The first chart
of the New Year (dated Jan 6, 2018) but
represents the final tally of 2017 with the chart weeks ending on Dec
28, 2017.
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of January 6, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (3 non-consecutive weeks) ** The
Anthology: Part 1, The First Five Years
Garth Brooks
Hot Country Songs
** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
*** No.1 (2 weeks) “Like I Loved You” Brett Young
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “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 returned to No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart (BB200) for a fourth non-consecutive
week, as the set stepped 2-1 in its
seventh week on the list. Reputation earned 107,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 28,
according to Nielsen Music (down 19 percent). Of that sum, 79,441 were in traditional album
sales (down 24 percent).
Reputation
spent its first three weeks at No.1 on the chart, and then lingered at either
Nos. 3 or No. 2 for its next three chart frames. It’s the first album to notch
four weeks at No.1 since The Weeknd’s Starboy claimed its fifth (and final)
week at No. 1, on the list dated Feb. 11, 2017.
Though
Reputation is down in sales for the week, it still likely benefited from
last-minute Christmas shopping, as the chart’s tracking week included the final
three days before the Christmas holiday on Dec. 25.
Rising
two spots to No. 2 was Ed Sheeran’s
÷ (Divide) with 92,000 units (up 2
percent), as the set’s single “Perfect” continued to find new fans. The song
spent its third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Jan. 3.
The
soundtrack to the musical drama film The
Greatest Showman vaulted from No. 63 to No.5 with 77,000 units (up
418 percent), of which 60,860 were in traditional album sales (up 436%). The set gets a big
boost following its parent movie’s release in U.S. theaters on Dec. 20. The
soundtrack features music from the film’s stars like Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron
and Zendaya.
Gene Autry's RUDOLPH THE
RED NOSED REINDEER AND OTHER CHRISTMAS CLASSICS, a 2003 release, debuted on
the Billboard 200 at #157 and became
the late Mr. Autry's first entry on the Billboard popular albums chart
(1945-present). Autry (1907-1998) was primarily a western ('cowboy') movie
star, but also was a country singer on Columbia Records who recorded the
original versions of "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus
Lane)" in 1948 and "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" in 1949.
These songs, especially the latter one, are heard on US radio to this day at
the holidays. The charting album naturally includes these songs and, although
it includes more material than Autry's 1957 Christmas album, drops all the
hymn-book Christmas songs (O Little Town Of Bethlehem, Silent Night, etc.) in
favor of more Santa-themed songs.
Autry
would be 110 years old if he were living today. I believe that an artist
charting for the first time on the Billboard 200 that long after their birth is
a record, although I am sure someone will point out if anyone has ever bested
that mark.
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 with five-CD boxed set The Anthology: Part I: The First Five Years
returned to the top of the Billboard Top Country Album chart moving 2-1 (#9-13 BB200) selling 36,444 copies (6-week total 267,600).
Previous 2-week
No.1 Luke
Bryan fell 3-1 (#8-17 BB200) with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) selling 27,517 copies (3-week total
170,700)
STAPLETON owns
three of the top ten slots.
In
his fourth week Chris Stapleton with his third full-length, From A Room: Volume 2 (Mercury/
Universal Music Group Nashville), rose 3-2 (#10-16 Billboard 200) selling 30,014 copies (4-week total 231,200).
Stapleton’s with From A Room: Volume 1
(Mercury/ Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 5-7 (#35-47 BB200) selling 12,235 copies (34-week total 657,800) as first studio album, TRAVELLER,
rose 7-6 (#43-44 BB200) selling 10,053 copies (139-week
total 2,180,600).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) rose 6-4 (#42-27 BB200) selling 9,322 copies (16-week total 214,200).
Former No.1 Kane Brown with his SELF-TITLED pushed 8-5 (#49-37 BB200) selling 8,227 copies (56-week total 297,800).
Luke Combs with THIS ONE'S FOR YOU (River House/Columbia Nashville | SMN) rose 14-10 (#93-68 BB200) selling 5,608 copies (30-week total 297,800).
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Blake Shelton with
TEXOMA SHORE (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 10-11 (#55-71 BB200) selling 9,932 copies (8-week total 179,100).
Former No.1 Tim McGraw and Faith Hill with THE REST OF OUR LIFE (McGraw/Arista Nashville/Sony Music Nashville)
slipped 11-12 (#98-82 Billboard 200)
selling 10,233 copies (6-week total 166,700).
Kelsea Ballerini with UNAPOLOGETICALLY (Black River) rose 24-20 (155-145 Billboard 200) selling 4,760 copies (8-week total 77,400).
Outside the Top 25
Kid Rock with SWEET SOUTHERN SUGAR (Top Dog/BMG/Broken Bow Music Group), fell 25-26 (#140-174 Billboard 200) selling 6,399 copies (8-week total 98,800).
Former
No.1 Kenny Chesney with
LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville) fell 21-27 (#134-179
BB200) selling 6,106 copies (9-week total 342,300).
Walker Hayes with boom. (Monument/ Sony Music Nashville) fell 26-33 selling 2,300 copies (3-week total 18,800)
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Danielle Bradbery with I DON’T BELIEVE WE’VE MET (BMLG) fell 33-41 selling 1,300
copies (4-week total 16,900)
CHRISTMAS RELEASES
Garth Brooks & Trisha
Yearwood with CHRISTMAS TOGETHER (Gwendolyn | Pearl) rose 16-14 (#102-100 BB200).
Blake Shelton with CHEERS, IT'S CHRISTMAS (Warner Bros. | WMN) moved 13-16 (#81-110 BB200) selling 4,310 copies.
Burl Ives with RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (MCA Special Products | Ume) rose
18-15 (#119-104 BB200; 29 chart weeks).
Brenda Lee Rockin' Around
The Christmas Tree: The Decca Christmas Recordings (Decca/MCA Nashville | Ume)
rose 29-19 (#198-144 BB200).
Reba McEntire with her re-issued MY KIND OF CHRISTMAS (Nash Icon | BMLG)
fell 12-23 (#62-153 BB200) selling 6,445 copies (up 20%).
Gene Autry with Rudolph Red Nosed Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics (Columbia |
Legacy) rose 34-25.
Brett Eldredge GLOW (Atlantic | WMN) rose 46-34 selling 4,134
sales.
#128
Top Album Sales Country Sales Various Artists WINTER
WONDERLAND 2017 (Curb) 3,889 (22,500
Total)
#138
Top Album Sales Alabama AMERICAN CHRISTMAS 3,372 sales (28,100 Total)
Year-To-Date Albums
22,078,000 (Physical sales 15,553,000
(down -13.7%) + Digital sales 6,525,000 (down -19.3%) which is 15.4% down at the same point in 2016 (26,104,000
sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
64,055,000 down 24.7% at the same point in 2016 (85,025,000)
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:
Atop
Hot Country Songs (which blends airplay, streaming and sales data), Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's "Meant
to Be" reigned for a fifth week. It leads Country Digital Song
Sales for a fourth frame (52,000 downloads sold, up 70 percent) and climbs
36-30 on Country Airplay (4.2 million, up 15 percent).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida
Georgia Line
Country
Streaming Songs
(06/01/2018)
#1 - 1 - 29 -1
- Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda
Lee
#2 - 2 - 23 - 2
- A Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives
#3 - 4 - 28 - 1
- Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene
Autry
#4 - 5 - 25 - 1
- Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
#5 - 3 - 5 - 1
- Meant To Be - Bebe Rexha Featuring
Florida Georgia Line
Brett Young's second Country Airplay No.1, "Like
I Loved You," spent a second week at the summit (40.9 million,
down 2 percent). The song matched the two-week reign of his first leader,
"In Case You Didn't Know," which reached No. 1 on the June 10,
2017-dated chart.
Old Dominion notches its fifth, and fastest-rising, top 10 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart (dated Jan.
6), as "Written in the Sand" pushed 11-10. The song gains by 9 percent to 21.8 million audience
impressions in the tracking week ending Dec. 31, according to Nielsen Music.
The ballad,
co-written by the group's Brad Tursi, Trevor Rosen and Matthew Ramsey, along
with Shane McAnally (Old Dominion also includes Geoff Sprung and Whit Sellers),
is the second single from the band's sophomore full-length studio album HAPPY ENDINGS.
It reaches the chart's top 10 in its 16th chart week, besting the 17-week
ascent of the act's second top 10, the No. 2-peaking "Snapback," in 2016.
Old Dominion's
three other top 10s all topped the tally: "Break Up With Him" (Nov. 14 and 21, 2015), "Song for Another Time" (Dec. 24,
2016) and Happy Endings' lead track "No
Such Thing as a Broken Heart" (Sept. 9, 2017).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Like I Loved You” Brett
Young 40.9 million audience
Debut
No.60 “O Holy Night” Luke Bryan
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Bebe
Rexha and Florida Georgia
Line with “Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./BMLG) held
at No.1 on Billboard Country Digital Song Sales for a fourth
successive week (52,000
downloads sold, up 70%) and moved 9-5 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales chart.
It was four places behind Ed Sheeran and Beyoncé's "Perfect" which
spent a fifth week at No. 1 on Digital
Song Sales (163,000, up 8 percent).
The Voice (U.S.
season 13) 4th placed Contestant Red Marlow with a
cover of Vince Gills’ “Go Rest High On That
Mountain” (Republic) made a
debut at No.2 (#26 Digital Songs;
14,000 sales). He performed the song on Episode 24 (Monday, December 11).
Thomas Rhett with “Marry Me” (Valory) rose 4-2 (#21 Digital
Songs; 31,000 sales).
Previous No.1 LANco with “Greatest Love Story” (Arista
Nashville) rose 5-3 (#44-33 Digital
Songs, 21,000 sales; total 463,000).
Former No.1 Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina with “What
If’s” rose 8-4 (#34
Re-Entry Digital Songs; 21,000 sales; total 599,000).
Sam Hunt with “Body Like A Back Road” lifted
14-5 (#47 Re-Entry Digital Songs;
17,000 sales; total 1,818,000).
Walker Hayes with “You Broke Up With Me” (Monument)
rose 7-6 (16,000
sales, total 283,000).
Luke Combs with “When It Rains It Pours” (River
House | Columbia Nashville) advanced 17-7
(16,000 sales: total 340,000)
Scotty McCreery with “Five
More Minutes” (Triple Tigers) lifted 13-8 (15,000
sales, 7-week total 165,000).
Russell Dickerson “Yours”
(Triple Tigers) rose 11-10 (14,000 sales, total 358,000).
Brett Young with “Like
I Loved You” (BMLG) climbed 11-10
(14,000 sales, total 200,000)
Outside
the Top 10
Kane Brown with “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA
Nashville) rolled up 18-11 (14,000
sales; total 98,000).
Kelsea Ballerini with “Legends“ (Black River)
made a Re-entry at No.17 (10,000 sales;
total 119,000).
Sugarland with “Still The Same“ (Big
Machine | BMLG) rose 25-22 (9,000
sales; 4-week total 14,000)
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
Jan
2, 2018
Thomas Rhett Is Most-Added
With 'Marry Me'
Congratulations
to VALORY MUSIC CO.'s Thomas Rhett, who rung in the new year with the
most adds at Country radio this week with his current single, "Marry
Me." The single was also previously most-added on its initial
impact date on Nov 21, 2017.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
THOMAS RHETT/Marry Me (Valory) 17 146
LUKE BRYAN/Most
People Are Good (Capitol) 15 16
LUKE COMBS/One
Number Away (River House/Columbia) 13 19
LINDSAY
ELL/Criminal (Stoney Creek) 10 91
CHRIS
JANSON/Drunk Girl (Warner Bros./WAR) 9 64
SUGARLAND/Still
The Same (Big Machine/UMG) 9 9
DAVID LEE
MURPHY & KENNY CHESNEY/Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Reviver/Blue Chair) 8 122
BEBE REXHA
f/FGL/Meant To Be (BMLGR/WBR) 7 60
CARLY
PEARCE/Hide The Wine (Big Machine) 7 70
HIGH
VALLEY/She's With Me (Atlantic/WEA) 7 133
KANE
BROWN/Heaven (RCA) 6 86
DARIUS
RUCKER/For The First Time (Capitol) 5 127
CAM/Diane
(Arista) 2 61
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Wild West (Wheelhouse) 2 83
SHANIA TWAIN/We
Got Something They Don't (Mercury) 2 42
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega (Atlantic/WAR) 1 52
BAILEY BRYAN/Go
Tell It On The Mountain (300/WAR) 1 1
DANIELLE
BRADBERY/Sway (BMLGR) 1 82
DELTA RAE/No
Peace In Quiet (Valory) 1 31
MORGAN
EVANS/Kiss Somebody (Warner Bros./WEA) 1 47
The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
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