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Bailey Zimmerman Breaks His Own Record With ‘Rock And A Hard Place’

March 29, 2023/by Lorie Hollabaugh

Bailey Zimmerman. Photo: Spidey Smith

Bailey Zimmerman‘s meteoric rise continues with his latest chart-topper, the Platinum “Rock And A Hard Place,” which reached the No. 1 spot in less than 15 weeks at radio.

The track is not only the No. 1 song this week on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, but raced to the top even faster than his first multi-Platinum smash, “Fall In Love.” Zimmerman’s three-month and three-week span between these first two chart-toppers is the quickest for any act’s first two hits in nearly 25 years, according to Billboard.

Named one of New York Times’ Best Songs of 2022, “Rock And A Hard Place” also marks Zimmerman’s first Top 10 hit on Billboard’s all-genre Hot 100 chart. The track hits the top 10 in its 41st week on the Hot 100 – rewriting the record for the longest climb to the top 10 for a song by a soloist in the chart’s history. It continues its reign as one of the top 4 most-streamed country songs in the U.S., and totals more than 550 million global streams to date.

Zimmerman’s new album, Religiously. The Album., is due out May 12 via Warner Music Nashville/Elektra. He is up for two awards at the upcoming CMT Music Awards, for Male Video of the Year and Breakthrough Male Video of the Year, and is currently out on the road now supporting Morgan Wallen‘s 50+ date “One Night At A Time World Tour.”

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Lorie Hollabaugh
Lorie Hollabaugh
Hollabaugh, a staff writer at MusicRow magazine, has over 20 years of music business experience and has written for publications including American Profile, CMA Close Up, Nashville Arts And Entertainment, The Boot and Country Weekly. She has a Broadcast Journalism and Speech Communication degree from Texas Christian University, (go Horned Frogs), and welcomes your feedback or story ideas at lhollabaugh@musicrow.com.
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