Country
Billboard Chart News August 8, 2013
RIAA
Certifications
Platinum
= Sales of over 1-million units
Gold = Sales of over 500,000 units
Tyler Farr - Single: "Redneck
Crazy" (Gold)
Hunter Hayes - Album: self-titled (Platinum)
Hunter Hayes - Single:
"I Want Crazy" (Platinum)
Brad Paisley - Single: "Remind Me" (2x PLATINUM)
Randy Houser - Single: 'Runnin’ Outta
Moonlight’ (Gold)
Brett Eldredge – Single: "Don’t
Ya" (Gold)
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country
Album Chart ** No. 1 (7 weeks) ** “Here’s To The Good Times” Florida Georgia Line
Hot Country
Songs ** No. 1 (23 weeks) ** “Cruise”
Florida Georgia Line
Country
Airplay ** No. 1 (2 weeks) ** “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight” Randy
Houser
Country
Digital Songs ** No. 1 ** (24 weeks) “Cruise”
Florida Georgia Line
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album Chart
News
Robin Thicke scored his first No. 1 album.
"Blurred Lines," his sixth studio effort, starts atop the Billboard
200 with 176,559 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The sexy title
track (which features T.I. + Pharrell) has sold 4,268,000 copies—and is still
going strong. The sexy song this week becomes the first song in digital history
to top 400K in weekly sales four times.
Pop trio Emblem3 landed the fifth debut in the top 10 this week, as its
first album, "Nothing to Lose," enters at No. 7 with 45,969. The
group gained fame on the 2012 edition of Fox TV's competition show "The X
Factor," where it placed fourth. The winner of this year's series, country
singer Tate Stevens, debuted and
peaked at No. 18 on the May 11 chart with his self-titled album, selling 16,830 copies.
Florida Georgia Line sold 28,313 copies of HERE’S TO THE GOOD TIMES (down 4%) and dropped
6-10 on the Bilboard Top 200 Chart (BB200).The album holds at #1 on Top Country
Albums for the seventh week.
This enabled it to tie the all-time record for
most weeks at #1 for an album by an ongoing duo. Excluding collaborations that
record was set in 1996 when Brooks & Dunn’s BORDERLINE spent seven weeks on
top.
“Here’s To The Good Times” is the first
debut album to log seven or more weeks atop the country chart since Taylor
Swift’s Taylor Swift amassed 24 weeks on top in 2007-2008.
Country Music Hall of Fame honoree Vince Gill and steel guitar master Paul Franklin made their bow at
No.25 on the BB200 and landed at No. 4 on Top Country Albums with BAKERSFIELD (MCA Nashville/Universal
Music Group Nashville), a collaborative tribute set honouring the city’s two
biggest musical figures, Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.
It drew Hot Shot debut honours as the
only country set to debut on the top 25 with sales of 12,043 copies.
“Bakersfield” is only the fourth
tribute or concept-style album to open inside the top five during the
22-year-old SoundScan era. It follows Jamey
Johnson’s Living For A Song: A
Tribute To Hank Cochran, which bowed at No. 3 last Autumn selling 32,558
copies on its opening week on October 24, 2012. The short list of lofty starts
also includes the multi-artist R&B tribute project Rhythm Country & Blues, which popped on at No.2 in 1994, and Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles,
a various-artist tribute that bowed at No. 3 in 1993.
The album marked Vince Gill’s 23rd
charted title on Top Country Albums and the first for Franklin.
Critical reception for “Bakersfield”
GAC - Country Music Hall of Famer Vince Gill and
renowned pedal steel player Paul Franklin go deep inside the California Country
vault on Bakersfield, paying tribute to the city’s legendary sons Buck Owens
and Merle Haggard. Pulling five songs from each artist, and all from 1961
-1974, Bakersfield twangs hard with a classic sound as reliable as the many
pairs of boots that walked those dusty SoCal roads....Though the album remains
faithful to the feel of the original cuts, the fresh musical interaction between
Vince and Paul is captivating. ....However, there’s no doubt that this is the
Vince and Paul show as the two drive an expert set all the way to Bakersfield,
California’s Country Music Capital made famous by Buck and Merle.
Roughstock: (Rating 5 STARS) ...Featuring 10 tracks (5 from Owens and 5 from
Haggard) Bakersfield allows the duo to shine as musicians in addition to Vince
Gill's superlative singing. Franklin and Gill both take their time on extended
solos while the core band of Greg morrow, Willie Weeks, JT Corenfloss and John
Hobbs are allowed to shine as well..... There's absolutely nothing about
Bakersfield that isn't a treasure. Mainstream channels may not care much for this
kind of music anymore but it's still as vibrant and fantastic as it has always
been and in the loving hands of Vince Gill and Paul Franklin it shines once
again. Here's hoping there will be more albums where Bakersfield comes from.
Associated Press - For those dismayed by contemporary country
music’s lack of steel guitar and shuffle rhythms, “Bakersfield” is your
antidote. With Vince Gill no longer competing for top radio hits, he turns his
attention to one of the bedrock styles of the traditional American music that
he loves.
Recruiting Paul Franklin, by far the most recorded pedal steel
guitarist in Nashville in the last 25 years - Gill swaggers into the Telecaster-and-steel
country sounds of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, heroes to these two musicians
and millions of others who revere brawny, succinctly poetic working-class
music....... Gill and Franklin dig out less familiar gems such as “Holding
Things Together” by Haggard and “He Don’t Deserve You Anymore” by Owens, both
as good as anything on “Bakersfield” — a great country album in any era.
After 66 weeks on the chart Carrie Underwood’s BLOWN AWAY (No.14 Country, No.86 BB200)
has now sold over 1.5 million copies.
In his second week at retail Guy Clark’s MY FAVORITE PICTURE OF YOU fell from 62-180 on the Billboard 200 and dropped off the
Top 25 country albums selling 2,524 copies (down 55%; 8,156 sold in 2-weeks)
YEAR-TO-DATE Overall unit Sales for
Country albums
= 22,505,000 down by 2.9%
Billboard Top 200 Placings / Top 25 Country Albums
(Issue dated
Chart week of August 17, 2013)
(Country
Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This
Week, (LW) Last Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Billboard
Catalog Chart
Entering the Billboard 200 at No.35 due to a $6.99 iTunes sale for
double albums from music’s classic stars, Johnny Cash’s The Essential Johnny Cash sold 9,973
copies, up by 604% on the previous week (1,416) to reach a new total of
1,461,129.
The album was the 6th best selling catalog title of the week.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of August 17, 2013)
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:
Duo Florida Georgia Line remained atop the
chart with “Cruise” making it 23
non-consecutive weeks, now 2-weeks clear of the pack in the charts entire history.
Tyler Farr scored his first top 10 on Hot
Country Songs, as “Redneck Crazy”
(Columbia Nashville) jumps 11-9 in
its 22nd chart week and joins Brett Eldredge as the only rookies to score
their first top 10s on that chart so far this year.
Eldredge’s “Don’t Ya” (Atlantic/Warner Music
Nashville) achieves a new peak at No. 5.
Keith Urban’s “Little Bit of Everything” (Hot Red/Capitol Nashville) becomes his
29th consecutive top 10 (counting only non-seasonal, promoted
singles since his first ever top 10 in August 2000) as it rises 12-10.
Urban’s streak of 29 straight
top 10s is the chart’s third-longest in the Nielsen BDS era (since January
1990), behind Tim McGraw’s 34
(1994-2004) and George Strait’s 31
(1982-1991). Following with 27 a piece are Alan
Jackson (1990-1997) and Brad Paisley
(2000-2011).
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Florida Georgia Line with “Cruise” stays Top The Chart
#1
Hunter
Hayes with “I Want Crazy” stays at #2
Randy Houser with “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight”
stays at #3
Luke Bryan with “Crash My Party” stays at #4
Brett Eldredge with “Don’t Ya” is up two, #7 -
#5 p
Blake
Shelton with “Boys ‘Round Here” is down one, #5 - #6 q
Florida Georgia Line with “Round Here” is down one, #6
- #7 q
Carrie Underwood with “See You Again” is up
one, #9 - #8 p
Tyler Farr with “Redneck Crazy” is up two,
#11 - #9 p
Keith Urban with “Little Bit Of Everything” is
up two, #12 - #10 p
Darius Rucker with former No.1 “Wagon Wheel” drops one
slot, #10 - #11 q
Kip Moore with “Hey Pretty Girl” falls #8 -
#12 q
Thomas Rhett with “It Goes Like This” is up
one place, #14 - #13 p
Jason Aldean with “Night Train” jumps up three
slots, #17 - #14 p
Billy Currington with “Hey Girl” stays at #15
Easton Corbin with “All Over The Road” is down
three, #13 - #16 q
Lee Brice with “Parking Lot Party” is up 3
slots, #20 - #17 p
Justin Moore with “Point at You” is up
three, #21 - #18 p
Tim McGraw & Taylor
Swift with
“Highway Don’t Care” is down, #18 - #19 q
The Band Perry with “Done” falls, #16 - #20 q
Tim McGraw with “Southern Girl” jumps up
seven, #28 - #21 p
Chris Young with “Aw Naw” moves up 2 slots, #24 - #22 p
Florida
Georgia Line with “Get Your Shine On” is down, #22 - #23 q
Zac Brown Band with “Jump Right In” drops six,
#13 - #19 q
Lady Antebellum with “Goodbye Town” moves up, #27
- #24 p
Jake Owen with “Anywhere With You” is down
two, #23 - #25 q
Hot Country Songs
** No.1 (23 weeks) ** “Cruise” Florida Georgia Line
** Streaming Gainer ** No. 14 “Night
Train” Jason Aldean
** Airplay & Digital Gainer ** No.28
“Mine Would Be You” Blake Shelton
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.40 “That’s My
Kind Of Night” Luke Bryan
Billboard Country Airplay Chart Week of August 17, 2013
Randy Houser claimed his first multiweek leader and achieves the
biggest one-week audience sum since
the Country Airplay chart converted to audience-based rankings in January 2005,
as “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight” (Stoney
Creek) dominated the chart for a second week with 47.416 million audience impressions (up by 1.631 million) receiving
6,873 radio plays (+229).
Houser’s second No. 1 follows “How
Country Feels,” which topped the Feb. 2 chart, and surpasses the previous
audience mark (46.7 million) that Bryan’s “Crash My Party” set three weeks ago
(on the July 27 chart). Houser’s track is the 20th song to reach No. 1 so far
this year and the 10th among those to hold for more than one week.
At this same point in 2012, 24 songs
had spent time atop the chart and nine of those had held for more than one
week, but none had stayed more than two weeks.
Luke Bryan scored his highest debut ever
on the Country Airplay chart and the largest overall since April as his "That's My Kind of Night" (Capitol
Nashville) bowed at No. 21 this
week.
He lands all 3 trophies this chart week
winning “Hot Shot
Debut”, “Most Increased Audience” and “Most Added” honours.
The song gained a 15.387
million audience (+15.387), receiving 1748
plays, thanks to 79 new radio
commitments (ADDS) out of the 140 stations monitored for the chart.
It was driven mostly by coordinated hourly
play on July 30 at Clear Channel-owned stations.
It's the biggest bow on the tally since
Blake Shelton's "Boys 'Round Here" (featuring Pistol Annies &
Friends) started at No. 19 on the April 13-dated tally.
The entry surpasses Bryan’s previous
opening-week benchmark, a No. 28 debut in April with previous single “Crash My
Party,” which dropped 5-8 in its 17th chart week following three weeks at the
summit last month. “Party” is the lead single/title track from Bryan’s fourth
full-length album, due Aug. 13.
Luke hosts a sold-out album release
show on Aug. 15 at Irving Plaza in New York. The new album is also the
centerpiece of a Bryan-themed programming weekend Aug. 10-11 on CMT.
Florida Georgia Line and Justin Moore freshened up the Top 10. FGL logged the duo’s third straight top
10 contender with “Round Here”
(Republic Nashville) which moved 12-9
in its 12th week and Moore inked his fifth overall with “Point at You” (Valory) which stepped up 11-10 (up 2 million impressions) with the lead single from his
third full-length album, OFF THE BEATEN PATH, due Sept. 17.
Country Airplay
*** No. 1 (2 weeks) *** "Runnin'
Outta Moonlight" Randy Houser
** Hot Shot Debut/Most Increased
Audience/ Most Added * No. 21 "That's My Kind Of Night" Luke Bryan
Debut No. 48 "Days Of Gold"
(RCA Atlantic) Jake Owen
Debut No. 58 "Crushin'" (RCA
Nashville) Bush Hawg
Debut No. 59 "Blue Skies"
(Sugar Hill/Vanguard) Uncle Kracker
Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart Week of August 17, 2013
Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” once again holds the top slot
with sales approaching
5.5 million copies (2-million attributed to the Nelly
remix).
Sales this week of 108,000 were down 9% but still easily held off Luke Bryan’s “Crash My Party” which
stayed at #2 with sales of 62,000.
The Country Airplay chart topper “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight” from Randy Houser moved 5-4.
Tyler Farr “Redneck Crazy” which remained at No.9 sold another 41,000 copies to
pass the Gold RIAA certification (over ½-million copies)
Carrie Underwood also saw GOLD with
her latest radio single “See You Again” which moved 15-13,
selling 28,000 copies to reach a new tally of 502,000.
Cassadee Pope’s “Wasting All These Tears” (35-26), Joe Nichols’ “Sunny And 75” (34-28) both entered the top 30 joining Eli Young Band with their new single “Drunk
Last Night” (42-29).
Top 30 Digital Singles
in Country Music (published August 7, 2013)
(LW) Last Week (TW) This Week
*Numbers are rounded to nearest 1000th
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank Artist: #18
Event Venue City/State:
Blake Shelton, Easton Corbin, Jana Kramer First Midwest Bank
Amphitheatre Tinley Park, Ill.
Dates: Aug. 3, 2013 Gross Sales: $911,336 Attend: 27,996/27,996
Capacity Shows: 1/1 Sellouts Prices: $55, $25
Promoters: Live Nation
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