RIAA
Certifications
Multi-Platinum
= 2,000,000 plus units
Platinum =
1-million units
Gold = 500,000
units
Note: For ALBUM
certifications the RIAA base their figures
on the number of units SHIPPED together with, track sales and on demand audio/
video stream units and NOT based purely on traditional retail sales.
1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale.
150 on-demand streams = 1
track download
October 2017
MULTI-PLATINUM SINGLES:
Sam Hunt "Body Like A Back Road"
(4X platinum) released February 1, 2017 | certified Gold, Platinum & 2x Multi-Platinum June 6, 2017 | certified 3x
Multi-Platinum July 27, 2017 | certified 4x Multi-Platinum October 16, 2017 4 Million units
Lee Brice "Hard To Love" (2X
platinum) | released April 17, 2012 | certified Gold Sept 13, 2012 | certified
Platinum Dec 14, 2012 | certified 2x Multi-Platinum Oct 18, 2017 2 Million units
PLATINUM SINGLES:
Kane Brown's (feat. Lauren Alaina) "What
Ifs" | released Dec 2, 2016 | certified Gold July 17, 2017 |
certified Platinum Oct 2, 2017 1 Million
units
Lee Brice "Drinking Class" |
released Aug 12, 2014 | certified Gold March 18, 2015 | certified Platinum Oct
18, 2017 1 Million units
GOLD SINGLES
Brothers Osborne "It Ain't My Fault" |
released Jan 15, 2016 | certified Gold
Oct 2, 2017 0.5 Million units
Danielle Bradbery "The Heart Of Dixie" |
released Jan 1, 2013 | certified Gold Oct 2, 2017 0.5 Million units
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton with
"Islands In The Stream" | released July 1, 1983 | certified
Gold Oct 6, 2017 0.5 Million units
LanCo "Greatest Love Story"
| released April 15, 2016 | certified Gold Oct 20, 2017 Digital 0.5 Million units
Lee Brice "That Don't Sound Like You"
| released Sept 9, 2014 | certified Gold Oct 18, 2017 Digital 0.5 Million units
Luke Combs "When It Rains It Pours"
| released June 2, 2017 | certified Gold Oct 23, 2017 Digital 0.5 Million units
Thomas Rhett "Unforgettable" |
released July 28, 2017 | certified Gold Oct 26, 2017 Digital 0.5 Million units
GOLD ALBUMS
Lee Brice LOVE LIKE CRAZY | released June 8, 2010 | certified Gold Oct 18, 2017 0.5 Million units
Lee Brice I DON'T DANCE | released Sept 9, 2014 | certified Gold
Oct 18, 2017 0.5 Million units
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of November 18, 2017)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION Kenny Chesney
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “What If’s” Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) *** "Unforgettable" Thomas Rhett
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Greatest Love Story” LANCO
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News (Chart issue week of
November 18, 2017)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Kenny
Chesney's 'Live in No Shoes Nation' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums
Chart
Kenny Chesney collected his eighth No.1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200),
as his new live effort, LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION, started atop the list with 219,000 equivalent album units earned
in the week ending Nov. 2, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 216,804 were in traditional album
sales. The album was released on Oct. 27 through Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville.
Live
in No Shoes Nation is also the first live album to lead the chart in more than
seven years. The last to do so was the various artists charity set Hope for
Haiti Now, which spent at week at No. 1 on the Feb. 6, 2010-dated list. Live in
No Shoes Nation is the first No.1 live set by a single act since 2009, when Sugarland’s LIVE on the Inside topped
the list (dated Aug. 22, 2009).
Chesney’s
set also garnered the largest sales week for a live album since 2002, when Paul McCartney’s Back in the U.S. Live
2002 bowed with 224,000 copies sold at No. 8 (Dec. 14, 2002-dated chart).
Chesney’s
new album was powered almost entirely by traditional album sales, whose sum was
generated largely by a concert ticket/album sale redemption promotion with
Chesney’s 2018 stadium tour. The cost of the CD of Chesney’s album was bundled into the price of each ticket
sold online for his tour (which went on sale Sept. 22). After
purchasing a ticket, customers received (via email) a redemption offer for the album, where they could choose to
redeem the CD and have it mailed to them. The only sales that count towards the
charts are those albums that are redeemed by customers. Many ticket buyers
never redeem the offer. As there over a
million tickets available for Chesney’s stadium tour, and he regularly
sells out his shows, it’s not surprising to see such a robust sales figure
driven by the offer.
Billboard Top Country
Albums (Chart issue week of
November 18, 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.
Kenny
Chesney Live in No Shoes Nation bundles
in at No.1
Kenny
Chesney’s new
live album, LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville), roared in at No.1 on Billboard Top Country Albums and the all-genre
Billboard 200 (dated Nov. 18).
That
marked Chesney’s best weekly sales sum since Sept. 29, 2007, when JUST WHO I
AM: POETS AND PIRATES launched with 386,685 sold.
Not counting albums by various artists, a country act also last crowned the Billboard 200 with a live album: Sugarland’s LIVE ON THE INSIDE (75,869 sales; Chart Aug 22, 2009) bowed at the summit in 2009.
At
this point in my career, it’s a tribute to the fans and how hard they love
these songs, this music and what we do together every summer,” Chesney told
Billboard. “You know, these recordings
start in 2007 with Dave Matthews at the close of our Flip Flop Summer Tour, but
if you listen, it’s amazing how the excitement, the cheering and all of it has
grown over the years.”
CHART HISTORY
Chesney
previously led the Billboard 200
with:
LIFE ON A ROCK (released April 30, 2013; 152,805 copies sold; 86,413 Physical copies + 66,392
Digital albums; chart week May 18, 2013) in its first week at retail according
to Nielsen SoundScan.)
HEMINGWAY’S WHISKEY (released Sept 28, 2010; 183,469 copies sold; chart Oct 16, 2010)
LUCKY OLD SUN (released Oct 14, 2008; 176,414 copies sold; chart Nov 8, 2017)
THE ROAD AND THE RADIO (released Nov 8, 2005)
BE AS YOU ARE: SONGS FROM
AN OLD BLUE CHAIR (released
Jan 25, 2005)
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN (released Feb 3, 2004; 3,7 million sold
by Nov 2005)
NO SHOES, NO SHIRT, NO
PROBLEMS (released April
23, 2002; 235,000 copies sold in first week; earned
a 4× Platinum certification).
THE BIG REVIVAL (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville; released
Sept 23, 2014) debuted at No.2 on
the Billboard 200 and No.1 of Top
Country Albums (129,670 copies sold; Chart
dated Oct. 11, 2014).
JUST WHO I AM: POETS &
PIRATES (released Sept
11, 2007) his tenth studio album, debuted at No.2 on the Billboard 200 and No.1
of Top Country Albums (386,685 copies sold;
Chart dated Sept 29, 2007).
His
16th studio album COSMIC HALLELUJAH
(Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville; released Oct 28, 2016) sold and debuted at No.2 on the Billboard 200 and No.1 of Top Country Albums 89,000 units multi-metric album
consumption units; 79,485 copies in pure
sales). Cosmic Hallelujah marked Chesney’s 12th consecutive charting album to
debut inside the top four of the Billboard 200, going all the way back to
2004’s No.1 set WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN.
Chesney
first debuted on the Billboard 200 a little more than 20 years ago, when ME AND YOU entered the list at No.196 on
the Sept. 28, 1996-dated chart. It eventually peaked at No.78 the following
year. He didn’t reach the top 40 until 2000, when his Greatest Hits album
debuted and peaked at No.13.
EVERYWHERE WE GO" (released March 2, 1999) peaked
at No.51 on the Billboard 200 and No.5 of Top Country Albums, opened with
30,000 units in 1999, and his 2000 "GREATEST
HITS" compilation sold 85,000 units in its opening week.
Live in No Shoes Nation is a
29-track album and collects live highlights from Chesney’s various tours,
stretching back to 2007’s Flip Flop Summer tour. Among the guests on the
album: Taylor Swift, Dave Matthews, David Lee Murphy (“Dust
on the Bottle”), Mac McAnally (“Down
the Road”), Grace Potter (“You and Tequila”) and Eric Church (“When I See
This Bar”). Chesney’s last live album, 2006’s LIVE:
LIVE THOSE SONGS AGAIN (released
Sept 19, 2006; 145,829 copies sold; chart Oct 14,
2006), peaked at No.4
in its debut frame, according to Nielsen Music.
The double-disc set contains wonderful moments of
country music notables sharing the stage with Chesney. Appropriately, Taylor
Swift is the first famous artist joining Chesney for a rousing performance of
“Big Star.”
Critical
reception for Kenny
Chesney’s Live in No Shoes Nation:
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Allmusic (Rating: 3.1/2 STARS) Chesney may possess an unassuming voice and
his songs, even the rocking ones, are laid-back, but he knows how to pump up a
crowd. Maybe that's a reflection of their affection, maybe it's a testament to
his craft, but what's evident from Live in No Shoes Nation is that Chesney has
this connection with his fans, and it's also clear that he's developed a deep catalog
in the 21st century.
Herald-Standard (Rating: Positive)….Since
2008’s “Lucky Old Sun,” Chesney has been channeling Jimmy Buffett and
entertaining us with his signature style of carefree tracks detailing life as a
happy beach bum with sun-drenched days full of white sand, cool ocean waves and
plenty of liquid refreshments to keep the good times rolling seamlessly along
Granger Smith with his sophomore national release WHEN THE GOOD GUYS
WIN (Wheelhouse/Broken Bow Music Group) made a debut at No.2 (No.29 Billboard 200; 17,000 units)
selling 14,776 copies (pure sales). It marked his fourth appearance and
highest peak on the list, besting his previous album, REMINGTON (No. 3, 2016; 23,967 copies sold).
“With most of 2016 and 2017 spent on tour,
there wasn't much time for working on an album,” said Smith. “In fact, we only spent three days in a real
studio for an entire year's worth of work. Instead, I set up a mobile studio in
the back of my bus for all the writing, editing and even recording. I sang all
of the lead vocals at home in Texas, and did a lot of file sharing back and
forth with my co-producers. With the album evolving this way on the road, country
fairs, parking lots, green rooms and hotel lobbies, it truly reflects the
source of the inspiration: the fans. Without knowing it, my fans were involved
in every step of this project and I believe they will hear that through the
music. Looking back, I don't think there could have been a better way to do it”
Sounds Like Nashville Chuck Dauphin (Rating; Positive)…the stronger moments on this album come with
the songs that are a little more organic in their approach. “Raise Up Your
Glass” and “Everybody Lives” both have deep messages, with the former urging
the listener to take pride in everyday triumphs, and the latter testifying just
how important those “little” moments are. He also keeps that same simpler tone
on cuts such as the heartfelt “Love Ain’t Blind,” and the poignancy of the
well-written title cut. The impressive “’Home Cooked Meal,” which takes an
oft-recorded about subject, and offers a new and interesting take on it.
Another highlight of the
album is the twang-filled track ‘Reppin’ My Roots” where the singer shows fans
that he hasn’t forgotten where he comes from. And, indeed Granger Smith hasn’t.
Granted, there are a few moments, “Stutter” and “4 Wheel Drive” being the main
two, where the singer sounds as if he’s still chasing a sound a little too
much, as neither really showcase anything different for the singer or the
format. But, his longtime fan base will likely eat those songs, and this album,
up!
Your Life In A Song Katie Hutchinson (Rating: Mixed)…. It is commercially pleasing and I can see why tracks like ‘Happens
Like That’ do well on Country Radio. It just lacks that grabbing point that
makes me, personally, connect with the artist. Granger seems like a totally
humble guy, that loves each and every single fan for their support and he is
dedicated to his music, but this album could have been so much more than it is.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with his SELF-TITLED album rose 4-3 (#24-40 Billboard 200) selling 4,802 copies (down 32%;
48-week total 244,200).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) climbed 5-4 (#33-44 Billboard 200) selling 4,489 copies (down 17%; 8-week total 159,300).
In his second week Darius Rucker with his new set, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME (Capitol
Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville), fell 2-5 (8-26 Billboard 200) selling 9,611 copies (down 68%; 2-week total 39,683).
Previous
week No.1 Chris Young with LOSING SLEEP (RCA
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) dropped 1-6
(5-51 BB200) selling 7,195 copies (down 77%; 2-week total 39,093).
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/
UMGN) fell 6-7
(39-53 Billboard 200) selling 5,268 copies (down 16%; 131-week total 2,102,900). Stapleton’s From a
Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 8-11 (54-70 BB200) selling 5,805 copies (down 11%; 26-week total 553,700).
Former No.1 Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) slipped 7-8 (#45-55 Billboard 200) selling 3,644 copies (down 6%; 22-week total 139,600).
Alan Jackson with 2-CD PRECIOUS MEMORIES COLLECTION (ARC/EMI
Nashville | UMGN) pushed 18-9 (129-61
BB200) with 9,300 sales (total 80,900).
Zac Brown Band with WELCOME HOME (Southern Ground/Elektra |
AG) rocketed up 48-10 (#63 Re-Entry
BB200) selling 8,564
copies (23-week total 280,300).
Outside the
Top 10
Brett Young with self-titled debut (BMLG) fell 9-12
(#59-62 BB200) selling 2,450 copies (38-week
total 151,700).
Former
1-week No.1 Shania Twain with NOW (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 10-17 (#74-126 Billboard 200) selling 5,534
copies (down 22%; 5-week total 168,551).
In
her third week Carly Pearce with EVERY LITTLE THING (Big Machine | BMLG)
fell 17-24 (#32-124 Billboard 200) selling 1,868 copies in pure sales (down 39%;
3-week total 14,599).
Outside the Top 25
Lee Ann Womack with THE LONELY, THE LONESOME & THE GONE (ATO) made a debut at No.37 selling 3,152
copies. On Country Album sales it was the 13th best seller and No.63 on
all genres Top Album Sales.
Recorded
at the legendary SugarHill Studios in Houston and produced by Womack’s husband
Frank Liddell ((fresh off a 2017 ACM Album of the Year win for Miranda
Lambert's 'The Weight of These Wings'), the album features 14 songs, most
co-written by Womack (than all her previous albums combined) who also put her
spin on three covers, including George Jones’ “Please Take The Devil Out Of
Me.”..
Lee
Ann Womack released pregrat track the shimmering and ghostly
"Hollywood." Written by Lee Ann, Adam Wright and Waylon Payne, the
track poignantly portrays a relationship riddled with doubt and uncertainty.
Every time I ask you, you just say 'we're good' Either I'm a fool for asking,
or you belong in Hollywood Vice Noisey said the track is filled with
"ambient, floating steel guitar glory." Lee Ann made several
appearances at AmericanaFest, including her annual Lee Ann and Friends showcase
at Music City Roots at the YeeHaw Tent on Thursday, September 14th.
On
her new album:
Critical
reception for Lee
Ann Womack’s The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone:
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NPR - On
this new LP, though, Womack reminds us that she's much more than just a pretty
voice. Start-to-finish, The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone has a cinematic
quality to it, one buoyed both by lush, dynamic arrangements and by a
skillfully executed sequence, which effortlessly ebbs and flows between torch
songs (the smoldering "He Called Me Baby") and Texas twang (the
jagged crunch of "Wicked"), giving equal credence to the bedroom (the
sweet and clever "End of the World") and the bar (the laid-back shuffle
of "Bottom of the Barrel").
Saving Country Music (Rating:
1.3/4 Guns Up (7.5/10)...The fuzzy, dream pop guitar tone on
“Shine On Rainy Day” may be appropriate for some, but not for Lee Ann. She
shouldn’t try to compete with the east Nashville retro hipsters. She’s better
than them, and should be informing their sound instead of attempting to follow
it.
But this record finds its footing in the middle portions, to the point where
any disagreements
you may have with the production team become forgivable. “End
of the End of the World” solo written by Adam Wright is one of those songs that
would have put people in the Hall of Fame if it was written 50 years ago. The
playful, swaying beat of “Bottom Of The Barrel” by Brent Cobb and Jason Saenz
gives the record its most appetizing and infectious moment. The three primary
songwriters on this record—Womack, Waylon Payne, and Adam Wright—team together
on “Mama Lost Her Smile” and the heartbreaking “Sunday,” and the results are
pure magic.
There’s a reason why Miranda Lambert—who shares many of the same
songwriters and the same producer as Lee Ann—decided she needed to release two
discs instead of one for her last album. During an era in country music when
some of the best songs are being overlooked by Music Row, and it seems like a
severe risk that this material maybe be resigned to demo tapes and legal pads
for eternity, Lee Ann Womack is stepping up to give these songs breath and life,
and contributing her own words more than ever, benefiting from the rest of
country music’s shortsightedness. The rest of us benefit too when a record like
The Lonely, The Lonesome, & the Gone gets pressed.
Allmusic (Rating: 4/5 STARS)...."Shine on a
Rainy Day," by Brent Cobb and Andrew Combs, finds Womack channeling Dusty
Springfield, albeit with a psychedelic country chart saturated with fuzzy
guitars and a Wurlitzer. ... The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone provides
listeners an exceptionally well-rounded portrait of both the mature writer and
the iconic singer. What Womack delivers has little to do with Nashville -- a
plus -- in favor of polished yet hardcore Texas Americana.
American Songwriter
(Rating: 4.5/5 STARS) ..Womack covers two songs by
singer-songwriter Brent Cobb. The highlight is “Shine On Rainy Day” (which Cobb
co-wrote with Andrew Combs), a beautiful slice of folk country with affecting
lyrics, a stunning guitar solo and an arrangement that makes this one of the
few contemporary covers that’s (slightly) better than the original. .....There
are a few lighter lyrical moments as on the acoustic, bittersweet “End of the
End of the World” (perhaps a play on the Skeeter Davis classic), but generally
the album’s title captures the forlorn vibe exuded by the majority of the
material. Womack is in terrific voice throughout, the songs — including her
co-writes — are top notch and with Lidell’s sympathetic backing and production,
it’s hard to imagine how anything could be improved. It’s a late-breaking short
list nominee for 2017’s album of the year.
Exclaim.ca
(Rating: 5/10) ...Expectations are high
with superstar Womack, but with the exception of church anthem
"Sunday," which supplies endless Southern comfort, she's delivered a
mediocre traditional folk and roots album here. Her move away from pop music on The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
signals a deeper understanding of the country, blues and soul genres, but there
aren't enough ideas here to make it succeed.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Margo Price with ALL AMERICAN MADE (Third Man), fell of the Top 50 Country Albums after
a No.12 debut, dropping 6-19 on the Country Albums Sales tally selling 1,972 copies (2-week
total 8,831).
Willie Nelson with the 12 track Willie and the Boys: Willie’s Stash, Vol. 2
(Legacy; Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) fell 10-17 selling 5307 copies
sold).
Last week’s
No.3 The
Turnpike Troubadours with A LONG WAY FROM
YOUR HEART (Bossier City/Thirty Tigers) on the Top Country albums
fell off the top 50 (3-21 Country Album Sales) selling 1,755
copies (down 90%; 2-week total 18,606).
Various Artists
THE LIFE & SONGS OF KRIS
KRISTOFFERSON: All-Star Concert
Celebration (Blackbird Production Partners; Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com)
made a debut on Country Sales at No.22 selling around 1,600
copies.
The broadcast, concert film and music release features a collection of legendary singers, songwriters, and rising superstars who came together for a once-in-a-lifetime concert event taping in Nashville, Tennessee at the Bridgestone Arena to celebrate the songs of music icon Kris Kristofferson.
CMT premiered the 90-minute broadcast on Friday, October 27 at 10 PM ET/PT, and Blackbird Presents Records released the full-length concert film as a CD/DVD combo at http://blackbirdpresents.com and Pledge Music
Tyminski with SOUTHERN GOTHIC (Mercury/ Decca (UMO) fell 23-46 on Country Album Sales (800 sales; 2-week total 2,500).
Craig Wayne Boyd with TOP SHELF (Copperline Music Group) fell short of all charts selling
only 400 copies.
Boyd’s
latest album includes current single “Stuck In My Head,” plus “We Sweat,” “Only
In My Mind,” and “Better Together,” which Boyd co-wrote. Millions were
thrilled by Boyd’s victory in Season
7 of NBC’s “The Voice,”. Boyd,
who announced to People Magazine that his wife Taylor and him are expecting a
new baby, said that although it will be a crazy next few months, he is thrilled
to be releasing his first full-length album since winning “The Voice.”
After his victory on “The Voice,” Boyd did
not rush into turning out an album quickly, but instead approached the making
of his album by ensuring each song was Top Shelf quality.
Boyd and producer Will Edwards went through thousands of demos before compiling the 13 unique tracks on Top Shelf.
Boyd and producer Will Edwards went through thousands of demos before compiling the 13 unique tracks on Top Shelf.
Millions of Americans watched the Texas
native’s journey on "The Voice,” but for Boyd, that was only one chapter
in a long journey that resulted in the release of an album that is a
celebration of heartbreak, the sweet pain of love, and the comfort of faith’s
embrace.
"This album has been a labor of love,”
said Boyd. “We started the album shortly after coming off of "The
Voice" but did not find a home for it until earlier this year. A lot of
life has been lived at that point, so I wanted to go back in the studio and
record a few more so that the album reflected where I am in life right now. I
feel that this album is now reflective of my life and the happiness that I have
found in it!"
Critical reception for Craig Wayne Boyd’s Top Shelf:
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Reviewers hailed Top Shelf as well worth the wait:
“With catchy lyrics, foot-tapping songs, and
humble topics, 'Top Shelf' is a high-caliber debut album that offers everything
country music fans crave.” - Kristin
Brown, Cowboys and Indians
Craig's evolution as an artist on 'Top Shelf
'is both impressive and explosive as he draws from multiple influences to
create an album that is eclectic, fun, and full of surprises that will
Digital Journal (Rating:
A) ... Craig Wayne Boyd has released a
charming new studio album with Top Shelf. All of the songs on there are
refreshing and distinct, and they all have their own identities. He manages to
connect directly with the hearts of his listeners. Well done!.
Year-To-Date Albums
16,745,000 (Physical sales 11,263,000
(down -13.0%) + Digital sales 5,481,000 (down -20.1%) which is 15.5% down at the same point in 2016 (19,812,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
56,602,000 down 24.2% at the same point in 2016 (74,631,000)
56,602,000 down 24.2% at the same point in 2016 (74,631,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of November 18, 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:
On a fairly
static top 10 Kane
Brown with “What Ifs” featuring Lauren Alaina (Zone 4/RCA Nashville)
topped the chart for a fifth week in its 48th frame. It also continued to head
Country Streaming Songs (dated Nov 11, 2017).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (5 weeks)
** “What Ifs” Kane Brown feat. Lauren
Alaina
** Digital
Gainer ** No.10 “I'll Name The Dogs” Blake
Shelton
**
Streaming Gainer ** No.44 “Stay Downtown” Cole
Swindell
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.46 “Salute The Brave” Adam Calhoun & Hosier
Debut
No.47 “I Lived
It” Blake Shelton
Debut No.49 “At The House” Blake Shelton
Debut No.49 “At The House” Blake Shelton
Thomas Rhett Continues To
Accelerate With Ninth Career No. One “Unforgettable,” His Third Chart-Topper In
2017 And Fastest Rising Single So Far
The multi-CMA 2017
nominee and ACM Awards Male Vocalist of the Year Thomas Rhett’s career continued to skyrocket as "Unforgettable"
hit the No.1 (moving 2-1) on both
the Billboard Country Airplay and
Mediabase charts, reaching the top in just 14 weeks as the fastest-peaking song
of his career so far.
It ascended 2-1 in its 15th week, increasing 4% to 46.4 million audience impressions. The
song follows “Craving You” (featuring
Maren Morris), which led the Country Airplay list dated July 22.
The “charming”
(Rolling Stone) single is also holding the No. One spot for the third straight
week on the Mediabase Canada Country chart. "Unforgettable" is the
second single from Thomas Rhett's Billboard 200 chart-topping release LIFE
CHANGES (The Valory Music Co.), marking the third No.1 this year and the ninth
of his career.
“This is a really cool way to kick off CMA
week,” said Thomas Rhett. “It’s always a good week because everyone is in town,
we all get to see each other, hang out backstage at the show, but to also find
out ‘Unforgettable’ is No. One is awesome."
In its 34th
week, Carly Pearce’s co-penned launch single “Every Little Thing” held
at its No.3 peak on Country Airplay, increasing 5% to 40.4 million in audience.
The song is the highest-charting debut by a solo woman since Kelsea Ballerini’s
chart-topping “Love Me Like You Mean It”
(July 4, 2015).
On alphabetical
order Blake
Shelton with “At The House” (Warner
Bros. | WMN) took the Hot Shot Debut, Most Increased
Audience & Most Added stripes as one of 5 new charting singles from him all
arrived in a bunch on the chart (33-37).
Shelton’s
six-song Country Airplay blitz mareds the first since Jan. 8, 2011, when Lady
Antebellum placed seven songs on the list, the most in a week in the top
60. (The chart launched as a 75-position survey in 1990.) Lady A matched Kenny
Chesney, who rolled a lucky seven back on Jan. 10, 2004.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** "Unforgettable" Thomas Rhett 46.407 million audience (+1.880 million) / 8,294 radio
plays (+291)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.33 “At The House” Blake Shelton
5.354 million audience gain thanks to 49
fresh radio commitments (ADDS)
** **
No.
Debut
No.34 “I Lived It” Blake Shelton
Debut
No.35 “Turnin' Me On” Blake Shelton
Debut
No.36 “Money” Blake Shelton
Debut
No.37 “Why Me” Blake Shelton
Debut No.54 “Heaven” Kane Brown
Debut No.54 “Heaven” Kane Brown
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
LANco with “Greatest Love Story” (Arista
Nashville) rose 3-1 (#22 Digital
Songs; 17,000 sales; 18-week total 340,000) to top the Country Digital Singles
Chart summit.
It was 21
places behind Imagine Dragons' "Thunder" which kept at its No. 5
Hot 100 high and rebounded 2-1 for a third (non-consecutive) week atop Digital Song Sales (54,000 sales, down
9%).
The previous
weeks No.1 Kane
Brown feat.
Lauren
Alaina with
“What
If’s” slipped 2-1 (#19-26
Digital Songs; 16,000 sales; 25-week total 497,000).
Luke Combs with “When It Rains It Pours”
(River House | Columbia Nashville) rose 5-3
(#33-32 Digital Songs; 13,000 sales; 17-week total 260,000).
Dustin Lynch with “Small Town Boy” lifted 19-4 (#33 Re-entry Digital Songs; 13,000
sales; 36-week total 455,000).
Blake Shelton with “I'll Name The Dogs” (Warner
Bros) advanced 11-5 (#50-37; 11,000
sales; 8-week total 104,000 Digital Songs).
Thomas Rhett with “Unforgettable” (Valory)
climbed 7-6 (#39-45 Digital Songs; 10,000
sales; 14-week total 194,000).
Former
No.1 Carly
Pearce with Every Little Thing (Big Machine/Big Machine
Label Group), rose 8-7 (40-47
Digital Songs; 9,000 sales; 20-week total 314,000).
Sam Hunt’s 31 non-consecutive week No1 “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA
Nashville) fell 6-8 (#35-48 Digital Songs; 9,000 sales; 40-week total 1,744,000).
A
country rapper who chronicles small-town life with a big-city swagger and a
musical attack that mixes hip-hop and rock & roll, Hosier (not to be confused with the similarly named singer and
songwriter Hozier) along with Adam Calhoun made a debut at No.9
with country song Salute The Brave selling 9,000 downloads. The almost “rap” like country single speaks
of patriotism and working hard to achieve the ‘American Dream’ but also touches
on a few controversial viewpoints. See Facebook video
Walker
Hayes with “You
Broke Up With Me“ (Monument) slipped 9-10 (9,000 sales; 16-week total
201,000).
Outside
the Top 10
Brett Young with “Like I Loved You“ (BMLG)
fell 10-11 (9,000 sales;
10-week total 127,000).
Russell Dickerson with “Yours” (Triple Tigers)
rose 14-12 (8,000 sales;
9-week total 290,000).
Devin Dawson with “All On Me” pushed 23-16
(6,000 sales; total 82,000).
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
6
Nov 2017
Congrats to Thomas Rhett,
George Briner, Ashley Sidoti and the Valory
promotion crew on securing the week’s No.1
with “Unforgettable.” The song is the second chart-topper from Life
Changes. Songwriters are Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley, Shane McAnally and
Rhett.
“Unforgettable” (Valory) logged 8,970 radio spins (+458)
and 60.959 million audience
impressions (+2.892 million) with 24229 Total Points (+1181) from 158 tracking stations for the tracking week October
29 to November 4, 2017 and published chart November 6th 2017.
Kudos to Bob
Reeves and the Reviver team on
landing 50 adds for David Lee Murphy and Kenny Chesney’s “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright”.
The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
(left) Pictured L-R: Reviver
Entertainment Group EVP/GM Gator Michaels; All Access Nashville Editor RJ
Curtis; Reviver Records Mgr./West Coast Promotion Dave Collins and
Coord./Promotion Hayley Cowoski
Finally, a
significant milestone for Blake Shelton and
the WMN team, as six singles from
his new album TEXOMA SHORE charted –
unprecedented in the history of Country Aircheck.
In addition to lead single “I’ll Name The Dogs” (#9) charting tracks were “At The House” (#42), “I Lived It” (#44), “Turnin’ Me On” (#45), “Money” (#46) and “Why Me” (#47). Driven largely by a program with iHeartMedia sponsored by Nissan, airplay for the five album cuts was significant enough to affect several other singles.
In addition to lead single “I’ll Name The Dogs” (#9) charting tracks were “At The House” (#42), “I Lived It” (#44), “Turnin’ Me On” (#45), “Money” (#46) and “Why Me” (#47). Driven largely by a program with iHeartMedia sponsored by Nissan, airplay for the five album cuts was significant enough to affect several other singles.
Mercury’s Lauren Alaina moved down (45-48) with
“Doin’ Fine” and Curb’s Dylan Scott
also dropped (47-50) with “Hooked.” Both songs retained their bullets. The
following songs that were on last week’s chart dropped out of the top 50: Josh Turner’s “All About You” (MCA), Lindsay Ell’s “Waiting On You” and Runaway June’s “Wild West” (Wheelhouse)
would have charted absent the WMN/iHeart program.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
DAVID LEE MURPHY & KENNY CHESNEY/Everything's Gonna Be Alright
(Reviver/Blue Chair) 50 50
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Wild West (Wheelhouse) 16 69
REBA MCENTIRE/God
And My Girlfriends (Valory/Nash Icon) 14 14
JON PARDI/She
Ain't In It (Capitol) 12 81
BLAKE
SHELTON/At The House (Warner Bros./WMN) 11 11
BLAKE SHELTON/I
Lived It (Warner Bros./WMN) 11 11
BLAKE
SHELTON/Money (Warner Bros./WMN) 11 11
BLAKE
SHELTON/Turnin' Me On (Warner Bros./WMN) 11 11
BLAKE
SHELTON/Why Me (Warner Bros./WMN) 11 11
BRAD
PAISLEY/Heaven South (Arista) 8 38
KANE
BROWN/Heaven (RCA) 8 19
LADY
ANTEBELLUM/Heart Break (Capitol) 8 84
OLD
DOMINION/Written In The Sand (RCA) 8 131
BRETT
ELDREDGE/The Long Way (Atlantic/WMN) 7 130
JAMES BARKER
BAND/Chills (UMGC/New Revolution) 7 29
MIDLAND/Make A
Little (Big Machine) 7 136
SHANIA TWAIN/We
Got Something They Don't (Mercury) 7 29
MORGAN
EVANS/Kiss Somebody (Warner Bros./WEA) 4 37
MORGAN WALLEN
f/FGL/Up Down (Big Loud) 4 6
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega (Atlantic/WAR) 3 39
DELTA RAE/No
Peace In Quiet (Valory) 3 21
KID
ROCK/Tennessee Mountain Top (Red Bow/BBR/BMG) 2 26
LAUREN
ALAINA/Doin' Fine (19/Interscope/Mercury) 2 109
CAM/Diane
(Arista) 1 2
DENNY
STRICKLAND/We Don't Sleep (Red Star) 1 7
JESSIE JAMES
DECKER f/R. HOUSER/Almost Over You (Epic) 1 1
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Legends (Black River) 1 154
LINDSAY
ELL/Waiting On You (Stoney Creek) 1 81
MIRANDA
LAMBERT/Tin Man (RCA) 1 138
For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 575 - Nov 6, 2017 [PDF File] Magazine View
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #6
Event
Venue City/State: Kid Rock, Robert Randolph
& The Family Band Little
Caesars Arena Detroit, Mich.
Dates:
Sept. 12-13, 15-16, 19-20, 2017 Gross
Sales: $5,479,343 Attend: 86,893/ 86,893
Shows/
Sellouts: 6/6 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$75, $55, $35, $20
Promoters: Live Nation/Olympia Entertainment
Rank
Artist: #51
Event
Venue City/State: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Steve Moakler Capital One
Arena Washington, D.C.
Dates:
Oct. 13, 2017 Gross Sales: $1,200,627
Attend: 13,537/ 13,537
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 Prices: $119.50, $89.50, $69.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #63
Event
Venue City/State: Outlaw Music Festival: Willie Nelson, Van
Morrison, Sheryl Crow, The Avett Brothers & others Hersheypark Stadium
Hershey, Pa.
Dates:
Sept. 10, 2017 Gross Sales: $1,091,770 Attend: 20,387/ 24,942
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (4,555 unsold tickets)
Prices: $275, $30
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #98
Event
Venue City/State: Zac Brown Band XFINITY Theatre Hartford,
Conn.
Dates:
July 6, 2017 Gross Sales: $759,348 Attend: 23,757/ 24,442
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (685 unsold tickets) Prices:
$85.75, $35.75
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #118
Event
Venue City/State: Chris Stapleton, Brent Cobb,
Marty Stuart
Van Andel Arena
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dates:
Nov. 4, 2017 Gross Sales: $656,408 Attend: 10,351/ 10,351
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$70.75, $35.75
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #156
Event
Venue City/State: Lady Antebellum, Brett Young,
Kelsea Ballerini SSE
Hydro Glasgow, U.K
Dates:
Oct. 7, 2017 Gross Sales: $506,501
Attend: 11,088/ 11,238
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (150 unsold tickets) Prices:
$49.86, $36.79
Promoters: Regular Music
Rank
Artist: #194
Event
Venue City/State: Lady Antebellum, Kelsea
Ballerini Manchester Arena Manchester,
U.K.
Dates:
Oct. 4, 2017 Gross Sales: $385,348
Attend: 6,759/ 8,058
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,299 unsold tickets)
Prices: $66.25, $46.37
Promoters: Live Nation
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