Last week, Swift and \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d made headlines by debuting at #8 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart\u2014the first time a single from a woman has debuted in the Top 10 on that chart since it was first published in 1990, and only the second single to ever do so behind \u201cMore Than A Memory\u201d from Garth Brooks that debuted at #1 in 2007. <\/p> The adoption of the song by country radio has been massive, even historic, necessitating a mea culpa from Saving Country Music, which said initially<\/a>, Boy was that an mis-under-estimate. The single has not only blown past all of Swift\u2019s previous post-country benchmarks, it now is almost guaranteed CMA\/ACM\/Grammy consideration, if only because these awards will likely want to entice the superstar into a televised performance. <\/p> It\u2019s important to point out that country radio actually has two major charts, and there\u2019s currently a major discrepancy between the two via \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You.\u201d Though Billboard\u2019s Luminate radio panel put the song in the Top 10 its first week, Mediabase<\/a> had it debuting at #25, and this week still only has it at #17. These are still massive numbers for Swift out of the chute, but that discrepancy is quite significant. <\/p> Saving Country Music might have not underestimated the resonance of \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d as much as the appetite by Swift, Disney, and everyone else involved to push it to country radio as a way to advertise the Toy Story<\/em> franchise. Really, this feels just as much a lesson of how country radio will adopt most anything they\u2019re told to as opposed to truly having a finger on the pulse of the American country music consumer and serving them what they want. It\u2019s not that America doesn\u2019t want \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You.\u201d But it\u2019s fair to ask how many of those listeners are country fans, and just how \u201ccountry\u201d the song is.