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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Billboard Just Named Their Country Artist of the 21st Century, and No, It’s NOT Taylor Swift · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, with this century officially
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  Speaker 1: a quarter of the way downe Billboard just unveiled their
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  Speaker 1: top Country Artist of the twenty first century.
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  Speaker 2: It's not actually Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor did finish at number three, and if she hadn't
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  Speaker 3: extensively explored other genres like pop, she may have taken
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  Speaker 3: that top spot, but it goes to Kenny Chesney number one.
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  Speaker 2: Billboard looked at all its charts from January two.
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  Speaker 3: Thousand through December of twenty twenty four to determine the winner,
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  Speaker 3: and Kenny stats got him there. Twenty hot country songs
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  Speaker 3: at number one, seventeen top country albums, thirty country radio
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  Speaker 3: number ones. And it's not only country that Chesney's dominated.
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  Speaker 3: He also claimed nine number one albums on the all
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  Speaker 3: encompassing Billboard two hundred. When Kenny logged his thirtieth country
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  Speaker 3: radio number one, he summed up his unparalleled success by
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  Speaker 3: deferring to his fans, saying, it feels like all the
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  Speaker 3: people who love his music are winning just as much
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  Speaker 3: as he is.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.