Country Billboard Chart
News November 6, 2014
RIAA Certifications
Platinum = Sales of over
1-million units
Gold = Sales of over 500,000
units
Sam Hunt's single "Leave the Night On"
(Platinum) for one million downloads and streams.
RIAA, CMHoF
Commemorate Country Music’s Diamond-Selling Albums
Eleven Country
music albums, including projects from Garth Brooks, Patsy Cline, Shania Twain,
Kenny Rogers and The Dixie Chicks, have reached the rare feat of selling
10 million albums each.
The Recording
Industry Association of America presented the Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum with a special jewel box case to commemorate these landmark recordings.
The recordings
include Shania Twain’s Up! and Come On Over, The Dixie Chicks’ self-titled project, Kenny
Rogers’ Greatest Hits, Patsy
Cline’s 12 Greatest
Hits, and six titles from Garth Brooks–Garth Brooks, No Fences, Ropin’ The
Wind, The Hits, Double Live, and Sevens.
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country Album Chart ** No. 1
(1 week) Sam Hunt
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Leave The Night On” Sam Hunt
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Leave The Night On” Sam Hunt
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 ** (13 cumulative weeks) ** “Burnin’ It Down” Jason Aldean
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 ** (13 cumulative weeks) ** “Burnin’ It Down” Jason Aldean
Billboard Top
200 / Country Album Chart News
POP Goes The
Country!
National Taylor Swift day #TS1989
National Taylor Swift day #TS1989
Taylor Swift proved she is doing
just fine as a pop artist – despite some doubters. Her new album 1989 sold 1,286,544 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan
and crowned the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200)
- This made it the
biggest-selling album released in 2014, upping Coldplay’s GHOST STORIES which came out this year (383,000 debut) and
has sold 737,000.
- That number Swift sold is all
the more impressive in the context of the contemporary marketplace, with
piracy and streaming impacting sales. “1989” is the first album
released in 2014 to sell a million copies, let alone a million copies
in one week!
- It would also marked the
biggest opening week sales since Swift released her last studio album,
RED.
- However 1989 fell short of surpassing
the one-week sales record for an album by a woman, set by the debut
of Britney Spears' Oops! … I
Did It Again in 2000, when it arrived with 1.319 million.
Taylor
felt vindicated. "I was told to keep my expectations low because album
sales were in decline, no one had sold over a million albums this year and the
last time it happened on release week was with my album RED in 2012," she said. "I was told my
optimism was naive. I was told it was risky to change creative directions. I
was told my album wouldn't sell if it didn't have my entire face on it. I
listened to my intuition instead of all those voices. I'm so proud that my fans
were able to show the world that art is important and is still valuable to
them." The album scored the most sales in a week for any artist since
2002, with copies selling at the rate of one every two seconds. That's
called a good, old-fashioned country butt-whuppin'.
Taylor
Swift: The last time an album sold as many copies as 1989 did first week, it
was 2002, I was 12, and going through my 'braids phase' she shared on Facebook Industry experts predicted 1989 would sell 650k
first week. You went and bought 1.287 million albums. AND IT'S GOT ME LIKE: Facebook Vid
- She is the first artist since
The Beatles (and the only female artist in history) to log six or more
weeks at #1 in the U.S. with three consecutive studio albums.
- Swift is the first act ever
to have 3 albums sell a million copies in a week.
RED released
Oct 22, 2012; logged first week sales [chart Oct 31, 2012] 1,208,290 copies and has sold 4,079,740 copies to
date.
SPEAK NOW released
Oct 25, 2010 logged first week sales of 1,046,718
copies and has sold 4.42 million
to date.
FEARLESS, her
best selling album was released Nov 11, 2008 and opened with 592,304 copies. It has now sold 6,859,962 copies to
date.
Her
self-titled debut album TAYLOR SWIFT
started at #19 on the Billboard 200 in November 2006 with sales of 39,062. It peaked at #5 and
has sold 5.44 million to date.
Taylor
Swift's monster 1989 album was so big, it seems that the music business decided
to mostly avoid releasing any albums that would have to compete with its second
week on sale. Why? Industry sources suggest 1989 may sell 400,000 copies in its
sophomore frame (ending Nov. 9) -- and easily give it a second week at No.1 on
the Billboard 200 chart. (That would also give the album the second-largest
sales week of the year, behind only its own debut with 1.287 million, according
to Nielsen SoundScan.) 1989's second-week total will be more than 300,000
copies ahead of the likely No.2 album.
Seven
weeks ago, UMG projected that 1989 would sell 1.1 million units, but that
figure was readjusted to 750,000 units about four weeks before its release. It
wasn't for lack of confidence in Swift's commercial power, but because overall
sales have declined so dramatically in 2014 (blame the shrinking download
business and the growth of streaming services) many doubted any artist could
hit the first-week million mark. Additionally, there were fears that country fans would abandon Swift because she was fully
embracing a POP sound. The payoff: a
steady climb in projections.
Even
though U.S. album sales have plummeted 20% since Taylor Swift's last album,
RED, was issued in 2012, the singer scored the best opening week of her career.
With that debut, Swift not only registers the only instant-platinum release of
2014, but bests her last effort by 7.6% (the only other album to hit the
million mark: Frozen, which has sold 3.5 million units, most of them this year)
and beats the previous 1989 projections of 750,000 (upped to 900,000 on release day and 1.2 million 48
hours later) by some 500,000 copies.
So how did she manage
to defy expectations and log the biggest week for an album since 2002, when
Eminem's The Eminem Show sold 1.32 million in its second chart week?
In
a classic Swiftian strategy, the 24-year-old under-promises, over-delivers and
then some, while behind the scenes, label Big Machine, and its Universal Music
Group support system, drives sales with ruthless focus.
1.
Entice Multiple Purchases 2. Connect With Fans Socially And Emotionally
3.
Take Over Tv And Radio 4. Keep The Album Off
Streaming 5. Market Far And Wide 6. Lower Expectations
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| Billboard Graphic showing breakdown of 1989's sales Amazon just 2.4%! |
Set To Pop: Taylor put her days
in country behind her with “1989,” a move to New York and spent months of heavy
promotion worldwide jetting round the globe. Making the release-day media
rounds (Oct. 27) she sat down with Robin Roberts on ABC’s >> Good Morning America, broadcasting live
from Times Square.
On
GMA, Swift discussed the private listening sessions she hosted for groups of
fans at her homes across the country prior to the release of 1989, as well as
her move to New York City and her new role as the city’s tourism ambassador.
ABC
announced that Swift will headline New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, hosted by Ryan
Seacrest. She will be one of more than 30 yet- "Good Morning America feels
more like a partnership rather than a TV show," said Swift. "They're
always so supportive, so wonderful, so they’re always my first choice as to
where to debut new music or where to announce news."
Swift's
other stops included:
>> The
Ellen DeGeneres Show, The
Voice, >> Late Show With David Letterman and performed >> "Welcome
To New York", CBS This
Morning, >> The View and The
Talk.
Here's
her performance of >> "Out Of The Woods" on Jimmy Kimmel Live in the middle of
Hollywood Blvd:
Taylor
Swift-mania extended to the Billboard
Hot 100, where "Shake It Off" rebounded 2-1 for a third total
week on top. The song debuted at No.1 on Sept. 6 (sales of 544,000), and led
again in its second week before spending the next eight weeks at No. 2, until
this week.
With
its third week at No.1 on the Hot 100, "Shake" equals her longest
reign. Her sole prior leader, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back
Together," led for three (also nonconsecutive) weeks in 2012.
"Out
Of The Woods" debuted at #18 on sales of 195,292 (lower than expected due
to iTunes no longer reporting instant grat sales), and "Welcome To New
York", started at #1 on iTunes.
- Taylor’s “Shake It Off” video
first published on Aug 18, 2014 has had 207.7 million views!
- The 1989 physical CD comes
with 13 Polaroids. There are 5 different sets (65 different poloroids in
all) Each Polaroid has a handwritten lyric from 1989 at the bottom - Facebook - Twitter
- Fan Purchase - Photo
- Create your own Taylor Swift
1989 Album Artwork - taylorswift.com/1989photobooth
- Taylor Swift's '1989' Liner Note Messages &
Reference Guide - Billboard
- See how some of her fans have
decoded the 1989 messages on Tumblr - 14. Wonderland - (target deluxe): Are we not going
to talk about the fact that in Wonderland she says “Cheshire cat smile”
"Hi, I’m Harry and I’m from Cheshire"
- Imogen Heap Talks Working With Taylor Swift: 'I Assumed She
Didn't Write Much of Her Music' - Billboard
- Lady Antebellum Comment on Taylor Swift's Transition to Pop - Taste of Country : “I think she’ll always have
fans in the country genre,” says Charles Kelley. “I mean it’s where she
started, but she’s Taylor Swift, she’s such a musical icon now, and I
think it’s no surprise. Her last record was definitely leaning towards the
pop side.” Kelley admits that it sounds like where she belongs — at least
for now. And by her calling it pop, she’s being honest with all of her
fans.
- Kelly Clarkson >> covered Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” recently—and even got Swift’s
stamp of approval. In a fan-recorded video of the performance, Clarkson
introduces “Shake It Off” as “one of [her] favorite songs out right now.”
She goes on to infuse the pop song with some soul, and finishes with a
note on Tay: “Seriously, everybody gives Taylor Swift a hard time, but she
can write a hook,” Clarkson says. “I’m just sayin’.”
The
critics weighed in with raves.
Critical
reception for Taylor Swift’s “1989” :
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A
bold, gossipy confection The Guardian (Rating: 4 STARS) ..Those commentators will be rupturing veins when 1989 finally comes out.
Of its 13 tracks, roughly 10 find Swift in love, out of it, or in transition.
There are exceptions – such as Shake It Off, Swift’s sassy US No 1 single,
which rejects the bile of the haters. Recently revealed online, Welcome to New
York is a love song, but to Swift’s new city. As New York songs go, WTNY is not
up there in the Jay Z /Alicia Keys stakes, but there’s wisdom among the
cliches. “Everyone here was someone else before,” Swift notes, reinventing
hard. WTNY is this album’s scene-changing opener, proffering 80s pop as its
signature sound. Swift may have been born on 13 December 1989, but here she is
claiming the 80s – gated drums, synth-pop –as a formative influence. The
remainder of 1989 is singularly focused on making eyes at boys, severing ties with
boys, and what went wrong with whom....This album carries on her skilful works,
with increased stylistic and tonal variation. “You look like my next mistake,”
runs Blank Space, an out-and-out pop song with an intriguingly skeletal
undercarriage. There is a rewarding pen click when Swift prepares to write down
this man’s name. Bad Blood faintly recalls Charli XCX with its stark beats.
Wildest Dreams borrows a bit of glaciation from Lana Del Rey....Swift’s fifth
record is a bold, gossipy confection that plays to her strengths – strengths
which pretty much define modern pop, with its obsession with the private lives
of celebrities and its premium on heightened emotion. The album’s one failing?
There’s no obvious single here as unequivocally great as I Knew You Were
Trouble.
Billboard (Rating: 4 STARS)Taylor Swift’s Pop Curveball
Pays Off With ‘1989’ by Jem Aswad ......1989
is the coming-out party, because it makes Red sound like Reba McEntire.
Executive-produced by Swift and Martin, two of the all-time biggest hitmakers,
the LP could have been
an overstuffed Frankenstein of battling ideas. But instead it's Swift's best
work -- a sophisticated pop tour de force that deserves to be as popular
commercially as with Robyn-worshipping blog--gers; an album that finds Swift
meeting Katy and Miley and
The songwriting is
still unmistakably Swift, with her polysyllabic melodies and
playful/-provocative lyrics. But Martin and other key collaborators (including
Shellback, Ryan Tedder and fun.'s Jack Antonoff) have helped hone her songs,
which are more seasoned and subtle, less bubbly and bratty, than in the
past.....Swift saves the most unexpected pairing for the last, show-stopping
cut on the album's standard edition. "Clean" is an aching,
bittersweet team-up with esoteric British alt-popper Imogen Heap where Swift
surrenders more to her collaborator than on any other song on the album....A
clean break with the core audience is a risky move for any artist: At worst,
it's like ill-advised plastic surgery, a blandifying of the distinctive
qualities and quirks that made the person interesting in the first place. But
Swift avoided that fate entirely with this album, making her rare ability to
write for multiple audiences and ages even more universal. With 1989, she
expertly sets up the next chapter of what is now even more likely to be a very
long career.
Rollingstone (4 STARS) .....The best moments come toward the end, when Swift shakes up the concept.
"How You Get the Girl" mixes up the best of her old and new tricks,
as she strums an acoustic guitar aggressively over Martin's expert disco surge.
"This Love" brings back her most simpatico producer, Nathan Chapman,
for the kind of tune that they were just starting to call a "power
ballad" in 1989. (The precise equivalent would be Bon Jovi's "I'll Be
There for You.") On the killer finale, "Clean," English singer
Imogen Heap adds ethereal backup sighs to Swift's electro melancholy
("You're still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can't wear
anymore").....This is still an artist who likes to let it rip. Deeply
weird, feverishly emotional, wildly enthusiastic, 1989 sounds exactly like Taylor
Swift, even when it sounds like nothing she's ever tried before. And yes, she
takes it to extremes. Are you surprised? This is Taylor Swift, remember?
Extremes are where she starts out.
NY Times A Farewell to Twang (Rating: 80/100).....Country music has been — was — a natural
enemy for her: hidebound, slow moving, lousy with machismo. She could break the
rules and make people nervous simply by showing up. And yet country was also a
hospitable host body. She faced almost no direct competition there, and it’s a
genre that embraces success, grudgingly if need be. Most important, country
gave Ms. Swift context. It made her a transgressor, which means even her most
benign songs could be read with mischievous intent.....On this new stage, Ms.
Swift is thriving. And crucially, she is more or less alone, not part of any
pop movement of the day. She has set herself apart and, implicitly, above....On
this album, Ms. Swift’s songwriting isn’t as microdetailed as it has been,
instead approaching heartbreak with a wider lens, as on “This Love"...But
by making pop with almost no contemporary references, Ms. Swift is aiming
somewhere even higher, a mode of timelessness that few true pop stars — aside
from, say, Adele, who has a vocal gift that demands such an approach — even
bother aspiring to. Everyone else striving to sound like now will have to shift
gears once the now sound changes. But not Ms. Swift, who’s waging, and winning,
a new war, one she’d never admit to fighting.
Back
to strictly “country” matters Sam Hunt made a bow at No.3 on Billboard 200 and
landed the No.1 on the Billboard Top
Country Albums Chart with his
debut album, MOTEVALLO selling 69,849 copies.
Hunt is
just the second solo male in the SoundScan era (since 1991) to
simultaneously lead Top Country Albums and Hot Country Songs with a rookie
release. Billy Ray Cyrus first
did so more than 22 years ago, ruling Hot Country Songs with “Achy Breaky Heart”
as his debut set, Some Gave All, bowed at No. 1 on Top Country Albums (June 6,
1992). Hunt is the first new male artist in two years to launch at No.1 on Top
Country Albums with a first full-length studio set (Dustin Lunch’s self-titled
debut began at No. 1 on Sept. 8, 2012) and the first male newcomer to crown
Country Airplay with an introductory entry since Easton Corbin’s “A Little More
Country Than That” (April 3, 2010).
Hunt's
debut album was produced by Zach Crowell and Shane McAnally and features the
lead and now #1 Hot Country Songs and Billboard Airplay, gold-certified single "Leave The Night On." He
co-wrote all 10 tracks. The album title comes from the name of a city in
Alabama about 25 minutes south of Birmingham. Sam played football at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham before moving to Nashville. Once he got to
Music City, Sam ended up dating a girl who lived down in Montevallo. Though
that relationship is now over, that girl
is the main inspiration for the songs Sam wrote and recorded for his debut
project.
He told ABC News Radio, "I spent a lot of time talking to her about songs. I probably should have
included her as a co-writer on a lot of these songs because I spent a lot of
time chatting with her."
Many
of the songs that will appear on Montevallo are polished versions of songs
Hunt’s fans have already heard in their original, campfire acoustic versions.
Hunt says some were inspired by a woman he dated after moving to Nashville.
“She’s sort of somewhere in between a city girl and a country girl,” he said.
“She absolutely fit in when she was hanging out with me in Georgia, and she
lived in a liberal, kind of hippie town that had an art school, so she fits in
right there too.” That woman might represent a significant portion of Hunt’s
listeners — young people in high school,
college, or just beyond it, who can relate to the culture of both small towns
and big cities. Maybe, like Hunt, they’re not in a rush to get married as early
as their parents did. They probably grew up listening to country music with
their parents, but plenty of R&B and hip-hop too.
“The
boundaries are starting to break down,” Hunt said. “Maybe one day music will
just be music and there won’t be these categories, it’ll just be different
shades of music.” Read more at Buzzfeed.com
Sam
Hunt will headline the Lipstick Graffiti Tour, starting Jan. 29 in West
Hollywood, CA and running through April. Native Run and Michael Ray will open.
Critical
reception for Sam Hunt’s “Montevallo”:
10
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Allmusic
(Rating:
3.5 STARS)....A
quarterback-turned-country songwriter-turned-country star, Sam Hunt never makes
apologies for his inherent bro-ness on his 2014 debut Montevallo....Montevallo
deliberately sounds like other guys next door, sometimes evoking memories of
Jason Aldean (he's as comfortable with the slow-burning electronic rhythms of
"Break Up in a Small Town" as Aldean is on "Burnin' It Down"),
sometimes Keith Urban (Hunt does his own version of "Cop Car,"
previously a hit for Urban), sometimes Jake Owen ("Raised on It" is a
dead ringer for "Barefoot Blue Jean Night"). Hunt is unabashedly a
modern guy and his taste for busy electronic arrangements and facility with
fleet-footed rhythms distinguish him from the pack of modern country bros: it's
what gives the nocturnal urban sparkle of the hit "Leave the Light
On" a lift, it's what gives "Single for the Summer" its sheen,
it's what gives "Ex to See" a bit of dense menace. These electronic
flourishes are notable but they're not the anchor of Montevallo, nor is Hunt's
amiable presence. What grounds the album is his clean, commercial songwriting,
heavy on hooks but also sturdily constructed. Ultimately, Hunt's ability to
fuse his classical construction with modern flair and pass it off as no big
thing is what makes his debut something more than just another album from the
bro next door.
For The Country Record - On one level, Sam Hunt makes sense. He’s a
continuation of bro-country, the leader of a fresh wave of influence that
carries R&B, pop and EDM sounds further than they have ever existed in
country, while dialling back the kind of lyrical clichés and offensive material
that is still perpetrated by the founders of the much-hated trend, Florida
Georgia Line. I’m not saying he’s offering up wonderfully poetic turns of
phrase or fascinating stories that do the long-standing form proud, but there’s
less misogyny and tailgates, even if the language oft used is very “hip” and
colloquially urban.....This record is largely a repackaged collection of tracks
fans have heard before in some shape or
form, meaning they
were penned probably at least a couple of years ago and arguably no longer
represent Sam artistically, at least as to who he is standing on the
brightly-lit stage for all to see. All that I know is that this is where
country music is going, with 2014 showing signs of it everywhere even as
bro-country has remained out in full force. Buzzfeed got it right when they
said Sam Hunt was a country star for the Instagram age. We’re entering a new
era, and everything has gone digital.
Jason Aldean's OLD BOOTS, NEW DIRT rose 6-5 on the BB200 (#2 Country) with 42,636
copies sold (down 24%, 4-week total 467,723 ) and Florida
Georgia Line with ANYTHING GOES dipped
5-6 (1-3 Country) with 37,863 sold (down 36%, 3-week total 294,173).
In
their second chart frame Little Big Town with PAIN
KILLER fell 7-30 on the BB200 (#3-#4 Country) with sales of 12,195 a 71% slump (2-week total 54,214)
Lady Antebellum with 747 fell
26-49 on
the BB200 (#5-#10 Country) with 8,354
copies sold (down 22%, 5-week total 131,859)
Christmas has officially arrived! - Darius Rucker with HOME FOR THE
HOLIDAYS (Capitol Records) made a bow at No.43 on the BB200 (#7 Country)
selling 8,887 copies and sold see
sales pick up as the holiday season gets underway.
For
his first Yuletide album, Darius recorded two brand new tracks (well One really
since “Candy Cane Christmas” was released in 2009) and 10 classic Christmas
songs. A longtime pet project for the Grand Ole Opry star, he brings his
children into the fold for “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and duets with Sheryl
Crow on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Darius Rucker’s vocal tone is second to none
so his take on these and other classic songs like “Let It Snow, Let It Snow,
Let It Snow” and “White Christmas” is a wecome addition to the yearly Christmas
playlists
Critical
reception for Darius Rucker’s “Home For The Holdays”:
12
Tracks/ CD - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Allmusic
(Rating:
3 STARS) Darius Rucker leaves his newly
adopted country home behind for a bit of uptown swinging swagger on 2014's Home
for the Holidays. This 12-track collection of standards -- apart from
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "O Come, All Ye
Faithful," they're all secular; apart from the nondescript original
"What God Wants for Christmas," they're all well-known -- is all
delivered in the mock-Sinatra style that has come to suggest Christmas in
popular culture. The production is clean and unfussy, sparkling just enough to
suggest new-fallen snow but not enough to be tacky, and Rucker is amiable,
perhaps a bit too digitally polished but possessing enough good charm to keep
things moving at a nice clip. Consequently, Home for the Holidays winds up as a
perfectly fine Christmas record, suited for those Rucker fans who have stuck
with him from Hootie to R&B to country.
For The Country Record ..All that aside, ‘Home
For The Holidays’ sounds a lot like what I expected. Darius’ soulful, velvety
vocals lend themselves perfectly to the rich, vintage big band sound that often
characterizes those Christmas classics, and he pulls off standard arrangements
of those well, even if they aren’t particularly new or noteworthy. Tracks like
‘Let It Snow’, ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’, ‘O Come All Ye
Faithful’, ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ (featuring Sheryl Crow), ‘Winter
Wonderland’, ‘White Christmas’ and ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’ continue a
very standard, conventional narrative when it comes to festive covers, and the
overriding theme is pleasant, rather than dynamically exciting, music.....This
record is not as notable as one might hope for from an artist of his caliber,
...My advice? Buy it, if you’re a die-hard fan. But if you’re not? Don’t
bother.
Renowned For Sound (Rating: 2.5 STARS) It’s always hard to
take such well-known songs, especially Christmas ones and make them your own
but Home For The Holidays feels a bit forced like Darius Rucker is simply
trying too hard. No single track really stands out to the listener, rather, it
sounds like something one might hear in the empty piano bar of a fancy hotel
lounge. With so many Christmas albums already on the market and new ones being
added every year, artists need to bring something fresh and
unique
to their interpretations and sadly, Darius Rucker has missed this opportunity.
A
cappella country act Home Free with holiday set FULL
OF CHEER made a debut at No.65 on the BB200 (#14 Country) selling 6,108 copies.
Home Free - Full
of Cheer >> Track-by-Track
Part 1
They
have spent the past several years making a name for itself thanks most notably
for winning NBC-TV's The Sing-Off in 2013, moving from being an all-purpose a cappella
group to covering classic and contemporary country songs with their signature
soulful harmonies and smooth tones. Now, for the first time in the group's
career, the vocal group is setting it's sights on the wonders of Christmas with
"Full of Cheer," which combines plenty of cheer alongside warm,
holiday traditions. The "cheer" is evident from the start as the band
kicks things off on the 10-song CD with a playful take on the country Christmas
favorite "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," ad-libbing a few fun
moments throughout. "Hairy Christmas," a cover from The Robertson's
Christmas record last year keeps the entertainment moving with the easy-going
arrangement, but it's the original title track that really shines with corn
pone charm, turning a break up into the best Christmas gift ever. The focus
turns to seasonal standards, both secular and sacred. "White
Christmas" is given a gentle, loping vibe, the group inventively mimicking
harmonica flows and everything while "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is
rendered faithfully and showcases the incredible harmonies the group is really
capable of. And with "Baby, It's Cold Outside" the group welcomes
guest vocals from Canadian Kira Isabella
for a great take on the romantic holiday jam. Country vibes are heard on
"O Holy Night," bits of twang working their way into the mix alongside
their soaring vocal melodies as "Angels We Have Heard On High"
presses those melodies forward, the group showing some real vocal prowess with
a layered arrangement that stands strong. "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
showcases further skill, the vocal abilities really shining in their diversity,
creating a rich soundscape with just their voices while closer "Silent
Night," buoyed by a guest violin solo from Taylor Davis, ends things on a
cozy note. - Reviewed by Andrew Greenhalgh Country Standard Time 10 Tracks CD - UK iTunes - UK iTunes - Amazon.com - Track Listing
Wade Bowen with his titled album
WADE BOWEN (Independent/AMP
Entertainment) made a debut at No.47on the B200 (#9 Country) selling 8,556
copies.
The
Texas Red Dirt-circuit veteran matched his previous best debut and rank. His
previous album, THE GIVEN, opened at the same spot and with an almost identical
sum on June 16, 2012. Bowen was a member of the band, West 84, with friend Matt Miller, before
the band was re-aligned 2001. He released his first album in 2002, TRY NOT TO
LISTEN, which became a regional hit in Texas.
He is the brother-in-law of Cross Canadian Ragweed frontman, Cody
Canada.
One
of country music’s most deserving released via his own label after records with
labels like BNA Records, Sustain and Smith Music, Wade Bowen’s self-titled
album is his fifth studio album (to go along with a pair of live albums).
Produced by Justin Niebank, the 12 track effort features lead single “When I
Woke Up Today,” already a hit in Texas, and was written with co-writers like
Will Hoge, Jeremy Spillman, Scooter Carusoe, Matt Nolen, Lori McKenna and
Travis Meadows, to name but a few. Two tracks on the album (“Honky Tonk Road”
and “Sun Shines on a Dreamer” were written by outside writers but totally fit
within Wade Bowen’s style and sound. “Watch Her Drive” and “West Texas Rain”
feel like potential hits as does “When It’s Reckless.” “Sweet Leona” stands out
amongst the dozen tracks as well. Here’s hoping folks finally take a shine to
Wade Bowen’s music as he’s clearly one of the best ‘unknowns’ we’ve got in this
business.
Wade
Bowen calls his new CD “a selfish record”: The first glimpse of the
"happier, more raw, more energetic" Wade came on his stand-alone
single, "Songs About Trucks." The song, written by Brandy Clark and Shane
McAnally, fit perfectly in his transition from major label artist to
independent artist, with its good-natured jab at the music populating
mainstream country airwaves. Wade approached making Wade Bowen with the idea of
creating a project that he would enjoy personally. He wanted it to show his
sense of humor and his positive, happier side. He ended up with that and then
some, putting together his most eclectic record that includes some of his best
songwriting – and song-picking. The “no rules” approach to Wade Bowen lets a
diverse sound come to the forefront. The “anything goes” freedom let influences
come out in Wade’s songs stronger than on previous records - bestintexasonline.com
Critical
reception for Wade Bowen’s self titled album:
14
Tracks/ Time: 53:01 CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
NPR The drifter is an archetype in country music,
but not a common one these days; maybe his or her story is just too somber to
fit in with all the hits about tailgating and spring break. Bowen revives the
drifter's story beautifully. He does the character justice by making him a
successful worker instead of a train-hopping hobo; maybe he's a musician, but
he could also be a construction crew manager or a mid-level
executive....Bowen's calm delivery is perfectly reflective, framed by gentle
guitar lines that fall in a sideways motion, like rain on a moving windshield.
The self-titled album that contains this song is his seventh. He has honed his
singer-songwriterly sound so that it reflects both urbane Nashville and
independent-minded Texas; this veteran of Red Dirt and Music
Row really is a traveler.
Stoney LaRue with AVIATOR
(eOne) arrived at No.72 on the BB200 (#17
Country) selling 5,254 copies.
The Texas Music star worked
with producers Frank Liddell and Michael McCarthy on the album, which features
the lead single "Golden Shackles" and a bonus track, "Studio A
Jam."
Another ‘unknown’ who is
actually a big star in Texas, Stoney LaRue, like Wade Bowen, has been building
up his fanbase on a national scale the past couple of years and now, with new
label eOne partnering with him, things are looking up for the singer as his
third nationally distributed album Aviator hits the market. The Texas native
helped define the whole “Red Dirt” scene and his new record showcases this with
standout tracks like “First One To Know,” “Aviator,” “Still Runnin’” and “A
Little Too Late.”
The Red Dirt music
singer-songwriter chronicles life’s ups and downs as he sings about growing up,
relationships and moving on. It’s about the realization of tomorrow, he said,
as well as mortality and what people are going to do while they’re here.
“It’s got to be something
that people can believe,” said LaRue, who co-wrote all but one of the album’s
14 songs.
Watch the >> EPK Watch "First
One To Know"
Critical
reception for Stoney LaRue’s
“Aviator”:
14 Tracks/ Time: 55:13 CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Saving Country Music (Rating: 1 3/4 of 2 Gun Up)
....One of the few artists the national media will label as “Red Dirt” and
actually be right about …. though it will still be by mistake from the common
misconception that “Red Dirt” and “Texas Country” are interchangeable. The
Texas born, Southeastern Oklahoma-bred singer and songwriter who once swept the
floors at the Tumbleweed Dancehall was just as famous for his own songs as he
was for being the brother of Bo Phillips and the “guy in the bandanna” in the
Red Dirt scene until his 2011 album Velvet really put him on the map as his own
man....With his new album Aviator, you not only get that great, signature
Stoney LaRue sound, you get it with Stoney and all the involved parties buying
in by not just showing confidence, but even showing a little boldness and
willingness to do some things a little offbeat, run some songs together and carry
others out a little longer than they should be, and this all results in that
enriching Stoney LaRue mood becoming even more enhanced. Aviator isn’t one of
those albums you cherry pick through to the best songs. That would be like
choosing a favorite child, because all of these songs are great and work so
well together and in succession... This is one of those albums you put on for a
long road trip or a restful backyard barbecue and then press repeat when you
get to the end. It is the embodiment of that laid back Texoma flavor that
doesn’t just remind you to take a deep breath and appreciate life for the
moment, it demands it....Not just an album of great songs, Aviator is a great
album cover to cover.
The Lacs with NOTHING IN PARTICULAR, a bits and bobs
album of rarities, sold 4,594 copies
to make a Billboard 200 bow at No.86 (#17
Country)
Average Joes
Entertainment’s, The LACS’ (made up of Clay ‘Uncle Snap’ Sharpe and Brian
‘Rooster’ King, whose name is short for ‘Loud Ass Crackers,’) released the new
11-song collection as a “fan must-haves”. As a tribute to their fans, the duo
have unlocked the vault on this 11-track collection, which features songs not
previously available on CD or previously released. The video for the title
track, “Nothing
In Particular,”
premiered exclusively on The Boot on Oct 29th.
The Country
rap/Southern rock duo enjoyed a career-best rank and biggest sales week on
Billboard’s Top Country Albums on the chart Sept 7, 2013 with 14,460 copies
sold to land at No.3 on the country chart
with their third album, “Keep It Redneck” (Backroad/Average Joes). Their
previous best was a No.16 bow (#68 BB200) with 190 PROOF, which debuted in
April 2012 with 6,745 units sold and was on country album chart for over 72
consecutive weeks.
The final debut on the top 25
Country Albums came 45-year-old comedian Rodney Carrington whose album LAUGHTER'S GOOD landed at No.91 on the
BB200 (#23 Country).
He brought it his hilarious
one-man show Laughter's Good to CMT. The highly-anticipated special features
the comedian taking a fresh look at everyday life through his hysterical
down-to-earth style. The, known for his everyman humor and ornery songs, is
highly visible these days with the comedy special and this new album out plus dealing
with being a single man after 18 years of marriage.
Outside the
Top 25 Country Albums
At
#33 Country saw debut from Joey+Rory selling more than
2,200 copies of COUNTRY CLASSICS: A
Tapestry Of Our Musical Heritage (FarmHouse Recordings/Gaither), previously it
spent 5 months exclusively on Cracker Barrel shelves. The husband and wife team
are taking time off so they can enjoy time together with newborn Indiana but
that doesn’t mean they couldn’t find the time to record a sweet 12 track
collection of the duo’s all-time favorite Country songs, or songs that inspired
them to become singers. Standouts include “I’m Not Lisa,” “Let It Be Me,” “King
Of The Road,” “I Believe In Love,” “Coat Of Many Colors” and “Back Home Again.”
The harmonies are sweet (with an assist from Heidi Feek) and the melodies are
as timeless as ever.
On
the Billboard Music Video Sales
chart for the week Nov 15, 2014 it made its debut at No.1!
Brian Davis with his ALL ABOUT THAT LIFE EP made a debut at No.45 with 1,000 units scanned.
Lee Ann
Womack
who is heading to London in March 2015 for the C2C Festival is no longer on the
Top 50 albums. She has sold 8,000 copies of THE WAY I’M LIVIN‘ to date.
LeAnn Rimes made a lowly debut (#47 Country) once more with holiday set
One Christmas: Chapter One selling
just 1,000 copies. This EP is the first of a trilogy “ONE
Christmas - chapter 2” will be released in 2015 with “ONE Christmas – chapter
3” planned in 2016.
Rimes will now be hoping
folks get in the holiday spirit with songs including "I Want A
Hippopotamus For Christmas," "Blue Christmas" and "Carol Of
The Bells."
The 32-year-old singer
recently debuted her cover of “Silent Night” on soundcloud.com . “I made a Christmas record a long time ago,
and this time, I decided I wanted to spread it out over three years so I didn’t
have to stop making Christmas music,” LeAnn said. “We had so much fun making
this first EP. I tried to play around with it as far as things you don’t
typically hear me do. A lot of the vocals sound very live, and it’s just a
really cool piece of music. It’s very exclectic. It has a lot of soul, and it
sounds really organic.”
Critical
reception for LeAnn Rimes’ “One
Christmas: Chapter One”:
GotCountryOnline (Rating 4.5 STARS) ....Leading off the album is “I Want A Hippopotamus
For Christmas” (originally released in 1953). Families will enjoy singing the
fun tune together. Can you imagine the sight of Santa bringing in a hippo
through the front door? The classics, “Silent Night Holy Night” and “Blue
Christmas“, are elevated to new heights with Leann’s beautiful vocal interpretations.
Also included are “Someday At Christmas” (released by Stevie Wonder in 1967)
and “Hard Candy Christmas” (sung by Dolly Parton in the 1982 musical The Best
Little Whorehouse In Texas). Chapter 1 ends with “Carol Of The Bells“, a 1904
traditional folk chant (originally associated with the start of spring), that
showcases the amazing range of her vocals. Next year LeAnn will release One
Christmas: Chapter 2, and One Christmas: Chapter 3 in 2016. She will kick off
her One Christmas Holiday Tour this December in New York.
Allmusic (Rating: 3 STARS) The first in a projected series of
yearly seasonal EPs, One Christmas , thankfully, a more eccentric holiday album
than LeAnn Rimes' What a Wonderful World. That 2004 Christmas record played it
straight, but here Rimes launches into the 1953 novelty "I Want a
Hippopotamus for Christmas" on the second track, then slides into a
soulful rendition of "Blue Christmas" after that. Generally, One
Christmas does operate at a slow burn -- "Somebody at Christmas" and
"Hard
Candy Christmas" both
simmer, with only "Carol of the Bells" sparkling perhaps a bit too
much, providing a quickening tempo -- but Rimes' decision to play it cool in
addition to having a bit of fun makes One Christmas a neat little seasonal treat.
2014 Country Album sales Year-To
Date:
25,334,000 (Physical sales 16,829,000 (down 9%) + Digital
sales 8,505,000 (down -9.6%)) which is 18.0% down at the same point in 2013 (30,881,000
sales)
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album
Placings
(Issue dated Chart week of November 15, 2014)
(Country Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This Week, (LW) Last
Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Billboard Catalog Albums Chart (week of November 15, 2014)
Taylor Swift with RED
remained in the top 10, but SPEAK NOW
and FEARLESS didn’t get much of an
additional boost from the "1989" release. RED was No.84 on the
Billboard 200 selling 4,670 copies, up 12% on the previous weeks 4,153 and has
sold 4,079,740 copies to date.
FEARLESS was placed at No.177 on the BB200 selling 2,486 copies, up 19% with
total sales so far of 6,859,962 since its release.
Top Catalog Albums
#1 Re-Entry 240 Led Zeppelin
IV - Led Zeppelin
#3 5 114 The Legend Of
Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
#4 1 64 The Ultimate Hits -
Garth Brooks
#5 4 5 Red - Taylor Swift
#32 37 110 Fearless - Taylor
Swift
#42 31 46 Speak Now - Taylor
Swift
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of November
15, 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:
- Sam Hunt with “Leave The Night On” climbed one
place to top the multimetric Hot
Country Songs chart. Hunt’s track halted a 14-week reign by Jason
Aldean’s “Burnin’ It
Down” (Broken Bow), which dropped to No.2. However Aldean’s track collected
a 12th week atop Country Digital Songs (37,373 copies sold) and controls
Country Streaming Songs for a 13th frame (2.1 million total U.S. streams, down
14%, according to BDS). Sam’s “Night” also added Digital Gainer honors (31,066
downloads sold, up 14%) and rebounded to its peak (6-3) on Country Digital
Songs. Hunt is the second rookie act in 2014 to bow at No.1 on Top Country
Albums, following Dan + Shay’s top-ranked start with Where It All Began
(April 19). Hunt’s single is also the third new artist’s debut to crown
Hot Country Songs since the chart switched from core country radio airplay
to a sales/airplay/streaming hybrid two years ago, preceded by Florida
Georgia Line’s “Cruise” and Cole Swindell’s “Chillin’ It.”
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Sam Hunt with “Leave The Night On” climbs one to Top the
chart!
Jason Aldean with former No1 “Burnin’ It Down” slips 1-2 q
Blake Shelton with “Neon Light” is up one, #4 - #3 p
Florida Georgia Line with former #1“Dirt” slips one, #3 - #4 q
Carrie Underwood with “Something
In The Water” lifts one, #6 - #5 p
Keith Urban with “Somewhere In My Car” climbs three, #9 - #6 p
Frankie Ballard with “Sunshine & Whiskey” falls two, #5 - #7 q
Maddie & Tae with “Girl In A Country
Song” holds at #8
Little Big Town with “Day Drinking” sinks two, #7 - #9 q
Tim McGraw with “Shotgun Rider” shoots up one, #11 - #10 p
Luke Bryan with “Roller Coaster” falls one,
#10 - #11 q
Brad Paisley with “Perfect Storm” climbs three, #15 -
#12 p
Big & Rich with “Look At You” climbs four, #17 - #13 p
Kenny Chesney with “American Kids” is down two, #12 -
#14 q
Eric Church with “Talladega” jumps up six, #21 - #15
p
Parmalee with “Close Your Eyes” rises two, #18 -
#16 p
Lady Antebellum with “Bartender” sinks one, #16 - #17 q
Lee Brice with “Drinking Class” climbs one, #19 -
#18 p
Scotty McCreery with “Feelin’ it” lifts one, #20 - #19 p
Florida Georgia Line with “Sun Daze” burns up five, #25 - #20 p
RaeLynn with “God
Made Girls” is up one, #’22 - #21 p
Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood’s former #1 “Somethin’ Bad”, #14 - #22 q
Kenny Cheney with “Til
It’s Gone” holds at #23
Brantley Gilbert with “Small Town Throwdown” slumps eleven, #13 - #24 q
Darius Rucker with
“Homegrown Honey” is down one, #24 - #25 q
Hot County Songs
** No.1 (1 week) / Digital
Gainer ** “Leave The Night On” Sam Hunt
** Airplay Gainer ** No.20
“Sun Daze” Florida Georgia Line”
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.32
“Make You Miss Me” Sam Hunt
Debut No.35 “Take Your Time”
Sam Hunt
** Streaming Gainer ** No.38 “Ex To See” Sam Hunt
Debut No.40 “Speakers” Sam
Hunt
Debut No.46 “Freestyle” Lady
Antebellum
Billboard
Country Airplay Chart Week of November 15, 2014
Sam Hunt became the first act in almost two years to reach No.1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with
a debut single, and the first solo male artist in nearly five years to
reign with a first hit, as “Leave the
Night On” (MCA Nashville) rose 2-1
in its 21st chart week. It logged 47.840
million audience impressions, a gain of +1.775 million and received 7,662 radio plays (+277) during the
tracking week.
The song written
by Sam Hunt, Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally was first released by MCA
Nashville on June 16, 2014.
No newcomer’s
debut single had topped the Nielsen BDS-driven list since Florida Georgia
Line’s “Cruise” on Dec. 15, 2012, while Easton Corbin’s “A Little More Country
Than That” was the last such leader by a male soloist on April 3, 2010. (As for
rookie women?
It has been more than 10 years since Gretchen Wilson’s “Redneck
Woman” became the last debut single by a female artist to rule, on May 29,
2004.) Top local audience stations for “Night” during the Oct. 27-to-Nov. 2
tracking week: WUSN Chicago (1.4
million impressions), WNSH New York
(1.2 million), KKGO Los Angeles (1.1
million), WUBL Atlanta (1.1 million)
and KPLX Dallas (1 million). Through
the Nielsen SoundScan week ending Oct. 26, the album has yielded 1 million in
digital track sales, with “Night” accounting for 691,000.
Sam Hunt Thanks
Radio Support >> YouTube
- Big & Rich claimed their second Country Airplay top 10, and first in seven years, as “Look at You” lifted 11-9 in its 36th week (27.8 million impressions, up 11%). The duo scored its sole prior top 10 with “Lost in This Moment,” which began a two-week stand at No. 1 on July 27, 2007. Big & Rich’s second entry, the much-buzzed-about “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy),” stopped at No. 11 in 2004.) “Look” is the twosome’s first single since it launched its own record label, B$R, in January. It’s the lead single from GRAVITY, the act’s fifth full-length studio set, which debuted and peaked at No.8 on Top Country Albums on Oct. 11.
- Tim McGraw notched
his 52nd Country Airplay top 10 as “Shotgun
Rider” (Big Machine) bulleted 13-10
in its ninth chart week. Dating to the chart’s launch nearly 25 years ago
(on Jan. 20, 1990), McGraw gains sole possession of the second-most top
10s, passing Alan Jackson (51). George Strait leads with 61. McGraw last
reached the upper region with “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s” (featuring Faith
Hill), which peaked at No.2 on Sept. 6. He most recently topped Country
Airplay with “Highway Don’t Care” (with Taylor Swift) for two weeks
starting on June 15, 2013.
- Florida Georgia Line
snared the Most Increased Audience and claimed the Most Added trophy with "Sun Daze" which jumped 29-21. It logged 14.498 million
audience impressions, a gain of +6.223
million and received 2,200 radio plays (+1,056) thanks to 63 fresh radio commitments
(ADDS)
- The Swon Brothers
with "Pray For You" snagged the Hot Shot Debut honour with a lowly No.59 bow.
Women of
Country 2014 Watch:
There were two solo
female artists on the Top 30 Country Airplay songs with Carrie Underwood’s
“Something In The Water” climbing 14-12 and RaeLynn’s “God Made Girls” rising
22-20. “Girl In A Country Song” by duo Maddie & Tae climbed two 9-7.
Jana Kramer #32,
Trisha Yearwood #42, Lindsay Ell #50, Kelsea Ballerini #55, Lucy Hale #56 and
Sara Evans #58 were the additional six solo females in the remaining 31-60
slots, to make it 13.3% of the entire Top 60 chart.
Country
Airplay
*** No. 1 (1
week) *** "Leave the Night On" Sam Hunt
** Most
Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No. 21 "Sun Daze" Florida Georgia
Line
** Hot Shot Debut
** No.59 "Pray For You" The Swon Brothers
Debut No.60
"Middle Of America" Will Hoge
Billboard
Country Digital Singles Chart Week of November 15, 2014
Jason Aldean with his PLATINUM
selling “Burnin’ It Down” held onto
No.1 for a third succesive week and 13 cumulative weeks atop the summit of the Billboard
Country Digital Singles chart selling 37,373 copies (down 16%, 14-week total 1,138,733 copies). On
the overall all genre Digital Songs it was placed at No.31. That chart was
headed by Taylor
Swift who made a debut at No.1 with "Blank Space" (155,178 downloads),
notching her ninth leader on the
tally. It's her third No.1 from the 1989 album, following "Shake It
Off" and "Out of the Woods."
Swift also placed
another entry in the top 10, as the album's "Style" started at No.8
with 73,534 copies sold.
In total she
charted with 10 (none album preview tracks) on Top 75:
#15 “Wildest
Dreams” (57,655 copies), #18 “Bad Blood” (54,101 copies), #38 “How You Get The
Girl” (32,235 copies), #48 “All You Had To Do Was Stay” (27,155 copies), #54
“This Love” (25,860 copies), #56 “Clean” (24,088 copies), #73 “I Know
Places” (19,374 copies) and #75 “I Wish
You Would” (19,307 copies)
Back to country matters Carrie Underwood with “Something In
The Water” stayed at No.2 selling 34,423 copies, up 4% in her 5th week (282,017
total).
Sam Hunt dominated the Top 30 with three tracks in the Top 12 and 4
in the Top 30 of the Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart. “Leave The Night On” moved 6-3 (31,066
sales, up 14%; 20-week total 722,208). New tracks “Make You Miss Me” made a debut at #7 (21,270 sales) joined by “Take Your Time” at #12 (17,988 copies)
and “Speakers” at #22 with 12,090
sales.
Frankie Ballard with “Sunshine And Whiskey” has now surpassed the 500K mark (506,137 sold
in 23 weeks) to bag him his second-consecutive GOLD single, along with “Helluva Life.”
Luke Bryan’s “Roller
Coaster” also went GOLD having sold 506,736 copies during his 19 week chart frame.
It’s the fifth single from CRASH MY PARTY to go either Gold or Platinum.
Women Of Country Watch
Carrie Underwood with “Something In The Water” at No.2 and RaeLynn (19-18) with “God Made
Girls” represent the only solo female
artists on the Top 50 placings.
Dropping off the Top 30:
15 – Off The Chart Billy Currington “Don’t It”
24-31 Luke Bryan “Play It Again”
22- 33 Florida Georgia Line “This Is How We Roll”
28-34 Brantley Gilbert “Small Town Throwdown”
30-38 Little Big Town “Girl Crush”
Top 30 Digital Singles in Country Music
(published November 6, 2014)
(LW) Last Week (TW) This Week
*Numbers are
rounded to nearest 1000th
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart
Sam Hunt moved 2-1 to land No1 on
Mediabase with “Leave The Night On”
(MCA). The song logged 7,833 radio
spins (+388) and 56.679 million
audience impressions (+2.323 million) from 149 tracking stations for the
tracking week October 26 to November 2, 2014 and published chart November 3rd.
Congratulations
to UMG Nashville SVP/Promotion Royce
Risser, MCA Nashville VP/Promotion Van
Haze and the entire MCA promotion staff for scoring the week's #1 single on the
MEDIABASE Country singles chart with Sam
Hunts "Leave The Night On." The single is Hunt’s first release
from his MONTEVALLO album, which debuted on Mon October 27th.
Sweet treats were
due to be delivered to the MCA office (Nov 3rd) to congratulate the staff on
their success.
Congratulations
to Warner Music Nashville SVP/Promotion
Kevin Herring, VP/Promotion Kristen Williams, Dir./National Promotion Katie
Bright and their entire promo team for earning 40 MEDIABASE adds on Cole
Swindell's "Ain't Worth The Whiskey." Those
adds give Cole "Most
Added" title for
this week.
Bagels were due
to be delivered to the Warner's office (Nov 4th) to congratulate the staff on
their success.
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