Some songs fade. “Tennessee Whiskey” just keeps pouring.

Eleven years after Chris Stapleton released “Tennessee Whiskey” as a single in April 2015, the song is climbing the charts again — rising six spots on Billboard’s Country Streaming Songs chart for the chart week ending Nov. 7, 2026, from No. 25 the previous week to No. 19.

And that is only part of the story. The song has now spent 483 weeks total on the Country Streaming Songs chart.

The track appeared on Stapleton’s debut album Traveller, released May 5, 2015. It reached the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart on May 23, 2015, hit No. 1 on Nov. 21, 2015, spent two weeks at No. 1 and 27 weeks total on that chart.

It is also a cover with a long history: the song was previously released by David Allan Coe in 1981 and George Jones in 1983.

Critics have long recognised its staying power. Rolling Stone ranked it No. 90 on its “200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time” list, published May 24, 2024, calling it “one of the great country-soul performances of the 21st century.” Rolling Stone also noted the popularity of Stapleton’s 2015 CMA duet performance of the song with Justin Timberlake.

483 weeks in, “Tennessee Whiskey” is not just a hit from 2015 — it is a song listeners keep coming back to, week after week, year after year.

Source: Men’s Journal (published Nov. 8, 2026, 11:24 a.m. ET).

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