{"id":111083,"date":"2026-05-25T06:51:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/uncategorized\/2026\/05\/kenny-chesney-just-tied-george-straits-billboard-record\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:51:55","slug":"kenny-chesney-just-tied-george-straits-billboard-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/kenny-chesney-just-tied-george-straits-billboard-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Chesney Just Tied George Strait\u2019s Billboard Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kenny Chesney<\/strong>\u00a0is still making country music history.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His latest single,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Carry On&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, just became his 100th song to land on Billboard&#8217;s Country Airplay chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is now tied for the most of all-time with the one-and-only\u00a0<strong>George Strait<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the Top Five is\u00a0<strong>Garth Brooks<\/strong>\u00a0with 93,\u00a0<strong>Tim McGraw<\/strong>\u00a0with 91, and\u00a0<strong>Alan Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0with 82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenny also holds the record for the most #1s on the Country Airplay chart with 33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also his first release on Hey Now Records, which is a label that was launched earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Carry On&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0will be the first single on his upcoming 21st album, which he says will be out sometime this year.<\/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=\"Kenny Chesney - Carry On (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cfCgz8cn4rU?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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenny Chesney\u00a0is still making country music history.\u00a0 His latest single,\u00a0&#8220;Carry On&#8221;, just became his 100th song to land on Billboard&#8217;s Country Airplay chart. He is now tied for the most of all-time with the one-and-only\u00a0George Strait.\u00a0 The rest of the Top Five is\u00a0Garth Brooks\u00a0with 93,\u00a0Tim McGraw\u00a0with 91, and\u00a0Alan Jackson\u00a0with 82. Kenny also holds the record","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":106635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[12255,1404,1238],"class_list":["post-111083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carry-on","tag-george-strait","tag-kenny-chesney"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 15:37:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/kenny-chesney-just-tied-george-straits-billboard-record\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}