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Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood's 'If I Didn't Love You' Makes Historic Start on Hot Country Songs

By Jim Asker | Billboard | August 3, 2021

Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood's "If I Didn't Love You" bounds onto Billboard's airplay-, sales- and streaming-based Hot Country Songs chart (dated Aug. 7) at No. 2, marking a historic entrance.

Since the survey began as an all-encompassing genre ranking in October 1958, the song marks the highest debut for a duet between a solo male and female. It surpasses the No. 9 arrival of Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani's "Nobody but You," which opened at No. 9 in December 2019 (and reached No. 2 in May 2020).

"Love," the lead single from Aldean's upcoming 10th studio album, was released July 23. In its first tracking week, ending July 29, it sold 29,500 downloads, according to MRC Data, and launches atop Country Digital Song Sales, marking Aldean and Underwood's eighth No. 1 apiece.

The song, penned by Kurt Allison, Tully Kennedy, John Morgan and Lydia Vaughan, drew 9 million U.S. streams in the same tracking period and debuts at No. 4 on Country Streaming Songs. On Country Airplay, it ranks at No. 28 with 5.4 million impressions in the week ending Aug. 1.

Aldean matches his career-best bow on Hot Country Songs, after "You Make It Easy" arrived at its No. 2 peak in April 2018. He lands his 35th top 10, a sum that includes nine No. 1s. Underwood achieves a new highest Hot Country Songs entrance, besting the No. 5 start in 2014 of "Somethin' Bad" with Miranda Lambert. Underwood ups her count to 30 top 10s, a total that includes 14 leaders.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9609503/jason-aldean-carrie-underwood-country-chart-history