Morgan Wallen breaks the record for the most simultaneously-charting songs on the Global 200, with 34, but notches just one song, at No. 103, on Global Excl. US.
Dangerous: The Double AlbumTo find a full-on country act other than Wallen with a noteworthy robust one-week sum, we arrive at, who totaled six songs on the Nov. 7, 2020-dated Global 200. There have been 591 counts of an artist with six or more titles on the Global 200, spread among 65 distinct acts, but just 11 by two artists – 10 by Wallen and one by Combs – among country artists.
Country music has long struggled to find crossover success internationally. The genre is native to the United States, headquartered in Nashville and driven in large part by U.S.-based country radio, while often honoring authenticity above all else. That means that hometown pride goes a long way and could make exporting to Asia, Europe, South America and beyond difficult.
Wallen’s own chart entries perhaps prove that point. His song titles alone are specifically American, referencing Ford trucks , Tennessee and the particulars of a certain baseball team’s near-championship run from 25 years ago . Those songs, and most others from his latest album, storm the Global 200 powered by domestic streams but miss out on theOf Wallen’s 34 Global 200 entries, just one appears on Global Excl. U.S., where “Last Night” debuts at No. 103.
Among songs on both of this week’s global charts, the average streaming breakdown is 25% domestic and 75% international. Wallen’s “Last Night” is all the way at one end of that spectrum, with 84% U.S., well more than three times the average and distinctly separated from even the next highest-U.S. share,’s 36 songs go even further, averaging out to 88%. Hip-hop has itsspreading outside the U.S., making Wallen’s more extreme lack of international streaming even more stark.
Wallen’s drastically stateside lean falls in line with the near-total lack of country consumption outside the U.S., but there are small caveats. “Last Night” is on two of
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