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Justin Moore’s “Time’s Ticking” Sets Record For Longest Climb To #1 In Country Radio History With 67 Weeks
Owning a unique piece of country music history.
For nearly two decades at this point, Justin Moore has continually flown under the radar as far as mainstream country is concerned. Though he has the smashes to back it up, ranging from early hits like “Small Town USA” and “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away” in the early 2o1os to “The Ones Who Didn’t Make It Back Home” and “We Didn’t Have Much” in the late 2010s and early 2020s, the Arkansas native never quite got the respect he’s deserved over the years.
With 11 #1s, one CMA award for New Artist of the Year in 2014 (five years after his debut album) and over a dozen gold and platinum certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Moore has had quite the successful career all things considered. Today, however, he’s set an incredibly rare record that has never been done before in the genre with an incredibly rare #1 run.
This afternoon, Moore earned his 11th career #1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with his Dierks Bentley collaboration, “Time’s Ticking,” which rose from #3 to #1 this week and gained a total of 29.9 million audience impressions across radio stations nationwide. If you’re a fan of the “Til My Last Day” singer, you’re probably thinking to yourself, “‘Time’s Ticking? Didn’t that song come out years ago?” — and you’d be right.
Despite being released all the way back on October 11, 2024, with the rest of Moore’s eight studio album, This Is My Dirt, “Time’s Ticking” finally went #1 nearly a year and a half after its official release.
“Time’s Ticking’s” climb up the chart was so slow, in fact, that it now holds the record for longest-climbing #1 hit in the history of country radio, spending a staggering 67 weeks on the chart before topping it. Moore’s new chart-topper breaks the record previously held by Michael Ray’s “Whiskey and Rain” and Travis Denning’s “After a Few,” both of which took 65 weeks to go #1.
In case you were wondering what other #1 hits took over a year to finally top the charts, those would be Scotty McCreery’s “In Between (63 weeks), Dylan Scott’s “Can’t Have Mine” (62 weeks) and Chayce Beckham’s “23” (60 weeks).
If nothing else, it’s a fun piece of country music history for the time being. Hell, it might even win you a round of trivia one of these days.
“Time’s Ticking”
Justin Moore Tour Dates
April 16th, 2026 – Southaven, MS – Landers Center
April 17th, 2026 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
April 18th, 2026 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
April 25th, 2026 – Fayetteville, AK – Razorback Football Spring Game
May 2nd, 2026 – Brandon, MS – Brandon Amphitheater
May 7th, 2026 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
May 8th, 2026 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
May 9th, 2026 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
May 15th, 2026 – Richardson, TX – Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival
June 4th, 2026 – Myrtle Beach, SC – Carolina Country Music Festival
June 6th, 2026 – Hot Springs National Park, AR – Magic Springs Theme and Water Park
June 11th, 2026 – Dewey Beach, DE – Bottle & Cork
June 21th, 2026 – Dewey Beach, DE – Bottle & Cork
June 18th, 2026 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
June 19th, 2026 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
June 20th, 2026 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater
June 25th, 2026 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
June 26th, 2026 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
June 27th, 2026 – Salem, VA – Salem Civic Center
July 9th, 2026 – Knoxville, IL – Knox County Fair
July 10th, 2026 – Traverse City, MI – National Cherry Festival
July 11th, 2026 – Shipshewana, IN – Blue Gate Performing Arts Center
July 16th, 2026 – Green Bay, WI – Resch Center
July 18th, 2026 – Troy, MO – Lincoln County Fair
July 23rd, 2026 – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
August 6th, 2026 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
August 7th, 2026 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
August 8th, 2026 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
August 13th, 2026 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
August 14th, 2026 – Hartford, CT – The XFINITY Theatre
August 15th, 2026 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheatre
August 21st, 2026 – Sioux Falls, SD – Denny Sanford
August 22nd, 2026 – Grand Forks, ND – Ralph Engelstad Arena
August 28th, 2026 – Dieppe – YQM Country Fest
August 29th, 2026 – Sait-Agapit – Festive Country Lotbiniere
September 17, 2026 – Mayes County, OK – Born & Raised Music FestivalThe post Justin Moore’s “Time’s Ticking” Sets Record For Longest Climb To #1 In Country Radio History With 67 Weeks first appeared on Whiskey Riff.