That’s a heck of a run. It’s hard to believe that we’re already coming up on the end of 2025. Seems like just yesterday Billy Ray Cyrus was bombing his performance at President Trump’s inaugural ball and everybody was freaking out over TikTok being banned for 24 hours. It’s been a wild year. As they do at the end of every year, Apple Music just released their year-end lists, including their Top 100 Songs of 2025 list. And as expected, Morgan Wallen dominated the list, not only when it comes to country music but he was the artist with the most songs from ANY genre. Morgan ended the year with 12 songs on the all-genre Top 100 list, thanks to his monster album I’m The Problem from earlier this year. But along with his new songs, there were also hits like “Chasin’ You” from his 2018 debut album If I Know Me and “Last Night” from his 2023 One Thing At A Time album. While it’s impressive that Morgan is still charting songs from his debut album, 7 year after it was released, he’s still got a ways to go to catch Chris Stapleton though, because “Tennessee Whiskey” is STILL on the chart, 10 years after it became one of the biggest songs of 2015. Stapleton’s cover of the hit originally recorded by David Allan Coe and later covered by George Jones was released on his debut album Traveller back in 2015. And of course it rocketed Stapleton to superstardom after his breakout performance with Justin Timberlake at the 2015 CMA Awards, which is still talked about as one of the greatest performances in the show’s history. Since then, Traveller has been certified 7x-platinum by the RIAA, and has spent well over 500 weeks on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. It was named Billboard’s Top Country Album of the Century earlier this year, despite only being released 15 years into the 25-year tracking period. Just an absolutely monster album by any metric you look at. So I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that “Tennessee Whiskey” is still a staple on Apple Music 10 years after it was released. The song clocked in at #89 on the Top 100 Songs list, ahead of hits from artists like Drake, The Weeknd, Gracie Abrams and Frank Ocean, and made Stapleton one of only SIX country artists with a song on the chart, alongside Wallen, Luke Combs, Shaboozey, Post Malone and Zach Bryan. Not bad for a song released a decade ago. Of course Stapleton was already a legendary songwriter in Nashville long before he had his own breakout moment as an artist with “Tennessee Whiskey.” He really broke out with mega-hits for Josh Turner in “Your Man” and Kenny Chesney with “Never Wanted Nothing More” around 2007 before going on to pen hits for George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw and many more. A while back, Chris sat down for a big interview with 60 Minutes, and he was asked specifically about his secret to writing a great song, and how you know when you have a real winner on your hands… one that is guaranteed to crush on country radio. And Chris responded saying that it’s really impossible to ever predict what song will resonate with fans until they hear it, because what speaks to people on a deep level in their soul is based on a feeling, not a statistic or spreadsheet: “I don’t think I ever know that. The win is finishing the song. And there are a lot of songwriters who will claim that they know, ‘Yeah, I knew when we wrote this one that it was a six-week #1 and I was gonna get a big giant check in the mail.’ I really just think those guys are full of ****. I don’t think anybody knows that. Like, you can’t possibly know how everybody’s gonna feel about a song that you write. That’s impossible to know.” You gotta think he didn’t expect his cover of “Tennessee Whiskey” to be charting for this long either.The post Ten Years After It Was Released, Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” Is STILL In The Apple Music Top 100 Songs Of 2025 first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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