Spurred by their live performance at the Grammys, Lady Antebellum’s solacing ballad “Need You Now,” is the most downloaded song on iTunes. For those of us that follow country radio, this designation is a long time in the making. Having released the song to country charts in August, the track has enjoyed enormous success at various country formats. Now, the rest of the country is gravitating towards it as well. That makes for a pretty cool moment in popular music when the number one song is from a country outfit (we’re not including Taylor Swift in this example because she crossed over at least a year ago), even though not a single second in the song has any trappings of the traditional country sound. Still a good thing, nonetheless, and to be quite frank, not something that wasn’t unexpected. The last few months have found country music insiders chattering about the band’s ability to cross-over, not unlike multi-Grammy winner Swift. Sure enough, it happened. Mass kudos to this hard-working trio,
