Luke Combs’ ‘The Way I Am’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top Country Albums Chart

Luke Combs earns his fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart as The Way I Am debuts at the top of the list dated April 4. The set is Combs’ sixth full-length studio project and launches with 101,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States from its March 20 release through March 26, according to Luminate. It concurrently opens at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

Meanwhile, the debut helps push Combs’ “Days Like These” into the Hot Country Songs top 10 for the first time as it rises 11-9 on 5.2 million streams, 23.6 million in radio audience and 2,000 in sales, becoming his 27th top 10. The move gives him three simultaneous top 10 titles, part of a broader surge that places 14 of his songs on the chart.

The total marks one of the largest same-week showings of Combs’ career, trailing only his peak of 16 titles in November 2019 sparked by the release of his What You See Is What You Get and standing among the stronger multi-entry weeks in the chart’s history, even as streaming-era highs — led by Morgan Wallen — have pushed totals well beyond 20.

Combs’ tracks making this week’s Hot Country Songs chart are:

Combs’ other Top Country Albums leaders are 2022’s Growin’ Up, 2019’s 37-week No. 1 What You See Is What You Get, 2019’s EP The Prequel and 2017’s 50-week ruler This One’s for You. His albums have spent a combined 89 weeks at No. 1, placing him in eighth place for the most, behind Wallen (228), Garth Brooks (173), Alabama (125), Willie Nelson (107), Taylor Swift (101), Kenny Rogers (99) and Shania Twain (97).

As The Way I Am opens at No. 1 and fuels another strong week across Hot Country Songs, Combs continues to show that his success is just as much about consistency as it is about big moments.