Big & Rich have scored the first No. 1 hit of their career as a duo with "Lost in This Moment," which tops both the Mediabase and R&R Country Singles charts this week. John Rich calls the milestone "an incredible honor." To Big Kenny, "it proves that our dream of 'Music Without Prejudice' is real, and it is possible."
John tells Dial-Global that while the duo is just now topping the charts, you wouldn't know it based on the response from concert crowds to many of their songs. "It's been a very interesting paradox that we've written all of these songs that have been hits and haven't had one that was a technical hit, as far as where it wound up on the chart," he says. "We've had hits that died in the 20s and we play them every night and they know every word to them. It always boggles my mind that we can go play Comstock, Nebraska, and there's 30,000 people screaming the words to a song that died at 32."
Keith Anderson and John co-wrote the song six or seven years ago, before either of them had a record deal. Keith says they thought for sure somebody would have recorded it by now, and they each finally decided it was time someone did.
"Last fall I got a call from John, just catching up," Keith says. "He said, 'Hey! Congratulations! You've got a song that's gonna be on our new record.' And I'm like, 'Well, you've got one of our songs that's gonna be on my new record.' And it was the same song! We both cut "Lost In This Moment," so I'm gonna have my version on my record that's coming out this fall too. We figured whoever put it out, it wouldn't matter 'cause we both had a cool version we had already cut. So they put it out first, and now it's a big ol' No. 1. We knew it was a hit and we proved it seven years later."
