Country Billboard Chart
News October 23, 2014
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In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country Album Chart ** No. 1
(1 week) “Anything Goes” Florida Georgia Line
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (13 weeks) ** “Burnin’ It Down” Jason Aldean
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Burnin’ It Down” Jason Aldean
Country Digital Songs **
No.1 ** (1 week) ** “Burnin’ It Down” Jason
Aldean
In this easy-to-use format
discover where your favourite acts songs and album are charting across the four
Billboard Country charts. It is prioritized by the first column showing the Hot
Country Songs chart frame standings for the week of November 1, 2014.
There are also separate rows
highlighting Women of Country music.
Scroll down for further
details on each of the individual charts.
Billboard Top
200 / Country Album Chart News
Superstar duo Florida
Georgia Line (Tyler
Hubbard and Brian Kelley) nabbed their first No.1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart with the
arrival of ANYTHING GOES (Republic Nashville)
selling 197,105 copies in the week
ending Oct. 19, 2014 according to
Nielsen SoundScan.
“Anything Goes”
is the pair's second full-length studio effort, following the breakthrough
success of juggernaut HERE'S TO THE GOOD
TIMES. That album was released on Dec 4, 2012 and reached No. 4 on the
Billboard 200. It has sold 2,062,778 copies and is still on the chart (rising
56-48 in its 98th chart week; selling 7,040 copies, up 18% on last weeks
5,980)
“Here's To The
Good Times” debuted at #10 (62,758 units sold, then 38,462 and 48,515
in its third week). In its
19th chart frame it sold 30,224 to sail past GOLD at retail with a total of 513,696. After
32-weeks on the chart it “Good Times” marked the fourth-slowest climb to the
top four on the Billboard 200 for a country album since SoundScan started
powering the chart in May 1991. By August 31, 2013 in its 37th week it had sold
PLATINUM
and when the deluxe version dropped on Nov 25, 2013 it shifted 69,000 copies (The 1,337,000 total was the most by any album by a
country duo since Sugarland's Love On The Inside, which has sold 2,308,000
copies since its release in 2008). “Good Times” also spawned the smash single
"Cruise," which spent a record 24 weeks at No.1 on the Hot Country
Songs chart and climbed to No.4 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
("Cruise" is also the best selling country digital song ever, with 7
million downloads sold.)
The new album
“Anything Goes” has already collected five top 40 entries on the Hot Country
Songs chart, including the 2-week No.1 hit "Dirt" ( chart frames: July
26, 2014 - August 2, 2014)
Country radio vastly dug FGL’s platinum-certified smash “Dirt” which topped both the Mediabase and Billboard Country Airplay
Charts last week marking their fifth #1 single to date. The duo performed the
lead track on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers on Oct 14th. "We fell in love with 'Dirt' the first time
we heard it and people really seem to love it as much as we do,” shared
FGL’s Brian Kelley. “It definitely
carries a lot of weight and hits you on a lot of different levels. We call it a
life song. And when you hear it, it takes you to a place called chill bump city."
FGL’s Tyler Hubbard adds, “we are so thankful to Country radio and our fans for
all of their support. This wouldn’t have happened without you and we can’t wait
to share all of ANYTHING GOES!”
FGL said there's
something for everyone on “Anything Goes”, but it's not predictable. "I say don't have any expectations
and just put the disc in or put a
playlist on your iPod and just crank it up and enjoy it," sid Kelley. Calling it a
continuation of their debut Here's To The Good Times, FGL's Hubbard said
the new project is an evolution. "I think we've stepped up our game,"
he says. "We've really made an attempt to work hard the last two years and
get better at singing, get better at writing songs, get better at singing in
the studio and performing. In all the different aspects that we do we've tried
to step it up." Their 2015 Anything Goes Tour launches Jan. 15 in Toledo
“Anything Goes”
is the third consecutive country album to top the Billboard 200,
following one-week rules by Blake Shelton's BRINGING
BACK THE SUNSHINE and last week's No.1, Jason Aldean's OLD
BOOTS, NEW DIRT which slipped
1-2 with 90,610 copies sold (down 67%
on last weeks opening, 368,911 sold 2 weeks).
It's the first
time the chart's top slot has gone back-to-back-to-back with three straight
country leaders in over four years. It last happened on the charts dated Oct.
9-23, 2010, when Zac Brown Band's You Get What You Give, Kenny Chesney's
Hemingway's Whiskey and Toby Keith's Bullets In the Gun led the list.
Critical
reception for Florida Georgia Line’s Anything Goes:
CD - UK iTunes (3 Nov) - Smart Choice Music [US Exclusive Deluxe] Amazon.com
Associated Press (Michael McCall)...Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley keep the
mood fun and grooving, with producer Joey Moi bringing plenty of fresh sonic
surprises amid the beats and harmonies. For example, "Sun Daze" could
be undermined by the silly pun of its title, on a song about spending a Sunday
soaking in rays and indulging in at least two brand-name liquors. But Moi's
arrangement brings in whistling, hand claps and a banjo to create a bright
groove that
insists on making hips sway. Similarly, new single "Bumpin'
the Night" works a predictable double-entendre about a couple moving in
tandem while drinking (of course), cruising the town and sharing time alone.
But the arrangement once again comes to the rescue. Florida Georgia Line's
recent hit "Dirt" proved the band can deal with subjects beyond
throwing down with friends. But they rarely bother on the rest of
"Anything Goes." And that's OK, as long as Florida Georgia Line
remains this consistently inventive and engaging.
Billboard (4 STARS).....There's
nothing as overtly game-changing or immediate as "Cruise" on Anything
Goes, and those hoping that "Dirt" meant that Florida Georgia Line
was moving beyond beer-soaked bro-country cliches will be disappointed. But
it's a more consistent
album than its predecessor. And perhaps more
importantly, it shores up the duo's country flanks, and demonstrates that FGL
intends to aggressively protect its progressive place in the genre, one that
the act essentially designed on its own.
Allmusic (Rating: 3 STARS) Despite the loosey-goosey title, there's not much left to chance on
Anything Goes: it's designed to consolidate Florida Georgia Line's success and
maybe give them a little bit of cred they never amassed on their debut. Those
serious moments, crystallized by the salt-of-the-earth dirgey lead single
"Dirt," are where FGL stumble. Whenever the duo acknowledge their
essential suburbanness -- which they do often, singing about Victoria's Secret,
Bacardi, and Seven Jeans among any other number of lifestyle signifiers --
things flow just fine on Anything Goes. Kelley and Hubbard have an easy
chemistry that lends itself to lubrication by Auto-Tune and the sleek digital
gloss that shimmers over the entire album. ...Anything Goes shines brightest
when they do modulated riffs on "Cruise" or "Get Your Shine
On," relying on party anthems that are bright, laid-, and never, ever
rowdy.
News Day.com (Rating: B) ....What set
Florida Georgia Line apart from the pack, though, was their embrace of hip-hop,
which is less evident on "Anything Goes." Instead, the duo packs as
many syllables as it can into a verse the way many of today's R&B singers
do, though the effect is less soulful and more rhythmic. Neither Kelley or
Hubbard have stand-out voices, but they sure use them well, rarely leaving
their respective sweet spots so that they always sound pretty laid back. "Sippin'
on Fire," which oddly opens with a guitar riff that sounds like the
opening to "Growing Pains," is the closest the guys come to
stretching
musically. They are far more effective
when they stretch lyrically -- especially on the lovely ode to home ownership,
"Dirt," declaring, "You write her name on it, spin your tires on
it." "Dirt" shows that the Florida Georgia Line bros could have
a future once they get tired of living in the present. BOTTOM LINE: Predictable country that's predictably good.
Country Perspective (Rating: 0/10) ....An Avicii ad played on Spotify as I
listened to this album and it sounded just as country as Florida Georgia Line’s
songs on Anything Goes. I had to point
this out because of how true it is and
sad the current situation is in mainstream country music. Maybe some artists
are actually striving to make better music, but some clearly want to hold onto
bro country with a death grip.
For The Country Record .....But
I never believed for one second that Florida Georgia Line were truly part of
its moving on, never thought that they were really maturing. A group like that
can’t. They are what they are and no amount of market forces will make them
into something they’re not. Even with ‘Dirt’ I went on the record as saying it
wasn’t as good as everyone claimed. True, it was more substantial and vaguely
more “country”-sounding than their prior hits, but underneath all the pretence
there were still clichés, still women peeling painted-on jeans off, still
auto-tune and still an R&B beat behind it. I was disappointed that people
could be that fooled to think the duo were changing.....‘Anything Goes’, their
brand new sophomore album, is proof enough that what will be, will be. In fact,
what will be will often become even worse. A listen through the dozen-track
record reveals not only a collection of meaningless, journey-
less party anthems
filled with sex, booze, drugs and more clichés than I have ever heard on any
bro-country album, but it also shows a gradual move away from real instruments;
instead, almost everything is created digitally..... we have a mix that is
honestly atrocious; tinny, high-pitched (there is surprisingly little bass in
most of the tracks), ear-piercingly faux-twangy (we have Tyler’s awful lead
vocals to thank for that), obnoxiously swaggery and quite chaotic, it becomes whiny
and oppressive to listen to. ......And then we come to the lyrics. Many
commentators were disgusted by the line from ‘Sun Daze’ “stick that pink
umbrella in your drink”, that is clearly a crude euphemism, but in truth the
whole album is a mess of bad clichés, the same subject matter recycled over and
over and more misogynistic tripe than you can shake a stick (or a booty) at.
....basically all this album is. It’s self-indulgent, it’s obnoxious, it’s for
morons with nothing better to do or think about in their lives because they are
shallow and have no concept of substance or reality. ‘Anything Goes’ is
mindless. There’s no journey. No progression.... The only thing Florida Georgia
Line have achieved with this record is to up bro-country to a new max never
even thought possible before. So well done you schmucks, Scott Borchetta fooled
you again. Bro-country and all associated is only about to get a whole lot
worse.
Related posts
- Billboard 615: Billboard Cover: Florida
Georgia Line on Being ‘Professional Partiers,’ Haters and
Hip-Hop....What's striking about Anything Goes is how closely it
duplicates FGL's previous records…..
- Florida Georgia Line have three songs that rhyme “party” and
“Bacardi” Billboard cover story on the
likableduo.
The Swon Brothers’ with their self-titled
album made a debut at No.28 on the BB200 (#6 Country) with 10,288 copies sold.
Zac and Colton Swon
co-produced their debut album with Mark Bright (Carrie Underwood). Sibling
harmony is front and center on The Voice finalists' first single "Later
On" and other songs including "Pray For You.
Critical
reception for The Swon Brothers’
self-titled album:
11
Tracks/ Time: 39:07 MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Allmusic ..Third-place
finalists on the fourth season of The Voice in 2013, the Swon Brothers
nevertheless secured a major-label deal with Arista Nashville, releasing an
eponymous debut in the fall of 2014. The Swon Brothers, both the act and album,
embrace the professional anonymity of Nashville, preferring gloss to grit and
harmony to twang. This unabashed sentiment does have its perks. It's hard not
to smile along with the Swon Brothers as they amble through 11 songs that have
nothing but pleasantries on their mind. If none of these professionally written
songs have piercing hooks, blame that both on the Brothers' aw-shucks persona
and Mark Bright's even-keel production, which shellacs any accentuated rhythms
or guitar licks with a highly reflective sheen. So bright is the sound that it
doesn't make much of a lasting impact, but as The Swon Brothers plays, it's
nothing less than pleasant and that dogged determination to not offend is a
hard thing to hate.
For The Country Record......Their self-titled debut, released
October 14th by Arista Nashville, is a bit of a mixed bag, but certainly one of
the more promising debuts I’ve listened to in recent years.....A few songs, however,
stand out big time, in both good and bad ways. ‘95’ is easily the worst track
on the album. With lyrics like “A little chill, kick it back, unwind / Let’s
put this day on ice” and vocals that sound completely different from the rest
of the album, I thought for a moment my music player had somehow switched to a
Florida Georgia Line song.....The brothers are at their best when they slow
things down a bit and don’t worry about chasing any current trends. Their
beautiful harmonies soar on ‘Pray For You,’ an uplifting song encouraging love
and prayer instead of judgement when you don’t agree with someone’s choices.
And you can feel the emotion in Zach and Colton’s voices on the breakup ballad
‘Breaking’. Despite its pop sheen, ‘Pretty Beautiful’ is an album highlight for
me, with gorgeous falsetto vocals sprinkled throughout. The album ends on its
highest note, ‘This Side of Heaven’. A story song filled with heartbreaking
honesty ..... The promise is there; now let’s hope the execution matches up.
In the second week for The Soundtrack
to the latest Nicholas Sparks Film, THE
BEST OF ME shifted another 6,073 copies (down 2%) and moved 54-52 on the
BB200 (12-11 Country).
Outside the
Top 25 Country Albums
Doug Seegers with GOING DOWN
TO THE RIVER (Rounder) slipped back 25-26 on the Country Chart in his
second week.
Lee Ann Womack who is to play the C2C2015 Country To Country
Festival in March 2015 fell further back 36-46 Country on her 4th chart frame
with The Way I'm Livin' (Sugar Hill)
Dirty River Boys who hail from Texas new self-titled album (DRB/ Thirty Tigers) made a debut at No.34. (13 Tracks/ Time: 45:02
Rock/Country - MP3 - Amazon.com )
The New York Journal wrote: There’s a borderlands
sensibility to some of the El Paso foursome’s music—check out “Down by the
River,” the ballad of drug-war violence that opens the album—but the band also
dials in a Mumford-esque folk-anthem sound on “Thought I’d Let You Know,” a
Celtic-punk flavor on “Sailed Away” and, occasionally, a flat-out barroom rock
’n’ roll feel on tracks like “Highway Love.” “We wanted to cross genres as much
as possible,” singer and guitarist Marco Gutierrez says. “We try not to box
ourselves in. We kind of let whatever happens happen with the instrumentation
that we have.” The band took its time—well, more time, anyway—making the album,
their second. Instead of dashing into recording sessions between concert dates,
as they had done previously, Gutierrez, singer and guitarist Nino Cooper,
bassist Colton James and singer and percussionist Travis Stearns holed up for a
solid block of time at the residential recording studio complex Sonic Ranch in
Tornillo, Tex.....Read More & Listen
Angaleena Presley with AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS (Slate Creek) made a debut at No.29 selling around 1,000 copies.
It also landed at #14 on Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart which
was introduced with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing
musical recording artists.
During 2014 Angaleena (best known for being "HOLLER
ANNIE" in the group Pistol Annies) signed with Slate Creek Records (same one as
Brandy Clark) through a distribution agreement with Thirty Tigers. The album was co-produced by Angaleena with her
husband, Jordan Powell, and Angaleena wrote or co-wrote all 12 of the autobiographical
tracks.
Presley called the album a
concept record that tells the story of her life – so far - “Part of what I loved about Garth Fundis and Jim
Burnett at Slate Creek is that they understood where I wanted to go
creatively," she said. "Producing this album was important to me
because of its content - I’ve lived every word of it and knew exactly how I
wanted it to sound.”
Critical
reception for Angaleena Presley’s “American
Middle Class”:
Billboard by Elias Leight (Rating 4 STARS).... Presley's sound is unlikely to break through on current radio, as there
are no drum loops or pop-friendly hooks here.....Presley's refusal to adopt a
radio-friendly sound underscores that American Middle Class is her show. She
brings in star writers on occasion -- including Luke Laird and Bob
DiPierro....She cites Willie Nelson's The Red-Headed Stranger as an inspiration
for American Middle Class, and her album is similarly elegant and spare....Some
of the songs gain spark from their humor. "Dry County Blues" is
cheeky as well as tragic. The hook -- "half the county's laid off, laid up
or getting high" -- points to the pervasiveness of substance abuse while
also relying on the easy cadence of a drinking song. "Knocked Up"
incorporates some kick drum for extra heft. "Here it comes, what granny's
been a-dreadin'," sings Presley, not sounding too upset about a
"belly full of a baby and a shotgun wedding....American Middle Class is a
focused collection of songs. Presley refuses to compromise her sound or ignore
the political and social realities of her community back home in Kentucky.
Billboard (by Chuck Dauphin)..... Angaleena Presley – best known (so far) for
her being a part of the Pistol Annies – is from the same part of Kentucky that
her heroes Loretta Lynn and Patty Loveless are. And, just like those two
legendary ladies, she grew up a “Coal Miners’ Daughter.” That upbringing – and
her being a part of the Country supertrio along with
Miranda Lambert and Ashley
Monroe – lends itself towards saying Presley is a very traditional-styled
singer-songwriter. There are moments on this disc where that description very
much applies – as it does on the wistful “Better Off Red,” where she longs for
a small town way of life that once made her feel trapped. But there are moments
where Presley strays from that description. While vocally, nobody can take her
Eastern Kentucky twang away – Thank God! – as a writer, this isn’t the Carter
Family or even Kitty Wells. There’s the beautifully exquisite “Dry County
Blues,” which was something that Loretta might have written herself ......American Middle Class works so well,
because it – like Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson – it’s a collection of
emotions and stories about real life......
Rollingstone
(rating: 3.5 STARS) Best known for her
work with Pistol Annies, Angaleena Presley is the latest hard-nosed country
traditionalist to challenge Nashville's frat-party tendencies. On the first
half of her impressive solo debut, Presley fills her disappearing middle-class
blues with sharp, compassionate tales of unfulfilled pensions and steep tuition
bills. Later on, the bona fide coal miner's daughter changes gears with a
series of vulnerable country-soul ballads that find her longing for some
domestic stability. In "Better Off Red," she resigns herself instead
to the life of a misfit songwriter: "'Cause a blade of bluegrass left a
scar on my neck/And it ain't quit hurtin' yet."
American Songwriter Writer of the Week: Angaleena Presley has put her entire experience into
her debut solo album, American Middle Class, out October 14. This Kentucky-born
coal miner’s daughter recently opened up to us about finding inspiration in the
everyday, her love for cooking, and the eternal flame she continues to carry
for Elvis…….
Of Note:
You+Me’s debut
album ROSE AVE. (RCA Records) entered the Billboard Top 200 chart at #4, #1 on the Folk Album Chart and
#2 on the Digital Albums Chart with 49,672 copies sold in its first week.
Additionally it topped iTunes in 30 markets around the world and debuted top 10
overall in several additional markets including Canada (#1), Australia (#2),
Germany, UK, Switzerland and New Zealand, with many more stellar debuts still
to come. “The result of their effortless
efforts is a ten-track album comprised of gentle folksy songs with soaring
melodies while the Huffington Post says, “Green and Moore were destined to
harmonize together.” >> Watch "You and Me"
2014 Country Album sales Year-To
Date:
24,067,000 (Physical sales 15,981,000 (down 9%) + Digital
sales 8,086,000 (down -11.1%)) which is 19.0% down at the same point in 2013 (29,724,000
sales)
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album
Placings
(Issue dated Chart week of November 1, 2014)
(Country Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This Week, (LW) Last
Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of November
1, 2014)
On Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart - which blends:
a)
All-format airplay, as monitored by BDS
b) Sales,
as tracked by Nielsen SoundScan and
c) Streaming,
(tracked by Nielsen BDS from such services as
Spotify, Muve, Slacker, Rhapsody, Rdio and Xbox Music, among others) according
to BDS it results in:
- Jason Aldean with “Burnin’ It Down” claimed a 13th
week atop the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart. That’s the most weeks
at the summit for a song by a solo male in 51 years: Buck Owens’
“Love’s Gonna Live Here” began a 16-week command on Oct. 19, 1963.
- Aaron Watson the Texas
Red Dirt circuit veteran made his first appearance on Hot Country Songs
with “That Look” (BIG
Label/Thirty Tigers), new at No.41.
The cut entered Country Digital Songs at No.10 with 18,913 sales to preview
his forthcoming 12th studio album.
- With the documentary Glen Campbell … I’ll Be Me
slated to open in select markets on Oct. 24, Glen Campbell’s “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” (Big
Machine) flew 50-21 adding Streaming Gainer honors with 1.9 million U.S.
streams (up 287%) to enter Country Streaming Songs at No.2, with almost
all streams from Vevo on YouTube clicks. However the track sold only
around 6,100 copies to debut at No.44 on Country Digital Songs.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Jason Aldean with “Burnin’ It Down” stays Top the chart!
Florida Georgia Line with former #1“Dirt” holds at #2
Sam Hunt with “Leave The Night On” sticks at #3
Blake Shelton with “Neon Light” stays at #4
Chase Rice with “Ready Set Roll”
climbs two, #7 - #5 p
Luke Bryan with “Roller Coaster” holds
at #6
Carrie Underwood with “Something
In The Water” falls two, #5 - #7 q
Maddie & Tae with “Girl In A Country
Song” is up three, #11 - #8 p
Frankie Ballard with “Sunshine & Whiskey” lifts three, #12 - #9 p
Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood’s former #1 “Somethin’ Bad” drops to #10 q
Keith Urban with “Somewhere In My Car” climbs two, #13 - #11 p
Kenny Chesney with “American Kids” falls four, #8 - #12
q
Little Big Town with “Day Drinking” climbs two, #15 - #13 p
Brantley Gilbert with “Small Town Throwdown” is a non-mover at #14
Lady Antebellum with “Bartender” rises one, #16 - #15 p
Tim McGraw with “Shotgun Rider” fires up three, #19 - #16 p
Brad Paisley with “Perfect Storm” climbs three, #20 -
#17 p
Dierks Bentley with “Drunk On A Plane” falls one, #17 - #18 q
Big & Rich with “Look At You” slips one, #18 - #19 q
Parmalee with “Close Your Eyes” rises one, #21 -
#20 p
Glen Campbell with “I'm Not
Gonna Miss You” rockets up, #50 - #21 p
Scotty McCreery with “Feelin’ it” holds at #22
Lee Brice with “Drinking Class” stays at #23
Eric Church with “Talladega” climbs three, #27 - #24
p
Brett Eldredge with “Mean To Me” is up one, #26 - #25 p
Hot County Songs
** No.1 (13 weeks) ** “Burnin’
It Down” Jason Aldean
** Streaming Gainer ** No.21 “I’m Not Gonna Miss You”
Glen Campbell
** Digital Gainer ** No.24
“Talladega” Eric Church
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.40
“Drunk Americans” Toby Keith
Debut No.41 “That Look”
Aaron Watson
Debut No.50 “Say You Do”
Dierks Bentley
Billboard
Country Airplay Chart Week of November 1, 2014
Jason Aldean extended his chart-topping celebration
as “Burnin’ It Down” (Broken Bow)
stepped 2-1 to become his 12th leader on the Nielsen BDS-driven Country Airplay
tally in his 13th chart frame. This followed the longest-running No.1 in 2014 on
Billboard’s multimetric Hot Country Songs chart (12 straight weeks) and a
head-turning bow atop the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums last week (278,096
copies sold, charts dated Oct. 25).
“Burnin’” logged
48.663 million audience impressions
(+0.416 million) and received 7,739 radio
plays (+193) during the Oct. 13-19 Nielsen BDS tracking week. The song written
by Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins, and Florida Georgia Line members Tyler
Hubbard and Brian Kelley was released on July 22, 2014 as the lead single from
his sixth studio album, OLD BOOTS, NEW DIRT.
Aldean last
topped Country Airplay with “When She Says Baby,” which finished a three-week
run on the March 15 chart. Since his first week at No. 1 on Country Airplay
(May 27, 2006), Aldean entered a tie with Carrie Underwood for the third-most
leaders; Blake Shelton and Kenny Chesney lead with 14 apiece during that span,
while Brad Paisley has notched 13.
Top local
audience reach for “Burnin’ It Down” came from WUSN Chicago (1.4 million impressions), WNSH New York (1.3 million), WUBL
Atlanta (1.2 million), KKBQ Houston
(1.1 million) and WKLB Boston (1.1
million).
Keith Urban widened his lead as the artist with the
most consecutive top 10 singles on Country Airplay (counting only promoted,
non-seasonal titles), as “Somewhere in
My Car” (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville) rode 11-10 to become his 32nd title to reach the chart’s upper tier —
all achieved consecutively since “Your Everything” became his first top 10 on
the Aug. 12, 2000 chart. Urban’s 32 top 10s include 16 No.1s, a feat most
recently achieved with “We Were Us” (with Miranda Lambert) in December 2013.
Urban last visited the top 10 when “Cop Car” peaked at No. 8 on the May 31
chart.
Toby Keith aided by coordinated hourly play on Oct.
14 at iHeart Media-owned country stations, snagged the Hot
Shot Debut at No.31 with
“Drunk Americans” (Show Dog-Universal), his fifth-highest start. He achieved
his best opening-week rank with “Drinks After Work,” which bowed June 29, 2013
at No. 26. “Americans” also took home the weeks Most Increased Audience trophy and earned Most
Added stripes. The song
logged 8.028 million audience impressions, a gain of +8.028 million and received 909 radio plays (+909) thanks to 57 fresh radio commitments (ADDS).
Women of
Country 2014 Watch:
There was one solo
female artist on the Top 30 Country Airplay songs with Carrie Underwood’s “Something
In The Water” climbing 18-17. “Girl In A Country Song” by duo Maddie & Tae
climbed one 12-11.
RaeLynn #32,
Jana Kramer #36, Trisha Yearwood #44, Lindsay Ell #53, and Kelsea Ballerini #59
were the additional five solo females in the remaining 31-60 slots, to make it
just 10.0% of the entire Top 60 chart.
Country
Airplay
*** No. 1 (1
week)*** "Burnin' It Down" Jason Aldean
** Hot Shot Debut/
Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.31 “Drunk Americans Toby Keith
Debut No. 52
"She Don't Love You" Eric Paslay
Debut No. 55
"Freestyle" Lady Antebellum
Billboard
Country Digital Singles Chart Week of November 1, 2014
Jason Aldean returned to the chart to land
the No.1 with “Burnin’ It Down” selling
45,424 copies. On the overall all genre Digital Songs chart
the songs was No.24 with Taylor Swift's new POP preview track at "Out
of the Woods" making a debut at No.1 with 195,292 downloads sold, marking
Swift's eighth No.1 on the list. Only Rihanna (with 13 leaders), Katy Perry
(10) and Eminem (nine) have more No.1s on the Digital Songs chart. "Out of
the Woods" is the second commercially available song from Swift's upcoming
studio release, 1989, due out Oct. 27. Swift replaced herself at No. 1, as
1989's first single, "Shake It Off," fell 1-2 with 178,421 sales 5 170,593 178,000 (up 5%, Total sales to date 2,545,245).
Swift is the first lead artist to occupy the top two slots on the chart at the
same time since… Miss Swift the now ex country princess did it just over two
years ago. She also claimed the Nos.1 and 2 rungs on the Sept. 22, 2012 chart
with "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "Ronan."
- Back to the Country
Digital Chart, as with Aldean the previous week, saw the absence of 5 Florida
Georgia Line’s singles from the top 15 as they were discounted because
of the preview tracks fulfillment with the new album pre-orders. 3 brand new
tracks appeared on the Top 50 and FGL’s old single “This Is How We Roll” moved
25-21.
- Maddie And Tae with “Girl In A Country Song” (7-6) have crossed the 300K download
mark selling another 22,173 copies
to reach a 14-week tally of 304,591
- Texas artist Aaron Watson
made a debut at No.10 with “That
Look” selling 18,913 copies
- Toby Keith made a debut at No.16 with
“Drunk Americans” selling 15,386 in his first week
Women Of Country Watch
Carrie Underwood with “Something In The Water” at No.2 has now
finally been joined by RaeLynn in the Top 30 with “God Made Girls” which rose 33-30
representing the only solo female artists on
the Top 30 placings at No.2.
On the Top 50 the only other
solo female was Mickey
Guyton with “Better Than You Left Me” (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
making a debut at No.48
Dropping off the Top 30:
1 - Off the chart
Florida Georgia Line “Sippin’ On Fire”
3 - Off the chart Florida Georgia Line “Dirt”
8 - Off the chart
Florida Georgia Line “Bumpin’ The Night”
11 - Off the chart Florida Georgia Line “Anything
Goes”
15 - Off the chart Florida Georgia Line “Sun Daze”
Top 30 Digital Singles in Country Music
(published October 23, 2014)
(LW) Last Week (TW) This Week
*Numbers are rounded to nearest 1000th
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart
Jason Aldean moved 2-1 to land the No1 on Mediabase with “Burnin’
It Down” (Broken Bow). The song logged 7,789
radio spins (+138) and 56.745 million
audience impressions (+0.62 million) from 149 tracking stations for the
tracking week October 12 to October 18, 2014 and published chart October 20th.
Congratulations
to BBR Music Group EVP Jon Loba, SVP Carson James, Broken Bow VP/Promotion Lee
Adams and the entire Broken Bow promotion
staff for scoring this week’s #1 single on the MEDIABASE Country singles charts
with Jason Aldean’s "Burnin' It Down." The single is Aldean's first release
from his OLD BOOTS, NEW DIRT album, which debuted #1 on the All-genre and
Country albums chart last week.
Congratulations
to Show Dog-Universal VP/Promotion Rick
Moxley and the entire Show-Dog Universal
promotion team for earning 63
MEDIABASE Country adds on Toby Keith’s "Drunk Americans." Those adds gave Toby the "Most
Added" title for
this week. Bagets were due to be delivered to the Show-Dog Universal office (Oct
21) to congratulate the staff on their success.
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts, published Chart
Week of Nov 1, 2014)
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