Riley Green Scores First Solo #1 On Billboard Country Airplay Chart With “Worst Way,” Announces Second Duckman Jam

Duckman Jam is back.

Riley Green announced this morning that he’s bringing back his Duckman Jam festival for the second year, which was previously held at the Flora-Bama beach bar in the Spring of 2024, but this fall, it will be taking place on November 22nd in Little Rock, Arkansas to kick off duck season.

Along with Riley headlining the concert, Jamey Johnson, Drake White and Lauren Watkins will join him as support, which will make for a great show and I couldn’t think of anything more on-brand for Green, also known as @rileyduckman on Instagram, to kick off duck season with a show like this…

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Riley has also teamed up with Ducks Unlimited to donate $5 from every ticket sold in support of conserving North America’s wetlands and the wildlife that depend on them, which is really cool and a great way to support a cause that is obviously very near and dear to his heart.

In addition to announcing the 2025 Duckman Jam, Riley scored his 3rd career #1 on the Billboard Airplay Chart this weekend with “Worst Way,” which is his first solo #1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart (his song “There Was This Girl, which was his first solo radio hit, topped the Mediabase chart).

Of course, “Worst Way” was first part of his Way Out Here EP, then on his third studio album Don’t Mind If I Do last year. It was a solo write by Riley, and quickly became a fan-favorite for its sensual, seductive lyrics and departure from what Riley normally writes about, which is heartbreak and losing a girl… the complete opposite of this song. The video has over six million views now, and obviously, a lot of the ladies haven’t been able to stop watching it.

Serving as his current single, “Worst Way” is sonically and lyrically unique in Riley’s catalog, as he typically talks more about sadness and heartbreak than the really intimate parts of being in love.

Clearly, that strategy of switching it up is clearly working for him, and I think the music video might be even more popular than the song itself somehow… Riley joked in a recent interview with Katie Neal for Audacy’s Katie & Company that the steamy video was made with “AI,” but in reality, he knew he had to make it somewhat funny in order to be able to really buy in. He took inspiration from one of his favorite Kevin Costner movies Bull Durham, specifically the scene where you see him in a bathrobe eating cereal:

“AI… what they can do with computers now is crazy. I think I got sent a treatment and it was really, like, right at it. And it was very… I said, there’s gotta be something about this that is a little funny. Like a little comedic relief. And the movie ‘Bull Durham’ was one of my favorite Kevin Costner movies years ago, I had a huge crush on Susan Sarandon, and there’s a scene where they’re sitting in the kitchen.

I think he’s smoking a joint, he’s got on her bathrobe and they’re eating cereal, and that’s the vibe I wanted. Throwing the wine and throwing the roses, the kind of cheesy looking at camera thing. It was like an Old Spice commercial, you know. It ended up being a lot of fun. It’s not it’s not really comfortable shooting a music video like that, but it ended up being a lot of fun.”

It’s certainly not safe for work, fair warning, but I’ll just leave the music video below… and congrats to Riley on a solo #1. That says a lot in the country world today where it’s becoming more and more rare to write alone and have this much success with it.

“Worst Way”

Riley Green Tour Dates:

June 19th, 2025 – Franklin, TN – FirstBank Amphitheater *$-
June 21st, 2025 – Huntington, WV – Marshall Health Network Arena *$-
June 26th, 2025 – Cadott, WI – Hoofbeat Country Fest %
June 27th, 2025 – Brainerd, MN – Lakes Jam %
June 28th, 2025 – Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest %

July 10th, 2025 – Winnipeg, Canada – Country Thunder %
July 12th, 2025 – Pendleton, OR – Pendleton Whisky Music Festival %
July 13th, 2025 – Chicago, IL – Windy City Smokeout %
July 18th, 2025 – Kettering, OH – Fraze Pavilion *-
July 19th, 2025 – Harrington, DE – Delaware State Fair %
July 20th, 2025 – York, PA – York State Fair %
July 24th, 2025 – New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17 *@&
July 25th, 2025 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway *@&
July 26th, 2025 – Gilford, NH – Bank of NH Pavilion *@&

August 1st, 2025 – Bethlehem, PA – Musikfest %
August 2nd, 2025 – Richmond, VA – Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront
August 7th, 2025 – Estero, FL – Hertz Arena *@&›
August 8th, 2025 – Jacksonville, FL – Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena *@&
August 9th, 2025 – Birmingham, AL – Coca-Cola Amphitheater *$-
August 16th, 2025 – Sainte-Hélène-de-Kamouraska, Canada – Lasso 2025 %
August 17th, 2025 – Calgary, Canada – Country Thunder Calgary %
August 21st, 2025 – Bonner, MT – KettleHouse Amphitheater *?-
August 22nd, 2025 – Idaho Falls, ID – Mountain America Center *?-
August 23rd, 2025 – Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater *?-
August 25th, 2025 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre *?-
August 28th, 2025 – Corning, CA – Obsidian Spirits Amphitheater *@-
August 30th, 2025 – Puyallup, WA – Puyallup Fairgrounds at Washington State Fair %•

September 6th, 2025 – Niagara Falls, Canada – Misty City Music Festival %
September 10th, 2025 – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town /
September 11th, 2025 – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town /
September 12th, 2025 – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town /
September 13th, 2025 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy Birmingham /
September 15th, 2025 – Manchester, England – O2 Victoria Warehouse /
September 16th, 2025 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy Glasgow /
September 18th, 2025 – Belfast, UK – Waterfront Hall /
September 19th, 2025 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia Theatre /
September 26th, 2025 – Washington, DC – Washington Nationals Park

October 4th, 2025 – Winnsboro, SC – Field & Stream Festival %
October 10th, 2025 – North Charleston, SC – Riverfront Revival %

November 1st, 2025 – Gonzales, LA – Boots on the Bayou %
November 6th, 2025 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena #~/
November 7th, 2025 – St Louis, MO – Chaifetz Arena #~/
November 8th, 2025 – Kansas City, MO – TMobile Center #~/
November 9th, 2025 – Phoenix, AZ – The Hondo Rodeo Fest %
November 13th, 2025 – University Park, PA – Bryce Jordan Center #~/
November 14th, 2025 – Toledo, OH – The Huntington Center #~/
November 15th, 2025 – Peoria, IL – Peoria Civic Center Arena #~/
November 20th, 2025 – Lincoln, NE – Pinnacle Bank Arena #~/
November 21st, 2025 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center #~/
November 22nd, 2025 – Little Rock, AR – Simmons Bank Arena#^$
December 12th, 2025 – Las Vegas, NV – Resorts World
December 13th, 2025 – Las Vegas, NV – Resorts World

May 30th, 2026 – Panama City Beach, FL – Gulf Coast Jam %

*Ella Langley
@Vincent Mason
#Jamey Johnson
~Drake White
$Lauren Watkins
-Preston Cooper
!Erik Dylan
&Wyatt McCubbin
?Mike Ryan
•Josh Ross
/Hannah McFarland
^Dustin Lynch
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