Josh Kear has written 18 #1 songs and is the first songwriter in Grammy history to win Best Country Song three times (for Lady A’s “Need You Now” and Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” and “Blown Away”). He also won CMA, ACM, and ASCAP Song of the Year awards for “I Need You Now,” which spent 14 weeks at #1 on the AC chart and 5 weeks at #1 on the country charts.

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Some of his other #1 hits include Lainey Wilson “Watermelon Moosnshine”, Luke Bryan “Drunk On You” and “Most People Are Good”, Blake Shelton “Neon Light”, Dierks Bentley “Woman, Amen”, and Tim McGraw “Highway Don’t Care”.

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The long list of country and pop performers who have cut his songs also includes Frankie Ballard, Martina McBride, Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett, Charlie Puth, Jimmie Buffet, Labrinth, Chris Young, Tyler Farr, Darius Rucker and many others.

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