Hunt Earns Platinum Status and First No. 1 with Lead Single “Leave the Night On”
MCA Nashville’s Sam Hunt released his debut album MONTEVALLO last week, and with 69,881 units sold, the album lands at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and is the best-selling debut album for a country artist since 2011.
MONTEVALLO is earning praise across the board. Produced by Zach Crowell and Shane McAnally, Billboard gives the album four out of five stars and The Washington Post calls MONTEVALLO “the most seductive, deceptively original and flat-out best album released this year.”
Hunt’s Platinum-selling lead single “Leave the Night On” is the current No. 1 song at country radio and is the first new artist debut title to top the charts in nearly two years. Rolling Stone includes Hunt as one of its “Artists You Need to Know” and Associated Press tags Hunt as “a more sensitive and distinctive newcomer than most of his peers.”
Hunt recently performed on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “Live! with Kelly & Michael,” and tonight, he will be a presenter on the 48th Annual CMA Awards, airing Live at 8/7c on ABC.
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