Sam Huntâs sophomore album, Southside, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
The 12-song set moved 46,000 equivalent units, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, which was also good enough for No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart.
Southside, which features Samâs recent No. 1 hit, âKinfolks,â and new single, âHard to Forget,â also includes his 2017 smash hit, âBody Like a Back Road,â and 2018 Top 20 hit, âDowntownâs Dead.â Southside follows Samâs 2014 debut album, Montevallo, which spawned No. 1 hits âLeave the Night On,â âTake Your Time,â âHouse Partyâ and more.
â[The break] gave me some time to reflect on the two, three years prior,â said Sam to Kix Brooks of American Country Countdown. âIt gave me some time to think about how I wanted to approach the next two, three, four, five, 10 years. It gave me some time to reconnect with the girl who I ended up getting married to, and kind ofâI guess for lack of a better way to put itâput some roots down. Coming from a world where it was either put roots down now or probably never put roots down, it was a pretty big fork in the road for me, so I just wanted to make sure to get it right, and I took some time to do that.â
Samâs new single, âHard to Forget,â which samples Webb Pierceâs 1953 hit, âThere Stands the Glass,â was co-penned by Sam, Luke Laird, Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne and Ashley Gorley, as well as âThere Stands the Glassâ songwriters Audrey Grisham, Russ Hull and Mary Jean Shurtz.
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