Country Billboard Chart
News January 16, 2014
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country Album Chart ** No. 1
(9 weeks) ** "Here’s To The Good Times" Florida
Georgia Line
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Drink A Beer“ Luke Bryan
Country Airplay ** No.1 (4 weeks)
** “Stay” Florida
Georgia Line
Country Digital Songs **
No.1 (4 weeks) ** " Drink A Beer” Luke
Bryan
Billboard Top
200 / Country Album Chart News
The soundtrack
to Disney's "Frozen" held for a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (BB200) selling another 85,812 copies (7 week tally of 588,779).
U.S. album sales fell again fallen to a
new weekly low. In the
week ending Jan. 12, 4.25 million albums were sold according to
Nielsen SoundScan, which began tracking music sales in 1991. The previous
SoundScan-era low was set in the week ending Oct. 27, 2013, when just 4.49
million albums were sold.
To compare, the
SoundScan-era high for album sales in a single week came in late December of 2000, during the height of
CD sales, when 45.4 million albums were
sold in the week ending Dec. 24. (In all of 2013, there were 289.41 million
albums sold compared with 2000 when there were 785.14 million albums sold.). Weekly
volume didn't fall below 5 million in the SoundScan era until 2010,
when, in the week ending May 30, album sales dropped to 4.98 million. In 2010,
there were a total of four weeks with under 5 million in sales. In 2013, 18 chart
weeks logged album sales that dropped
below 5 million - billboard.com/biz/
The country
music sales also reflected the soft sales figures in January.
Luke Bryan's CRASH MY
PARTY dropped from #7 to #13 (22 chart weeks) on the BB200 with Florida Georgia
Line's HERE'S TO THE GOOD
TIMES rebounding from #16 to #12 in its 58th week thus returning to No.1
on Billboard Top Country Albums,
displacing their bro-country pal Luke.
A differential of less than 70 copies, separated
Florida Georgia Line and Bryan for the #1 Country album in the USA this chart week
with both albums selling just over 16,000 units.
It’s FGL’s ninth week
on top of the chart. That's the longest run by any album since their Big
Machine label mate Taylor Swift's "Red" had 16 weeks on
top in 2012-2013. It's the longest run by a debut album since "Taylor
Swift" had 24 weeks on top in 2007-2008. It's the longest run at #1 for an
album by an ongoing duo in chart history. (One collabo had a longer run on top:
Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson's "Waylon & Willie," which
stayed on top for 11 weeks in 1978.)
Garth Brooks’ BLAME
IT ALL ON MY ROOTS Box Set fell back 2-3 selling another 12,000 copies
(down 52%, 7 week total of 808,000).
After 36 weeks
on the chart Kacey Musgraves with SAME TRAILER DIFFERENT PARK (#9 Country) has now sold over 300,000
units.
Not included on
Billboard Country Chart (but is #1 on the Official UK Country Chart) FOREVERLY by
Billie Joe
Armstrong + Norah Jones jumped from #33 to #19 in its seventh week
on the BB200, two weeks after the death of Phil Everly. The Everly Brothers had
three top 20 albums from 1958 to 1960. Foreverly is a collection of traditional
songs, and is a reinterpretation of the 1958 album ”Songs Our Daddy Taught Us”
by The Everly Brothers. It is promoted by the lead single "Long Time Gone”
.
New releases to impact the
Billboard 200 next week should include Jennifer Nettles “That Girl” (Mercury
Nashville), Jon Pardi “ Write You A Song” (Capitol Nashville), Rosanne Cash’s “The
River & The Thread” (Blue Note Records) and Mary Chapin Carpenter with “Songs
From The Movie” (Rounder Records)
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album
Placings
(Issue dated Chart week of January 25, 2014)
(Country Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This Week, (LW) Last
Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Billboard
Country Album Chart History
These were the No1
top selling CDs for corresponding chart weeks in 2009, 2004, 1999, 1994, and
1989:
2009: Fearless (Big
Machine) Taylor Swift
2004: Shock'n
Y'all (DreamWorks) Toby Keith
1999: Double
Live (Capitol) Garth Brooks
1994: Common
Thread: The Songs Of The Eagles (Giant) Various
Artists
1989: Old 8 X 10
(Warner Bros) Randy Travis
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of January 25 2014)
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 scored his sixth No. 1
on Hot Country Songs with “Drink a Beer”
(Capitol Nashville), which ended the six-week reign atop the
sales/airplay/streaming hybrid chart for Florida Georgia Line’s “Stay” (Republic
Nashville), (1-2). “Beer” caps Country Digital Songs for a fourth week, increased
by 12% to 37 million audience impressions on Country Airplay and dipped 4-6 on
Country Streaming Songs (626,000 U.S. streams).
The new leader marks a quick repeat for Georgia native Luke who most
recently appeared with “That’s My Kind of Night,” atop Hot Country Songs with
his 12 week #1 of Nov. 16, 2013.
Singer/songwriter Eric Paslay celebrated his first top 10 on Hot
Country Songs, as “Friday Night”
(EMI Nashville) improved 12-10. His previous best rank was No. 48 with “Never
Really Wanted” three years ago.
The Band Perry scored its seventh
consecutive top 10 radio-promoted single as “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” (Republic Nashville) lifted 11-9.
Memphis native Actress/singer Lucy Hale (“Pretty Little Liars,” “A Cinderella
Story”) snared the Hot Shot Debut at No.21 with “You Sound Good
to Me” (DMG Nashville/Bigger Picture). Her bow marked the best opening-week
rank for a solo female since Danielle Bradbery, the season-four champ of NBC’s
“The Voice,” began at No.16 in August with “The Heart of Dixie” (Republic/Big
Machine).
Hot Country Songs 70th
Anniversary: Top 70 Country Songs 1989-2014: It was 70 years ago this month, January
1944 -- that Billboard began charting the popularity of country tunes with the
format's main chart now known as Hot Country Songs. In celebration the vital
genre's continued vibrancy, Billboard honoured the chart's anniversary with a
look at the Top 70 songs of the past 25 years.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Luke Bryan with “Drink A Beer” is up one to TOP the Chart! #2-
#1
Florida Georgia Line with former No.1 “Stay” drops one, #1 - #2 q
David Nail with “Whatever She’s
Got” stays at #3
Cole Swindell with “Chillin’ It” is up one, #5 - #4 p
Jason Aldean with “When She Says Baby” is up three, #8 - #5p
Zac Brown Band with “Sweet Annie” is up three slots, #9 - #6 p
Cassadee Pope with “Wasting All These Tears” is down one, #6 - #7 q
Eli Young Band with “Drunk Last Night” is down a slot, #7 - #8 q
The Band Perry with “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” is
up two, #11 - #9 p
Eric Paslay with “Friday Night” is up two, #12 - #10 p
Luke Bryan with former #1 “That’s My Kind Of Night” falls, #4 -
#11 q
Lady Antebellum with “Compass” is up one, #13 - #12 p
John Pardi with “Up All Night” is up two, #15 - #13 p
Darius Rucker with “Radio” stays at #14
Frankie Ballard with “Helluva Life” is up two, #17 - #15
Brantley Gilbert with “Bottoms Up” is up five, #21 - #16 p
Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert
with former No.1, moves #16 - #17 q
Dan + Shay with “19 You + Me” jumps up five, #23 -
#18 p
Dierks Bentley with “Hold On” is down one, #18 - #19 q
Jerrod Niemann with “Drink To That All Night” stays at #20
Lucy Hale with “You Sound Good To Me” debuts at #21 NEW
Danielle Bradbery with “The Heart Of Dixie” is down three,
#19 - #22 q
Randy Houser with “Goodnight Kiss” is up one, #24 -
#23 p
Thomas Rhett with “Get Me
Some Of That” enters the Top 25, #26 - #24 p
Eric Church with “Give
Me Back My Hometown” enters the Top 25, #39 - #25 p
Hot Country
Songs
** No.1 (1 week)
** “Drink A Beer“
Luke Bryan
** Streaming Gainer ** No.16
“Bottoms Up” Brantley Gilbert
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.21 “You
Sound Good To Me” Lucy Hale
** Digital Gainer ** No.25
“Give Me Back My Hometown” Eric Church
** Airplay Gainer ** No.28
“Doin’ What She Likes” Blake Shelton
Debut No.41 “Rewind” Rascal
Flatts
Debut No.43 “Cop Car” Keith
Urban
Billboard
Country Airplay Chart Week of January 25, 2014
Florida Georgia Line achieved its longest No.1 reign on Billboard’s Country Airplay tally with
“Stay” (Republic Nashville), which held
for a fourth straight week and
surpassed “Cruise,” the duo’s lead single, which spent three weeks at the
summit in December 2012. Second and third radio singles “Get Your Shine On” and
“Round Here” both spent two weeks at No.1 on the chart “Shine” (May 2013) and
“Here” (September 2013)
The fourth week for “Stay” is the longest reign by any song in two
years. The FGL duo now have Zac Brown Band’s four week #1 (“Keep Me in Mind”; Jan
14, 2012 chart) in their sights. Lady Antebellum’s held a five-week run with
“Need You Now” back in Nov/Dec 2009. On its 18th week on the chart "Stay"
logged 45.638 million audience impressions (+1.332) and received 6,808 radio plays (+93) with top local
audience penetration during the Jan.6-12 tracking week: KKGO Los Angeles (1.4 impressions) and WUSN Chicago (1.4 million).
Jason Aldean collected his 18th top 10 freshening it up
as “When She Says Baby” (Broken
Bow), made a 12-10 jump in its 12th
chart week. He last competed in the upper region when “Night Train” spent two
weeks atop the chart in October 2013. Only two of Aldean’s 20 radio singles have
failed to reach the top 10 with ten of those reaching No.1..
Rascal Flatts, aided by hourly play on Jan.8 at
Clear Channel-owned stations, registered its second-highest start with “Rewind” (Big Machine), which made a No.28 bow. It opened with 7.88 million audience impressions at 94
of the 145 stations monitored by BDS for the chart and picked up the weeks “Most
Increased Audience”, “Hot
Shot Debut” and “Most
Added” trophies with at
least seven first-time plays (Monday-Sunday) with 59 fresh radio commitments (ADDS).
The trio scored its highest debut when “Take Me There” opened at
No.24 on the chart dated July 21, 2007. This new track introduces the
threesome’s upcoming album following on from their 2012 set CHANGED.
Blake Shelton climbed 35-22 with a 1,153 radio spin increase for latest single “Doin'
What She Likes”
#1 Rewind: Chart
topping hits in 2009, 2004, 1999, 1994, and 1989:
2009 - “Already
Gone” (Mercury) Sugarland
2004 - There
Goes My Life (BNA) Kenny Chesney
1999 - “Right On
The Money” (Arista) Alan Jackson
1994 - “Wild One” (Warner Bros.) Faith Hill
1989 - “She's
Crazy For Leavin'” (Columbia) Rodney
Crowell
Country
Airplay
*** No. 1 (4
weeks) *** "Stay" Florida Georgia Line
** Hot Shot
Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.28 “Rewind” Rascal Flatts
Debut No.58
"Trippin' On Us" Lindsay Ell
Debut No.59
"Yeah" Joe Nichols
Debut No.60
"Who I Am With You" Chris Young
Billboard
Country Digital Singles Chart Week of January 25, 2014
Luke Bryan with “Drink a Beer” held at #1 despite a 12%
decline on the previous week (65,000 downloads sold). He still logged a second
song in the Top 5 as the 22-week “That’s My Kind Of Night” fell back 5-3
David Nail on his 24th week climbed 5-2 with “Whatever She’s Got,” (sales dip 8%) which passed retail sales of over 700,000
downloads.
Florida Georgia Line’s 16-week “Stay,” (sales down 26%) moved 4-3.
Pretty Little
Liars actress and newbie country singer Lucy Hale made a bow at No.4 with her debut single “You
Sound Good To Me” >> [ Listen]selling 42,000 units.
Duo
Dan+Shay’s “19 You And Me” >> [Listen
– Amazon UK - UK iTunes] made a big “California-beautiful” stride with a 26-11 move (sales up 32%) in their 9th
week.
Eric Church debuted at #12 with his second single “Give Me Back My Hometown” from
forthcoming album THE OUTSIDERS due to drop Feb 11.
Dropping off the Top 30:
(28-32) Hunter Hayes feat. Jason Mraz “Everybody's
Got Somebody But Me”
(25-33) Florida Georgia Line “Round Here”
Top 20 Digital Singles in Country Music
(published January 16, 2013)
(LW) Last Week
(TW) This Week
*Numbers are
rounded to nearest 1000th
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