Country
Billboard Chart News October 3, 2013
RIAA
Certifications
Platinum
= Sales of over 1-million units
Gold
= Sales of over 500,000 units
Blake Shelton - Album: Based On A True
Story. . . (Platinum) (1,000,000 units shipped to retail, 907,000 copies
actually sold at retail)
Luke Bryan - Album: Crash My Party (Platinum)
(1,000,000 units shipped, 983,000 copies actually sold/scanned at retail).
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country
Album Chart ** No. 1 (5 weeks) ** CRASH
MY PARTY Luke Bryan
Hot
Country Songs ** No. 1 (7 weeks) **
“That’s My Kind of Night” Luke Bryan
Country
Airplay ** No. 1 (2 weeks) ** “Night Train” Jason Aldean
Country
Digital Songs ** No. 1 ** (7 weeks)
“That’s My Kind of Night” Luke Bryan
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album Chart
News
Drake's "Nothing Was the Same" has
debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200
albums chart (BB200) with the second-largest sales week of 2013. The album, the
hip-hop star's third full-length release, sold 657,922 copies (his personal best week ever) in its first week
(ending Sunday, Sept. 29) according to Nielsen SoundScan. Of that sales tally
387,000 were downloads making it the biggest one-week digital sales ever for a
hip-hop album.
The only album to sell more copies
overall in a week so far in 2013 was Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20
Experience," when it bowed at No. 1 with 968,000 following its release in
March. Since 2010, only seven other albums logged larger weeks than
"Nothing Was the Same's" debut one of these being Taylor Swift's RED which bowed with 1,208,290 copies (the 8th highest
ranking for biggest sales week during the Soundscan era).
Luke Bryan with CRASH MY PARTY held at No.6 on the BB200 selling 36,000 copies (down 24%) and returned to the top of the Billboard
Country album chart. He displaced Justin Moore's OFF THE BEATEN PATH which slips 2-10 on
the BB200 in its second week, selling 25,000 (down 74%) and is at No.2 Country.
Alan Jackson’s latest set THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM (released Sept 24th) made its bow at #11 on the BB200 (#3 Country) and opened up at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart, selling 21,768 copies the best so far for a for a bluegrass album in 2013.
Currently in Australia, Jackson headlined the CMC Rocks
North Queensland 2013 Festival at Reid Park, Townsville, on Saturday 28
September.
Jackson wrote eight of 14 tracks and
says, "It's not that different from what I normally do." He started thinking about a bluegrass album in the
mid-'90s, but with the success of O Brother Where Art Thou? he admits, "I didn't want to seem like I
was jumping on the bandwagon." Jackson says
releasing the album now, "seemed like the right time in my life, in my head … in everything”. This
spring, a group of some of the best players and singers in bluegrass came together,
emerging in a matter of days with the completed acoustic album.
This latest
project is on Jackson’s ACR label, distributed by EMI Records Nashville. Eight
of the tracks are Jackson originals, along with covers of The Dillards’ “There
Is A Time”, John Anderson’s “Wild And Blue”, and a slow, 3/4 time version of
“Blue Moon Of Kentucky”. It was produced by Keith Stegall and Jackson’s nephew,
Adam Wright.
Jackson will
perform songs from The Bluegrass Album in concert at New York's Carnegie Hall
on October 28; he'll be joined by the musicians from the album at the special
show.
Earlier this year, for the chart week
April 3, 2013 Jackson made a No. 5 debut on the Top 200 and landed a No.2
Country album with "PRECIOUS MEMORIES: VOLUME II", (his eighteenth
studio album), selling 55,422 copies.
Critical reception for Alan Jackson’s
The Bluegrass Album:
GAC ...simply
titled The Bluegrass Album, for release on September 24. Alan is doing what he
wants, when he wants, and making incredibly honest music along the way. The
Bluegrass Album is no exception to the rich catalog Alan has created since
breaking in 1989 with the multi-platinum Here In the Real World. Backed by a
group of A-list Nashville pickers, Alan’s first bluegrass album stays faithful
to the genre while showcasing mountain high harmonies, fancy fretwork and
stories about life, love, loss and pain. And The Bluegrass Album isn’t merely a
collection of standards a la “Alan Jackson Sings the Bluegrass Hits”; Alan
wrote eight of the project’s 14 songs himself.....Alan includes a handful of
covers such as John Anderson’s “Wild and Blue” and Bill Monroe’s “Blue Moon Of
Kentucky.” In closing the collection with the latter, Alan thanks his band and
the people involved in the project one by one. Even here Alan’s humility and
honesty are easily felt, and it’s this approach that has helped steer his legendary
career.
LA Times (Rating: 3 STARS)
Jackson and album producers Keith Stegall and Adam Wright infuse a back-porch
feel in original numbers here and savvy selections from other writers,
including Jackson's new spin on John Anderson's 1982 hit "Wild and
Blue" and Adam Wright's sharply witty "Ain't Got Trouble Now."
Among his own contributions, Jackson's "Blue Ridge Mountain Song" and
"Blue Side of Heaven" demonstrate his understanding of themes that
are central to bluegrass: the knowledge that life is hard, but the human spirit
can rise above...
USA Today - it's the
originals that make the set, especially “Blacktop”, Jackson's answer to the
current crop of "dirt road" country records.
Billboard (Chuck Dauphin)....Alan Jackson has made no secret about his
love of Bluegrass Music over the years. In the 1990s, his version of “Seven
Bridges Road” was a highlight of his live show – done in classic Bluegrass
style.
Finally, after all these years, Jackson has decided to release an album
in that laid back style. As you might expect, the Georgia native had no trouble
attracting some of the genre’s finest musicians to back him on the project,
such as Scott Coney (acoustic guitar), Sammy Shelor (banjo), Adam Steffey
(mandolin), Tim Crouch (fiddle), Tim Dishman (bass), Rob Ickes (dobro) and
Ronnie Bowman and Don Rigsby (vocals). They help to make the record a sonic
delight. But, the disc would not work unless the songs weren’t there. And, as
usual, Jackson’s pen provides some of the highlights here, with “Blacktop,”
“Tie Me Down” and “Mary” all helping to prove this was worth the wait. Adam
Wright, Jackson’s nephew, contributed two of the strongest new tracks on the
disc, “Ain’t Got Trouble,” and “Knew All Along,” co-written with wife
Shannon....He does tip the covers hat on three occasions, with a gorgeous
version of John Anderson’s “Wild And Blue,” the Dillards’ “There Is A Time,”
and he closes out with a reverential treatment of Bill Monroe’s “Blue Moon Of
Kentucky.” As good as this disc is, it already makes me anxious for Volume 2!
Keith Urban with FUSE shifted another 17,000 copies (down 45%; 146K sold in 3-weeks)
and moved 8-14 on BB200 but held at #4 Country.
Chris Young’s A.M. fell 15 slots on the BB200 (3-18), #3-#5 Country, selling
16,000 copies (down 70% on the first week).
Billy Currington’s WE ARE TONIGHT sold 9,000 copies (down
65%) in its second week at retail, falling 40 places on the BB200 (10-50) and
dropped to #8 Country.
Of note Sammy Hagar with SAMMY HAGAR & FRIENDS (tagged Hard
Rock) sold 14,863 copies to make a
bow at No.23 on the BB200.
Drinking
Buddies: Hagar performed at Toby Keith’s Twister Relief Concert,
his work with country artists continues to extend beyond tequila tastings with Keith, Kenny Chesney, Ronnie Dunn
and Kid Rock contributing to this collection
of 10 tracks of cover songs and original material which includes "Margaritaville”
with Toby Keith, Sammy’s "Knockdown Dragout" with Kid and "Bad
On Fords And Chevrolets" with Ronnie.
The album, released on September 24,
2013, by Frontiers Records, features Sammy and his mates having musical fun.
The former Montrose/Van Halen frontman has found quite the black book of mates
to invite over, also including Neil Schon of Journey and Nancy Wilson. The
music is quite bluesy in nature and shows off Sammy's vocal range
Vintage Vinyl This is
his Sammy Hagar's first solo album in 5 years and he hasn’t stinted on the
friends or on his own powerful and swaggering presentation either. When you can
muster buddies like Joe Satriani, Kid Rock and Taj Mahal, the result is hardly
likely to fail but when you add in Mr. Hagar’s noted talents as well you are
going to have something very listenable.... Hagar has been around forever it
seems and he has made some great (and some not-so-great albums) and I would say
this ranks up there with his better work. Please excuse me now, I’m cuing Going
Down up again.
newsok.com ....A colorful array of guest talents, including
Oklahoma country hitmaker Toby Keith, Sooner State-born Journey guitarist Neal
Schon and Heart belter Nancy Wilson, brighten up “Sammy Hagar & Friends,”
the Red Rocker’s first collaborations album. But former Oklahomans Ronnie Dunn and Ray Wylie Hubbard prove
the most adept at souping up the “I Can’t Drive 55” singer’s first solo effort
since 2008’s “Cosmic Universal Fashion.” ....“Sammy Hagar & Friends” mixes
new originals like that bad-boy ballad with well-known cover tunes, and after
more then 40 years in the music business, the former Van Halen frontman has
plenty of high-profile pals willing to rock with him, including current and
former bandmates Schon (HSAS); Michael Anthony (ex-Van Halen and Chickenfoot);
Joe Satriani and Chad Smith (Chickenfoot); Bill Church and Denny Carmassi
(Montrose); and Vic
Johnson (Sammy Hagar and The Waboritas)....Hey, Hagar is all about
the rock, and for much of his new album, he and his friends do it well.
Neal McCoy landed on the lower regions of the Billboard Country Album chart at #52 with his 11-song set “Pride:
A Tribute Album To Charley Pride” (Slate Creek Records).
Released on September
24th, McCoy brought along pals Darius Rucker, Trace Adkins and Raul Malo to pay
homage to the living legend. Neal told Billboard magazine “I’ve been fortunate to have had some hits,
met some great people, but it’s all due to Charley Pride getting me into
country music back in 1981, he was my cheerleader, telling me, ‘you got what it
takes, don’t give up.”
McCoy
teamed up with Darius Rucker to record a new version of Charley Pride's 1971
crossover smash "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" – “Darius and I had
met a couple of times," McCoy shared. "I don't know him
very well, but we have a mutual admiration club, I guess. I appreciate the
success he's had in the pop industry and over in country." McCoy
and Pride shot a video for the track, "Kaw-Liga", in Nashville.
The
single “Roll on Mississippi” featuring Trace Adkins was released to radio on
August 27th.
"Getting ready to
make an album, I started thinking, 'What would make sense? What would people
believe from Neal McCoy?'" he says. "So what makes more sense than to honor
Charley Pride? He's had one of the greatest careers out there, he's the Jackie
Robinson of country music, and he's the guy that got me started”...
Read more at The Tennessean.com
Critical
reception for Neal McCoy: Pride – A Tribute To Charley Pride:
Allmusic (Rating: 3.5 Stars) A
moment of reflection will reveal that Charley Pride is a natural idol for Neal
McCoy. A trailblazing traditionalist of the '60s and '70s, Pride broke the
color barrier for popular country music -- there had been African-American
country singers long before him; Ray Charles blurred the boundaries between
country and soul a few years before him, and Pride had peers like Stoney
Edwards, but Charley was the first black country superstar -- due in part to
his easy, friendly way with a song.
McCoy has a similar amiable way with a tune
and, as a singer of Filipino descent, he bucked country tradition even as he
adhered to it. Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride puts all this into relief
while also being quite a good listen in its own right. As a traditionalist paying respect to a
traditionalist, McCoy doesn't play around with the arrangements in the
slightest -- he even seems indebted to the sound of Pride's recordings, not the
early ones of the '60s but the gleaming overproductions of the late '70s and
early '80s -- but these are terrific songs performed well, by both McCoy and
his guests Raul Malo (who is on "I'm Just Me"), Darius Rucker
("Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'"), and Trace Adkins ("Roll On
Mississippi"). There's almost a funhouse mirror quality here, with McCoy
looking back on Pride who was looking back on Hank Williams (the presence of
"Kaw-Liga" underscores this), but that's part of the appeal of Pride:
each bygone era it salutes is worth celebrating.
Billboard (Chuck Dauphin) McCoy went back and picked out eleven of his
favorites from the Pride each catalog. Due to his unbridled enthusiasm for the
disc, each track is a keeper, but some of the highlights include “I’m Just Me,”
“Kaw-Liga,” and “You’re My Jamaica,” which Neal really gets a chance to sink
his teeth into. Possibly the most soulful cut on the album is his take on the
1982 number one “You’re So Good When You’re Bad.” .... This is definitely a
loving tribute from protégé to mentor, and one that deserves to be heard!
Country Music Year-To-Date Sales
Albums: Physical 19,409,000 ( down 9%
on 2012)
Albums: Digital 8,626,000 ( up 13.9% on 2012)
Albums: Overall Unit Sales 28,035,000 ( down 0.4% on 2012)
Digital Tracks Overall Unit Sales: 128,135,000
(up 4.4%
on 2012)
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album Placings
(Issue dated
Chart week of October 12, 2013)
(Country
Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This
Week, (LW) Last Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Billboard History
Billboard Top Ten Albums for week ending
October 6, 2007:
1. Reba: Duets (MCA) - Reba Mcentire
2. Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates (BNA)
- Kenny Chesney
3. Taylor Swift (Big Machine) -Taylor
Swift4. Let It Go (Curb) - Tim McGraw
5. 5th Gear (Arista) - Brad Paisley-
6. Enjoy The Ride (Mercury) - Sugarland
7. Me And My Gang (Lyric Street) - Rascal Flatts
8. Some Hearts (Arista) - Carrie
Underwood
9. It's Not Big, It's Large (Lost
Highway) - Lyle Lovett
10. Greatest Hits (MCA) - Trisha
Yearwood
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of October 12, 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’s “That’s My Kind
of Night” (Capitol Nashville) logged a seventh
week at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs. It’s the longest chart-topping run by a
solo male since Tim McGraw’s "Live Like You Were Dying” stacked seven
weeks on top back in 2004. No male soloist has led for longer than seven frames
since the late David Houston (like McGraw, a Louisiana native) reigned for nine
with “Almost Persuaded” in 1966.
Tim McGraw, scored his 49th
top 10 on Hot Country Songs with “Southern
Girl” (Big Machine), which stepped 11-10.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Luke Bryan with “That’s My Kind Of Night”
stays Top The Chart! #1
Thomas Rhett with “It Goes Like This” is up
two, #4 - #2 p
Jason Aldean with “Night Train” stays at #3
Tyler Farr with “Redneck Crazy” is down two,
#2 - #4 q
Billy Currington with “Hey Girl” stays at #5
Florida Georgia Line with former #1 “Cruise” stays at
#6
Blake Shelton with “Mine Would Be You” is up
one, #8 - #7 p
Florida Georgia Line with “Round Here” is down one
slot, #7 - #8 q
Chris Young with “Aw Naw” stays at #9
Tim McGraw with “Southern Girl” is up one, #11
- #10
Lee Brice with “Parking Lot Party” is up
two, #13 - #11 p
Justin Moore with “Point at You” is down two,
#10 - #12 q
Luke Bryan with “Crash My Party” is down
one, #12 - #13 q
Joe
Nichols with “Sunny And 75” is up three, #17 - #14 p
Taylor Swift with “Red” jumps up six slots,
#21 - #15 p
Keith
Urban and Miranda Lambert with “We Were Us” stays at #16
Randy Houser with “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight” is
down two, #15 - #17 q
Blake Shelton with “Boys ‘Round Here” is up one, #19 - #18 p
Eli Young Band with “Drunk Last Night” is up
five, #24 - #19 p
Darius Rucker with former No.1 “Wagon Wheel” is down, #18 -
#20 q
Cassadee Pope with “Wasting All These Tears” is
up four, #25 - #21 p
Keith Urban with “Little Bit Of Everything” falls
eight, #14 - #22 q
Hunter
Hayes with “I Want Crazy” stays at #23
Parmalee
with “Carolina” is up four, #28 - #24 p
Brett Eldredge with “Don’t Ya” falls five, #20 -
#25 q
Hot Country Songs
** No.1 (7 weeks) ** “That’s My Kind Of Night” Luke Bryan
** Airplay Gainer ** No.16 “We
Were Us” Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert
** Streaming Gainer ** No.21 “Wasting All These Tears” Cassadee
Pope
** Digital Gainer ** No.32 “Whatever She’s Got” David Nail
** Hot Shot Debut
** No.48 “Everbody’s Got Somebody But Me” Hunter Hayes feat. Jason Mraz
Debut No.50
“Wild In Your Smile” (Broken Bow) Dustin Lynch
Billboard Country Airplay Chart Week of October 12, 2013
Jason Aldean’s “Night Train” (Broken Bow) holds at No.1 for a second week atop the
Nielsen BDS-driven Billboard Country Airplay chart to become the fifth of the
artist’s 10 leaders to hold for more than one week, and the biggest one-week
audience sum since the chart’s ranking method changed from total plays to total
audience impressions in January 2005.
Aldean most recently posted multiple
weeks at the summit when “Take a Little Ride” rolled three straight weeks a
year ago, his longest chart-topping run was four weeks with “Big Green Tractor”
in 2009.
“Night Train” logged 49.066 million audience impressions
(+1.356); received 7,094 radio plays
(+202) to surpass the 48.3 million that Brett Eldredge’s “Don’t Ya” logged on
the Aug. 31 chart, also in its second week at the top.
Top local audience contributors for
“Night Train” during the Sept. 23-29 tracking week: KKBQ Houston (1.5 million impressions), KKGO Los Angeles (1.2 million), WKLB Boston (942,000), WNSH
New York (938,000) and KPLX Dallas
(905,000).
Blake Shelton moved 11-9
and scored his 18th career top 10
(and his third this year) on Country Airplay with “Mine Would Be You” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville), the third
single from Based on a True Story . . .
Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert’s “We Were Us” (Hit
Red/Capitol Nashville/RCA Nashville) won the trophy for “Most Increased Audience” with a 16-14 hop in its fourth week on Country Airplay. They
logged 21.774 million audience
impressions (+5.353 million gain);
receiving 3,016 radio plays (+717)
helped by 13 new radio station ADDS. That’s the quickest ascent for Lambert and the
second-fastest sprint for Urban. Lambert’s quickest previous start was when
“Baggage Claim” ranked at No. 17 in its fourth chart week (Sept. 10, 2011,
chart) on its way to a No. 3 peak three months later.
Miranda’s latest solo single “All Kinds of Kinds” (RCA Nashville)
reached a new peak at No. 19 in its 15th chart week.
Randy Houser snagged the week’s “Most Added” honours with 21 new airplay commitments (ADDS) for “Goodnight Kiss” (Stoney Creek), which
jumps 47-42 in its third chart week.
Country Airplay
*** No. 1 (2 weeks) *** "Night
Train” Jason Aldean
** Most Increased Audience ** No.14 "We
Were Us” Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert
** Most Added ** No.42 “Goodnight Kiss”
Randy Houser 21 ADDS
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.56 “It Ain’t the
Whiskey” (MCA Nashville) Gary Allan
Debut No.59 “Drink To That All Night”
(Sea Gayle/Arista) Jerrod Niemann
Debut No.60 “Beat Of The Music”(Atlantic/WMN)
Brett Eldredge
Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart Week of October 12, 2013
Luke Bryan with “That’s My Kind Of Night” remained at #1 on the chart for a seventh
week with sales of 84,000 (down 18%) and has sold nearly 800K.
Thomas Rhett’s “It Goes Like” moved up 3-2
with sales 42,000 downloads (down 11%)
Cassadee Pope moved into the Top 10 ( 12-8)
with a sales spike of 17% for “Wasting
All These Tears,” her Republic Nashville debut single.
Joining her in the top 10 slots were Eli Young Band at #9 and Chris Young with “Aw Naw” (sales up 8%)
Joe Nichols’, “Sunny And 75” moved up 19-12 with the lead single from his new
album CRICKETS due out next week.
David Nail jumped up 26-16 thanks to a
sales boost of 44% for “Whatever She’s
Got”
Top 30 Digital Singles
in Country Music (published October 2, 2013)
(LW) Last Week (TW) This Week
*Numbers are rounded to nearest 1000th
Country Aircheck/ Mediabase chart
Jason Aldean stepped 2-1 to head the
Country Aircheck/ Mediabase chart for the tracking week Sept 22 - Sep 28. “Night Train” logged 7,392
radio plays (+317) with an audience of 56.374
million impressions.
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