Country
Billboard Chart News July 24, 2017
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of August 5, 2017)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (7 non-consecutive weeks) From A Room:
Volume 1 Chris Stapleton
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (24 weeks) ** “Body Like A Back
Road” Sam Hunt
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) "Yours If You Want It” Rascal Flatts
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (24 non-consecutive 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).
JAY-Z’s
4:44 notched a second week at No.1
on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
(BB200). The set, which bowed atop the tally a week ago, earned 87,000
equivalent album units in the week ending July 20, according to Nielsen Music.
That sum is down 67% compared to its bow of 262,000.
4:44
sold 60,737 in traditional album sales
in its second week (down 65% from 173,000).
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.
Chris Stapleton with From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) held
at #1 for a 7th non-consecutive week
(#30-23 Billboard 200) selling 12,469 copies (up 18%; 11-week total 454,900)
Stapleton’s
TRAVELLER
(MERCURY/ UMGN) fell 2-3 (33-30 BB200) selling 7,900 copies (up 25%, 116-week total 2,016,700).
Zac Brown Band with WELCOME HOME (Southern Ground/Elektra/Atlantic Group) climbed 14-2 (98-25 BB200) selling 13,488 copies
(up 212%; 10-week total 241,600).
It was the biggest selling country album this
chart frame.
Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) fell 3-4 (#38-36 BB200) selling
4,888 copies (up 2%; 7-week total 70,612).
Keith Urban with RIPCORD (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville)
fell 4-5 (#39-41 BB200) selling 4,575 copies
(up 5%; 63-week total 628,000).
Lady Antebellum with HEART BREAK (Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville), rose
7-6 (47-43
Billboard 200) selling 7,481 copies (up 2.6%; 6-week total 97,701).
Brett Young with self-titled debut (BMLG) held at #8 (#49-52 BB200) selling 3,310 copies
(23-week total 107,800).
Florida Georgia Line with DIG YOUR ROOTS (BMLG) held at #6
(#44-56 BB200) selling 1,634 copies (down 12%; 47-week total 409,600).
Jon Pardi with California Sunrise fell 9-10 (65-69 BB200) selling 1,855 copies (up 5%; 57-week total 165,900)
Outside the
Top 10
Kane Brown with
self-titled KANE BROWN (Zone 4/RCA
Nashville) rose 12-11 (#82-75 BB200) selling
2,455 copies
(up 4%; 33-week total 171,100).
Various Artists with Now That's What I Call Country Volume 10 (Universal Music Group)
fell #10-13 (#66-84 Billboard 200)
selling 7,159 copies (down 11%; 6-week total 64,087).
Maren Morris with HERO (Columbia Nashville) fell 15-18
(108-141 Billboard 200) selling 1,676 copies
(59-week total 238,500).
Miranda Lambert with THE WEIGHT OF THESE WINGS (Vanner/ RCA Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) fell 20-23 (132-160
BB200) selling 1,939 copies (down 4%; 35-week
total 372,490).
Outside the Top 25
Jason Isbell & The 400
Unit with THE NASHVILLE SOUND (Southeastern/Thirty Tigers), fell 16-26 (#111-171 BB200) selling 3,987 copies
(down 21%; 5-week total 80,660).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Mitchell Tenpenny with his 6 track LINDEN AVE (Riser House Records; Amazon UK - Amazon.com )
made a debut at No.12 selling 2,112 copies
Named after the
street his grandmother Donna Hilley (Sony/ATV Music Publishing President and CEO),
a pioneering music executive and inspiration to Mitchell, once lived, the
adventurous, genre-bending EP flies in the face of the contemporary country
formula.
On the six tracks — all of which Tenpenny co-wrote — the limitless
songwriter showcases a diverse set of influences ranging from Michael Jackson
and John Mayer to the Oak Ridge Boys and R. Kelly.
The EP’s debut
track is unapologetically titled “Bitches” and is a buoyant anthem for
anyone who has ever been cheated on in a relationship. “I kept thinking about
that lousy feeling — It wasn’t about a specific girl or girls in general, but
about people who cheat. A guy can cheat and I’d call him a bitch,” said
Tenpenny. “Yeah, it can be a harsh word, but in our song, it’s about a feeling
more than a curse.”
‘Linden Ave’
features radio-friendly tracks like “Truck I Drove In High School,” “Mixed
Drinks,” and “Laid Back” — all of which exhibit
Tenpenny’s crystalline voice that dips and dives on command. Cuts like “Make
It To The Party” and “If The Boot Fits (Acoustic)” also
exemplify his hyper-creative songwriting.
“Country music
is grounded in authenticity and in blue-collar people working their asses off.
Everyone is working hard, whether it’s in the entertainment industry or with
their hands, and I want to be the voice for that,” says Tenpenny. “I also want
you to believe in everything I sing… and get lost in it.” (Source: The Country Note)
Falling
Short of the charts:
Lewis Brice with his 6 track self-titled
(EP) (Pump House Music; Amazon UK - Amazon.com) sold 500
copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
11,249,000 (Physical sales 7,559,000
(down -13.0%) + Digital sales 3,690,000 (down -19.3%) which is 15.2% down at the same point in 2016 (13,259,000
sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
40,093,000 down 23.6% at the same point in 2016 (52,499,000)
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:
Sam Hunt with “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA Nashville) tied the record for the
most weeks spent atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, as it earned its 24th week at No.1 on the survey dated
Aug. 5. “Back Road” equals the 24-week reign of Florida Georgia Line’s debut
single, “Cruise,” in 2012 and 2013.
Hot Country Songs chart launched as an all-encompassing
genre survey in October 1958. (It had been purely airplay-based, powered by
Nielsen Music, since 1990; in 2012, it transitioned to its current multimetric
methodology.)
“Making history is fun, and this summertime smash keeps
going and going,”
Universal Music Group Nashville chairman/CEO Mike Dungan told Billboard.
“The audience response has been Beatle-esque at his
sold-out live shows.”
For now, at least, “Back Road” — co-written by Hunt, Zach
Crowell, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne — is a stand-alone single following
Hunt’s debut full-length, 2014’s Montevallo, which has sold 1.3 million copies
in the United States to date, according to Nielsen Music.
As for a potential follow-up LP, “Sam has been writing,
and he’s going to do things on his time schedule,” UMGN president Cindy Mabe
recently told Billboard, adding that “Back Road” is “just a cool, laid-back
song that’s also really soulful.”
Along with its 24-week domination on Hot Country Songs,
“Back Road” likewise led Country Streaming Songs (16.7 million U.S. streams,
down 3%) and Country Digital Song Sales (46,000 downloads sold, down
less than 1%) for a 24th week each.
On Country Airplay, “Back Road” ruled for three weeks
beginning on the chart dated May 6. It declined 4-6 in its 25th week, down 4%
to 35 million audience impressions at the format. It spent a record-breaking 16
weeks in the top five.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (24
weeks) ** “Body Like A Back Road” Sam
Hunt
** Digital Gainer
** No.3 “My Girl” Dylan Scott
** Streaming
Gainer ** No.7 “Small Town Boy” Dustin
Lynch
** Airplay Gainer ** No.9 “Do I Make You Wanna”
Billy Currington
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.27 “Po-Dunk” Kid Rock
Debut
No.47 “Singles You Up” Jordan Davis
Debut
No.48 “She's With Me” High Valley
Rascal
Flatts rolled up its 14th Country Airplay No.1, as “Yours If You Want It” (Big Machine)
ascended 2-1 in its 29th week on the chart, increasing 6% to 41 million
audience impressions.
With its latest Country Airplay leader, Rascal Flatts takes the lead for
the most No.1s by groups with three members or more, passing Zac Brown Band
(13).
Tim McGraw leads all acts, with 29 No.1s (dating to the chart’s 1990
launch).
“Yours,” written by Andrew Dorff and Jonathan Singleton, is the lead
single from Rascal Flatts’ Back to Us LP, which debuted at No.2 on the June
10-dated Top Country Albums chart. The group first scaled the Country Airplay
summit almost 15 years ago, when “These Days” reached No.1 for its first of
three weeks on top on the chart dated Nov. 30, 2002.
Old
Dominion notched its fourth top
10 on both Hot Country Songs and
Country Airplay with “No Such Thing As
a Broken Heart” (RCA Nashville). On Hot Country Songs, the track hopped
11-10; on Country Airplay, it jumped 12-8, up 7% to 30.9 million in
audience.
Justin
Moore with “Somebody
Else Will” (Valory) became his ninth top
10 (11-10; 30.7 million, up 5%).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** "Yours If You Want It” Rascal Flatts 41.824 million audience (+2.335 million) / 7,581 radio
plays (+626)
** Most
Increased Audience ** No.4 “Do I Make You Wanna” Billy Currington +5.184 million audience gain
** Most
Added ** No.19 “All The Pretty Girls” Kenny
Chesney (22 ADDS)
**
Hot Shot Debut ** No.45 “All On Me” Devin
Dawson
Debut
No.48 “Like I Loved You” Brett Young
Debut
No.58 “Broken Halos” Chris Stapleton
Debut
No.59 “What The Hell Did I Say” Dierks Bentley
Debut
No.60 “Get To You” Michael Ray
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Sam Hunt with “Body Like a Back Road”
(MCA Nashville) held at No.1 (#7-5 Digital
Songs; 46,000 sales;
25-week total 1,388,000) leading the chart for a 23rd non-consecutive week.
It
rebounded 10-9 on the Hot 100 after reaching No.6. On the Hot Country Songs
chart, the single tied a historic mark: it reigned for a record-tying 25th
week, matching the rule of Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" in
2012-13.
It
was six places behind Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber with
"Despacito" which dominated
the Digital Song Sales chart for an 12th week, with 118,000 downloads sold
(down 6%) in the week ending July 20, according to Nielsen Music; the remix
with Bieber accounted for 77% of the song's sales for a second consecutive week
(and in line with its breakdown in recent weeks).
Dylan Scott with “My Girl” climbed 10-2 (#30 New Entry Digital
Songs; 18,000 sales; 26-week total 331,000)
KID ROCKS - After the Republican
announced a possible run for the U.S. Senate in his home state of Michigan, “Po-Dunk”
rebounds onto Country Digital Songs at a career-best No. 3 (#31 Digital
Songs; 16,000 sales). On Hot Country Songs, it
debuted at No.27, his highest entrance.
Dustin Lynch with “Small Town Boy rose 5-4 (#40-32 Digital
Songs; 16,000 sales; 21-week total 244,000).
Brett Young with “In Case You Didn’t Know” fell
2-5 (#32-33 Digital Songs; 16,000
sales; down 6%; 42-week total 810,000)
Midland with “Drinkin’
Problem” rose 8-6 (#45-34 Digital Songs; 15,000 sales; 14-week
total 218,000).
Keith Urban with “The Fighter,” featuring Carrie Underwood (Hit Red/Capitol
Nashville), fell 4-7 (#37-35 Digital Songs; 15,000 sales; 28-week total 710,000).
Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina with
“What
If’s” rose 9-8 (#38
Digital Songs; 14,000 sales; 10-week total 182,000).
Lady Antebellum with “You Look Good” rose 13-9 (#40 Re-Entry Digital Songs; 14,000 sales; 26-week total 344,000).
Thomas Rhett feat. Maren Morris with “Craving
You” fell 7-10 (#42 Digital
Songs; 13,000 sales; 16-week total 291,000).
Outside the Top 10
Chris Stapleton with “Tennessee Whiskey” rose 23-11 (12,000 sales; 83-week total
1,245,000)
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
24
July 2017
Rascal Flatts
Land 15th Career #1 With 'Yours If You Want It
Congrats
to Rascal Flatts, Kris Lamb, Erik Powell and the Big Machine promotion staff on landing this week’s No.1 with “Yours
If You Want It.” The chart-topper is the first single from their album
BACK TO US. Writers are Jonathan Singleton and the late Andrew Dorff. This is
FLATTS' 15th career chart-topper.
"‘Yours
if You Want It’" (Big Machine) logged 8,264 radio spins (+776)
and 53.78 million
audience impressions (+3.962 million) with 24706 Total Points from 158 tracking
stations for the tracking week July 16 to July 22, 2017 and published chart
July 24th 2017.
Michael Ray Is
Most-Added With 'Get To You'
Kudos
to Adrian Michaels and the WEA crew
on notching 36 adds for Michael Ray’s “Get
To You”. The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
 |
| Atlantic WEA Staffers celebrate Michael Ray's Most Added for 'Get To You' |
Mediabase Adds
Artist/Title
(Label) TW
Total Historic Adds
MICHAEL
RAY/Get To You (Atlantic/WEA) 36 47
DARIUS
RUCKER/For The First Time (Capitol) 28 31
BRETT
YOUNG/Like I Loved You (BMLGR) 16 69
DIERKS
BENTLEY/What The Hell Did I Say (Capitol) 13 57
BRAD
PAISLEY/Last Time For Everything (Arista)
11 140
FIONA
CULLEY/Act Like A Lady (Marro/in2une)
4 4
DANIELLE
BRADBERY/Sway (BMLGR) 2 2
SHANIA
TWAIN/Life's About To Get Good (Mercury)
1 36
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #26
Event
Venue City/State: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill,
Rachel Platten Staples Center
Los Angeles, Calif.
Dates:
July 14-15, 2017 Gross Sales: $2,028,973 Attend:
25,571/ 25,571
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$129.50, $99.50, $69.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #35
Event
Venue City/State: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill,
Rhiannon Giddens Citizens
Business Bank Arena Ontario, Calif.
Dates:
July 22, 2017 Gross Sales: $963,746 Attend:
8,903/ 8,903
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$129.50, $99.50, $69.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #64
Event
Venue City/State: Brad Paisley, Dustin Lynch,
Chase Bryant, Lindsay Ell Isleta
Amphitheater Albuquerque, N.M.
Dates:
July 14, 2017 Gross Sales: $431,339 Attend:
14,695/ 17,000
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (2,305 unsold tickets) Prices: $69, $20
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #95
Event
Venue City/State: Lee Brice, Easton Corbin United Wireless Arena Dodge City, Kan.
Dates:
July 7, 2017 Gross Sales: $73,765 Attend:
2,013/ 3,042
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,029 unsold tickets) Prices: $59, $29
Promoters: VenuWorks
Rank
Artist: #107
Event
Venue City/State: The Oak Ridge Boys Bob Hope Theatre Stockton, Calif.
Dates:
Feb. 16, 2017 Gross Sales: $44,478 Attend:
782/ 1,886
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,104 unsold tickets) Prices: $72.50, $35
Promoters:
Richter Entertainment Group
