprised by his management, label, producer and music publishing team members who presented with a Gold RIAA certification for his self-titled debut album (and Deluxe Edition) which has accumulated over 500,000 physical sales and downloads including on-demand streams and track equivalents. Additionally, he received a plaque commemorating the history-making feat of being the first artist ever to score #1 on all 5 Billboard country charts simultaneously.
In addition to wrapping his sold-out headlining tour, Brown ended 2017 with several television appearances, including the national debut of “Heaven” on Good Morning America (December 6) as well as a performances of his #1 hit, “What Ifs” on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2018” on New Year’s Eve and the CBS Special “A Home for the Holidays” (December 19), and an encore performance of “Heaven” on Good Morning America on New Year’s Day. Brown is currently opening as direct support for Chris Young’s Losing Sleep tour. For more information and a full list of tour dates, visit www.kanebrownmusic.com.