Jelly Roll Rocks First Airplay No. 1
Jelly Roll, the artist born Jason DeFord in Nashville, scores his first leader on a radio ranking — after he first hit the Billboard charts in 2011 — as “Dead Man Walking” reaches No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay.
The track also jumps 9-6 on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 3.2 million in audience, up 1%, according to Luminate. Beyond its mainstream rock acceptance, the song holds at No. 30 on Alternative Airplay.
Meanwhile, Jelly Roll’s first Country Airplay entry, “Son of a Sinner,” holds at its No. 28 high, up 3% to 4 million impressions.
Largely a rapper early in his career, Jelly Roll released his latest album, Ballads of the Broken, last September, fusing hip-hop, rock and country on the project. “Some music’s meant to be heard and some music is meant to be felt,” he recently told Billboard. “Personally, I try to make the kind of music that’s meant to be felt.”