Country Billboard Chart
News August 14, 2014
RIAA Certifications
Platinum = Sales of over
1-million units
Gold = Sales of over 500,000
units
Singles:
Colt Ford’s
single, “Drivin’ Around Song (GOLD; featured on Ford’s #1 Billboard album,
“Declaration Of Independence,” released in August 2012)
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country Album Chart ** No.1
(12 weeks; non consecutive) ** “Crash My Party”
Luke Bryan
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Burnin’ It Down” Jason Aldean
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** "I Can't Dance" Lee Brice
Country Digital Songs **
No.1 ** (3 weeks) ** “Burnin’ It Down” Jason
Aldean
In this easy-to-use format discover
where your favourite acts songs and album are charting across the four Billboard
Country charts. It is prioritized by the first column showing the Hot Country
Songs chart frame standings for the week of August 23, 2014.
There are also separate rows
highlighting Women of Country music.
Scroll down for further
details on each of the individual charts.
Billboard Top
200 / Country Album Chart News
The Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack roses
to No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album
Chart (BB200), becoming the second chart-topping soundtrack of 2014. The
blockbuster film's set, subtitled “Awesome Mix Vol. 1”, sold 109,112 copies in the week ending Aug.
10 (up 83%t), according to Nielsen SoundScan. It made a debut a week ago at No.
3 with 60,000.
The 12-song
multi-artist collection follows Frozen as the second soundtrack to top the
chart in 2014. Both albums were released by the Disney Music Group. It’s the
first year since 2009 where multiple theatrical film soundtracks reached No.1.
Three movie sets topped the list in 2009: Hannah Montana: The Movie, The
Twilight Saga: New Moon and Michael Jackson's This Is It
New U.K. pop
band The Vamps who opened for Taylor
Swift at the O2 in London in February arrived at No.10 with their debut EP
SOMEBODY TO YOU. The quartet's effort shifted 19,947 copies and is the fifth EP
to debut in the top 10 this year.
With recent TV
appearances on The Ellen Degeneres Show (7/23), Good Morning America (ABC, Aug
8th) combined with the CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night To Rock special on
ABC TV saw Luke Bryan as the main beneficiary regarding a sales
increase, up 33%. In his 53rd chart week CRASH
MY PARTY sold another 16,000 copies and moved 21-12 on the BB200 and
returned to No.1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums. This is the fifth time in
2014 that his fourth studio album has headed the chart to add to the 7 non
consecutive weeks in 2013 up to the chart Nov 9, 2013. For the chart week Aug
31, 2013 Luke débuted at No.1 on Billboard 200 selling 527,783 copies. He was
last at No.1 in 2014 on the chart May 17, 2014 when “Party” sold 17,000 copies
and it has sold 2,052,000 to date.
Last week’s
Country No.1 Brantley Gilbert’s JUST
AS I AM slid 12-14 on the BB200 and 1-2 Country (sales down 20%).
Miranda Lambert’s 10-week album PLATINUM (sales up 16%) climb 17-16 (2-3 Country) and has now sold
407,000 copies.
Big Smo’s debut album KUNTRY LIVIN’ has now been in Top 10 for nine consecutive weeks. Tennessee’s own country rapper Big Smo
is celebrating nine consecutive weeks in the Top 10 holding steady on both
Country Albums Chart and Billboard’s Rap Chart. It has already sold 67,000
copies. The Unionville, TN native is currently touring across the country in
support of the album expanding his dedicated fan base, affectionately known as
his Kinfoke. “I’m overwhelmed with the positive response to this record from my
Kinfoke. I truly feel blessed to hold a position on the charts among such
successful country and rap artists,” said Smo. “Being out on the road
supporting this record has shown me how much love and support my Kinfoke bring
to the table and
none of this
would be possible without them!”
Four new albums
debuted on the Top 25 Country Albums:
a) Texas
five-piece Micky & The Motorcars a rough-hewn brand of country-rock led
by Mickey Braun made a bow at No.150 on the BB200 (#17 Country) selling 2,400 copies of
their seventh album HEARTS FROM ABOVE crowdfunded Kickstarter Project (856 backers pledged $45,882 of a $35,000 goal) .
Critical
reception for “Hearts From Above”:
No Depression (by Chuck Schultz)..Years
on the road can put a lot of wear on you and can affect you personally and as
an artist. Having brothers along for the ride as musicians and collaborators
makes that road quite a bit easier. On Micky & the Motorcars seventh
release Hearts From Above, may be their best yet. Solid songwriting, amazing
compositions and tight playing makes this record one of the best of 2014...A
personal highlight is “Tonight We Ride,” a great song of friends, soldiers,
anyone that has to rely on one another to get through anything....Micky &
the Motorcars and keeping the flame of Texas Music burning for the foreseeable
future.
Texas Music Pickers - Looking for an album that offers more than just love and
heartbreak songs? Well look no further, as Micky and the Motorcars’ “Hearts
From Above” delivers on every standard you can put it to. It’s full of superb song writing conveying
vibrant stories, superior music, solid vocals, and what can only be described
as that “Braun Edge”....Overall, it’s a fantastic album that only one with 13
years of experience in the Texas/Red Dirt music scene can put out. It’s a tale
of renaissance, as “Hearts From Above” leaves the listener not only satisfied,
but impressed in the truest sense of the word.
We encourage you to check it out, as it’s definitely one of the best
albums of 2014!
b) Billie
Joe Shaver, one of the
original members of the 1970s outlaw country movement made a debut at No.157 on
the BB200 (#19 Country) selling over
2,200 copies of his new release LONG IN THE TOOTH (Lightning Rod
Records).
In 1973, Waylon Jennings released an album called Honky Tonk Heroes that consisted almost entirely, with one exception, of songs written by Billie Joe Shaver, a then-unknown Texas songwriter. Since that time, his songs have been recorded by everyone from Elvis Presley to Willie Nelson. Now 74 years old, Shaver has released his first new studio album in six years.
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Critical reception for “Long in the Tooth”:
10 Tracks/ Time: 32:19 CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com
Allmusic (Rating: 3.1/2 Stars)....Shaver, a hard-living Texas country singer
and songwriter whose best songs were a fair step past brilliant, either didn't
play the game right, or didn't care for the spotlight, or maybe the game just
passed him by, who knows.... Long in the Tooth features ten new Shaver songs,
and if his voice by now (the album was released in his 75th year) has worn to a
deep, rough rasp, the songs are as strong and as vital and world-weary wise as
ever, and at least three of them here -- the opener "Hard to Be an
Outlaw" (a duet with Willie Nelson); the beautiful, ragged fiddle and
piano waltz "I'll Love You as Much as I Can"; and "The Git
Go," which is full of a kind of rugged, hard-earned resignation -- have
the feel of instant Shaver classics.....Here's hoping that this set isn't a
swan song and that he still has more songs in him to add to that impressive
legacy.
Saving Country Music (1.3/4 of 2 Guns Up) ..In
some respects this album can be taken as a companion piece to Shaver’s dear
friend Willie Nelson’s recent album Band of Brothers.... As the album proceeds
though, there are some astounding moments where Shaver, whose zeal can
sometimes exceed his vocal prowess, shows off a set of pipes in love songs that
stir the heart with the same ferocity as his boot stompers shake the
bones....The controversial song on the album (if you want to call it that) is
the title track. It has some people (including Shaver himself in certain
interviews) saying that he’s rapping, though I’m not sure that’s how I would
characterize it. The song is drenched in Crybaby guitar pedals and spit on the
microphone as Shaver does his best to scare off old age in a merciless
exploration of whatever is left of his id and machismo.....Blame the seven year
hiatus for helping to refine his material, blame his immortal spirit that
refuses to let him sit down, or blame the talent within him that appears to be
bottomless. But at 74-years-old, Billy Joe Shaver is still schooling an army of
artists who would love to label themselves Outlaws, but don’t have the acumen
to truly understand what the word even means, let alone the skills to pull it
off, or the history
to back it up.
Pop Matters (Rating: 7/10) ...As the
album’s title suggests, Long in the Tooth shows Shaver’s self-aware of his
aging. The songs offer the perspective of someone who has been there and done
that, and can see the patterns of the past repeated in the present. Sometimes
his focus is on the big picture, as on tracks such as “The Git Go” that starts
in the Garden of Eden to illustrate how little has changed. Other tunes offer
more of a close-up perspective on life, such as the love song “I’ll Love You as
Much as I Can”. Shaver understands that romance remains the same as it ever was
when it is real....Shaver’s voice may not be as strong as it used to be, but it
is still a wonderful, expressive instrument. The man warbles and slides around
the words and delivers them with pizzazz. He always sounds like he’s singing
right from the heart....Shaver may not have changed much over the last decade,
and the slimness of this record suggests he’s not about to set the world on
fire. He may be old and know it, but he’s still plugging away. He also
understands that the world still needs Honky Tonk heroes like him.
c) Sunny Sweeney with her third album
album PROVOKED made a bow at No.165 BB200 (#20 Country) selling 2,200
copies. It was funded through PledgeMusic (109% of goal reached) and received an
August 5th release date teaming up with Thirty Tigers. The first single,
"Bad Girl Phase," was unveiled on Sirius/XM Radio. The title of Sweeney's set is an apt one after nearly a decade
of highs and lows professionally and personally. – Press Release
Critical reception for “Provoked”:
13 Tracks/ Time: 47:44 CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com
Allmusic (Rating: 4 STARS) ...It's a provocative album, detailing a
difficult journey through disappointment, doubt, darkness, and ultimately
triumph. It's chock-full of vulnerability,
accountability, an acidic wit and
strength. Sweeney co-wrote 11 of the 13 songs on the Luke Wooten-produced
set..... The attitude in those tracks recalls the anthemic, no-apologies
militancy of Gretchen Wilson at her best..... The longing in the shimmering
country waltz "Find Me" is a highlight, as is "My Bed," a
duet with Will Hoge that details both viewpoints at the end of a marriage.
"Uninvited" marries gospel and pop as Sweeney's East Texas vocal
comes through the center. The sassy closer "Everybody Else Can Kiss My
Ass" is hard, classic honky tonk, with pedal steel and fiddle raging....
Honest, poignant, and often funny, this is contemporary country with real
heart. It should not only appeal to fans, but to a wider audience to boot.
Twang Nation.com (Rating; 4.5 / 5) ...Combining
DIY ethic with crowd-sourced funding, and support by indy Americana super label
Thirty Tigers, “Provoked” contains Sweeney’s earlier fire tempered with an ear
for a hook and just the right amount of studio provided by Luke Wooten (Dierks
Bentley, Brad Paisley and sister neo-traditionalist Kellie Pickler). From the
cover Sunny looks right through use with her big, blue tinted eyes. What looks
like tape with the title is masking her mouth giving the duel impression of
being gagged and screaming the title at once....Sweeney says the album reflects
her coming to terms with the mistakes she has made and the recovery that the
last few years have brought her. “The album is a journey from nearly hitting
bottom and losing everything personally to regaining my footing and being able
to find not only my true self again, but real happiness.” “Provoked” might be a
result of hard times and challenges of the spirit, but it has allowed Sweeny to
regain her voice......on
“Provoked” Sweeney proves that a more
substantial response to Bro-Country, or really anything Music Row is shoveling
out as the flavor of the moment, is to follow your heart and kick some ass.
Sweeney sure does that and reminds us that life os more than just radio
decoration.
Digital Journal (Rating: 5 STARS) ..Provoked
opens with the upbeat "You Don't Know your Husband," where her vocals
are reminiscent of Lee Ann Womack and Natalie Maines, the lead singer of The
Dixie Chicks.....Her vocals are crystalline on the gorgeous ballad
"Carolina on the Line," which is one of my favorite songs on the
album, and worthy enough to become a single in the future, since it displays
her vulnerability as an artist....The inclusion of fellow country
singer-songwriter Will Hoge on this album is genius and they produce a stunning
vocal collaboration in "My Bed," which is utterly fantastic and
country as grits. Hoge's vocals are haunting and rich and soulful, and
compliments Sweeney well. Sunny Sweeney delights on her latest album, which is
perhaps her finest musical work to date. There is something in it for everybody
on this album: it contains melancholic ballads, uptempo songs, and tunes about
heartbreak. Her delivery is delicate and witty at times. Sweeney showcases a
great deal of inner strength. She is the Patsy Cline of my generation.
For The Country Record ...Throughout
this largely autobiographical record, we get a sense that Sunny has spent some
time maturing through all these life experiences. Every moment of note is
narrated with storytelling aplomb and a keen wit; the bluntly honest approach
seems to be her forte, but she isn’t afraid to explore her more poetic side,
peppering tracks like ‘Carolina On The Line’ with metaphors and a more literary
sense. For the most part, however, her bright, headstrong personality and sense
of humor come through in droves....‘Provoked’ feels genuine, honest, musically
varied, but quintessentially country. I don’t think we could ever ask for more
than that.
d) Shooter
Jennings with his five-song
EP DON’T WAIT UP (For George) (Black Country Rock) arrived
at #23 on the Bilboard Country chart
(outside the BB200) selling 1,900 copies of
his tribute to the Old
Possum, featuring two originals and three covers of George Jones classics.
Critical
reception for “Don't Wait Up (For George)”:
Allmusic (3.1/2 STARS) One of the cool things about having Waylon Jennings for a father is
your dad's work friends are likely to be a lot more interesting than if he worked,
say, at a vacuum cleaner repair shop. Shooter Jennings knew George Jones as a
good-hearted guy
who used to stop by and visit his father sometimes, and when
Jones died in 2012, Shooter lost both a family friend as well as a musical
hero.....Ultimately, it's the new tunes from Jennings that are most effective
here; "Living in a Minor Key" was written by Jennings with Faren
Miller for Jones to sing, and this simple but evocative tale of good and bad
times sounds like something that would fit Jones like a glove. "Don't Wait
Up (We're Playin' Possum)" pays homage to Jones while allowing Jennings to
indulge in his badass persona as he ponders both cheating songs and real-world
infidelity...And while Jennings clearly means well, the covers face one
insurmountable obstacle -- no one will ever sing those songs as well as George
Jones. That said, Shooter Jennings clearly sings from the heart on "Don't
Wait Up," and this is a tribute to the artist and the man that rings
honest and true.
Rollingstone (3.1/2 Stars) ...Whether
country music tributes succeed or fail, they almost always err on the side of
caution – keeping it trad even when saluting artists who mixed it up. Let's
cheer Shooter Jennings, then, for an EP dedicated to the late great George
Jones that surprises with synthesized twinkles and bass lines nicked from
Giorgio Moroder – the Italian disco wizard Jennings has said he discovered
while listening to last year's Daft Punk album
Paste Magazine (Rating: 8.6/ 10) ...Apples
don’t fall far from the tree. Though Shooter Jennings, son of the late Waylon
Jennings, has spent the past several years mining a more rock attitude, his
inflections, tone and ability to craft a country song are undeniable....Sparked
by a shady producer implying he was working on a Jones project who solicited
songs—quite possibly to use to lure Jones into working with
him—from the young man who’d grown up around the legends, Jennings’ originals
capture the man being honored. His material fits seamlessly beside the three
Jones classics that round out Don’t Wait Up...Plodding, hard, slow, Jennings
gives his friend, his mentor and his influence a new reality that feels as
potent as Jones’ own steel-soaked records.
Outside the Top
25 & 50 country albums:
LeAnn Rimes with GREATEST HITS & DANCE LIKE YOU
DON'T GIVE A... GREATEST HITS: REMIXES (Curb Records) made a #50 Country debut with this collection
of her biggest hits in remixed form.
Details/
Available to BUY: 13 Tracks/ Time: 55:35 MP3 - UK iTunes - Artwork - Amazon.com - Walmart
- Spotify a physical version of the album
will be released thru Walmart which is a double disc release combined with her
Greatest Hits.
The LP features remixes from Kaskade, Dave Aude, Fear Of Tigers,
Cahill, 7th Heaven, Digital Dog, and more. It also includes “Grace,” a
collaboration with iconic electronic music duo The Crystal Method. “I have such
an eclectic group of fans across all genres of music,” says LeAnn. “And when they request dance remixes, I am thrilled to be
able to give it to them! There is such a talented group of DJs on this album
and pairing it with my Greatest Hits CD seemed the perfect fit.”
Mary Sarah the
18-year-old singer, who grew up in Richmond and Sugar Land has earned a considerable
amount of national attention for the project MARY SARAH & FRIENDS which pairs her with the likes of Dolly
Parton, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Tanya Tucker for new readings of
familiar songs. Her album is new on the Billboard
Heatseeker Albums
chart this week at #24 having sold another 850 copies to bring her sales tally
for her indie classic duets project to 2,400.
Track three features Mary
Sarah’s recording with the last-ever duet with the late Ray Price, covering his
classic “Heartaches by the Number”
Houston Chronicle Mary Sarah says "Bridges," her album of duets with classic
country superstars, was assembled "miracle by miracle." Houston Press Blog....Frankly, Mary Sarah
looks and sounds an awful lot like Carrie Underwood: All-American cheerleader
good looks and a voice blessed with not only perfect pitch but dynamic range
(which, unlike Underwood, she doesn't overuse). On Bridges, she goes well
beyond holding her own against some of the greatest talents in country-music
history -- most of whom are admittedly getting on in years -- and pretty much
steals the show....
UK Album reviews: Country Music People - flyinshoes
Available CD - MP3 (Amazon UK; 13 track/ 44:20 AGR TV Records) – Smart Choice Music (US release)- Amazon.com
2014 Country Album sales Year-To
Date:
18,246,000 (Physical sales 12,085,000 (down 9%) + Digital
sales 6,161,000 (down -12.8%)) which is 20.9% down at the same point in 2013 (23,068,000
sales)
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album
Placings
(Issue dated Chart week of August 23, 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 August 23, 2014)
Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart Week of August 23, 2014
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of August 23, 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:
- Jason Aldean’s “Burnin’ It Down” (Broken Bow) stayed
at No.1 for a third straight
week. It also became his first No.1 (3-1) on Country Streaming Songs (2.3
million U.S. streams, up 24%). The track tops Country Digital Songs for a
third consecutive week with 107,000 downloads sold.
- Tim McGraw’s “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s” (Big
Machine), featuring wife Faith Hill, jumped 11-7, each artist celebrates notable achievements. McGraw
notched his 50th top 10, while Hill ends a seven-year absence from
the upper tier; she had last visited the top 10 with the couple’s “I Need
You,” which peaked at No.8 on Aug. 4, 2007. Hill last reached the top 10
on her own eight years ago with “Sunshine and Summertime” (No.7 peak).
Dating to his first week in the upper region more than 20 years ago (“Indian
Outlaw” flew 14-9 on March 26, 1994), McGraw widens his lead for the most
top 10s among all acts, distancing himself further from runner-up George
Strait, who has totaled 47 top 10s in that span. In the time span since
Oct. 20, 1958, when Billboard’s various country songs charts merged into
one all-inclusive list, Strait is the leader in top 10s with 86; McGraw
ranks sixth. “Mama’s” added top Digital Gainer stripes with a 54% increase
to 43,000 downloads sold.
- Dustin Lynch scored
top Airplay
Gainer honours with “Where It’s At (Yep, Yep)” (Broken Bow) as
it stepped 9-8 on Country Airplay with an 11% gain to 36.1 million
audience impressions.
- Brantley Gilbert’s
“Small Town Throwdown”
(featuring Justin Moore and Thomas Rhett) (Valory) roped the Streaming
Gainer trophy (21-16). The song logged a 297% surge to 750,000 streams during its first
complete seven-day tracking week (Aug. 4 to 10) following the Aug.1
premiere of its official video. 46% of the song’s total weekly streams came
from Vevo on YouTube and 29% were via Spotify. It sold 26,000 copies in
its 13th week.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Jason Aldean with “Burnin’ It Down” stays Top the chart!
Florida Georgia Line with former #1 “Dirt” holds at #2
Kenny Chesney with “American Kids” holds at #3
Dierks Bentley with “Drunk On A Plane” a non-mover at #4
Lady Antebellum with “Bartender” sticks at #5
Lee Brice with “I Don’t Dance” stays at #6
Tim McGraw feat Faith
Hill with “Meanwhile Back At Mama’s” lifts #11 - #7 p
Florida Georgia Line
feat Luke Bryan’s former #1 “This Is How Me Roll” falls, #7 - #8 q
Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood’s former #1 “Somethin’ Bad” drops #8 - #9 q
Sam Hunt with “Leave The Night On” drops one, #9 - #10 q
Luke Bryan with “Roller Coaster” climbs
four, #15 - #11 p
Brad Paisley with “River Bank” levels at #12
Cole Swindell with “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight” rises four, #17 -
#13 p
Dustin Lynch with “Where It’s At” (Yep, Yep) holds at #14
Joe Nichols with “Yeah” falls five, #10 - #15 q
Brantley Gilbert with “Small Town Throwdown” jumps up five, #21 - #16 p
Chase Rice with “Ready Set Roll” is
up one, #18 - #17 p
Little Big Town with “Day Drinking” rises five, #23 - #18 p
Frankie Ballard with “Sunshine & Whiskey” stays at #19
Blake Shelton feat. Gwen Sebastion with “My Eyes” is up two, #22 -
#20 p
Eric Church with “Cold One” climbs five, #26 - #21 p
Eric Paslay with “Song About A Girl” is down two, #20 - #22 q
Eli Young Band with “Dust” is up
one, #24 - #23 p
The Swon Brothers with “Later On” lifts one, #25 - #24 p
Maddie & Tae with “Girl In A Country
Song” falls nine slots, #16 - #25 q
Hot County Songs
** No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Burnin’
It Down” Jason Aldean
** Digital Gainer ** No.7 “Meanwhile
Back At Mama’s” Tim McGraw feat Faith Hill
** Airplay Gainer ** No.14 “Where It’s At” (Yep, Yep) Dustin Lynch
** Streaming Gainer ** No.16 “Small
Town Throwdown” Brantley Gilbert
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.38 “A
Guy Walks Into A Bar” Tyler Farr
Debut No.40 “Do It Like This”
Chase Rice
Debut No.44 “Hangin' Around”
Josh Abbott Band
Debut No.45 “Perfect Storm”
Brad Paisley
Debut No.49 “Little Red
Wagon” Miranda Lambert
Billboard
Country Airplay Chart Week of August 23, 2014
Lee Brice notched his fourth Billboard Country Airplay No.1, as "I Don't Dance" (Curb Records) waltzed 2-1 in its 27th chart frame. It follows his previous leaders
"I Drive Your Truck" (chart April 20, 2013), "Hard to Love"
(Nov. 10, 2012) and "A Woman Like
You" (April 21, 2012).
The song, written by Lee Brice, Rob Hatch and Dallas
Davidson was first released on Feb 18, 2014 as the first single and title track
from Brice's upcoming third studio album which will be released on September 9th.
Most recently,
Brice’s “Parking Lot Party” peaked at No. 6 (Nov. 2, 2013). On chart frame dated
Aug.23rd “Dance” logged 48.339
million audience impressions (+1.726 million) and received 7,576 radio plays (+347). Top local audience stations for “Dance”
during the Aug. 4-10 tracking week were: KKBQ
Houston (1.8 million impressions), WUSN
Chicago (1.6 million), WNSH New York
(1.2 million) and KPLX Dallas (1.1
million). The track has sold 843, 000 downloads
to the week ending Aug.10. It peaked at No.4 on Billboard’s Country Digital
Songs list dated June 14.
- Faith Hill returned
to the Country Airplay top five for the first time in eight years, as featured
on hubby’s Tim McGraw’s “Meanwhile
Back at Mama’s” (Big Machine), which made a 7-5 hop in its 17th chart
week (41.6 million impressions, up 7%). It’s Hill’s first top five
appearance since she scored three such consecutive peaks in 2005-06, beginning
with “Mississippi Girl,” which began a two-week stand at No.1 on Sept. 3,
2005. “Like We Never Loved at All” and “The Lucky One” both peaked at No.5
(on the Feb. 18, 2006 and May 6, 2006 charts, respectively). Hill had most
recently charted with “American Heart,” which peaked at No.26 on Dec. 29,
2012. Since her first Country Airplay chart appearance nearly 21 years ago
(Oct. 16, 1993), she’s shared collaborative artist credits only with
McGraw, with whom she’s charted five times; all five have hit the
top 10, with “It’s Your Love” leading with its six-week reign in 1997.
“Mama’s” is their first shared top five hit since 1998, when “Just to Hear
You Say That You Love Me” reached No.3. Hill’s Country Airplay chart
history includes nine No.1s overall (eight on her own), a feat she last
achieved with “Mississippi Girl.”
- The Most Increased Audience stripes went to Dustin Lynch with "Where
It's At (Yep, Yep)" (Broken Bow) which logged 36.174 million
audience impressions, a gain of +3.677
million and received 5,747 radio plays (+578).
- Rookie duo Maddie & Tae claimed the Most Added trophy with “Girl In A Country Song“ which logged 7,742 million audience
impressions (+2.358) and received 1,128 radio plays (+380) thanks to 25 fresh radio commitments (ADDS)
- "Shut
Me Up" by Lindsay Ell the only Top 60 debut, snagged her token Hot Shot Debut honours
at No.59.
Women of
Country 2014 Watch:
There were no
solo female artists on the Top 30 Country Airplay songs
Miranda Lamberts’ duet with Carrie Underwood Somethin’ Bad” held at No.17 in
its 12th chart week. “Girl In A Country Song” by rookie duo Maddie & Tae
moved 31-30.
RaeLynn #34, Kacey
Musgraves #40 and Jana Kramer #41 and Linsay Ell at #59 were the four solo
females in the remaining 31-60 slots, to make it just 6.6% of the entire Top 60
chart.
Country
Airplay
Country Airplay
*** No. 1 (1
week) *** "I Don't Dance" Lee Brice
** Most
Increased Audience ** No.8 "Where It's At (Yep, Yep)" Dustin Lynch
** Most Added **
“Girl In A Country Song” Maddie & Tae
** Hot Shot Debut
** No. 59 "Shut Me Up" Lindsay Ell
Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart Week of August 23, 2014
- Jason Aldean's "Burnin' It Down" (Broken Bow / BBMG) held at No.1 with 107,000
downloads sold (down 7%) and also remained at No.6 on the all genre Digital
Songs chart in its third chart frame.
- The top 3 Country songs
remained the same with Lady Antebellum and Dierks Bentley switching places at #4 and #5.al Songs.
- The CMA’s “Country
Night To Rock” special on ABC TV helped to impact the week’s sales numbers
with Miranda
Lambert and Carrie Underwood’s duet “Somethin’ Bad” jumped back 8-6 and
Tim McGraw
and Faith
Hill’s “Meanwhile Back
At Mama’s” made a 14-7 climb with a 53% sales increase.
- In their 4th chart
week Maddie
& Tae fell 12-25 (sales down 37%) with “Girl In A Country Song” (Dot/
BMLG)
- Chase Rice’s “Do It Like This” made an entry on the Top 30 at No.27 with the
preview track from his due to be released IGNITE THE NIGHT record.
Women Of Country Watch
There were no solo female artists on the Top 30 placings on the
Top 50 Miranda
Lambert’s “Automatic” re-entered
at No.47 and her CMA Song “Little Red Wagon” made a bow at #45
Dropping off the Top 30:
21 - Off the Top 50 Florida Georgia Line “If I Die
Tomorrow”
24 - Off the Top 50 Chase Rice “We Goin’ Out”
Top 30 Digital Singles in Country Music
(published August 14, 2014)
(LW) Last Week (TW) This Week
*Numbers are
rounded to nearest 1000th
Country
Aircheck/ Mediabase chart
Lee Brice landed the No1 on Mediabase with “I Don’t Dance’” (Curb) which moved 2-1. The song logged 7,820 radio spins (+363) and 56.716 million audience impressions
(+2.594 million) from 149 tracking stations for the tracking week Aug 3 to
August 9, 2014 and published chart August 11th.
Congratulates Curb Records VP/Promotion Ryan Dokke,
National Dir./Promotion Mike Rogers, and the entire Curb Promo team for scoring
the week’s #1 spot on the MEDIABASE Country singles chart with Lee Brice’s >>
"I
Don't Dance."
This is the
fourth career #1 single for Brice, the most recent being "I Drive Your
Truck" in April 2013. Sweets were
due to be delivered to CURB in celebration of the milestone! The guitar Lee
Brice is holding on the cover of his new album, I Don’t' Dance, is much more
than just a prop. It's the actual 1948 Gibson J-45 guitar his wife, Sara, gave
him as a wedding present before they tied the knot last year. Lee told ABC News Radio, "My buddy in South Carolina, he's got a bunch of old
guitars like that, and I just fell in love with one that looked just like that,
and he found me one, for [Sara to give me], out in California, and it's just
amazing."
Congratulations
to RCA SVP/Promotion Keith Gale, Dir./National Promotion Josh Easler and the
entire RCA Promo team for earning 47
MEDIABASE Country adds with Jake Owen’s “What
We Ain’t Got”. Those adds give Jake the “Most Added” title this chart week.
Bagels were due
to be delivered to RCA’s office (August
12th) to congratulate the staff on their achievement.
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)
Chart Week of August
23, 2014
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