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Sam Hunt’s “Body Like A Back Road” drives to #1 on the US iTunes sales chart.

Update: As of 12:30PM ET Wednesday, Sam Hunt’s new single “Body Like A Back Road” is #1 on the all-genre US iTunes sales chart.

It is the first Sam Hunt song to ever top the chart.

The “Montevallo” album era established Sam Hunt as one of country music’s biggest stars, and his next chapter is predictably off to a good start.

Hunt’s new single “Body Like A Back Road,” which arrived early Wednesday morning, is already near the top of the US iTunes sales chart.

It is #3 of 9:25AM ET Wednesday morning. Only ZAYN & Taylor Swift’s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” and Ed Sheeran’s “Shape Of You” hold higher positions.

Sam Hunt Shares New Single, ‘Body Like a Back Road’

The wait is over: Sam Hunt‘s brand-new single, “Body Like a Back Road” is out now.

Written by Sam Hunt, Zach Crowell (who also produced the track), Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally following Hunt’s recent engagement to girlfriend Hannah Lee Fowler, “Body Like a Back Road” is a short, laid-back song with lyrics to match.

“We’re out here in the boondocks / With the breeze and the birds / Tangled up in the tall grass / With my lips on hers,” Hunt sings near the end of “Body Like a Back Road.” “On a highway to Heaven / Headed south of her smile / Get there when we get there / Every inch is a mile.”

“Body Like a Back Road,” Hunt says, helped “lighten up” what was shaping up to be a “heavy” sophomore album.

“I’ve been writing songs over the past, I guess, year and a half, trying to conceptualize a new record, and it kinda started taking a heavy direction, and I sat down at one point and was like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna lighten this up a little bit, it needs a lighter flair,’” Hunt recalls. “[“Body Like a Back Road”] sort of swings, and hopefully it’s easy to listen to and will put a smile on some folks’ faces.”

Hunt released his debut album, Montevallo, in 2014. On Jan. 1, just after midnight, he dropped an unreleased tune, “Drinkin’ Too Much,” that shares his feelings about his on-again-off-again relationship with Fowler, and how his fame has affected her.

“As I write these songs, I don’t want to sit on them for as long as it takes me to finish a record before I put them out,” Hunt notes, “so I’m just going to try to put them out as I write them and finish them. As quick as I can get them done, I’ll be shooting them out.”