{"id":2043356,"date":"2026-07-14T19:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2043356"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:48:49","slug":"toby-keiths-courtesy-of-the-red-white-blue-is-now-his-highest-peaking-hot-100-hit-thanks-to-4th-of-july-return-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2043356","title":{"rendered":"Toby Keith\u2019s \u2018Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue\u2019 Is Now His Highest-Peaking Hot 100 Hit Thanks to 4th of July Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tOn this week\u2019s Billboard Hot 100 (dated July 18), Toby Keith not only scores a reentry for his 2002 hit \u201cCourtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),\u201d he achieves a best-ever chart rank for the song \u2014 or for any of his songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cCourtesy\u201d leads a wave of patriotic songs re-swarming the Hot 100 this week, landing at No. 11 \u2014 ahead of fellow 4th of July perennials from Miley Cyrus (\u201cParty in the U.S.A.,\u201d No. 25), Lynyrd Skynyrd (\u201cSweet Home Alabama,\u201d No. 31) and Zac Brown Band (\u201cChicken Fried,\u201d No. 32),\u00a0among several others. That No. 11 placement bests Keith\u2019s prior career peak of No. 15, achieved by his party singalong \u201cRed Solo Cup\u201d in January 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tUpon its original chart run in 2002, \u201cCourtesy\u201d \u2014 whose aggressively pro-American posturing in the aftermath of 9\/11 resonated with some audiences and inspired\u00a0backlash from others\u00a0\u2014 reached No. 25 on the Hot 100, securing that position on the chart dated Aug. 3. It also became the ninth of his 20 career No. 1s on Hot Country Songs. In summer 2025, it reentered the Hot 100 for the first time since 2002, after last year\u2019s 4th of July bump brought it back to No. 31 on the listing. (The song likely became more of a sentimental favorite following Keith\u2019s passing at age 62 in February 2024.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year, the song\u2019s now-annual 4th of July surge was further accelerated by the U.S. celebrating its 250th anniversary \u2014 and by the holiday falling on a Saturday, thus further concentrating the highest-volume days of related gains all within the same\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u00a0tracking week, and maximizing the 4th of July weekend partying (and related soundtracking). <\/p>\n

\n\tKeith has scored 39 career hits on the Hot 100, starting with 1993\u2019s No. 93-peaking \u201cShould\u2019ve Been a Cowboy\u201d (his first Hot Country Songs leader). While that classic and several other of his \u201990s hits achieved minimal success, if any, on the Hot 100 \u2014 during a period where there was significantly less crossover to the chart from the country world in general \u2014 starting at the turn of the century, he became a regular visitor to the top 40, ultimately visiting the region 15 times between 2000 and 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe chart success of \u201cCourtesy\u201d this week is most heavily owed to its streaming activity, with the song accruing 15.3 million official U.S. streams \u2014 a 198% gain from the prior tracking week \u2014 according to Luminate. Additionally, it rises 492% to 2.6 million in airplay audience and 215% to 6,000 sold.<\/p>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Toby-Keith-2006-a-billboard-1548.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard On this week\u2019s Billboard Hot 100 (dated July 18), Toby Keith not only scores a reentry for his 2002 hit \u201cCourtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),\u201d he achieves a best-ever chart rank for the song \u2014 or for any of his songs.\u00a0 Explore Toby Keith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2043356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2043356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}