Country
Billboard Chart News July 11, 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
RIAA GOLD
Album honour went to:
Chase
Rice for IGNITE THE NIGHT (released
August 19, 2014; Dack Janiels Records / Columbia Nashville)
In
Brief:
Billboard Country Charts
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (3 weeks non-consecutive) IF I’M HONEST Blake Shelton
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (10 weeks) ** H.O.L.Y. Florida
Georgia Line
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** "Lights Come On” Jason Aldean
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (10 weeks) ** H.O.L.Y. Florida
Georgia Line “
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Rock
band scores its second No. 1 album; and first in 15 years; with "California."
After
nine weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Top
200 Album Chart albums chart, Drake’s VIEWS was dethroned from the top slot by Blink-182’s
new set, CALIFORNIA. The latter
debuts at No.1 with 186,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending
July 7, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 172,000 were in traditional
album sales -- the third-largest sales week for a rock album in 2016.
California
is Blink-182’s second No.1 album, following 2001’s TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS AND
JACKET, which spent one week at No. 1 on the June 30, 2001-dated list. The act
has racked up a total of seven top 10 sets, dating back to 1999’s Enema of the
State, which peaked at No. 9.
Maxwell’s new blackSUMMERS’ night
arrived at No. 3 with 59,000 units (57,000 in pure album sales). It’s the
follow-up to the 2009 album BLACKsummers’night, which debuted at No. 1 with
316,000 copies sold. Before that, he released the 2001 album Now, which
launched at No. 1 with 296,000.
Blake Shelton with IF I’M HONEST rounded out the top 10, as it stepped 15-10 with 27,000 units (up 41%). The
album was up 52% in sales (to 21,000), 23% in TEA (to 4,000 units) and less
than 1% in SEA (to a little more than 2,000 units). The album was sale
priced in the iTunes Store for $6.99 during the tracking week, and
Shelton’s Twitter and Facebook accounts both promoted the offer.
Billboard Top Country Albums
(Chart issue week of July 23, 2016)
In
another quiet week with little new action on the Billboard Top Albums Chart saw Blake Shelton with IF I’M
HONEST (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) returned to the summit
climbing 2-1 (15-10 Billboard 200) selling 21,172 copies (up
151%; 7-week total 303,900). It’s the album’s third week at #1 after last topping the chart week of July 2nd.
Shelton
swapped places with Chris Stapleton as TRAVELLER down 1-2 (#12
non-mover Billboard 200) selling 14,941 copies (62-week total 1,446,400).
Cole Swindell with YOU SHOULD BE HERE (Warner Bros. Nashville) rose 8-3 Country (50-32 BB200) selling 8,376 copies (9-week
total 146,200)
Various
Artists: NOW That’s
What I Call Country, Volume 9 (Sony Music/Universal/UMe) fell 3-4 Country
selling 8,177 copies (4-week total 45,400)
Former
No.1 Maren Morris with HERO (Columbia
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) lifted #10-5
Country (64-38 BB200) selling 7,665 copies (5-week total 66,400)
Dierks
Bentley with BLACK (Capitol Nashville/Universal Music
Group [UMG] Nashville), fell 4-6 Country (26-33 BB200) with sales of 6,258
copies (6-week total 143,100)
Keith
Urban with RIPCORD (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/ Universal Music Group
Nashville) fell 5-7 Country (37-52 BB200; 6,198 sales; 9-week total 203,400)
Carrie
Underwood with STORYTELLER (19/ Arista) climbed 13-8
(61-48 BB200; 5,445
sales; 37-week total 618,100)
Former No.1 Jon Pardi with CALIFORNIA SUNRISE (Capitol
Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville), fell 6-9 Country (40-59 BB200; 5,077 sales; 3-week total 30,600)
Joey + Rory with HYMNS (Farmhouse/Gaither | Capitol CMG) dropped 7-10 Country (97-137 BB200; 5036 sales;
21-week total 419,000). It fell 1-3 on Top Christian Albums after 19
non-consecutive weeks at #1.
Sara
Watkins (Nickel Creek) with YOUNG IN ALL THE WRONG WAYS
sold 3,448 copies and made a No.200 debut on the Billboard 200, #67 Top
Albums (based on sales) and was new at No.7 on the Billboard Americana Chart (chart dated July 23, 2016) a listing led by
Chris Stapleton’s TRAVELLER.
Outside
Top 25 Country Albums
Brandy
Clark with BIG DAY IN A SMALL TOWN (Slate Creek/
Warner Brothers) was a non-mover at #26 on Top Country Albums selling 1,200
copies (4-week total 12,100).
Milton
Patton with self-titled EP Milton Patton (Arky Blue
Productions; Amazon UK - UK
iTunes - Amazon.com
) made a debut at #50 selling 600 copies.
Milton Patton's audition video with NBC TV's "America's Got
Talent" circled the globe a few times gaining more than 2 million
views through a handful of viral life-cycles. Then he disappeared. Sort of.
He now resurfaced with the release of his first music video single and
6-song EP. A crowd-funding Kickstarter project campaign was launched to
complete and distribute a full-length debut CD by Autumn 2015. It proved unsuccessful
with just 33 backers raising $2,875 of a $34,900 goal.
A broken relationship turned Milton Patton’s blues into country gold. Patton
grew up in a small town in Arkansas near the Mississippi Delta, where he
listened to blues music and rhythm and blues tunes.
An aspiring singer, Patton decided to pursue a different musical path
after hearing a song on the radio by country superstar Brad Paisley. As Patton
was driving to work one day, emotionally distraught after a recent painful
breakup with a girlfriend, he listened to Paisley’s hit song “Whiskey
Lullaby.”
Patton used “Whiskey Lullaby” as an audition song in 2013 for the
television reality show “America’s Got Talent.” After making it through
initial auditions in Austin and New Orleans, he was given the opportunity to
sing on national television before judges Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B (a
former member of the Spice Girls) and Howie Mandel. Patton made it through the
first television round of “America’s Got Talent” but was eliminated from the
competition in the Las Vegas round
“I've got the best fans in the
world” he shared on Facebook
at the EP appeared at #143 on the iTunes Country Album chart,
Year-To-Date
Albums
12,488,000 (Physical sales 8,166,000
(down 9%) + Digital sales 4,321,000 (down -17.2%)) which is 11.4% down at the same point in 2016 (14,995,000
sales)
Year-To-Date
Digital Tracks
49,088,000 down 23.7% at the same point in 2015 (64,305,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs
(Chart issue week of July 23, 2016)
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:
Florida Georgia Line with “H.O.L.Y.” (Republic Nashville) led for a 10th week. With the pair’s
debut, “Cruise,” having ruled for a record 24 weeks in 2012-13, FGL is the
first act to earn two No.1 runs of double-digit weeks apiece, dating to the
chart’s 1958 inception as an all-encompassing genre ranking. “H.O.L.Y” also
crosses over to a No.36 debut on Billboard’s Adult Top 40 airplay chart.
Singer-songwriter Kelsea Ballerini, 23, became the first female soloist to send her first three entries (promoted to country radio) from a debut full-length album to the Hot Country Songs’ top 10 since Taylor Swift nearly a decade ago, as “Peter Pan” (Black River) ascended 12-8. The song follows “Love Me Like You Mean It,” which climbed to No.5 on Hot Country Songs in June 2015 and “Dibs” (No.7, February); both songs crowned Country Airplay (where “Peter Pan” lifted 16-12, up by 14% to 23.3 million).
Swift
arrived with “Tim McGraw,” which peaked at No.6 on Hot Country Songs in January
2007. “Teardrops on My Guitar” reached No. 2 in August 2007, and “Our Song”
became her first No.1, reigning for six weeks starting that December. The songs
were released from Swift’s self-titled first LP, which produced two more 10 Hot
Country Songs top 10s: “Picture to Burn” (No. 3) and “Should’ve Said No” (No.1
for two weeks). (At the time, the chart was based solely on airplay.)
“To be able to have my first three songs be
heard like they have been has been more than I can ask for as a new songwriter
and artist,” said Ballerini. “As far
as being the first since Taylor ... I’m so proud to follow in the footsteps of
one of my favorite artists and friends.”
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (10
weeks) ** “H.O.L.Y.” Florida Georgia
Line
** Airplay
Gainer ** No.14 “Fix” Chris Lane
** Digital **
No. 25 “If I Told You” Darius Rucker
** Streaming
Gainer ** No.27 “Vacation” Thomas Rhett
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of July 23, 2016)
Jason Aldean achieved his 15th No.1 on Billboard’s Country
Airplay chart, as the guitar-driven “Lights
Come On” (Broken Bow), the launch single from his upcoming seventh studio
album, rose 2-1. It was up by 4% to log
50.5 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen Music.
“Having a No.1 is something we get excited
about every time,” Aldean told Billboard. “But when it’s the first song off a new record like this one, it’s
especially cool to know the fans and radio are behind you.”
Penned by Jimmy Robbins, Jordan Schmidt, Brad Warren, Brett Warren and Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, “Lights” expands Aldean’s span of Country Airplay No.1s within the past 10 years. Following his No.10-peaking 2005 debut, “Hicktown,” “Why" became his first No.1 on the chart dated May 27, 2006.
Dating
to that frame, Aldean is tied with Luke Bryan for the third-most No.1s; in that
stretch of slightly more than a decade, only Blake Shelton (19) and Kenny
Chesney (17) have logged more leaders.
“As
with Luke Bryan, I really think Jason has developed his own signature sound
that crosses several demographic groups,” said Cumulus Media director of Nash
programming John Shomby of Aldean
(who, after five nominations, won his first entertainer of the year trophy from
the Academy of Country Music on April 3). “On top of all that, he puts on a
great show, and that also crosses lots of age groups.”
‘UP’
IS UP Dan + Shay notch their second Country Airplay top 10, as “From the Ground Up” (Warner Bros./Warner Atlantic Reprise) bumped
11-9 (28.8 million, up 9%). Written by the pair’s Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney
with Chris DeStefano, the song is the lead track from the act’s sophomore
album, OBSESSED.
The
duo earned its first Country Airplay top 10 with “Nothin’ Like You,” which
topped the Dec.19, 2015, chart.
Country
Airplay
***
No. 1 (1 week) *** "Lights Come On” Jason
Aldean 50.463 million audience (+2.031 million) / 8,433 radio plays (+257)
** Most
Increased Audience ** No.6 “Fix” Chris
Lane +3.999 million audience
gain
**
Most Added ** No.32 “80s Mercedes” Maren
Morris (15 ADDS)
**
Hot Shot Debut ** No.51 “A Few More Cowboys” Toby Keith
Debut
No.60 “Undone” Joe Nichols
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart (Chart issue week of July 23, 2016)
Florida
Georgia Line (Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley) with “H.O.L.Y.”
(Republic Nashville) remained at No.1 for the eighth week on Billboard’s
Country Digital Singles Chart and held at #3 on the all genre Digital
Songs Chart with sales of 69,000 downloads (10-week total 798,000).
Darius Rucker with “If I Told You” jumped up #37-2 (NE #24 Digital Songs; 31,000 sales;
2-week total 37,000).
Kelsea Ballerini with “Peter Pan” (Black River) rose 7-3
(#47-36 Digital Songs; 24,000 sales; 14-week total 267,000).
Jon Pardi with “Head Over Boots” lifed #6-4
in his 36th week (#45-40 Digital Songs; 22,000 sales; 36-week total 491,000).
Carrie Underwood with "Church Bells" fell 4-5 (#40-42 Digital Songs; 21,000
sales; 14-week total 265,000
Jason Aldean with "Lights Come On" climbed 9-6 (20,000 sales; 14-week total 301,000).
Eric Church with “Record Year” climbed #12-7
(NE #46 Digital Songs; 20,000 sales; 19-week total 282,000)
Tim
McGraw with “Humble and Kind” (McGraw/Big
Machine/Big Machine Label Group) retreated 5-8 (19,000 sales; 25-week total 778,000).
Lee Greenwood with “God Bless The USA” made a re-entry at #9 (19,000 sales; 1,098,000
total). Sales were up by 655% to 19,000 downloads sold (up from 3,000) in the
week ending July 7. The 4th of July favourite originally peaked at No.7 on Hot
Country Songs in 1984. It returned to a No.16 rank following the tragedies of
Sept. 11, 2001.
Luke Bryan with "Huntin' Fishin' & Loving Every Day"
fell 3-10 (19,000 sales; 19-week total
388,000).
Outside the
Top 10:
Chase Rice with “Everybody We Know Does” (Dack Janiels/ Columbia Nashville) who was
the previous week’s #2 fell off the Top 50 selling 4,000 copies in his second
week (down 85%; 2-week total 30,000).
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
11
July 2016
Congratulations
to Jason Aldean,
Carson James, Lee Adams, Jim Malito and the Broken Bow promotion staff on "Lights Come On" (first released April 1, 2016) which reached
the No.1 spot on this week's chart. The song is the first single from his
upcoming album THEY DON'T KNOW.
The
song logged 9,007 radio spins (+383)
and 60.746 million audience
impressions (+3.819) with 30768
Total Points from 159 tracking stations for the tracking week July 3 to July 9,
2016 and published chart July 11th 2016.
Kudos to Tim McGraw, Jack Purcell, Erik Powell and the Big Machine team on "How I'll Always Be" which notched 51 adds. The song topped the week’s "Most Added" board.
 |
| Big Machine Celebrates Tim McGraws Mediabase Most Added "How I'll Always Be" |
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)
Rank
Artist: #4
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Miranda
Lambert, Big & Rich, Old Dominion Lincoln
Financial Field Philadelphia, Pa.
Dates:
June 25, 2016 Gross Sales: $4,634,450 Attend: 48,322 / 50,676 (2,354 unsold
tickets)
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $229, $179, $115, $45
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG Live
Rank
Artist: #6
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Miranda
Lambert, Sam Hunt, Old Dominion Heinz
Field Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dates:
July 2, 2016 Gross Sales: $3,495,589 Attend: 47,111/ 48,577 (1,466 unsold
tickets)
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $259.25, $184.25, $108.75, $48.25
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG Live
Rank
Artist: #22
Event
Venue City/State: Dixie Chicks, Anderson East,
Josh Herbert
Jiffy Lube Live Bristow, Va.
Dates:
June 25, 2016 Gross
Sales: $1,191,951 Attend: 17,742 / 21,297 (3,555 unsold tickets)
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $136, $106, $76,
$42 | Promoters: Live
Nation
Rank
Artist: #27
Event
Venue City/State: Dixie Chicks, Anderson East,
Josh Herbert
Rogers Arena Vancouver, British Columbia
Dates:
July 7, 2016 Gross Sales: $1,030,490 Attend: 12,870/ 14,463 (1,593 unsold
tickets)
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $101.31, $78.24, $55.17 | Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #33
Event
Venue City/State: Florida Georgia Line, Cole
Swindell, The Cadillac Three, Kane Brown Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion Gilford, N.H.
Dates:
June 24-25, 2016 Gross Sales: $884,863 Attend: 16,885/ 16,885
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$70, $60, $50, $30 | Promoters: in-house
Rank
Artist: #81
Event
Venue City/State: Brantley Gilbert, Colt Ford Bank of New Hampshire
Pavilion Gilford, N.H.
Dates:
June 17, 2016 Gross Sales: $363,201 Attend: 8,379 / 8,397
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$55, $30 | Promoters: in-house
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