This week, Brantley Gilbert is once again celebrating having written the No. 1 country song in America. This one is extra sweet, however, as it’s his first chart-topping hit as a songwriter and performer.

‘Country Must Be Country Wide’ locks in the No. 1 slot on both the Billboard and Mediabase/Country Aircheck country singles charts. Gilbert co-wrote the tune with Mike Dekle and fellow Georgia country artist Colt Ford. Gilbert and Ford are the same writing team behind the Jason Aldean smash ‘Dirt Road Anthem.’ Gilbert is also responsible for solely writing another Aldean hit, ‘My Kinda Party.’

“Colt and I were talking about the places we’d been traveling [on tour],” Gilbert told Taste of Country earlier this year of how his new No. 1 song, ‘Country Must Be Country Wide,’ came about. “You know, I always felt the south was country, but we were traveling farther and farther north and northwest, and there were country people up there, too.”

Gilbert and his labelmate Thomas Rhett are in the midst of the 2011 Taste of Country Christmas Tour. Click here to see the remaining dates of the tour.

Next year, Gilbert will hit the road with Eric Church on his new headlining trek, the Blood, Sweat and Beer Tour, which will also feature the Cadillac Black, Blackberry Smoke, Sonia Leigh, Jon Pardi and Drake White.

Watch the Brantley Gilbert ‘Country Must Be Country Wide’ Video

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