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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of October 21, 2017)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) NOW Shania Twain
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) “What If’s” Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina
Country Airplay
** No.1 (2 weeks) *** “All The Pretty Girls” Kenny Chesney
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Dear Hate” Maren Morris
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
A
trio of divas are aiming for high debuts on next week’s Billboard 200 albums
chart: Shania Twain, Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus. Industry forecasters suggest
Twain’s new Now album will be the biggest of the bunch and could start at No.1
with more than 120,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 5.
Lovato’s new Tell Me You Love Me and Cyrus’ Younger Now could bow with 70,000
and 50,000 units, respectively, in the top 10.
Twain’s
Now is her first studio effort in nearly 15 years, since the bow of Up! in
November of 2002. That set became her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and
launched with 874,000 copies sold in its first week (according to Nielsen
Music). Up! spent five weeks atop the chart. Two years later, Twain released
Greatest Hits (which reached No. 2) and then didn’t return to the list until
2015 with the live album Still the One: Live From Las Vegas (No. 55).
Shania Twain's
'Now' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
Shania Twain debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart (BB200)
with NOW, her first studio album in
nearly 15 years.
The set starts atop the list with 137,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 5,
according to Nielsen Music (Forecasters suggest Twain’s new album would start
at No.1 with more than 120,000 equivalent album units).
Of
that sum, 134,268
were in
traditional album sales -- the third-largest sales week for a country album in 2017,
and the largest for a woman in nearly two years. Now, which was released on
Sept. 29 through Mercury Nashville, is Twain’s second No. 1 album and the first
chart-topping country set by a female artist in over three years.
Twain’s
Now is the singer’s fifth studio album, and first since Up!, which was released in November of 2002. The latter album
marked the performer’s first No.1 on the Billboard 200, and spent five weeks in
the penthouse (and six weeks at No.1 on the Top Country Albums chart). Following
Up!, she issued a GREATEST HITS album
two years later that hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on Top Country
Albums. Then, in 2015, she released the live album STILL THE ONE: Live From Las Vegas, which peaked at No.55 on the
Billboard 200 and No. 2 on Top Country Albums.
Now
is the second country album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2017,
following Thomas Rhett’s LIFE CHANGES (Sept. 30; 123,000 equivalent album
units/ 94,032 in traditional album sales).
Now is also the first country set by a woman to lead the chart in over three
years, since Miranda Lambert’s PLATINUM
spent a week at No.1 with 179,646 copies sold (chart dated June 21, 2014).
Additionally,
Now notched the third-biggest sales week for a country album in 2017,
following Chris Stapleton’s FROM A
ROOM: VOLUME 1 (219,000 units/ 202,154 in traditional album sales; chart dated May 27, 2017) and Zac Brown Band’s WELCOME HOME (146,000
units/ 138,780 were in traditional album
sales; chart dated June 3, 2017).
NOW also claimed the biggest
sales frame for a country album by a woman since Carrie Underwood’s STORYTELLER started with 164,212 copies sold (Nov. 14,
2015-dated chart; #2 Billboard 200/ #1 Country).
Miley Cyrus with YOUNGER NOW (RCA Records Label; Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a bow at No.5 with 45,000 units (32,897 in traditional album sales).
It marks Cyrus’ 13th charting effort, and 11th top 10 album (including titles
billed to her former Disney Channel alter ego, Hannah Montana). She was last in
the top 10 with her 2013 effort BANGERZ, which debuted at No. 1.
Five Petty
albums re-enter the chart, led by his “Greatest Hits” set.
The
late Tom Petty, who died on Oct. 2, was
remembered on the latest Billboard 200 albums chart, as five of his albums
return to the list.
Tom
Petty and The Heartbreakers’ GREATEST HITS re-enters at No. 2 with 84,000 units (up 2,231%) earned in the
week ending Oct. 5, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 51,688 were in traditional album
sales (up 3,407%). Greatest Hits initially peaked at No. 5 in February of 1994,
following its release the previous year.
The rock
legend, who died Oct. 2, charts highest with "Free Fallin'" at No. 4.
Tom
Petty populates 14 of the top 25 spots on Billboard's 50-position Hot Rock
Songs chart (dated Oct. 21), as the late singer's sizable catalog grew in all
metrics following his Oct. 2 death.
18
of the 25 songs on the Rock Digital Song
Sales chart were by Petty, with 17 either solo or with the Heartbreakers,
along with "End of the Line" by supergroup Traveling Wilburys (No.
20, 6,000 sold, according to Nielsen Music). Again, "Free Fallin'" led
the pack with 31,000 sold (up 3,730% percent), good for No. 3 (as well as No. 10
on the overall all-format Digital Song Sales chart).
The
top 5 Petty titles on Hot Rock Songs, along with each song's digital sales and
U.S. streams in the tracking week ending Oct. 5.:
No.
4, "Free Fallin'": 31,000 downloads, 8.1 million streams
No.
5, "I Won't Back Down": 23,000 downloads, 5.8 million streams
No.
6, "Mary Jane's Last Dance": 18,000 downloads, 6.2 million streams
No.
7, "Learning to Fly": 17,000 downloads, 5.8 million streams
No.
8, "You Don't Know How It Feels": 14,000 downloads, 5.1 million
streams
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.
As
mentioned Shania Twain with NOW (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville), her fifth full-length studio LP and her first in 15
years, flew in at No. 1 on Top Country
Albums and the all-genre Billboard 200. It earns 137,000 equivalent album
units, with 134,268 in traditional sales, in the week ending Oct. 5, according
to Nielsen Music.
Now
marked Twain’s second Billboard 200 No. 1. She previously led with her last
studio set, when Up! which debuted
at No.1 on Dec. 7, 2002, with 874,000 sold in a far more robust sales climate.
CHART HISTORY
Twain
first appeared on Top Country Albums
in 1993 with her No.67-peaking SELF-TITLED debut album. Now is her
fifth No.1 on the chart among six top 10s. Her previous release, STILL THE ONE: Live From Las Vegas,
peaked at No. 2 (March 21, 2015).
Her
previous Top Country Albums leaders before Now were:
THE WOMAN IN ME (released Feb 7, 1995;
Polygram Mercury), which spent 29 weeks at No. 1 in 1995-96 selling 4 million
copies by the end of 1995. It spent 110 weeks on the Top Country Album chart.
It was eventually certified 12× Platinum
by the RIAA on December 1, 2000,
COME ON OVER (released Nov 4, 1997), dominated
for record 50 non-consecutive weeks 1997-2000. It debuted with then moderate
sales of 172,000
copies and
shifted another 170,000 copies in its second week. It was certified Gold, Platinum and 2× platinum by the RIAA on December 23, 1997 just
7 weeks after its release. It sold more than 100,000 units in each of 62 weeks.
The album's best sales week was its 110th week, during which it sold 355,000 copies
(#10 Christmas 1999). It stayed in the Top Ten for 151 weeks. To date, the
album has sold more than 40 million
copies worldwide, shipped over 20
million copies in the United States (certified 20x Multi-Platinum on
November 15, 2004).
UP! (Mercury Nashville; released
Nov 18, 2002) lead for six weeks,
2002-03; came out 15 years ago. It debuted at #1 with sales of 874,137 (chart dated Dec 7, 2002).
On September 23, 2004, the RIAA certified Up! at 11× Platinum
GREATEST HITS (Mercury Nashville released
Nov 8, 2004) led for 11 weeks,
2004-05. It made a debut with 530,000 copies sold. As of October 2016, the album has sold 4.39 million
copies in the US and was certified 4x
Multi-Platinum on April 17, 2008.
Shania
adds her 97th total week at No. 1, the most among women; Taylor Swift follows
with 89. Among all acts, Garth Brooks leads with 171 cumulative weeks atop the
chart.
Twain
co-wrote all 12 tracks on Now and she also served as co-producer on the
project. Shania worked with four producers across the 16 tracks including
Matthew Koma, Ron Aniello (Bruce Springsteen, Gavin DeGraw), Jake Gosling (Ed
Sheeran, Shawn Mendes) and Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Norah Jones).
Its
lead single, “Life’s About to Get Good,” hit Nos.33 and 36 on Hot Country
Songs and Country Airplay, respectively for solitary weeks on both charts.
Shania
Twain Talks New Album, Past Health Problems, Finding Love &
More in “Sunday Morning” Profile [Watch]
Shania
will hit the road in 2018 in support of the new album marking Shania’s first
tour since “Rock This Country” back in 2015. The tour kicks off May 3rd in
Tacoma, WA and will run through the rest of the summer, culminating in Las
Vegas on August 4th at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Promoting the album Shania appeared
on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and CBS-TV's
The Late Late Show with James Corden
(Tues Oct 3.) Watch "Swingin' With My Eyes Closed" >> here.
Critical
reception for Shania Twain’s Now (Deluxe)
Exclaim (Rating: 9/10): This is a
record bursting with indecision and excess, but that excess is revealing; we're
shown more of Shania's emotion than ever here. It's enough to make Now one of
the best pop albums of the year.
Allmusic (Rating: 2.1/2 STARS) ...Now is melodically undernourished, with
hooks never quite materializing in either the choruses or the excessively
polished arrangements designed to support Twain, not sell the tracks. That
production, a mishmash of Vegas showstoppers and feints toward the
electronic-glazed AAA charts, feels as hesitant and
inarticulate as the songs. Sometimes, Twain's signature charm surfaces -- "Because of You" has a lovely, gentle sway, "You Can't Buy Love" is a fizzy bit of bubblegum in the vein of Amy Winehouse's "Valerie" (unfortunately both are buried deep into the album) -- but Now feels fussy, as if every element was triple-guessed because the pressure to have a triumphant comeback was too great.
Rollingstone (Rating: 3.1/2 STARS): From
the opening seconds of "Swingin' With My Eyes Closed," it's clear
Shania's up to her old genre-trashing tricks – the quasi-metal guitar twang and
"We Will Rock You" stomp of "Any Man of Mine" meet a reggae
skank, and for good measure, she urges us all to throw our fists in the air
like we just don't care. As you'd expect, the songs on Now are her mid-life
personal statements, along the lines of "Poor Me" and "Roll Me
on the River," with an emphasis on post-divorce piano ballads about
getting the Shania groove back. (As she sings in "Life's About to Get
Good," "I wasn't just broken, I was shattered/ … /I couldn't move on
and I think you were flattered.") Maybe next time she'll cover
"Hotline Bling." But like Miley, Shania is taking inspiration from
the expansively chaotic sound of contemporary country pop – a sound she helped
to shape in the first place.
Saving Country Music (Rating: 1 3/4 Guns Down (2/10)... Sorry to disrupt any Shania Twain fans out
there enjoying their Tim Horton’s Canadian bacon breakfast, but this new album
is complete junk. It is an absolute abomination of recorded music, not to
mention anything that might resemble “country.” .....But she is still an
important figure in the history of country. “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under”
is still a pretty good song, even if purists admit it begrudgingly. And nobody
should want to see anyone fall on their face in this manner. Of course the
mainstream media will portray this thing as “empowering” and a “graceful
comeback” because Shaina has spent 15 years building up capital to now burn
through. But sorry, this doesn’t pass the ear test, and this can be
corroborated through numerous takes from many disappointed Twain fans. Sorry,
but Shania’s songs deserved better, and so did her fans and the public. Instead
of setting Shania on a new future, Now seems to foretell a career that now must
rely on past greatness and touring purses to survive.
ConsequenceOfSound.net (Rating: Grade C) At the same time, Twain is a capital C
celebrity, with a popular reality series, appearances on American Idol, and a
hugely successful 2015 concert tour under her rhinestone-studded belt. Unless
she decided to release a metal album as part of some pitiful artistic makeover,
anything she does is going to be greeted with open arms. Neither of the singles
she released in advance of Now have gone into heavy radio rotation, but she’s
already been given a hero’s welcome on TV and in
The Guardian (Rating: 3 STARS): Now is a
strong comeback that plays to Twain’s strengths, but it could have done with
some more of her feisty, Brad Pitt-skewering self, and fewer inspirational
metaphors.
Mikael
Wood of the Los Angeles Times
(Rating: 6/10 www.latimes.com) criticized Twain's vocal delivery on the
uptempo tracks as "flat and robotic," The Wall Street Journal writer
Barry Mazor said the album finds Twain "singing in a somewhat lower
register—audible, but not dramatically different."
Clash Music.com (Rating: 2 STARS) ..However, one listen to ‘Now’ confirms that the world was right to
ignore it. It’s an album of by-the-numbers country-infused pop, but with none
of the hooks or charm that made hits like ‘That Don’t Impress Me Much’ so huge
back in the day. The songs are forgettable odes to familiar topics - home,
heartbreak, dusting yourself off and picking yourself back up - that wouldn’t
get a second glance if they’d been penned by someone less famous.
Previous
weeks No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 1-2 (#13-16 Billboard 200) selling 9,243 copies
(down 28%; 4-week total 136,500).
Former
multi-week No.1 Luke
Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) rose 4-3 (#40-41 Billboard 200) selling 4,369
copies (18-week total 124,100).
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/
UMGN) rose 5-4
(50-49 Billboard 200) selling 5,035 copies
(up 5%; 127-week total 2,080,400). Stapleton’s From a Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) rose 12-11 (78-90
BB200) selling 5,300 copies
(22-week total 530,300).
Kane Brown with
self-titled KANE BROWN (Zone 4/RCA
Nashville) lifted 8-6 (#56 BB200) selling
2,033 copies
(44-week total 198,600).
Brett Young with self-titled debut (BMLG) pushed 9-7 (#64-62 BB200) selling 2,700 copies
(34-week total 141,700).
In
his fourth frame Dustin Lynch with CURRENT MOOD (Broken Bow/Broken Bow Music Group) slipped 6-7 (#51-70 Billboard 200) selling 3,283 copies (down 46%; 4-week
total 40,600).
Sam Hunt with MONTEVALLO (MCA Nashville | UMGN) rose 10-8 (#64-62 BB200).
Jon Pardi with CALIFORNIA SUNRISE climbed 11-9
(#71-80 BB200) selling 1,792 copies (68-week
total 186,000).
Florida Georgia Line with DIG YOUR ROOTS (BMLG) rose 13-10 (81-85 BB200) selling 1,200 copies
(58-week total 426,000)
Outside the
Top 10
In their second
week Midland with ON THE ROCKS
(Big Machine Records) fell 2-12 (#20-102
Billboard 200) selling 4,914 copies (down 71%; 2-week total 22,144).
Old Dominion with HAPPY ENDINGS (RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 15-16 (115-136 BB200) in their 6th week selling 1,727 copies
(down 18%; 6-week total 47,800).
In his second
week Chris
Janson with
EVERYBODY (Warner Bros./Warner Music
Nashville), fell 7-19 (#53-169
BB200) selling 3,196 copies (down 60%; 2-week total 11,300).
Outside the Top 25
In his fourth
frame Kip Moore with SLOWHEART (MCA Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 25-35 selling 1,567 copies (down 37%, 4-week
total 33,400).
In their third Big & Rich with DID IT FOR THE PARTY (B&R/Thirty Tigers) dropped 28-43 selling 2,539 copies (down 31%;
3-week total 32,500).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Dolly Parton with I BELIEVE IN YOU (Dolly/RCA Nashville | SMN; Amazon UK - Amazon.com) made a debut at #37 selling 900 copies.
She
celebrates the worldwide release of her first-ever children’s album, I Believe
In You.
Reviewers
are already raving about I Believe In You:
“Dolly
Parton may be singing children’s songs on I Believe In You, but the album’s
topics and depth speak to listeners of all ages.” - Mike Ragona, Huffington Post
“Weaving
powerful life lessons with catchy, sing-along music, led by one of the finest
vocalists of any genre, Dolly pours her love of children into each of the 14
tracks on I Believe in You. It's a must-have not only for children, but for
parents, grandparents, teachers, and anyone who works with the younger
generation.” - Gayle Thompson, The
Boot
The
album features 14 new songs, all written and performed by Dolly with the spirit
and heart of children in mind. Proceeds from the album will benefit Imagination
Library, which was established in 1995 to honor Parton’s father, who never had
the chance to learn to read or write.
Year-To-Date Albums
15,102,000 (Physical sales 10,067,000
(down -15.0%) + Digital sales 5,035,000 (down -20.2%) which is 16.8% down at the same point in 2016
(18,153,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
52,728,000 down 23.8% at the same point in 2016 (69,223,000)
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:
Blimey a NEW NO. 1!!!!!
Hot
Country Songs boasted a new No.1 for
the first time since Feb. 25, as Kane Brown with “What Ifs” featuring Lauren Alaina (Zone
4/RCA Nashville), ascended 2-1 in
its 44th week.
“What
Ifs” replaced Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA Nashville), which slipped
1-2 after a record 34 weeks at No.1.
“All I can say is, ‘Thirty-four weeks, Sam
Hunt? Damn.’ I’m happy to get in there,” Brown told Billboard after hearing
the news.
“What
Ifs” rose 2-1 on Country Streaming Songs (10.3 million U.S. streams, up 1%; Chart) and 3-2 on Country Airplay
(44 million, up 4%). It ranked at No.2 after two weeks atop Country Digital
Song Sales (22,000 sold, down 7%).
“What
Ifs” marked the first Hot Country Songs No.1
for childhood friends Brown and Alaina. She is the only woman to rule Country
Airplay as a solo lead artist this year, with “Road Less Travelled” (April 22).
Cole Swindell with "Stay
Downtown" is the fourth Hot Country Songs entry from Swindell’s YOU
SHOULD BE HERE. “Downtown” made a debut at No.50, marking his 13th appearance.
It’s powered by its 25% burst to 2.6 million in audience as it rose 45-42 on
Country Airplay
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (1
week) ** “What Ifs” Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina
**
Airplay Gainer” No.3 “When It Rains It Pours” Luke Combs
** Digital Gainer
** No.9 “They Don't Know” Jason Aldean
**
Streaming Gainer ** No.17 “Like I Loved You” Brett Young
** Hot Shot Debut/ ** No. 21 “Dear Hate” Maren Morris feat. Vince
Gill
Debut
No.33 “Take Back Home Girl” Chris Lane
feat. Tori Kelly
Debut
No.43 “Hangin' On” Chris Young
Debut No.50 “Stay Downtown” Cole Swindell
Kenny
Chesney with “All
the Pretty Girls” (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville) held at No.1
for a second week on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Oct. 14), despite
a 8% dip to 44.3 million audience impressions in the week ending Oct. 8,
according to Nielsen Music. On Hot Country Songs, the single remained bulleted
at its No. 7 peak.
Luke Bryan with "Light
It Up" in its seventh week on Country Airplay, “Light” lifted 11-10 as it hiked 7% to 24.8 million
audience impressions, marking Bryan’s 24th top 10. On Hot Country Songs, it
returned to its peak (12-11).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** “All The Pretty Girls” Kenny
Chesney 44.317 million audience (-3.018 million) / 7,576 radio plays (-733)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.29 “Dear Hate” Maren Morris featuring Vince Gill 5.535
million audience gain thanks to 45
fresh radio commitments (ADDS)
Debut
No.51 “The Rest Of Our Life” Tim McGraw
& Faith Hill
Debut
No.58 “Kinda Don't Care” Justin Moore
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
MUSIC HEALS Maren Morris
Debuts at No.1
Maren Morris, who performed in Las Vegas at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sept. 30,
the night before the shooting massacre that took 58 lives and injured
approximately 500 others, released “Dear Hate,” featuring Vince Gill (Columbia Nashville/Sony
Music Nashville), on Oct.1. All proceeds go to Nashville’s Music City Cares
Fund to support victims.
“Hate is
everywhere, and I’m sick of not doing enough,” said Morris in a statement.
“Hate” arrived
at No. 1 on Country Digital Song Sales (#13 Digital Songs) with 27,000
downloads sold. It’s Morris’ second No.1, following her 2016 debut single, “My
Church.”
After Columbia
serviced “Hate” (although without a traditional promotional push) to radio, it
entered Country Airplay at No.29 (5.5 million). It also drew 716,000 U.S.
streams in the tracking week.
“Hate” started
on Hot Country Songs at No. 21, marking Morris’ and Gill’s highest career
debuts.
“I was in Las Vegas broadcasting the day
after the shootings, simply allowing people to call and share their stories,”
said KNIX Phoenix assistant PD/music director Lois Lewis, who doubles as midday
host at iHeartMedia sister station KWNR Las Vegas.
“It’s just the perfect time for ‘Dear Hate,’
a beautifully crafted song,” said Lewis. “Tons of our listeners have shared it on their personal social media
pages. The country community has suffered a tremendous blow, and ‘Dear Hate’ is
helping all of us.”
Maren was
twelve places behind J Balvin and Willy
William’s "Mi Gente" which
surged from No.21 to No.3 on the Hot 100 (after previously reaching No.19),
after the first full week of tracking for its new remix featuring Beyonce,
scoring the chart's greatest gains in sales and streaming. It rocketed 34-1 on Digital Song Sales (79,000 sold, up 436%, with 87% of its sales
from its new remix) and 14-5 on Streaming Songs (28.7 million, up 50%), while
also climbing 32-29 on Radio Songs (46 million, up 18 percent).
Previous weeks
No1 Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina with “What
If’s” slipped 1-2 (#19-23
Digital Songs; 22,000 sales; 21-week total 417,000).
LANco with “Greatest Love Story” (Arista
Nashville) lifted 5-3 (#27-28 Digital
Songs; 17,000 sales; 14-week total 269,000).
Sam Hunt with
his 31 non-consecutive week No1 “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA
Nashville) fell 2-4 (#22-30 Digital Songs; 16,000 sales; 36-week total 1,696,000).
Luke Combs with “When It Rains It Pours”
(River House | Columbia Nashville) fell 4-5
(#26-32 Digital Songs; 16,000 sales; 13-week total 202,000).
Thomas Rhett with “Unforgettable” (Valory) held
at No.6 (35-42 Digital Songs; 13,000
sales; 10-week total 147,000).
Dustin Lynch with “Small Town Boy” fell 6-7
(#39-45 Digital Songs; 12,000 sales; 32-week
total 419,000).
Carly Pearce with “Every Little Thing” (Big Machine)
held at No.9 (#43-46 Digital Songs 12,000
sales; 16-week total 257,000).
Blake Shelton with “I'll Name The Dogs” (Warner
Bros) rose 8-9 (#40-47 Digital Songs; 13,000 sales; 3-week total 52,000).
Chris Lane featuring Tori Kelly
with "Take Back Home Girl" (Big Loud) is the first single from
Lane’s forthcoming second album. The duet sold 11,000 downloads in its first
week and debuts at No.10 on Country
Digital Song Sales and No.36 on Hot Country Songs, the latter bow marking
Lane’s highest start to date.
Outside
the Top 10
Jon Pardi with “Heartache On The Dancefloor”
fell 10-11 (9,000 sales; 16-week
total 212,000).
Chris Young with “Hangin' On” (RCA
Nashville) made a debut at No.12 selling 9,000 copies
Brett Young with “Like
I Loved You” (BMLG) fell 12-13
(8,000 sales;
6-week total 92,000) as “In Case You Didn’t Know” fell 13-15 (8,000 sales; 52-week total 927,000).
Jason Aldean with “They Don't Know”
(Macon/Broken Bow | BBMG) made a debut at No.25 selling 5,000 copies (total to
date 65,000)
Falling Off
the Top 25
In their second
weeks Darius
Rucker with “Don't”
(Capitol Nashville) sold just 2,000 copies (2-week total 12,000, last week #11)
Kelsea Ballerini with “High School” sold just 2,000 copies (2-week total
19,000, last week #3)
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
9
Oct 2017
Congrats to Kenny Chesney,
Steve Hodges, Shane Allen and the Columbia
promotion team on scoring a second week
at No.1 with “All The Pretty Girls.”
The song is the second chart-topper from Chesney’s current album Cosmic
Hallelujah. Songwriters are Nicolle Galyon, Tommy Lee James and Josh Osborne.
"All The Pretty Girls” (Blue Chair/Columbia) logged 8,402 radio
spins (-607) and 55.66 million
audience impressions (-3.609 million) with 25178 Total Points (-1550) from 159
tracking stations for the tracking week October 1 to October 7, 2017 and
published chart October 9th 2017.
Kudos to Josh
Easler and the Arista reps for notching 53
adds on Tim
McGraw and Faith Hill’s “The Rest Of Our Life”. The song
topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Mediabase Adds Artist/Title (Label) TW Total
Historic Adds
TIM MCGRAW
& FAITH HILL/The Rest Of Our Life (Arista) 53 53
MAREN
MORRIS/Dear Hate (Columbia) 23 23
JACKSON
MICHELSON/Rollin' (Curb) 19 19
MIDLAND/Make A
Little (Big Machine) 16 98
DREW
BALDRIDGE/Guns & Roses (Cold River) 15 58
OLD
DOMINION/Written In The Sand (RCA) 15 84
BRETT
ELDREDGE/The Long Way (Atlantic/WMN) 13 98
LADY
ANTEBELLUM/Heart Break (Capitol) 10 54
HIGH
VALLEY/She's With Me (Atlantic/WEA) 8 99
SCOTTY
MCCREERY/Five More Minutes (Triple Tigers) 8 101
DYLAN
SCOTT/Hooked (Curb) 7 73
JORDAN
DAVIS/Singles You Up (MCA) 7 119
BRANDON
LAY/Speakers, Bleachers And Preachers (EMI Nashville) 6 64
COLE
SWINDELL/Stay Downtown (Warner Bros./WMN) 6 75
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Legends (Black River) 6 140
KID
ROCK/Tennessee Mountain Top (Red Bow) 6 17
WALKER
HAYES/You Broke Up With Me (Monument/Arista) 6 139
ZAC BROWN
BAND/Roots (SouthernGrnd/Elektra/WAR) 6 107
BILLY
CURRINGTON/Wake Me Up (Mercury) 5 53
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Yours (Triple Tigers) 5
DANIELLE
BRADBERY/Sway (BMLGR) 4 62
RUNAWAY JUNE/Wild
West (Wheelhouse) 4 41
DUSTIN
LYNCH/I'd Be Jealous Too (Broken Bow) 2 2
MIRANDA
LAMBERT/Tin Man (RCA) 2 136
MONTGOMERY
GENTRY/Better Me (Average Joes) 2 11
LAUREN
ALAINA/Doin' Fine (19/Interscope/Mercury) 2 104
LINDSAY
ELL/Waiting On You (Stoney Creek) 1 75
MORGAN
EVANS/Kiss Somebody (Warner Bros./WEA) 1 3
For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 571 - Oct 9, 2017 [PDF File] Magazine View
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #2
Event
Venue City/State: Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge, Craig Campbell Citizens Bank
Park Philadelphia, Pa.
Dates:
Sept. 8, 2017 Gross Sales: $2,743,300 Attend:
35,855/ 39,528
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $100,
$70, $50, $30
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #7
Event
Venue City/State: Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge,
Lauren Alaina
Progressive Field Cleveland,
Ohio
Dates:
July 15, 2017 Gross Sales: $1,856,373 Attend:
29,789/ 32,921
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $99.75,
$79.50, $39.75, $20
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #73
Event
Venue City/State: Lyle Lovett Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater
Austin, Texas
Dates:
Aug. 26, 2017 Gross Sales: $146,619 Attend:
2,031/ 2,078
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 Prices: $99,
$79, $59, $49
Promoters: in-house
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