Zach Bryan places 17 songs from the “Great American Bar Scene” on the Hot 100

Trevor Pavlik

Zach Bryan has a great week Billboard‘s charts (dated July 20), thanks to the release of his new album, The great American bar scene.

The set, released on July 4th by Belting Bronco/Warner Records, debuted at number 17 on the Billboard 200 charts (as of July 13th) after just one day. After its first full week, it jumps to number 2 with 137,000 album-equivalent units, according to Luminate. Almost all of that comes from streaming, as the album is set to be released on CD and vinyl on October 11th.

The album brings Bryan his fourth top 10 on the Billboard 200, after American Heartbreak (No. 5 peak in June 2022); Zach Bryan (No. 1, September 2023); and his EP Boys of Faith (No. 8, October 2023).

In the Billboard Hot 100, Bryan places 17 songs from The great American bar sceneHere’s a look at all 18 of Bryan’s entries on the latest list (all but one is from the new set; all are debuts unless otherwise noted).

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(Only two songs from Bryan’s new album are not on the charts this week: “Lucky Enough (Poem)” and “Bathwater.”)

Of Bryan’s 18 entries on the Hot 100, 15 are debuts, bringing his career total to 42 career titles. Of those, 19 have reached the top 40 and three have reached the top 10.

Thanks to his guest appearance on the new LP, John Mayer returns to the Hot 100 for the first time since “Outta My Head” featuring Khalid reached No. 58 in April 2019. It marks his highest placing since “Shadow Days” reached No. 42 in 2012.

It also marks Bruce Springsteen’s 27th Hot 100 hit and first since “Working on a Dream” (#95, February 2009). It is his highest chart position since “The Rising” reached #52 in 2002.

Meanwhile, John Moreland makes his first career Hot 100 appearance thanks to his appearance on “Memphis, The Blues.” The singer-songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been releasing music for nearly two decades, including 10 studio albums. He has had three of his albums enter the Americana/Folk Albums chart: High because of the heat in Tulsa (14th place at its peak in 2016); Big, bad windward (No. 18, 2017); and LP5 (No. 17, 2020).