{"id":67889,"date":"2017-12-02T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=67889"},"modified":"2017-12-02T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:30:41","slug":"lancos-1st-1-greatest-love-story-goes-down-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/02\/lancos-1st-1-greatest-love-story-goes-down-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanco\u2019s &#8220;Greatest Love Story&#8221; Goes Down In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-67891 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/lanco001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lanco001.jpg 750w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lanco001-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Lanco\u2019s 1st #1 Greatest Love Story Goes Down In History<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lanco earns their first-ever No. One on the Billboard Country Airplay chart this week with the GOLD single \u201cGreatest Love Story\u201d off their self-titled EP. \u201cShaking up the Country charts\u201d with \u201chis confessional style lyrics\u201d (Entertainment Weekly), lead singer Brandon Lancaster takes credit as the sole writer behind the hit, marking the first time in over ten years an artist\u2019s first No. One on the chart has been solely written by the artist. Simultaneously, this week\u2019s top-selling new group reaches No. One on Billboard\u2019s Emerging Artist Chart ending Dua Lipa\u2019s six-week reign at the top spot on the all-genre chart.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67892\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/anco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/anco.jpg 400w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/anco-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/anco-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely incredible to write a song that our entire band has believed in since day one\u2026and for our years of hard work to finally pay off,\u201d said lead singer Brandon Lancaster. \u201cWe built our foundation as a band on \u2018Greatest Love Story\u2019 because we believed in the power of Country music story telling. To see how much it has resonated with so many people makes us feel little less crazy for believing in it so much. We also acknowledge the hard work effort that is put into achieving this from our team, record label and Country radio and if it wasn\u2019t for them we would probably still playing this song to empty bars for anyone who would listen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFew bands have have generated as much buzz as LANCO\u201d (Pop Culture) as they were just named one of Pandora\u2019s \u201c2018 Country Artists To Watch\u201d and were also hand selected as this month\u2019s Hits Magazine \u201cVibe-Raters.\u201d As their groundswell movement reaches new heights, Lancaster reigns at No. One for a seventh consecutive week on the Top Country Songwriters chart, based on streams, sales and airplay and he serves as the only artist to reach this accolade in 2017. Critics nationwide have raved about LANCO\u2019s \u201cGreatest Love Story,\u201d leaving high exceptions for their forthcoming full-length debut set for release in early 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; TasteOfCountry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lanco\u2019s 1st #1 Greatest Love Story Goes Down In History Lanco earns their first-ever No. One on the Billboard Country Airplay chart this week with the GOLD single \u201cGreatest Love Story\u201d off their self-titled EP. \u201cShaking up the Country charts\u201d with \u201chis confessional style lyrics\u201d (Entertainment Weekly), lead singer Brandon Lancaster takes credit as the sole writer behind the hit, marking the first time in over ten years an artist\u2019s first No. One on the chart has been solely written by the artist. Simultaneously, this week\u2019s top-selling new group reaches<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/02\/lancos-1st-1-greatest-love-story-goes-down-in-history\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}