You can hear both those songs on Pop/Top 40 Radio too, so its a double victory for the Industry. I don't think they care too much when people are debating "If it's country" cause they get the airplay on country and Top 40. Sam Hunt has been so successful at capturing both audiences that he actually won an overall award at the AMA's, even the biggest country stars usually win in country-specific categories and lose when they get nominated in overall stuff, but he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year against all genres. very rare. So they left all the way to the banks in Nashville, New York, LA etc while everyone else tries to figure out if its country.
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