He also has a bona fide hit on his hands with the song “Something in the Orange.” The song is once again the #2 streaming song in all of country music this week, receiving 12 million streams on its own. This is also far and away the best debut for a country artist in 2022, while American Heartbreak also set 2022 records on both Spotify and Apple music for the amount of first day streams for a country title.īut it isn’t just the fact that American Heartbreak has 34 tracks that is bolstering Zach Bryan’s numbers. If it wasn’t for competing with a monster new release from Harry Styles, and Kendrick Lamar’s new album from the previous week, Zach Bryan would could have easily been at #3 all genre. These numbers are also good enough for a #5 placement for American Heartbreak in all of music. Early estimates had him at some 70 million streams and 67K in sales, so interest in the album only grew stronger over the week, and he blew out expectations.

Combine that with 6,000 physical album sales and downloads, and this gives Zach Bryan a total of 71,000 in sales and streaming equivalents. Zach Bryan’s new album American Heartbreak debuts at #1 in country this week, beating out early estimates by racking up 82 million total song streams. But for the former Navy enlistee turned viral songwriter, the scenario and ascent seems even more improbable.

Zach Bryan has officially ensconced himself as an independent country music superstar, doing what only a select few other non radio-supported artists have done through grassroots support in the past, which is score a #1 album in country music.

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