Country
Billboard Chart News September 5, 2013
RIAA
Certifications
Platinum
= Sales of over 1-million units
Gold
= Sales of over 500,000 units
Hunter Hayes - Album: eponymous debut
(Platinum)
Darius Rucker - Single: "Wagon
Wheel” ( 2x Platinum)
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country
Album Chart ** No. 1 (3 weeks) ** CRASH
MY PARTY Luke Bryan
Hot
Country Songs ** No. 1 (3 weeks) ** “That’s
My Kind of Night” Luke Bryan
Country
Airplay ** No. 1 (2 weeks) ** "Little Bit Of Everything” Keith Urban
Country
Digital Songs ** No. 1 ** (3 weeks) “That’s
My Kind of Night” Luke Bryan
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album Chart
News
Rock band Avenged Sevenfold came flying in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200
(BB200) this week. The group's sixth studio album, "Hail to the
King," opens atop the list, selling 159,380
copies in its first week (according to Nielsen SoundScan). It's the
second-largest sales week for the rock band, just shy of the debut of its last
album, 2010's "Nightmare" (No. 1 with 163,000).
After two weeks at No. 1 on the
Billboard 200, Luke Bryan's CRASH MY PARTY falls to No. 2. The set sold 91,937 units this chart week (down 42%). It remains at No.1 on the
Top Billboard Country Albums chart
for a third frame.
The various-artists tribute set ALABAMA & FRIENDS, the all-star country collection — celebrating the music of the
band Alabama made a bow at No.8 on the BB200 and No.2 on the Country Chart with 31,948
sold.
The 12-song album features an array of country stars covering some of
Alabama's biggest hits, along with two new songs from the veteran band itself:
"That's How I Was Raised" and "All American."
That’s higher than any Alabama album
ever climbed. The group’s top-charting album, THE CLOSER YOU GET…, reached #10
in April 1983. Alabama & Friends features some of the biggest names in
country music, including Luke Bryan (“Love in the First Degree”), Florida Georgia
Line (“I’m in a
Hurry (And Don’t Know Why”), Jason Aldean (“Tennessee River”), Kenny Chesney (“Lady Down on Love”), Toby Keith (“She and I”), and Rascal Flatts (“Old Flame”). It’s just the just the third
multi-artist tribute album to make the top 10.
Common Thread: The Songs Of The Eagles reached #3 in November 1993. So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute To
Luther Vandross hit #4 in September 2005, less than three months after the
death of the R&B great.
One artist, Trisha Yearwood, is featured on both the Eagles and Alabama
tributes. She sang Eagles’ #1 pop hit “New Kid In Town” on the former album;
Alabama’s #1 country hit “Forever’s As Far As I’ll Go” on the latter
Alabama was the hottest act in country
music in the 1980s. The band had the #1 album on the Top Country Albums chart
for a total of 124 weeks in that decade. That’s nearly as many weeks at #1 as
Garth Brooks amassed in the 1990s (146). The big difference: you all know how
Brooks dominated The Billboard 200 in the 1990s.
Alabama peaked in the 1980s, before
country acts got their full due on The Billboard 200. Nielsen SoundScan began
tracking music sales in 1991. Their bar-code scanning system revealed, once and
for all, how big both country and rap really are.
In 1984, Alabama became the first act
to be named Entertainer of the Year three times by the Country Music Assn. They
are, to this day, one of just two acts to take that top award three years in a
row. The other is Kenny Chesney, who won it from 2006 through 2008.
Southern rock/country group ALABAMA
prepared for several national appearances in support of the project. Founding
members Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook took time away from their highly
successful Back to the Bowery Tour, where they have been performing to capacity
crowds, to make special guest appearances on numerous television programs, as
well as hosting their own Sirius XM
radio program throughout August and September. During Labor Day weekend,
ALABAMA took over the airwaves on Sirius XM Prime Country (Ch. 58) Friday,
August 30 continuing through Monday, September 2. The show featured two cuts
per hour from the ALABAMA & Friends album, along with six additional hits
from the group each hour.
Before heading back on tour for
concerts in Cleveland and Detroit, they made a quick stop in New York for a
special live performance on FOX & Friends on Wednesday, September 4. The
11-track collection of songs on Show Dog-Universal Music honours their
groundbreaking success and commemorates their career spanning 40 incredible
years.
GAC Alabama
themselves deliver two new songs on the project. Reuniting with producer Harold
Shedd, who was at the helm during many of the group’s early sessions, the
traditional-leaning “That’s How I Was Raised” and the social statement “All
American” are cut from the classic Alabama cloth. Both songs sing of strength
while rich harmonies and time-honored melodies flow.....A fun set with an
excellent cast, Alabama & Friends reveals a glimpse of just how important
the group’s iconic work is to the artists that followed them. Luke Bryan’s
urgent rendition of “Love In The First Degree,” Toby Keith’s unchained “She And
I” and Jamey Johnson’s uber-traditional “My Home’s In Alabama” are all
dramatically different songs sung by incredibly different singers. However, the
passion each artist brings to their performance is easily heard and just might
offer the greatest tribute of all; that Alabama’s music worked to influence an
entire generation of artists no matter what style of country music they play.
Roughstock (Rating: 4.5
STARS) This record feels like it could be
the first in a series of tribute albums for Alabama and that ultimately means
to me that Alabama And Friends is a winning collection of 11 songs and worth
listening to as a whole complete album.
Kacey Musgraves’ moved up from #23
to #10 on the Country chart (104-58 on the BB200) with SAME TRAILER DIFFERENT PARK thanks to a special album sale online it
resulted in a sales increase of 98% over the previous week.
In their second retail week The Lacs sold another 7,000 copies (down 52%) of KEEP IT REDNECK to drop from No.3 to No.11 (23-61 on the BB200). The South Georgia duo from have sold
22k copies in two weeks.
At No.29
on Top Country Albums Vince Gill and Paul Franklin’s album BAKERSFIELD moved over 2,000 more
copies this week for a 5-week tally of 29,000.
Indie acoustic Country duo Sundy Best debut at No.33 with DOOR
WITHOUT A SCREEN (E1 Music) moving 2,000 copies. It is the duo’s bigger
label debut with.
The album released with a Deluxe
Edition on August 27, features 18 tracks, with 7 previously unreleased live
songs and demo sessions. The duo of Nick
Jamerson and Kris Bentley are receiving an overwhelming response for the videos
“Home” and “Lily” landing the top
spot on several charts across the CMT (Country Music Television) platforms. Press Release
eonenashville: Hail to Eastern
Kentucky. This is truly the cornerstone of Sundy Best. The duo’s blend is their
own mix: from country, bluegrass, rock, soul, and rhythm and blues, the duo
produces music that, at times, is hard to classify. That’s just fine by Kris
Bentley and Nick Jamerson. All they need is the strum of guitar strings and
Kris’s Cajun driving the beat. Their lyrics describe the lives of their
families, friends, and fans, as well as themselves. Every song is a reminder
that they have not forgotten where they came from, but also where they are
heading.
Front porch melodies and lyrics grown
out of the rocky topsoil of Eastern Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains intertwine
Sundy Best’s roots into the songs they sing. They are storytellers, musicians,
friends, and the impetus of the ‘kin folk movement’ that is organically
connecting a strong music-loving family that believes in solid, real and
relatable songs.
They are crowd rockers and party
starters. The band’s visceral sound and incredible live shows have gained them
a loyal following of dedicated fans from the hills and hollers of Appalachia,
all the way to the bustling one way streets under downtown city lights across
the south. There are mountains in their music-valleys of love lost and missing
home, peaks of rowdy Saturday nights and the journey in between.
CMA Close Up – Sundy Best
Profile....They come from Appalachia.
Their friendship dates back to elementary school. Their voices blend like
bourbon and soda. Listening to their debut album on eOne Music, Door Without a
Screen, produced by Coleman Saunders and released Aug. 2, you get the feeling
that Kris Bentley and Nick Jamerson were born to make music together.
Due West with their Kickstarter fan funded EP titled
MOVE LIKE THAT debuted at No.38 on the country chart.
It features
their latest single, "Slide On Over". They are a vocal country trio
based out of Nashville. Native Westerners Matt Lopez (Wyoming), Tim Gates
(Utah) and Brad Hull (Arizona) met in Tennessee about 10 years ago at a house
party, and have been singing together ever since – US iTunes
(Issue dated
Chart week of September 14, 2013)
(Country Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This Week, (LW) Last Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Billboard Catalog Album Charts
Taylor Swift with FEARLESS jumped up 27 places #30
to #3 which matches its highest position yet on the Catalog chart - a position
it has reached twice before in a 107-week run. It moved 185-71 on the Billboard
200.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of September 14, 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:
Luke Bryan with “That’s My Kind Of Night” held onto the top slot for a third successive
week. The song snagged Streaming Gainer honours (1.4 million streams, up 57%),
and a No. 2 rank on Country Streaming Songs. Likewise it leads Country Digital
Songs for a third straight week (112,000 sold).
Billy Currington at No.10 (14-10) scored his 11th top 10 with “Hey Girl” (Mercury), his first since “Let Me Down Easy” topped the
list in April 2011. The new track introduces Currington’s next album, titled We
Are Tonight, due Sept. 17.
Dierks Bentley posted a career-high bow at No. 35 with “I Hold On” (Capitol Nashville), the second track from RISER, his
upcoming seventh studio album. Lead single “Bourbon in Kentucky” peaked at No.
40 in July. His previous best was a No. 38 start (and eventual No. 1 peak) with
“Sideways” four years ago.
A pair of
new Alabama tracks is featured on Alabama & Friends, and founding members
Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook add vocal layers on every collaboration
except Florida
Georgia Line’s cover of “I’m in a Hurry (And Don’t Know Why).” The song
opens at No. 47 on Hot Country Songs.
Alabama’s original version spent two weeks at No. 1 on the former chart in
1992.)
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Luke Bryan with “That’s My Kind Of Night”
stays Top The Chart! #1
Florida Georgia Line with “Cruise” stays at #2
Florida Georgia Line with “Round Here” stays at #3
Jason Aldean with “Night Train” holds at #4
Thomas Rhett with “It Goes Like This” is up
two slots, #7 - #5 p
Keith Urban with “Little Bit Of Everything” stays
at #6
Tyler Farr with “Redneck Crazy” is up four,
#11 - #7 p
Brett Eldredge with “Don’t Ya” drops 3 places, #5
- #8 q
Luke Bryan with “Crash My Party” stays at #9
Billy Currington with “Hey Girl” is up four, #14 -
#10 p
Easton Corbin with “All Over The Road” is up
two, #13 - #11 p
Randy Houser with “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight”
stays at #12
Blake Shelton with “Mine Would Be You” is up
four, #17 - #13 p
Carrie Underwood with “See You Again” falls six,
#8 - #14 q
Hunter
Hayes with “I Want Crazy” is down five, #10 - #15 q
Blake
Shelton with “Boys ‘Round Here” is down one, #15 - #16 q
Justin Moore with “Point at You” is up one
place, #18 - #17 p
Tim McGraw with “Southern Girl” is up one
slot, #19 - #18 p
Darius Rucker with former No.1 “Wagon Wheel” is down, #16 - #19 q
Lee Brice with “Parking Lot Party” stays at
#20
Chris Young with “Aw Naw” stays at #21
Lady Antebellum with “Goodbye Town” is up three, #25
- #22
Taylor Swift with “Red” is up three, #26 - #23 p
Tim McGraw & Taylor
Swift with
“Highway Don’t Care” falls, #22 - #24 q
Kenny Chesney with “When I See This Bar” is up, #27 - #25 p
Hot Country Songs
** No.1 (3 weeks) / Streaming Gainer
** “That’s My Kind Of Night” Luke Bryan
** Airplay Gainer ** No.4 “Night Train”
Jason Aldean
** Digital Gainer ** No.28 “Wasting All These Tears” Cassadee
Pope
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.35 “I Hold On” Dierks
Bentley
Debut No.38 “11” Cassadee Pope
Debut
No.44 “Off The Beaten Path” Justin Moore
Debut
No.47 “I’m In A Hurray” (And Don’t Know Why”) Florida Georgia Line
Debut
No.48 “I Can’t Change The World” Brad Paisley
Debut
No.50 “Radio” Darius Rucker
Billboard Country Airplay Chart Week of September 14, 2013
Keith Urban occupies the No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay for a second straight week with “Little Bit of Everything” (Hit
Red/Capitol Nashville) ], aiding consumer awareness of his new project, FUSE which
Capitol Nashville will release Sept. 10.
This chart week it logged a 48.049 million audience impressions
(+1.961) and received 6,930 radio plays
(+193). It’s the eighth of his 15 leaders to hold for more than one week. His
longest reign is six weeks, first achieved in 2002 with “Somebody Like You,”
and repeated exactly three years later with “Better Life” in 2005.
The single’s title also reflects the
ambitious manner in which Urban threw a whole bunch of influences into the
album’s sonic stew. As Urban’s
chart-topping stand continues, his label is preparing to release a second track
from his new Fuse album to radio, a duet with Miranda Lambert titled “We Were
Us.”
Luke Bryan’s “That’s My Kind of Night”
(Capitol Nashville) surged 15-10 in
its fifth chart week, is the quickest top 10 climb on Billboard’s Country
Airplay chart in 14 months and the fastest of Bryan’s 11 solo top 10s on the
Nielsen BDS-fueled ranking. (His slowest was lead single “All My Friends Say,”
which
needed 31 weeks.) The chart hasn’t seen a top 10 trip this short
since Kenny Chesney’s “Come Over” posted a fifth-week jump (12-10) on the June
30, 2012, chart before spending its 11th and 12th chart weeks at No. 1. No song
has managed a top 10 rank in fewer than five weeks in nearly five years—Taylor
Swift’s “Love Story” needed four weeks to enter that
region of the chart in October 2008. Garth Brooks is still the quick-trip king
since the chart was introduced in January 1990. Led by “More Than a Memory,”
which debuted at No. 1 in 2007, Brooks is the only artist in the chart’s
history to reach the top 10 in fewer than three weeks.
Easton Corbin posted his best rank in almost
three years as “All Over the Road” (Mercury) hopped 5-3 in its 35th chart week. He last rode this high with
back-to-back leaders in 2010 with “A Little More Country Than That” and “Roll
With It,” then peaked at No. 14 with “I Can’t Love You Back” the following
spring, and rose to No. 5 last October with “Lovin’ You Is Fun.”
His labelmate Billy Currington set his best rank in more than two years as “Hey Girl” rose 10-7 in
its 26th chart week, his highest since “Let Me Down Easy” led the April 2,
2011, chart. And yet another career high: Thomas Rhett stepped 13-12 with “It Goes Like This” (Valory), surpassing his No. 15 peak with “Something
to Do With My Hands” a year ago.
Jason Aldean’s "Night Train" won him “Most Increased Audience” honours
with 37.892 million audience impressions, an increase of 4.691 million and received 5,306 plays (+590).
Brad Paisley with "I Can’t Change The World” bagged the “Most Added” trophy receiving 1,031 plays (+445), thanks to 44 new radio commitments (ADDS)
The “Hot Shot Debut” cup went to Sara Evans with a No.57 bow for “Slow Me Down" (RCA Nashville).
Country Airplay
*** No. 1 (2 weeks) *** "Little
Bit Of Everything” Keith Urban
** Most Increased Audience ** No.5 "Night
Train" Jason Aldean
** Most Added ** No. 31 "I Can’t
Change The World” Brad Paisley
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.57 “Slow Me
Down" (RCA Nashville) Sara Evans
Debut No.58 "Wherever Love
Goes" (Broken Bow) Kristy Lee Cook with Randy Houser
Debut No.59 "Slip On By"
(streamsound) Austin Webb
Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart Week of September 14, 2013
Luke Bryan held onto the top of the
Country Digital Singles chart with “That’s
My Kind of Night” for a third straight week. Sales of 112,000 were down
some 11% on the previous week.
Florida Georgia Line have 2 songs in
the top 4 with “Cruise” and “Round Here” sitting at #2 and #4 which
sandwich Thomas
Rhett’s GOLD certified “It
Goes Like This” at #3.
Cassadee Pope made a bow at No.19 with her
personal song “11.”
Dierks Bentley opened at #21 with the lead-off
single “I Hold On” from his new
album RISER.
Justin Moore landed a #25 slot with “Off The Beaten Path” the title track to
his September 17th release.
Top 30 Digital Singles
in Country Music (published September 5, 2013)
(LW) Last Week (TW) This Week
*Numbers are rounded to nearest 1000th
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank Artist: #1
Event Venue City/State:
Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Eli Young Band, Kacey Musgraves Gillette Stadium Foxboro, Mass
Dates: Aug. 23-24, 2013 Gross Sales: $9,465,256
Attend: 109,207 /109,207
Capacity Shows: 2 /2 Sellouts Prices: $265, $107.50, $82.50,
$55
Promoters: Messina Group/AEG Live/Kraft
Entertainment
Rank Artist: #3
Event Venue City/State:
Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Casey James Staples Center Los Angeles, Calif.
Dates: Aug. 19-24, 2013 Gross Sales: $4,734,463 Attend: 55,829 /55,829
Capacity Shows: 4 /4 Sellouts Prices: $94.50, $79.50, $29.50
Promoters: The Messina Group/AEG Live
Rank Artist: #19
Event Venue City/State:
Tim McGraw, Kip Moore Lake Tahoe Outdoor
Arena at Harveys Stateline, Nev.
Dates: July 16, 2013
Gross Sales: $630,768 Attend: 6,353
/6,353
Capacity Shows: 1 /1 Sellouts
Prices: $135.50, $99.50, $69.50
Promoters: Another Planet Entertainment
Rank Artist: #22
Event Venue City/State:
Blake Shelton, Easton Corbin, Jana Kramer MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre Tampa, Fla.
Dates: Aug. 30, 2013 Gross Sales: $589,446
Attend: 17,224 / 19,000
Capacity Shows: 1 /0 Sellouts Prices: $55, $25
Promoters: Live Nation
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