Country
Billboard Chart News April 10, 2017
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of
April 22, 2017)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (3 non-consecutive weeks) ** THE WEIGHT
OF THESE WINGS Miranda Lambert
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (9 weeks) ** “Body Like A Back
Road” Sam Hunt
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** "Road Less Traveled” Lauren Alaina
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (10 weeks) ** “Body Like A Back
Road” Sam Hunt
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
There
was no stopping Drake at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200), as MORE LIFE spent a third straight week atop the list. The set earned
136,000 equivalent album units in
the week ending April 6, according to Nielsen Music. That sum was a decline of
40% compared to its second-week earnings: 226,000 units.
More
Life is the first album to spend its first three chart weeks at No. 1 since
Drake’s own Views, back on June 4, 2016. (Views spent its first nine weeks at
No. 1, following its debut atop the tally dated May 21. Views then later
returned three more weeks in the penthouse from July 30-Aug. 13, and then one
further frame at No. 1 on Oct. 8.)
More
Life is still powered greatly by its streaming activity, as 111,000 of its units are SEA (equalling
167 million streams of songs from the album in the tracking week). The album
also tallied 16,252
in traditional
album pure sales, and 9,000 TEA
units.
Top
Country Albums now ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as
compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA)).
10 digital track sales from an
album = 1 track equivalent album (TEA)
“sale”
1,500 on demand song streams from
an album to one streaming equivalent album (SEA) “sale”.
Nielsen
Music compiles the sales and streaming data. Billboard continues to publish pure album sales charts (subscription to
billboard biz ), exclusively comprising
Nielsen’s sales data.
THE POWER OF TV & AND
AWARD SHOWS:
Country Sales Surge After ACM Awards
Country Sales Surge After ACM Awards
Country music sales increases for the week ending Thursday April 6, 2017 underscored how impactful a live TV awards show performance can be. Last week, NIELSEN MUSIC shared impressive percentage bumps (April 4) following “The 52nd Academy Of Country Music Awards.”
Miranda Lambert, who won Female Vocalist and Album of the Year for THE WEIGHT OF THESE WINGS (Vanner/ RCA
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville), returned to the Top Country
Lambert
sang new single “Tin Man” at the festivities; which re-entered Hot Country Songs
at a new No.5 high.
2nd
WEEK FALLS: By contrast RaeLynn headed in the opposite
direction with her debut LP WILDHORSE
(Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville). Last week’s #1 in its second frame it
fell 1-32 (20-152 BB200) selling 3,234 copies (down 80%; 2-week
sales 19,681). Lindsay Ell with debut EP WORTH THE WAIT fell off the top 50
following a #28 debut.
Keith Urban with RIPCORD (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville)
held at fell #2 (#25-13
BB200) selling 17,364
copies (up 87%; 48-week total 525,900). Urban performed three songs from that album
during the ACM broadcast: “Wasted Time,” “The Fighter” (with Carrie Underwood),
and “Blue Ain’t Your Color.”
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) was a non-mover at #3 (#35-32 BB200) selling 8,584 copies
(up 42%; 101 week total 1,886,600).
Florida Georgia Line with DIG YOUR ROOTS (BMLG) held at #4
(#38-33 BB200) selling 4,454 copies (up 53%; 32-week total 372,000).
Trace Adkins with SOMETHING’S GOING ON (Wheelhouse/Broken Bow Music Group) made a
debut at No.5 (#35 BB200) selling 13,442 copies (the week’s 15th best
seller in America). It marked his 14th top 10 and highest rank since 2011.
Chart
History: Adkins landed his sixth top 20 album when LOVE WILL (released May 14,
2013) debuted No.6 (#14 Billboard 200) selling 24,769 units (17,683 Physical + 7,086 Digital). Adkins has climbed as
high as #3 twice, with 2006’s DANGEROUS MAN and the August 2, 2011 release
PROUD TO BE HERE which opened with sales of 46,562 copies.
Critical
reception for Trace
Adkins’ Something’s Going On:
Roughstock (Rating: Mixed) ..Now with Wheelhouse Records, Trace Adkins has selected a collection of
songs which suit his rich voice and overall style. There are a few moments of
modern country radio influence in “Gonna Make You Miss Me” and “Ain’t Just The
Whiskey
Country Standard Time (Rating: Mostly Positive)..Trace Adkins' wonderful low singing voice
can be a little deceptive because he could easily sing utter crap and still
somehow sound great. It's why the critical ear must pay close attention to
specifically what he's saying in his songs whenever evaluating his work. Adkins
doesn't write his own songs, so he's entirely dependent upon stellar writers.
Thankfully, "Something's Going On" is a better than average
collection of songs, especially good for Adkins, as he sings them all so well… The something that's always going on
with Adkins is his God-given singing voice. And God's also granted some fine
songs to use it for on with this release.
Digital Journal (Rating: 2 STARS) Trace Adkins flops on new album 'Something's Going On' SPECIAL: Country
singer Trace Adkins is back with his new album, "Something's Going
On," and there are a lot of misses on this new CD.
It opens with the mid-tempo yet mediocre
"Ain't Just the Whiskey Talkin'" and his Top 45 single "Jesus
and Jones." The only highlight track in the first half of the album is the
ballad "Watered Down," which has a retro vibe to it...."I'm
Gone" is another filler track, that will only please his fans that
enjoy"Honky Tonk Badonkadonk." Equally lackluster is "Country
Boy Problems" and his single "Lit" failed to chart on the
Billboard country charts entirely, and rightfully so....Overall, Trace Adkins'
new album Something's Going On has many misses. It sounds rushed, overproduced
and the majority of the songs are forgettable. Out of the 12 songs on this
project, only four tracks are remarkable
Saving Country Music (Rating: 1.1/2 Guns DOWN (2.5/10) Give Trace Adkins credit for cutting more
personal material with “Jesus and Jones,” and “Watered Down.” But that’s about
where the positivity for Something’s Going On begins and ends. “Whippoorwills
and Fright Trains” is fine. “Gonna Make You Miss Me” would have been a good
premise, but like most of this record, it suffers from this list-tastic
approach to B-level Bro-Country songwriting and production that makes this
record forgettable, or at least you’d like to forget it unless you’re scarred
from listening and you can’t....Let this be a lesson for artists in this aging
demographic: Don’t even worry about the radio. Just do you. It’s not going to
be commercially successful anyway, so you might as well greet the twilight of
your career in control, and with some of your dignity still in tact. Trace Adkins
tried to do this in Something’s Going On, talking about sobriety and slowing
down. But he ultimately fell back into his old habits
ACM 2017 New Female Vocalist of the
Year and performer Maren Morris with HERO (Columbia Nashville | SMN) lifted 14-6 (92-39 BB200) selling 7,298 copies
(up 146%).
Reba McEntire with Sing It Now: Songs Of Faith & Hope
(Rockin' R/Nash Icon | BMLG) advanced 19-7
(112-43 BB200) selling 10,053 copies (up 80%; 9-week total 145,700).
ACM 2017 Male Vocalist of the Year Thomas Rhett with TANGLED UP (Valory) rose 11-10 (#64-46 BB200)
selling 3,433 copies (up 63%; 80-week total 561,300).
Outside the
Top 10
Brett Young with self-titled debut (BMLG) fell 5-11
(#41-51 BB200) selling 4,188 copies (up 1.5%; 8-week
total 47,500).
ACM 2017 Group of the Year Little Big Town with THE BREAKER (Capitol
Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 9-12 (#61-53 Billboard 200) selling with 6,135 copies (up 12%; 6-week total 88,900).
Jon Pardi with CALIFORNIA SUNRISE fell 7-13
(#45-55 BB200) selling 3,920 copies (up 2%; 42-week
total 134,800).
ACM 2017 Entertainer of the Year Jason Aldean with THEY DON'T
KNOW (Macon/Broken Bow) slipped 13-14
(#91-60 BB200) selling 4,291 copies (up 56%; 30-week total 361,800).
Brantley Gilbert with THE DEVIL DONT SLEEP (Valory) fell 10-17 (#62-75 BB200) with 4,487 copies
sold (down 2%; 10-week total 148,300).
Kane Brown with self-titled set Kane Brown fell 16-21 (#99-103 BB200) selling 4,194 copies (up 8%; 18-week total 132,100)
Josh Turner with DEEP SOUTH (MCA Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 18-25 (#111-132 BB200) selling 3,272
copies (down 13%, 4-week total 31,000).
Outside the
Top 25
Alison Krauss with former #1 WINDY CITY (Capitol), fell 23-42
(#125 BB200) selling 3,739 copies (down 30%; 7-week
total 90,400)
Rodney Crowell with CLOSE TIES (New West) made a debut at #28 (#138 BB200) selling 5,143 copies
the 8th best selling country album of the week.
It’s
his first CD since TARPAPER SKY (#168
Billboard 200, #25 Country debut 3,000 copies). He gets help from ex-wife
Rosanne Cash and Willie Nelson harmonica player Mickey Raphael on the disc
along with Sheryl Crow.
Critical
reception for Rodney Crowell’s Close Ties:
Slant Magazine (Rating: 4.1/2 STARS) ....Crowell understands that a memoir can encompass
any number of topics—relationships, career, deaths, and departures—but that
it's always fundamentally about memory itself. That's critical on a song like
“It Ain't Over Yet,” which leverages its perspective to make it one of the
sharpest, funniest, and most affecting songs Crowell has ever written....Close
Ties tells the story of a life, and it does so unflinchingly. There's gratitude
in the moments of triumph, grace in the stories of defeat, and wisdom born from
each misstep along the way. Crowell gives these songs the color they deserve,
and both as a writer and a singer he approaches them with total honesty. The
album is a reckoning with his own prickly memory, and it's a bounty of
weathered emotion and hard-won wisdom.
American Songwriter (Rating: 3.1/2 STARS)...Crowell’s brutally honest musings on his
life and loves is a case-study that makes the reflective Close Ties a poignant
and emotionally affecting portrait of one of American music’s most captivating,
talented and honest artists.
Allmusic (Rating: 4 STARS) In his song "Nashville 1972,"
Rodney Crowell looks back on his early days in the music business, meeting
heroes and legends such as Willie Nelson, Tom T. Hall, and Harland Howard, and
occasionally making a fool of himself, as men in their early twenties are
likely to do. That song closes out Crowell's 2017 album Close Ties, and it's a
fitting footnote to an album by an artist who, in his own way, is as much of a
hero as any of the artists he cites in the song 45 years later. .......Close
Ties shows that it's possible to be an experienced professional and still make
music that's emotionally urgent and immediate; it's also a reminder that Rodney
Crowell was and remains a talent to be reckoned with, and this album shows he's
a long, long way from used up.
Pop Matters (Rating: 8/10) ..The excellence of Close Ties lies in
Crowell’s ability to tell stories about himself and others that ring fresh and
true. After more than 50 years as a recording artist, he’s still able to create
evocative songs that linger in one’s head long after the disc has finished
playing.
The Mavericks with BRAND NEW DAY (Mono Mundo) made a debut at #31 selling 4,908 copies the 10th best country seller of the chart frame and 44th
top selling album in the US.
The
Mavericks release an independent studio disc six months after putting out a
live recording. The 10 songs cover rock, Cuban jazz, folk, blues and
rockabilly. It’s their first independent studio album on their own label Mono
Mundo Recordings/Thirty Tigers. After years on major labels, The Mavericks
chose to set a new course with the founding of Mono Mundo and the release of
their first live album, 2016’s captivating All Night Live, Volume 1.
Critical
reception for The Mavericks Brand New Day:
American Songwriter (Rating: 3.5 out of 5
stars) ...From the jaunty, grin-inducing,
accordion and banjo propelled opener “Rolling Along” that wouldn’t be out of
place in a Western saloon, to the honking sax of the bouncy night clubby “I
Think of You” (with its opening “A moonlight serenade” crooning lyrics) to the
sprawling, Phil Spector enhanced “Brand New Day” and “I Wish You Well,” this is
the Mavericks in full bloom. Unencumbered by commercial suits’ expectations of
sales or radio play, the band is free to follow its own “non-gen” (as drummer
Paul Deakin describes it) path.
There’s nothing “brand new”
about the Mavericks’ music; yet in this era of by-the-numbers, narrowly
pigeon-holed playing, the group’s inclusive, adventurous vision is refreshingly
unconventional and truly alternative. And just try to get through this album
without breaking out in a huge grin.
Roughstock (Rating: Positive) ….With the same clarity and sonic pleasures of
their past records, with "Brand New Day," the Mavericks have
delivered a record that only they can make....These are songs that you (mostly)
want to get up and groove to. “Easy As It Seems” and “Rolling Along” feel like
the perfect pairing of songs for their live show while “Think Of You” feels
like it’s from a bygone era with some horns reminiscent of the roaring 20s
blending with a 50s like song. Always in pristine voice, chief songwriter and
lead vocalist Raul Malo is without a doubt one of the best vocalists in all of
music and he showcases it on this track and on the title track, a song which
feels like it was unearthed from a bygone era. It’s hopeful, harmonic and just
blissful....With every record they make, The Mavericks distance themselves from
the pack as a singular entity on the modern musical landscape. It is the band’s
ability to blend sounds of multiple genres into a cohesive sound is what makes
Brand New Day such an enticing record.
Allmusic
(Rating: 4 STARS) ...On their ninth
studio album, 2017's Brand New Day, the Mavericks kick things off with
"Rolling Along," a sprightly tejano-flavored number that seems to be
a testament to optimism, but on closer inspection turns out to be a ringing
endorsement of smoking reefer... In terms of the quality of the songs and
performances, and the breadth of the Mavericks' vision, Brand New Day is as
good as anything they've done since 1998's ambitious Trampoline. And if this
isn't necessarily better than that LP, that's because that album confirmed just
how much this group could do, while this one shows they're still doing it.
...They're demonstrating they can write and play as well as anyone in pop and
country in 2017, and the album is a rich, thoroughly satisfying delight.
Dailey & Vincent with PATRIOTS AND POETS fell short of the Billboard top 50 Country
albums but landed at #44 on Country Album Sales.
Year-To-Date Albums
5,306,000 (Physical sales 3,579,000
(down -11.3%) + Digital sales 1,727,000 (down -18.7%) which is 13.8% down at the same point in 2016 (6,155,000
sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
19,533,000 down 23.1% at the same point in 2016 (25,391,000)
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:
ACMs EFFECT
Sam Hunt with “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA Nashville) topped Hot Country Songs
for a ninth week and became the first country hit to reach the Billboard Hot
100’s top 10 (revving 12-6) since Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” in 2013. It’s
also the fourth-best-selling song (616,000 since its Feb. 1 release) among all
genres, year to date.
Following Hunt’s performance of the song on the 52nd annual Academy of Country Music Awards
on April 2 (broadcast live on CBS), “Body” hiked 19% to 70,000 downloads sold
and led Country Digital Song Sales for a 10th week. It ruled Country Streaming
Songs for a ninth week, up 4% to 13.8 million U.S. streams, while lifting 5-4
on Country Airplay (37.8 million in audience, up 15%).
Thomas
Rhett and Maren Morris combined
forces at the ACMs to perform their new single “Craving You” (Valory),
which soared 46-5 on Hot Country
Songs, marking Rhett’s eighth top 10 and Morris’ second; she first hit No. 5
with “My Church” in 2016. “Craving” bows at No. 2 on Country Digital Song Sales
(54,000).
Lady
Antebellum, who performed “You Look Good” (Capitol Nashville)
with backing from members of the UNLV Marching Band, rocketed to its 13th Hot
Country Songs top
10 (21-9) and first since 2014,
fueled by a 320% sales surge to 41,000 downloads
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (9 weeks)/
Airplay Gainer ** “Body Like A Back Road” Sam
Hunt
** Digital
& Streaming Gainer ** No.5 “Craving You” Thomas Rhett featuring Maren
Morris
** Hot Shot
Debut ** No.49 “California” Big & Rich
Alaina Takes ‘Road Less Traveled’ To No.
1 On Country Airplay
Lauren
Alaina banked her first No.1 with her sixth entry on
Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated April 22), as “Road Less Traveled” (19/Interscope/Mercury) ascended 3-1
in its 34th week, increasing 9% to 43.8 million audience impressions,
according to Nielsen Music.
Co-written by Alaina, Meghan Trainor and Jessie
Frasure, the song is the title track from Alaina’s second LP, which debuted at
No. 3 on Top Country Albums (Feb. 18).
“It feels very weird, almost surreal,” Alaina, 22, told Billboard of her new leader. “I have been waiting five years for this. I handed in this song four years ago, so seeing it rise to the top feels so good. My goal was top 20 at first, and when it got into the top 10, I wanted to go all the way. Thanks so much to everyone for sticking with me this long.”
Alaina, who finished as the runner-up to Scotty McCreery on the 2011
season of American Idol, previously peaked at No. 28 on Country Airplay with “Georgia Peaches” (2012), her second
charted single. She has notched two other top 40-charting songs: her 2011
debut, “Like My Mother Does” (No.
36), and 2012’s “Eighteen Inches”
(No. 34).
The song logged 8,916 radio spins (+789) and 59.692 million audience impressions (+4.13 million) with 26800 Total Points from 158 tracking stations for the tracking week April 2 to April 8, 2017 and published chart April 10th 2017.
Lauren Shares Emotional Facebook Live video:
Apparently having the number one song in the country does not make you less of a dork. Forever on the #RoadLessTraveled #ohhhhh pic.twitter.com/KiXFHAutau— Lauren Alaina (@Lauren_Alaina) 8 April 2017
“It’s been amazing and fun to witness this evolution and transformation
from a wacky teenager who parlayed her incredible voice and infectious
personality into success on a TV talent show to a legit songwriter, artist and
star,” says Universal Music Group Nashville chairman/ CEO Mike Dungan.
“I think this is the first really mature song that she’s released,” says
KKBQ Houston PD Johnny Chiang. “She’s worked really hard throughout her
career,” adds WBWL Boston PD Lance Houston.
“After [“Road”] overcame that difficult Nos. 60-30 region of the chart, it seemed that research kicked in.”
“After [“Road”] overcame that difficult Nos. 60-30 region of the chart, it seemed that research kicked in.”
Meanwhile, singer-songwriter/pop star Trainor earned her second Country
Airplay No.1 as a writer, following Rascal Flatts’ “I Like the Sound of That”
(April 30, 2016), another co-write with Frasure — who’s now up to six leaders
on the list as a writer — as well as Shay Mooney (of Dan + Shay).
For all the effort to discuss the "women in country music"
problem at hand (and lots of lovely "Proud Tomato" tank-tops), little
progress has actually been made.....With "Road Less Traveled," Alaina
has reached a place where radio came to her. Which is what women, from Lambert
to Morris, have often had to do all along: define the terms of their own
success. From time to time, country radio may help get them there, but Alaina
proved that women don't need approval to make their best art.
On Country Airplay, Luke Combs’ debut hit, “Hurricane,”
(River House/Columbia Nashville) hits the top 10 (11-9; 27.7 million, up 14%).
Country
Airplay
***
No. 1 (1 week) *** "Road Less Traveled” Lauren Alaina 43.790 million audience (+3.723 million) / 8,274 radio
plays (+696)
** Most
Increased Audience ** No.4 “Body Like a Back Road” Sam Hunt 4.906 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.28 “Craving You” Thomas
Rhett feat. Maren Morris (40 ADDS)
**
Hot Shot Debut ** No.53 “Tin Man” Miranda
Lambert
Debut
No.56 “Happy People” Little Big Town
Debut
No.60 “Own It” Bailey Bryan
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Sam Hunt with “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA Nashville) held at No.1 on the Billboard Country Song Sales Chart for a tenth week. On the overall Digital Song Sales chart, it slipped back
one place 3-4, three places behind the No.1 “Humble” by Kendrick Lamar (111,000
downloads sold, in the week ending April 6, according to Nielsen Music).
As
it leds the Hot Country Songs chart for a ninth week, Hunt's "Body Like a
Back Road" leapt 12-6 on the Hot 100. The track, which Hunt performed at
the Academy of Country Music Awards April 2, bulleted at No. 4 on Digital Song
Sales (70,000 sales, up 19%) and travelled
32-23 on Radio Songs (46 million, up 16%) and 31-24 on Streaming Songs (13.8
million, up 4%).
It's
the first Hot Country Songs No.1 to hit the Hot 100's top 10 but not have
crossed over to Pop Songs since Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem"
in 2011. And, while Aldean was the last solo male before Hunt to send a Hot
Country Songs No. 1 into the Hot 100's top 10, "Back Road" is the
first Hot Country Songs leader among all acts to enter the Hot 100's top 10
since another driving song: Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise," which
led Hot Country Songs for a record 24 weeks in 2012-13 and reached No. 4 on the
Hot 100 in 2013.
52nd ACM Awards live
performance boost digital sales!
Following
their ACM performance Thomas Rhett feat. Maren Morris with
“Craving
You” made a debut at #2
(No.6 Digital Songs; 54,000 sales)
Keith Urban with “The Fighter,” featuring Carrie Underwood (Hit Red/Capitol
Nashville), lifted 5-3 (up 136%; #29-7
Digital Songs; 53,260
sales)
After
her stunning solo performance at the 52nd ACMs, Miranda Lambert with new radio single “Tin
Man” made a re-entry at #4 (No.9 Digital Songs; 40,000+
sales)
Lady Antebellum with “You Look Good” bumped 13-5 (No.11 Re-entry Digital Songs; 41,000
sales) in their 11th week.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill with
“Speak
to a Girl” (McGraw/Arista Nashville) fell 2-6 (8-15 Digital Songs) in their second week.
Brett Young with “In Case You Didn’t Know” fell
3-7 (#19-20 Digital Songs) in his
third week.
Florida Georgia
Line feat. Backstreet Boys with
“God,
Your Mama, And Me” held at #8 (No.24
Re-entry Digital
Songs).
Keith Urban with “Blue Ain’t Your Color” held
at #9 (26 Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Jon Pardi with “Dirt On My Boots” retreated 4-10 (#27-29 Digital
Songs) in his 28th frame.
Outside the Top 10
After their duet at the ACMs Reba McEntire & Lauren Daigle with
latest country radio single “Back To God” re-entered at #11 (#37
Re-Entry Digital
Songs).
Luke Combs with “Hurricane” fell 6-12 (#41 non-mover Digital
Songs) in his 19th week.
Little Big Town with “Better Man” fell 7-13 (#49-46 Digital Songs)
Brothers Osborne with “It Ain’t My Fault” made a
debut at #14 (#47 Digital Songs).
ACM
2017 New Female Vocalist of the Year winner Maren Morris with her new single “I
Could Use a Love Song” was new at #24.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
10
April 2017
Lauren Alaina Scores First
Career #1 With 'Road Less Traveled'
Congrats
to Lauren Alaina, Royce Risser, Damon Moberly, David Friedman and the Mercury
promotion staff on scoring this week’s No. 1 with “Road Less Traveled.”
The
song co-written by Alaina, Meghan Trainor and Jessie Frasure, is Alaina’s first
chart-topper.
The song logged 8,916 radio spins (+789) and 59.692 million audience impressions (+4.13 million) with 26800 Total Points from 158 tracking stations for the tracking week April 2 to April 8, 2017 and published chart April 10th 2017.
Kudos
to Dennis Reese and the RCA crew on
notching 50 adds for Miranda Lambert’s “Tin
Man”. The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
The
RCA Nashville staff celebrated this morning with breakfast, courtesy of All
Access Nashville. Pictured L-R: RCA Nashville SVP/Promotion Dennis Reese; Sony
Music Nashville Dir./National Promotion Lauren Thomas; RCA Nashville
Dir./Regional Promotion Matt Galvin, Promotion Specialist Nicole Walden – with
Mgr./Midwest Promotion “Flat Bubba,” or David “Bubba” Berry, Dir./Northeast
Promotion Dan Nelson, Mgr./West Coast Promotion Larry Santiago, and
Dir./Regional Promotion Elizabeth Sledge with RCA mascot Nipper
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #2
Event
Venue City/State: Sing Me Back Home: The Music
of Merle Haggard: Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Keith Richards
Bridgestone Arena Nashville, Tenn.
Dates:
April 6, 2017 Gross Sales: $1,229,400 Attend: 15,574/ 15,574
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$299.50, $25
Promoters:
Outback Concerts
Rank
Artist: #3
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church Staples Center Los Angeles,
Calif.
Dates:
March 31, 2017 Gross Sales: $1,042,599 Attend: 16,596/ 16,596
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$89, $15
Promoters:
Messina Touring
Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #24
Event
Venue City/State: Brantley Gilbert, Tucker
Beathard, Luke Combs, Brian
Davis Schottenstein Center, Columbus, Ohio
Dates:
April 8, 2017 Gross Sales: $357,269 Attend: 10,079/ 10,079
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$39.75, $29.75
Promoters:
Frank
Productions/NS2/CMoore Live
Rank
Artist: #80
Event
Venue City/State: Dwight Yoakam, Walker County Iron City
Birmingham, Ala.
Dates:
March 16, 2017 Gross Sales: $68,900 Attend: 1,300/ 1,300
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$53
Promoters:
in-house/Red Mountain
Entertainment
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