Parmalee earns its fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Cowgirl” gallops three spots to the top of the list dated Dec. 13. The song gained by 6% to 27.2 million audience impressions Nov. 28–Dec. 4, according to Luminate.
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“Cowgirl” is the lead single from the four-man band’s eighth studio set, Fell in Love With a Cowgirl, released in April. Each of the band’s members — Barry Knox, Josh McSwain, Matt Thomas and Scott Thomas — shares co-writer credit on the song with five others, including longtime collaborator David Fanning, who also co-produced it.
“You’re talking about [trucks] and Levi’s and Bud Light, all the things that are country,” Fanning mused to Billboard of the song earlier this year. “But that’s the thing about country music. That stuff never does get old. It’s just, how are you gonna say it differently?”
By count of Country Airplay No. 1s dating to the band’s debut on the chart dated July 21, 2012, Parmalee ties Lady A for the third-most leaders among groups (of more than two members). Only Old Dominion (seven) and Zac Brown Band (six) have delivered more No. 1s among such acts in that time frame. Eli Young Band (three), The Band Perry, Little Big Town and Rascal Flatts (two each) follow in that stretch.
Parmalee links consecutive Country Airplay No. 1s for a second time, with “Cowgirl” the follow-up to “Gonna Love You,” which topped the Dec. 7, 2024, chart. The band previously ruled with back-to-back singles thanks to “Just the Way,” with Blanco Brown, for a week in March 2021 and “Take My Name” for two frames in June 2022.
The group first led Country Airplay with “Carolina” for a week in December 2013. That song became Parmalee’s second entry, after “Musta Had a Good Time,” which reached No. 38 in October 2012. All 11 of the quartet’s entries on the chart have hit the top 40, with eight reaching the top 10.
All charts dated Dec. 13 will update Tuesday, Dec. 9, on Billboard.com.