Country Billboard
Chart News July 9, 2018
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of July 14, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (5 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S
FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (32 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
*** No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Tequila” Dan + Shay
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (3 non-consecutive weeks) “Simple” 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).
Drake with SCORPION album made a smashing, streaming-powered debut atop the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200),
as the set opened with the largest overall week of 2018 for any album.
Scorpion,
which was released on June 29 via Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records, bowed
with 732,000 equivalent album units
earned in the week ending July 5 according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 160,000 were in traditional album
sales.
Biggest
Streaming Week Ever for an Album: The 25-track Scorpion charges in with a new
one-week record for on-demand audio streams generated by an album’s songs: 745.92 million. It beat the previous
record-holder, Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys, when it arrived with
431.3 million on the May 12-dated chart. Post Malone now has the second-biggest
streaming 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.
He
earned 27,000 equivalent album units
in the week ending July 5 (23,923,000 streams) selling 5,900 copies (57-week total 966,300
units)
Previous weeks’ No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 1-2 (22,000 units; 6-20
Billboard 200) selling 5,400 copies (2-week pure
sales total 29,400).
Former
6 non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow
Records) held at No.3 (20,000 units;
27-23 BB200) selling 9,600 copies in his 12th week.
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED held
at No.4 (16,000 units; #31-32
Billboard 200) selling 3,900 copies in his 83rd week.
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/
UMGN) rose 6-5
(14,000 units; #51-37 BB200) selling 3,900 copies as his set
From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) fell 19-21 (6,000
units; #153-145 BB200) selling 2,800 copies and
From A
Room: Volume 2 fell 23-27 (5,000 units; #180-175 BB200) selling 3,000 copies
in its 31st frame.
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 5-6 (13,000 units; #48-42 BB200) selling 1,600 copies in his 43rd frame.
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) held at No.7 (12,000 units; #62-51 BB200)
selling 1,300 copies in his 73rd week.
Kenny Chesney with LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION made a
re-Entry at No.8 (10,000 units; Re-Entry
No.29 BB200) selling 8,400 copies in his 29th frame.
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) held at No.10 (9,000 #93-84 BB200) selling
2,600 copies in his 30th
frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Former No.1 Keith Urban with GRAFFITI
U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 9-13 (7,000 units; #89-109 BB200) selling 3,900 copies in his 10th week.
In
his fourth week Dierks Bentley with THE MOUNTAIN (Capitol Nashville | UMGN) fell 8-15 (7,000 units; #75-114 BB200) selling 3,400 copies.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Records) held at No.20 (6,000 units; #162-135 BB200) selling 400 copies in his tenth frame.
Various Artists, NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL COUNTRY, Volume 11 fell 16-24 (#137-163
BB200) selling 5,500
copies in its fourth
frame.
In their fourth
week Sugarland with BIGGER (Big
Machine/Big Machine Label Group/ UMGN) fell 15-25 (5,000 units; #134-173 BB200) selling 2,800 copies.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Riley Green with his 4 track EP IN A TRUCK RIGHT NOW (BMLG Records | Amazon UK - UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
Produced
by Dann Huff, the EP features four songs, all of which were co-written by Green
(“There Was This Girl,” “Same Old Song,” “Break Up More Often” and “In A Truck
Right Now”) made a debut at No.15.
The Wild
Feathers with 10 track GREETINGS FROM THE NEON FRONTIER (Amazon UK - UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.17 selling around
2,000 copies.
Formed
in 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee around the talents of Ricky Young, Joel King,
and Taylor Burns, all of whom had served as lead singers in their previous
bands, the Wild Feathers came together out of a shared love for all things Tom
Petty, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, the Band, and the Allman Brothers.
Cody Canada
& The Departed with 14 track 3 (2018 Underground Sound | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.30 selling an
estimated 1,000 copies..
Year-To-Date Albums
8,359,000 (Physical sales 5,938,000
(down -16.4%) + Digital sales 2,413,000 (down -30.9%) which is 21.1% down at the same point in 2017 (10,595,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
27,386,000 down 27.1% at the same point in 2017 (37,567,000)
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./BMLG) held at No.1 for a 32nd week on Hot Country Songs now just 2-weeks short of Sam Hunt’s
“Body Like a Back Road” (34 weeks in
2017).
Jake
Owen banked his ninth Hot Country Songs top 10, and first since 2016, as
“I
Was Jack (You Were Diane)”
(Big Loud) climbed 11-9.
The song is a nod to John Mellencamp’s four-week 1982
Billboard Hot 100 No.1 “Jack & Diane” (with Mellencamp claiming a writing
credit on Owen’s song, which is derived from Mellencamp’s).
“I Was Jack” surged on the strength of its 21 percent
increase to 5,000 downloads sold, its 20 percent hike to 4.3 million U.S.
streams and its 6 percent gain to 35.9 million audience impressions as it
bumped 4-3 on Country Airplay.
The track is Owen’s first Hot Country Songs top 10 since
“American Country Love Song,” which peaked at No. 6 in August 2016
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (32
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
**
Airplay Gainer” No.10 “Drowns The Whiskey” Jason
Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert
** Digital
Gainer ** No.13 “Kiss Somebody” Morgan
Evans
** Streaming Gainer ** No.26 “Lose It” Kane Brown
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.41 “Take Me Home, Country Roads” Copilot Music + Sound
Debut
No.47 “I Don't Know About You” Chris
Lane
Dan
+ Shay with “Tequila”
(Warner Bros./WAR) topped Billboard’s Country Airplay chart for a second week
(up 2 percent to 44.6 million audience impressions in the week ending July 8,
according to Nielsen Music).
Carrie
Underwood landed her 27th consecutive and total top 10. Her “Cry Pretty” (Capitol Nashville) lifted 11-10 on the
chart, gaining 7 percent to 24.3 million in audience in its 13th week.
Underwood co-wrote the launch single from her new studio album, her first
for Capitol Records (due Sept. 14), with Lori McKenna, Liz Rose and Hillary
Lindsey. (She previously spent her entire career on Arista Nashville after
winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005.)
Underwood has now linked all 27 of her top 10s consecutively,
encompassing all her singles promoted to the format, excluding holiday fare.
She began her run with her debut single, “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” her first of
15 Country Airplay No. 1s, which led the list for six weeks starting Jan. 21,
2006.
On the Hot Country Songs chart “Cry Pretty” achieved top 10 status when
it flew from No. 20 to its No. 5 high on the chart dated April 28. The vault
followed Underwood’s debut live performance of the song at the 53rd Academy of
Country Music Awards on April 15. On the new, July14-dated chart, “Cry Pretty”
holds at No. 17.
With 27 straight career-opening Country Airplay top 10s, Underwood
extended the longest such streak. Tracy Lawrence ranks second with 19, from
1992-97.
As for the longest Country Airplay top 10 streak overall, Keith Urban
owns the record: 38 in a row. His run, which includes 21 No. 1s, began with his
second single, “Your Everything;” it peaked at No. 4 in 2000. The streak
snapped earlier in 2018 when “Female” peaked at No. 12 on Feb. 24.
Meanwhile, with 25 top 10s in succession to date, Luke Bryan owns the
second-longest active run on the chart.
Underwood’s career total of top 10s is second among women only to Reba
McEntire’s 36, dating to the chart’s 1990 inception. Among all artists,
George Strait leads with 61 top 10s.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Tequila” Dan + Shay
44.602 million audience (+0.780 million) / 8,276 radio plays (+159)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.12 “Drowns The Whiskey” Jason Aldean feat. Miranda
Lambert 3.669 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.32 “Lose It” Kane Brown
(17 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.49 “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs
Debut
No.55 “Burning Man” Dierks Bentley feat.
Brothers Osborne
Debut
No.58 “Love Someone” Brett Eldredge
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Florida
Georgia Line with “Simple” (BMLG) moved 2-1
(#9-4 Digital Songs) to top the summit for a 3rd non-consecutive week.
It was thre places behind Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," featuring Cardi B which slipped to No. 5
on the Hot 100 from its No. 4 peak, as it led Digital Song Sales for a fifth
week (49,000, up 8 percent) and added top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100
for a fifth consecutive week.
Previous week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) fell 1-3 (#6-15 Digital Songs)
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR)
climbed 3-2 (#18-14
Digital Songs)
Kenny Chesney with “Get Along” pushed 6-4 (#26-17 Digital Songs)
Brett
Young with “Mercy”
(BMLG) fell 4-5 (#22 non-mover Digital
Songs).
Morgan Wallen feat. Florida Georgia Line with “Up Down” (Big Loud) advanced 8-6 (#30-25
Digital Songs).
A remake of John Denver’s classic “Take
Me Home, Country Roads” — which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and
No. 50 on Hot Country Songs in 1971 — arrived, via Copilot
Music + Sound’s cover (Bethesda).
The new version scored a synch in the trailer for forthcoming video game
Fallout76.
Copilot Music + Sound’s “Country Roads” arrives at No. 41 on Hot Country
Songs. It also started at No.7 on Country Digital Song Sales with 13,000 downloads sold in its first week (ending July
5); all proceeds from its sales benefit Habitat for Humanity.
The song, written by Denver, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, marked Copilot
Music + Sound’s first Billboard chart appearance. The new release has also
stirred interest in the original as Denver’s “Country Roads” gained by 7
percent to 6,000 sold and bulleted at No.21 on Country Digital Song Sales.
The original experienced one additional recent revival: Artists of Then,
Now & Forever’s “Forever Country”—a mashup of “Country Roads,” Willie
Nelson’s “On The Road Again” and Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You”—spent
two weeks at No 1. on Hot Country Songs in 2016.
Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert with “Drowns The Whiskey” (Macon | Broken
Bow) fell 7-8 (#29-28 Digital Songs)
as Aldean’s “You Make It Easy” dropped 10-16.
The Annual Fourth
of July favourite Lee Greenwood with
the patriot “God Bless The USA” made a re-entry at No.9 (#30 Re-Entry
Digital Songs).
David Lee Murphy & Kenny Chesney with “Everything's Gonna Be Alright” fell 5-10 (25-31 Digital Songs; 13,000
sales; 21-week total 217,000).
Outside
the Top 10
Kane Brown with “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA
Nashville) fell 9-11 (#31-37 Digital Songs).
Morgan Evans with “Kiss Somebody” made a
debut at No.12 (#42 new Entry Digital Songs).
Luke Bryan with “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset”
fell 11-13.
Chris
Lane with ballad “I
Don’t Know About You” the newest release from Lane’s sophomore studio
album, LAPS AROUND THE SUN (due July 13) arrived at No.15 on Country
Digital Song Sales with 8,000 sold in its first
week and No. 47 on Hot Country Songs.
Country/Southern Rock outfit Wes Cook Band with debut single “I Stand For The Flag” (>> Video) made
a debut at No.24. Their paid Facebook ads were denied, and their
reach thereby censored because this video contained "political
content". They believe Patriotism is not Political!
So what is the story behind the song and the band? Music City locals and
tourists have been drinking and dancing along with the Wes Cook Band for
several years. The band typically plays seven shows each week at downtown
venues including The Stage, Famous Saloon, Legends Corner, Tin Roof, Redneck
Riviera, and The Second Fiddle. Wes says, “we don’t sound anything like today’s
country music that’s on the radio.” The band Wes Cook (lead vocals); Nathan Stoops
(fiddle); Trevor Layne (drums); Jason Kirkimilis (lead guitar); Paul Sanders
(bass) mostly covers 90’s country and southern rock; their original material
“is more of a southern rock, red dirt Americana sound.” Read more here
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
July
9, 2018
Congrats to Dan
Smyers, Shay Mooney, Kristen Williams, Tom Martens and the WAR promotion team on topping the chart for the second consecutive
week with Dan +
Shay’s “Tequila.”
The song is the
first single from their self-titled album, which debuted atop the country
albums chart last week. Songwriters are Nicolle Galyon, Jordan Reynolds and
Smyers.
“Tequila” (Warner Bros./WAR) held at No.1 logging 8,906 radio spins (+386) and 60.976 million audience
impressions (+2.039 million gain) with 23933 Total Points (+779)
from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS) for the
tracking week July 1 to July 7, 2018 and published chart July 9th, 2018.
Kudos to Shane
Allen and the River House/Columbia
team on landing 47 adds for Luke Combs’ “She Got The Best Of Me”. The song topped
the "Most Added" board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
LUKE COMBS/She Got The Best Of Me (River
House/Columbia) 47 56
DIERKS BENTLEY
f/BROTHERS OSBORNE/Burning Man (Capitol) 20 51
MICHAEL RAY/One
That Got Away (Atlantic/WEA) 12 43
UNCLE
KRACKER/Floatin' (Hit Bunch/New Revolution) 12 15
DUSTIN
LYNCH/Good Girl (Broken Bow) 7 85
GARTH
BROOKS/All Day Long (Pearl) 7 152
LITTLE BIG
TOWN/Summer Fever (Capitol) 7 89
BRETT
ELDREDGE/Love Someone (Atlantic/WMN) 6 51
KANE BROWN/Lose
It (RCA) 6 109
D.RUCKER
F/ALDEAN/BRYAN/KELLEY/Straight To Hell (Capitol) 5 42
EVERETTE/Slow
Roll (Broken Bow) 5 54
RILEY
GREEN/There Was This Girl (BMLGR) 3 15
ABBY
ANDERSON/Make Him Wait (Black River) 2 48
CLARE DUNN/More
(MCA) 2 46
LEE BRICE/Rumor
(Curb) 2 3
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 2 64
RANDY
HOUSER/What Whiskey Does (Stoney Creek) 2 2
SMITHFIELD/Hey
Whiskey (Deluge/In2une) 2 39
RACHEL
WAMMACK/Damage (RCA) 1 1
STEPHANIE
QUAYLE/Selfish (Rebel Engine) 1 27
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #1
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Camila Cabello Ohio Stadium Columbus, Ohio
Dates: 7 July 2018 Gross Sales: $6,606,529 Attend: 62,897/ 62,897
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 Prices: $499.50, $49.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #3
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Brandon Lay, Old Dominion, Thomas Rhett Sports
Authority Field at Mile High Denver, Colo.
Dates:
30 June 2018 Gross Sales: $4,442,006 Attend: 51,553/ 53,983
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (2430 unsold tickets) Prices:
$265, $31
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #7
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain Budweiser Gardens London,
Ontario
Dates: July 3-4, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,473,090 Attend:
16,399/ 16,715
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 (316 unsold tickets) Prices:
$144.07, $22.72
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #10
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain Bell Centre Montreal, Quebec
Dates:
26 June 2018 Gross Sales: $1,045,900 Attend: 11,592/ 14,402
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (2810 unsold tickets) Prices:
$135.32, $45.08
Promoters: evenko/Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #13
Event
Venue City/State: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Devin Dawson Resch Center Green Bay, Wis.
Dates:
6 July 2018 Gross Sales: $875,724 Attend:
8,242/ 8,242
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT Prices:
$119.50, $69.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #26
Event
Venue City/State: Sugarland TaxSlayer Center Moline, Ill.
Dates: 29 June 2018 Gross Sales: $336,444 Attend:
6,057/ 7,575
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1518 unsold tickets) Prices:
$98, $68, $48, $2,850
Promoters: AEG
Rank
Artist: #31
Event
Venue City/State: Rascal Flatts, Dan + Shay, Carly Pearce Bank of New Hampshire
Pavilion Gilford, N.H.
Dates:
10 June 2018 Gross Sales: $287,685 Attend: 5,279/ 7,983
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (2704 unsold tickets) Prices:
$89.50, $15
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