Country Billboard Chart
News April 24, 2014
updated Sunday 27 April 2014 (Album totals ammended)
RIAA Certifications
Platinum = Sales of over
1-million units
Gold = Sales of over 500,000
units
Cole Swindell’s single “Chillin’
It” (GOLD and Platinum certified)
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country Album Chart ** No. 1
(9 cumulative weeks) Crash My Party Luke Bryan
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Play It Again” Luke Bryan
Country Airplay ** No. 1 (2 weeks) ** “Drink to That All Night” Jerrod Niemann
Country Digital Songs **
No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Play It Again” Luke Bryan
Billboard Top
200 / Country Album Chart News
The soundtrack
to Disney's "Frozen,"
fueled by Easter shopping, earned its biggest sales week yet and 11th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200). The
album sold 258,807 copies (up 94% on
the previous week) in the week ending April 20, according to Nielsen SoundScan
(The Easter holiday was April 20.) This is also the fifth consecutive week that
it has sold more than 100,000 copies. To date, "Frozen" has sold
2,335,394 copies in 21 weeks. Since SoundScan's point-of-sale data began
powering the Billboard 200's rankings on May 25, 1991, "Frozen" is
just the ninth album — and third soundtrack — to spend at least 11 weeks at
No.1.
Luke Bryan with CRASH MY PARTY rebounded from #8 to #6 on the BB200 and made a 2-1
hop on Billboard Top Country Albums,
displacing last weeks chart topper as Martina McBride's EVERLASTING
dived from #7 to #47 on the BB200 (1-6 Country; sales were some 57% down on
her debut week).
Bryan’s Crash My
Party hit the summit once more with sales of 33,000, up 77%, to log a ninth No.1 cumulative week, tacking on
Greatest Gainer honours. It last topped the chart for the week Jan. 18 when it
sold 43,000 copies. That's the longest run at #1 for an album by a male solo
artist since Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party" topped the chart for 12
weeks back in 2011. (So if you're a country artist and particularly a
Bro-Country guy then it’s best to have Party
in the title if you want a big seller)
Florida Georgia Line's HERE'S
TO THE GOOD TIMES dropped from #10 to #14 on the BB200 but rose 3-2 Country
in its 72nd chart week. A set chock full of summer fun, drinking beer, driving
back roads and a bookend track titled "Party People"!
There were 5 new
releases which impacted on the Billboard 200 and Top 25 Country Albums.
1) First up was Jessie
James Decker with COMIN’ HOME (19 Recordings) which blew
in at No.28 on the BB200, No.5 Billboard
Country and No.9 on the Billboard Digital Albums Charts with sales of 11,144 copies.
In the UK, on
this side of the pond, she is a name that many will be wondering just who she
is? The release of this six-song EP that has earned the weeks Hot Shot Debut was not
flagged up by the usual music outlets and country music news websites, reviews and
newsletters.
This sexy
singer-songwriter, who as an Indie act has turned reality TV into a chart
success, thus made her first appearance on Top Country Albums. What is even
more impressive is that the set starts with just three days of sales, as
it was released Friday, April 18 and hit No.1 on the iTunes Country albums.
The EP comes
preceded by a gorgeous promotional single
>> “I Do, a theme from her reality show ‘Eric & Jessie: Game On‘ aired on E! (performed on the Nov. 3 season E! Network finale) and released in late-October last year. It made a debut at #30 on Billboard Country Digital chart selling 16,000 copies which was her first single released since marrying the pro-football NFL Wide Reciever Eric Decker of the then Denver Broncos on June 22, 2013 (Image). It also made a Hot Country Songs debut at No.39.
>> “I Do, a theme from her reality show ‘Eric & Jessie: Game On‘ aired on E! (performed on the Nov. 3 season E! Network finale) and released in late-October last year. It made a debut at #30 on Billboard Country Digital chart selling 16,000 copies which was her first single released since marrying the pro-football NFL Wide Reciever Eric Decker of the then Denver Broncos on June 22, 2013 (Image). It also made a Hot Country Songs debut at No.39.
When under the
name of Jessie James her Pop/Rock self titled album debut (Mercury Records) which
was released August 11, 2009 peaked at #23 on the Billboard 200 has sold
120,000 copies.
"Wanted" the album's lead single (April 14, 2009)
peaked at No.40 on the Billboard Hot 100 with second single "I Look So
Good (Without You)" (Aug 25, 2009) reaching a No.138 peak on the Billboard
Hot Digital Songs.
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| Hot Couple Eric & Jessie Decker |
On the week of Feb
8, 2012 >> “When You Say My Name” (1.7 million YouTube views) hit #79 on Billboard Country Digital
Singles with sales of over 5,600 copies. Also in 2012 she released >> "Military Man"
which peaked at #49 on Hot Country Songs
Jessie became a new
mom when she gave birth to their daughter, Vivianne Rose Decker, on March 18,
2014. Vivianne weighed 8 lbs., 2 oz. and measured 20 inches long at birth —
and, she came sporting a full head of hair! E! News reported. See the latest Bundle Of Joy Cute Pics
Jessie’s other
baby "Comin’ Home," is described in an April 20 correspondence from
her PR camp as "a candid celebration of her pop and country
influences," is now available for purchase on all digital platforms.
Congrats Jessie on your Hot Shot Debut!
Jesse shares: "These are songs that I have writing and working on for a long time. I co-wrote 4 out of 6 of them. I was really passionate about them and I felt that they went so well together. They are a good selection of where I am at in my life right now musically." Read more Digital Journal.com/Talks New EP and CMC Chat
In March 2014 it
was announced Eric & Jessie were heading to the East Coast after Eric signed
a five-year contract with the New York Jets. His then beautiful pregnant wife
showed her support on Twitter, writing, "so excited for the next chapter
and to call NY home! So proud of hubby and his decision!"
The NFL wide
receiver played for four seasons with the Denver Broncos, including in the 2014
Super Bowl against the winning Seattle Seahawks. Denver sportscaster Vic
Lombardi spoke with the athlete, relaying a message (which Jessie retweeted)
that said: "Decker wants Bronco fans to know how much fun he had in
Denver. Appreciates the fans support. Exciting times for him. About to have a
baby."
FUN Fact: Georgia
stunner Jessie James has been described as the smokingest thing to happen to
country music since Willie Nelson rolled his first joint.
FOLLOW: Jessie James Decker:
2) The Randy Rogers Band with the 2-CD/1 DVD project HOMEMADE TAMALES: LIVE AT FLOORES debut
at No.70 (#11 Country) selling
around 5,000 copies.
Having left UMG
Nashville they created their own record label in partnership with Thirty
Tigers. The Texas-based band who hail from San Marcos comprise Brady Black (Fiddle,
Harmony Vocals), Geoffrey Hill (Electric Guitar, Harmony Vocals), Les Lawless (Drums),
Jon "Chops" Richardson (Bass, Vocals) and Randy Rogers (Guitar, Lead
Vocals). The Randy Rogers Band built its audience by combining forces: Their dynamic
live act centered around songs that fit the rowdy, party vibe of the concert
circuit.
Critical
reception for “Homemade Tamales”:
2-CD 26 Tracks/ Time:
1:47:29 CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Allmusic (Rating: 3.5 STARS) ....the
2014 collection Homemade Tamales indeed has a rustic, ragged feel that
sometimes feels a little earthy, and sometimes a little spicy. Collected from
two October 2013 performances at Floore's Country Store in Helotes, Texas, this
finds the Randy Rogers Band at a loose, limber, muscular peak -- regional kings
surveying their territory. Certainly, the double-disc, 26-song length of
Homemade Tamales would seem too long for the unconverted, yet the album
demonstrates the depth of the band's catalog and their musical versatility is
amply and casually on display in a way it isn't on the studio albums. There are
moments that are purely acoustic balanced by plenty of incidents where the
entire band are featured in full-flight, allowing themselves to settle into a
groove or perhaps stretch out and improvise. More than any simple studio album,
this shows the connection between the Randy Rogers Band, and while its length
may keep the curious away, it's that eclecticism that makes it worthwhile for
those who have yet to learn the pleasures of the RRB.
3) The
Secret Sisters debuted at
No.110 (#18 Country) with 3,700 copies
sold of PUT YOU NEEDLE DOWN (Beladroit
/ Republic). It also charts
at #1 on Billboard Heatseeker
Albums and #3 on Folk Albums which
is headed by the 3-week No1 set “A Dotted Line” by Nickel
Creek (#77 BB200) with whom they are currently touring in April and May.
"It's slightly terrifying when people say, 'I don't know how
to categorize the Secret Sisters. What genre are you?'" Lydia admits. "You need to be categorized to find radio success, but
we’re not too concerned with radio. If you can’t categorize your music, then
you’re not doing what's trendy and you're not following a formula. So if you're
not categorized, there's a good chance you're doing something special."
The new album
title? It’s not about turntables, embroidery or heroin. According to the
sisters, it's an evocative statement about youth, growth and the passage of
time. “It’s actually a line we pulled from one of PJ Harvey’s songs,” Laura
said. “We do a cover of ‘Pocket Knife.’ This new record is very much a grown-up
sound -- not exactly edgy, but more maturity to it. There’s a representative
aspect to it. We’re not kids anymore; we’ve grown up a lot. It’s all
encompassing.”...Read More secretsistersblog.com
>> Listen to the NPR
feature: Harmony-Loving Sisters Keep It Retro...
Critical reception for “Put You Needle Down”:
Folk Pop/ Rock
Country
12 Tracks/ Time: 43:40 CD - Amazon.com - US iTunes - Sleeve Art Photo
>> Watch “Lonely Island" >> Watch "Dirty Lie" performed by The Secret
Sisters and "I
Cannot Find A Away" (Live)
Allmusic Guide (Rating: 4 STARS)....this second Burnett-produced album updates the sound a decade or so into a mesh of folky honky tonk, garage rock, and girl group ballads, with a touch of Daniel Lanois-like swampy noodling on a few tracks, making Put Your Needle Down sound a bit like Emmylou Harris' Lanois-produced Wrecking Ball as sung by the Everly Brothers' little sisters while fronting the Cowboy Junkies. That may sound like a mess, but it isn't, and this album grows on you as it progresses,
....This set breaks that bind and means
the Secret Sisters have the freedom to go anywhere from here, and whether it's
musically forward or back in time really matters little with this kind of
talent. It's nice to know that they're not about to stand still.
Saving Country Music (Rating: 1.3/4 out of 2) This album shouldn’t be characterized as The
Secret Sisters with T Bone Burnett. It should be couched as The Secret Sisters
versus T Bone Burnett. Such an over-produced wall of serrated sounds punishes
the ear throughout this album, it’s like trying to view the Eiffel Tower
through a plague of locusts: You know there’s something very pretty and
breathtaking there, but you have to fight with flailing arms to
see, and you’re
rarely allowed to relax and bask in its beauty. T Bone Burnett’s production
doesn’t seem to have any sense or respect for the time and place The Secret
Sisters’ music naturally evokes; their music seems only the canvas for T Bone
to do his worst. After the very first song, I was already tired of the
ever-present tambourine on this album, which permeates this record deeper than
a sheepdog’s flea dip. The tambourine rattles inside your skull like a
ricocheting bullet; steadfast and unrelenting....despite the monstrosity T Bone
constructed though his work on this album, I love Put Your Needle Down. I think
this album is great—one captivating song after another...And why did it take
nearly 1 1/2 years for this album to get to our ears? It was recorded in
December of 2012, and January of 2013. I think there’s a story there in itself,
if only to answer why two young women with the wind behind their backs from
their first album had to wait so long for a second release. But I’ll be damned,
I really, really enjoy this album overall. Simply put, The Secret Sisters are
the best female duo out there right now
Twang Nation (Rating: 5
BABES) ...Listening to a Secret Sisters
release is a crash course in the great American songbook. There’s more grit and
heat in these performances than on their previous effort. They seem more
assured. Less winsome demeanor and more poised audacity. The 12 songs on “Put
Your Needle Down,” many self-penned, proves the Sisters are no mere
extraordinarily talented throwback novelty act. They are now interpreting the
ages in their own impeccable style and making their own way.
4) Ray
Price, the 1996 Country Music Hall of Fame
honoree scored his best unaccompanied rank in more than 32 years on Top
Country Albums with BEAUTY IS … : THE
FINAL SESSIONS (Amerimonte), which entered at No.22 Country, #143 BB200 with 3,300
copies sold.
Price (“The Cherokee Cowboy”), who finished the album shortly
before his death at age 87 in December, had last charted higher on his own when
Town & Country peaked at No. 17 in 1981.
Fred Foster
discusses how he and Ray Price chose songs to be featured on the country icon's
final album which originally aired on Sirius XM Willie's Roadhouse >> YouTube
“When you are
entrusted with the legacy of such an influential trailblazer for the genre, you
make every effort to build a team to execute a successful launch,” recalls
Steve Popovich, Jr President of AmeriMonte Records. “I am so grateful for
the impact and the milestones that we have reached for Ray. I want to
extend a thank you to country radio, journalists around the globe, retail
outlets and industry professionals in both the Texas and Nashville communities
for their unwavering support of this project.”
Critical
reception for “Beauty Is…: The Final Sessions”:
12 Tracks/ Time: 41:29 CD - MP3 - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com - US iTunes
Associated Press by Michael McCall: The late Ray Price titled his final
studio recording "Beauty Is ."after an opening duet with Vince Gill
that draws on the axiom about the eye of the beholder. Music is similarly
subjective, but it would be hard to imagine anyone not recognizing the sublime
beauty of the late Ray Price's singing: He owned one of the richest voices and
most emotionally expressive styles in country music history. Price died in
December, and when he entered the studio earlier in 2013 with producer Fred
Foster, he realized "Beauty Is. " quite likely would be his last.
At
age 87, he had spent a couple of years battling cancer and other ailments.
Live, and on record, Price's voice had remained a remarkable instrument, yet there
are moments on "Beauty Is ." where age, for the first time, appears
to limit his breath and range. But Foster arranges these love songs to
capitalize on the tonal quality of Price's voice. Set to string orchestrations
accented by country instrumentation, Price sounds like a wise sage with a big
heart and a gentle soul on touching songs such as Willie Nelson's "It
Always Will Be," a romantic duet with Martina McBride on the standard
"An Affair To Remember" and a second duet with Gill on the lovely
"Until Then." Graceful to the end, Price takes a final bow with an
elegant collection that nicely caps a great musical legacy.
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| is one of the most moving listening experiences I can ever remember and I’m not ashamed to say that I shed some tears while listening - Duncan Warwick editor of Country Music People (UK ; May 2014 issue) |
Allmusic (Rating: 3.5 STARS) The album was finished in October of 2013, and Price passed less than
two months later in December, making it a true swan song. Price's voice shows
the wear and tear of the years, and no doubt his ill health, but it was still a
powerfully vernacular vehicle, comfortable-sounding and full of his trademark
graceful phrasing and flow..... The opener, "Beauty Lies in the Eyes of
the Beholder," sets the tone, with a light but still lush string
arrangement backing Price's dignified and almost breathless vocal..... making
this a sweet, gentle coda and a beautifully fragile endnote to an iconic
legacy.
EN 145 (Rating: 5 STARS) The
credits to Beauty Is… list 17 string players, with earthy low cello tones
regularly prominent. And the parts those strings perform—arranged and conducted
by longtime Nashville studio ace Bergen White—sound old-school and right now,
counter-melodically complex, jaw-dropping, beautiful....Price keeps coming back
to the same images: the beauty of his lover and the beauty of her love for him,
the beauty of the world. And he returns as well to the same necessary,
contradictory ideas: “forever,” “eternity,” “always” and yet so very little
time. The inevitable end of life stands
toe to toe with a promise of love with no end. In “This Thing of Ours,” Price
considers waking his lover “just to see you smile / And hold you gently to me…”
He pauses then, to make sure we get the point. Then he makes it: “…for a little
while.” So much beauty, so little time. There’s a message there, I think, to
everyone one of us who is willing to hear it, and even if we weren’t married to
the late and great Ray Price.
5) Rodney
Crowell made a bow at
No.168 on the BB200 (#25 Country)
with TARPAPER SKY (New West) selling around 3,000 copies.
Related Article: American Songwriter
Painting Landscapes: A Q&A with Rodney Crowell
Critical
reception for “Beauty Is…: The Final Sessions”:
11 Tracks/ Time: 42:08 CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com
Allmusic (Rating:
4 Stars) Tarpaper Sky is a no-nonsense
collection of Crowell songs unrestricted by concept, played by the core band
from 1988's Diamonds & Dirt--guitarist Steuart Smith, drummer Eddie Bayers
and bassist Michael Rhodes--as well friends. Justin Neibank helmed and mixed
these sessions; he gets the essence of Crowell's sound perfectly. The standouts
tend to be the mid-to uptempo numbers...It's a welcome return to form.
Country Weekly (Rating: A-) Rodney
isn’t exposing a new side of his creativity with the release of his latest
album, Tarpaper Sky. What he appears to be doing is revealing that, even after
more than 40 years in the music business, he’s still making music that holds up
to the artistic precedents he has set with albums like 2013’s Old Yellow Moon
(with Emmylou Harris).
Pop Matters (Rating: 6/10) The album is weighted down at points
as the subject matter drifts a bit maudlin at times, particularly with the
overly sappy arrangement of “Grandma Loved That Old Man”, a song that carries
its’ saccharine bent a bit too obviously. There’s a tendency for Crowell’s
music to be a tad too literal from time to time and a few tracks suffer from
this perspective. The hits outweigh the misses, though, and by the time he ties
a bow on Tarpaper Sky with “Oh What a Beautiful World”, its’ rather pedestrian
title notwithstanding, Crowell sounds as convincing in his subjects and engaged
in the musicianship as he has in years and seems determined to keep adding
worthy titles to his already Hall of Fame caliber catalog. Ever the craftsman,
it’s a safe bet that he’ll continue adding titles to his canon, note-by-note
and word-by-word.
Paste Magazine Overshadowed by the glitz and bare midriffs, Crowell
shifted his focus somewhat with a trilogy of rootsy singer/songwriter albums in
the 2000s that he has described as partly autobiographical: The Houston Kid
looked to his past, Fate’s Right Hand looked inward and The Outsider took a
look around him. He does some of each on his latest, Tarpaper Sky, Crowell’s
first solo album since 2008’s Sex and Gasoline and the follow-up to last year’s
Old Yellow Moon, his Grammy-winning album of duets with Harris. Though these 11
songs aren’t always as sharply drawn as his best material, there’s plenty to
love here.
- Elsewhere outside the Top 25
Country albums saw The Oak Ridge Boys debut with 1,200 copies sold of live set BOYS NIGHT OUT (Cleopatra Records)
14 Tracks/ Time: 49:29 MP3 - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com
- Steve Earle’s TOWNES: THE BASICS debuts with 1,100 copies sold of a Record Store Day release. These original recordings, are available
for the first time on vinyl.; HAND NUMBERED – see Facebook Images. In 2009 Steve Earle released an album of Townes Van Zandt songs.
It began as solo guitar and vocal tracks recorded in October 2008 in New York
City.
- Sarah Davidson the
singer who appeared on TBS series “Private Lives of Nashville Wives” and
recently made a country bow at #30 (1,900 sales) has shifted around a
quarter of the album’s 4K tally this
week for her Self-titled EP.
- Singer-Songwriter Brandy Clark who
has been on tour with Jennifer Nettles and made her first national TV
appearances on David Letterman and Ellen has moved another 800 copies of 12 STORIES to bring her sales to
29,000 for her high quality critically-acclaimed indie Oct 2013 release.
2014 Country Album sales Year-To
Date:
9,267,000 (Physical sales 6,087,000 (down 9%) + Digital
sales 3,180,000 (down 15.2%)) which is 21.5% down at the same point in 2013 (11,800,000
sales)
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album
Placings
(Issue dated Chart week of May 3, 2014)
(Country Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This Week, (LW) Last
Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of May 3, 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 logged a second week at
No.1 on with “Play It Again”
(Capitol Nashville), which added Streaming Gainer stripes for a third consecutive
week (1.5 million U.S. streams, up 9%). The track spends a third straight
week atop Country Digital Songs, with 105,000 downloads sold (down 3%)
during the tracking week.
- Brantley Gilbert’s “Bottoms Up” (Valory) tops Country
Streaming Songs for a ninth cumulative week (1.7 million U.S.
streams, up 4 percent). It topped Hot Country Songs for two weeks in March
but the track maintains its vigor, bulleting for a second straight week at
No.3 shifting another 64,000 (up 8%) Digital downloads.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Luke Bryan with “Play It Again” stays at the Top of the Chart #1
Florida Georgia Line
feat Luke Bryan with former #1 “This Is How Me Roll” holds at #2
Brantley Gilbert with former No1 “Bottoms Up” stays at #3
Jerrod Niemann with “Drink To That All Night” is up one, #5 - #4 p
Eric Church with “Give
Me Back My Hometown” is down one, #4 - #5 q
Thomas Rhett with “Get Me
Some Of That” moves up two, #8 - #6 p
Keith Urban with “Cop Car” climbs two, #9 - #7 p
Rascal Flatts with “Rewind” backs up one, #7 - #8 q
Miranda Lambert with “Automatic” falls three, #6 - #9 q
Dan + Shay with “19 You + Me” is up one, #11 - #10 p
Brett Eldredge with “Beat Of The Music” is up one, #12 - #11 p
Blake Shelton with “Doin’ What She Likes” falls two, #10 - #12 q
Jake Owen with “Beachin’”
is up one, #14 - #13 p
Justin Moore with “Lettin’ The Night Roll” is down one slot, #13 -
#14 q
Tyler Farr with “Whiskey In My Water” is up 2 slots, #17 - #15 p
Hunter Hayes with “Invisible” slips one, #15 - #16 q
Lee Brice with “I Don’t Dance” jumps up five, #22 - #17 p
Luke Bryan with former No.1 “Drink A Beer” is down two, #16 -
#18 q
Dustin Lynch with “Where It’s At” leaps up 29 slots, #48 - #19 p
Sara Evans with “Slow Me Down” is down one, #19 - #20 q
Craig Morgan with “Wake Up Lovin’ You” is down one, #20 - #21 q
Chris Young with “Who I Am With You” is up two, #24 - #22 p
Joe Nichols with “Yeah” climbs four, #27 - #23 p
Billy Currington with “We Are Tonight” is up one, #25 - #24 p
Craig Campbell with “Keep Them Kisses Comin’” is down two places,
#23 - #25 q
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (2 weeks)
/ Streaming Gainer ** “Play It Again”
Luke Bryan
** Digital
Gainer ** No.17 “I Don’t Dance” Lee Brice
** Airplay Gainer ** No.28 “River
Bank” Brad Paisley
** Hot Shot Debut
** No.36 “Dirt Road” Kip Moore
Debut No.49 “Close Your Eyes” Parmalee
Billboard
Country Airplay Chart Week of May 3, 2014
Jerrod Niemann’s second Country Airplay No. 1 became his
first to hold longer than one week, as “Drink
to That All Night” (Sea Gayle/Arista Nashville) logged 46.668 million audience impressions (+0.953 milion) and received 7,386 radio plays (+137) to dominate
the list for a second week. The top local audience contributors were: KKBQ Houston (1.4 million impressions),
KKGO Los Angeles (1.3 million), WUSN Chicago (1.3 million) and KPLX Dallas (939,000).
- Luke Bryan claimed
his 14th consecutive top 10 on the Billboard Country Airplay tally (his
15th overall) as “Play It Again”
(Capitol Nashville) drew 32.666 million audience impressions (up 10%) and made
a 11-9 hop in its eighth chart
week. Counting only promoted, non-seasonal singles, Bryan now ties Blake
Shelton for third place among all artists with currently active top
10 streaks, a list led by Keith Urban’s 30 straight top 10s (2000-2013).
Shelton achieved his 14th straight top 10 eleven weeks ago with “Doin’
What She Likes,” which ultimately topped the chart for two weeks. Urban is
poised to score his 31st consecutive top 10 with “Cop Car” (Hit
Red/Capitol Nashville), which jumps 13-11 on this week’s chart (dated May
3). Carrie Underwood commands the second-longest active top 10 run with 18
top 10s (2006-2013).
- Brad Paisley with “River Bank” (Arista Nashville) at
No.23 took home the weeks “Most Added” trophy as the song logged 1,637 radio spins
(+797) thanks to 43 fresh radio
commitments (ADDS)
- Blake Shelton featuring
Gwen Sebastian
with "My Eyes" at No.28
bagged the weeks “Most Increased Audience” honours. The song logged 8.219 million
audience impressions, a gain of +5.077
milion; receiving 1,181 radio plays (+734) thanks to 32 radio adds.
- Tim McGraw and Faith Hill returned
to the Country Airplay chart with the couple’s first collaborative track
in seven years (their fifth overall), noted as “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s” (Big Machine) snagged the “Hot Shot Debut" at No. 41.
That’s the second-highest debut among those five charted songs, outpaced
only by “It’s Your Love,” which debuted at No. 35 (chart dated May 10,
1997) on its way to a six-week No. 1 reign later that year — a remarkable
feat, considering that no title had held more than five weeks in the 20
years since Waylon Jennings’ “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of
Love)” stayed for six weeks in 1977. Following “It’s Your Love,” the chart
hosted another six-week No.1 far more quickly when McGraw’s solo track
“Just to See You Smile” stayed six weeks in January/February 1998. McGraw
and Hill later peaked at No.3 with “Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me”
(1998), at No. 6 with “Let’s Make Love” (2000) and at No. 8 with “I Need
You” (2007). The new collaboration previews McGraw’s album SUNDOWN HEAVEN
TOWN, due to drop Sept. 16.
Women of
Country 2014 Watch:
Miranda Lambert at No.10 ("Automatic"), Sara
Evans at No.17 (“Slow Me
Down”) were the only 2 solo female artists in the Top 30 Country Airplay
songs. Cassadee Pope #40, Maggie Rose #47, Lucy Hale #52, Kacey Musgraves #53, Kelleigh
Bannen #54, Jamie Lynn Spears #55 and Kellie Pickler #59 were an additional seven
females in the remaining 31-60 slots, to make it 15% of the entire Top 60
chart.
Country
Airplay
*** No. 1 (2
weeks) *** "Drink To That All Night" Jerrod Niemann
** Most Added ** No.23 “River Bank” Brad Paisley
** Most
Increased Audience ** No.28 "My Eyes" Blake Shelton Featuring Gwen
Sebastian
** Hot Shot
Debut ** No. 41 "Meanwhile Back At Mama's" Tim McGraw featuring Faith
Hill
Debut No.60
"Testing The Water" Thompson Square
Billboard
Country Digital Singles Chart Week of May 3, 2014
- Luke Bryan remained atop the
Billboard Digital Singles Chart for a third straight week with “Play It Again”. The single sold 105,000 downloads, down 3% on the
previous week.
- Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke
Bryan held at No.2 with “This Is
How We Roll” . In 22 chart weeks it has sold 939,000 units (down 5%)
and looks set to blast over the Platinum 1-million line next week.
- Brantley Gilbert’s “Bottoms Up” (Valory) bullets and held
at No.3 selling 64,000 downloads sold (up 8%)
- Jake Owen’s latest hit “Beachin” (RCA Nashville) advanced
10-7 and looks like a contender for a good time 2014 Summer Song front-runner.
- Dustin Lynch’s “Where It’s At” (Broken Bow) blew in at No.10, his highest
debut of his career with a first week haul of 34,000 downloads.
- Kip Moore’s “Dirt Road” (MCA Nashville) made its bow at No.21opening with
20K sales
Women Of Country Watch
Only 1 solo female artist on the
Top 30 placings:
Miranda Lambert with her new single "Automatic" in its tenth week at
retail sold 39K down 24% and fell 4-8
Dropping
off the Top 30:
18-31 George Strait I Got A Car
29-34 Luke Bryan That’s My Kind Of Night
20-36 Darius Rucker Wagon Wheel
9-37 Tim McGraw feat Faith Hill Meanwhile Back At
Mama’s
19-38 Brad Paisley River Bank
Top 30 Digital Singles in Country Music
(published April 24, 2014)
(LW) Last Week
(TW) This Week
*Numbers are
rounded to nearest 1000th
Country Aircheck/ Mediabase chart
Jerrod Niemann with “Drink To That All Night” (Sea Gayle/Arista) moved 2-1 to top the Mediabase Country chart for
the tracking week April 13th to the 19th. The song logged 7,623 radio spins (+298) and 61.82
million audience impressions (+1.729 million) from 148 tracking stations.
So it’s congrats
to Sea Gayle/Arista Nashville’s Jerrod Niemann, Arista's Lesly Tyson, Jeri Cooper, John Sigler and
their promo team for scoring this week’s #1 song.s This is NIEMANN’s second
career chart-topper and the debut single off the HIGH NOON album, released in
April 12, 2014. His previous #1, “Lover, Lover” came in 2010, off his “Judge
Jerrod And The Hung Jury” album.
It was also congrats to Big Machine’s Jack Purcell, Mandy McCormack and the entire promo team for earning 36 MEDIABASE Country ADDS on Tim McGraw’s "Meanwhile Back At Mama's" which also features Faith Hill. Those adds give TIM the "Most Added" title for the chart week. Bagels were due to be delivered to Big Machine's office (April 22nd) to congratulate the staff on their success.
