Hot 100 First-Timers: Country-Rocker Koe Wetzel Reaches No. 1 Entry With 'Sweet Dreams'

Koe Wetzel is officially a Billboard Hot 100 hitmaker as his new single “Sweet Dreams” debuts on the chart dated June 1 at No. 47.

Released May 17 on YellaBush/Columbia Records, the song debuts with 10.9 million official streams and 3,000 downloads sold in the U.S. in the week ending May 23, according to Luminate. It also debuted at No. 11 on the Hot Country Songs chart, becoming Wetzel's seventh entry and first top 20 hit.

Here's a look at Wetzel's history on Hot Country Songs, with the titles sorted by chart position.

Peak Position, Title, Peak Date:
No. 11 (to date), “Sweet Dreams”, June 1, 2024
No. 24, “Wasted” (Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley feat. Kodak Black & Koe Wetzel), January 28, 2023
No. 28, “Creeps,” September 10, 2022
No. 29, “Damn Near Normal”, March 23, 2024
No. 29, “Cabo”, October 1, 2022
No. 36, “April Showers”, April 23, 2022
No. 45, “Money Spent”, 1 October 2022

Wetzel also has eight entries on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, including “Damn Near Normal,” which climbs 22-21 on the latest chart (after debuting at its No. 12 high in March).

Wetzel first appeared in Advertising signcharted in July 2019 when it opened at No. 9 on Emerging Artists. The arrival was fueled by his LP Harold Saul High, which debuted at No. 10 on the Top Country Albums and No. 65 on the Billboard 200 that week. He has since charted two additional albums on the Billboard 200: sell out (his major label debut on Columbia Records, charting at #88 in 2020) and Hell Pass (No. 12 in 2022). The latter also reached No. 2 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums and No. 3 on Top Country Albums.

Wetzel (full name: Ropyr Koe Wetzel, Koe is a tribute to country singer-songwriter David Alan Koe) hails from Pittsburgh, Texas. “Sweet Dreams” is expected to appear on his upcoming LP 9 Livesdue on July 19. He's currently on the road for his Damn Near Normal World tour, which runs through November.