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
November
2017
MULTI-PLATINUM SINGLES:
Luke Bryan Don't Want This Night To End
| released Aug 9, 2011 Capitol Records |
certified Gold Jan 9, 2012, certified Platinum Feb 23, 2012, certified 2x
Multi-Platinum Oct 22, 2012, certified 3x Multi-Platinum Nov 16, 2017,
certified 4x Multi-Platinum Nov 16, 2017 4 Million units
Luke Bryan Kick The Dust Up | released
Aug 7, 2015 Capitol Records | certified Gold Sept 14, 2016 | certified Platinum
Sept 14, 2016, certified 2x Multi-Platinum Nov
16, 2017 2 Million
Luke Bryan Do
I | Released May 5,
2009 Capitol Nashville | certified Gold Jan 15, 2010, certified Platinum Jan 9,
2012, certified 2x Multi-Platinum Nov 16, 2017 2 Million
PLATINUM SINGLES:
Old
Dominion Snapback | released Nov 6, 2015 RCA Records |
certified Gold June 21, 2016 | certified Platinum Nov 29, 2017
1 Million
GOLD SINGLES
Locash I Know Somebody | released Oct 30,
2015 Reviver Records | certified Gold Nov 6, 2017 0.5 Million units
Carly Pearce Every Little Thing
| released Jan 23, 2017
Big Machine Records | certified Gold Nov 14, 2017 0.5 Million units (actual pure sales
347,000)
Dan + Shay How Not To | released Sept 26, 2016 Warner Bros.
Records | certified Gold Nov 16, 2017 0.5 Million units
Walker Hayes You Broke Up With Me released Jan 27, 2017 Monument Records | certified Gold Nov 22, 2017 0.5 Million units (actual pure sales 247,000
chart dated Dec 23, 2017)
GOLD ALBUMS
Luke Combs THIS
ONE'S FOR YOU | released
JUNE 2, 2017 | certified GOLD Nov 30, 2017 0.5
Million units (actual pure sales 26-week total 157,700).
Brothers Osborne PAWN
SHOP | released Jan 15,
2016 EMI Records | certified GOLD Nov
16, 2017 0.5 Million units (actual
pure sales 183,600 chart dated Dec 23, 2017)
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of December 16, 2017)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** The Anthology: Part
1, The First Five Years Garth Brooks
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
*** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Ask Me How I Know” Garth Brooks
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Taylor Swift with REPUTATION album notched a third week at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200),
making it the first set to rack up three weeks atop the list since Kendrick
Lamar’s DAMN. in May.
Reputation
earned 147,000 equivalent album
units (down 43%) in the week ending Nov. 30, according to Nielsen Music. Of
that sum, 131,424
were in
traditional album sales (down 43%).
Only
four albums have spent three or more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in
2017: Reputation, DAMN., Drake’s More Life and The Weeknd’s Starboy.
Garth
Brooks’ box
set, The Anthology: Part I, The First
Five Years, was a non-mover at No.4
in its second chart week, with 57,000
equivalent album units (up 7 percent, all in traditional album sales: 56,816 copies). The box set, which
is only available on CD, rises following sale pricing timed to the Black Friday shopping holiday on Nov.
24.
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.
Garth Brooks ruled Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart as The Anthology: Part 1, The First Five Years strode 2-1 (#4 Billboard 200), earned 57,000
equivalent album units (up 7%; 56,816 pure
sales; 2-week total 109,900), all in traditional
album sales, in the week ending Nov.30, according to Nielsen Music.
The box set,
which chronicles his 1989-1993 ascent and is available only on CD, rose
following sale-pricing timed to the Black
Friday shopping holiday on Nov. 24.
Brooks banked
his 17th Top Country Albums No.1,
tying Willie Nelson for the second-most leaders. Brooks’ musical idol George
Strait reigns with 26 No.1s. Brooks simultaneously paced Country Airplay and
Top Country Albums for the first time since Jan. 3, 1998, when his “Longneck
Bottle” led the former and Sevens dominated the latter.
Previous week
No.1 Tim
McGraw and Faith Hill with THE REST OF OUR LIFE (McGraw/Arista
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) slipped 1-2
(#2-#20 Billboard 200) selling 21,392 copies (down
68%; 2-week total 119,743).
Former
No.1 Blake Shelton with
TEXOMA SHORE (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#13-24 BB200) selling 17,982 copies (4-week total
130,613).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) rose 5-4 (#41-35 BB200) selling 7,833 copies (up 23%, 12-week total 182,400).
Eagles with HOTEL CALIFORNIA 40th Anniversary 2-CD (Rhino; Amazon UK)
which marks 40 years since the release of the EAGLES' landmark album, made a
re-entry at No.5 (#44 BB200) selling
11,876 copies.
The
album spent eight week at #1 in the U.S., spawned two #1 singles, won two
GRAMMY Awards, and sold more than 32 million copies around the world.
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To
mark the milestone, "Hotel CALIFORNIA: 40th Anniversary Deluxe
Edition," a new 2-CD/1-Blu-Ray
Audio released Friday, November 24th. The set includes remastered sound,
ten previously unreleased live recordings, as well as hi-res stereo and 5.1
mixes. Presented in an 11 x 11 hardbound book, it also features rare and unseen
photos from the era, a replica tour book, and an 11 x 22 poster. Both a 2-CD
Expanded Edition and 1-CD version will be available, along with digital
download and streaming versions.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with his SELF-TITLED album fell 4-6 (#37-46 BB200) selling 5,900 copies (down 20%; 52-week
total 269,900).
Reba McEntire with her re-issued MY KIND OF CHRISTMAS (Nash Icon | BMLG)
lifted 12-7 (#79-49 BB200) selling 12,899 copies (up 40%).
Chris Stapleton with From a Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville)
fell 8-9 (53-64 BB200)
selling 8,611 copies
(30-week total 595,500) whilst TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
slipped 7-8 (#48-57 BB200) selling
6,915 copies
(down 8%; 135-week total 2,133,300).
In
her fourth frame Kelsea Ballerini with UNAPOLOGETICALLY (Black River) fell 9-10 (59-65 Billboard 200) selling 8,653 copies (up 7%; 4-week total 59,240).
Outside the
Top 10
In his fourth week
Kid Rock with SWEET SOUTHERN SUGAR
(Top Dog/BMG/Broken Bow Music Group), fell 11-13
(#74-82 Billboard 200) selling 9,047 copies (down 2%; 4-week total 71,441).
IT’s CHRISTMAS TIME!:
Elvis Presley with It's Christmas Time (RCA Special Products/Sony Commercial Music Group
| Legacy) lifted 17-11 (NEW #73 BB200) selling 9,134 copies.
Blake Shelton with CHEERS, IT'S CHRISTMAS (Warner Bros. | WMN) moved 16-12 (#97-67 BB200) selling (#28) 9,092 copies.
Burl Ives with RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (MCA Special Products | Ume) rose 33-19 with 2,835 sales (#131 Re-Entry BB200;
26 chart weeks).
Alan Jackson with LET IT BE CHRISTMAS (ARC/Gaither | Capitol CMG) made a re-entry at No.25 (#172 Re-Entry BB200; 9 chart
frames) selling 5,246
copies.
Elsewhere
outside the top 25 Brett Eldredge’s GLOW, the crooner’s holiday set from last
year, which arrived and peaked at No. 2 on Top Country Albums, re-entered at No.33, dashing 137% to 5,000 equivalent
album units (3,645 pure sales).
Former No.1 Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 10-14 (#61-83 BB200) selling 3,378 copies (down 18%; 26-week total 157,700).
Previous
weeks No.1 Kenny Chesney with LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION (Blue
Chair/Columbia Nashville) fell 15-17
(#96-118 BB200) selling 6,796 copies (down 11%; 5-week
total 307,865).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Chase Rice with LAMBS & LIONS (Dack Janiels/Broken
Bow/BMG | BBMG) in his second week fell 4-28
after it debut at No.6 on Top
Country albums and No.42 Billboard
200.
Cole Swindell with his 5-track DOWN HOME SESSIONS IV (EP) Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN; Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.20 selling 2,672 copies.
Jake Owen with GREATEST HITS (RCA Nashville | SMN) made a debut at No.25 after initial debut sales of 700
copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
19,047,000 (Physical sales 13,021,000
(down -13.6%) + Digital sales 6,026,000 (down -19.3%) which is 15.5% down at the same point in 2016 (22,535,000
sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
60,403,000 down 24.2% at the same point in 2016 (79,638,000)
60,403,000 down 24.2% at the same point in 2016 (79,638,000)
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:
’MEANT TO BE’ AT NO. 1 For only the third time since Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart transitioned
to a hybrid data list that blends airplay, streaming and sales on Oct. 20,
2012, a song debuts atop the survey.
Pop
singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia
Line with “Meant to Be” (Warner
Bros./BMLG) launched at No.1, driven in part by budding multiformat support at
both pop and country radio, where
it’s being dually promoted. It rose 31-28 on the Mainstream Top 40 airplay
chart (up 33% in plays) and pushed 57-48 in its second week on Country Airplay (2 million impressions,
up 47%). On the Billboard Hot 100, “Meant” reaches the top 40 (42-40).
The
collaboration ranked at No.8 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales chart with 25,000 downloads sold (and entered Country Digital Song Sales at No. 1),
while drawing 10.4 million U.S. streams (as it enters the all-genre Streaming
Songs chart at No. 46).
This is Rexha’s
first visit to Hot Country Songs, while FGL earned its sixth No. 1 and first since
“H.O.L.Y.” reigned for 18 weeks beginning May 21, 2016.
“Meant” is the
third track to start at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, following the all-star
“Forever Country” by Artists of Then, Now & Forever (Oct. 8, 2016) and “My
Baby’s Got a Smile on Her Face” by Craig Wayne Boyd, season-seven winner of
NBC’s The Voice (Jan. 3, 2015).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (1
week)/ Hot Shot Debut ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
**
Airplay Gainer” No.6 “Light It Up” Luke
Bryan
** Digital
Gainer ** No.8 “I'll Name The Dogs” Blake
Shelton
**
Streaming Gainer ** No.26 “Marry Me” Thomas
Rhett
Debut
No.47 “Everything's Gonna Be Alright” David
Lee Murphy & Kenny Chesney
Debut
No.49 “The Dance” Red Marlow
Superstar Garth Brooks topped Country
Airplay for the first time since 2007, as “Ask Me How I Know”
(Pearl) ascended 2-1 on the chart
dated Dec. 16, increasing 8% to 43.3 million audience impressions in the week
ending Dec. 3, according to Nielsen Music.
“I’m so proud
of the Pearl Records team for working so hard for this No.1,”said Brooks.
“Congrats to [writer] Mitch Rossell on his first cut — so happy for you, pal!
And, to country radio: four decades later, thanks for still believing. I’m
humbled and very grateful.”
The coronation
is Brooks’ 19th and first since Sept. 15, 2007, when “More Than a Memory” became the only song to debut atop the chart,
ending a 10-year, three-month gap between No.1s, the second-longest for an act
in a lead role on each track. Tracy Lawrence waited 11 years (and one day)
between “Texas Tornado” in 1996 and “Find Out Who Your Friends Are” in 2007.
“Memory” itself
ended what’s now the third-longest break between leaders (by acts with lead
billings), as it became Brooks’ first No.1 since “To Make You Feel My Love” on Aug. 1, 1998. (In 2000, Brooks went on
hiatus to help raise his three daughters.)
Brooks is one
of eight artists with Country Airplay leaders in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s,
joining Trace Adkins, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Reba McEntire,
Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley.
Brooks first
led Country Airplay with “The Dance”
on July 14, 1990, six months after the list was introduced. He first topped Hot
Country Songs with “If Tomorrow Never Comes” on Dec. 9, 1989.
“Ask” is the second straight Country Airplay
leader penned by just one author, following LANCO’s “Greatest Love
Story,” written by frontman Brandon Lancaster
Maren Morris banked her third Country Airplay top 10 as “I Could Use a Love Song” (Columbia
Nashville) rose 11-9 (27.9 million,
up 6%). It followed her feature on Thomas Rhett’s “Craving You,” which topped
Country Airplay on July 22, and her No. 9-peaking debut, “My Church” (May 21,
2016).
MIDLAND with "Make a Little" the
trio’s second single follows “Drinkin’ Problem,” which peaked at No. 3 and No.4
on Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs, respectively. “Make” rumbled into the
Country Airplay top 20 (22-19), up 11% to 11.6 million in audience.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** "Ask Me How I Know” Garth
Brooks 43.293 million audience (+3.125 million) / 7,963 radio plays (+631)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.2 “Light It Up” Luke Bryan
** Most
Added ** No.28 “Marry Me” Thomas Rhett
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No. 59 “We Got Something They Don't” Shania Twain
Debut
No. 60 “Speakers,
Bleachers And Preachers” Brandon Lay
Bebe
Rexha and Florida Georgia
Line with “Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./BMLG) collaboration
ranked at No.8 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales chart with 25,000 downloads
sold and entered Billboard Country Digital Song Sales at No.1.
It was seven places behind Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" which became his
third No.1 on Digital Song Sales (69,000, down 1%). "Perfect" hit No.
1 on Digital Song Sales with an assist from the first few hours of tracking for
its new duet version with Beyonce, released before the end of the sales (and
streaming) tracking week at 7 p.m. ET on Nov. 30
Previous weeks No.1 LANco with “Greatest Love Story” (Arista
Nashville) fell 1-2 (#28-29 Digital
Songs)
Former No.1 Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina with “What
If’s” rose 4-3 (#40-41
Digital Songs).
Blake Shelton with “I'll Name The Dogs” (Warner
Bros. | WMN) advanced 14-4 (#43
Re-Entry Digital Songs)
Chris Stapleton with “Broken Halos” fell 3-5 (#39-45 Digital Songs).
Walker Hayes with “You Broke Up With Me” (Monument)
rose 9-6 (#46
Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Thomas Rhett with “Marry Me” (Valory) lifted
15-7 (#47
Re-Entry Digital Songs).
The Voice (U.S. season 13) 4th placed Contestant Red Marlow with a cover of Garth Brook’s “The Dance” (performed on
Monday, Nov 27, 2017) made a debut at #8.
Thomas Rhett with “Unforgettable” (Valory)
fell 8-9.
Luke Combs with “When It Rains It Pours”
(River House | Columbia Nashville) fell 7-10.
Outside
the Top 10
Former No.1 Keith Urban’s with “Female” fell 6-12.
Taylor Swift with her new country radio single “New
Year’s Day’ fell 5-18 in her
second frame.
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill with “The Rest Of Our Life” slumped
2-21.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
4
Dec 2017
Garth Brooks Nabs 20th
Career #1 With 'Ask Me How I Know'
Twenty-eight
years ago this week, Garth Brooks had
his first No.1 with “If Tomorrow Never Comes.” Tonight, he’s celebrating again
with “Ask Me How I Know.” Congrats to him, Mandy McCormack, Lesly
Simon, Andy Elliott, Hilary Hoover, Glenn Noblit and Chris Waters. The
songwriter is Mitch Rossell.
This marks
Brooks' 20th trip to the top of the charts, and his first since "More Than A Memory" hit #1 in 2007.
Additionally, this marks the fourth consecutive decade in which BROOKS has had
a #1 single, a run that began with his first career #1, "If Tomorrow Never Comes," in
December 1989.
“Ask Me How I Know” (Pearl) logged 8,634 radio spins (+1004)
and 57.183 million audience
impressions (+5.917 million) with 22857 Total Points (+2715) from 156 tracking stations for the tracking week November
26 to December 2, 2017 and published chart December 4th 2017.
Carly Pearce Is Most-Added
With 'Hide The Wine'
Kudos to Kris
Lamb and the Big Machine team on
landing 40 adds for Carly Pearce’s “Hide The Wine”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic Adds
CARLY PEARCE/Hide The Wine (Big Machine) 40 41
CAM/Diane
(Arista) 31 38
THOMAS
RHETT/Marry Me (Valory) 24 111
LINDSAY
ELL/Criminal (Stoney Creek) 17 30
TAYLOR
SWIFT/New Year's Day (Big Machine) 16 71
MORGAN WALLEN
f/FGL/Up Down (Big Loud/BMLGR) 15 88
MICHAEL
TYLER/Hey Mama (Reviver) 14 15
CHRIS
JANSON/Drunk Girl (Warner Bros./WAR) 10 12
KEITH
URBAN/Female (Capitol) 8 148
KIP MOORE/Last
Shot (MCA) 8 56
D. L. MURPHY
f/K. CHESNEY/Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Reviver/Blue Chair) 7 107
KANE
BROWN/Heaven (RCA) 7 75
BEBE REXHA
f/FGL/Meant To Be (BMLGR/WBR) 6 40
DARIUS
RUCKER/For The First Time (Capitol) 6 121
JORDAN
DAVIS/Singles You Up (MCA) 6 140
TIM MCGRAW
& FAITH HILL/The Rest Of Our Life (Arista) 4 141
KID
ROCK/American Rock'n'Roll (Red Bow/BBR/BMG) 3 3
ASHLEY MCBRYDE/A
Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega (Atlantic/WAR) 2 50
BRANDON
LAY/Speakers, Bleachers And Preachers (EMI Nashville) 2 76
BRANTLEY
GILBERT/The Ones That Like Me (Valory) 2 136
CAROLINE
JONES/Bare Feet (True To The Music) 2 5
DANIELLE
BRADBERY/Sway (BMLGR) 2 77
LAUREN
ALAINA/Doin' Fine (19/Interscope/Mercury) 2 111
MIDLAND/Make A
Little (Big Machine) 2 147
STEPHANIE
QUAYLE/Selfish (Rebel Engine) 2 12
DELTA RAE/No
Peace In Quiet (Valory) 1 28
REBA
MCENTIRE/God And My Girlfriends (Valory/Nash Icon) 1 17
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Wild West (Wheelhouse) 1 78
For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 579 - Dec 4, 2017 [PDF File] Magazine View
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #75
Event
Venue City/State: John Prine, Kacey Musgraves Fox Theatre Atlanta, Ga.
Dates:
Nov. 17, 2017 Gross Sales: $216,113 Attend:
2,774/ 4,423
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,649 unsold tickets)
Prices: $99.50, $59.50
Promoters:
NS2
Rank
Artist: #102
Event
Venue City/State: Cole Swindell, Dylan Schneider Stage AE Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dates:
Oct. 6, 2017 Gross Sales: $106,890 Attend:
3,054/ 4,500
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,446 unsold tickets)
Prices: $35
Promoters:
PromoWest Productions
Rank
Artist: #130
Event
Venue City/State: Kip Moore, Drake White,
Jordan Davis Stage AE Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dates:
Oct. 26, 2017 Gross Sales: $59,561 Attend:
1,696/ 2,300
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (604 unsold tickets) Prices:
$38, $35
Promoters:
PromoWest Productions
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