Country
Billboard Chart News May 14, 2018
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of May 19, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (3 non-consecutive weeks) ** REARVIEW
TOWN Jason Aldean
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (24 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
*** No.1 (1 week) *** “Heaven” Kane Brown
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** "Beautiful Crazy"
Luke Combs
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys
landed a second straight week at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
(BB200), as the set earned 193,000 equivalent
album units in the week ending May 10 (down 58 percent from its debut frame),
according to Nielsen Music
Beerbongs
is just the third title to rack up multiple weeks at No.1 in 2018, and the
first by an artist, following Black Panther: The Album (with three weeks at No.
1) and The Greatest Showman soundtrack (two weeks in the top slot). Beerbongs
is also the first album by an artist to notch back-to-back weeks at No.1 since
Taylor Swift’s reputation spent its first three weeks atop the tally (Dec.
2-16, 2017). (Reputation clocked one further week at No. 1, on the Jan. 6, 2018
chart.)
Beerbongs’
second week on the list was powered by streaming activity, as it garnered
160,000 SEA units (down 44%). In terms of traditional album sales, it sold 23,664 copies (down 85%), while TEA
units equaled just 9,000 (down 59 percent).
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.
Recent No.1 by Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken
Bow Records) rebounded 2-1 (10-14
Billboard 200) selling 14,801 copies (down 27%; 4-week total 221,800) to top the chart
for a third week.
Former No.1 Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) climbed 5-2 (#37-16 Billboard 200) selling 2,710
copies (49-week total 217,200).
Previous week’s
No.1 Keith
Urban with his ninth studio LP, GRAFFITI U (Hit Red/Capitol
Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville), fell 1-3 (#2-18 Billboard 200) selling 17,080 copies (down 88%; 2-week total 153,943).
Former 9
non-consecutive week No.1 Kane Brown with his SELF-TITLED
held at No.4 (#22-27 Billboard 200)
selling 4,716 copies
(75-week total 384,500).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) moved 6-5 (#39-42 Billboard 200) selling 2,075 copies (35-week total 266,400).
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/
UMGN) rose 7-6
(42-46 BB200) selling 3,860 copies (158-week
total 2,287,700)
as his
set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) climbed 12-10
(#77-80 BB200) selling 4,815 copies
(53-week total 787,8000) and From A Room: Volume 2 pushed 20-18 (133-143 BB200) selling 3,983 copies
(23-week total 383,800).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) rose 9-7 (#62-63 Billboard 200) selling 1,349 copies (65-week total 205,600).
In
his second week Willie Nelson with LAST MAN STANDING (Legacy) fell 3-8 Country (#14-64 Billboard 200)
selling 8,721 copies (down 66%; 2-week
total 34,063).
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) rose 10-9 (#65-76 Billboard 200) selling 3,251 copies
(22-week total 284,100).
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No1 from Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) climbed 15-12 (#98-105 Billboard 200) selling 3,267 copies (6-week total
67,000).
Kenny Chesney with LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville | SMN) fell 8-15 (#48-117 Billboard 200) selling 5,626 copies (22-week total 431,400).
In
his second week Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Records) fell 11-20 (#72-152 Billboard 200 / 13-41 Country Album Sales) selling 700 copies (2-week total 3,400)
In
their third week Brothers Osborne with PORT SAINT JOE fell 13-22 (#78-156
Billboard 200) selling 3,584 (down 35%, 3-week 27,747).
The Lacs with 12-track set DIRT ROCK (Dirt Rock Empire | Average
Joes Amazon
UK
- UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.24 (#178 Billboard 200) selling 4,519 copies, the weeks 38th all-genre best seller.
The
dirty southern, mud slingin' duo return dirtier than ever with their first
independent studio album "Dirt Rock". Including the new backwoods
anthem "Redneck Rockstar" and special features from Crucifix, Nate
Kenyon, Hard Target, Cymple Man and Wess Nyle.
THE LACS: CHART HISTORY
AMERICAN REBELUTION (Backroad Records/Average Joes
Entertainment) released April 7, 2017, made a
debut at No.65 Billboard 200 & No.10 Top Country Albums selling 8,370 copies.
OUTLAW IN ME (Backroad Records) released May 26,
2015, made a debut at No.27
Billboard 200 & No.3 Billboard Top Country Albums selling 14,260 copies.
NOTHING IN PARTICULAR (Backroad Records) released Oct 28,
2014 a bits and bobs album of rarities, made a debut at No.86 Billboard 200 & No.17
Top Country Albums selling 4,594 copies.
KEEP IT REDNECK (Backroad/Average Joes) released Aug
20, 2013 enjoyed a career-best rank and biggest sales week on Billboard’s Top
Country Albums with their third album, which opened with 14,460 copies to land at No.23 Billboard 200 & No.3
Top Country Albums. By October 2014 it had sold 100,000 copies.
190 PROOF (Backroad Records) released April 3,
2012, debuted at No.68 Billboard 200
& No.16 Top Country Albums
selling with 6,745 units. It was on country
album chart for over 72 consecutive weeks.
Outside the Top 25
In
his fourth frame John Prine with THE TREE OF
FORGIVENESS fell 24-45 selling 3,071 4,653 copies (down 34%; 4-week total 68,6500).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Drake White with his 5-track EP PIECES (BMLG | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.17 on Country Album Sales selling 2,257 copies.
The EP was produced
by busbee. "I love writing that's very simple, but it's like, 'Oh, I know
exactly what you're talking about,'" noted White. "I'm infatuated
with words and trying to arrange them in a way that would make my heroes
proud."
Josh Ward with MORE THAN I DESERVE (Josh Ward | Smith | Amazon
UK ) made a debut at No.31 selling 900 copies.
The album
includes some rich traditional ballads mix with honky-tonkers and
heartbreakers, blending together seamlessly for a solid effort from the Houston
native. Standouts are "A Cowboy Can," "God Made A Woman,"
destined to be a Texas dance floor classic, and the title track, a touching
waltz surrounded by gorgeous pedal steel and heartbreaking lyrics.
Year-To-Date Albums
5,971,000 (Physical sales 4,283,000
(down -12.7%) + Digital sales 1,688,000 (down -29.5%) which is 18.3% down at the same point in 2017 (7,304,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
18,347,000 down 30.7% at the same point in 2017 (26,459,000)
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 with
“Meant
to Be” (Warner Bros./Big Machine Label Group) led Billboard’s Hot
Country Songs chart dated May for a 24th
week, tying FGL’s own “Cruise,” which ruled for 24 weeks in 2012-13.
The reigns are the longest for a song by a duo or group
in the chart’s 59-year history and the second-longest overall. Sam Hunt’s “Body
Like a Back Road” holds the record with 34 weeks at No. 1 in 2017.
“Crazy to see how this song has taken on a life of its
own and hear that it’s making chart history,” FGL’s Brian Kelley told
Billboard. “Bebe is part of our tribe now, and it’s been magic to see fans from
all over the globe react to such a special song.”
Rexha and FGL’s Tyler Hubbard co-wrote “Meant” with Josh
Miller and David Garcia.
“As songwriters, BK [Brian Kelley] and I aspire to create
music that makes a difference,” said Hubbard. “For us to have not only one but
two songs that tie each other has gone far beyond our wildest dreams.”
“Meant” remained atop Country Streaming Songs for a 20th
week, collecting 21.8 million U.S. streams (down 5 percent, according to
Nielsen Music). On Country Digital Song Sales, which it led for 19 weeks, it
dipped to No. 2 (28,000 downloads sold, down 13 percent). On Country Airplay,
which “Meant” topped April 28, it ranked in the top five for an eighth week,
descending 3-5 (33.4 million in format audience, down 5 percent).
Luke
Combs earned his highest debut on Hot Country Songs as “Beautiful
Crazy” (River House/Columbia Nashville) flew in at No.6. He collected his fourth top 10 in
as many appearances. He has scored one No.1: “When It Rains It Pours” (two
weeks, beginning Nov. 25, 2017).
“Beautiful” is one of five new tracks on a deluxe version
of Combs’ debut LP, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU,
aptly titled This One’s for You Too, due June 1. The original set bowed atop
the June 24, 2017-dated Top Country Albums chart. The track started with 44,000
downloads sold and debuted as his first No.1 on Country Digital Song Sales.
“Beautiful” also arrived with 5.6 million U.S. streams
and enters Country Streaming Songs at No.12, marking Combs’ highest start.
Kenny
Chesney earned his 51st top 10 on
Hot Country Songs and his 55th on Country Airplay as his first single for
Warner Music Nashville, “Get Along” (Blue Chair/Warner
Bros./WEA), rose 11-9 on the former
and 11-10 on the latter (25.5 million, up 11 percent).
Since Chesney’s first week in the Hot Country Songs top
10, with “Fall in Love” (June 24, 1995), he boasts the most top 10s, one-upping
Tim McGraw, with 50 in that span (and 55 overall). On Country Airplay,
Chesney’s 55 top 10s rank him third among all artists (since the chart’s 1990
launch), behind only George Strait (61) and McGraw (57)
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (24
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
** Digital
Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** No.4 “One Number Away” Luke
Combs
**
Airplay Gainer” ** No.5 “Tequila”
Dan + Shay
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.6 “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Debut
No.29 “All To Myself” Dan + Shay
Debut
No.44 “Good Girl” Dustin Lynch
Country
Streaming Songs (5/05/2018)
Kane
Brown notched his second Country Airplay No.1 as “Heaven” (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) rose 2-1,
increasing 4 percent to 45.3 million audience impressions. On Hot
Country Songs, the song held at its No.2 high, tucked behind Bebe Rexha and
Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be” for an eighth week.
“I think we always knew something about this song [“Heaven”] was special,
especially hearing the fan reaction when we play it live, but to have it go to
No.1 means so much,” Brown told Billboard. “This means the world to me.”
Brown first led Country Airplay with “What Ifs” (featuring Lauren Alaina)
on Oct. 28, 2017. It topped Hot Country Songs for five weeks. “Heaven” is the
fourth single from Brown’s self-titled debut full-length, which debuted atop
the Top Country Albums chart dated Dec. 24, 2016. Its first two singles, “Used
to Love You Sober” and “Thunder in the Rain,” reached Nos. 35 and 43,
respectively, on Country Airplay
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Heaven” Kane Brown
45.274 million audience (+1.797 million) / 8,306 radio plays (+347)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.3 “One Number Away” Luke Combs 4.497 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.29 “Babe” Sugarland
feat. Taylor Swift (15 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.50 “Drowns The Whiskey” Jason
Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Luke
Combs with "Beautiful Crazy,"
the first instant-gratification track update on the forthcoming deluxe edition
of his debut album This One's For You (Too), blew in at No.1 on the Billboard
Country Digital Singles Chart and arrived at #2 on the all-genre Digital Songs
Sales chart selling 44,000 copies.
It was one place behind Childish Gambino's new single "This Is America" which arrived
atop Digital Song Sales charts with 78,000 downloads sold.
The 19th non-consecutive week No.1 by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with "Meant to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) slipped 1-2 (#2-5 Digital Songs; 28,000 sales 24-week total 1,035,000).
Kane Brown with “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA
Nashville) rose 4-3 (#14 non-mover Digital Songs; 17,000 sales; 25-week
total 429,000).
Jason Aldean with “You Make It Easy” (Macon/Broken
Bow | BBMG) fell 3-4 (#13-15 Digital Songs; 17,000 sales; 15-week
total 411,000).
Kenny Chesney with “Get Along” held at No.5 (#27-22 Digital Songs; 14,000
sales; 5-week total 93,000).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) banked its fifth top 10 on Country Digital Song
Sales with “All To Myself” which made a debut at No.6 (#22 Digital Songs; 14,000 sales) as “Tequila” (Warner Bros. |
WAR) fell 6-8 (#37-30 Digital Songs; 12,000
sales; 16-week total 172,000).
Luke Combs with “One Number Away” (River
House | Columbia Nashville) lifted 8-7
(#45-29 Digital Songs; 14,000
sales; 16-week total 166,000).
Former
all-genre Digital Songs and Country Digital No1 Carrie
Underwood with “Cry Pretty” (Capitol
Nashville) rebounded 13-9 (#38 Re-Entry; 10,000 sales; 5-week total
108,000).
Morgan Wallen feat. Florida Georgia Line with “Up Down” (Big Loud) slipped 9-10 (#40
New Entry Digital Songs; 10,000 sales; 21-week total 189,000).
Outside
the Top 10
Mason Ramsey, the 11-year old with “Famous”
(Atlantic/Big Loud) fell 2-14 (7,000
sales; 2-week total 26,000).
Dustin Lynch with “Good Girl” (Broken Bow) made
a debut at No.16 with 6,000 sales.
Competing
for Team Blake Shelton on NBC’s The Voice, Pryor Baird covered Montgomery Gentry’s
“My
Town”, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Country Songs chart in 2002.
Following Baird’s performance on the May 7 episode 23, his version arrived on
Country Digital Song Sales at No.24
(5,000 sales)
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
May
14, 2018
Kane Brown
Hits #1 With 'Heaven'
Congrats
to Kane Brown, Steve Hodges, Dennis Reese and the RCA team on ascending “Heaven” to this week’s peak
position. The song is Brown’s second chart-topper from his self-titled debut.
Songwriters are Matthew McGinn, Lindsay Rimes and Shy Carter. The tune marks Kane’s
second-career #1, following the success of "What Ifs," featuring Lauren Alaina (NEWS Oct 16, 2017).
“Heaven” (RCA) moved 2-1 logging 8,906 radio spins (+395) and 62.390 million audience
impressions (+4.234 million) with 24093 Total Points (+1,266)
from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS) for the
tracking week May 6 to May 12, 2018 and published chart May 14th 2018.
Kudos
to Lee Adams and the Broken Bow reps
on notching 55 adds for Jason Aldean’s “Drowns
The Whiskey,” which also features Miranda Lambert. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart
week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
JASON ALDEAN f/M.LAMBERT/Drowns The Whiskey (Broken
Bow) 55 55
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 34 35
JORDAN
DAVIS/Take It From Me (MCA) 14 67
CRAIG
CAMPBELL/See You Try (Red Bow) 12 89
DUSTIN LYNCH/Good
Girl (Broken Bow) 11 27
SUGARLAND f/T.
SWIFT/Babe (UMGN/Big Machine) 10 125
SCOTTY
MCCREERY/This Is It (Triple Tigers) 9 47
RODNEY
ATKINS/Caught Up In The Country (Curb) 7 60
GRANGER
SMITH/You're In It (Wheelhouse) 6 46
TYLER RICH/The
Difference (Valory) 6 72
MASON
RAMSEY/Famous (Big Loud/Atlantic) 5 9
CHRIS
STAPLETON/Millionaire (Mercury) 4 81
DEVIN
DAWSON/Asking For A Friend (Atlantic/WEA) 4 49
OLD
DOMINION/Hotel Key (RCA) 4 112
SMITHFIELD/Hey
Whiskey (Deluge/In2une) 4 30
MIRANDA LAMBERT/Keeper
Of The Flame (RCA) 3 41
ALEXANDRA
DEMETREE/Coastin' (SSM) 2 2
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega (Atlantic/WAR) 2 109
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Cry Pretty (Capitol) 2 156
RADIO
ROMANCE/The Weekend (Big Machine) 2 18
WALKER
HAYES/Craig (Monument/Arista) 1 35
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)
Rank
Artist: #10
Event
Venue City/State: Jimmy Buffett Royal Farms Arena Baltimore,
Md.
Dates:
March 30, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,295,112 Attend: 11,334/ 12,902
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,568 unsold tickets)
Prices: $130,
$30
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #16
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek Raleigh, N.C.
Dates:
May 12, 2018 Gross Sales: $850,119 Attend: 18,554/ 19,934
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,380 unsold tickets)
Prices: $125,
$25
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #20
Event
Venue City/State: Chris Stapleton MidFlorida Credit Union
Amphitheatre Tampa, Fla.
Dates:
Nov. 10, 2017 Gross Sales: $734,986 Attend: 18,714/ 19,222
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1** unsold tickets) Prices:
$70.75, $20.75
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #39
Event
Venue City/State: Chris Young, Kane Brown, Morgan Evans, Dee Jay Silver Schottenstein Center Columbus, Ohio
Dates:
May 3, 2018 Gross Sales: $512,405 Attend:
10,819/ 10,819
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$60, $40
Promoters: Concerts West/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #51
Event
Venue City/State: Alan Jackson Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Tuscaloosa,
Ala
Dates:
May 4, 2018 Gross Sales: $365,420 Attend: 7,003/ 7,003
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $78,
$35
Promoters: Red Mountain Entertainment
Rank
Artist: #61
Event
Venue City/State: Alison Krauss & David Gray Starlight
Theatre Kansas City, Mo.
Dates:
Oct. 8, 2017 Gross Sales: $222,921 Attend: 2,900/ 4,163
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,263 unsold tickets)
Prices: $75,
$39.50
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #114
Event
Venue City/State: Luke Combs U.S. Cellular Center
Asheville, N.C.
Dates:
Dec. 16, 2017 Gross Sales: $100,640 Attend:
4,308/ 4,476
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (168 unsold tickets) Prices:
$25, $20
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #135
Event
Venue City/State: Sara Evans, RaeLynn, Kalie Shorr Rialto
Square Theatre Joliet, Ill.
Dates:
Feb. 25, 2018 Gross Sales: $85,160 Attend:
887/ 887
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$63.50, $48.50, $43.50
Promoters: Live Nation
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