Post Malone & Morgan Wallen's “I Had Some Help” Climbs Fastest No. 1 on Country Airplay Chart Since 2007

Acclaimed pop star Post Malone scores his first No.1 Advertising signCountry Airplay chart as “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, climbs from No. 2 in just the survey's seventh week (dated June 29).

The breakup song grew 6% to 31.5 million audience impressions June 14-20, according to Luminate. Post Malone and Wallen co-wrote it with Louis Bell, Ernest, Ashley Gorley, Hoskins, Ryan Vojtesa and Chandler Paul Walters.

“Help” completes the fastest trip to No. 1 on Country Airplay since Garth Brooks' “More Than a Memory” became the only hit in the survey's 34-year history to reach the summit in September 2007. songs to reach No. 1 from another chart, “Help” completes the fastest sprint since Tim McGraw's “Live Like You Were Dying” reached the top spot in its seventh week in July 2004. Notably, the average rise in No. 1 this decade is 33 chart weeks.

Post Malone recorded one previous Country Airplay entry, appearing on an update of Joe Diffie's “Pickup Man,” which peaked at No. 44 in January. (The original dominated for four frames beginning in December 1994.)

Post Malone is set to release his upcoming album, F-1 TrisAug. 16, he revealed via a billboard in Nashville on Tuesday (June 18).

Meanwhile, “Help” gives Wallen his 13th Country Airplay No. 1. It charts an additional song atop the chart: “Cowgirls,” featuring Ernest, jumps 6-3 (26.3 million, up 16 %).

“Help” spent five weeks running at No. 1 on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs (via charts dated June 22).

Young's 'Young' is Top 10

Chris Young scores his 18th Country Airplay top 10 as “Young Love & Saturday Nights” goes 11-10 (18.9 million, up 5%). The song, which he co-wrote, is his first to reach the chart since his collaboration with Mitchell Tenpenny, “At the End of the Bar”, which became Young's 11th No.1 for one week in August 2022 .