Country Billboard Chart
News December 5, 2013
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country Album Chart ** No. 1
(1 week) ** Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of
Influences Garth Brooks
Hot Country Songs ** No. 1 (1
week) ** “Stay” Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** "Sunny and 75” Joe Nichols
Country Digital Songs **
No.1 ** (1 week) “This Is How We Roll” Florida Georgia Line
Billboard Top
200 / Country Album Chart News
America's teens and tweens
have spoken. One Direction's
MIDNIGHT MEMORIES entered The Billboard
200 (BB200) at #1, enabling the English/Irish quintet (see photo) to become the first boy band
in chart history to land three #1 albums. Four earlier boy bands—New Kids
On The Block, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC and Jonas Brothers—each had two #1
albums.
One Direction's
"Midnight Memories" followed two No. 1s for the act in 2012 with
their debut album "Up All Night" (176,000 first week sales) and second
set "Take Me Home" (540,000 first week sales)
The Monkees' self-titled
debut was released in 1966 and climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in its
sixth week on the chart. The TV-born act -- riding high with its hit ABC series
-- followed up the No. 1 success with three more consecutive No. 1s in 1967:
"More of the Monkees," "Headquarters" and "Pisces,
Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd."
Garth Brooks' made a bow at No.3 on the BB200 with Blame It All On My Roots: Five Decades Of
Influences (sales 163,604) and thereby entered
The Billboard Top Country Albums at
#1, displacing The Robertsons' Duck The Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas
which moved 2-1 Country and a #4 hold on the BB200and landed the #1 on Top
Christmas Albums for the fourth week.
It's Brooks' 13th #1 album and the album was released on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday,
Nov. 28). The latest SoundScan tracking week ended Sunday, Dec. 1. The release
was supported by a two-hour live CBS concert special that aired Nov. 29.
This massive, eight-disk
set, a Walmart exclusive,
consists of six CDs and two DVDs. The store has purchased 500,000 of this package which
means RIAA certification based on units shipped to retail.
It's the most sprawling
album ever to crack the top 10, surpassing Brooks' 1998 album The Limited
Series (a repackage which consisted of his first six CDs) and Bruce
Springsteen's 1986 album Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85
(a live album which consisted of five disks).
Brooks' collection contains
77 songs, 33 music videos and a 68-page photo booklet. It weighs two pounds.
(Brooks likes to do things big.) This is Brooks' first album since 2007's The
Ultimate Hits, which likewise debuted (and peaked) at #3. It's 15th top 10
album. Only two other country artists have had as many. George Strait leads
with 18. Tim McGraw has also had 15.
Florida Georgia Line's HERE'S TO THE
GOOD TIMES made a rebound from #18 to #13 on the BB200 (thanks to the
release of a deluxe version). This
is the album's 52nd week on the chart. Sales this chart wek regised 69,000 and
it has has sold 1,337,000 copies to date. That's 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.
Danielle Bradbery with her eponymous
debut album (Republic/Big Machine Records) opened at #19 on the BB200 (No.5
Country).
The Season 4 winner of The
Voice sold 41,369 copies with her
first week at retail. This is her second album to crack the top 20 her Complete
Season 4 Collection also peaked at #19. Season 3 Winner Cassadee Pope's Frame
By Frame remains the highest-charting album by a contestant on The Voice. It
debuted and peaked at #9 in October.
Promoting the album Danielle
performed and had a chat on Katie Monday (11/18) and appeared on Hart of Dixie
(CW)
Critical Reception for Danielle Bradbery “Danielle Bradbery”
Self Titled [Import] CD - MP3 - Amazon.com - UK iTunes
Roughstock
(Rating: 4 STARS) It only took one listen
to Danielle Bradbery’s self-titled debut album to realize that America had made
the right decision in choosing 16 (now 17) year old Danielle Bradbery as the
winner of the 4th season (cycle?) of NBC’s “The Voice” program. She proved her
mettle on older Country songs so using “The Heart of Dixie” as a bridge between
what she sang on “The Voice” with the other 10 tracks on Danielle Bradbery was
a smart choice.... As for the rest of the album, well, it’s very, very strong.
The Whitney Duncan,
Evans complete with sing-a-long chorus and relatable
verses while “Wild Boy” serves as a nice uptempo ballad. ....perhaps nothing on
the album is better than “Dance Hall” or “My Day.” (absolutely stunning and
powerful)....It would’ve been easy for Big Machine and Republic Records to take
Danielle Bradbery and molded her into the second coming of Taylor Swift or to
have left her music in the past with what she did on The Voice” but instead
Bradberry’s strong 11 song collection of music showcases a talent that could
become the next big vocal powerhouse in Country music.
NY Times Ms. Bradbery is 17 going on Faith Hill,
singing with a precisely calibrated voice without a hint of risk. On “The
Voice,” she was reliable to a fault with her Pam Tillis and Carrie Underwood
covers: clean, crisp, dull. ...At best, this antiseptic and extremely competent
album is country by the numbers. Ms. Bradbery has skipped right past the
example of early Taylor Swift into hoppier waters that her voice, and her mien,
don’t communicate. Or in other words, she’s exactly as she was on “The Voice.”
Check out Danielle
Bradbery‘s new song from her debut album, “Talk About Love”!
“The
Heart Of Dixie” (Video/Music review) has received over
2-million YouTube hits
Black Friday sales saw Blake Shelton’s
BASED ON A TRUE STORY receive a
healthy sales spike (#32 to #20 on BB200). His sales of 41,000 scanned at
retail means he past Platinum (1-million sales) to reach 1.032 million albums in 36 chart weeks since its 2013 release date.
It's the 10th album to hit this milestone in 2013. Three of the 10 are
country, three are hip-hop, two are pop and two are rock. Shelton's album
reached the 1-million milestone much quicker than his only previous
million-seller, RED RIVER BLUE, which took two years to get there.
Kenny Chesney’s LIFE
ON A ROCK (gained 972% sales, over last week’s 850 copies) as a Walmart doorbuster and re-entered the
Country Chart at No19.
Other Walmart’s
$6.99 door busters were Little Big Town’s Tornado which moved 25-13 Country (sales
up 354%), Keith Urban’s Fuse (increased sales by 145%) with Chris
Young’s latest, A.M
jumping up 31-16 Country (sales up 334%, total to date 128K)
Of note: Not on the
Billboard Country Album chart but with a No.40 bow (looked on as disappointing)
on the BB200 with sales of 22,000 copies saw Billie Joe + Norah Jones’ 12 song album
FOREVERLY. The Green Day front man and Grammy Award winning
artist Billie Joe Armstrong and Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter
Norah Jones teamed up for this collection set inspired by "Songs Our Daddy
Taught Us", an album of traditional Americana songs reinterpreted, recorded
and released by The Everly Brothers in 1958. That album didn't crack The
Billboard 200, which was dominated at that time by movie soundtracks and
Broadway cast albums. Foreverly is one of the most intriguing cross-genre
collabos since Robert Plant/Alison Krauss' Raising Sand, which debuted and
peaked at #2 in 2007. That album went on to win a Grammy for Album of the Year
12 Tracks / Time: 45:23 CD - MP3 Watch Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah
Jones >> "Long
Time Gone"
Due out: Jake Owen's Days Of
Gold, The Sound Of Music TV soundtrack with Carrie Underwood and an
iTunes-exclusive EP by The Civil Wars.
8,585,000 albums (2,613,000
digital + 5,972000 were cds/vinyl albums/cassettes) were sold overall in the
USA last week.
Album sales were down -7.9%
for 2013 (-8.5% last week)
Year-To Date Country Sales:
2012
Albums 38,019,000 (Physical 27,944,000 + Digital 10,075,000)
2013
Albums 34,250,000 (Physical 24,105,000 + Digital 10,145,000) down 9% q
Digital Tracks 147,419,000 (2012)
148,610,000 (2013) up 0.8% p
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album
Placings
(Issue dated Chart week of December 14, 2013)
(Country Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This Week, (LW) Last
Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Billboard
Catalog Album Charts (week of December 14, 2013)
The top
non-Christmas album is Carrie Underwood's 5-week catalog album BLOWN AWAY which returned to the top 40
of the overall chart and matched its earlier Catalog peak of #4.
On their thier fourth
week on the Top Catalog Albums “Cheers,
It's Christmas” by Blake Shelton moved 4-6, Lady Antebellum’s “On
This Winter's Night” stayed
at No.5.
Taylor Swift at No.21 returned for a 6th consecutive
season, with her only Christmas album “Holiday
Collection” (EP).
Luke Bryan's "Tailgates & Tanlines" holds a No.11 slot as the album received a 242% sales boost
(2.202 million copies sold to date). It transitioned
to the Catalog chart last week after 119 weeks as a current Billboard album.
Since its August 2011 release, it's been on the Billboard 200 for 121 straight
weeks with a peak at #2. This is Bryan's third Catalog album, after "Doin'
My Thing" (52 weeks starting in 2013, with peak of #3), and "I'll
Stay Me" (one week this year at #18).
Holiday
Albums
#1 Duck The
Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas The Robertsons
#2 Wrapped In
Red Kelly Clarkson
#9 Cheers, It's
Christmas Blake Shelton
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of
December 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:
Florida Georgia Line claimed its second No.1
on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs with “Stay”
Danielle Bradbery opened at No. 5 on Top
Country Albums with her self-titled debut set (Republic Nashville/Big Machine
Label Group). Her single “The Heart of
Dixie” concurrently earns honours stripes as the Digital Gainer (11,000
sold, up 8,000) and Streaming Gainer (367,000 streams, up 21%, according to
Nielsen BDS) on Hot Country Songs, where it lifted 28-25.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Florida Georgia Line with “Stay” is up one to Top The Chart p
Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert
with last weeks No.1, is down, #1- #2 q
Luke Bryan with former #1 “That’s My Kind Of Night” is up, #4-
#3 p
Joe Nichols with “Sunny
And 75” is up one, #5 - #4 p
Eli Young Band with “Drunk Last Night” is up two, #7 - #5 p
Parmalee with “Carolina” stays at
#6
Luke Bryan with “Drink A Beer” is up four,, #11 - #7 p
Taylor Swift with “Red” moved up one, #9 - #8 p
David Nail with “Whatever She’s
Got” is down one, #8 - #9 q
Blake Shelton with “Mine Would Be You” falls seven, #3 - #10 q
Cassadee Pope with “Wasting All These Tears” is down one, #10 -11 q
Cole Swindell with “Chillin’ It” stays at #12
Zac Brown Band with “Sweet Annie” is up two, #15 - #13 p
The Band Perry with “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” is
down one, #13 - #14 q
Lady Antebellum with “Compass” moved up four, #19 - #15 p
Darius Rucker with “Radio” is up two, #18 - #16 p
Eric Paslay with “Friday Night” is down one, #16 - #17 q
Florida Georgia Line with “This Is How We Roll” debuts at #18
Tim McGraw with “Southern Girl” falls, #14 - #19 q
Hunter Hayes featuring Jason Mraz with
“Everybody's Got Somebody But Me”, is up, #21 - #20 p
Jake Owen with “Days Of Gold” is up one, #22 - #21 p
Eric Church with “The Outsiders" is down two, #20 - #22 q
John Pardi with “Up All Night” stays at #23
Jason Aldean with “When She Says Baby” stays at #24
Danielle Bradbery with The Heart Of Dixie is up three, #28 - #25
Hot Country
Songs
** No.1 (1 week)
** “Stay” Florida Georgia Line
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.18 “This Is How We Roll” Florida Georgia Line feat. Luke Bryan
** Digital &
Streaming Gainer ** No.25 “The Heart Of
Dixie” Danielle Bradbery
Billboard
Country Airplay Chart Week of December 14, 2013
Joe Nichols earned his his fourth No.1 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart with "Sunny and 75." The song rose 2-1 to top the country chart
and Joe is grateful to be back on the radio in a big way - "Whether
it's your first #1 record or your 50th, seeing your song at the top of the
charts never gets old,"
Joe says. "God is good."
First released
back on May 13, 2013 the song written by Michael Dulaney, Jason Sellers and Paul
Jenkins is the lead single from Joe's latest album, CRICKETS.
Joe Nichols ended
a lengthy absence from No.1 becoming his first leader since “Gimmie That Girl”
crowned the May 8, 2010, chart. In the interim, he peaked at No.17 with “The
Shape I’m In” and No.25 with “Take It Off” in 2011.
The
three-and-a-half-year gap between “Girl” and “Sunny” isn’t Nichols’ longest dry
spell atop the chart. He went nearly four-and-a-half years between his second
and third No.1s—“Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” which topped the Dec.17,
2005, tally, and “Girl.” Nichols first dominated the Nielsen BDS-fueled list
with “Brokenheartsville” (March 29,2003).
Reigning in its
31st chart week, “Sunny” completes Nichols’ longest trek to the top, surpassing
his 29-week climb with “Girl.” He needed
22 weeks to peak with “Brokenheartsille,” and 19 weeks for “Tequila.”
“Sunny” logged 44.196 million audience impressions
(+2.483); and received 6,879 radio
plays (+380) during the tracking week Nov.25-Dec.1.
Top local
audience contributors were: KKGO Los
Angeles (1.4 million impressions), KKBQ Houston
(1.4 million), WUSN Chicago
(993,000), KPLX Dallas (963,000) and
WYCD Detroit (947,000).
Nichols’ new
No.1 is also the first Country Airplay chart-topper for his label, Red Bow (an
imprint of the Broken Bow Music Group). Look for him to serve as a presenter on
the 4th Annual American Country Awards Tuesday, December 10 on FOX.
>> Watch the fabulous "Sunny
and 75" video and many congrats to Joe and his BBR team
(Carson James, Renee Leymon, Shelley Hargis, Kendra Whitehead, Mallory Opheim,
Hilary Hoover, Caitlyn Gordon). The song has sold 429,000 digital downloads so
far in 21 weeks.
Florida Georgia Line took home the “Most
Increased Audience”
trophy for “Stay” which moved 9-6,
logging 34.586 million audience impressions, an increase of 4.678
million and received 5,218 radio
plays (+556).
Jason Aldean won the Most Added honours with “When She Says Baby” (Broken Bow), rising 5-4. The song logged 2,431
radio plays (+637) thanks to 23 new
radio commitments (ADDS)
Country
Airplay
*** No. 1 (1
week)*** "Sunny And 75" Joe Nichols
** Most
Increased Audience ** No.6 “Stay”
Florida Georgia Line ** Most Added **
No.21 “When She Says Baby” Jason Aldean
** Hot Shot
Debut ** No.60" “Get Some”
Blackjack Billy
Billboard
Country Digital Singles Chart Week of December 14, 2013
‘Bro Country’
dominated the top 5 as Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan own the top five Billboard Country
Digital slots. Both Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan have 3 each songs in
the Top 5.
The #1 song FGL’s
“This Is How We Roll” is also
co-written by Luke Bryan! On the all genre Billboard Digital Songs it made it’s
debut at No.24.
The FGL duo have
a 8 track sprinkling of tracks on the Top 30 including the week’s No.1 thanks
to the deluxe album update titled Here’s To The Good Times...This Is How We
Roll.
Britney Spears'
new album "Britney Jean" is due to launch on next week's Billboard
200, but this week, her younger sister swoops in and steals chart headlines.
Twenty-two-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears makes her first Billboard chart
appearances, as "How Could I Want
More" (written with Rivers Rutherford) entered Hot Country Songs at
No.29 and Country Digital Songs at No.8. The midtempo, traditional-country love
song sold 28,000 downloads."I can't believe that my song has reached
Billboard," Spears
beams. "It's a dream come true." Read more of the Billboard 615 Interview Jamie Lynn Spears Exclusive Q&A: 'There Is No Rivalry' With Britney.
22-year old
Jamie (born April 4, 1991) is a former American actress and in 2005 she came to
prominence after being cast in the Nickelodeon television series Zoey 101
(portrayed the character Zoey Brooks). In 2007, sixteen-year-old Spears
generated controversy after announcing her pregnancy.
The Voice’s Cole
Vosbury (a Blake Shelton
Protégé – See Photo) made a debut at No.9 with a cover of Vince Gill’s “I Still Believe In You” (writers: Vince
Gill, John Barlow Jarvis). Vosbury is a Season 5 semi-finalist and he performed
it on Monday, November 25 on Week 4 of the Live playoffs.
Eli Young Band’s “Drunk
Last Night,” (11-16) sold another 21,000 downloads which is now logs RIAA Gold eligible having passed the 500,000 mark with a new 23-week tally
of 510K.
Tracks Falling
out of the Top 30:
Blake Shelton with Boys ‘Round Here (26-31), Darius
Rucker with Wagon Wheel (23-33)
Dierks Bentley with I Hold On (28-34), Jason Aldean
with Night Train (24-35),
The Band Perry with Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (22-36),
Tim McGraw with Southern Girl (20-37)
Eric Paslay with Friday Night (25-38), Jo Pardi with
Up All Night (29-39)
Helluva Life with Frankie Ballard (30-41), Chris
Young with Aw Naw (27-43)
Top 30 Digital Singles in Country Music
(published December 4, 2013)
(LW) Last Week
(TW) This Week
*Numbers are
rounded to nearest 1000th
Country Aircheck/ Mediabase chart
“The energy is the first thing that
struck me about ‘Sunny and 75,’” Nichols told Radio.com. “The song slowly builds
into this screaming, almost like a Journey ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ kind of
tempo. So that to me is important, because the music itself brings out
emotions, not just the lyrics or how you deliver them. The music builds, and it
takes you on a journey. You feel like you’re slowly and steadily moving out to
the beach, and all the sudden you’re sprinting.”
For a detailed
report check out Country Aircheck Weekly:
Issue 374 - December 2, 2013 [PDF File]
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