{"id":32134,"date":"2025-05-02T05:59:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=32134"},"modified":"2025-05-02T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:00:33","slug":"zach-top-on-the-tonight-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/zach-top-on-the-tonight-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Top On The Tonight Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Zach Top Performed on &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fresh after winning the ACM Award for New Male Artist of the Year,\u00a0<strong>Zach Top<\/strong>\u00a0flew to New York City to be on\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Fallon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Zach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-alrUN71fwk\"><strong>sang<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0his hit,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;I Never Lie&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Fans loved the performance, with even one saying, &#8220;This man&#8217;s saving country music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And when Zach was asked recently why everyone seems to be gravitating towards his sound right now, he said, &#8220;People are starving for stuff that&#8217;s real . . . that isn&#8217;t filtered and prettied up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say, &#8220;The only thing I&#8217;ve ever done on\u00a0TikTok\u00a0is sit there with my acoustic guitar and play and sing for &#8217;em . . . There&#8217;s no lip-synching and no hanky-panky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/countrynow.com\/fans-call-zach-top-the-man-saving-country-music-after-tonight-show-debut\/\"><strong>Country Now<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I Never Lie","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 13:52:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/zach-top-on-the-tonight-show\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}