SMN Label Group and Its Artists Top 13 Charts
in Billboard 2020 Year in Music Issue
Luke Combs Tops Eight Year-End Charts, Maren Morris Earns Top Country Artist – Female, and Columbia Nashville Notches Two No. 1 Slots
Kane Brown, Miranda Lambert, Niko Moon, Old Dominion, Jameson Rodgers
and RCA Nashville Achieve Top 5 Standings
Luke Combs and Maren Morris Make Multiple Top 10 All-Genre Artist Lists;
Old Dominion Reach No. 6 Hot 100 Artists – Duo/Group
Nashville, TN, – Billboard has confirmed that Sony Music Nashville is the 2020 Top Country Label, and has topped 13 year-end charts – the most of any country label group. For the second consecutive year, SMN has reached this chart’s highest position which reflects total year-end country consumption and airplay data. Additionally, Sony Music Nashville scored No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Label chart for achieving the highest sum of 2020 country album consumption.
SMN’s Columbia Nashville reached the summit of two year-end charts – Top Country Albums Imprints and Hot Country Songs Labels.
Increasing his tally by one from last year, River House Artists/Columbia Nashville’s Luke Combs landed atop the following eight 2020 Billboard charts: Top Country Artists, Top Country Artists — Male, Top Hot Country Songs Artists, Top Country Airplay Artists, Top Country Digital Songs Artists, Top Country Albums Artists, Top Country Albums for What You See Is What You Get and Top Hot Songwriters. Combs, for a second consecutive year, has the most year-end chart toppers of any artist.
Columbia Nashville’s Maren Morris takes the No. 1 position for 2020 Billboard Top Country Artists – Female.
Below is the final list of No. 1 and Top 10 country and Top 10 all-genre chart positions SMN has achieved. A comprehensive account of Billboard’s 2020 year-end charts, compiled from Nov. 23, 2019 through Nov. 14, 2020, can be found HERE.
2020 BILLBOARD COUNTRY CHARTS
Top Country Label
Sony Music Nashville
Top Country Albums Label
Sony Music Nashville
Top Country Albums Imprints
1. Columbia Nashville
6. RCA Nashville
Hot Country Songs Labels
1. Columbia Nashville
3. RCA Nashville
Top Country Artists
1. Luke Combs
3. Kane Brown
4. Maren Morris
Top Country Albums Artists
1. Luke Combs
2. Kane Brown
Top Country Albums
1. Luke Combs – What You See Is What You Get
2. Luke Combs – This One’s For You
7. Maren Morris – GIRL
9. Kane Brown – Experiment
Top Country Artists – Female
1. Maren Morris
3. Miranda Lambert
Top Country Artists – Male
1. Luke Combs
3. Kane Brown
Hot Country Songs Artists
1. Luke Combs
4. Maren Morris
6. Kane Brown
Country Airplay Artists
1. Luke Combs
5. Kane Brown
Country Digital Song Sales Artists
1. Luke Combs
6. Maren Morris
Top Hot Country Songwriters
1. Luke Combs
Top Country Albums Distributors
2. Sony Music
Top Country Artists – Duo/Group
2. Old Dominion
Top New Country Artists
4. Jameson Rodgers
5. Niko Moon
Hot Country Songs
2. Maren Morris “The Bones”
6. Old Dominion “One Man Band”
Hot Country Songs Imprints
6. RCA Nashville
7. Columbia Nashville
Country Airplay Songs
7. “Homesick” Kane Brown
8. “Does To Me” Luke Combs ft. Eric Church
9. “Lovin’ On You” Luke Combs
Country Airplay Imprints
9. RCA Nashville
Country Airplay Labels
2. Columbia Nashville
4. RCA Nashville
Country Digital Song Sales
4. “The Bones” – Maren Morris
6. “One Man Band” – Old Dominion
Country Streaming Songs Artists
2. Luke Combs
5. Maren Morris
7. Kane Brown
8. Old Dominion
Country Streaming Songs
2. “The Bones” – Maren Morris
4. “One Man Band” – Old Dominion
8. “Beautiful Crazy” – Luke Combs
10. “Beer Never Broke My Heart” – Luke Combs
2020 BILLBOARD ALL-GENRE CHARTS
Billboard 200 Artists
4. Luke Combs
Billboard 200 Artists
5. Luke Combs
Billboard 200 Albums
10. Luke Combs – What You See Is What You Get
Top Artists – Male
10. Luke Combs
Top Artists – Female
8. Maren Morris
No. 5 Hot 100 Artists – Female
5. Maren Morris
Hot 100 Songs
9. “The Bones” – Maren Morris
Radio Songs Artists
9. Maren Morris
Radio Songs
6. “The Bones” – Maren Morris
No. 6 Hot 100 Artists – Duo/Group
6. Old Dominion