2 minutes | Tuesday, December 16, 2025
This song…it spent 50 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart. It was and still is iconic…let’s go back to 2018 when Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line broke our radios with “Meant To Be”
This song is one of the best-selling songs of all time, it dominated country radio, pop radio, and streaming playlists. And actually, Tyler Hubbard thought “Meant To Be” was pretty average when he wrote it
Side note, it was also the first time a female debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart - and country fans were not particularly happy with a pop artist taking this win…to them, it highlighted the gender imbalance problem still present today in country radio. Bebe Rexha’s success stood out because most female country artists were struggling to get country airplay all.