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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of October 7, 2017)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (2 weeks) LIFE CHANGES Thomas
Rhett
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (33 weeks) ** “Body Like A Back
Road” Sam Hunt
Country Airplay
** No.1 (4 weeks) "Small Town Boy” Dustin Lynch
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “What If’s” Kane Brown
feat. Lauren Alaina
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News (Chart issue week of
October 7, 2017)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Foo Fighters score their second No. 1
album on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart
(BB200), as their latest studio album, CONCRETE AND GOLD, debuted atop the
list. The set earned 127,000
equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 21, according to Nielsen Music.
Of that sum, 119,839
were in
traditional album sales, which also makes the effort the top-selling album of
the week. Concrete and Gold was released Sept. 15 through Roswell/RCA Records.
Foo
Fighters previously led the Billboard 200 with Wasting Light, which debuted at
No. 1 in 2011. In total, the group has notched 12 entries on the list, with
eight of those titles hitting the top 10. The band premiered on the tally dated
July 22, 1995, with its self-titled album, and reached the top 10 for the first
time with its second release, The Colour and the Shape, in 1997.
Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES, fell 1-3
No.3 with 39,000 units (down 68%).
Country
duo BIG & RICH nabbed its fourth top 10 effort, and first since 2007, as its new
album, DID IT FOR THE PARTY, arrived at No.9 with 27,000 units (26,225 in album sales). The pair last visited the top 10 with BETWEEN
RAISING HELL AND AMAZING Grace
(released June 5, 2007; Warner Bros. Nashville), back in June of 2007 with
debuted and peaked at No.6 (#1 Country) selling around 103,000 copies). The duo
first hit the chart in 2004 with HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR (released May 4,
2004; Warner Bros. Nashville), which topped out at No.6 (#1 Country).
Billboard Top Country
Albums (Chart issue week of
October 7, 2017)
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.
Based
on consumption data Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory) held tight at No.1 on the Billboard Top
Country Albums selling 20,424 copies (down 78%; 2-week total 114,456).
Big & Rich with their sixth full-length
album, DID IT FOR THE PARTY (B&R/Thirty
Tigers) made a debut at No.2 (#9 Billboard 200; 27,000 units) selling 26,225 in pure sales in its first
week (ending Sept. 21).
It launched at No.1 on Country Album Sales (outselling
Rhett by 5,800 copies).
The new set marks the duo’s sixth
Top Country Albums top 10.
CHART HISTORY
The
duo, Kenny Alphin and John Rich, made its highest Top Country Albums debut
since BETWEEN RAISING HELL AND AMAZING
GRACE began at No.1 on the chart
dated June 23, 2007 (with 103,000 sold).
Previous
set GRAVITY (released Sept 23, 2014;
Big & Rich Records) made a debut at No.8
Country (#51 Billboard 200) selling 7,000 copies;
HILLBILLY JEDI (released September 18,
2012; Warner Bros. Nashville) peaked at No.4
Country (#25 Billboard 200) selling 16,457 copies in its debut week.
PROMOTION: The larger-than-life
country duo rocked NBC's "TODAY
Show" Monday, Sept. 18 and entertained fans on “FOX & Friends" Tuesday, Sept. 19. In addition, Big Kenny
and John Rich went on a media blitz visiting Access Hollywood, Celebrity
Page, People Now and many more. They
will be the musical guest on "Jimmy
Kimmel Live!" October 2.
Critical
reception for Big & Rich’s Did It For The Party:
“Big
& Rich have always made a habit of pushing the boundaries with their sound......but
these days, their harmonies and their style owe just as much to the old school
anything. There's a cool throwback feel to "California" and a tender
side unlike no other song they've ever done on "My Son." You think
you know Big & Rich? Think again, my friends - they just keep getting
better and better!” – Chuck Dauphin,
Billboard (Sounds Like Nashville)
“Big & Rich Did It For The Party, but
they also did it from the heart. Fun, insight and humanity make this an
emotional party out of bounds.” – Mike Ragogna, Contributor, The Huffington Post
"Did It For the Party is Big & Rich at
their finest. Staying true to their roots, and the sound their fans love, Did
It For the Party proves Big & Rich are still willing to take chances, and
grow as artists. Combining sounds that are reminiscent of country music at its
core, with their own fresh, innovative interpretation, Did It For the Party
will go down in history as one of their finest pieces of work." –
Gayle Thompson, The Boot
In
his second week Dustin Lynch with his third studio set, CURRENT MOOD (Broken Bow/Broken Bow
Music Group) fell 2-3 (7-32
Billboard 200) selling 6,045 copies (down 77%; 2-week total 32,594).
Former
multi-week No.1 Luke
Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) rose 5-4 (#35-33 Billboard 200) selling 4,496
copies (16-week total 115,168).
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/
UMGN) rose 7-5
(44-41 Billboard 200) selling 5,387 copies
(up 4%; 125-week total 2,070,500). Stapleton’s From a Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) climbed 15-10
(88-74 BB200) selling 5,845 copies
(20-week total 519,400).
Kane Brown with
self-titled KANE BROWN (Zone 4/RCA
Nashville) fell 4-6 (#30-43 BB200) selling
2346 2,535 copies
(down 7%; 42-week total 194,400).
Brett Young with self-titled debut (BMLG) rose 9-7
(#67-59 BB200) selling 2,724 copies (up 3%; 32-week
total 136,300).
Sam Hunt with MONTEVALLO (MCA Nashville | UMGN) rose 10-8 (#70-64 BB200).
Jon Pardi with CALIFORNIA SUNRISE rose 11-9
(73-70 BB200) selling 1,773 copies (up 4.5%;
66-week total 182,500).
Outside the
Top 10
Florida Georgia Line with DIG YOUR ROOTS (BMLG) rose 12-11
(#74-76 BB200)
Old Dominion’s HAPPY ENDINGS (RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 8-12 (7-35 BB200) in their fourth week selling 2,630 copies
(down 30%; 4-week total 43,883).
In his second
frame Kip Moore with SLOWHEART (MCA Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) slumped 3-15 (#10-108 BB200) selling 4,022 copies (down 84%,
2-week total 29,033).
Maren Morris with HERO (Columbia Nashville | SMN) climbed 21-17 (163-145 BB200) selling 1,547 copies (68-week total 251,800).
Outside the Top 25
In
his second week Toby Keith with THE BUS SONGS (Show Dog/Thirty Tigers) fell 6-28 (falling off the Billboard 200 from #38) selling 3,589 copies (down 68%; 2-week
total 14,664)
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Stephanie Quayle with LOVE THE WAY YOU SEE ME (Rebel Engine; Amazon UK - UK iTunes -
Amazon.com)
rose 30-14 selling 2,407 copies (up 98% the 84th best seller in America
this chart frame; total sales to date 3,800).
Radney Foster with 11 track book/CD combination FOR YOU TO SEE THE STARS (Devil's River;
Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.35 selling 1,100 copies.
This is
Foster's 11th album and contains nine new songs plus a new recording of his
1999 hit "Raining On Sundays"
(also recorded by Keith Urban in 2003).
Year-To-Date Albums
14,331,000 (Physical sales 9,521,000
(down -15.9%) + Digital sales 4,809,000 (down -20.4%) which is 17.4% down at the same point in 2016 (17,359,000
sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
50,697,000 down 23.9% at the same point in 2016 (66,584,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs
(Chart issue week of
October 7, 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:
Sam Hunt with “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA Nashville) led for a record-extending
33rd week on the streaming-,
airplay- and sales-driven Hot Country Songs.
Two acts achieve top 10 success on the chart for the first time.
LANco with “Greatest
Love Story” (Arista Nashville) jumps 14-9, buoyed by multiple new chart peaks: It logged a 22% hike to
16,000 downloads sold, romping 9-5 on Country Digital Song Sales; increased 13%
to 3.3 million U.S. streams to lift 18-16 on Country Streaming Songs; and gained
by 12% to 17.9 million in radio audience as it rose 17-15 on Country Airplay.
“Story” is the band’s second charted single, following “Long Live Tonight,”
which peaked at Nos. 32 and 46, respectively, on Country Airplay and Hot
Country Songs.
Carly
Pearce with debut single, “Every Little Thing” (Big Machine),
pushed 12-10 on Hot Country Songs.
It entered the top 10 on Country Digital Song Sales for the first time (12-9;
up 16% to 11,000 sold) and returned to its high on Country Airplay (10-9;
increasing 10% to 26.1 million).
Chris
Stapleton with "Broken Halos" jumped 40-31 on Hot Country Songs, up 43% with
5,000 downloads sold, 38% to 2.1 million U.S. streams (See Country
Streaming Songs Chart dated Oct 7, 2017) and 22% to 4.2 million in radio
audience. Stapleton was one of many country artists who took part in the Sept.
12 Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief Telethon TV broadcast.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (33
weeks) ** “Body Like A Back Road” Sam
Hunt
**
Airplay Gainer” No.14 “I'll Name The Dogs” Blake
Shelton
** Digital
Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** No.18 “Losing Sleep” Chris Young
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.40 “Better Me” Montgomery Gentry
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of
October 7, 2017)
Marking a first for 2017, the same song
dominating Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Oct. 7) for four weeks.
Dustin
Lynch with “Small
Town Boy” (Broken Bow) led the Country Airplay chart for a fourth week,
earning 42.5 million audience impressions (down 4%) in the week ending
Sept. 24, according to Nielsen Music.
“Boy” scores the longest No. 1
stay since Thomas Rhett’s “Die a Happy Man” reigned for six frames starting on
the survey dated Jan. 2, 2016.
“Sometimes you have a song that everyone knows is the right one: the
artist, label, radio and listeners,” Broken Bow Records vp promotion Lee Adams
tells Billboard. “Clearly, ‘Boy’ is that song.”
The track, written by Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip and Kyle Fishman, is
Lynch’s fifth total and consecutive Country Airplay No. 1 among six top 10s.
His debut hit, “Cowboys and Angels,” reached No. 2 in 2012.
“Boy” “is the perfect song for the core country audience, and it
connected immediately,” says WYCD Detroit PD Tim Roberts. “It tested power from
day one and is just a rare song that never burns. I could play it for another
eight weeks in heavy rotation.”
“Boy” is now halfway to the
longest roll at No. 1 in the Country Airplay chart’s 27-year history: eight
weeks. Two songs have accomplished that feat — Lonestar’s 1999 smash
“Amazed” and Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffet’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”
(2003).
Chris
Janson notched his second Country Airplay top 10 as “Fix a Drink” (Warner Bros./WAR)
pushed 11-10 (23.5 million, up 12 percent). It follows 2015’s
No.3-peaking “Buy Me a Boat.”
Miranda Lambert with her CMA Single and Song
of the Year nominated ballad "Tin Man" climbed 30-26 in its
23rd week on Hot Country Songs. It was supported by its 30-28 bump (7.1 million, up 13%) to a new Country Airplay peak
and a 12% sales hike (to 6,000) as it rose 24-21 on Country Digital Song Sales.
The song also gained by 7% to 1.2 million U.S. streams.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (4 weeks) *** "Small Town Boy” Dustin
Lynch 45.639 million audience (+2.967 million) / 7,881 radio plays (+590)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.18 “I'll Name The Dogs” Blake Shelton 14.283 million audience gain
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.54 “Make A Little” Midland
Debut No.60 “Better Me” Montgomery Gentry
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
(Chart issue week of
October 7, 2017)
Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina with
“What
If’s” climbed 3-1 (#19-17 Digital Songs; 25,000 sales; 19-week
total 371,000) to top the Country
Digital Singles Chart, his second leader.
On the all
genre list it was 16 places behind Post
Malone's "Rockstar" which
blasted onto the Hot 100 at No.2, marking the rapper's second Hot 100 top 10.
It debuted at No.1 on both Streaming Songs (44.1 million) and Digital Song Sales (80,000 sales).
Kane
Brown with “Found You” (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) which
was the previous week’s No.1 slumped 1-25 (6,000 sales; down 82%; 2-week total
40,000)
Sam Hunt with
his 31 non-consecutive week No1 “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA
Nashville) rose 4-2 (#20-21 Digital Songs; 20,000 sales; 34-week total 1,663,000).
Luke Combs with “When It Rains It Pours”
(River House | Columbia Nashville) rose 6-3
(#30-27 Digital Songs; 17,000 sales; up 13%; 11-week total 170,000).
Thomas Rhett with “Unforgettable” (Valory)
rose 10-4 (#29 re-entry Digital
Songs; 16,000 sales; up 60%; 8-week total 120,000).
LANco with “Greatest Love Story” (Arista
Nashville) rose 9-5 (#37-30 Digital
Songs; 16,000 sales; up 23%; 12-week total 236,000).
Dustin Lynch with “Small Town Boy” fell 5-6
(#23-31 Digital Songs; 17,000 sales; down 6%;
31-week total 393,000).
Blake Shelton with “I'll Name The Dogs” (Warner
Bros) fell 2-7 (#18-42 Digital Songs; 13,000 sales; down 52%; 2-week total
40,000).
Jon Pardi with “Heartache On The Dancefloor”
rose 11-8 (#44 re-entry Digital Songs; 16,000 sales; up 20%; 14-week total 191,000).
Carly Pearce with “Every Little Thing” (Big Machine)
climbed 12-9 (#50 entry Digital
Songs 11,000 sales; up 22%; 14-week total 233,000).
Following the emotional farewell for the late Troy Gentry Thursday (Sept 14, 2017), the other half of country
music’s Montgomery
Gentry, Eddie Montgomery, released new song called “Better
Me.” It made a debut at No.10
selling 10,000 downloads. The song was played at the end of the singer’s
memorial which took place at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee,
which was attended by 1,500 family, friends and fans.
Outside
the Top 10
Brett Young with “In Case You Didn’t Know”
rose 13-11 (9,000 sales; 51-week
total 911,000).
Luke Bryan with “Light It Up” (Capitol
Nashville) rose 15-14 (8,000 sales;
5-week total 64,000).
Midland with “Drinkin’
Problem” fell 14-15 (8,000 sales; 23-week total 321,000).
Thomas Rhett with “Marry Me” in his second
week fell 7-23 (6,000 sales; down
57%; 2-week total 21,000) selling 14,000 downloads.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
25
Sept 2017
Jon Pardi Hits
#1 With 'Heartache On The Dance Floor'
Congratulations
to Capitol Nashville's Jon Pardi, who scored the #1 spot on
the MEDIABASE Country singles chart with his single, "Heartache On The Dance Floor."
Writers are Jon, Brice Long and Bart Butler.
This
is Pardi's third consecutive #1,
following the success of "Dirt On My
Boots" in March (March 27) and "Head Over Boots" last August (August 15, 2016).
“It’s
been really fun to watch it just kind of soar up, and program directors and
fans and country stations across the country just loving it – ‘That’s my
favorite song on the record,’ along with every other song they say, ‘I love
that too.’ It’s just been really cool,” says Jon. “I pushed for ‘Heartache’
‘cause I thought it was a cool summer song.”
"Heartache
On The Dance Floor” (Capitol) logged 8,661 radio spins (+726)
and 56.757 million audience
impressions (+3.755 million) with 25739 Total Points (+2101) from 159
tracking stations for the tracking week September 17 to September 23, 2017 and
published chart September 25th 2017.
Midland Is
Most-Added With 'Make A Little'
Congratulations
to Big Machine Records' Midland, who earned 48 MEDIABASE adds this week with their
single, "Make A Little". The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
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| Big Machine Records: Midland-Most Added "Make A Little" 48 Mediabase adds |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title
(Label) TW Total Historic Adds
MIDLAND/Make
A Little (Big Machine) 48 64
LADY
ANTEBELLUM/Heart Break (Capitol) 26 30
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Wild West (Wheelhouse) 24 28
OLD
DOMINION/Written In The Sand (RCA) 17 55
BILLY
CURRINGTON/Wake Me Up (Mercury) 13 44
RONNIE
DUNN/That's Why They Make Jack... (Nash Icon/Valory) 10 10
BRETT
YOUNG/Like I Loved You (BMLGR) 9 153
JUSTIN
MOORE/Kinda Don't Care (Valory) 9 42
BLAKE
SHELTON/I'll Name The Dogs (Warner Bros./WMN) 8 154
WALKER
HAYES/You Broke Up With Me (Monument/Arista) 8
DANIELLE
BRADBERY/Sway (BMLGR) 3 55
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Legends (Black River) 2 128
LAUREN
ALAINA/Doin' Fine (19/Interscope/Mercury) 2 101
MIRANDA
LAMBERT/Tin Man (RCA) 1 131
RAELYNN/Lonely
Call (Warner Bros./WMN) 1 45
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: #32
Event
Venue City/State: Dierks Bentley, Cole Swindell, Jon Pardi Klipsch
Music Center Noblesville, Ind.
Dates:
July 22, 2017 Gross Sales: $720,386 Attend:
24,560/ 24,560
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$72, $62, $47, $20
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #62
Event
Venue City/State: Alan Jackson U.S. Cellular Center Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Dates:
Sept. 9, 2017 Gross Sales: $267,994 Attend:
3,590/ 5,145
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,555 unsold tickets) Prices:
$122, $39
Promoters: VenuWorks
Rank
Artist: #78
Event
Venue City/State: Alison Krauss & David Gray
Hershey Theatre Hershey, Pa.
Dates:
Sept. 18, 2017 Gross Sales: $180,763 Attend:
1,859/ 1,859
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$125, $69.50
Promoters: NS2/Frank Productions
Rank
Artist: #122
Event
Venue City/State: Billy Currington Hampton Beach Casino Hampton, N.H.
Dates:
May 13, 2017 Gross Sales: $82,308 Attend:
2,166/ 2,263
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (97 unsold tickets) Prices: $35
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #127
Event
Venue City/State: Jennifer Nettles Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts Boone,
N.C.
Dates:
July 15, 2017 Gross Sales: $77,294 Attend:
1,648/ 1,673
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (25 unsold tickets) Prices: $60,
$54, $40
Promoters: in-house
Rank
Artist: #142
Event
Venue City/State: Kacey Musgraves Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts Boone,
N.C.
Dates:
June 27, 2017 Gross Sales: $53,562 Attend:
2,242/ 6,500
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (4,258 unsold tickets) Prices:
$38, $35, $5
Promoters: in-house
Rank
Artist: #167
Event
Venue City/State: Tanya Tucker, Sammy Kershaw Rialto
Square Theatre Joliet, Ill.
Dates:
Sept. 15, 2017 Gross Sales: $28,350 Attend:
582/ 1,039
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (457 unsold tickets) Prices:
$60, $30
Promoters: WCCQ
Rank
Artist: #177
Event
Venue City/State: Jerry Douglas, Mipso Schaefer Center for the
Performing Arts Boone, N.C.
Dates:
Aug. 6, 2017 Gross Sales: $17,940 Attend:
979/ 1,673
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (694 unsold tickets) Prices:
$28, $20
Promoters: in-house
Rank
Artist: #198
Event
Venue City/State: Aaron Watson, Delta Rae, Gunnar & the Grizzly Boys Majestic Theatre Detroit,
Mich.
Dates:
Sept. 21, 2017 Gross Sales: $4,548 Attend:
237/ 1,000
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (763 unsold tickets) Prices:
$30, $20, $9.95
Promoters: AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #202
Event
Venue City/State: The Quebe Sisters, Ken Yates Sellersville Theater 1894 Sellersville, Pa.
Dates:
Sept. 22, 2017 Gross Sales: $4,061 Attend:
148/ 320
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (172 unsold tickets) Prices:
$40, $25
Promoters: in-house
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