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Hot 50 Chart: Massive jump for Gabby Barrett, Amy Shark & Keith Urban back on top

Gabby Barrett makes huge bounds, with Amy Shark feat. Keith Urban back to #1 on the Countrytown Music Network Hot 50 country airplay chart.

Love Songs Ain’t For Us by Amy Shark feat. Keith Urban moves back to #1 on the Countrytown Music Network Hot 50 country airplay chart, pushing last week’s front runner Casey Barnes into second.

Canadian songstress MacKenzie Porter moves into third with These Days, ahead of Brad Cox (#4) and our Artist of the Week (read about him here) – Thomas Rhett at #5 with What’s Your Country Song.

Minimum Wage by Blake Shelton moves down one spot into #6, followed by Vixens Of Fall's Break It Easy (which we premiered here) and Taylor Swift feat. HAIM (#8). Just The Way by Parmalee & Blanco Brown remains at #9 for a second week and The Wolfe Brothers' banger Anybody Ever moves back into the top 10.

Our previous Artist of the Week, Cass Hopetoun‘s Who Needs Hawaii charts its highest so far, coming in at #14, as does Sam Hunt with Breaking Up Was Easy In The 90s at #17, up from #18 last week.

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He recently dropped the music video – watch it above – Luke Combsnew single, which is an ode to his wife, Forever After All moves ten spaces to come in at #11. My Masterpiece by Darius Rucker continues its climb, moving up into #16 and Fan The Fire by Gretta Ziller is also up from #27 to #20.

After her epic win at ACM Awards for ‘New Female Artist of the Year’ and leading the iHeartRadio Music Award nominations, Gabby Barrett’s The Good Ones is our biggest mover of the week – moving up a whopping 22 spots into #24. Chris Lane's Big Big Plans is at #26 (up from #39) and Freedom Was A Highway by Jimmie Allen & Brad Paisley moves up from #42 to #30 – will it rise higher than its #27 debut?

Only a couple of re-entries this week from Chelsea Berman's Waste My Time at #35 and Hayley Jensen back in at #48. A previous Song of the Day, This Is Us by Southbound makes it debuts at #41, ahead of Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham ’s Spare Parts – which we premiered here – at #47 and Stillness by Family Jordan (#49).

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