Country Billboard Chart
News August 7, 2014
RIAA Certifications
Platinum = Sales of over 1-million
units
Gold = Sales of over 500,000
units
Albums:
Florida Georgia
Line’s album Here’s To The Good Times (2x Platinum)
Eric Church’s
album The Outsiders (GOLD)
Miranda Lambert’s
album Platinum (Gold; over 500,000 units shipped NOT sold)
Kacey Musgraves’
album Same Trailer, Different Park (Gold; over 500,000 units shipped NOT sold)
George Strait’s
album Love Is Everything (GOLD)
Singles:
Luke Bryan’s
single “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)” (3x Platinum)
Florida Georgia
Line’s single “Cruise” (8x Platinum)
Kacey Musgraves’
single “Merry Go Round” (Platinum)
Jerrod Niemann’s
single “Drink To That All Night” (Platinum)
Jake Owen’s
single “Beachin’” (Platinum)
Dierks Bentley’s
single “Drunk On A Plane” (GOLD)
Brett Eldredge’s
single “Beat of the Music” (GOLD)
Tyler Farr’s
single “Whiskey In My Water” (GOLD)
Miranda Lambert
& Carrie Underwood’s single “Somethin’ Bad” (GOLD)
Kacey Musgraves’
single “Follow Your Arrow” (GOLD)
Joe Nichols’
single “Yeah” (GOLD)
Chris Young’s
single “Who I Am With You” (GOLD)
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country Album Chart ** No.1
(4 weeks; non consecutive) ** “Just As I Am” Brantley Gilbert
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Burnin’ It Down” Jason Aldean
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) **
Country Digital Songs **
No.1 ** (2 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 9, 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
After a nearly
37-year wait, Tom Petty and The
Heartbreakers earned their first No.1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album
Chart (BB200).
The band's new
HYPNOTIC EYE arrived atop the chart, selling 130,589 copies in the week ending
Aug. 3, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the best debut sales week for
Petty since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991, and his best sales frame
overall (debut or otherwise) since 1994, when his solo album Wildflowers sold
161,000 in the week after Christmas.
Petty and The
Heartbreakers first appeared on the Billboard 200 back in September 1977 with
their self-titled debut album that featured the classics "Breakdown"
and "American Girl."
Veteran UK rocker
Eric Clapton made a bow at No. 2
with The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale (60,591 sales). It's Clapton's
highest-charting set since 1994's From the Cradle debuted at No.1. The new
collaborations album -- which is a tribute to singer/songwriter Cale and
features the likes of Petty, John Mayer and Willie Nelson
also nets Clapton his best debut sales frame since 2004's tribute set “Me
and Mr. Johnson” started at No. 6 with 128,000.
- Brantley Gilbert with
JUST AS I AM was the highest
placed country album on the BB200 moving 14-12 in his 11th chart week and
stayed top of the Billboard Country
Album Chart shifting another 19,000 copies (up 26%).He has now sold
500,000 albums to gain GOLD RIAA certification. The album and current single
are likely to post notable gains on next week’s charts following the Aug.
1 “Small Town Throwdown” video premiere (featuring Justin Moore and Thomas
Rhett) and a performance featuring all three artists on ABC’s prime-time
special CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock, which aired Aug. 5th.
- He was well clear of Miranda Lambert’s 9 week album PLATINUM (sales down 14%) which held at No.2 County.
- The top 5 standing remained the same with no new
albums appearing on the top 50 Country albums list.
- Big Smo’s KUNTRY LIVIN’ rose 57-39 on the
BB200 (8-6 Country; sales up 20%)
- Dan+Shay’s set WHERE IT ALL BEGAN moved 30-18
Country and re-entered the BB200 at No.167 in their 18th chart frame.
Outside the top
25 & 50 country albums:
- Joey+Rory’s INSPIRED moved re-entered at #32 (45,000
sold in 22 weeks)
- Martina McBride’s EVERLASTING received a 86% sales boost
and has sold 51,000 copies since its No.7 Billboard 200 and No.1 Country
debut for the chart week April 26, 2014 when it made its bow with 20,880
sales.
- Scotty McCreery’s 42
week SEE YOU TONIGHT (19/Interscope/Mercury)
sold 1,400 (up 54%) to reach a 244,000 tally
- Cassadee Pope with her former No.1 Country album FRAME BY FRAME sold another 600 copies to reach a new total of
179,000. It first debuted on the chart
week Oct 26, 2013 with a BB200 debut at No.9 selling 43,196 copies.
2014 Country Album sales Year-To
Date:
17,767,000 (Physical sales 11,756,000 (down 9%) + Digital
sales 6,010,000 (down -12.8%)) which is 21.1% down at the same point in 2013 (22,505,000
sales)
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album
Placings
(Issue dated Chart week of August 16, 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
16, 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 second successive
week.
- Rookie duo Maddie & Tae make a notable jump on
Billboard’s Hot Country Songs with their counterculture anthem “Girl in a Country Song” (Dot),
which made a 26-16 leap bagging
both Digital
Gainer and Streaming Gainer honours. The track jumped
28-12 on Country Digital Songs (30,000 downloads, up 815) and rose 16-4 on
Country Streaming Songs with 1.9 million total U.S. streams (up 136%
percent, according to Nielsen BDS). Vevo on YouTube accounts for 82% of
the streaming total, which represents the first complete seven-day
tracking week (ending Aug. 3) since the clip premiered July 24. On the
Country Airplay tally, “Girl” flew 43-31 (5.1 million audience
impressions, up 75%). The twosome makes its national TV debut with an Aug.
11 performance on NBC’s Today.
- Country Streaming Songs is dominated for a third
nonconsecutive week (and second straight week) by Florida Georgia Line’s “Dirt” (Republic Nashville), which
draws 2.1 million total U.S. streams, up 1%. The track held at No.2 on Hot
Country Songs following a two-week stand atop the charts dated July 26 and
Aug. 2. Concurrently, the duo’s contribution to Nashville Outlaws: A
Tribute to Motley Crue (Big Machine/BMLG), titled “If I Die Tomorrow,” made a bow snagging Hot Shot Debut stripes at
No.33 and sold 19,000 downloads.
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” sticks at #3
Dierks Bentley with “Drunk On A Plane” levels at #4
Lady Antebellum with “Bartender” is up one, #6 - #5 p
Lee Brice with “I Don’t Dance” is down one, #5 - #6 q
Florida Georgia Line
feat Luke Bryan former #1 “This Is How Me Roll” up, #8 -
#7 p
Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood former #1 “Somethin’ Bad” moves #9 - #8 p
Sam Hunt with “Leave The Night On” climbs one, #10 - #9 p
Joe Nichols with “Yeah” falls #7 - #10 q
Tim McGraw feat Faith
Hill with “Meanwhile Back At Mama’s” holds at #11
Brad Paisley with “River Bank” rises #13 - #12 p
Billy Currington with “We Are Tonight” is down one, #12 - #13 q
Dustin Lynch with “Where It’s At” (Yep, Yep) holds at #14
Luke Bryan with “Roller Coaster” stays
at #15
Maddie & Tae with “Girl In A Country
Song” jumps up ten, #26 - #16 p
Cole Swindell with “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight” holds at #17
Chase Rice with “Ready Set Roll” is
down two, #16 - #18 q
Frankie Ballard with “Sunshine & Whiskey” is down one, #18 - #19 q
Eric Paslay with “Song About A Girl” holds at #20
Brantley Gilbert with “Small Town Throwdown” sticks at #21
Blake Shelton featuring Gwen Sebastion with “My Eyes” slips three,
#19 - #22 q
Little Big Town with “Day Drinking” stays at #23
Eli Young Band with “Dust” is down
two, #22 - #24 q
The Swon Brothers with “Later On” stays at #25
Hot County Songs
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Burnin’
It Down” Jason Aldean
** Airplay Gainer ** No.5 “Bartender” Lady Antebellum
** Digital Gainer / Streaming Gainer ** No.16 “Girl In A Country Song” Maddie & Tae
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.33 “If
I Die Tomorrow” Florida Georgia Line
Debut No.36 “We Goin’ Out” Chase
Rice
Debut No.49 “My Place” Big
Smo feat. Darius Rucker
Debut No.50 “Sick Of Me” Tim
McGraw
Billboard
Country Airplay Chart Week of August 16, 2014
Billy Currington logged his second consecutive No. 1 and
eighth overall on Billboard’s Country
Airplay chart as “We Are Tonight”
(Mercury) stepped 2-1 in its 37th chart week. Only 10 songs have had slower
climbs to No.1. The longest ride to No. 1 was tallied by Chris Young's
"Voices," which hit No. 1 in its 51st chart week (Feb. 19, 2011).
The song,
written by Marc Beeson, Sam Hunt and Josh Osborne was first released on November
18, 2013 as the second single from his fifth studio album, WE ARE TONIGHT.
On
chart frame dated Aug. 16th it logged 46.803
million audience impressions (+1.182 milion) and received 7,253 radio plays (+445).
Top local
audience contributors for “Tonight”:
KKBQ Houston (1.8 million impressions), WUSN Chicago (1.6 million) and KPLX
Dallas (1.1 million).
Prior single
“Hey Girl” topped the chart dated Oct. 19, 2013. Currington’s back-to-back
leaders are his first to consecutively top the list since he rolled four
straight starting with “People Are Crazy” in August 2009. That was followed by
“That’s How Country Boys Roll” (March 2010), “Pretty Good at Drinkin’ Beer”
(September 2010) and “Let Me Down Easy” (April 2011). He achieved his first No.
1 with “Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right,” which spent two weeks at No.1 starting
on the Dec. 31, 2005 chart.
- Newcomer Cole Swindell landed his second Country Airplay top 10 with “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight”
(Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville), which stepped 11-10 in its 22nd chart week (28.5 million audience
impressions, up 3.1 million). The Georgia-born singer first cracked the
upper tier with “Chillin’ It,” which peaked at No.2 on the March 8 list.
- The Most Increased Audience stripes went to Lady Antebellum
with "Bartender"
(Capitol Nashville) which moved 8-5 logging 39.806 million audience
impressions, a gain of +5.577
million and received 6,023 radio plays (+625)
- Thomas Rhett,
meanwhile, posted the Hot Shot Debut at No. 51 with “Makes Me Wanna” (Valory)
- The Most Added trophy was handed for a second week to Jason Aldean’s “Burnin’ It Down” (Broken Bow) at
No.19, which collected 33 fresh
radio commitments (ADDS).
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 11th chart week.
RaeLynn #36, Cassadee
Pope #38, Kacey Musgraves #40 and Jana Kramer #41 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
*** No. 1 (1
week) *** "We Are Tonight" Billy Currington
** Most
Increased Audience” No 5 "Bartender" Lady Antebellum
** Most Added **
No.19 “Burnin’ It Down” Jason Aldean 33 ADDS
** Hot Shot Debut
** No. 51 "Makes Me Wanna" Thomas Rhett
Debut No.56
"Party Like You" The Cadillac Three
Debut No.58
"A Guy Walks Into A Bar" Tyler Farr
Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart Week
of August 16, 2014
- Jason Aldean's "Burnin' It Down" held at No.1 with 115,000 downloads sold
(down 38%) but dived 1-6 on the all genre Digital Songs chart.
- The top 9 places
remained exactly the same as the previous week. There are newly GOLD singles
for “American Kids” at No.3 from
Kenny Chesney
(having reached 506,000 copies in 7 weeks) and Miranda Lambert and Carrie
Underwood’s duet “Somethin’
Bad” which has now sold 536,000 downloads in its 11th chart frame.
- Maddie & Tae are the fastest Riser of
the Week as “Girl In A Country Song”
(Dot/ BMLG) moved 28-12 (sales up 76%) in its third week. Two new singles debut
Florida
Georgia Line’s “If I Die
Tomorrow” at No.21 and Chase Rice’s “We Goin’ Out” arrived at
No.24.
Women Of Country Watch
There were no solo female artists on the Top 50 placings!
Miranda Lambert’s “Automatic” fell off the chart from No.48.
Female duet include Miranda
Lambert with Carrie Underwood with “Somethin’ Bad” hold at #8 and newbie duo Maddie & Tae
moved 28-12 with “Girl In A Country Song”
Dropping off the Top 30:
21- Off the chart
Canaan Smith “Love You Like That”
24-39 Chase Rice “Gonna Wanna Tonight”
27-31 Eli Young Band “Dust”
Top 30 Digital Singles in Country Music
(published August 7, 2014)
(LW) Last Week (TW) This Week
*Numbers are
rounded to nearest 1000th
Country
Aircheck/ Mediabase chart
Billy Currington landed the No1 on Mediabase with “We Are Tonight’” (Mercury) which moved 2-1. The song logged 7,725 radio spins (+695) and 55.746 million audience impressions (+2.713
million) from 149 tracking stations for the tracking week July 27 to August 2,
2014 and published chart August 4th.
Congratulations to
Universal Music Group (UMG) SVP Royce Risser, Mercury Nashville VP/Promotion Damon
Moberly and the entire Mercury promo
team for scoring the weeks’ #1 spot on the MEDIABASE Country singles chart with
Currington’s "We Are Tonight." The title track from Billy’s latest
album marks his ninth career #1.
Congratulations
to Valory Music Co. VP/Promotion George Briner and his entire team for earning 36 MEDIABASE Country adds with Thomas Rhett’s “Make Me Wanna.”. Those adds give Rhett the
“Most Added”
title this chart week.
Bagels were due
to be delivered to Valory’s office (August
5th) to congratulate the staff on their achievement.
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)
Chart Week of August
16, 2014
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