Country Billboard Chart
News January 23, 2014
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country Album Chart ** No. 1
(1 week) ** "That Girl" Jennifer Nettles
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Drink A Beer“ Luke Bryan
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** "Sweet Annie" Zac Brown Band
Country Digital Songs **
No.1 (1 week) ** “Give Me Back My Hometown” Eric Church
Billboard Top
200 / Country Album Chart News
Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes (Columbia Records) blew into
the No.1 slot of the Billboard Top 200 album chart (BB200) opening with sales
of 99,489 copies. With the No. 1 debut, Springsteen pulls ahead of Elvis
Presley to stand alone as the act with the third-most No.1s in the history of
the Billboard 200. Ahead of both acts on the all-time list are the Beatles
(with 19 No. 1s) and Jay Z (with 13). "High Hopes" is Springsteen's
first studio album (released since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking data in
1991) to debut with fewer than 100,000 copies. His SoundScan-era high came when
2002's "The Rising" powered through 525,000 copies in its first week,
easily debuting at No. 1.
Two more new
entries arrive in the top 10: Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles with her solo debut,
"That Girl," and rock band Switchfoot with "Fading West."
The former starts at No. 5 with 54,000, while Switchfoot steps in at No. 6 with
39,000.
Five new albums and an EP impact the Top 25 Billboard Country
Albums this chart week.
With Sugarland
(the duo she comprises with Kristian Bush) on indefinite hiatus, Jennifer
Nettles made a No.5 bow on the BB200 and so landed at No.1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with THAT GIRL (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville). Her first
solo set opened with 54,091 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
As one-half of
Sugarland, Nettles racked up six earlier albums on the Billboard 200, with
three of them hitting No.1. The pair topped the list with "Love on the
Inside" in 2008, the live set "Live on the Inside" the following
year and then "The Incredible Machine" in 2010. Collectively,
Sugarland's albums have sold 9.9 million copies in the United States, according
to SoundScan. Jennifer is the second woman in the 22-year SoundScan era,
following Wynonna, to debut at No.1 with a solo album after initially
gaining fame in a duo or group.
Wynonna’s self-titled 1992 solo debut followed her storied
eight-year run as half of the Judds with her mother, Naomi Judd.
Producer Rick Rubin worked with Jennifer on the record. "I am absolutely
thrilled and wholly proud to be working with Rick”, said Jen in May
2013t. “If you
ask any musician who is on their producer ‘bucket list’, Rick would be on each
and every one." Jennifer and Rick spent a month at Malibu,
Calif.-based Shangri-La Studios to work on the project. Session pros including
Ian McLagan (Faces, The Rolling Stones), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and
Smokey Hormel (Beck, Tom Waits) contributed their talents.
Promoting THAT GIRL Nettles appeared on The View (ABC) on Jan 15th
and also performed "Falling" on The David Letterman Show.
Critical
Acclaim for “That Girl”: 11 Tracks /
Time: 41:23 CD -
Amazon.com - US iTunes
Allmusic (Rating:
3 STARS) That Girl is Jennifer Nettles'
first solo record since she co-founded pop-country's superstar act Sugarland.
Produced by Rick Rubin, it's mostly a collection of originals, co-written with
some of the music industry's most successful songwriters.
....."Jealousy," co-written with Kevin Griffin, is a shiny, breezy,
summery pop song kissed by Brazilian rhythms and fluid acoustic guitars. It's
also in the R&B camp, but it's
Country Weekly (Rating: B+) What
happens when duos spend some time apart? Can Jennifer Nettles be a viable country
star without Sugarland partner Kristian Bush? Jennifer wisely sidestepped those
questions for her solo album That Girl, recording in California with Rick Rubin
and some West Coast session pros instead of staying in Nashville. The resulting
album is earthy, warm and spacious, not sounding too fussed over or suffocated
with studio tricks....Stylistically, That Girl has plenty to offer: the acidic,
fame-in-the-information-age rockabilly scorcher “Don’t You Wanna Know”; the
hopeful, slow-building “Me Without You”; or the Latin-flavored cheating saga in
the title track—the album’s first single.Jennifer’s voice is undoubtedly the
star of the show throughout. She’s dialed back the twang for something that
sounds Southern but no longer over-the-top, and she belts with the best of
them. A couple songs—like “Thank You”—are pleasant enough but don’t linger.
Roughstock (Rating: 4.5 STARS) ..wipe
away any thoughts you had about Jennifer Nettles's solo debut album That Girl
being a continuation of what the talented vocalist does with Sugarland. It's
not that. Instead, she’s worked with iconic Grammy-winning producer Rick Rubin
to create an album that in many ways shows off that fantastic set of pipes in
some interesting and dynamic ways. ...“Moneyball” is a track that fans of
Sugarland will love and something Country radio should be wanting to
play....The majority of That Girl is an ambitious collection of songs with
songs like the powerful ballad “This Angel” feeling like an iconic classic
Heart hit...an album that my be short on mainstream Country hits but is long on
charming vocal performances, stellar lyrics and some of the most timeless
feeling new songs I may have heard in the past year or two.
2) Making a debut at No.11
on the BB200 and following Jennifer at No.2 on Top Country Albums was Rosanne
Cash with THE RIVER & THE THREAD (Blue
Note/Capitol), which entered with sales of 18,566.
It marked her highest SoundScan-era debut (her previous best was a No. 5 start
with The List in 2009) and her best overall rank in more than 28 years; she had
not charted so loftily since Rhythm & Romance topped the Dec. 7, 1985,
chart. The new set digging deeper into
her Southern musical heritage also gives Rosanne her best-ever
rank and the first top 20 album of Cash's 33-year career. Two previous
albums came close. "Seven Year Ache" reached #26 in 1981. "The
List" hit #22 in 2009. Her dad, Johnny Cash, first cracked the top 20 with
1958's "The Fabulous Johnny Cash."
She told ABC News Radio, "I think at
this point in my life, I've made enough left turns and escapes and excursions
and journeys, that you start noticing what you've carried in you all this time,
and the people that you thought you left behind but you're still connected to."
After her father's band mate and friend, Marshall Grant, passed away in 2011,
Cash and her husband, producer John Leventhal, began taking trips to explore the
deep South's musical history.Rosanne says, "We went to Robert
Johnson's grave. We followed the blues trail. We went to the Tallahatchie
Bridge. I mean, it doesn't get deeper than that."
Those
experiences inspired the rootsy songs on The River & the Thread, which
serves as a chronicle of Rosanne's reconnection to the music that inspired her
father's legendary career. She explains, "Those things I thought I had put
behind me -- my connections to the South and the geography eve Rosanne Cash
took a trip to her dad's boyhood Arkansas home as part of CBS Sunday Morning (Jan
19th). She performed "A Feather's Not A Bird" from new album on The
Late Show With David Letterman Thursday (Jan 16th).
Critical Acclaim for “The
River & The Thread”: 14 Tracks/
Time: 47:14
CD [Deluxe
Edition] (10 Feb) - MP3 - US iTunes - Amazon.com
Alan Cackett (Maverick) (Rating: 4.5 STARS) ....But at the heart of the album is a true partnership between a wife and
husband … the singer-songwriter doing what she loves with the one she loves.
All her attributes, the haunting vocals, the inner storm she creates with her
strong strumming on acoustic guitar, the powerful lyrics which are full of
reality and hold pertinent messages and meanings. The world is truly upside
down, but as long as this wonderful talent has a niche, a label and an
audience, I don’t care.
All Music
(Rating: 4 STARS) Nearly eight years
after Rosanne Cash last released a set of original songs, 2014's The River
& the Thread finds her in a reflective mood, and just as 2009's The List
saw her looking back with a set of classic songs recommended by her father, the
late country legend Johnny Cash, The River & the Thread is dominated by
thoughts and
Roughstock (Rating: 4 STARS) Listening
to Rosanne Cash’s latest release makes a person darn happy musicians still
create proper albums. The best albums follow a consistent thread (no pun
intended), whether lyrical or musical, and Cash’s newest, The River & the
Thread, does both. It’s a meditation on many things Southern in nature, set to
distinctly Southern sounding music. Cash wrote the project’s 11 songs with her
collaborator/husband John Leventhal, who also helped by producing, arranging
and playing much of the release’s guitar work. The result is something that
touches upon many highlights of Southern musical culture, from country twang to
bluesy soul.....Rosanne Cash is not one of music’s most productive artists, but
like that quiet woman at the party, she always has something important and
memorable to say whenever she speaks..... The South is like a bottomless well
of inspiration; one where ghosts from both a proud and shameful past can always
be conjured up vividly with just the right musical spell. Cash may not be any
kind of a shaman, but she’s a smart and honest songwriter with well-honed
skills. The River & the Thread proves her skills have not diminished one
iota.
3) Three places behind Rosanne on the BB200 at No.14 ( No.3
Country) was newcomer Jon Pardi with his debut album, WRITE YOU A SONG (Capitol
Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) which sold 17,050 copies. The album’s second single, “Up All Night,” stands at
#10 on Hot Country Songs and the lead track “Missin’ You Crazy” peaked at No.
41 back in July 2012.
Critical Acclaim for “Write
You A Song”: 11 Tracks / Time: 38:38
CD - MP3 - Amazon.com - US iTunes
Allmusic (Rating: 3.5 STARS) A country traditionalist at heart, Jon Pardi is also fully aware that
country, like most musical genres, is evolving, shifting and changing as the
21st century advances, taking on rock and pop traits like big drums and gritty
electric guitars, while trading
of the beers, the back roads, and the
all-night good times that go with partying until the paycheck's gone, and the
whole thing has a country-boy swagger complete with brightly distorted electric
guitars, all of which puts Pardi right in the Luke Bryan/Jason Aldean school of
how to make radio-ready summer hits. .... The playing, production, and sound on
Write You a Song are solid and professional, with enough edge to keep it from
being simply predictable.
Country Weekly (Rating: A-) Jon
Pardi understands the struggles of trying to make it in music: home is a luxury,
the parties are crazy and it’s impossible to keep a steady relationship.
Thankfully, the California native decided to chronicle these experiences for
his debut album, Write You a Song, which bears traces of his home state’s
Bakersfield Sound....The undeniably catchy and upbeat “Chasin’ Them Better
Days” offers optimism for working folks, underpinned by chugging guitars and
bluesy piano fills. Drinkin’ also figures in: “What I Can’t Put Down,” “Empty
Beer Cans” and “When I’ve Been Drinkin’” rock unabashedly, for sure, but
they’re elevated beyond party-song status by examining the causes for the
drinking, or the consequences of drunk dialing an old flame. We’ll raise a
glass to that.
Roughstock (Rating: 4 STARS) ... upon
first listen to the album, it blends Pardi’s natural honky tonk tendencies with
the more current rock/country crossover vibes which permeate much of the
mainstream’s sound. Write You A Song is
an album with the backroads, parties, and more but with that honky tonk vibe,
it doesn’t feel like an alt-country or alt-rock collection and instead is most
definitely a Country music album.... The melodies are interesting, the
songwriting is tight and Pardi is in strong voice throughout Write You A Song,
which is all anyone can ask from a debut album and for anyone looking for
someone to anoint as a potential ‘savior’ of Country music, Pardi may just be
that guy for you.
4) Texas Country
artist Cody Johnson’s COWBOY LIKE ME (K.I.C.-Keep
It Country) made a debut at No.33 on
the BB200 (#7 Country) selling 8,144
copies.
Many Texas Music fans met Cody Johnson’s honest style through the radio
singles from his Six Strings, One Dream album: "Nobody to Blame" (#6
on the Texas music charts in 2009);
#1"Pray for Rain" (2009 - 2010); and "Texas Kind of
Way" (#6, late 2010 – 2011). At first opening for other artists, Cody has
also taken the Texas dance-halls by storm. Increasingly, the Cody Johnson Band
is the attraction, and an honest-to-goodness one...Read more www.thecodyjohnsonband.com
. The band consist: Cody
Johnson, Miles Stone (Drums), Jody Bartula (Fiddle), Jeff Smith (Lead Guitar),
Joey Pruski (Bass Guitar) and their hometown is Huntsville,TX - Facebook >>
Watch the video for “Cowboy
Like Me”
Critical
acclaim for Cody Johnson’s “Cowboy Like Me” - 13 Tracks/ Time: 49:28
Need a Cody
Johnson Band point-of-reference? If you like Mark Chestnutt, George Strait and
Country Music, you’re gonna love this. So, of course this week’s concerts will
turn into huge album release parties for Cody and the guys. His show, by the
way, was nominated for Live Act of the Year at the 2013 Lonestar Music Awards...Read More
countylifeonline - While the Nashville
music scene has taken a different direction in sound, Johnson, an East Texas
native from Groveton, has brought it back to the basics, delivering a powerful
13-song album of genuine country music. This album is full of rich love songs,
slow dance ballads, rockin’ honky tonk rebellious fun and tear in my bear
drinking songs that are reminiscent of the neotraditional country classics from
artist like George Strait, Tracy Byrd, Clint Black, Tracy Lawrence, Mark
Chestnut and Alan Jackson. Cowgirls, if you haven’t already heard “Dance Her
Home,” written by Johnson and Jesse Raub, Jr., and released as a single in
December, you are going to love this ode to the dancehall dolls that catch a
cowboy’s eye and beckon him to the dance floor..... “Holes” is honestly the
best song ever recorded by Johnson. This song, about personal disappointments
and redemption, is not only a richly written song, penned by Johnson and
Jeffery Steele, but it is also a beautiful showcase of Johnson’s vocal ability
as well. It is gripping, genuine and
sure to be a fan favorite....
5) At No.40 on the BB200 (#8 Country) saw Home
Free debut (selling
around 6,000 copies) with their first album CRAZY LIFE, digitally released on January 14, 2014 (Feb 18 physical
release date).
They are an all male American a cappella group of
five vocalists, Austin Brown, Rob Lundquist, Chris Rupp, Tim Foust and Adam
Rupp. Starting as a show group, they toured around 200 shows a year across the
United States. The group competed in and won the fourth season of The Sing-Off on NBC on Dec 23, 2013. Singing
an arrangement of Hunter Hayes' "I Want Crazy," as their final
competitive song; earned the group $100,000 and a recording contract with Sony.
“Crazy Life” features a collection of original music as well as a selection of
songs the group performed on the show including, "Ring Of Fire"
(Johnny Cash) and a Hunter Hayes medley featuring "I Want Crazy" from
The Sing-Off finale.
Visit their Website and Facebook for further details and their 11 track
album is available on US iTunes and Walmart
Stores
6) Released on
Jan 14, 2014 by Republic Nashville Records Hit duo Florida Georgia Line with new EP “iTunes Sessions” , with sales of around 5,000 units, made a bow at No.63 on the BB200 (#11 Country) with .
Available exclusively on US iTunes it features 7 acoustic tracks, including their take on “Friends
In Low Places”
Brandy Clark’s highly acclaimed “12 Stories” which is #40 on the Country Album chart has now sold
over 21,000 copies in 7-weeks without any major radio airplay outside of
SiriusXM. She recently made her national TV debut on The David Letterman Show
and will soon go out on tour with Jennifer Nettles.
At #47 Country,
Dancing With The Stars champ Kellie Pickler’s Black River Entertainment debut The Woman I Am has now shifted 47,000
copies in 10 chart weeks.
Elsewhere on the
Billboard 200, and away from the country chart, saw Lucinda Williams' 1988 album "Lucinda Williams"
entered at #39 and at #1 on Top Catalog Albums for the first time selling
around 6,000 copies.
Mary Chapin Carpenter with SONGS
FROM THE MOVIE (Decca (UMO)) is new on the BB200 at #75 (#6 Billboard Folk Chart) with sales of 4,000+ .
Recorded at Air Studios in London, the album, with songs drawn from her 26
year back catalogue, was arranged and conducted by six-time Grammy Award winner
Vince Mendoza (Sting, Diana Krall, Chris Botti, Elvis Costello, Björk, Joni
Mitchell) and was produced by Carpenter and Mendoza along with Matt Rollings
(Keith Urban, Lyle Lovett). A special
debut performance (part of the Celtic Connections festival), at the Glasgow
Royal Concert Hall with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was recorded on
January 24. It will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Thurs Jan 30th – BBC Showpage.
10 Tracks/ Time: 51:50 CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
>> Watch the background
to the album recording.
- At
times, this album is nearly exquisite, at all others, it is beautiful – Allmusic
(4 STARS)
- An epic
buildup is fine for the grand and atmospheric Goodnight America, but a
well-sung, delicate study of loneliness, Ideas Are Like Stars, is not
helped by the swirl of strings and voices at the end - The
Guardian UK (3 Stars)
- Play Songs From the Movie to
the tinies at bedtime and they’ll be away with the fairies in seconds ...these
are the songs we may take as her favourites – good songs, largely, if
songs broadly governed by the imperative to “heal”: a worthy intention,
for sure, but fluffed up massively in a compressed space like this, also a
rather stifling one - The Independent (UK) 2 Stars
Overall album
sales (all genres) in this past chart week (ending Jan. 19) totalled 4.4
million units, up 4% compared with the sum last week (4.3 million) and down 11% compared with the comparable
sales week of 2013 (5 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 14.1 million,
down 14% compared with the same
total at this point last year (16.3 million).
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album
Placings
(Issue dated Chart week of February 1, 2014)
(Country Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This Week, (LW) Last
Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Billboard Catalog Albums Chart (week of February 1, 2014)
It's been a bit over 25
years since country/folk singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, then already 35, released her
breakthrough self-titled album. An anniversary
edition, packaged with a new live disc, brings the album onto the Billboard 200
for the first time at #39, and straight into the top spot on the Catalog chart.
"Lucinda Williams"
is the first album debuting on the Catalog chart at #1 since "Wings Over
America" (Paul McCartney & Wings) in June of last year.
Luke Bryan's "Tailgates
& Tanlines" breaks into the top 10 for the first time at #9. It's
his second Catalog top 10; "Doin' My Thing" reached #3 in August of
last year during a two-week Top 10 run that coincided with the release of his
latest album, "Crash My Party".
Country music titles in Top
50:
#1 Lucinda Williams, Lucinda Williams (1 week on chart) #39
BB200 (Billboard 200 placing)
#9 Tailgates & Tanlines,
Luke Bryan (9 weeks on chart)) #119 BB200
#11 The Legend Of Johnny
Cash, Johnny Cash (73 weeks on chart)
#26 Chief, Eric Church (10
weeks on chart) #158 BB200
#28 Get What You Give, Zac
Brown Band (57 weeks on chart) #165 BB200
#36 The Foundation, Zac
Brown Band (110 weeks on chart) #187 BB200
#37 Loaded: The Best Of
Blake Shelton, Blake Shelton (62 weeks on chart))
#40 Super Hits, Willie
Nelson (112 weeks on chart)
#46 Blown Away, Carrie
Underwood (12 weeks on chart)
#49 My Kinda Party, Jason
Aldean (52 week on chart)
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of February
1, 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:
In his eleventh week on the chart Luke Bryan held for a 2nd week at No.1 on Hot Country Songs with “Drink a Beer” (Capitol Nashville).
Newcomer Jon
Pardi, who debuted his album, saw the sets second single, “Up All Night,” get a bounce 13-10 to become his first top 10 on Hot
Country Songs in its 27th week.
Eric Church logged his seventh top
10 with “Give Me Back My Hometown”
(EMI Nashville), which rocketed 25-7 in
its third chart week. The track moved 12-1 on Country Digital Songs to bag his third
leader with a sales spike of 114% to 61,000 downloads sold.
At No. 40 Florida
Georgia Line debuted with an “iTunes Sessions”-spawned cover of “Friends in Low Places,” to land the
week’s HCS Hot
Shot Debut. Both Mark
Chesnutt and Garth Brooks recorded the song 24 years ago. It appeared on
Chesnutt’s Too Cold at Home album, while Brooks’ version, which appeared on his
No Fences album, famously spent four weeks at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs in
1990.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Luke Bryan with “Drink A Beer” stays at the TOP the Chart! #1
Cole Swindell with “Chillin’ It” is up two, #4 - #2 p
David Nail with “Whatever She’s
Got” stays at #3
Florida Georgia Line with former No.1 “Stay” drops two, #2 - #4 q
Jason Aldean with “When She Says Baby” stays at #5
Zac Brown Band with “Sweet Annie” stays at #6
Eric Church with “Give
Me Back My Hometown” jumps up 18 slots, #25 - #7 p
Cassadee Pope with “Wasting All These Tears” is down one, #7 - #8 q
Eric Paslay with “Friday Night” is up one, #10 - #9 p
John Pardi with “Up All Night” is up three, #13 - #10 p
The Band Perry with “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” is
down two, #9 - #11 q
Lady Antebellum with “Compass” stays at #12
Luke Bryan with former #1 “That’s My Kind Of Night” falls, #11
- #13 q
Brantley Gilbert with “Bottoms Up” is up two, #16 - #14 p
Darius Rucker with “Radio” is down one, #14 - #15 q
Frankie Ballard with “Helluva Life” is down one, #15 - #16 q
Dierks Bentley with “Hold On” is up two, #19 - #17 p
Jerrod Niemann with “Drink To That All Night” is up two slots, #20
- #18 p
Dan + Shay with “19 You + Me” is down one, #18 -
#19 q
Rascal Flatts with “Rewind” leaps into the Top 25, #41 - #20 p
Blake Shelton with “Doin’ What She Likes” enter s the Top 25, #28 -
#21 p
Danielle Bradbery with “The Heart Of Dixie” stays at #22
Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert
with former No.1, falls #17 - #23 q
Thomas Rhett with “Get Me
Some Of That” stays at #24
Randy Houser with “Goodnight Kiss” is down two, #23 -
#25 q
Hot Country
Songs
** No.1 (2 weeks)
** “Drink A Beer“
Luke Bryan
** Streaming Gainer ** No.14
“Bottoms Up” Brantley Gilbert
** Digital Gainer ** No.20
“Rewind” Rascal Flatts
** Airplay Gainer ** No.21
“Doin’ What She Likes” Blake Shelton
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.27
“Hope You Get Lonely Tonight” Cole Swindell
Debut No.40 “Friends In Low
Places” Florida Georgia Line
Debut No.42 “Lately” Sam
Palladio & Clare Bowen
Billboard
Country Airplay Chart Week of February 1, 2014
Zac Brown Band achieved its milestone 10th career No.1
and its first leader in more than a year on Billboard’s Country Airplay tally, where “Sweet Annie” (Atlantic/Southern Ground)
which made a 2-1 hop in its 23rd chart week.
The new leader is the band’s first
since “Goodbye in Her Eyes” spent the first of three weeks at No.1 on the Jan.
12, 2013, chart, followed by a No.2 peak with “Jump Right In” last summer. ZBB first
reigned with “Chicken Fried” for two weeks beginning Dec.6, 2008
Zac Brown Band
replaced Florida Georgia Line’s 4-week reign “Stay” (1-5) at the top who were looking to
better ZBB’s four week #1 “Keep Me in Mind”
(Jan 14, 2012 chart).
FGL’s
consolation prize was they bagged the weeks “Hot Shot Debut” cup with "This Is How We Roll" featuring Luke Bryan which landed a new
entry at No.45
“Sweet Annie” (written by Zac Brown, Coy
Bowles, Wyatt Durette, Sonia Leigh, John Pierce) was first released on August
26, 2013 as the fourth single from their album UNCAGED. It logged 41.603
million audience impressions (-1.602 million) and received 6,753 (+156) radio plays. Top local
audience penetration during the Jan. 13-19 Nielsen BDS tracking week: KPLX Dallas (908,000 impressions) WYCD Detroit (897,000), KEEY Minneapolis (855,000), WUSN Chicago (791,000) and WNSH New York (753,000).
The Band Perry in their 23rd week with “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” (Republic Nashville)
moved 3-2, marking the second time in five weeks that two groups have
occupied the top two slots on the Country Airplay chart. The last was Eli
Young Band's Dec 28, 2013 reigne with “Drunk Last Night” while Parmalee parked at
No.2 with “Carolina.”
Cassadee Pope logged her first top 10 on Country
Airplay with “Wasting All These Tears”
(Republic Nashville), which draws 29.398 million impressions and stepped 11-10 in its 33rd chart week. Pope is
the first solo female to achieve a first-ever top 10 since Kacey
Musgraves’ “Merry Go ’Round” peaked at No.10 on the March 16, 2013, chart. Pope
is just the fourth such artist since the start of 2010 to compete in the upper
tier for the first time, a list that includes Jana Kramer’s No.3 peak with “Why
Ya Wanna” (Oct. 13,2012), and Sunny Sweeney’s “From a Table Away” (March 19,
2011).
Blake Shelton made a 22-19 surge with “Doin’ What
She Likes” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) snagging the weeks “ Most
Increased Audience” and
“Most Added”
trophies in its fifth chart week. The song earned a 5.537 million audience gain (17.477 million total audience)
receiving 2,803 plays (+851) thanks
to 36 fresh radio commitments
(ADDS).
Tim McGraw’s new auto-tuned single “Lookin’ For That Girl” found favour
with 9 Radio adds and made a No.48 bow with 219 radio plays.
Country
Airplay
*** No. 1 (1
week) *** "Sweet Annie" Zac Brown Band
** Most
Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.19 "Doin' What She Likes" Blake
Shelton
** Hot Shot
Debut ** No.45 "This Is How We
Roll" Florida Georgia Line feat. Luke Bryan
Debut No. 48
"Lookin' For That Girl" Tim McGraw
Billboard
Country Digital Singles Chart Week of February 1, 2014
Eric Church with “Give Me Back My Hometown” (114% sales increase) takes over atop the
Billboard Digital Country Song Chart with
a 12-1 step from Luke
Bryan’s “Drink A Beer” which drops 1-2
Cole Swindell with “Chillin’ It” moved up 7-3 as David Nail with “Whatever She’s Got” dropped 4-2.
Rascal Flatts with 38,000 sales made a bow at #6 with “Rewind” and Cole
Swindell’s “Hope You Get
Lonely Tonight” entered at #8.
Cassadee Pope’s “Wasting
All These Tears” (10-15), passed the 900K mark and she will be eyeing up a
future Platinum hit later in 2014.
Sam Palladio (Gunnar) & Clare Bowen (Scarlett) are new on the chart at #29 with "Lately".
Watch the >> scene from the Nashville TV series which features
guest Kelly Clarkson. The single is available on US iTunes
Dropping off the Top 30:
19-31 “Boy's Round Here” Blake
Shelton feat. Pistol Annies & Friends
28-32 “The Outsiders” Eric Church
30-33 “It Goes Like This” Thomas Rhett
29-34 “Mine Would Be You” Blake
Shelton
4-48 “You Sound Good To Me” Lucy Hale
Top 30 Digital Singles in Country Music
(published January 23, 2013)
(LW) Last Week
(TW) This Week
*Numbers are
rounded to nearest 1000th
Country Aircheck/
Mediabase chart
Zac Brown Band with “Sweet Annie”
moved 2-1 to top the Country Aircheck/ Mediabase No.1 for the tracking week Jan 12 – Jan 18, 2014. The song
logged 7,001 radio spins (+139) and 54.174 million audience impressions.
Congratulates Southern
Ground Artists VP/Promotions Mara Sidweber, Chuck Swaney and the entire
promotion team for nabbing the top spot!
This is ZBB’s
second #1 single from its “Uncaged” album and 10th career chart-topper.
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