{"id":33531,"date":"2025-10-26T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33531"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:57:58","slug":"waylond-jennings-returns-to-billboard-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/waylond-jennings-returns-to-billboard-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Waylon Jennings Returns To Billboard Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waylon Jennings\u2019 posthumous compilation, Songbird, which was curated and mixed by his son Shooter Jennings, has scored Waylon his first-ever Top 10 debut on Billboard\u2019s Top Album Sales chart at No. 6.<\/p>\n<p>The project also premiered in the Top 10 on four other Billboard charts in its first week of release, reaching No. 6 on Top Current Album Sales, No. 7 on Indie Store Album Sales, No. 8 on Americana\/Folk Albums, and No. 9 on Vinyl Albums It also starts at No. 17 on Top Country Albums, No. 18 on Independent Albums, and No. 116 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart.<\/p>\n<p>Songbird features previously unheard recordings produced between 1973 and 1984, and marks the first of three planned unreleased Waylon albums in the works.<\/p>\n<p>The country legend, who passed away in 2002, enjoyed a celebrated career with 16 No. 1 hits on Hot Country Songs and 11 No. 1 albums on Top Country Albums.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP9KqYpDuKH\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waylon Jennings\u2019 Newly Unearthed Vault Release \u2018Songbird\u2019 Claims Top 10 Spots On Five Billboard Charts","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18,5556,6719,6720],"class_list":["post-33531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-billboard","tag-shooter-jennings","tag-songbird","tag-waylond-jennings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 03:22:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/waylond-jennings-returns-to-billboard-charts\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33541,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33531\/revisions\/33541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}