As EasyOnMe with ChrisStapleton debuts on Country Airplay Chart, Adele makes crossover history
; the version with Stapleton is a bonus track on the physical version on sale at Target.
Notably with its Country Airplay entrance, “Easy on Me” becomes the first song to scale a combination of pop, rock, R&B/hip-hop and country airplay charts since MRC Data started powering“Adele has once again shown that she is an artist who transcends format,” Keith Solis, director of music programming at Adult R&B Airplay panelist KRNB Dallas,Said Brian Robinson, program director at fellow Adult R&B Airplay reporter WBAV Charlotte, N.C.
As for the last song to make a somewhat comparable sweep among pop, rock, R&B/hip-hop and country charts prior to 1990? Perhaps unsurprisingly, USA for Africa’s “We Are the World” . The charity anthem and pop-culture phenomenon that culled artists representing a host of styles topped the Hot 100 for four weeks and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for two frames and rose to No. 27 on Mainstream Rock Airplay and No. 76 on Hot Country Songs in 1985.