Nate Smith's “World on Fire” tops. Advertising signThe Country Airplay chart for the eighth week overall and in a row. It leads the Feb. 10-dated list with 32.1 million audience impressions from Jan. 26 to Feb. 26. 1, according to Luminate.
The song – released on Arista Nashville/RCA Nashville and co-written by Smith with Ashley Gorley, Taylor Phillips and Lindsay Rimes, the latter of whom produced it alone – ties three credits for the second-biggest canon since he began Country Airplay in January. 1990: Morgan Wallen's “Last Night” (starting May 2023), Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett's “It's Five O'Clock Somewhere” (August 2003), and Lonestar's “Amazed” (July 1999).
Wallen's “You Proof” dominated Country Airplay for a record 10 weeks beginning in October 2022.
“Eight weeks at No. 1 … the crazy thing about this song is that it shouldn't even have come out,” says Smith Advertising sign. “It was starting to gain a lot of traction on social media and the demand was high. I'm so lucky to have a team that knew how to strategically release it alongside my debut album, releasing the deluxe edition on the same day [April 28, 2023] that debut dropped. This song completely anchored the album.
“My mind is completely blown when I hear the news that 'World on Fire' has been No. 1 for the eighth week in a row,” marvels Smith. “Thank you fans and thank you, country radio.”
“Fire” is Smith's second straight Country Airplay career topper. The Paradise, Calif., native headlined “Whisky on You” for two weeks last February. Both are on the deluxe edition of his self-titled debut LP. The set reached its No. 6 high on Top Country Albums last May.
What has kept 'Fire' burning on the radio? Says Tom Oakes, program director at KTTS Springfield, Mo.-owned Summit Media, the hit is “a rare song — for KTTS, it's been testing at a power level since last summer and continues to do so. Like Luke Combs' 'Fast Car,' it's a song that listeners love and never tire of.”
Oakes added that “While it's a record company's mission to hit No. 1, my mission is to find the true hits that will become future gold library songs. This song, like 'Fast Car,' fits the bill.”
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