Maren Morris' 'Girl' Album Breaks Streaming Records

Maren Morris' 'Girl' Album Breaks Records

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 14: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO COMMERCIAL USE) Maren Morris attends the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards which broadcasted live on FOX at Microsoft Theater on March 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

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Maren Morris’s new album, Girl, has shattered the record for the largest streaming week ever for a country studio album by a woman, with 24 million streams in its first week. The album debuts this week at number four on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

“I am blown away by the support this last week,” says Morris. “My fans were already screaming the lyrics at the show the day after the album came out. I am so shocked and thankful to have broken this record for country music!”

She shared in Instagram, "Thank you for one of the best weeks of my life. I’m truly grateful I get to do this with y’all and I can’t fully process this news."

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Girl was released on March 8 on Columbia Nashville, has also broken Apple Music and Amazon Music streaming records.

The album, Morris’ second, features the history-making title track “Girl” which had the highest debut on Billboard’s Country Streaming Songs chart by a female artist and the highest weekly streams by a female country artist ever.

-Nancy Brooks

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Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media GroupEditor

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.