Country
Billboard Chart News March 5, 2018
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of March 10, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (6 non-consecutive weeks) ** SELF-TITLED
(Deluxe) Kane Brown
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (14 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
*** No.1 (1 week) ** “Marry Me” Thomas Rhett
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (12 non-consecutive weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida
Georgia Line
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News (Chart issue week of
March 10, 2018)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Bon Jovi BUNDLE
their way Back at No.1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
Bon Jovi's former No.1 album, THIS
HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE, is back atop the Billboard
Top 200 Album Chart (BB200) for a second week.
The
set re-entered the tally with 120,000 equivalent album units earned in the week
ending March 1, according to Nielsen Music, up from a negligible figure in the
previous week. Essentially all of its sum is traditional album sales. The surge
back to No.1 is owed nearly entirely
to sales generated by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with
Bon Jovi's upcoming U.S. arena tour.
This
House Is Not for Sale first led the Billboard 200 on Nov. 26, 2016, when it
opened in the penthouse with 129,000 units (128,000 in album sales), also
driven by a ticket/album sale redemption offer. The set marked the band's sixth
chart-topper.
Bon
Jovi’s tour kicks off on March 14 at the Pepsi Center in Denver. The 24-date
U.S. trek is slated to wrap on May 24 at the Capital One Arena in Washington,
D.C. In total, Billboard estimates the tour may sell between 350,000 and 375,000 tickets.
For
the tour’s ticket/album sale redemption
offer, the price of the standard CD edition of This House Is Not for Sale was
bundled into the purchase price of each ticket sold online to the tour.
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.
This
House Is Not for Sale is the second album to re-enter the Billboard 200
straight in at No.1, following Chris Stapleton’s TRAVELLER. The latter returned to the list on Nov. 21, 2015,
jumping in at No.1 for the first time, thanks to buzz generated by Stapleton’s
big night on the 2015 Country Music Association Awards.
Why is Bon
Jovi’s album back at No. 1, two years later — and is that fair? (author: Yahoo Music Paul Grein):
The album owes almost all of its success to the two promotions. It sold 128K
copies in traditional album sales in its first week. It sold 120K copies this
week. But get this: In the 67 weeks between those tent-pole weeks, it sold just
78K copies - on average, just a little more than 1K copies a week. Last week, without the promotion, the album
sold just 175 copies!!
Billboard Top Country
Albums (Chart issue week of
March 10, 2018)
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.
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) was a non-mover at No.2 (33-26 BB200) selling 7,583 copies whilst his sets From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 4-5 (38-40 BB200) selling 8,500 copies and From A Room: Volume 2 dropped 5-2 (43-57 BB200) selling 8,159 copies.
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) climbed 6-3 (#49-30 Billboard 200) selling 9,208 copies
(up 52%).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) slipped 3-4 (#36-39 Billboard 200) selling 2,921 copies (25-week total ).
Former No.1 Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) rose 7-6 (#54-53 Billboard 200)
selling 2,365 copies
(39-week total ).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) held at No.8 (77-73 Billboard 200) selling 1,518 copies (55-week total )
Jon Pardi with CALIFORNIA SUNRISE (Capitol Nashville | UMGN) held at No.9 (98-99 Billboard 200) selling 1,436 copies (89-week total )
Outside the
Top 10
Old Dominion with HAPPY ENDINGS (RCA Nashville | SMN) moved 13-12 (129-116 BB200)
LANCO with HALLELUJAH NIGHTS (Arista Nashville | SMN) rose 14-13 (144-146 BB200) selling 1,608 copies (6 chart weeks).
Former
No.1 Chris Young with LOSING SLEEP (RCA
Nashville | SMN) advanced 24-15 (#156
Re-Entry BB200) selling another 1,973 copies (19-week total ) .
Former
No.1 Blake Shelton with
TEXOMA SHORE (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) rose 23-19 (175 Re-Entry BB200) selling another 2,407 copies (17-week total ) .
Walker Hayes with boom. (Monument | SMN) fell 18-23 in his 12th frame
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Glen Campbell with Amazing Grace: 14 Hymns And Gospel Favorites (Gaither | Capitol CMG)
made a debut at #25.
Year-To-Date Albums
2,537,000 (Physical sales 1,808,000
(down -20.9%) + Digital sales 729,000 (down -33.1%) which is 24.8% down at the same point in 2017 (3,374,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
8,621,000 down 30.4% at the same point in 2017 (12,393,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs
(Chart issue week of
March 10, 2018)
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:
Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s pop/country
crossover hit “Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./Big Machine Label Group) led
Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, for a 14th
week (on the chart dated March 10), granting Rexha a record.
The
title rewrites the mark for the most weeks at No.1 for a song with lead female vocals. It passes Little
Big Town’s “Girl Crush” (sung by the group’s Karen Fairchild), which ruled for
13 weeks in 2015. (Hot Country Songs launched as an all-encompassing genre
songs chart in 1958 and adopted its current triple-metric methodology on Oct.
20, 2012.)
“Meant”
hits the all-genre Radio Songs chart’s top 10, rose 11-8 with 80.2 million in
audience, up 16 percent, in the week ending March 4. It also entered the Pop
Songs top 10 (12-10) and climbs 15-11 on Country Airplay (21.3 million, up 25
percent). Additionally, it drew 21.3 million U.S. streams and sold 34,000
downloads in the tracking week.
Entercom’s
WUSN Chicago is the country leader on “Meant,” having played it 901 times
through March 4. PD Kenny Jay, who
joined the station on Jan. 22, told Billboard that the song was already doing
well when he arrived. “I got here and not
only was ‘Meant to Be’ in power rotation, but it was also first in every metric
that we look at,” he says. “It’s still our No. 1-testing song.”
As
for its pop lean via Rexha? “I’m a fan of collaborations and everything they
offer our station,” said Jay. “We may get a negative comment here or there on
social media, but, overall, across-the-board research on [“Meant”] gets
stronger and stronger. There’s no denying it: It’s a hit record.”
Jordan Davis with his co-authored debut
single, “Singles You Up” (MCA Nashville,) hopped into the Hot Country
Songs top 10 (12-9). It rose 10-8 on Country Airplay (26.9 million, up 10
percent), while gaining by 14 percent to 8,000 downloads sold and 7% to 4.9
million U.S. streams.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (14
weeks)/ Airplay Gainer ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
** Digital Streaming Gainer ** No.4 “Heaven” Kane Brown
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.13 “Break Up In The End” Cole Swindell
Debut
No.30 “Space Cowboy” Kacey Musgraves
Debut
No.32 “Butterflies” Kacey Musgraves
Debut
No.35 “I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” Jake
Owen
Debut
No.47 “Hands On You” Ashley Monroe
Debut No.49 “Hide The Wine” Carly Pearce
Thomas
Rhett collected his 10th Country Airplay No.1 as “Marry Me” (Valory) rose 2-1, hiking
6 percent to 40.7 million impressions. It ranked at its No.2 high on Hot
Country Songs for an eighth week.
“Marry,” which Rhett co-wrote with Shane McAnally, Ashley Gorley and
Jesse Frasure, is the third single and third Country Airplay No.1 from Rhett’s Life Changes LP, which debuted
at the summit of Top Country Albums and the all-genre Billboard 200 (Sept. 30,
2017). The ballad follows “Unforgettable,”
which topped the Nov. 18, 2017, Country Airplay chart, and “Craving You” (featuring Maren Morris),
which led the July 22 list.
Rhett first ruled the Country Airplay chart dated Oct. 26, 2013, with “It
Goes Like This.”
Jason
Aldean with “You
Make It Easy” (Macon/Broken Bow) bumped 13-10 on Country Airplay
(22 million, up 16 percent), becoming his 27th top
10. At six weeks, the song completes the fastest flight to the top
10 since Kenny Chesney’s “Setting the World on Fire” (featuring P!nk) reached
the region in its fifth frame (Sept. 10, 2016).
High Valley with “She’s With Me”
(Atlantic/WEA) became the duo’s first Country Airplay top 10 (11-9;
25.4 million, up 13 percent). The song hits the top 10 in its 44th week on the
chart, becoming the ninth song to take a scenic route of at least that long to
the tier.
Jake
Owen posted his highest start on Country Airplay as “I Was Jack (You Were Diane),” his
first single on Big Loud, bounded in at No.22 with 8.3 million
impressions. On Hot Country Songs, it arrived at No.35. The song interpolates
John Mellencamp’s four-week 1982 Billboard Hot 100 No.1 “Jack & Diane.”
Mellencamp, the sole writer of the original, receives a writing credit on
Owen’s song.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Marry Me” Thomas
Rhett 40.701 million audience (+2.299 million) / 7,823 radio plays (+337)
** Hot
Shot Debut/Most Increased Audience/Most Added ** No.22 “I Was Jack” (You Were
Diane) Jake Owen
Debut
No.59 “I Hate Love Songs” Kelsea
Ballerini
Debut
No.60 “Blue Tacoma” Russell Dickerson
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
To Be” (Warner Bros. | BMLG) remained
at No.1 for in its 14th chart frame
(12 non-consecutive weeks). It fell 3-6 on the all genre Digital Songs Chart five places behind Post
Malone feat. Ty Dolla $ign with "Psycho" which snagged a No.1 debut on Digital Song Sales with 80,000 downloads sold in the week
ending March 1. It marked his second leader on the list, after
"Rockstar" debuted at No. 1 on Oct. 7 (its lone week on top). Ty
Dolla $ign achieved his first Digital Song Sales No.1.
Jason Aldean with “You Make It Easy” (Macon/Broken Bow | BBMG) held at No.2 (#9 Digital Songs).
Jason Aldean with “You Make It Easy” (Macon/Broken Bow | BBMG) held at No.2 (#9 Digital Songs).
Cole Swindell with newly released “Break
Up In The End” (Warner Bros. | WMN) made a debut at No.3 (#16
New Entry Digital Songs).
Kane Brown with “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA
Nashville) held at #4 (#23-22 Digital Songs) in his 15th frame.
Thomas Rhett with “Marry Me” (Valory) fell 3-5 (#21-24 Digital
Songs) in his 20th frame.
Luke Bryan with “Most People Are Good” (Capitol
Nashville) held at No.6 (#32-29 Digital Songs) in his 8th frame.
Chris Stapleton with “Broken Halos” (Mercury |
UMGN) fell 5-7 (#28-32 Digital Songs) in his 27th frame.
Scotty McCreery with “Five More Minutes” (Triple
Tigers) slipped 7-8 (#34-33 Digital Songs) in his 18th frame.
Walker Hayes with “You Broke Up With Me” (Monument)
was down 8-9 in his 33rd frame.
Old Dominion with “Written In The Sand” (RCA
Nashville | SMN) fell 9-10 in their
17th frame.
Outside
the Top 10
Kacey Musgraves posted
2 new entries with pre-grat tracks from her forthcoming album GOLDEN HOUR. “Space
Cowboy” (MCA Nashville) was new at No.11 and “Butterflies” (MCA Nashville) arrived at No.12.
Ashley Monroe with
her preview track “Hands On You” (Warner Bros. | WMN) made a debut at No.20. Her Dave Cobb-Produced LP SPARROW
is out 20th April.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart
March 5, 2018
Thomas Rhett Earns 10th Career #1 With 'Marry Me'
Congrats to Thomas Rhett,
Chris Palmer, Ashley Sidoti and the Valory
promotion team for securing this week’s No.1 with “Marry Me” moving up 2-1.
The song is the third chart-topper from Life Changes. Writers are Shane
McAnally, Ashley Gorley, Jesse Frasure and Rhett. The song marks RHETT's 10th
career #1.
“Marry Me” (Valory) logged 8,536 radio spins (+535) and 58.406 million audience
impressions (+4.039 million) with 22860 Total Points (+1564)
from 157 tracking stations for the tracking week
February 25 to March 3, 2018 and published chart March 5th 2018.
Jake Owen Is Most-Added
With 'I Was Jack (You Were Diane)'
Congratulations
to BIG LOUD's JAKE OWEN, who earned 60 MEDIABASE adds this week with his new
single, "I Was JACK (You Were DIANE)," making it the most-added
single at Country radio.
Kudos to Stacy
Blythe and the Big Loud reps on
landing 60 MEDIABASE adds for Jake Owen’s “I Was Jack (You Were Diane). The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
 |
| Celebrating! Big Loud's Jake Owen being most-added at Country radio this week with his new single, "I Was Jack (You Were Diane)," Pictured L-R: (back) Big Loud Exec. Asst. Delaney Rogers, Photographer/Videographer Nick Swift, OM Sierra Crider, Mgr./Digital Marketing Tori Johnson, Dir./Southeast Promotion Tyler Waugh, Coord./Promotion Maggie Abrams, and Partner/Artist Mgr. Seth England; (front) Big Loud President Clay Hunnicutt, VP/A&R Patch Culbertson, and Dir./National Promotion Stacy Waugh |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
JAKE OWEN/I Was Jack (You Were Diane) (Big Loud) 60 60
CHRIS YOUNG/Hangin'
On (RCA) 48 53
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Blue Tacoma (Triple Tigers) 48 51
COLE
SWINDELL/Break Up In The End (Warner Bros./WMN) 27 106
ERIC
PASLAY/Young Forever (EMI Nashville) 24 26
JUSTIN
MOORE/Kinda Don't Care (Valory) 17 121
MAREN
MORRIS/Rich (Columbia) 13 75
BEBE REXHA
f/FGL/Meant To Be (WBR/BMLGR) 10 150
DYLAN
SCOTT/Hooked (Curb) 8 127
BRETT
YOUNG/Mercy (BMLGR) 7 97
MORGAN
EVANS/Kiss Somebody (Warner Bros./WEA) 7 123
CHRIS
JANSON/Drunk Girl (Warner Bros./WAR) 6 110
DANIELLE
BRADBERY/Worth It (BMLGR) 6 28
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega (Atlantic/WAR) 5 89
KELSEA
BALLERINI/I Hate Love Songs (Black River) 5 8
KID
ROCK/American Rock'n'Roll (BBR/BMG/Red Bow) 5 50
LINDSAY
ELL/Criminal (Stoney Creek) 5 145
TRENT
HARMON/You Got 'Em All (Big Machine) 5 9
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Wild West (Wheelhouse) 4 107
CARLY
PEARCE/Hide The Wine (Big Machine) 3 116
JILLIAN
JACQUELINE/Reasons (Big Loud) 2 45
CAROLINE
JONES/Bare Feet (True To The Music) 1 6
KACEY
MUSGRAVES/Butterflies (MCA) 1 1
SIR
ROSEVELT/Something 'Bout You (Elektra/WAR) 1 19
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #10
Event
Venue City/State: Blake Shelton, Trace Adkins,
Brett Eldredge, Carly Pearce American
Airlines Center Dallas, Texas
Dates:
March 2, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,181,966 Attend: 13,602/ 13,602
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$135, $57
Promoters: Messina
Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #24
Event
Venue City/State: Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves, Midland Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville,
Conn.
Dates: Feb.
23, 2018 Gross Sales: $460,617 Attend: 6,683/ 6,910
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (227 unsold tickets) Prices:
$79, $59, $39
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #36
Event
Venue City/State: Cole Swindell, Chris Janson,
Lauren Alaina
Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville,
Conn.
Dates:
Feb. 17, 2018 Gross Sales: $288,539 Attend:
6,541/ 6,541
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $49, $39, $29
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #41
Event
Venue City/State: Jason Isbell Durham Performing Arts Center Durham,
N.C.
Dates:
Feb. 10-11, 2018 Gross Sales: $238,695 Attend:
5,285/ 5,424
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 (139 unsold tickets) Prices:
$60, $32.50
Promoters: PFM/Nederlander/Outback Concerts
Rank
Artist: #79
Event
Venue City/State: Aaron Watson, Runaway June Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater
Austin, Texas
Dates:
Feb. 17, 2018 Gross Sales: $64,698 Attend:
2,050/ 2,486
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (436 unsold tickets) Prices:
$45, $37, $30, $20
Promoters: in-house
Rank
Artist: #83
Event
Venue City/State: Lee Brice, Walker McGuire Sanford Center Bemidji, Minn.
Dates:
Feb. 8, 2018 Gross Sales: $58,541 Attend:
1,936/ 3,642
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,706 unsold tickets)
Prices: $42.75, $25
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