Josh Turner Nabs No.1 Spot on Mediabase Country Charts with ‘Hometown Girl’

Hometown boy Josh Turner has scored his fifth No.1 with “Hometown Girl.” The track tops the Mediabase Country Charts and marks his first time at the top slot since 2010’s “All Over Me.”

“‘Hometown Girl’ is officially No. 1!” Turner wrote on Twitter. “Thank you God, country radio and MCA Nashville! It’s Party Time!!”

Written by Marc Beeson and Daniel Tashian, “Hometown Girl” was a song the baritone singer just knew he had to record from the second he first heard it.

“I was kind of looking for some different kind of stuff that I hadn’t really done before, and ‘Hometown Girl’ kind of fit that mold. Even before I knew the lyrics, I had that melody stuck in my head. It’s such a catchy melody,” the South Carolina native said of the song.

“When I really got to diggin’ into what the lyrics were saying, I loved the message in the song and I just felt like my female fan base would really get this song and relate to this song,” adds Turner. “I felt like the guys in my fan base, I feel like that’s the kind of girl they’re looking for or either they have already. So, I just felt like it was a good message to put out there and just a great song to give me kind of the opportunity to shake things up production-wise.”

The song is the second single from Turner’s most recently album Deep South, following the Top 20 track “Lay Low.”