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HARDY<\/a> cracks the top 10 of Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Country Airplay chart for a fifth time as \u201cFavorite Country Song\u201d surges 12-7 on the list dated Nov. 29, up 17% to 20.5 million in audience Nov. 14-20, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n The track, which HARDY cowrote alongside six others, including Nate Smith, reaches the region almost two years after \u201cTruck Bed\u201d last put him there in February 2024. That song went all the way, becoming his third No. 1 that March, further cementing his momentum as both an artist and a writer.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFavorite Country Song\u201d is just one piece of HARDY\u2019s current chart impact. He\u2019s on the list three times over as his own rising hit joins two Morgan Wallen singles with a HARDY writing credit. HARDY cowrote Wallen\u2019s \u201cI Got Better,\u201d which topped the chart in October and ranks at No. 6, as well as \u201cI Ain\u2019t Coming Back\u201d (featuring Post Malone), at a new No. 24 high (8.2 million, up 10%).<\/p>\n HARDY has stacked 14 Country Airplay No. 1s as a cowriter, including three that he recorded, a run that began with Wallen\u2019s \u201cUp Down\u201d (featuring Florida Georgia Line) in 2018. To date, 41 songs by 31 artists have reached the chart with HARDY\u2019s name in the liner notes as a writer.<\/p>\n Nate Smith shows up elsewhere on Country Airplay as he and Tyler Hubbard bow at No. 34 with \u201cAfter Midnight\u201d with 4.6 million in audience. The track gives Smith his second-highest debut, following \u201cDrinkin\u2019 Buddies,\u201d his 2024 collaboration with Lee Brice and Hailey Whitters, which opened and peaked at No. 26 that May. It\u2019s Hubbard\u2019s fourth top 40 premiere as a solo act (apart from his output in Florida Georgia Line); he started at a No. 19 best with \u201cUndivided,\u201d with Tim McGraw (an eventual No. 16 hit), in 2021.<\/p>\n <\/a> Billboard VIP Pass<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HARDY cracks the top 10 of Billboard\u2019s Country Airplay chart for a fifth time as \u201cFavorite Country Song\u201d surges 12-7 on the list dated Nov. 29, up 17% to 20.5 million in audience Nov. 14-20, according to Luminate. The track, which HARDY cowrote alongside six others, including Nate Smith, reaches the region almost two years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2021507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[29110,381226,417166,360533,24320,368854],"class_list":["post-2171064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-billboard","tag-country-airplay","tag-favorite-country-song","tag-hardy","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-nate-smith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Charli-XCX-and-George-Daniel-marry-for-second-time-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171065,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171064\/revisions\/2171065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Dawn of \u2018Midnight\u2019<\/h2>\n