Chayce Beckham Earns First No. 1 At Country Radio

Chayce Beckham has scored his first No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Country Airplay and Mediabase Country charts with “23,” his solo-written, Platinum-certified smash.

The track has garnered over 391 million total global on-demand streams and more than 10 million YouTube views. It appears on Beckham’s anticipated debut album, Bad For Me, which arrives this Friday (April 5) via 19 Recordings/Wheelhouse Records/BMG.

“I still can’t believe or process ’23’ is No. 1 at country radio,” says Beckham. “I wrote this song when I had nothing to my name. Fast forwarding to now, to living out my dream, I just feel so blessed. I want to shake every single person’s hand that made this possible—thank you.”

According to Billboard, the song is the first Country Airplay No. 1 written by a single person since Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” hit the top of the charts last year. Additionally, prior to Beckham’s “23,” the last Country Airplay No. 1 solely-written by the songwriter who also recorded it was Taylor Swift’s “Ours” in 2012.

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