Little Big Town Takes ‘Better Man’ to No.1

Little Big Town is kicking off the release week of its seventh studio album with the No.1 song in the country.

“Better Man,” claims the top spot on on both the Billboard and MediaBase country airplay charts, and is officially LBT’s fastest rising single to date, taking only 18 weeks to reach the top spot on the charts. The Taylor Swift-penned song is the lead single from the GRAMMY Award-winning quartet’s forthcoming album, The Breaker, which hits stores Friday (Feb. 24).

The song is one the band fell in love with immediately.

“This song, first of all, I love the melody,” says LBT’s Jimi Westbrook. “The chorus just kind of soars when it comes in and it feels like one of those classic country melodies on a chorus that we just fell in love from the first time we heard it.”

“The message,’ he continues, “I think everybody can identify with the sentiment of this song. A lot of times in life, there’s a lot of things you have to walk away from that don’t necessarily feel like the greatest decision to have to make in your life, but sometimes you just know that it’s time to move on and no matter how hard that is, you just know that down in your heart that it’s time to do that. Those are very difficult decisions that we face sometimes in our lives, and I think this song talks about that beautifully.”

To celebrate the release of the album, Little Big Town will make a slew of media appearances in the coming weeks, including stops on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the TODAY Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and The Talk (check local listings for airdates and times).

Additionally, the group will launch their unprecedented residency at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Friday evening (Feb. 24).  For ticket information, visit Ryman.com.