{
  "id": 4912962,
  "title": "Ella Langley’s Team-Ups Reflect a Bigger Country Chart Trend",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/ella-langleys-team-ups-reflect-a-bigger-country-chart-trend",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-01T18:14:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Billboard",
    "slug": "billboard",
    "url": "https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/ella-langley-team-ups-reflect-bigger-country-chart-trend-1236329975/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Collaborations on Billboard's Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts have increased significantly, accounting for 18% and 20% of the positions respectively. This trend is most evident with Ella Langley, who has the highest ranking collaboration on both charts with \"I Can't Love You Anymore\" featuring Morgan Wallen at No. 5 and \"Jaded\" with Koe Wetzel at No. 8. Langley has nine collaborations on Hot Country Songs, with five top 10 hits, showcasing the growing significance of collaborations in country music. The rise in collaborations has coincided with the growth of on-demand streaming, which allows listeners to consume music across genres without being tied to radio formats. This has made collaborations more effective in reaching diverse audiences. On Hot Country Songs, collaborations have represented a record 28% of all debuts in 2024, up from just under 8% a decade earlier. However, collaborations remain more prevalent on Hot Country Songs than on Country Airplay, which has only seen 11.2% of its entries made up of team-ups since 2012. Collaborations can increase a song's potential reach, especially when artists come from different musical backgrounds. The trend of collaborations on country charts is part of a broader shift as country's audience has broadened and listening habits have become less rigidly defined by genre.",
  "summary": "She has the highest ranking collaboration on Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay as such pairings become increasingly common.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}