Toby Keith’s Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) has become the highest-charting song of his career on the Hot 100. The latest chart update shows the 2002 single re-entering at No. 11 after a major Fourth of July listening surge.
The chart results reflect 15.3 million official streams, 2.6 million radio audience impressions and 6,000 digital sales recorded from July 3 through July 9. The new position moves the song past Red Solo Cup, which reached No. 15 in 2012. It also climbed to No. 2 on both the streaming and digital song sales rankings.
Released as the lead single from Keith’s album Unleashed, the song was written following the September 11 attacks and became one of his most recognized recordings. It originally topped the country chart and later earned multi-platinum certification.
The renewed attention arrived during celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary. Several other familiar songs returned to the Hot 100 during the holiday period, but Keith’s anthem achieved the strongest career milestone more than two decades after its release.
