Luke Combs earns a fifth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with “Sleepless in a Hotel Room.” The song leads the list dated May 16 with 34.5 million impressions, up 4%, May 1-7, according to Luminate.
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The command ties Combs’ third-longest, matching 2023’s “Fast Car,” 2021’s “Better Together” and 2019’s “Even Though I’m Leaving.” Only his “Beautiful Crazy” (seven weeks, 2019) and “Forever After All” (six, 2021) have spent more time on top.
With six No. 1s that have led for at least five weeks, Combs matches Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith for the second-most leaders. Tim McGraw leads with seven; Morgan Wallen is in fifth place with four.
Dating to Country Airplay’s 1990 inception, just 6% of No. 1s have led for five weeks or more. The longer runs thin out quickly, as only 3% have ruled for six weeks or longer, with 1% reaching seven or more. Nate Smith and Wallen share the longest reigns, with 10 weeks each for Smith’s 2023 hit “World on Fire” and Wallen’s 2022 smash “You Proof.”
No. 1 runs of five weeks or more have tended to arrive in waves rather than evenly across the chart’s history. The biggest concentration came from the late 1990s through the mid-2000s, with the ‘00s alone producing exactly half the songs that have led for five weeks or more (31 of 62). After a relatively sparse 2010s, the ‘20s have brought a renewed run of such No. 1s (14).
‘Rocky Mountain’ High
Elsewhere, Corey Kent and Koe Wetzel’s “Rocky Mountain Low” rises two places to No. 10 on Country Airplay (16.6 million, up 7%). It’s Kent’s third trip to the tier and Wetzel’s second.
Kent last reached the top 10 a year ago this week with his eventual one-week No. 1 “This Heart.” Wetzel previously did so with his Jessie Murph collaboration “High Road,” a five-week leader in 2024-25.
All charts dated May 16 will update Tuesday, May 12, on Billboard.com.
