Zach Bryan Put All Eight Young Manhood Songs on the Hot 100
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No. 4, No. 22, No. 35, No. 45, No. 50, No. 51, No. 53 and No. 60. Those are the Billboard Hot 100 positions where the eight songs on Zach Bryan’s Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs entered on the chart dated 31 October, every track on the EP arriving in the same week.
NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson put the week in one line on NPR: “All eight songs from his new EP enter this week’s Hot 100, led by a duet with Lana Del Rey called ‘Lies’ at No. 4.” The EP also opened at No. 1 on three Billboard album charts in the same week.
Where Each Young Manhood Song Entered the Hot 100
The ranking, track by track, from the Hot 100 dated 31 October:
- Lies, featuring Lana Del Rey: No. 4
- Lodi When: No. 22
- Robot Killed The Working Man: No. 35
- Plainsman, featuring Turnpike Troubadours: No. 45
- Backwards: No. 50
- You’ll Get By: No. 51
- Dog Days: No. 53
- Is The Blue Tangled In You?: No. 60
Lies is the entry that moved the headline numbers. According to Billboard, it became Bryan’s fourth Hot 100 top 10 and Del Rey’s third. The rest of the EP landed in a cluster between No. 22 and No. 60, with four of the eight songs packed between No. 45 and No. 53. The chart credits list Backwards as written by Bryan alone, and the imprint as Belting Bronco and Warner.
Placing every track on the Hot 100 in a single week suggests listeners played the record through rather than stopping at the focus single. A tally of eight entries from an eight-song record leaves nothing behind.
Lies also arrived in a crowded week at the top. NPR noted that three new songs entered the top five that week, with Tate McRae’s Housewife debuting at No. 2 and Taylor Swift’s Patient Zero, which had held the top spot for several weeks, falling to No. 5. Olivia Rodrigo’s Expectations cracked the top 10 the same week, helped by a new remix and a video featuring Chappell Roan, NPR reported, so Lies earned its No. 4 against strong competition.
Three Album Charts at No. 1, and No. 2 on the Billboard 200
On the album side, Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts, and at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200. It earned 65,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its first week, 16 to 22 October, according to Luminate data reported by Billboard.
What held it at No. 2 was Olivia Rodrigo, whose album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love sat at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated 31 October. That is the difference from two of his earlier triple-crown sets: Billboard notes that January’s With Heaven on Top and his 2023 self-titled album also led the all-genre chart.
The triple genre crown is still a record of consistency. This is Bryan’s fifth set to top all three of those tallies, following With Heaven on Top, 2024’s The Great American Bar Scene, the self-titled release and 2022’s American Heartbreak, Billboard reported. The catalogue was visible on the same Billboard 200 too: American Heartbreak sat at No. 63, Zach Bryan at No. 91, The Great American Bar Scene at No. 143 and With Heaven On Top at No. 183, putting five of his titles on the chart in one week.
Deep Inside the Country and Rock Song Charts
The song-level haul goes further on the genre lists. All eight tracks debuted on both Hot Country Songs and Hot Rock Songs, Billboard reported. Lies entered at No. 1 on Hot Rock Songs, Bryan’s fourth leader there and Del Rey’s first, and at No. 2 on Hot Country Songs.
Those entries swell one of the biggest catalogues on either chart. Bryan has now placed 106 titles on Hot Rock Songs and 97 on Hot Country Songs. With Lies and Lodi When entering Hot Country Songs at Nos. 2 and 9, he has debuted 14 of his 17 career top 10s directly in that tier, Billboard noted. That is the third-highest count of top-10 debuts on the chart since it moved to a multimetric methodology in October 2012, behind only Morgan Wallen with 34 and Taylor Swift with 17.
His two Hot Country Songs No. 1s remain Something in the Orange, which ruled for six weeks, and I Remember Everything with Kacey Musgraves, which held the top spot for 20 weeks. Lies came within one position of joining them on its first week.
151.3 Million Streams in One Week
The streaming tally explains how an eight-song EP put every track on the chart at once. During the tracking week, Bryan ranked fourth among all artists in the United States with 151.3 million official streams, Billboard reported. Only Drake, with 298.6 million, Wallen, with 204.2 million, and Swift, with 183.1 million, drew more.
That total covers his catalogue as well as the new EP, and five Bryan albums sat on the Billboard 200 that week. Billboard does not rank streams directly: it converts them into album-equivalent units and adds them to album sales and track sales, with one album sale counting as one unit and ten track downloads as one. Under the current formula, ad-supported streams count for less than paid ones when they are converted into album units, a ratio that is about to change: from the chart dated 16 January, Billboard will count 1,500 ad-supported streams as one album unit instead of 2,500, as we set out in how a YouTube stream will count toward a Billboard album again. A release with Bryan’s streaming profile would register more units under the new rate.
How the Chart Run Has Settled Since Week One
Week-on-week, the slide has been steep. On the Hot 100 dated 7 November, Lies fell from No. 4 to No. 11. By the chart dated 14 November, it sat at No. 19 in its third week, with Lodi When at No. 80, and the other six songs had dropped out.
The EP followed the same path on the album ranking. It slipped from No. 2 to No. 7 on the Billboard 200 dated 7 November and to No. 18 on the chart dated 14 November. American Heartbreak, now four years old, was still at No. 91 that week, a reminder of how long Bryan’s records stay in rotation after the debut spike fades.
The position to watch is Lies. A duet that entered the Hot 100 top five and is still inside the top 20 three weeks in has a longer tail than the rest of the EP, and on current form it is the song best placed to keep the EP in the rankings through the rest of the year.
What the Numbers Say About Zach Bryan’s Year
Read together, the rankings show two things. The first is breadth: every song on the record charted on the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs and Hot Rock Songs in the same week, while the EP topped three album charts. The second is a ceiling of sorts on the all-genre album chart, where a strong week from a pop release kept an eight-song EP at No. 2.
Neither takes much away from the tally. Bryan opened 2026 with a Billboard 200 No. 1 in With Heaven on Top and closes the autumn with a second chart-topping run on the genre lists, a Hot 100 top-five duet and a back catalogue that still fills the lower half of the album chart. For a songwriter whose records are counted almost entirely through streams, the rankings are a direct read of how many people press play on everything he releases.
For now, the tally stands at eight Hot 100 entries, three album-chart No. 1s, 65,000 first-week units and a duet still inside the top 20 three weeks after release.
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