Marking an achievement-packed holiday weekend, Warner Music Nashville’s Gabby Barrett became the first-ever female Country artist to top 10 MILLION single week streams with 11.3 MILLION streams this week. Her debut single “I Hope” keeps gaining and making waves, reigning for its seventh consecutive week atop the Country On-Demand Streaming chart, and perching Barrett at the #2 spot on Nielsen’s Country On-Demand 2020 Year To Date chart. 

Amplifying the singer/songwriter’s explosive debut, the music video for “I Hope,” went #1 on CMT Hot 20 Countdown for the very first time this weekend. Tallying over 48 MILLION views on YouTube alone, the video for the sizzler – co-directed by Taylor Kelly and Brian Vaughan and shot in Nashville – continues Barrett’s unstoppable momentum after already notching the first debut single by a female artist to go #1 since 2017 and being named one of Taste of Country’s “10 Hottest Songs of the Summer” for 2020. 

Putting the cherry on top of the excitement-filled weekend, Country icon Trisha Yearwood virtually stopped by Hot 20 to surprise Barrett and congratulate her on her unprecedented success.

Proving her staying power as the #1 recurrent single at Country radio with “I Hope,” Barrett will launch her sophomore single on June 8 when “The Good Ones” impacts airwaves nationwide. Her debut album, GOLDMINE, will release June 19.

ABOUT GABBY BARRETT  
Warner Music Nashville’s Gabby Barrett is setting the trend. As an ACM New Female Artist of the Year nominee, one of SiriusXM’s Future Five for 2020, one of CMT’s 2020 Next Women of Country, a 2020 MusicRow Next Big Thing artist, a SiriusXM + Pandora All-Genre and Country Artist to Watch, Radio Disney’s Next Big Thing, and an Amazon Music 2020 Artist to Watch, as well as being their best performing Country female of 2019, she continues to rise through the ranks and break glass ceilings. Barrett’s "lightning-in-a-bottle single" (PEOPLE) “I Hope” is one of Rolling Stone’s “10 Best Country and Americana Songs To Hear Now,” racing into the Top 20 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart, and becoming the first solo female debut single to reach Country radio’s summit since 2017. “A voice you must hear,” (The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) the rising star has opened for Dierks Bentley, Kane Brown, Luke Bryan, Toby Keith, Chris Lane, Dustin Lynch, Jake Owen, Bebe Rexha, Cole Swindell, Sugarland, and Carrie Underwood. With over 330 MILLION on-demand streams to her credit, Barrett previewed her upcoming album, GOLDMINE, releasing “The Good Ones” and “Hall of Fame,” completing a trio of releases she co-wrote. The Pennsylvania native began singing in a gospel choir at nine years old and performed 136 shows in 2017 before rising to national prominence as a finalist on ABC’s American Idol.