advertisement
Chart Beat

Bruce Springsteen Makes First-Ever Appearance on Hot Country Songs Chart, Returns to Hot 100

The Boss is featured on Zach Bryan's "Sandpaper," from the latter's new album 'The American Bar Scene.'

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Danny Clinch

Nearly 50 years after making his Billboard chart debut, Bruce Springsteen scores a first, notching his initial appearance on the Hot Country Songs survey.

The Boss also returns to the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in over 15 years.


Springsteen achieves his latest chart feats, on lists dated July 20, thanks to his featured role on Zach Bryan’s “Sandpaper,” from the latter’s new album, The Great American Bar Scene. The set surges to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Streaming Albums, Top Country Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Album charts, among others, and No. 2 on the Billboard 200, following its first full tracking week (July 5-11, after it was released July 4).

advertisement

The collaboration drew 7.1 million official U.S. streams and 22,000 in radio airplay audience and sold 1,000 downloads in its first full week, according to Luminate. It debuts at No. 26 on Hot Country Songs and No. 71 on the Hot 100.

As Springsteen logs his maiden Hot Country Songs entry, he hits the Hot 100 for the first time since “Working on a Dream” debuted and peaked at No. 95 in February 2009. “Sandpaper” marks his 27th Hot 100 showing, a haul that began in 1975 with his iconic “Born to Run,” which reached No. 23.

Notably, Springsteen showed up to duet with Bryan on “Sandpaper” on March 27 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The song is drawing comparisons to Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire” – one of seven Hot 100 top 10s from his Born in the U.S.A. album in 1984-86 – which Bryan has covered in concert.

Springsteen boasts 12 career Hot 100 top 10s. His first, “Hungry Heart,” which reached No. 5 in 1980, was followed by his highest-charting single, “Dancing in the Dark,” which climbed to No. 2 in 1984. He made his most recent trip to the tier with “Streets of Philadelphia,” which rose to No. 9 in 1994.

advertisement

The 1999 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee has become synonymous with lengthy concerts alongside his legendary E Street Band. He has posted 11 No. 1s on the Billboard 200, among 22 top 10s. The River, which ruled for four frames in 1980, became his first leader and High Hopes his most recent in 2014.

Springsteen, 74, reached critical mass in the mid-‘80s with Born in the U.S.A., which dominated for seven weeks, beginning in July 1984, and has charted for 144 weeks, most recently last month.

This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.

advertisement
Drake
Avec l'aimable autorisation d'OVO/Republic Records
Drake
Legal News

Drake Calls Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Defamatory In Updated UMG Lawsuit

Drake's lawyers say the halftime show aimed to "assassinate the character of another artist," but UMG calls the updated case the latest "absurd" move by the superstar.

Drake has filed an updated version of his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” claiming the rival’s Super Bowl halftime show was intended to “assassinate the character of another artist.”

In an amended complaint filed late Wednesday, Drake’s attorneys say the Super Bowl show, watched by 133 million people and “million of children”, “revitalized the public’s attention” to lyrics calling Drake a “certified pedophile” – a diss that the Canadian superstar claims is false and defamatory.

keep readingShow less
advertisement