How Beyoncé, Post Malone, Bruce Springsteen and more have gone — and changed — country
Everyone knows that Bruce Springsteen was born to rock.
But even a certified rock god like the Boss is rolling into country territory now: This week his “Sandpaper” duet with Zach Bryan marks the first time that Springsteen has ever appeared on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart since the New Jersey legend first greeted us from Asbury Park, NJ, on his debut album way back in 1973.
And not only does Springsteen hit No. 26 on the Hot Country Songs chart with his genre- and generation-crossing collaboration from Bryan’s new album, “The Great American Bar Scene,” but he scores his first appearance on the overall Hot 100 tally since 2009.
Bruce Springsteen performed with Zach Bryan at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in March.@barclayscenter/Instagram
Forty years after “Born in the USA,” the man has been revived at the ripe old age of 74.
And the No. 2 on this week’s Hot 100 is Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” the second single by an African-American artist to top both the pop and the country charts this year — after Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ’Em.”
Meanwhile, No. 3 is “I Had Some Help,” Post Malone’s collab with Nashville sensation Morgan Wallen from the “Rockstar” rapper-singer’s upcoming country album “F-1 Trillion,” due Aug. 16.
