Country
Billboard Chart News August 5, 2019
Wall Bling:
The RIAA issued certifications in June for the following:
RIAA Certifications
Multi-Platinum
= 2,000,000 plus units
Platinum =
1-million units
Gold = 500,000
units
Note: For ALBUM
certifications the RIAA base their figures
on the number of units SHIPPED together with, track sales and on demand audio/
video stream units and NOT based purely on traditional retail sales.
1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale.
150 on-demand streams = 1
track download
July Wall
Bling: The RIAA has issued Multi-platinum album certification
for Chris Stapleton's Traveller (4X), Platinum certification for Maren Morris' Hero
and Gold
certification for Keith Urban's Graffiti U.
Multi-platinum
single certs include Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were
Dying" (3X), Stapleton's "Broken Halos" (2X) and
"Tennessee Whiskey" (6X) and Urban's "Somebody Like
You" (2X).
Platinum single
certs are McGraw's "Just To See You Smile," "My Best
Friend," "I Need You" and "When The Stars Go Blue;" Blake
Shelton's "God's Country" and "I'll Name The Dogs;" Lee
Brice's "Rumor;" Russell Dickerson's "Blue
Tacoma;" Jimmie Allen's "Best Shot;" Morgan Wallen's
"Whiskey Glasses;" Stapleton's "Millionaire;" and Scotty
McCreery's "This Is It."
Gold singles include Morris'
"The Bones" and "Girl;" McGraw's "The Cowboy In
Me," "Real Good Man," "My Next Thirty Years" and
"Where The Green Grass Grows;" Brett Eldredge's "Love
Someone;" and Shelton's "I Lived It."
Gary
Allan Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain) | released Oct 2,
2012 MCA Nashville | certified 2x Multi-Platinum June 3, 2019 Digital 2
Million
MULTI-PLATINUM SINGLES
Bebe
Rexha Meant To Be
(Feat. Florida Georgia Line) | released August 11, 2017 July 31, 2019 Warner Bros Records | certified 8x
Multi-Platinum July 31, 2019 Digital 8 Million POP
Tim
McGraw Live Like You Were Dying | released August 24, 2004 Curb | certified
3x Multi-Platinum July 24, 2019 Digital 3 Million
Chris
Stapleton Tennessee
Whiskey | released May
4, 2015 Mercury Nashville | certified 6x Multi-Platinum July 31, 2019 Digital 6
Million
Chris
Stapleton Broken
Halos | released April
14, 2017 Mercury Nashville | certified 2x Multi-Platinum July 31, 2019 Digital 2
Million
Keith
Urban Somebody Like You | released June 17, 2002 Capitol
Nashville | certified 2x Multi-Platinum July 31, 2019 Digital 2 Million
PLATINUM SINGLES
Lee
Brice Rumor | released November 3, 2017 Curb
Records | certified Platinum July 2, 2019 Digital 1 Million
Jimmie
Allen Best Shot | released October 18, 2017 Stoney
Creek Records | certified Platinum July 17, 2019 Digital 1 Million
Tim
McGraw When The Stars Go Blue | released February 24, 2006 Curb | certified
Platinum July 24, 2019 Digital 1 Million
Tim
McGraw My Best Friend | released October 20, 1999 Curb
Records | certified Platinum July 24, 2019 Digital 1 Million
Tim
McGraw Something Like That | released May 4, 1999 Curb Records | certified
Platinum July 24, 2019 Digital 1 Million
Tim
McGraw Just To See You Smile | released August 9, 1997 Curb Records | certified Platinum July 24, 2019
Digital 1 Million
Tim
McGraw I Need You | released March 27, 2007 Curb Records |
certified Platinum July 24, 2019 Digital 1 Million
Taylor
Swift Me! | released April 26, 2019 Republic Records | certified Platinum
July 30, 2019 Digital 1 Million Pop
Scotty
McCreery This Is It | released March 1, 2018 Triple Tigers |
certified Platinum July 31, 2019 Digital 1 Million
Blake
Shelton I'll Name The Dogs | released September 11, 2017 Warner
Music Nashville | certified Platinum July 31, 2019 Digital 1 Million
Blake
Shelton God's Country | released March 29, 2019 Warner Music
Nashville | certified Platinum July 31, 2019 Digital 1 Million
Chris
Stapleton Millionaire | released October 20, 2017 Mercury
Nashville | certified Platinum July 31, 2019 Digital 1 Million
GOLD SINGLES:
Maren
Morris The Bones | released February 22, 2019 Columbia
Nashville | certified Gold July 17, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million
Maren
Morris Girl | released January 17, 2019 Columbia
Nashville | certified Gold July 17, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million
Tim
McGraw Real Good Man | released May 12, 2003 Curb Records | certified
Gold July 24, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million
Tim
McGraw Where The Green Grass Grows | released July 22, 1998 Curb Records |
certified Gold July 24, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million
Tim
McGraw The Cowboy In Me | released November 8, 2001 Curb
Records | certified Gold July 24, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million
Tim
McGraw My Next Thirty Years | released August 3, 2000 Curb Records |
certified Gold July 24, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million
Brett
Eldredge Love Someone | released June 9, 2017 Warner Music
Nashville | certified Gold July 31, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million
Blake
Shelton I Lived It | released October 27, 2017 Warner
Music Nashville | certified Gold July 31, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million
MULTI-PLATINUM ALBUMS
Chris
Stapleton TRAVELLER | released May 5, 2015 Mercury
Nashville | certified 4x Multi-Platinum July 24, 2019 Digital 4 Million
PLATINUM ALBUMS
Maren
Morris HERO | released June 3, 2016 Columbia Nashville | certified Platinum
July 17, 2019 Digital 1 Million
GOLD ALBUMS
Keith
Urban GRAFFITI U | released April 27, 2018 Capitol
Records Nashville | certified Gold July 24, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of August 10, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (44
non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke
Combs
Hot Country Songs ** ** No.1 (4 non-consecutive weeks) ** “The
Git Up” Blanco Brown
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Beer Never Broke My Heart”
Luke Combs
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (6 weeks) ** “The Git
Up” Blanco Brown
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News (Chart issue week of
August 10, 2019)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
NF
Scores Second No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'The Search'
NF scored his second No.1 album on
the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200) as the rapper’s latest studio
effort, THE SEARCH, entered atop the tally.
The
set, which was released on July 26 via NF Real Music/Caroline, starts with 130,000
equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 1 according
to Nielsen Music -- the fourth-largest week for a rap album released in 2019.
Of that sum, 84,000 were in album sales, which made it the biggest sales week
for a rap set this year.
The
Search’s first-week more than doubles the debut frame of NF’s last album,
Perception, which opened at No. 1 with 55,000 units earned (of which 38,000 were in album sales) on the
chart dated Oct. 28, 2017.
The
Search starts with a larger-than-forecast number, as some industry
prognosticators thought the album would bow with around 95,000 units. The
Search benefited from sturdy sales sold through traditional means like the
iTunes Store, a range of merchandise/album bundles sold via NF’s official
webstore -- including a few late-in-the-week new offers of signed merch bundled
with an album -- and a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer.
Billboard Top Country
Albums (Chart issue week of
August 10, 2019)
Top
Country Albums now ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as
compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA)).
10 digital track sales from an
album = 1 track equivalent album (TEA)
“sale”
1,500 on demand song streams from
an album to one streaming equivalent album (SEA) “sale”.
Nielsen
Music compiles the sales and streaming data. Billboard continues to publish pure album sales charts (subscription to
billboard biz ), exclusively comprising
Nielsen’s sales data.
Luke
Combs’ debut LP, THIS ONE’S FOR
YOU (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) broke the record
for the most weeks at No. 1 for a set by a male on Top Country Albums as
it crowned the survey for a 44th frame (22,000 equivalent album units, down 5%,
in the week ending Aug. 1). It passed Randy Travis’ Always & Forever, which
ruled for 43 weeks beginning in June 1987. Since the list launched in January
1964, just one title has spent more time at No.1 than This One’s for You:
Shania Twain’s Come on Over, which led for 50 weeks beginning in November 1997.
THIS
ONE'S FOR YOU was No.3 on Country Album Sales behind debuts from Justin Moore’s
Late Nights And Longnecks and Casey Donahew with One Light Town
Meanwhile,
Combs’ latest release, THE PREQUEL (River House/Columbia Nashville/ Sony
Music Nashville), fell 3-5 (39-50 BB200) in its eighth frame.
Justin
Moore with his 10-track LATE
NIGHTS AND LONG NECKS (Valory/Big Machine Label Group | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com ) flew in at No.2 (#22
New Entry Billboard 200), earning 19,000 units, with 14,000 in traditional album sales.
Moore’s fifth studio album features guitar player Brent Mason and Paul
Franklin on pedal steel and boasts 10 tracks, all co-written by Moore,
including first single, “The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home.”
CHART HISTORY
Moore
added his fifth top 10 set following KINDA DON’T CARE, which arrived at No. 1
in September 2016 (37,050 copies sold; #4 Billboard 200); OFF THE BEATEN PATH (96,730 copies sold), which opened
atop the list in October 2013; his first No. 1, Outlaws Like Me (65,565 debut week sales), which
started on top in July 2011; and his SELF-TITLED album (debut sales over 34,000 copies), which bowed and
peaked at No. 3 in August 2009.
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 2-3 (#27-31 BB200) in their 58th
frame.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) held at
No.4 (#40-45 BB200) in his 61st frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 222-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) fell 5-6 (#46-55 BB200).
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) held at No.7 (#61-63 BB200) in
his 68th week.
Former
No.1 Thomas
Rhett with CENTER POINT ROAD (Valory Music/ Big Machine Records) fell 6-8 (#55-64 BB200)
in his nineth week.
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) held at No.9 (#72-68 BB200) in her 20th frame.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 8-10 (#62-74 BB200)
as his self-titled album dropped 12-13 (#87-92 BB200; 139 chart
frames).
Outside the Top
10
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) fell 10-12 (#84-85
BB200) in their 24th week.
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) fell 13-17 (#97-145 BB200) in her 65th week.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY fell 21-22 (#185-178
BB200) in her 45th week.
Casey Donahew with 15-track ONE LIGHT
TOWN (Almost Country Records | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.25
(#2 Country Album Sales)
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Mac Powell and The Family Reunion with 15-track Back Again
(Mac Powell Records | Amazon UK - iTunes) made a debut at No.14.
With his powerful, gut wrenching, baritone sound, Gethen Jenkins is on a
fast train to stardom. Gethen is an award winning singer and songwriter from
Huntington, West Virginia. His songs are of considerable depth and meaning,
driven by passion, and full of heart and spirit which are sure to run the gamut
of human emotions.
Mason Ramsey with 5-track TWANG
(EP; Big Loud/Atlantic | UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.38.
Marking the first time Ramsey is credited as a co-writer, the five-song
EP includes the title track, “Puddle of Love” and “How Could I Not.”
Year-To-Date Albums
5,838,000 sales which is 29.8% down at the same point in 2018 (8,321,000 sales).
Album consumption is 30,354,000 units which is 5.1% up at the same point in 2018 (28,888,000 units)
Billboard Hot Country Songs
(Chart issue week of
August 10, 2019)
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:
Blanco
Brown’s “The Git Up” (Trailer Trap
Music/Broken Bow Music Group/BMG/Wheelhouse/ Stoney Creek/Broken Bow) held at No.
1 for a fourth non-consecutive week.
Justin
Moore earned his eighth top 10 as
the new set’s lead single, “The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home,”
climbed 13-8. The track gains by 7% to 34.1 million in format radio
reach as it pushes 5-4 on Country Airplay, up 26% to 4.6 million U.S. streams.
Masked DJ Marshmello notched his first Hot Country Songs top 10 as “One
Thing Right” (Joytime Collective/RCA Nashville) with Kane Brown rose
11-10. The track, which is Brown’s fifth top 10, drew 10.6 million streams
(down 6%) and sold 8,000 downloads (up 1%) in the tracking week. Marshmello
boasts nine top 10s on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “The Git Up” Blanco Brown
**
Airplay Gainer” No.2 “Beer Never Broke My Heart” Luke Combs
** Digital
Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** No.8 “The Ones
That Didn't Make It Back Home” Justin Moore
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.50 “Never Be Sorry” Old Dominion
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of
August 10, 2019)
Luke
Combs banked his record-extending
sixth straight career-opening No.1 single on Billboard’s Country
Airplay chart as “Beer Never Broke My Heart” (River
House/Columbia Nashville) ascended 2-1 on the chart dated Aug. 10. The
song reigned with a 9% gain to 40.3 million audience impressions in the
week ending Aug. 4, according to Nielsen Music.
Combs
became the first artist to send each of his first five Country Airplay entries
to the summit when “Beautiful Crazy” led for seven weeks beginning March 2.
“Beer,”
co-written by Combs, Randy Montana and Jonathan Singleton, is the first single
from Combs’ EP The Prequel, which debuted at No. 1 on Top Country Albums (June
22).
“Beer”
reacheed No. 1 on Country Airplay in its 13th week, marking the quickest
trip to the pinnacle in 2019 and Combs’ speediest to date. It completes the
fastest coronation since Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” rolled to the top
in its 12th week on the chart dated May 6, 2017.
“Beautiful
Crazy” hit No. 1 on Country Airplay in its 16th week, matching Combs’ previous
swiftest scaling of the summit, first achieved by his fourth leader, “She Got
the Best of Me,” last October. Combs’ 2017 debut hit, “Hurricane,” took 30
weeks to hit No. 1, followed by “When It Rains It Pours” (28 weeks) and “One
Number Away” (24)
Carrie
Underwood banked her 28th Country
Airplay top
10 as “Southbound”
(Capitol Nashville) pushed 12-10, up 7% to 22.2 million impressions.
Underwood earned her first top 10 since “Cry Pretty” peaked at No. 9 last
September. Underwood is the 16th artist with at least 28 top 10s since Country
Airplay began in January 1990. Among women, she trails only Reba McEntire (36).
George Strait’s 61 top 10s leads all artists.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week)/ Most Increased Audience *** “Beer Never Broke My Heart” Luke
Combs 40.335 million audience (+3.187 million gain) / 7,843 radio plays (+553)
**
Most Added ** No.37 “Ridin' Roads” Dustin Lynch
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No. 60 “Chasin' You” Morgan Wallen
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
(Chart issue week of
August 10, 2019)
Blanco Brown with “The
Git Up” (Trailer Trap Music/BMG/Broken Bow) held at No.1 on Country
Digital Song Sales for a sixth week (#2 non-mover Digital
Songs).
It was one place behind Lil Nas X's "Old
Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus which extended its record run atop the
Billboard Hot 100, leading the list for an 18th week.
"Road"
concurrently spent a 14th week atop the Digital Song Sales chart, up 3%
to 47,000 downloads sold in the week ending
Aug. 1. The track broke out of a four-way tie for the second-most weeks spent
atop the tally, trailing only "Despacito," which ruled for 17 weeks.
(The Chainsmokers' " Closer," featuring Halsey, in 2016; Mark
Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, in 2015; and Flo
Rida's "Low," featuring T-Pain, in 2007-08, led for 13 weeks each.)
9 non-consecutive week No1. Blake Shelton with “God’s Country” (Warner Bros./Warner
Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#11
Digital Songs) in its 18th frame.
Luke Combs with “Beer
Never Broke My Heart” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville)
rose 4-3 (#14-13 Digital Songs).
Luke Bryan with “Knockin' Boots” rose 5-4 (#17-15
Digital Songs) in his 18th week.
Marshmello
& Kane Brown with “One
Thing Right” moved 6-5 (#20-18 Digital Songs) in their 4th frame.
Morgan Wallen with
“Whiskey Glasses” rose 7-6 (#22-23 Digital Songs) in
his 36th week.
Zac Brown Band with
“Leaving Love Behind” made a debut at No.7 (#29 New Entry
Digital Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan
Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
climbed 10-8 (#35-32 Digital
Songs) in their 58th frame.
Lee
Brice with “Rumor”
held at No.9 (#30-36 Digital Songs) in his 33rd frame.
Old Dominion with “Never Be
Sorry” made a debut at No.10 (#37 New Entry Digital
Songs).
Outside
the Top 10
Eric Church with “Some Of It” fell rose 12-11 (#42-45
Digital Songs) in his 17th frame.
Kenny Chesney with
“Tip Of My Tongue” fell 11-12 (#4-46 Digital
Songs) in his 3rd frame.
Willie Nelson featuring
Paula Nelson with "Have
You Ever Seen the Rain fell 3-15 (#12 – off the top 50 Digital Songs).
Miranda Lambert with
“It All Comes Out In The Wash” fell off the top 25 from previous
weeks No.8.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
August
5, 2019
Luke Combs Takes #1 Spot With 'Beer Never Broke My Heart'
Congrats
to Luke Combs, Steve Hodges, Shane Allen
and the Columbia promotion team on earning this week’s No.1 with “Beer
Never Broke My Heart.” The song is Combs’ sixth consecutive
chart-topper and the first from his EP, THE PREQUEL. Songwriters are Randy
Montana, Jonathan Singleton, Scott Moffatt and Combs.
“Beer Never
Broke My Heart Girl” (River House/Columbia) rose 2-1 logging 8,504 radio spins (+692), 51.74 million audience impressions (+5.99)
with 27051 Total Points (+2282) from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS)
for the tracking week July 28 to August 3, 2019 and published chart dated August
5, 2019.
Oh
GIRL!. Maren Morris with previous
week’s No.1
“Girl” slumped 1-15 with possibly one of largest drops from #1 on Mediabase
country chart. Almost half of the spins were gone and dropped at the rate of 4
million audience per day! That would tie “Coming Home” by Keith Urban (feat.
Julia Michaels) for biggest fall from #1 on Mediabase.
Maren
lost 25 million in total Mediabase audience, which is astounding. Keith’s for
comparison lost 20 million.
The
song was pushed hard by the label for peak week, and radio was clearly ready to
move onto another single. Once the promo stopped, radio dropped it like a stone.
Kane
Brown Is Most-Added With 'Homesick'
Congratulations
to RCA NASHVILLE's KANE BROWN, who earned 55 MEDIABASE adds for his single,
"Homesick," making it the most added-record at Country radio this
week.
RCA
Nashville celebrated Kane Brown's single, "Homesick," being
most-added at Country radio this week with a bagel delivery from All Access. Brown
earned 55 adds for the week, for a total of 62 since the record's impact.
Pictured (L-R): RCA Nashville Mgr./Southwest Promotion Mallory Michaels,
SVP/Promotion Dennis Reese, RCA mascot Nipper, Dir./Midwest Promotion Matt
Galvin and Promotion Specialist Nicole Walden
Kudos
to Dennis Reese and the RCA reps on notching 55 adds for Kane Brown’s “Homesick”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart
week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title
(Label) TW Total Historic Adds
KANE
BROWN/Homesick
(RCA) 55 62
BILLY
CURRINGTON/Details (Mercury) 43 44
DUSTIN
LYNCH/Ridin' Roads (Broken Bow) 13 125
INGRID
ANDRESS/More
Hearts Than Mine (Warner/WEA) 13 55
MIRANDA
LAMBERT/It All
Comes Out In The Wash (RCA) 13 140
CAYLEE
HAMMACK/Family
Tree (Capitol) 12 87
THOMAS
RHETT/Remember You Young (Valory) 12 130
ELI
YOUNG BAND/Break It In (Valory) 11 31
GABBY
BARRETT/I Hope
(Warner/WAR) 10 38
MORGAN
WALLEN/Chasin' You (Big Loud) 10 47
JON
PARDI/Heartache Medication (Capitol) 9 113
BLANCO
BROWN/The Git Up (BMG/BBR) 7 54
GONE
WEST/What Could've Been (Triple Tigers) 7 65
HARDY/Rednecker
(TVM/Big Loud) 7 142
OLD
DOMINION/One Man Band (RCA) 7 106
RILEY
GREEN/I Wish Grandpas Never Died (BMLGR) 7 7
JON
LANGSTON/Now You Know (EMI Nashville) 6 48
MATT
STELL/Prayed For You (Wide Open/Records/GCE/Arista) 6 146
HALEY
& MICHAELS/Hail Mary (Hickory) 2 21
GEORGE
STRAIT/The Weight Of The Badge (MCA) 1 1
JULIA
COLE/Trust You
(---) 1 1
MATT
KENNON/Love Is Stronger (Road Dawg) 1 1
MITCHELL
TENPENNY f/SEAFORTH/Anything She Says (Columbia) 1 1
P!NK
f/C. STAPLETON/Love Me Anyway (RCA) 1 5
ROBERT
COUNTS/Backseat Driver (Sony Music) 1 1
THE
SISTERHOOD BAND/Get
Up and Go (Arista) 1 1
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