Luke Combs continued his dominance atop the Country Top 40 chart, holding on to the No. 1 spot for the sixth straight week with “Forever After All.” Combs’ hit has now surpassed Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope” as the top country song of 2021 thus far. Rounding out the Top 5 are “Famous Friends” by Chris Young, “Gone” by Dierks Bentley, “Blame It On You” by Jason Aldean and “Single Saturday Night” by Cole Swindell.
This week’s biggest movers (of four or more spots) are “Nobody” by Dylan Scott (up to No. 11 from No. 15), “Wave” by Luke Bryan (to No. 17 from No. 21), “I Was On a Boat That Day” by Old Dominion (to No. 21 from No. 26) and “You Should Probably Leave” by Chris Stapleton (to No. 36 from No. 40).
There were four debuts this week: “Like a Lady” by Lady A (No. 29), “Freedom Was a Highway” by Jimmie Allen and Brad Paisley (No. 34), “Home Sweet” by Russell Dickerson (No. 38) and “Same Boat” by the Zac Brown Band (No. 39).
Here is the updated chart for the week of June 17, 2021. Each song is linked to its official video on YouTube, where possible. To listen to the full playlist of these songs, visit our page on Spotify.
| Pos | Song | Artist | LW | Chg | Wks | Peak |
| 1 | Forever After All | Luke Combs | 1 | 0 | 24 | 1 |
| 2 | Famous Friends | Chris Young | 3 | 1 | 18 | 2 |
| 3 | Gone | Dierks Bentley | 2 | -1 | 24 | 2 |
| 4 | Blame It On You | Jason Aldean | 6 | 2 | 18 | 4 |
| 5 | Single Saturday Night | Cole Swindell | 7 | 2 | 24 | 5 |
| 6 | Settling Down | Miranda Lambert | 4 | -2 | 24 | 4 |
| 7 | Almost Maybes | Jordan Davis | 9 | 2 | 24 | 7 |
| 8 | Minimum Wage | Blake Shelton | 8 | 0 | 19 | 8 |
| 9 | One Too Many | Keith Urban & P!nk | 10 | 1 | 24 | 9 |
| 10 | Glad You Exist | Dan + Shay | 11 | 1 | 17 | 10 |
| 11 | Nobody | Dylan Scott | 15 | 4 | 24 | 9 |
| 12 | Drinkin’ Beer, Talkin’ God. Amen | Chase Rice | 13 | 1 | 15 | 12 |
| 13 | Things a Man Oughta Know | Lainey Wilson | 14 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | Country Again | Thomas Rhett | 12 | -2 | 8 | 12 |
| 15 | We Didn’t Have Much | Justin Moore | 17 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| 16 | Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s | Sam Hunt | 5 | -11 | 24 | 5 |
| 17 | Waves | Luke Bryan | 21 | 4 | 9 | 17 |
| 18 | Undivided | Tim McGraw & Tyler Hubbard | 16 | -2 | 20 | 16 |
| 19 | Next Girl | Carley Pearce | 18 | -1 | 23 | 18 |
| 20 | My Boy | Elvie Shane | 19 | -1 | 14 | 19 |
| 21 | I Was On a Boat That Day | Old Dominion | 26 | 5 | 3 | 21 |
| 22 | You Time | Scotty McCreery | 23 | 1 | 6 | 22 |
| 23 | Cold Beer Callin’ My Name | Jameson Rodgers | 20 | -3 | 8 | 20 |
| 24 | Worship You | Kane Brown | 24 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 25 | Chasing After You | Ryan Hurd & Maren Morris | 25 | 0 | 16 | 25 |
| 26 | Shallow | Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood | 27 | 1 | 24 | 26 |
| 27 | Memory I Don’t Mess With | Lee Brice | 28 | 1 | 18 | 27 |
| 28 | Knowing You | Kenny Chesney | 22 | -6 | 8 | 22 |
| 29 | Like a Lady | Lady A | New | New | 1 | 29 |
| 30 | Just About Over You | Priscilla Block | 29 | -1 | 17 | 29 |
| 31 | Lil Bit | Nelly & Florida Georgia Line | 30 | -1 | 24 | 30 |
| 32 | The Good Ones | Gabby Barrett | 31 | -1 | 24 | 31 |
| 33 | Whiskey and Rain | Michael Ray | 33 | 0 | 7 | 33 |
| 34 | Freedom Was a Highway | Jimmie Allen & Brad Paisley | New | New | 1 | 34 |
| 35 | Lady Like | Ingrid Andress | 36 | 1 | 7 | 35 |
| 36 | You Should Probably Leave | Chris Stapleton | 40 | 4 | 9 | 36 |
| 37 | Tequila Little Time | Jon Pardi | 39 | 2 | 2 | 37 |
| 38 | Home Sweet | Russell Dickerson | New | New | 1 | 38 |
| 39 | Same Boat | Zac Brown Band | New | New | 1 | 39 |
| 40 | Made For You | Jake Owen | 32 | -8 | 23 | 4 |
There are 13 songs that show signs of invading the chart in the coming weeks. Songs that appeared on this list previously are marked with an asterisk for each week they’ve been on the list. (You can listen to them in our “On the Side Burner” playlist on Spotify):
| On the Side Burner | |
| (Songs that haven’t appeared in our chart but were closest to making it this week) | |
| Song | Artist |
| Wine, Beer, Whiskey | Little Big Town |
| Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home) | Elle King & Miranda Lambert |
| Half of My Hometown | Kelsea Ballerini |
| Hell of a View | Eric Church |
| It’s ‘Cause I Am | Callista Clark |
| Buy Dirt | Jordan Davis |
| To Be Loved By You | Parker McCollum |
| Wasted On You | Morgan Wallen |
| Fancy Like | Walker Hayes |
| Give Heaven Some Hell | Hardy |
| Things Dads Do | Thomas Rhett |
| Not Yet | Brett Young |
| Til You Can’t | Cody Johnson |
The American charts all have their whims. We look across the pop music landscape to put together a reliable snapshot of what is truly trending today. We are currently tracking 73 songs that have trended in various ways in the past week.
Copyright © 2021 Doug DeBolt.
