Biggest-selling country digital song (US)

Biggest-selling country digital song (US)
Who
Florida Georgia Line
What
7240000 unit(s) sold
Where
United States
When
30 April 2015

Florida's Brian Kelley and Georgia's Tyler Hubbard make up the record-shattering country duo Florida Georgia Line (USA), who burst on to the scene in 2012 with their debut single "Cruise". With 7.24 million digital copies shifted as of April 2015, "Cruise" is the most-downloaded country track ever in the US, and among the top 10 biggest-selling digital single across all genres of music. "Cruise" became the biggest-selling country digital song in January 2014, with 6.33 million downloads registered compared with the 6.27 million copies sold of Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" (2009). Sales of "Cruise" were boosted by a remix of the song, featuring rapper Nelly, that enabled it to become a multi-format smash.

The track, which was certified 9x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in January 2015, sold 4.691 million copies in 2013 alone. It reached sales of 7 million in September 2014.

"Cruise" spent an unprecedented 24 non-consecutive weeks at No.1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart: 3 weeks from 22 December 2012, 2 weeks from 19 January 2013 and, after Nelly's remix of "Cruise" had saturated radio airwaves, 19 consecutive weeks from 20 April to 24 August 2013. No other track has spent more than 14 weeks at No.1 on Hot Country Songs.

Florida Georgia Line also peaked at No.4 on the Hot 100 with "Cruise" (featuring Nelly).

The track is taken from the duo's debut album Here's to the Good Times (2012).

According to Nielsen SoundScan, The Black Eyed Peas have the biggest-selling digital single of all time with "I Gotta Feeling" (8.7 million copies sold).