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
Kane Brown Earns RIAA
Platinum Certifications For Debut Album, Current Single
RCA NASHVILLE
artist Kane
Brown's self-titled debut album and his current single, "Heaven,"
have both been certified Platinum by
the RIAA. The album and the single have reached the one-million unit threshold
of total physical sales, downloads, and on-demand audio/video stream
equivalents.
Smells Like
Team Spirit: Atlantic/WMN's Hunter Hayes and
his team commemorate his 5X platinum
No.1 single “Wanted” surpassing 100 million streams on Spotify.
Pictured
(l-r) are the label's Clark Tedesco, Shane Tarleton and Kristen Williams,
Hayes, Starstruck's Narvel Blackstock and Dan Wise and the label's Tim Foisset
and Rohan Kohli.
On Thursday,
April 5, Walker
Hayes was surprised with Platinum certification for his hit, “You
Broke Up With Me,” in front of a sold out crowd of more than 2500 fans at
PlayStation Theater as part of Kelsea Ballerini’s UnapologeticallyTour. The
Platinum certification signifies 1 million records sold.
As he was
brought to stage by the local radio station, NASH FM, DJs Katie Neal and Jesse
Addy introduced him to the packed house as a “13 year overnight success story”
and although the first single from his debut album, “You Broke Up With Me,” is
now Certified Platinum, Hayes says the long journey to this point is what makes
it so special.
“I’m so humbled
and excited to get my first Platinum plaque,” Hayes said to his crowd as they
roared with applause. “This is because of people like you who are open minded
and love my music that doesn’t really fit in a box. This has been a long
journey and I’m finally making the music that is true to me, so thank you for
listening and buying and showing up.”
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of April 14, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 GOLDEN HOUR Kacey
Musgraves
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (19 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
*** No.1 (3 weeks) *** “Most People Are Good” Luke Bryan
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (17 non-consecutive 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).
The Weeknd logged his third No. 1 in a
row on the Billboard Top 200 Albums
Chart (BB200), as his latest project, MY DEAR MELANCHOLY, debuted atop the
list.
The
surprise release, which arrived on March 30 via XO/Republic Records, earned 169,000 equivalent album units in the
week ending April 5, according to Nielsen Music -- the biggest week for an
R&B album in over a year, since his own last album. Of that sum, 68,480 were in traditional album
sales.
The
six-song album appeared with little warning, following a cryptic Instagram post
on March 27, which led to a confirmation of an album two days later. My Dear
Melancholy follows The Weeknd’s two previous No. 1s: 2016’s Starboy and 2015’s
Beauty Behind the Madness.
Though
My Dear Melancholy’s sales were solid, the album’s debut saw more than half
of its units driven by streams. The title bowed with 94,000 SEA units,
which equates to 140.8 million
on-demand audio streams of the set’s songs (each SEA unit is equal to 1,500
streams). My Dear Melancholy’s streaming start of 94,000 SEA units is the
third-biggest streaming week for an album in 2018.
Kacey Musgraves collected her third top 10
album, as her seventh studio album GOLDEN
HOUR made a hour at No.4 with
49,000 units (with 38,810 of that sum powered by traditional album sales). Musgraves
previously visited the top 10 with PAGEANT MATERIAL (No.3 in 2015) and SAME
TRAILER DIFFERENT PARK (No. 2, 2013).
Golden
Hour is the highest charting country album since Luke Bryan’s What Makes You
Country launched at No.1 on the Dec. 30, 2017-dated list.
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.
Singer-songwriter
Kacey Musgraves with her third full-length, GOLDEN
HOUR (MCA Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville), debuted at No.1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums
chart (dated April 14).
It earned 49,000 equivalent album units in its first
week ending April 5, according to Nielsen Music (38,810 were traditional album sales).
Golden marked Musgraves’ third No.1
on Top Country Albums.
The
set, with all 13 tracks co-authored by Musgraves, made a bow at No.1 on Americana/Folk Albums.
CHART HISTORY
Her
2013 Grammy Winning debut SAME TRAILER
DIFFERENT PARK (released March 19, 2013; co-written by Kacey and
co-produced with Shane McAnally and Luke Laird) launched at No.2 on the Billboard
B200 (#1 Country albums) with 43,496 copies sold, her previous largest sales week. In its second week
Trailer sold 17,586 (down 60%), then 18,059 in week three (up 3%) and
eventually scanned GOLD at retail (chart week April 11, 2015). The album won
the Grammy Award for Best Country
Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. The week after winning two awards and
performing at the 2014 Grammy Awards, sales for the album in the United States
increased 146%. The chart frame week of Feb 6, 2014, the album returned to No.1
on the U.S. Top Country Albums Chart and saw sales increase a further 177%
selling more than 27,000 copies. As of July 2015 the album had sold 519,000
copies in the US.
PAGEANT MATERIAL (June 23, 2015; Mercury
Nashville) debuted at #3 Billboard 200 / #1 Country (Chart issue week of July
11, 2015) selling 54,752 copies (her biggest sales week). In its second week at retail it
sold 18,300 copies (down 67%). By chart issue week of Dec 19, 2015, it had sold
145,500 copies. As of September 2016, the album has sold 179,400 copies in the
US. The album made numerous "Best Albums of 2015" lists and was
nominated for Best Country Album at the 58th Grammy Awards
She
also reached No.11 in December 2016 with A
VERY KACEY CHRISTMAS. It debuted at #143 Billboard 200; #16 Country selling
4,765 copies. On the chart dated
Dec 24, 2016 it sold 8,900 sales with a 6-week total 32,800. On the chart dated
Jan 7, 2017) it sold 9,246 copies and a week later is was at No.21 on Top Country Albums
selling 4,600 with a total of 55,100.
Despite
her impressive album chart success, Musgraves has garnered modest support at
country radio. Says MCA Nashville VP promotion Katie Dean, “We took a slightly
different approach to launching Golden Hour at radio. We identified both
‘Butterflies’ and ‘Space Cowboy’ as potential lead singles and serviced the two
tracks simultaneously, because they’re an integral part of the narrative of
this record. We’ve received airplay on both, in addition to [the set’s] ‘High
Horse.’”
On
Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, “Butterflies” debuts at No.56 with
574,000 impressions (her seventh appearance on Country Airplay). “I’m going to
make ‘Butterflies’ a single whether it’s a [label-sanctioned] single or not,”
says WCOL Columbus, Ohio, PD Dan Zuko.
“I’ve
always been a huge fan of her music, and I think ‘Butterflies’ is a perfect fit
for our audience. It’s a beautiful song from a beautiful voice.”
Kevin
Christopher, PD of KJKE Oklahoma City, which leads all stations with 177 plays
of “Butterf lies” to date, says the track “is a great song, and Golden Hour is
such a cool album. Musgraves has always done well for KJKE, and ‘Butterflies’
feels like a hit.”
She has earned one top 10 so far: her debut
single as a lead artist, “Merry Go ’Round,” which peaked at No. 10 in 2013.
On
the Hot Country Songs chart, which blends streaming, airplay and sales data,
“Butterflies” re-entered at its No.32 high; followed by the new LP’s “High
Horse,” up 39-36; “Space Cowboy,” a re-entry at No. 40; and "Slow Burn,”
which is new at No. 42.
GOLDEN HOUR album includes a note to
people who purchase the record, which she says represents “the whole picture”
of her.
“I
thought it would be kind of cool to include a little bit of a note or a
foreword to anybody that opens the album,” says Kacey. “And it’s just a
statement as to where I am, where the music is and why it’s here and what I
kind of am sensing that humanity is kind of craving right now.”
The
note says, “There we were in the middle of making this record and a total solar
eclipse darkened Nashville on my birthday, my 29th year, a golden hour in my
young adult life. There are certain junctures that you can’t just think your
way through, you just have to feel. I found myself at one making this album. It
was like the universe was majestically saying, ‘This is a time to be present to
witness the beauty of this incredible world that you’re lucky to be alive in
despite it being more complicated than ever and filled with so much darkness.’
We all need a little bit of light right now. We all need for compassion and art
to flourish; things we rely on turn out to be fake and hurtful; people we look
up to turn out to be just as jaded and messed up as everybody else and yet
somehow new love finds its way up through the cracks in the sidewalk. The sun still
rises and the birds still sing, inspiration still finds its way to you again.
There are different masks that we all wear that represent different sides of
ourselves. None of them are solely us, and yet they all are. There’s the lonely
girl, the blissful girl, the new wife, the daughter missing her mother, the
hopeful girl, the selfish girl, the sarcastic rhinestone Texan, the shy girl
and the life of the party, the winner, the loser – they’re all characters on
this record. None of them alone are me, and yet they all are. The Golden Hour
is when all the masks come together as one and you can see in perfect light the
whole picture of me.”
PROMOTION: Kacey appeared on CBS-TV's
"Late Show With STEPHEN COLBERT"
Thursday night (3/29), where she performed "Slow Burn" >> YouTube from her just-released album, "Golden Hour." She also
appeared on NBC-TV's "Today"
show Friday morning (March 30), where she performed the song "Butterflies"
www.today.com
Critical reception for Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour:
The Guardian Album of the week 5 STARS
Alexis Petridis's album of the week Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour review – universal
classic from acid-dropping country star
Acid, futurism, LGTBQ
rights: you don’t have to be a dedicated student of Nashville’s history to know
that this is not the usual fare dished up by Music City’s mainstream stars. But
then, as was established the moment her major label debut, Same Trailer Different
Park, appeared in 2013, Musgraves is not your usual Nashville star. It was
released just as bro country’s lunkheaded restatement of at least some of the
genre’s core values – macho songs about boozing, babes, trucks and guns – was
reaching its commercial zenith, and signalled the arrival of an artist not bent
on iconoclasm so much as gently but firmly pushing at the boundaries of modern
country music’s outlook......The success of High Horse is indicative of the
ease and confidence that courses through Golden Hour. Regardless of genre,
you’ll be hard pushed to find a better collection of pop songs this year.
Everything clicks perfectly, but the writing has an effortless air; it never
sounds as if it’s trying too hard to make a commercial impact, it never cloys,
and the influences never swallow the character of the artist who made
it.....It’s an album that imagines a world in which its author is the
mainstream, rather than an influential outlier. It says something about its
quality that, by the time it’s finished, that doesn’t seem a fanciful notion at
all.
Allmusic (Rating: 4.1/2 STARS) Golden Hour shimmers with the vivid colors
that arrive when the sun starts to set, when familiar scenes achieve a sense of
hyperreality. Such heightened emotions are a new aesthetic for Kacey Musgraves,
who previously enlivened traditional country with her sly synthesis of old
sounds and witty progressive lyrics. Musgraves barely winks on Golden Hour,
disguising her newfound emotional candidness behind a gorgeous veneer of
harmonies and synthesizers. Sonically, the album doesn't scan country.....The
very sound of Golden Hour is seductive -- it's warm and enveloping, pitched
halfway between heartbreak and healing -- but the album lingers in the mind
because the songs are so sharp, buttressed by long, loping melodies and
Musgraves' affectless soul-baring. Previously, her cleverness was her strong
suit, but on Golden Hour she benefits from being direct, especially since this
frankness anchors an album that sounds sweetly blissful, turning this record
into the best kind of comfort: it soothes but is also a source of sustenance.
Consequence Of Sound (Rating: A-) ..Golden Hour is the steady and self-assured
product of an audacious artist whose body of work speaks for itself. The record
exemplifies the deep and powerful magic of pure goodness. Musgraves hits one
high note after another on Golden Hour; her talent as a songwriter and
melody-maker is second to none, and each song is thoughtful, well-formed, and a
delightful experience on its own. Together, the tracks on Golden Hour add up to
an honest, cohesive musical experience that will linger in your mind and heart
long after the final notes have faded.
Essential
Tracks: “Space Cowboy”, “Mother”, “Happy & Sad”, and “Rainbow”
Uncut (Rating: 7/10) Golden Hour doesn't carry quite the same
bite as either 2015 predecessor Pageant Material or 2013's Sam Trailer Different
Park, preferring a more loved-up vibe that favours pillowy sophisti-pop over
bittersweet country.
The Independent (Rating: 5/5) Musgraves has always been a brilliant
songwriter but she’s never sounded as confident as this; it’s as though a wall
has been knocked down and a little of that bolshy attitude has been paired back
to make for some of her most personal lyrics......On “Space Cowboy” she uses
ice-cold wordplay to cut her subject, a boy, down to size, proving that
whip-smart tongue is still present beneath the wistful vocals. “Love Is A Wild
Thing” has her marvelling at the strength of the bond that ties her to the one
she loves. Her voice sits ahead of the sparse instrumentation on a bittersweet
track like “Lonely Weekend” (Even if you got somebody on your mind/It’s alright
to be alone sometimes”). “High Horse” is disco western and the most radical
departure from Musgraves' earlier sound. It’s a Kylie Minogue circa 2001-level
bop that builds on summery guitar strumming with sweetly lilting vocals that
hold just a hint of menace. The lightness returns on a song like “Butterflies”,
with its cheerful bass line running beneath her sweet, dreamy vocals.
Download
this: Slow Burn, Golden Hour, Lonely Weekend, High Horse
NPR (Rating: Postive) More than in the past, Musgraves is encouraging listeners to hear the
autobiography woven through her songs, situating them as the fruit of her
finding love and getting married. But there's still a tentative side to her
tenderness; she's a reflective songwriter and a reedy, temperate singer, often
examining her feelings from a bit of a remove. Besides, she sees no need to
separate sentimentality from third-person-perspective psychedelia, weaving
easygoing eccentricities into thosegreat, affecting country and pop themes of missing
mom and home and getting swept off your feet by a lover....After several years
of making space for herself in her genre and the broader musical landscape,
Musgraves is nervy enough to let her guard down and embrace her complexity, and
that's given her listeners more to grab a hold of than ever.
Previous weeks
chart topper and an 8-week multiweek No.1 Kane Brown with his SELF-TITLED
slipped 1-2 (#19 non-mover Billboard
200) selling 5,180 copies (70-week total 359,500).
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/
UMGN) fell 2-3
(28-32 BB200) selling 5,500 copies
(153-week total 2,263,000) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville)
held at No.8 (51-55 BB200) selling 5,910 copies
(48-week total 759,300) and From A Room: Volume 2 dropped 11-14 (97-106 BB200) selling 5,060 copies (18-week total 360,400).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) held at No.4 (#42-37 Billboard 200) selling 2,487 copies (30-week total 255,400).
Former No.1 Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) moved 7-5 (#49-45 Billboard 200) selling 1,977
copies (44-week total 206,200).
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) fell 5-6 (#45-47 Billboard 200) selling 5,802 copies
(17-week total 263,700).
Ashley McBryde with GIRL GOING NOWHERE (Atlantic | WMN)
made a debut at No.7 (#49 Billboard
200) selling 8,957
copies.
Produced by Jay Joyce, McBryde’s label debut features 11
songs she wrote or cowrote, including the single “A Little Dive Bar in
Dahlonega” and “Girl Goin’ Nowhere,” “American Scandal” and “Andy (I Can’t Live
Without You).”
Ashley McBryde has built
an unconventional career since a teacher back home in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
suggested the singer/songwriter not get her hopes up about a career in
music. Criss-crossing the South, playing any gig, room or biker bar she
could find, the raven haired young woman built a foundation fan-by-fan,
gig-by-gig over a number of years on her way to a deal with Atlantic
Records/Warner Music Nashville.
The artist who was told she’d amount to nothing witnessed GIRL GOING NOWHERE as the biggest debut by a solo country artist this year. Championed by SiriusXM’s The Highway, McBryde’s “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega” found traction; anywhere people heard the voice that’s equal parts real life, unabashed hope and savoring the good parts, they responded, coming to shows, buying music and singing along.
"It feels incredible to have this album out in the world," said McBryde who collaborated with producer Jay Joyce on the 11-song album. "It may not seem like it, but I’ve always been a shy person, so to hear stories of how other folks relate to these stories, these lyrics and our songs reaffirms this unconventional path we took creating and releasing it."
The artist who was told she’d amount to nothing witnessed GIRL GOING NOWHERE as the biggest debut by a solo country artist this year. Championed by SiriusXM’s The Highway, McBryde’s “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega” found traction; anywhere people heard the voice that’s equal parts real life, unabashed hope and savoring the good parts, they responded, coming to shows, buying music and singing along.
"It feels incredible to have this album out in the world," said McBryde who collaborated with producer Jay Joyce on the 11-song album. "It may not seem like it, but I’ve always been a shy person, so to hear stories of how other folks relate to these stories, these lyrics and our songs reaffirms this unconventional path we took creating and releasing it."
McBryde is the latest in a
new breed of country music maverick. Rather than wait on country radio, she
makes her music, goes out to her fans and connects from the soul and the heart.
With her single “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega” sitting just outside the Top
30, Girl achieves unprecedented chart position on the strength of
her fans seeing themselves in her songs. Whether it’s the second chance of
“Little Dive Bar,” the dug-in dreamer of the title track,
the hell-bent for love “American Scandal” or the tender “The
Jacket,” McBryde’s country is cut from her life – and the
lives of many people just like her.
Critical reception for Ashley McBrydes’ Girl Goin'
Nowhere:
11 Tracks/ Time: 40:28 Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
With The New York Times proclaiming,
“Varied, warm and effortlessly confident,” Rolling Stone opining, “She has a
serious gift” and Variety declaring,
“An unabashed, Southern-rooted, honest-to-Gawd great country
record,” McBryde has touched a nerve amongst music lovers. As Billboard points out, “Unlike Nashville’s current
crop,” McBryde’s earthy tenor as a singer and a writer has been
described by The
Washington Post as “Vivid,” Uproxx as “Prodigiously talented”
and Entertainment
Weekly as “…cutting through the
cookie-cutter clutter of contemporary pop-country, thanks to her gifts at
combining classic storytelling specificity.”
In a world/genre where strong women’s voices are hard to find, McBryde stands out, NPR recognized the potency of her work early. Featuring album cut “Radioland” on All Songs Considered, they wrote, “The cheap comparison would be female Chris Stapleton, but Ashley is her own woman. She really does however, combine the energy of rock, the earnestness and simple beauties of prime-era Springsteen or John Mellencamp; her songs are about family, working people, about living your best life when your best life is maybe on the outskirts of town in a ranch house with a manual lawnmower.”
In a world/genre where strong women’s voices are hard to find, McBryde stands out, NPR recognized the potency of her work early. Featuring album cut “Radioland” on All Songs Considered, they wrote, “The cheap comparison would be female Chris Stapleton, but Ashley is her own woman. She really does however, combine the energy of rock, the earnestness and simple beauties of prime-era Springsteen or John Mellencamp; her songs are about family, working people, about living your best life when your best life is maybe on the outskirts of town in a ranch house with a manual lawnmower.”
Allmusic
(Rating: 4 STARS) On her debut album, Girl Going Nowhere, Ashley McBryde sounds
like an outsider in Nashville. She doesn't attempt to meddle with the
electronics that are so in vogue in 2018, yet she doesn't seem overly concerned
with conventional notions of country tradition. Certainly, Girl Going Nowhere
isn't layered with fiddles and steel guitars: It's a brawny, guitar-heavy
affair that doesn't hide its debts to Eric Church....The forceful sound of Girl
Going Nowhere may camouflage the subtleties of her songwriting, but it's also
an asset, as the production, along with her powerhouse voice, demand attention.
Once McBryde has that, she gives you plenty of reasons to return to this
exceptional record again and again.
Rollingstone
(Rating: 4 STARS) McBryde's got a big, vibrato-tinged alto, biker-chick style,
and she wrote or co-wrote everything here, including "Dahlonega,"
with a sharp eye for piercing detail. She has a serious gift.
Paste
(Rating: 8.3/10) It’s a no bullshit record free of frills and fat; 11 songs
that make their points powerfully and memorably....These songs don’t need to be
messed with or tarted up or given a 21st century shine. They work perfectly in
their current roughshod, if gently polished, form. The needle may keep moving
for female country artists, but that’s of little concern to McBryde. She’s on a
journey toward career longevity and Nowhere is her confident and solid first
step.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/04/ashley-mcbryde-girl-going-nowhere-review.html
Saving Country Music
(Rating: 1 3/4 Guns Up (7.5/10) One of
the most important and flattering praises for Girl Going Nowhere is that it
doesn’t sound like a mainstream country release at all. You don’t have to
squint to find what to like on this record, or regard it on a sliding scale
since it was underwritten by a major label. ......it’s time to stop pretending
that mild-mannered pragmatism, measured goals, and guarded optimism will ever
be enough to even put a dent in the dilemmas mainstream country music is
facing, let alone break the doors down to where a flood of talent can come
barging through and rejuvenate the format.
Sounds Like Nashville
(Rating: Positive) ...Overall all a
versatile release, McBryde’s Girl Going Nowhere embodies 11 tracks that
highlight the singer’s distinct talent as a songwriter. Embodying unique
storylines and heartfelt lyrics alongside superb musicianship, Girl Going
Nowhere is just a taste of what’s to come from McBryde. And, with country icons
like Brooks, Church and Lambert already in her corner, McBryde has a bright
future ahead.
Entertainment Focus
(Rating: 5/5) Powerful and emotional
vocals. Interesting lyrics that pack a punch. A rich variety of musical
styles....At the end of 2018 McBryde’s Girl Going Nowhere is going to be making
a lot of Top 10 albums of the year lists. It’s been a long time coming for
McBryde but this is only the beginning of the success she’s going to have. If
you like your music honest, bold, emotional and with its heart on its sleeve,
then there’s a lot to love here. McBryde is seizing her moment and I can’t wait
to see just how far she goes over the coming years.
Former No.1 Scotty McCreery, with SEASONS
CHANGE (Triple Tigers/RED) fell 3-9
(37-59 BB200) selling
6,072 copies (down 31%) 3-week total 49,278.
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) fell 9-10 (#60 non-mover Billboard 200)
selling 1,779 copies (60-week total 197,800).
Outside the
Top 10
Jon Pardi with CALIFORNIA SUNRISE (Capitol Nashville | UMGN) fell 10-11 (#80-79 Billboard 200) selling 1,839 copies (94-week total 229,100)
Alan Jackson with PRECIOUS MEMORIES COLLECTION (ARC/EMI Nashville | UMGN) held at No.15 (#125-108 BB200) selling 1,637 copies (38-week total 217,500)
Jordan Davis with HOME STATE (MCA Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville), dropped
6-16 (#47-122 Billboard 200) selling
1,815 copies in his second week
(down 69%; 2-week total 7,615)
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Blake Shelton with
TEXOMA SHORE (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) retreated 13-22 (120-118 BB200) selling 1,977 copies (22-week total 216,800).
Outside the Top 25
Mary Chapin Carpenter with
her 11 track set SOMETIMES JUST THE SKY
(Lambent
Recorded live at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios, the
13-track album was produced by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Paul McCartney, Ray
LaMontagne). It features new versions of previously-released songs as well as
one new song, the title track.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Various Artists with 20-track DANCEHALL DREAMIN': A TRIBUTE TO PAT GREEN (Greenhorse Music |Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at #18 with 1,700 sales.
Lindi Ortega with 15-track set Liberty (2018 Shadowbox
Music Inc. | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at #28 with 1,000 sales (2 retail weeks
1,600 total).
Ortega wrote
half of the 12 tracks on her fifth studio record and enlisted co-writers Aaron
Raitiere, Bruce Wallace and John Paul White (The Civil Wars) for the rest. The
result is a three-part concept album “reflecting loss, seance, resurrection and
freedom.”
(30 March 2018)
Red Shahan with the 12-track CULBERSON COUNTY (2018 7013 Records | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at #29 with 1,000 sales.
For his
sophomore album, Shahan (Fort Worth, TX based) enlisted Elijah Ford (producer),
Matthew “Paw Paw” Smith (drums), Parker Morrow (bass), Daniel Sproul (lead
guitar) and fellow Texas songwriters Charlie Shafter and Bonnie Bishop on
background and harmony vocals, as well as his mother, Kim Smith, who sings on
the song “Memphis.”
Music for your
soul.
Caroline Jones with 11 track set BARE FEET (Mailboat Records | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at #33 with 700 sales.
Jones performed
all instruments (except bass and drums) and co-produced Bare Feet with Grammy
and Academy Award-winning producer Ric Wake (Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Whitney
Houston, Trisha Yearwood).
“If there’s any
justice in the music business, this unique gem will find a place in the hearts
of music fans everywhere in the coming year. Her music is a little country, a
sprinkle of pop, and a dash of folk, but when you hear a song that has the
infectious sparkle of “Bare Feet,” you know that Jones is something special.” –
Billboard
Palo Duro with 10-track SHOTGUN RIDER (2018 Torrez Music Group | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at #37 with 700 sales.
The two leaders
of Shotgun Rider have developed a signature sound tinged with that eerie
loneliness reminiscent of their homeland.
Kim Richey with 8th studio record EDGELAND (Yep Roc | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at #48 with 600 sales.
Falling short
of all the charts Buddy Brown with
7-track JUST SAYIN' (EP; Buddy Brown
| Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) sold just 400
copies despite as an independent artist having 380,000 followers!
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
4,014,000 (Physical sales 2,861,000
(down -20.1%) + Digital sales 1,154,000 (down -33.2%) which is 24.3% down at the same point in 2017 (5,306,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
13,287,000 down 32.0% at the same point in 2017 (19,553,000)
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:
Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant
to Be” (Warner Bros./BMLG) led Hot Country Songs for a 19th week, tying Leroy Van Dyke’s “Walk
On By” in 1961-62 for the third-longest command in the chart’s history. FGL
also boasted the second-longest command (24 weeks) with its debut hit,
“Cruise,” in 2012-13, which trails the all-time leader, Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a
Back Road” (34 weeks, 2017).
On the
all-genre Radio Songs chart, “Meant” rose 2-1 (131 million, up 7 percent). That
makes it the ranking’s first No.1 for a country act since Lady Antebellum’s
“Need You Now,” which reigned for two weeks in 2010. The song lifts 3-2 on both
Pop Songs and Adult Pop Songs, and holds at No. 3 on Country Airplay.
Dan + Shay notch their fifth Hot Country Songs top 10 as “Tequila” (Warner Bros./WAR) darted 12-9. It gained by 5 percent, tallying
8.5 million U.S. streams.
Luke Combs collected his third top 10 on
the chart as “One Number Away” (River House/Columbia Nashville) rolled 11-10. It rose 15-13 on Country Airplay
(20.7 million, up 12 percent).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (19 weeks)/
Digital Gainer/ Airplay Gainer ** “Meant To Be”
Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
** Streaming Gainer ** No.6 “Singles You Up” Jordan Davis
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.37 “Get Along” Kenny Chesney
Debut
No.48 “High Noon Neon” Jason Aldean
Debut
No.49 “Take You Home” Cassadee Pope
Luke Bryan with “Most People Are Good”
(Capitol Nashville) crowned Country Airplay for a third week (43.3
million, down less than 1%). The song is the first three-week No.1 since Brett Young’s “Like I Loved You,” which
led for three frames starting Jan. 3.
“Good”
ties “Crash My Party” (2013) for the second-longest leading of Bryan’s 19
No.1s, after “Play It Again,” which reigned for four weeks in 2014.
Darius Rucker banked his 11th Country
Airplay top
10 as “For
the First Time” (Capitol Nashville) climbed 11-9 (26.7 million, up 6 percent)
Blake Shelton scored his 30th as “I
Lived It” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) lifted 12-10 (23.4 million, down less than 1
percent).
“Get
Along,” Kenny Chesney’s 88th Country Airplay entry
(second only to George Strait’s 98) and his first single for Warner Music
Nashville, debuted at No.19 (11.5
million impressions). He logged his fourth-highest start and best since “Feel
Like a Rock Star,” with Tim McGraw (No.13, 2012).
Singer-songwriter
Stephanie Quayle, who’s originally from Bozeman, Mont., made her first appearance
on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Selfish,” which she co-penned,
opened at No.60 with 481,000
audience impressions (up 31 percent).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (3 weeks) *** “Most People Are Good” Luke
Bryan 43.261 million audience (-0.053 million) / 8,145 radio plays (-30)
**
Most Increased Audience/ Hot Shot Debut/ Most Added ** No.19 “Get Along” Kenny Chesney 11.515 million audience
gain and 1,695 spins thanks to 92
fresh radio commitments (ADDS)
Debut
No.56 Butterflies Kacey Musgraves
Debut
No.58 “The Difference” Tyler Rich
Debut
No.59 “Caught Up In The Country” Rodney
Atkins feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Debut
No.60 “Selfish” Stephanie Quayle
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's
"Meant to Be" (Warner Bros. |
BMLG) remained at No.1 for in
its 19th chart frame (16 non-consecutive weeks) and rose 4-3 on Digital Song Sales selling 38,000
copies (19-week total 860,000 ).
It was two
places behind Drake's "God's Plan" which logged an
eighth week atop Digital Song Sales, up 14% to 48,000 downloads sold in the
week ending April 5. On the Radio Songs chart, "Plan" held at No. 4,
after reaching No.3, up 2 percent to 109 million in all-format airplay audience
in the week ending April 8.
Jason Aldean with “You Make It Easy” (Macon/Broken
Bow | BBMG) held at No.2 (#12 non-mover Digital Songs; 26,000 sales; 10-week
total) as new track “Gettin' Warmed Up” dropped off the
chart in the second week selling 3,000 copies (2-week total 14,000) but
charting a new song “High Noon Neon” at #17 (7,000 sales).
Kane Brown with “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA
Nashville) held at #3 (#18-13 Digital Songs; 22,000 sales; 20-week
total 335,000).
Luke Bryan with “Most People Are Good” (Capitol
Nashville) held at #4 (#26-28 Digital Songs; 15,000 sales; 13-week
total 177,000).
Thomas Rhett with “Marry Me” (Valory) held
at #5 (#31-29 Digital
Songs; 14,000 sales;25-week total 380,000).
Chris Stapleton with “Broken Halos” (Mercury |
UMGN) climbed 7-6 (#40-37 Digital Songs; 12,000 sales; 32-week
total 478,000).
Jordan Davis with “Singles You Up” rose 8-7 (#42-38
Digital Songs; 12,000 sales; 12-week total 179,000).
Luke Combs with “One Number Away” stepped 9-8 (#49
New Entry Digital Songs; 10,000 sales; 11-week total 119,000).
Morgan
Wallen featuring Florida
Georgia Line with “Up Down” (Warner) lifted 11-9
(10,000 sales; 16-week total 144,000)
Dan
+ Shay with “Tequila”
(WM Music) pushed 13-10 (9,000 sales; 11-week total 111,000)
Outside
the Top 10
David Lee Murphy & Kenny Chesney with “Everything's Gonna Be Alright” moved
14-11 (8,000 sales; 9-week total
103,000)
Cassadee
Pope with “Take
You Home”, the song from the season-three winner of NBC’s The Voice,
where she’s now back in an advisory role for Kelly Clarkson’s team, opened at No.13
on Country Digital Song Sales with 8,000 sold. It also started at No.49 on Hot
Country Songs.
Keith Urban feat. Julia Michaels (Capitol Nashville) with “Coming
Home” fell off the chart from
previous weeks No.10 selling 3,000
copies (down 73%; 2 -week total 11,000 downloads).
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
April
9, 2018
Three-peat
congrats to Luke Bryan, Royce Risser, Bobby Young,
David Friedman and the Capitol
promotion staff for a quite rare third week at No.1 with “Most People Are Good.”
The song is the first three-week bell ringer in more than two years (Thomas
Rhett’s “Die A Happy Man,” January 2016).
“Most People Are Good” (Capitol) logged 8,895 radio spins (+30) and 60.923 million audience
impressions (-0.058 million) with 23825 Total Points (-13)
from 157 tracking stations for the tracking week
April 1 to April 7, 2018 and published chart April 9th 2018.
Kudos
to Adrian Michaels and the WEA reps for landing 130 adds on Kenny Chesney’s “Get Along”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
 |
| In celebration of Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA's Kenny Chesney garnering 130 Mediabase adds with his new single, "Get Along," and being most-added at Country radio this week. Pictured L-R: (back) WMN SVP/Radio & Streaming Kristen Williams; WEA Dir./National Radio & Streaming Adrian Michaels; WMN Coord./Radio & Streaming Justin Newell, Exec. Asst. Kati Salverson, Coord./Streaming Brette Moseley, and VP/Original Content & Radio Marketing Chad Schultz; (front) WEA Coord./Radio & Streaming Kate Myers; and WAR Coord./Radio & Streaming Taylor Aretz |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
KENNY CHESNEY/Get Along (BlueChair/WarnerBros/WEA ) 130 130
MIDLAND/Burn
Out (Big Machine) 45 47
CRAIG
CAMPBELL/See You Try (Red Bow) 42 46
OLD
DOMINION/Hotel Key (RCA) 40 62
KEITH URBAN
f/J. MICHAELS/Coming Home (Capitol) 22 134
TRENT
HARMON/You Got 'Em All (Big Machine) 18 99
TYLER RICH/The
Difference (Valory) 12 46
MITCHELL
TENPENNY/Drunk Me (Riser House/Columbia) 11 74
MICHAEL RAY/Get
To You (Atlantic/WEA) 9 154
BRETT
YOUNG/Mercy (BMLGR) 5 120
TRAVIS
DENNING/David Ashley Parker From... (Mercury) 5 64
AARON
WATSON/Run Wild Horses (Big Label) 4 47
KELSEA
BALLERINI/I Hate Love Songs (Black River) 4 88
DANIELLE
BRADBERY/Worth It (BMLGR) 3 44
KACEY
MUSGRAVES/Butterflies (MCA) 2 11
THOMAS
RHETT/Life Changes (Valory) 2 5
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega (Atlantic/WAR) 1 103
RODNEY
ATKINS/Caught Up In The Country (Curb) 1 3
SMITHFIELD/Hey
Whiskey (Deluge/In2une) 1 20
WALKER
HAYES/Craig (Monument/Arista) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #27
Event
Venue City/State: Kid Rock, A Thousand Horses Mandalay
Bay Events Center Las Vegas, Nev.
Dates:
March 24, 2018 Gross Sales: $918,377 Attend: 8,373/ 8,373
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$149.50, $49.50
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #28
Event
Venue City/State: Chris Stapleton MGM Grand Garden Las Vegas,
Nev.
Dates:
March 23, 2018 Gross Sales: $912,884 Attend: 11,682/ 11,682
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$175, $49
Promoters: in-house
Rank
Artist: #49
Event
Venue City/State: Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves, Midland Radio City Music Hall New
York, N.Y.
Dates:
Feb. 24, 2018 Gross Sales: $417,474 Attend: 5,593/ 5,593
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$79, $56.50, $46, $30
Promoters: AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #64
Event
Venue City/State: Jason Isbell Kings Theatre Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dates:
Feb. 3, 2018 Gross Sales: $184,702 Attend: 3,099/ 3,099
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$69.50, $35
Promoters: The Bowery Presents
Rank
Artist: #80
Event
Venue City/State: I'm With Her, Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan Town Hall New York,
N.Y.
Dates: March 15, 2018 Gross Sales: $57,300 Attend: 1,471/ 1,471
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$42.50, $37.50
Promoters: The Bowery Presents
Rank
Artist: #86
Event
Venue City/State: I'm With Her, Andrew Combs 9:30 Club Washington,
D.C.
Dates: March 13, 2018 Gross Sales: $39,000 Attend:
1,200/ 1,200
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $32.50
Promoters: I.M.P.
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