Country
Billboard Chart News June 4, 2018
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
Luke Bryan Leads May RIAA
Gold And Platinum Honors
The RIAA GOLD
and PLATINUM honors for the full month of MAY 2018 have been unveiled,
CAPITOL
NASHVILLE's Luke
Bryan leads the honours. Bryan earned
RIAA 2X PLATINUM Single honors for
"Huntin', Fishin', Lovin' Every Day" and "Drink
A Beer;" as well as RIAA GOLD Single honors for "Light
It Up," "Move," and "Most
People Are Good."
MERCURY NASHVILLE's
Chris Stapleton
saw his TRAVELLER project
earn RIAA 3X PLATINUM Album
certification while BMLG RECORDS' Florida Georgia Line received
3X PLATINUM Single certification for
their collaboration with BEBE REXHA on "Meant To Be."
MULTI-PLATINUM SINGLES:
Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line Meant
To Be | released August 11,
2017 Warner Bros Records | certified 3x Multi-Platinum May 31, 2018, 3 Million units (actual pure sales 1,104,000)
Luke Bryan Huntin',
Fishin', Lovin' Every Day
| released August 7, 2015 Capitol
Records Nashville | certified 2x Multi-Platinum May 31, 2018 2 Million units
Luke Bryan Drink
A Beer | released Aug 13, 2013 Capitol Records
Nashville | certified 2x Multi-Platinum May 31, 2018 2 Million units
PLATINUM SINGLES:
Scotty McCreery Five
More Minutes | released May 5, 2017 Triple Tigers
Records | certified Platinum May 21, 2018 1
Million units
GOLD SINGLES:
Brett Young Mercy |
released February 20, 2018 BMLG Records | certified Gold May 3, 2018, 0.5 Million units (actual pure sales
214,000)
Jason Aldean You Make It Easy
|
released Jan 26, 2018 Broken Bow | certified Gold May 4, 2018, 0.5 Million units (actual pure sales 455,000)
Dan + Shay Tequila
| released
January 10, 2018 Warner Bros | certified
Gold May 22, 2018 0.5 Million units (actual
pure sales 208,000)
Luke Bryan Most
People Are Good | released Oct 27, 2017 Capitol Records
Nashville | certified Gold May 31, 2018 0.5
Million units (actual pure sales 268,000)
Luke Bryan Light
It Up | released Aug 21, 2017 Capitol Records
Nashville | certified Gold May 31,
2018, 0.5 Million units
Luke Bryan Move
| released
July 30, 2015 Capitol Records Nashville
| certified Gold May 31, 2018, 0.5
Million units
Brett Eldredge Somethin'
I'm Good At | released Feb 24, 2017 | certified Gold May 31, 2018, 0.5 Million units
Brett Eldredge The
Long Way | released Aug 21, 2017 | certified Gold May 31, 2018, 0.5 Million units
MULTI-PLATINUM ALBUMS:
Chris Stapleton TRAVELLER
| released May 5, 2015 Mercury Nashville |
certified 3x Multi-Platinum May 10, 2018 3
Million units (actual pure sales 2,298,400)
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of June 9, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (10 non-consecutive weeks) ** SELF-TITLED
(Deluxe) Kane Brown
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (27 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
*** No.1 (1 week) *** “One Number Away” Luke Combs
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (21 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).
Shawn Mendes
Scores Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart
Shawn Mendes’ new SELF-TITLED, third full-length studio album bowed atop the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, scoring
the pop singer-songwriter his third No.1. The set — which was released on May
25 via Island Records — launches with 182,000
equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 31, according to Nielsen
Music. Of that figure, 142,000 were in traditional album sales. Both sums represent new highs for
the artist.
Mendes
also debuted at No. 1 on the chart with his two earlier full-length studio
sets: Illuminate (in 2016) and Handwritten (2015).
Second-Largest
Streaming Week of 2018 for a Pop Album: SEA units comprise 34,000 of Mendes’
overall starting unit sum. As each SEA unit represents 1,500 on-demand audio
streams, that means Mendes’ album earned 50.3 million streams for its tracks in
its opening week.
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.
Kane Brown with his SELF-TITLED returned to the top of the
chart moving 2-1 (#23 non-mover
Billboard 200) selling 4,400 copies (78-week total 399,700) for a 10th non-consecutive week at the summit.
Last
weeks No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken
Bow Records) slipped 1-2 (13-27
Billboard 200) selling 6,200 copies (7-week total 257,500).
Former No.1 Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#46-39 Billboard 200) selling 1,800 copies (52-week total
223,300).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) held at No.4 (#48-45 Billboard 200) selling 1,700 (38-week total 272,000)
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/
UMGN) climbed 6-5
(57-52 BB200) selling 3,300 copies (161-week total 2,298,400) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville)
held at No.14 (#136-126 BB200) selling 2,900 copies
(56-week total 797,900) and From A Room: Volume 2 fell 20-22 (176-174 BB200) selling 3,100 copies
(26-week total 394,100).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) rose 7-6 (#65-65 Billboard 200) selling 1,300 copies (68-week total
210,600).
Former No.1 Keith Urban with GRAFFITI
U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 5-7 (#53-70 Billboard
200) selling 5,100 copies (5-week total 178,400)
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) held at No.8 (#84-83 Billboard 200)
selling 2,800 copies (25-week total
293,100).
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No1 from Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 11-15 (#110-128 BB200) selling 2,300 copies (9-week total
78,100).
In
his fifth week Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Records) climbed 21-18 (#182-150 Billboard 200).
Former
No.1 Blake Shelton with
TEXOMA SHORE (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 17-20 (#148-164 BB200) selling 1,400 copies (30-week total 231,400)
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Davisson Brothers Band with 8-track FIGHTER (Dreamlined | BFD Amazon UK) made a debut at
No.15 selling 1,600 copies.
Lindsay Ell with the 12-track THE CONTINUUM PROJECT (Stoney Creek/BMG | BBMG Amazon UK)
made a debut at No.22 selling 1,100 copies.
Various Artists with NOW That's What I Call A Country Workout 2018 (Columbia/Universal |
Ume) made a debut at No.36 selling
around 700 copies.
Taylor Phillips with 4-track SIX STRINGS ATTACHED (EP; Taylor Phillips Amazon UK) made a debut at
No.39 selling around 600 copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
6,788,000 (Physical sales 4,814,000
(down -16.5%) + Digital sales 1,926,000 (down -31.6%) which is 20.9% down at the same point in 2017 (8,582,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
22,274,000 down 27.6% at the same point in 2017 (30,772,000)
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:
Meanwhile, Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia
Line with “Meant to Be” (Warner
Bros./Big Machine Label Group) ruled Hot Country Songs for a 27th week,
extending the longest reign for a song by a duo or group in the chart’s 59-year
history. The overall runner-up moves a notch closer to the record held by Sam
Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road”: 34 weeks at No. 1 in 2017.
Dierks
Bentley banked his 22nd Hot Country Songs top 10
as “Woman, Amen” (Capitol Nashville) scooted 11-8. It bumped 4-3 on Country Airplay (38.6 million, up 8 percent)
while gaining by 19 percent to 6,000 downloads sold and 15 percent to 3.2 million
U.S. streams.
David
Lee Murphy and Kenny Chesney with
“Everything’s
Gonna Be Alright” (Blue Chair/ Reviver) hopped 12-9 on Hot Country Songs on the strength of its 11 percent hike to
37.8 million impressions as it pushed 5-4 on Country Airplay. It also romps
18-9 on Country Digital Song Sales (10,000 sold, up 27 percent), returning to
the top 10 for the first time since the April 21-dated list while increasing by
5 percent to 2.6million U.S. streams.
Chesney achieved his 52nd Hot Country Songs top 10, extending
his mark for the most of any act since his first week in the region (June 24,
1995, with “Fall in Love”). Tim McGraw ranks second with 50 top 10s in that
span (and 55 overall). (George Strait leads all artists with 86 total top 10s.)
Murphy earned his sixth Hot Country Songs top 10 and
first since 2004’s No. 5-peaking “Loco.” He first hit the tier in 1995 with “Party
Crowd” (No. 6) and followed that year with his sole No. 1 to date, “Dust on the
Bottle”
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (27
weeks) ** Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
** Digital
Gainer ** No.6 “Up Down” Morgan Wallen feat. Florida
Georgia Line
** Streaming Gainer ** No.28 “Speechless” Dan + Shay
**
Airplay Gainer” No.34 “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” Luke Bryan
** Hot Shot Debut **
Debut
No.43 “Love Ain't” Eli Young Band
Debut
No.46 “Simple” Florida Georgia Line
Debut
No.49 “Burning Man” Dierks Bentley feat.
Brothers Osborne
Debut
No.50 “Burn Out” Midland
Luke
Combs collected his third No. 1 on Billboard’s Country
Airplay chart (dated June 9) as “One
Number Away” (River House/Columbia Nashville) rose 2-1 in its
24th week, increasing 6% to 45.6 million audience impressions in the
week ending June 3, according to Nielsen Music. On the Hot Country Songs chart,
“One” held at its No.3 high.
“One” is the third total and consecutive Country Airplay No.1 for the
28-year-old singer-songwriter.
Combs’ debut hit, “Hurricane,” led for two weeks starting on the chart
dated May 27, 2017, followed by “When It Rains It Pours,” which also dominated
for two frames, beginning Nov. 4.
Says Combs, “When people sing my songs back to me [in concert], I know
they are doing the same in their cars, on their boats or at a bonfire as the
radio is playing, and that is just the coolest thing to me.”
Combs becomes the first artist to top Country Airplay in his first
three appearances since Kelsea Ballerini, who rattled off three
career-opening No.1s from 2015-16: “Love Me Like You Mean It,” “Dibs” and
“Peter Pan,” all of which led for a week each.
The last solo male to send his first three Country Airplay entries to No.
1 before Combs? Sam Hunt, from 2014-15, with “Leave the Night On,” “Take Your
Time” and “House Party.” They are all one-week leaders also.
Combs co-wrote “One” with Sammy Mitchell, Steven Andre Battey and Robert
Williford. The song is from Combs’ debut full-length, This One’s for You, which
launched at the summit of Top Country Albums on June 24, 2017. A deluxe
version, This One’s for You Too, arrived June 1, and includes five new tracks
Florida
Georgia Line launched at No.24 on Country Airplay with “Simple.” The track was released June
1 as the first single from the upcoming fourth LP from the duo of Brian Kelley
and Tyler Hubbard. (The pair released fellow new track “Colorado” the same
day.)
With help from hourly plays at participating iHeartMedia stations
starting at 6 a.m. locally on June 1, “Simple” bounded onto Country Airplay
with 9.7 million audience impressions in its first three days. The bow
marks FGL’s second highest, trailing only the No. 1-peaking “Dirt,” which
debuted at No.16 (July 26, 2014). On Hot Country Songs, “Simple” starts at No.
47; its first full week of streaming and sales (ending June 7) will count
toward next week’s chart that’s dated June 16.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “One Number Away” Luke
Combs 45.648 million audience (+2.493 million) / 8,366 radio plays (+441)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.24 “Simple” Florida Georgia Line 9.747 million
audience gain thanks to 74 fresh
radio commitments (ADDS)
Debut
No.57 “This Is It” Scotty McCreery
Debut
No.59 “Love By The Moon” Tyler Farr
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with "Meant to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) held at No.1 (#7-8 Digital Songs; 21,000 sales; 27-week total 1,104,000)
leading the chart for a 21st non-consecutive week.
It was seven
places behind Post Malone's
"Psycho," featuring
Ty Dolla $ign which returned to its No.2 Hot 100 peak, from No. 4. The track
surged 9-1 for a second week atop the Digital Song Sales chart,
up 36 percent to 31,000 sold in the week ending May 31, according to Nielsen
Music (helped by a 69-cent sale price in the iTunes Store).
Kane Brown with “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA
Nashville) held at No.2 (#12-14 Digital Songs; 17,000 sales; 28-week
total 493,000).
Kenny Chesney with “Get Along” rose 4-3 (#32-17 Digital Songs; 16,000
sales; 8-week total 136,000).
Jason Aldean with “You Make It Easy” (Macon/Broken
Bow | BBMG) slipped #3-4 (#27-24 Digital Songs; 14,000 sales; 18-week
total 455,000).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR)
climbed 7-5 (#41-27
Digital Songs; 12,000 sales; 19-week total 208,000) as their new single “Speechless”
(Warner Bros. | WAR) fell 17-19 (6,000 sales; 2-week total 14,000)
Morgan Wallen feat. Florida Georgia Line with “Up Down” (Big Loud) climbed 12-6 (#40-36
Digital Songs; 12,000 sales; 24-week total 221,000).
Luke
Combs with “One Number Away”
(River House | Columbia Nashville) rose 8-7 (#45-32 Digital Songs; 11,000 sales; 19-week
total 199,000) as former No.1 "Beautiful Crazy held at No.10 (8,000 sales;
4-week total 74,000).
Brett
Young with “Mercy”
(BMLG) rose 9-8 (#47-42 Digital
Songs; 10,000 sales; 12-week total 214,000).
David
Lee Murphy and Kenny Chesney with “Everything’s
Gonna Be Alright” (Blue Chair/Reviver) rocketed 18-9 (#45 Re-entry; 10,000 sales; 17-week total 173,000).
Outside
the Top 10
Eli
Young Band with “Love
Ain't” (Valory) made a debut at No.14 with 6,000 sales.
Darius
Rucker with “For
The First Time” (Capitol Nashville) was new at No.23 with 5,000
sales (90,000 total sales).
Dierks
Bentley feat. Brothers Osborne with
album pre-grat track “Burning Man”
(Capitol Nashville) made a debut at No.24 selling 5,000 copies.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
June
4, 2018
Luke Combs Is #1 With 'One
Number Away'
Congrats to Luke Combs, Steve Hodges, Shane Allen and the Columbia team on earning this week’s
No.1 with “One Number Away.” The song is the third chart-topper from THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU. Writers are Sammy Mitchell, Steven Andre Battey, Robert
Williford and Combs.
This marked Combs'
third consecutive #1, following last year's success with "When It Rains It Pours" (Oct 30,
2017) and his debut single, "Hurricane" (NET NEWS May 22, 2017).
“One Number Away” (River House/Columbia) climbed 2-1 logging 9,100 radio spins (+586) and 63.045 million audience
impressions (+3,252 million gain) with 24590 Total Points (+1523)
from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS) for the
tracking week May 27 to June 2, 2018 and published chart June 4th, 2018.
Florida Georgia Line Is
Most-Added With 'Simple'
Kudos to
Matthew Hargis and the BMLG Records
crew for notching 109 adds for Florida Georgia
Line’s “Simple”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
 |
| BMLG Promo Crew Most Added FGL "Simple" |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Simple (BMLGR) 109 109
LUKE
BRYAN/Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset (Capitol) 30 121
CLARE DUNN/More
(MCA) 26 28
ABBY
ANDERSON/Make Him Wait (Black River) 21 25
JASON ALDEAN
f/M. LAMBERT/Drowns The Whiskey (Broken Bow) 19 140
KELSEA
BALLERINI/I Hate Love Songs (Black River) 13 121
SAM
HUNT/Downtown's Dead (MCA) 11 144
DUSTIN
LYNCH/Good Girl (Broken Bow) 7 58
JOE NICHOLS/Billy
Graham's Bible (Red Bow) 7 31
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 6 50
CHRIS
STAPLETON/Millionaire (Mercury) 5 98
JORDAN
DAVIS/Take It From Me (MCA) 5 84
RODNEY
ATKINS/Caught Up In The Country (Curb) 5 70
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Blue Tacoma (Triple Tigers) 5 125
THOMAS
RHETT/Life Changes (Valory) 5 152
LANCO/Born To
Love You (Arista) 4 141
SCOTTY
MCCREERY/This Is It (Triple Tigers) 4 60
SUGARLAND f/T.
SWIFT/Babe (UMGN/Big Machine) 4 141
CARLY
PEARCE/Hide The Wine (Big Machine) 2 149
JAMES BARKER
BAND/Chills (UMGC/New Revolution) 2 62
KRYSTAL KEITH
& LANCE CARPENTER/Anyone Else (Show Dog) 2 19
STEPHANIE
QUAYLE/Selfish (Rebel Engine) 2 25
TYLER FARR/Love
By The Moon (Columbia) 2 26
ABI/A Day
Without (One Country/Nine North) 1 2
CARLTON
ANDERSON/Drop Everything (Arista) 1 2
DARIUS RUCKER
f/J. Aldean/Straight To Hell (Capitol) 1 1
DAVISSON
BROTHERS BAND/Po Boyz (Dreamlined) 1 5
DYLAN
SCHNEIDER/How Does It Sound (Dylan Schneider/Placer Music) 1 2
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Smile (Republic) 1 1
KACEY
MUSGRAVES/Butterflies (MCA) 1 18
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #1
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Camila Cabello Soldier Field Chicago, Ill.
Dates:
June 1-2, 2018 Gross Sales: $14,576,697 Attend: 105,208/ 105,208
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$499.50, $49.50
Promoters: Messina
Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #22
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center Noblesville, Ind.
Dates:
May 31, 2018 Gross Sales: $873,447 Attend: 19,660/ 23,065
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (3,405 unsold tickets)
Prices: $133.25, $33.25
Promoters: Messina Touring
Group
Rank
Artist: #23
Event
Venue City/State: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Caitlyn Smith Richmond Coliseum Richmond,
Va.
Dates:
May 31, 2018 Gross Sales: $873,206 Attend: 9,489/ 9,489
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$152, $29.50
Promoters: Messina
Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #37
Event
Venue City/State: Willie Nelson, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Jacobs The Anthem Washington, D.C.
Dates:
May 27, 2018 Gross Sales: $310,335 Attend: 2,881/ 2,881
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$175, $95
Promoters: I.M.P.
Rank
Artist: #53
Event
Venue City/State: Wynonna & the Big Noise Bridge View Center Ottumwa,
Iowa
Dates:
May 17, 2018 Gross Sales: $28,694 Attend: 495/ 570
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 ** (75 unsold
tickets) Prices: $66, $52
Promoters: VenuWorks
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