{"id":35832,"date":"2026-03-27T08:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/uncategorized\/2026\/03\/parker-mccollum-not-worried-about-drop-in-streaming-numbers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:01:30","slug":"parker-mccollum-not-worried-about-drop-in-streaming-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/parker-mccollum-not-worried-about-drop-in-streaming-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker McCollum Not Worried About Drop In Streaming Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parker McCollum\u2019s first two major-label albums racked up hundreds of millions of Spotify streams. But with his third record, those numbers appear to have dipped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCollum addressed the difference during an appearance on the\u00a0Ten Year Town\u00a0podcast, where he shared exactly how he feels about it, and he didn\u2019t hold back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cCompared to my last two records, not even remotely close to the same performance numbers-wise, and I will tell you with 100 percent honesty, Troy, I don\u2019t give a s&#8211;t one bit. For one reason \u2014 because I love that record so much. I knew going into it, man, this record\u2019s for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>McCollum\u2019s first major-label album,\u00a0<em>Gold Chain Cowboy<\/em>, reached roughly 450\u2013456 million Spotify streams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His second album,\u00a0<em>Never Enough<\/em>, earned 346 million streams, while his latest,\u00a0<em>Parker McCollum<\/em>, has reached 99 million so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Parker McCollum on Texas Country, Songwriting &amp; Making His New Record | TYT 120\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q5w4b4dsrXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parker McCollum\u2019s first two major-label albums racked up hundreds of millions of Spotify streams. But with his third record, those numbers appear to have dipped. McCollum addressed the difference during an appearance on the\u00a0Ten Year Town\u00a0podcast, where he shared exactly how he feels about it, and he didn\u2019t hold back. \u201cCompared to my last two","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[5802,10619,4584,5061,10620],"class_list":["post-35832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-gold-chain-cowboy","tag-never-enough","tag-parker-mccollum","tag-spotify","tag-ten-year-town-podcast"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 15:07:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/parker-mccollum-not-worried-about-drop-in-streaming-numbers\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35833,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832\/revisions\/35833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}