When you’re a singer and your song goes to number-one, that’s a big deal anytime, but all the more so when it’s your first chart-topper, and this week Chris Young celebrates his “number-one number-one” as “Gettin’ You Home (The Black Dress Song)” officially becomes the hottest country single in the nation. We caught up with Chris to get his reactions…and he is, to say the least, happy, appreciative, and thrilled. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Chris also told us about how he got the news that his song was poised to hit the top, as he stepped off a plane and made a call to the head of his record label’s promotion team, who then handed to the phone to another well-known chart-topper, Kenny Chesney. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)
• “Gettin’ You Home” is from Chris’ recently released sophomore album, The Man I Want to Be.

  Chris Young talks about the feeling of earning his first number-one single. (:13)
“This is just so cool for me. This feeling will last the rest of my life. For the rest of my life, when I walk into my house, I will have a plaque somewhere in my house (laughs) — probably one in every room — (laughs) at least for a little while, that says ‘Gettin’ You Home’ went number-one.”

  Sitting in his record label’s office — surrounded by plaques and awards honoring labelmates like Martina McBride — Chris Young says he’s just trying to get used to the idea of having a number-one hit of his own. (:30)
“I’m still not totally realizing how cool this is. I was sittin’ there lookin’ at print-offs of the chart today, and I was walkin’ down the hall, and I’m seein’, you know, the number-ones from Martina that are hangin’ on the wall outside of everybody’s door, and you know, the plaques that have got, you know, the chart printed on it, and it says congrats on the number-one for such-and-such song. And I was sittin’ there lookin’ at those, ‘Man, I’m gonna get one of those.’ You know, I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at it, goin’, ‘I actually have a number-one song.’ And it’s just…it’s gonna take a while to fully set in.”

  Chris Young says that when he called his record label’s head of promotion to ask whether “Gettin’ You Home” would go to number-one, Chris found himself being congratulated by Kenny Chesney. (:43)
“As soon as I landed, I’m down there in baggage claim, and I call him, and I can hear him talkin’ — he was somewhere where several other people were at, and was in the process of tellin’ me congrats on it, he goes, ‘Hang on! Somebody wants to talk to you.’ Hands the phone to someone, and proceeds to start talkin’ about when he got his first number-one. He was like, ‘Man, I remember, I was in Puerto Rico, and no one knew what I was doin’ there, nobody knew my song…this one guy recognized it, startin’ freakin’ out about it,’ and he said, ‘I just wanted to tell you congrats on your first number-one,’ and it was Kenny Chesney. (laughs) So, that was pretty cool. And then within 36 hours, you know, here I am in the building, today, Brad Paisley walks by and tells me congrats on the number-one. So, just how I found out and the people that I’ve seen since then has been really, really cool.”