Hot 100 First-Timers: Drew Baldridge Arrives With 'She's Somebody's Daughter (Reimagined)'

Country singer-songwriter Drew Baldridge is officially a Billboard Hot 100 artist as his breakthrough single, “She's Somebody's Daughter (Reimagined),” debuts on the latest chart (dated Aug. 24) at No. 93.

The song enters with 26.5 million all-format radio impressions (up 2%) as well as 565,000 official US streams in the Aug. 9-15 tracking week, according to Luminate.

“She's Somebody's Daughter (Reimagined)” had a long journey to reach the Hot 100. Baldridge first released the song on his own in 2019, followed by a second mix in 2021 (the “Wedding Version”) and a third in 2023 (“Reimagined”).

The track recently made Country Airplay history, becoming the first self-released song in the chart's 34-year history to reach the top five. The only other such song to reach the top 10 is No.

The Patoka, Ill. native. first appeared in Bulletin boardcharted in January 2016 with his single “Dance With Ya” (No. 48 Country Airplay peak). Since then, she has recorded four additional songs in the format: “Rebound” (No. 50, 2017), “Guns & Roses” (No. 51, 2018), “Senior Year” (No. 50, 2020) and “She's Somebody's Daughter (Reimagined)'', his debut studio album, Dirt on usreleased on his former label, Cold River, peaked at No. 11 on Top Country Albums and No. 111 on the Billboard 200 in July 2016.

In a recent interview with Bulletin boardBaldridge explained that after recording the original “She's Somebody's Daughter”, Cold River did not release it as a single because fellow artist Tenille Townes was already working on a song with a similar title, “Somebody's Daughter”, and the label wanted to avoid confusion . . Two years later, after Cold River closed, he recorded a new version for his wedding titled “She's Somebody's Daughter (Wedding Version)” that quickly went viral on TikTok. The official audio of this version has more than 900,000 clips on the platform to date.

Baldridge later recorded a third version, “She's Somebody's Daughter (Reimagined),” in late 2022 to garner radio airplay, and formed a promo team for his own Lyric Ridge Records to make it happen. He had some inside radio knowledge from his three years as a weekend jock at KKGO, the Los Angeles country station. Although he doesn't schedule his shifts, “I got to introduce my own song and introduce my own song, which is the coolest thing on the planet,” he said. “And with these DJs and [programmers]I have a way to connect with them that I didn't have four years ago.”