Country
Billboard Chart News May 2, 2016
RIAA
Certifications
Multi-Platinum
= 2,000,000 plus units
Platinum =
1-million units
Gold = 500,000
units
Note: For ALBUM
certifications the RIAA base their figures
on the number of units SHIPPED together with, track sales and on demand audio/
video stream units and NOT based purely on traditional retail sales.
1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale.
150 on-demand streams = 1
track download
Florida
Georgia Line, Chris Young and Carrie Underwood were among the many recipients
of RIAA Gold And Platinum Honours in April 2016.
Florida Georgia Line’s single "Cruise" (Multi-Platinum)
Chris Young earned recognition for
"Aw Naw" (Platinum), "You" (Platinum),"Gettin' You
Home" (Platinum),"Who I Am With You" (Platinum) and single
"Neon" (Gold).
Canaan Smith’s single "Love You Like
That" (Platinum)
Carrie Underwood’s singles
"Heartbeat" (Gold) and "Smoke Break" (Gold)
Jana Kramer’s single "Whiskey" (Gold)
Kelsea Ballerini’s single "Dibs" (Gold)
Maren Morris’ single "My Church"
(Gold)
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of May 14, 2016)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (19 non-consecutive weeks) TRAVELLER Chris Stapleton
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (3 weeks) ** Somewhere On A Beach”
Dierks Bentley
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** "Think Of You” Chris Young duet with Cassadee Pope
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (5 non-consecutive weeks) ** “Humble
and Kind” Tim McGraw
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Beyonce with her LEMONADE album charged in at No.1 on
the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart
(BB200), giving the superstar her sixth chart-topper. The set earned 653,000
equivalent album units in the week ending April 28, according to Nielsen Music.
Pure album sales comprised 485,094
of that sum.
Lemonade
was introduced on April 23 through its same-titled film, which was soundtracked
by the album’s songs, and premiered on HBO. The 12-song visual album was
released by Parkwood/Columbia Records following the film’s debut, initially
exclusively through Tidal. By Monday, April 25, the album -- which is bundled with
the film -- went on sale through other digital retailers, but Tidal remains the
only service with streaming rights to the set. A physical version of the album was
set to be released on May 6.
Lemonade
scored the biggest week of any album in 2016, both in terms of overall units
and in sales.
All
six of Beyonce’s studio albums have debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Lemonade followed her self-titled album in 2013, 4 (2011), I Am… Sasha Fierce
(2008), B’Day (2006) and Dangerously In Love (2003). Beyonce is the only act to
reach No. 1 with their first six studio efforts (and the only act to debut atop
the list with their first six).
Elsewhere
in the top 10 of the new BB200 chart, Prince
ruled with five titles, all in the top seven of the list -- following the first
full week of chart activity following his death on April 21.
His
The Very Best of Prince greatest
hits collection is pushed down one spot to No. 2 with 391,000 units (though it
gains by 118 percent) and 216,472 copies sold (up 116%).
The Purple Rain soundtrack is also forced
backwards, despite a gain, as it moves 2-3 with 150,000 units (up 117%, 133,171
copies sold; up 113%). Two more of Prince’s greatest hits albums rank in the
top 10: The Hits/The B-Sides, hits a
new peak, as it climbed 6-4 with 106,000 units (up 159%; 56,399 in sales; up
134%), while Ultimate also zoomed to
a new peak, 61-6, with 40,000 units (up 319%; 37,400 in sales; up 317%). With
Ultimate’s rise into the top 10 for the first time, it marks Prince’s 19th top
10 album.
One
more Prince album featured in the latest top 10: his fifth studio effort, 1999. It climbs 31-7, a new chart high,
with 36,000 units (up 154%; 32,732 in sales; up 149%). 1999 previously peaked
at No. 9 in 1983. In total 23 Prince albums charted on the Top 200.
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER fell 7-9 with 33,000 units (down 13%)
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (Mercury Nashville | UMGN) returned to No.1 on Billboard
Top Country Albums 2-1 selling another 25,232
copies in his 52nd week (Total sales 1,253,000).
The previous week’s No.1 Sturgill Simpson with SAILOR’S GUIDE TO EARTH
(Atlantic/Atlantic Group) fell 3-31 Billboard 200 (#1-2 Country) selling
13,366 copies (down 75% on first week 52,464; 2-week total 65,800)
Joey + Rory with HYMNS (Farmhouse/Gaither | Capitol CMG) in its 10th frame fell 38-47
BB200 but held at #3 Country (#2-3
Country; 11,381 sales; down 12%; 11-week total 339,500)
Sam Hunt with MONTEVALLO (MCA Nashville | UMGN) fell 34-26 BB200 (#5-4 Country; 7,865
sales; 79-week total 1,118,100).
Luke
Bryan with KILL THE LIGHTS (Capitol Nashville) rose 44-33 BB200 (#7-5 Country; 7,400 sales; 38-week total 951,700).
Eric Church with MR. MISUNDERSTOOD (EMI Nashville | UMGN) rose 79-64 BB200 (#9-6
country; 5,707 sales; 26-week total 363,100)
Thomas Rhett with TANGLED UP (Valory | BMLG) fell 25-29 BB200 (#4-7 Country; 5,452
sales; 31-week total 366,000)
Wheeler Walker Jnr (stand-up comic Ben Hoffman) with REDNECK SHIT
(Pepper Hill/ Thirty Tigers) rose 14-11
Country in his 5th frame (3,700 sales; total 17,800) and will be delighted to
see he was one place ahead of Florida Georgia Line with ANYTHING GOES 20-12 Country (3,700 sales; 81-week total 849,800) who blocked his Twitter
account
Outside
Top 25 Country Album
Marie
Osmond with MUSIC IS MEDICINE (Oliveme) fell 10-31
Country (1,500 sales; Total 5,400) in her second week
Josh
Kelley with eighth studio set, NEW LANE ROAD (Sugar Hill/Concord), opened at No.29 on Top Country Albums (1,600
sales). It’s his first entry since 2011’s No.16-peaking Georgia Clay.
Kelley is currently touring with his brother, Lady
Antebellum’s Charles Kelley, on the latter’s solo The Driver Tour.
In a press
release the album was described as: His most honest work to date, Josh achieves an organic warmth guided by
the influences of Otis Redding, Al Green, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and Joe
Cocker. His new album contains such effortlessly catchy, lyrically engaging new
tunes as 'Take It On Back,' 'You're My Angel,' 'Life's Too Short,' 'It's Your
Move' and 'One Foot in the Grave'. These new songs demonstrate a remarkable
balance of emotional insight and melodic craft. On this album, for the first time
however, the listener gets a true snapshot into his life. Josh and wife
Katherine Heigl raise two children in the hills of Utah. New Lane Road gives us
an intimate glimpse of home.
New Lane Road, Kelley's first new album in five years, brings
with it his wife's directorial debut. Katherine Heigl (of Grey's
Anatomy and Knocked Up fame, among several other blockbuster films) was both
behind and in front of the camera for the video accompanying the LP's first
single, "It's Your Move."
Critical reception for Josh Kelley’s New Lane Road:
AllMusic (Rating; 3.5 STARS) After scoring with the John Mayer-esque pop
of "Amazing" and the upbeat country of "Georgia Clay," Josh
Kelley has decided it's time he bared his soul to us all. For his eighth album
(and first for Sugar Hill), 2016's New Lane Road, Kelley has taken a detour
into singer/songwriter territory. The album delivers a dozen personal songs
about love and family with a feel that's half-Nashville and half-Laurel
Canyon...Many of the songs on New Lane Road cover familiar lyrical tropes, but
Kelley brings a warmth and sincerity to this music that's honest and effective.
And Kelley certainly sounds more comfortable singing about the glories of
married life than he did trying to fit into the boundaries of mainstream
country. New Lane Road is a few steps short of a triumph for Josh Kelley. But
it's strong and well-crafted enough to sound like he's found a direction that
works for him, and this ranks with the singer and songwriter's best work.
NPR (Rating:
Positive) New Lane Road is an act of
creative self-sufficiency; the elder Kelley not only wrote or co-wrote every
song, but also produced, engineered and played multiple instruments. To record
the album, Kelley holed up in his studio in Utah, where he lives with his
actress wife Katherine Heigl and their two children, for much of the process.
The result, not surprisingly, is an unfussy collection of soft rock, soul,
adult pop and country from an artist who's spent years stocking his musical bag
of tricks.
Throughout its
dozen tracks, Kelley dwells on how accumulating life experience and forging
significant attachments can transform slight insights into something more. He
trots out thoroughly familiar fixations — feeling your mortality ("One
Foot In the Grave"), seizing the day ("Life's Too Short"), being
saved from a solitary existence by a steadfast lover ("The Rock Who Found
A Rollin' Stone") — with warmth that lends them each new
impact...."New Lane Road" stirs together nostalgia, patriotism and
responsibility; there's even a recording of his dad talking about being a good
steward of the earth that you farm.
Sounds
Like Nashville by Chuck Dauphin (Rating: Very Positive)... Perhaps the
best bet for radio airplay – if Sugar Hill wants to go in that direction is on
the sobering “Only God Can Stop Her Now,” another emotional masterpiece of the
disc. That statement is far from a knock, however, as New Lane Road succeeds at
being a truly adult album – with lyrics and thoughts that you would have lived
a few years to fully recognize. With that said, this album is truly one worth
listening to!
Year-To-Date
Albums
7,524,000 (Physical sales 4,934,000
(down 9%) + Digital sales 2,590,000 (down -17.6%)) which is 10.2% down at the same point in 2015 (8,380,000
sales)
Year-To-Date
Digital Tracks
30,796,000 down 21.2% at the same point in 2015 (39,078,000)
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:
Dierks Bentley with “Somewhere on a Beach” (Capitol Nashville) led Billboard’s hybrid
Hot Country Songs chart, which encompasses airplay, digital sales and
streaming, for a third week.
Dustin
Lynch reached Hot Country Songs’ top tier, with “Mind Reader” (Broken Bow), up 13-10. His fourth top 10 is driven most
heavily by radio, as it climbed 6-4 on Country Airplay (38.5 million, up 6%).
Hillary
Scott (Lady Antebellum) entered Hot Country Songs at No.33 with “Thy Will” (billed as by Hillary Scott & The Scott Family)
(HST/EMI Nashville). The track bowed almost entirely due to sales, entering
Country Digital Songs at No.22 (11,000 sold). It also started at Nos.2 and 6 on
Christian Digital Songs and Hot Christian Songs, respectively, and previews the
forthcoming faith-based LP Love Remains
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (3 weeks)
** “Somewhere On A Beach” Dierks Bentley
** Airplay
Gainer ** No.17 “Wasted Time” Keith
Urban
** Streaming
Gainer ** No.19 “Church Bells” Carrie
Underwood
** Digital **
No.23 “It All Started With A Beer” Frankie
Ballard
** Hot Shot
Debut ** No.27 “Remember Boys” Cole
Swindell
Debut
No.33 “Thy Will” Hillary Scott & The
Scott Family
Debut
No.34 “Lights” Adam Wakefield
Debut
No.39 “H.O.L.Y.” Florida Georgia Line
Debut
No.43 “Castaway” Zac Brown Band
Debut
No.45 “Sleep Without You” Brett Young
Debut
No.47 “Wasn't That Drunk” Josh Abbott
Band with Carly Pearce
Chris
Young and Cassadee Pope’s duet “Think of You” (RCA Nashville/Republic
Nashville) rose 3-1 in its 18th week on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart
(dated May 14), increasing by 8% to 46.8 million audience impressions in
the week ending May 1, according to Nielsen Music.
Young co-wrote “Think” with Corey Crowder and Josh Hoge. “Cassadee was
always my first pick to sing the duet with me,” Young told Billboard. “It’s a big song, and I knew I needed someone
with a powerful voice to match.”
Pope, the 2012 third-season winner of NBC’s The Voice (and the first
woman to win the prize) rules Country Airplay in her fourth appearance on the
chart.
She previously peaked as high as No.10 in 2014 with “Wasting All These
Tears,” her launch country single. “Cassadee
was such a standout on The Voice,” said Big Machine Label Group
chairman/CEO Scott Borchetta. “Every time
she performed a country song, I would ring up Republic president Monte Lipman
in New York and say, ‘This girl Cassadee, I think she’s country.’ We didn’t
know for sure until the day after she won The Voice that she wanted to pursue
her country influences.”
Young is likewise a former TV competition champ, and his latest Country
Airplay coronation syncs with the 10th anniversary of his winning Nashville
Star (May 2, 2006). The next day, RCA Nashville announced that it had signed
him. Meanwhile, the country male/female duet is a classic sound for the genre
(e.g., Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty),
although not so common at No. 1 since Country Airplay began in 1990. “Think” is
only the fifth duet between a solo male and female (with each artist sharing
lead credit) to top the chart, following Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert’s “We
Were Us” (2013), Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood’s “Remind Me” (2011), Anita
Cochran and Steve Wariner’s “What If I Said” (1998) and Reba McEntire and Vince
Gill’s “The Heart Won’t Lie” (1993).
The highest debut on Country Airplay belonged to Florida Georgia
Line, whose “H.O.L.Y.”
(Republic Nashville) launched at No.26 with 10.1 million impressions following
its April 29 arrival. The song previews the duo’s third full-length, DIG YOUR ROOTS,
due this summer.
Country
Airplay
***
No. 1 (1 week) *** "Think Of You” Chris
Young duet with Cassadee Pope 46.811 million audience (+3.633 million) / 8,260
radio plays (+484)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.26 “H.O.L.Y” Florida Georgia Line (Republic
Nashville) +10.066 million audience gain; with 74 new radio commitments (74
ADDS)
Debut
No.57 “Parachute” Chris Stapleton
Debut
No.59 “Are You With Me” Easton Corbin
Tim
McGraw with “Humble and Kind” (McGraw/Big
Machine/Big Machine Label Group) held at No.1 (#25-46 Digital Songs; 35,334
sales; down 12%; 15-week total 472,619)
Dierks
Bentley with “Somewhere On A Beach" held at #2
(#32-60 Digital
Songs; 27,762 sales; down 16%; 15-week total 382,113).
Maren
Morris with "My Church" (Columbia
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) held at #3 (#39-61 Digital Songs; 27,762 sales; up 7%; 16-week total 461,280).
Thomas
Rhett with his latest hit
"T-Shirt" held at #4 in his 15th chart frame (#40-66 Digital Songs; 25,166 sales; down 1%; 15-week total
270,400) as his award winning #1 song “Die A Happy Man”
rose #9-8 (#52-79 Digital Songs; 21,012
sales; down 3%; 32-week total 1,409,145)
Chris
Young duet with Cassadee Pope held at #5 (#41-74 Digital Songs; 22,312 sales; down 11%;
15-week total 324,205)
Luke Bryan with "Huntin' Fishin' & Loving Every Day"
climbed #8-6 (#46-75 Digital Songs; 22,205
sales; down 6%; 8-week total 156,459)
Blake
Shelton with “Came Here to Forget” (Warner Bros./
WMN) fell 6-7 (#43-77 Digital Songs; 21,606 sales; down 13%; 8-week total 287,680)
Cole
Swindell with “You Should Be Here” fell 7-9 (#44-80 Digital Songs; 20,828
sales; down 15%; 20-week total 567,374) also possibly a pre-grat/ pre-order track "Remember Boys" made a debut at #10
(#94 Digital Song; 18,303 sales)
Adam Wakefield (The Voice contestant) with "Lights" who >> performed the Journey classic to make it another week in
the competition made a debut at #18 selling 12,000 copies.
Lady
Antebellum’s leading lady Hillary Scott made a debut
at #22 with "Thy Will" selling
11,000 copies.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
2
May April 2016
Congrats
to Chris Young, Cassadee Pope, Keith Gale, Matthew Hargis and the RCA and Republic Nashville
promotion departments on scoring this week’s No.1 with “Think Of You.” The song is the second chart-topper from Young’s I’m
Comin’ Over album, and Pope’s first No.1.
The
song logged 8,820 radio spins (+841)
and 61.254 million audience
impressions (+5.33) with 28420 Total
Points from 158 tracking stations for the tracking week April 24 to April 30, 2016
and published chart May 2nd 2016.
Kudos
to Republic Nashville VP/Promotion Matthew Hargis and the entire Republic Nashville promotion team for Republic
Nashville duo Florida Georgia Line on bagging 99 adds stations adding, "H.O.L.Y."
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| Republic Nashville Promo Team 2 May 2016 |
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #4
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Miranda
Lambert, Sam Hunt, Old Dominion Jordan-Hare
Stadium Auburn, Ala.
Dates:
April 23, 2016 Gross Sales: $4,140,740 Attend: 48,423 / 50,430
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 ** Prices: $215, $175, $99, $20
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG Live
Rank
Artist: #17
Event
Venue City/State: iHeartCountry Festival: Florida Georgia Line,
Brett Eldredge, Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett, Cole Swindell, Miranda Lambert, Lee
Brice, Chris Young, Keith Urban, Zac Brown Band Frank
Erwin Center Austin, Texas
Dates:
April 30, 2016 Gross Sales: $1,329,130 Attend: 13,405 / 13,405
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$375, $25
Promoters:
iHeartMedia + Entertainment/in-house
Rank
Artist: #35
Event
Venue City/State: Bonnie Raitt, The California Honeydrops, Beacon Theatre New York, N.Y.
Dates:
April 1-2, 2016 Gross Sales: $426,058 Attend: 5,534 / 5,534
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$121, $85.50, $55.50, $35.50
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #40
Event
Venue City/State: Chris Stapleton, Anderson
East Hearst
Greek Theatre Berkeley, Calif.
Dates:
April 23, 2016 Gross Sales: $386,978 Attend: 8,505/ 8,505
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$45
Promoters:
Another Planet Entertainment
Rank
Artist: #51
Event
Venue City/State: Brantley Gilbert, Michael
Ray, Canaan Smith Target
Center Minneapolis, Minn.
Dates:
April 23, 2016 Gross Sales: $277,461 Attend: 7,533 / 8,000
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $39.75, $25
Promoters:
Frank Productions/NS2/CMoore Live
Rank
Artist: #97
Event
Venue City/State: ABC's Nashville in Concert Fox Theatre Atlanta, Ga.
Dates:
April 27, 2016 Gross Sales: $133,891 Attend: 2,912 / 4,565
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $71, $36
Promoters:
AEG Live
Rank
Artist: #100
Event
Venue City/State: Chris Young, Cassadee Pope Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Dates:
April 15, 2016 Gross Sales: $132,689 Attend: 4,590/ 6,859
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $45.50, $10
Promoters:
Red Mountain Entertainment
Rank
Artist: #111
Event
Venue City/State: ABC's Nashville in Concert The Theater at
the Venetian Las Vegas, Nev.
Dates:
April 15, 2016 Gross Sales: $106,997 Attend: 1,315/ 1,707
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $129.95, $89.95, $65, $49.95
Promoters:
AEG Live/The Venetian Casino Resort
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