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Billboard Chart News January 16, 2017
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of January 28, 2017)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (26 non-consecutive weeks) TRAVELLER Chris Stapleton
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (11 weeks) ** “Blue Ain’t Your
Color” Keith Urban
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “A Guy With a Girl” Blake Shelton
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (11 weeks) ** “Blue Ain’t Your
Color” Keith Urban
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
'La
La Land' Soundtrack Dances to No. 2 on Billboard 200 Chart, Weeknd Spends Third
Week at No. 1
The Weeknd’s STARBOY stayed steady at
No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album
chart (BB200), collecting a third non-consecutive week atop on the
Billboard 200 chart. Meanwhile, following La
La Land’s big night at the Golden Globe Awards, the film’s soundtrack flew
from No.15 to No. 2. Starboy earned 63,000 equivalent album units (down 10%)
in the week ending Jan. 12, according to Nielsen Music, while La La Land jumped
to the runner-up slot with 42,000
units (up 83%) of that total 29,893
were pure sales.
Of
Starboy’s units earned for the week, traditional album sales comprised just 13,624 of that sum. Streams generated
the bulk of the set’s units -- as streaming equivalent units totalled 38,000 of
its total.
This
chart week highlighted how people are moving away from buying their music in
physical form and opting instead to go with streaming. The SOUNDTRACK to the
film La La Land was the top seller with 29,893 copies (CD and digital download
sales) from an American population of 320 million!
Closing
out the top 10 was Chris Stapleton with his surging TRAVELLER album, which vaulted from No.
22 to No.10 with 22,000 units (up 21%). The former No. 1
set gain in album sales (12,000 sold; up 11%), track equivalent album units
(5,000; up 63%) and streaming equivalent album units (5,000; up 15%). One of
the album’s songs, Stapleton’s cover of “Tennessee Whiskey,” re-entered the
Digital Song Sales chart at No. 24 with 26,000 downloads sold (up 208%).
The
rise of both the album and the song followed the success of a viral video on
Facebook, where a father sings along to Stapleton’s version of “Tennessee
Whiskey” in his car, while his daughter records the performance (and sweetly reacts
to her dad’s singing). The original Facebook video was uploaded on Jan. 1 and
collected more than 20 million views. It’s likely that interest in the viral video encouraged fans to buy
Stapleton’s version of the song, as well as his Traveller album. Fort Worth
musician Kris Jones poured his heart
out in his very own “Carpool Karaoke” version of the track. He and his daughter
Dayla were later invited onto Ellen TV on Jan 19th.
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) has now spent a total of six months
atop Billboard’s Top Country Albums
Chart. The LP climbed 22-10 on the Billboard 200 and increased 11% to 11,712 pure sales in the week
ending Jan. 12 and lead the list for a 26th (non-consecutive) week. To date,
Traveller has sold 1.8 million copies since its release.
Keith Urban with RIPCORD (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville) climbed
3-2 (33-32 BB200) selling 6,156 (down
20%; 36-week total 426,000)
Miranda Lambert with WEIGHT OF THESE WINGS (Vanner/RCA
Nashville) slipped 2-3 (55-69 BB200)
in its 8th chart frame selling 5,280 copies (down 33%; 8-week total 253,800).
Kane Brown with his self- titled debut KANE BROWN (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) rose 7-4 (106-113 BB200) selling 3,753 copies (down 20%; 6-week
total 89,500)
Jason Aldean with THEY DON'T KNOW (Macon/Broken Bow) was
a non-mover at #5 (60-74 BB200)
selling 3,596 copies
(down 42%; 18-week total 315,200)
Florida Georgia Line with DIG YOUR ROOTS (BMLG) made a 9-6 hop (52-49 BB200) selling 3,097 copies
(down 21%; 20-week total 331,800)
Garth Brooks with GUNSLINGER (Pearl) was
up 11-7 selling 2,522 copies of the single album
version (down 29%; 7-week total 75,700).
Thomas Rhett with TANGLED UP (Valory) rose
12-8 (50-46 BB200) selling 2,394 copies (down 27%; 68-week
total 529,100)
Kenny Chesney with COSMIC HALLEUJAH (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville) climbed 13-9 (144-166 BB200) selling 2,287 copies (down 28%; 11-week total 181,300)
Maren Morris with HERO (Columbia Nashville) fell 6-10
(67-115 BB200) selling 2,240 copies (down 56%; 32-week total 164,100).
Blake Shelton with IF I'M HONEST (Warner Bros.)
retreated 4-11 (42-99 BB200) selling
2,025 copies
(down 73%; 34-week total 549,200)
Jon Pardi with CALIFORNIA SUNRISE (Capitol Nashville) rose 15-12 (100-93 BB200) selling 1,960 copies (down 22%; 30-week total 102,000)
Carrie Underwood with STORYTELLER (19/Arista Nashville) fell 10-13 (85-110
BB200) selling 1,936
copies (down
47%; 64-week total 727,200).
Eric Church with MR. MISUNDERSTOOD (EMI
Nashville) rose 16-14 (128-139 BB200) selling 1,724 copies (down 27%;
62-week total 491,500)
Year-To-Date Albums
663,000 (Physical sales 438,000
(down 6%) + Digital sales 225,000 (down -19.4%)) which is 10.9% down at the same point in 2016
(744,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
2,818,000 down 25.4% at the same point in 2016 (3,777,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs
(Chart issue week of January 28, 2017)
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:
Keith Urban with “Blue Ain’t Your Color” (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville) led the Hot
Country Songs for an 11th week in his 23rd chart frame.
The CMAs
sparked Chris
Stapleton’s first Hot Country Songs
No.1, and “Tennessee Whiskey” again enjoyed a resurgence with a re-entry on the
current Hot Country Songs chart (dated Jan. 28), at No.9. It blew up 21-2 on Country Digital Song Sales (up 208% to
26,000 downloads sold) and lifted 5-3 on Country Streaming Songs (up 41% to 3.4
million U.S. streams).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (11
weeks) ** “Blue Ain’t Your Color” Keith
Urban
** Airplay
Gainer ** No.2 “Better Man” Little Big
Town
** Streaming
Gainer ** No.8 “Dirt On My
Boots” Jon Pardi
** Hot Shot
Debut ** No.16 “Drinkin' Too Much” - Sam
Hunt
** Digital
Gainer ** No.22 “Fast” Luke Bryan
Debut No.29 “Yours If You Want It” Rascal Flatts
Debut No.29 “Yours If You Want It” Rascal Flatts
Debut
No.39 “Bar At The End Of The World” Kenny
Chesney
Debut
No.47 “Tried To Tell Ya” Brantley
Gilbert
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week
of January 28, 2017)
Blake
Shelton rolled up his 23rd No.1 on Billboard’s Country
Airplay chart (dated Jan. 28), as “A Guy With a Girl” (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) jumped 3-1, increasing 7% to 45.5 million
audience impressions in the week ending Jan. 15, according to Nielsen Music.
Shelton ranks in fifth place among acts with the most Country Airplay
No.1s, following Tim McGraw (29), Kenny Chesney (27) and Alan Jackson and
George Strait (26 each).
Chris
Young’s “Sober Saturday Night,” featuring Vince Gill
(RCA Nashville), ascended to the Country Airplay top
10 (12-10), gaining 5% to 27.3
million audience impressions (5,255 spins).
With “Sober,” which Young wrote with Brett and Brad Warren, Young banked
his 12th top 10 and seventh straight, since “I Can Take It From There,” which
peaked at No. 4 in April 2013. Gill earned his milestone 25th Country Airplay
top 10 and first since Brooks & Dunn’s “Burning Bridges,” featuring Sheryl
Crow and Gill (No.4, 2006). Gill last reached the upper tier as a lead artist
with “Feels Like Love” (No.6, 2000).
Country
Airplay
***
No. 1 (1 week) *** "A Guy With A Girl” Blake Shelton 45.506 million audience (+2.849 million) / 8,146 radio
plays (+590)
** Most
Increased Audience/ ** Most Added ** No.27 “Bar At The End Of The World” Kenny Chesney +3.723 million audience
gain (#39 ADDS)
**
Hot Shot Debut ** No.48 “Flatliner” Cole
Swindell
Debut
No.51 “God, Your Mama, And Me” Florida
Georgia Line featuring Backstreet
Boys
Debut
No.57 “It Ain’t My Fault” Brothers
Osborne
Keith Urban with “Blue Ain’t Your Color” held onto #1 on Billboard’s Country Song Sales Chart for a 11th
frame in 17 chart weeks. It slipped 21-23 on the all genre Digital Songs chart which was led by Ed Sheeran with “Shape
Of You”
Chris Stapleton with “Tennessee Whiskey” rocketed up 21-2
(#24 Re-Entry Digital Songs) with 26,000
digital downloads sold (up 208%)
#26
New 1 - Sam
Hunt with “Drinkin' Too Much” made a
debut at #3 (#26 Digital Songs) with sales around the 25,800 mark.
Little Big Town with “Better Man"
(writer Taylor Swift) fell 2-4 (#30-27
Digital Songs) in their 13th frame.
Jon Pardi with “Dirt On My Boots”
slipped 3-5 (#35 non-mover Digital
Songs) in his 16th frame.
Florida Georgia Line featuring Tim McGraw with
“May We All” fell 4-6 (#41-40 Digital
Songs) in their 26th frame
Brett Young with “Sleep Without You” was a non-mover at #7 in his 31st week.
Rascal Flatts with “Yours If You Want It” made a debut at #8 selling 13,000 copies
Michael Ray with “Think A Little Less” fell 8-9
in his fourth frame.
Thomas Rhett with “Star Of The Show” lifted 12-10
in this 15th frame
Outside the Top 10
Blake Shelton with “A Guy With A Girl” retreated 9-11
in his 13th frame
Brantley
Gilbert with “The Weekend” rose 17-12 in his 16th week as his album
pre-grat track “Tried To Tell Ya”
made a debut at #23.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
16
January 2017
The song is the fourth-consecutive chart-topper from her current album STORYTELLER, following "Church Bells" (july 2016), "Heartbeat" (March 14, 2016) and "Smoke Break" (Nov 23, 2015)
The song logged 8,972 radio
spins and 61.506 million audience impressions with 27111 Total Points from 158 tracking
stations for the tracking week January 7 to January 14, 2017 and published
chart January 16th 2017.
Kudos to Jimmy Rector and the EMI Nashville crew for notching 49 adds on Brothers Osborne’s “It Ain’t My Fault,”. The song topped the week’s "Most Added" board.
For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 533 - Jan 17, 2017 [PDF File]
For the very latest up to the minute Mediabase Chart (Past 7 Days) go here - www.mediabase.com
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #9
Event
Venue City/State: Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Buchanan Brisbane
Entertainment Centre Brisbane,
Australia
Dates:
Dec. 16-17, 2016 Gross Sales: $1,881,310 Attend: 18,585/ 18,920
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 | 335 tickets unsold Prices: $117.37, $82.74 Promoters: TEG Live
Rank
Artist: #34
Event
Venue City/State: Dolly Parton American Bank Center Corpus
Christi, Texas
Dates:
Dec. 2, 2016 Gross Sales: $350,161 Attend: 4,701/ 8,452
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 | 3751 tickets unsold Prices: $132, $42
Promoters:
Nederlander/ Paragon
Presents
Rank
Artist: #40
Event
Venue City/State: Cyndi Lauper & Friends Beacon Theatre New York,
N.Y.
Dates:
Dec. 3, 2016 Gross Sales: $309,041 Attend: 2,621/ 2,772
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 151 tickets unsold Prices:
$1,994, $494, $144, $34
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #67
Event
Venue City/State: Tribute to the Music of Linda
Ronstadt:
Grace Potter, Dawes, Jackson Browne, Maria Muldaur, J.D. Souther, Sara Watkins
Theatre at Ace Hotel Los Angeles, Calif.
Dates:
Dec. 11, 2016 Gross Sales: $162,278 Attend:
1,647/ 1,647
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$250, $49.50
Promoters: Goldenvoice/ AEG Live
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