Wednesday 24 January 2018

Country Billboard Chart News December 18, 2017

In Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of December 30, 2017)

Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** ** WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Luke Bryan  
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay *** No.1 (1 week) “I’ll Name the Dogs” Blake Shelton
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line

Billboard Top 200 / Country Album Chart News (Chart issue week of December 30, 2017)

The Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

Luke Bryan earns fourth No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Album Chart
Luke Bryan’s WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY is the fourth country set to hit No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200) in 2017, following Kenny Chesney's Live in No Shoes Nation, Shania Twain's Now and Thomas Rhett's Life Changes.
That’s the most country leaders in a year since 2014, when five titles visited the top: Eric Church’s The Outsiders, Miranda Lambert’s Platinum, Blake Shelton’s Bringing Back the Sunshine, Jason Aldean’s Old Boots, New Dirt; and Florida Georgia Line’s Anything Goes. (Notably, all of the five No. 1s for country in 2014 came when the chart was still a pure sales-based ranking, before it transitioned in December 2014 to an equivalent album units-ranking.)
Bryan made his Billboard chart debut 10 years ago, back on Feb. 10, 2007, when his single “All My Friends Say” arrived on the Hot Country Songs chart at No. 59. It would eventually peak at No. 5 in September of that year. That same month, his first album, I’ll Stay Me, topped out at No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart, and No. 24 on the Billboard 200.

What Makes You Country was preceded by the single “Light It Up,” which has so far peaked at No.4 on Hot Country Songs, and granted the singer his 18th No.1 on the Country Airplay chart.
Back on the Billboard 200, Taylor Swift’s REPUTATION rose from No.3 to No.2 with 100,000 units (down 11 percent; 68,023 in pure sales), while Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) climbed 4-3 with 70,000 units (up 2 percent), and Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas ascends 5-4 with 67,000 units (up 1 percent).
Following Double or Nothing on the new Billboard 200, Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 2 falls from No. 2 to No. 7 in its second week, with 47,000 units (down 63 percent). Sam Smith’s The Thrill of It All moves 7-8 (46,000 units; down 2 percent) and Michael Bublé’s Christmas dips 8-9 with 42,000 units (though it’s up 2 percent). Post Malone’s Stoney rounds out the top 10, as it climbs 11-10 with 36,000 units (down 5 percent).

Billboard Top Country Albums (Chart issue week of December 30, 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.

Luke Bryan earned his fourth No.1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 (BB200) and his eighth No. 1 on Billboard Top Country Albums with his sixth studio full-length, WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville). The set arrives atop both charts (dated Dec. 30) with 108,000 equivalent album units (with 7.8 million streams) in the week ending Dec. 14, with 99,485 in traditional album sales, according to Nielsen Music.

CHART HISTORY: For the 41-year- old Bryan, the 15-track set, co-produced by the father-and-son team of Jeff and Jody Stevens, is his fourth No.1 debut on the Billboard 200 and seventh to debut in the Top Country Albums penthouse.

Bryan’s last studio LP, KILL THE LIGHTS, the first album ever to produce six Country Airplay No.1s, bowed at No. 1 on the tallies with 320,063 copies sold (Aug. 29, 2015). The figure gave Bryan the biggest sales week for a Country album since 2013 – when his own CRASH MY PARTY sold 527,783 copies in its first week
He last led Top Country Albums with the EP Farm Tour: HERE’S TO THE FARMER (32,427 copies; chart Oct. 15, 2016; #4 Billboard 200; #1 Country)
Bryan first ruled Top Country Albums with his third LP, TAILGATES & TANLINES, which entered atop the list dated Aug. 27, 2011 selling 145,295 copies.
His other Top Country Albums leaders: Spring Break… Here to Party (2013); CRASH MY PARTY (2013), with 527,783 copies sold, his biggest single-week sales to date; the EP Spring Break 6...Like We Ain’t Ever (2014); and Spring Break… Checkin’ Out (chart dated March 28, 2015; 88,782 copies; #3 Billboard 200/ #1 Country).
On the Billboard 200, he led with Spring Break… Here to Party, Crash My Party and Kill the Lights prior to What Makes You Country.
The first of Bryan’s 14 Top Country Albums appearances was his debut, I’LL STAY ME, released on Aug 14, 2007, which arrived and peaked at No. 24 on Sept. 1, 2007 (24,993 copies sold).
 His second album DOIN' MY THING, released Oct 6, 2009 opened with sales of 57,503 (Chart Week ending Oct 24, 2009) to peak at #6 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on Billboard Country Albums.

“My hope for every album is to put songs out that drive people to want to come see the shows.  It drives people to want to listen to it on the radio and obviously have these songs incorporated in their life,” said Luke. “I always want to have a rollercoaster of emotions through the albums – the sad songs, the love songs, the happy songs, the drinking songs, the party songs. I want to have songs that people can come to big outdoor stadium like concerts and rock and party and have a blast. I want something driving, something to hit people in the face, and let’s make some big ole fun music and some big ole fun memories.”
Luke just hit No. 1 on the country singles charts with “Light It Up.” He’ll also light up the small screen on ABC’s reboot of American Idol beginning March 11th.

Produced by Jeff Stevens and Jody Stevens, it features seven songs he co-wrote, including the title track and his current single, “Light It Up.” Other writers on the 15-song set are Dallas Davidson, Ashley Gorley, Brad Tursi, Zach Crowell and the Warren Brothers.
The project includes the lead single, "Light It Up," the title track, and 13 additional cuts. BRYAN made the announcement on ABC-TV's "Good Morning AMERICA," with a video of fans sharing what makes them Country.
 "What Makes You Country" was a running theme throughout the launch of the album - "My favorite part of making a new album is getting to collaborate with the songwriting community in this town," said Bryan. "It is important to me to continue to push myself to grow on all levels, and I feel like we did that on this project. Making and performing music never gets old, and I can honestly say I am having the time of my life. I will be forever grateful to every fan who sings along each night."

Promoting the album, In Case You Missed it: Capitol's Luke Bryan appeared on NBC-TV's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Friday (Dec 8). Watch his performance of "What Makes You Country" here and interview here.

Critical reception for Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country:
15 Tracks/ Time: 51:32 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com

The Guardian (Rating: 3 STARS) Luke Bryan: What Makes You Country review – pop in a pickup truck
A traditionalist might suggest that Bryan needs to brandish his credentials because, accent and subject matter aside, his music barely resembles country at all. She’s a Hot One’s owes an audible debt to Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir, but his sound’s closest relation isn’t even rock so much as mainstream pop. You can imagine Alessia Cara or Ariana Grande performing Hungover in a Hotel Room with only a couple of minor tweaks to the sound; the tune of Light It Up borrows so shamelessly from James Bay’s Hold Back the River that it sounds less like
a riff than a lawsuit waiting to happen. But you’d have a hard time arguing that What Makes You Country doesn’t feature some pretty bulletproof songwriting. If it sounds like mainstream pop in a pickup truck, that’s partly because the melodies and structure are up to the standard of the best stuff pumped out by Swedish hit manufacturers....It’s worth noting that the singer is over 40, and presumably aware that a point is looming where singing about spring-break keg parties and purdy girls in Daisy Dukes is going to make him sound, as Smash Hits would once have put it, like Uncle Disgusting. There is a degree of mawkish sentimentality to Pick It Up’s reflections on fatherhood, or Win Life’s depiction of encroaching middle age, but if you’re averse to mawkish sentimentality you might be best advised to give the entire genre of country music a wide berth. Besides, there is a genuine emotion amid the corn: the sound of country’s reigning king looking to a future when the fad that made him famous has died away.

News Day.com (Rating: Positive)…. Sure, Bryan sounds most at home on the delightful “Drinking Again,” which should quickly join Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places” and Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville” in the canon of bar-stool singalongs, but who wouldn’t? It’s a party that is perpetually already started. “We’ll be laughing and loving, high-fiving and hugging,” he sings. “Pop-toppin’, long-neckin’ honky-tonk friends, we’re all drinking again.”
Bryan captured that market long ago with his spring break concerts on the beach and hits such as “Country Man” and “Country Girl (Shake It for Me).”
For “What Makes You Country,” he is bringing a variety of other country styles into his sound. The sweet ballad “Like You Say You Do” has clever twists like recent Kenny Chesney singles. “Hooked on It” is a grinding bit of country rock that pays tribute to Alan Jackson. The arena rock vibe of “She’s a Hot One” could have come from his pal Blake Shelton.
But Bryan, about to be introduced to a whole new audience as an “American Idol” judge, makes sure they all sound effortlessly just like him.

STAPLETON owns three of the top five slots for a second week!
In his second week Chris Stapleton with his third full-length, From A Room: Volume 2 (Mercury/ Universal Music Group Nashville), fell 1-2 (#2-7 Billboard 200) selling 42,622 copies (down 63%, 2-week total 158,472).
Additionally, Stapleton’s with From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/ Universal Music Group Nashville), fell 3-4 (28-32 BB200) selling 15,530 copies (0%, 32-week total 626,600) while Stapleton’s first studio album, TRAVELLER, slipped 4-5 (#33-34 BB200) selling 11,634 copies (up 3%; 137-week total 2,156,100).

Garth Brooks with five-CD boxed set The Anthology: Part I: The First Five Years dropped 2-3 (#10-12 BB200) selling 35,496 copies (down 11%; 4-week total 185,200).

BOOMING INTO THE TOP 10: Walker Hayes with his new LP, boom. (Monument/ Sony Music Nashville), arrived on Top Country Albums at No.6, earning 16,000 equivalent album units (12,324 in traditional sales). The title marked Hayes’ second Top Country Albums appearance; his 2010 self-titled EP debuted and peaked at No. 66.
You Broke Up With Me,” boom.’s launch single, held at No.14 on Hot Country Songs and bumped 16-15 on Country Airplay (17 million, up 3%).
Walker Hayes Performs On 'Today'
Promoting the album Hayes appeared on NBC-TV's "Today" show (Dec 11) to perform "You Broke Up With Me,". Watch the performance here.

Hayes wrote or co-wrote each of the 10 songs on the full-length studio album, which was produced by Shane McAnally, and named for his favorite word. “It’s what I text my team every time another station adds ‘You Broke Up With Me,’” he says of the now-gold first single.)

Hayes, who wrote or co-wrote every song on the 10-track album, many with ambiguous song titles, chose an album title that may well be his only instance where the title might give away the meaning.

Entertainment Weekly noted Hayes’ unique hybrid’s “genre blending” and NPR’s World Café raved Hayes is “writing these really autobiographical songs and delivering them in this way that feels very intimate, very close range.” Rolling Stone concurred, “…he writes songs that are damn near impossible to classify, and that’s what makes them so interesting.”
Single, “You Broke Up With Me,” Over 130,000 Copies Sold, Notches 25 Million Streams, and Top 30-and-Climbing
Walker Hayes isn’t afraid to sing about struggling, and it’s making him a success - Washington Post
One of Rolling Stone’s 2017 “Country Artists to Watch,” Hayes gained attention last year with 8Tracks Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Sixteen self-written and recorded song catapulted the singer/songwriter from working night shifts at Costco to the top of the music charts -- and onto tours with Dan + Shay and Bobby Bones’ Funny and Alone Comedy Tour. That momentum has earned him a highly coveted opening spot on Thomas Rhett’s Home Team Tour.

BLURB: boom. Walker Hayes uses the word often. “It just felt right,” the breakout country singer says of the title for his highly-anticipated new album.
It’s a celebratory sort of thing, he’ll tell you. A new radio station adds his buzzing single, ‘You Broke Up With Me.’ boom. He links up for a national tour with Thomas Rhett. boom. That rowdy performance at CMA Fest –the one that had the crowd singing every word of his music back to him? boom. It wasn’t always this way. Not by a long shot. Lately, though, Hayes has had occasion to bust out the word often. And he’s not complaining.
A confessional, no-nonsense singer-songwriter, and one whose voice and perspective brims with relatability, Hayes is a tried-and-true Nashville standout. He’s an original in a town all-too-often rife with mimicry and compromise. And, now, he has audiences flocking to him in a major way. Conversational, honest and real in song, Hayes’ debut album is the voice of a grinder laying it bare.
It’s the stories of a man who realized the songs he couldn’t help but write - about family, struggle, vices and the sacrifices we make for a dream - were his and his alone. “It startles some people. Like, ‘Wow, he’s really putting out there,’” Hayes says of the raw songwriting that characterizes boom. But, that’s what my heroes did,” he says referencing the Willies and Waylons and Merles of the world. “I can only write something if I truly feel it.”

Critical reception for Walker Hayes’ boom.:
10 Tracks/ Time: 31:05 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com

Roughstock - With just ten songs, Walker Hayes has delivered an album full of clever lyrics and melodies that are outside of what’s typically seen in country music. While that may be enough for some to discount the merits of boom. as a country music album, I just think it’s well-made, good music. And in a world where I’m trying to be more like “Beckett,”  that’s all I need to enjoy one of country music’s most interesting (and final) releases of 2017.

Saving Country Music (Rating: Two Guns Extremely Down! (-1/10)…Boom is the worst album of “country” music in history, and should be universally repelled and impugned by everyone, buried or burned as the example of cultural rot that it is, and never spoken of again except in reference of what we can never allow to befall our precious, fertile ears again.

Former No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 7-8 (#43 Non-mover BB200) selling 6,143 copies (up 5%, 14-week total 194,343).
Former No.1 Kane Brown with his SELF-TITLED album fell 8-9 (#44 Non-mover BB200) selling 5,934 copies (54-week total 281,534).
Former No.1 Blake Shelton with TEXOMA SHORE (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 5-10 (#37- BB200) selling 11,459 copies (down 15%; 6-week total 155,470).

Outside the Top 10
Former No.1 Tim McGraw and Faith Hill with THE REST OF OUR LIFE (McGraw/Arista Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) slipped 9-12 (#51-54 Billboard 200) selling 11,259 copies (down 2%; 4-week total 142,485).

Eagles with HOTEL CALIFORNIA 40th Anniversary 2-CD (Rhino; Amazon UK) fell 17-20 (#110-132 BB200) selling 5,363. copies.
Former No.1 Kenny Chesney with LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville) fell held at No.21 (#136-146 BB200) selling 6,625 copies (down 4%; 7-week total 321,370).

In his sixth frame Kid Rock with SWEET SOUTHERN SUGAR (Top Dog/BMG/Broken Bow Music Group), fell 19-25 (#126-166 Billboard 200) selling 5,936 copies (down 17%; 6-week total 84,471).

CHRISTMAS RELEASES

Reba McEntire with her re-issued MY KIND OF CHRISTMAS (Nash Icon | BMLG) rose 10-7 (#52-39 BB200) selling 15,002 copies (up 20%).
Elvis Presley with It's Christmas Time (RCA Special Products/Sony Commercial Music Group | Legacy) held at No.11 selling 7,062 copies.
Blake Shelton with CHEERS, IT'S CHRISTMAS (Warner Bros. | WMN) moved 12-13 (#67-62 BB200) selling 8,903 copiesBurl Ives with RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (MCA Special Products | Ume) fell 16-17 with 2,638 sales (#107-100 BB200; 28 chart weeks).
Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood with CHRISTMAS TOGETHER (Gwendolyn | Pearl) fell 14-15 (#88-93 BB200) selling 4,706 copies.
Other Sales:
#189 Billboard 200 Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton Once Upon A Christmas (RCA Nashville).
#152 Top Album Sales Brett Eldredge GLOW (Atlantic | WMN) 3,060 sales.
#75 Top Album Sales Amy Grant TENNESSEE CHRISTMAS 4,788 sales.
#112 Top Album Sales Alan Jackson LET IT BE CHRISTMAS 3,816 sales.
#138 Top Album Sales Alabama AMERICAN CHRISTMAS 3,278 sales (21,600 Total)
#183 Top Album Sales Martina McBride THE CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ALBUM 2,685 sales.
#19 Country Sales Various Artists WINTER WONDERLAND 2017 (Curb) 3,100 (15,700 Total)

Outside the Top 25

Danielle Bradbery with I DON’T BELIEVE WE’VE MET (BMLG) in her second week crashed 6-45 selling 2,400 copies? (2-week total 13,500)
In her 6th week Kelsea Ballerini with UNAPOLOGETICALLY (Black River) fell 24-26 (165-172 Billboard 200) selling 3,923 copies (down 3%; 6-week total 67,198).

Year-To-Date Albums
20,546,000 (Physical sales 14,234,000 (down -13.8%) + Digital sales 6,312,000 (down -18.9%) which is 15.4% down at the same point in 2016 (24,287,000 sales) 

Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
61,941,000 down 24.4% at the same point in 2016 (81,942,000)

Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of December 30, 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:

Pop singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./BMLG) held at No.1 for third straight week.

Hot County Songs
** No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
** Airplay Gainer” No.4 “Like I Loved You” Brett Young
** Digital Gainer ** No.14 “You Broke Up With Me” Walker Hayes
** Streaming Gainer ** No.16 “Marry Me” Thomas Rhett
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.35 “Go Rest High On That Mountain” Red Marlow
Debut No.48 “Can't You See” Adam Cunningham & Red Marlow

Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of December 30, 2017)

SHELTON WALKS ‘DOGS’ TO NO. 1
On Country Airplay, Blake Shelton with “I’ll Name the Dogs” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) rose 2-1, jumping 10% to 44.5 million audience impressions in the week ending Dec. 17.

The lead single from Shelton’s album TEXOMA SHORE, which launched at No.1. on Top Country Albums (63,000 units, Nov. 25), marks his 25th Country Airplay No. 1, ranking him fifth among artists with the most No.1s on the almost 28-year old list. 

Tim McGraw leads with 29, followed by Kenny Chesney (28), Alan Jackson and George Strait (26 apiece). “ ‘I’ll Name the Dogs’ is the song that was the impetus for the Texoma Shore album,” Shelton told Billboard. “I love this song, and I love my fans for their unbelievable support year in and year out. Thank you all, and Merry Christmas.”
Dogs” is Shelton’s third consecutive Country Airplay No. 1 (following “Every Time I Hear That Song” and “Guy With a Girl”), after he had set a record with 17 straight leaders (promoted to radio and excluding holiday fare). The run began with 2010’s “Hillbilly Bone” (featuring Trace Adkins) and stretched through “Came Here to Forget” in 2016. Shelton first topped the chart with his debut single, “Austin,” for five weeks in 2001.

Aaron Watson achieved his first top 10 on Country Airplay, as “Outta Style” (BIG Label) entered the chart’s upper tier in its 50th week, increasing 8% to 21.9 million, as it rose 11-10.
Watson’s 50-week journey marked a new record for the longest trip to the top 10, besting Chris Lane’s “For Her,” which reached its No.10 peak on Sept. 16 in its 48th frame.
In the true spirit of the cowboy, “pioneering independent ” (Cowboys & Indians) Aaron Watson is wrapping 2017 with a Top 10 on the national radio charts as his self-penned “Outta Style” hits No. 10 BB/No. 8 MB. At 50 weeks, “Outta Style” marks the longest trek to the coveted spot in the history of Billboard’s Country Airplay Chart.  The Texas troubadour ended his banner year with his album Vaquero earning one of the 10 biggest album debuts of the year in country music and a number of “Best Album of 2017” nods, including Whiskey Riff and the No.1 spot on Taste of Country’s year end list, proclaiming the project “a rich collection of cowboy poetry.”
An epic year on the road which included headlining shows for 50,000 plus at Rodeo Houston and a historic “Night of Texas Music” at the Ryman, Watson will end 2017 with three sold-out nights at the Lone Star State’s oldest dancehall, Gruene Hall, December 21 through 23.

Country Airplay
*** No.1 (1 week) *** “I’ll Name the Dogs” Blake Shelton (44.532 million audience (+3.894 million) / 8,120 radio plays (+621)
** Most Increased Audience ** No.2 “Like I Loved You” Brett Young
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.57 ”Most People Are Good” Luke Bryan
Debut No.58 “Diane” Cam
Debut No.60 “Hide The Wine” Carly Pearce

Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart 
(Chart issue week of December 30, 2017)

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 third successive week and held at No.7 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales chart.
It was six places behind Ed Sheeran and Beyoncé's "Perfect" (on Atlantic Records) which topped the Hot 100 for a second week. In its second full tracking week, it sold 98,000 downloads (down 46%), as it spent a third week at No.1 on the Digital Song Sales chart.

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) held at No.3 (#31-34 Digital Songs; 12,000 sales; 9-week total 90,000).
Previous No.1 LANco with “Greatest Love Story” (Arista Nashville) fell 2-4 (#26-35 Digital Songs, 12,000 sales; 24-week total 429,000)
Walker Hayes with “You Broke Up With Me” (Monument) rose 7-5 (#38 Re-Entry Digital Sales; 10,000 sales, 22-week total 257,000).
Chris Stapleton with “Broken Halos” fell 4-6 (8,000 sales; 16-week total 280,000).
Brenda Lee’s holiday classic Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree” (Decca/MCA Nashville) fell 6-7..
Former No.1 Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina with “What If’s” fell 5-8 (8,000 sales; 31-week total 569,000). 
The Voice (U.S. season 13) contestants Adam Cunningham (Eliminated (Week 4) & Red Marlow with their duet, a cover of The Marshall Tucker Band’s 1973 song “Can’t You See” (Republic) made a debut at No.9 selling 8,000 copies.
Brett Young with “Like I Loved You” (BMLG) fell 9-10 (7,000 sales, 16-week total 177,000)

Outside the Top 10
Russell Dickerson Yours” (Triple Tigers) held at No.11 (7,000 sales, 15-week total 335,000)
Scotty McCreery with “Five More Minutes” (Triple Tigers) lifted 14-12 (7,000 sales, 7-week total 142,000).
14 - NE - 01 - 14 –- Adam Cunningham with a cover of Lonestar’s 2001 #1 hit song “I'm Already There” (Republic) made a debut at No.14 selling 7,000 copies.
Blake Shelton with “I'll Name The Dogs” (Warner Bros. | WMN) fell 8-16 (7,000 sales, 14-week total 161,000)
Aussie Morgan Evans (Mr. Kelsea Ballerini) with “I Do” (Warner Bros. | WMN) made a debut at No.19 selling 6,000 copies.

Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart

18 Dec 2017
Congrats to Blake Shelton, Kristen Williams, Katie Bright and the WMN Radio & Streaming staff on landing the week’s No.1 with “I’ll Name The Dogs.” The song is the first single from Shelton’s Texoma Shore. Writers are Matt Dragstrem, Ben Hayslip and Josh Thompson.

I’ll Name The Dogs” (Warner Bros./WMN) logged 8,780 radio spins (+806) and 58.179 million audience impressions (+5.59 million) with 23033 Total Points (+1935) from 156 tracking stations for the tracking week December 10 to December 16, 2017 and published chart December 18th 2017.

ADDS: Most Added at Mediabase Country Airplay return Jan. 2, 2018.

Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers
BRETT YOUNG/Like I Loved You (BMLGR) 2041
BLAKE SHELTON/I'll Name The Dogs (Warner Bros./WMN) 1935
RUSSELL DICKERSON/Yours (Triple Tigers) 1380
OLD DOMINION/Written In The Sand (RCA) 1244
THOMAS RHETT/Marry Me (Valory) 1224
AARON WATSON/Outta Style (Big Label) 1157
SCOTTY MCCREERY/Five More Minutes (Triple Tigers) 1121
LINDSAY ELL/Criminal (Stoney Creek) 1100
KELSEA BALLERINI/Legends (Black River) 1001
MIDLAND/Make A Little (Big Machine) 992

For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 581 - Dec 18, 2017  [PDF File] Magazine View
For the very latest up to the minute Mediabase Chart (Past 7 Days) go here - www.mediabase.com

Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)
Rank Artist: #85
Event Venue City/State: Asleep at the Wheel Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center Midland, Texas
Dates: Dec. 14, 2017 Gross Sales: $55,435 Attend: 905/ 1,733
Shows/ Sellouts: 1/0 (828 unsold tickets) Prices: $73, $23
Promoters: Midland Odessa Symphony & Chorale
Latest Billboard Boxscore Chart



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