RIAA
Certifications
Broken Bow's Jason Aldean receives a plaque commemorating REARVIEW TOWN debuting at No.1 on the Country albums chart and Top
200 chart.
Pictured (l-r)
are the label's Jon Loba, Aldean, BMG's Zach Katz and Maverick's Chris Parr.
All That
Glitters Is Goldblum: Atlantic/WMN's Brett Eldredge celebrates
the gold certification of two singles, "The Long Way" and
"Somethin' I'm Good At," from his self-titled album.
 |
| Pictured (l-r) are the label's John Esposito, Eldredge, Longshot Management's Rob Baker and the label's Scott Hendricks and Matt Signore. |
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of June 30, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (6 non-consecutive weeks) ** REARVIEW
TOWN Jason Aldean
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (30 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
*** No.1 (1 week) *** “Up Down” Morgan Wallen feat. Florida
Georgia Line
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (2 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).
In
a week where there’s no shortage of action at the top of the chart, 5 Seconds of Summer debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200) with the band’s third
full-length studio album, YOUNGBLOOD.
The set arrived atop the tally with 142,000
equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 21, according to Nielsen
Music. Of that sum, 117,000 were in traditional album sales.
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.
Jason Aldean’s
Bundles to The Top
Former
5 non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow
Records) rose 4-1 (23-10 Billboard 200) to top the chart for sixth week logging
38,100 consumption units (28,500 in pure sales; 10,427,400 streams) in his 10th frame.
It
was boosted by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption
offer with Aldean’s current tour.
Former
No.1, Luke Combs with now deluxe version of THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville)
climbed 3-2 (#12-17 Billboard 200)
logging 26,000 units (7,000 pure sales; 23,354,900 streams) in its 54th frame.
Last weeks No.1 Dierks Bentley with
THE MOUNTAIN (Capitol Nashville |
UMGN) fell 1-3 (3-26 Billboard 200)
with 18,200 units (13,400 sales; down 86%; 2-week total 107,400)
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED rose
5-4 (#26-29 Billboard 200) selling 4,700 copies in his 81st
week.
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/
UMGN) rose 8-5
(#54-49 BB200; 11,300 units) selling 4,200 copies as his set
From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) held at No.16 (#122-136
BB200; 6,100 units) selling 3,600 copies and
From A
Room: Volume 2 rose 18-17 (132-145 BB200; 6,100 units) selling 4,000 copies in its 29th frame.
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) moved 7-6 (#48-51 BB200; 11,100 units) selling 1,600 copies in his 41st frame.
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) rose 9-7 (#61-64 Billboard 200; 9,900 units;
10,001,900 streams) selling 1,500 copiers in his 71st week.
Former No.1 Keith Urban with GRAFFITI
U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) rebounded 11-8 (#79-84 Billboard
200; 8,500 units; 3,800,500 streams) selling 5,400
in his 8th week.
Various Artists, NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL COUNTRY, Volume 11 fell 6-9 (#44-87
Billboard 200) with 8,300 sales (2-week total 20,300).
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) pushed 12-10 (#91-90 BB200; 7,900 units; 5,689,900
streams) selling 2,800
copies in his 28th frame
Outside the
Top 10
In their second
week Sugarland with BIGGER (Big
Machine/Big Machine Label Group/ UMGN) slumped 2-12 (#11-97 BB200; 7,600 units; 2,591,400 steams) selling 5,000 copies (2-week total
31,300).
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Records) advanced 24-20 (#151-162 BB200; 5,300 units; 5,267,600 streams) selling just
400 copies in his eighthh frame.
Former
No.1 Blake Shelton with
TEXOMA SHORE (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 17-24 (#124-190 BB200) in his 32nd
frame.
Former
No1 from Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) returned to the top 25 28-25 (#179-192 BB200) in her 12th
week.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Various Artists with the 12-track Mud Digger, Volume 9 (Average Joes Entertainment; (Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.26.
A slew of The Biggest Hits Of compilations made
debuts: Hank
Williams Jr. #29, Tim McGraw #30, The Bellamy
Brothers #31, The Judds #33, LeAnn Rimes #46 and The Biggest Inspirational Hits
Of Randy Travis was new at No.43.
Year-To-Date Albums
7,800,000 (Physical sales 5,552,000
(down -16.1%) + Digital sales 2,241,000 (down -30.6%) which is 20.8% down at the same point in 2017 (9,847,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
25,375,000 down 27.1% at the same point in 2017 (34,808,000)
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) rolled to its 30th week at No.1 on Hot
Country Songs.
The reign is the second-longest on the 58-year-old list,
after Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road”
(34 weeks in 2017).
As previously noted, Morgan Wallen’s “Up Down,” featuring
FGL, jumped 6-1 on Country Airplay, meaning the duo simultaneously leads
both that chart and Hot Country Songs with different songs. It marked only
the third time that an act has dominated both lists with different songs (since
Hot Country Songs transitioned to its triple-metric methodology on Oct. 20,
2012), and FGL has been involved each time. Such a double last occurred when
Luke Bryan’s “Play It Again” led Country Airplay for a fourth and final week,
while FGL’s “This Is How We Roll,” featuring Bryan, topped Hot Country Songs
for its fifth of six frames on
June 21, 2014.
Previously, on the charts dated May 18 and 25, 2013,
FGL’s “Cruise” was amid its 24-week rule on Hot Country Songs, while follow-up
“Get Your Shine On” led Country Airplay those same two weeks
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (30
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
**
Airplay Gainer” No.5 “Up Down” Morgan
Wallen feat. Florida Georgia Line
** Digital
Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** No.11 “Drowns The
Whiskey” Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.32 “Keeping Score” Dan + Shay feat. Kelly
Clarkson
Debut
No.42 “All Day Long” Garth Brooks
Debut
No.48 “Reason To Drink” Cole Swindell
Morgan
Wallen with “Up
Down,” featuring Florida Georgia Line (Big Machine Label Group/Big Loud), surged 6-1
in its 32nd week on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated June 30) as it
hiked by 17 percent to 39.7 million audience impressions in the tracking
week ending June 24. On Hot Country Songs, it lifted 6-5 for a new high.
“‘Up Down’ has changed my life,” Wallen told Billboard. “It’s taken me
and my guys from a van to a tour bus, from clubs to opening for Luke Bryan in
stadiums.
The song has shown me how many people are just like me when it comes to
the things we consider to be a good time and the things we love.
“Having FGL [Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley], whom I now consider to be
two of my closest friends, with me just makes it that much sweeter. And none of
this would be possible without country radio for giving me a real chance to be
heard by the fans.”
“Up” made the biggest jump to No.1 on Country Airplay since LOCASH’s “I
Know Somebody,” which also romped 6-1 on the tally dated Oct. 29, 2016.
The 25-year-old Wallen earned his first Country Airplay No.1 in his
second chart appearance; his debut single, “The Way I Talk,” peaked at No. 30
on May 6, 2016. Both tracks are from his debut LP, If I Know Me, which arrived
and peaked at No.11 on the Top Country Albums chart dated May 12.
“Up” is FGL’s 13th Country Airplay leader, tying the twosome with Zac
Brown Band for third place among duos and groups for the most No.1s in the
chart’s 28-year history, after Brooks & Dunn (20) and Rascal Flatts (14).
Among all acts, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw share the record with 29
No.1s apiece.
Garth
Brooks’ new single “All
Day Long” (Pearl), released on the evening of June 18, debuted at No.21
on Country Airplay (14.5 million in audience). On Hot Country Songs, it opened
at No. 42. It received hourly plays on participating iHeartMedia stations
beginning at 6 a.m. on June 19.
Brooks logged his sixth-highest Country Airplay debut among 88 total
entries and best since “Baby, Let’s Lay Down and Dance,” which launched at
No.19 on Oct. 29, 2016 (before peaking at No. 15 on Feb. 25, 2017).
The honky-tonk-leaning “Long,” which Brooks co-wrote with Bryan Kennedy
and Mitch Rossell, is the lead single from Brooks’ as-yet untitled album due in
2019. Rossell solo-penned Brooks’ last single before “Long,” “Ask Me How I
Know,” which became Brooks’ 19th Country Airplay No.1 (Dec. 16, 2017) and his
first in over 10 years, since “More Than a Memory” debuted atop the chart dated
Sept. 15, 2007. It is the only song to ever premiere at the pinnacle.
Meanwhile, Brooks’ 88 Country Airplay entries tie him with Kenny Chesney
for the second-highest total; George Strait leads with 98.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Up Down” Morgan
Wallen feat. Florida Georgia Line
39.661 million audience (+5.695 million) / 7,765 radio plays (+862)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.21 “All Day Long” Garth Brooks 14.517 million audience
gain with 2,271 spins thanks to 110 fresh radio commitments (ADDS)
Debut
No.59 “Drop Everything” Carlton Anderson
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Former No.1 by Florida Georgia Line with “Simple” (BMLG) returned
to the summit moving 2-1 (#8 Non-mover Digital Songs) as Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia
Line with their 21 non-consecutive week No.1 Meant to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) climbed 3-2 (#10-14 Digital Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR) pushed
4-3 (#11-18
Digital Songs) as their new track “Speechless” (Warner
Bros. | WAR) rose 21-19 in its 5th frame.
New song and collaboration Dan + Shay feat. Kelly Clarkson with “Keeping
Score” from the duos new self-titled set (released June 22) arrived at No.6
(No.30 Digital Songs) selling 13,000 copies. It
marked the duo’s sixth top 10 and Clarkson’s third.
Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert with “Drowns The Whiskey” (Macon | Broken
Bow) leapt 10-4 (#40-26 Digital
Songs).
Kane Brown with “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA
Nashville) fell 5-7 (#18-31 Digital Songs) in its 31st week.
David Lee Murphy & Kenny Chesney with “Everything's Gonna Be Alright”
climbed 13-8 (43-32 Digital Songs)
in its 20th week.
Brett
Young with “Mercy”
(BMLG) fell 8-9 (#27-33 Digital
Songs).
Morgan Wallen feat. Florida Georgia Line with “Up Down” (Big Loud) slipped 9-10 (#31-38
Digital Songs) in its 27th chart week.
Outside
the Top 10
In its 7th frame Luke Combs with “former
No.1 "Beautiful Crazy held at No.12
Cole
Swindell with “Reason
To Drink” made a debut at No.13.
Sugarland feat. Taylor Swift with “Babe” fell 11-18 in
its 6th week.
The first
single from Cody
Jinks’ album Lifers (due July 27),
opened at No.21 on Country Digital
Song Sales with 6,000 sold in its first week.
It marked the singer-songwriter’s first appearance on the list.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
June
25, 2018
Chart
Chat
Morgan Wallen
Hits #1 With 'Up, Down'
Congrats
to Morgan Wallen, Stacy
Blythe and the Big Loud promotion
team on landing this week’s No.1 with “Up Down,” which features Florida Georgia Line. The song is Wallen’s first
chart-topper. Songwriters are Michael Hardy, Brad Clawson and CJ Solar.
“Up Down” (BMLGR/Big
Loud) climbed 5-1 logging 8,270 radio spins (+963) and 54.882 million audience
impressions (+7.839 million gain) with 21801 Total Points (+2763)
from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS) for the
tracking week June 17 to June 23, 2018 and published chart June 25th, 2018.
Kudos
to Andy Elliott and the Pearl crew on landing a whopping 135 adds for Garth Brooks’ “All Day Long”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart
week and near
the all-time one-week high of 145 for Carrie Underwood’s “Smoke Break” in 2015.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
GARTH BROOKS/All Day Long (Pearl) 135 135
KANE BROWN/Lose
It (RCA) 46 83
D.RUCKER f/ALDEAN/BRYAN/KELLEY/Straight
To Hell (Capitol) 30 33
ELI YOUNG
BAND/Love Ain't (Valory) 23 32
CARLTON
ANDERSON/Drop Everything (Arista) 20 61
BRANDON
LAY/Yada Yada Yada (EMI Nashville) 12 46
BRETT
ELDREDGE/Love Someone (Atlantic/WMN) 10 40
LITTLE BIG
TOWN/Summer Fever (Capitol) 10 77
RILEY
GREEN/There Was This Girl (BMLGR) 10 10
AARON
WATSON/Run Wild Horses (Big Label) 9 71
EVERETTE/Slow
Roll (Broken Bow) 8 41
CLARE DUNN/More
(MCA) 5 43
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Blue Tacoma (Triple Tigers) 5 134
ABBY ANDERSON/Make
Him Wait (Black River) 4 45
BLACKJACK
BILLY/Straight Line Sober (1608/Reviver) 4 4
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 4 60
MICHAEL RAY/One
That Got Away (Atlantic/WEA) 2 3
ALEXANDRA
DEMETREE/Coastin' (SSM) 1 4
CASEY
DONAHEW/That Got The Girl (Thirty Tigers/New Revolution) 1 1
DAVISSON
BROTHERS BAND/Po Boyz (Dreamlined) 1 6
DIERKS BENTLEY
f/BROTHERS OSBORNE/Burning Man (Capitol) 1 1
JESSIE G/Army
Ranger (Redneck) 1 2
JOE
NICHOLS/Billy Graham's Bible (Red Bow) 1 40
MO PITNEY/Come
Do A Little Life (Curb) 1 1
UNCLE
KRACKER/Floatin' (---) 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #4
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Thomas Rhett, Old Dominion, Brandon Lay Chase Field Phoenix, Ariz.
Dates:
23 June 2018 Gross Sales: $3,198,416 Attend: 48,424/ 49,014
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (590 unsold tickets) Prices:
$265, $32.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #5
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Thomas Rhett, Old Dominion, Brandon Lay Mapfre Stadium Columbus, Ohio
Dates:
18 June 2018 Gross Sales: $3,186,820 Attend: 26,455/ 27,207
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (752 unsold tickets) Prices:
$270, $41.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #8
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain, Bastian Baker Rogers
Arena Vancouver, British Columbia
Dates:
May 5-6, 2018 Gross Sales: $2,301,320 Attend: 26,375/ 26,375
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$150.84, $15.09
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #37
Event
Venue City/State: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Caroline Jones FirstOntario
Centre Hamilton, Ontario
Dates:
18 June 2018 Gross Sales: $797,048 Attend: 10,708/ 10,708
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$122.97, $29.75
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #58
Event
Venue City/State: Willie Nelson & Alison Krauss BOK
Center Tulsa, Okla.
Dates:
16 May 2018 Gross Sales: $456,411 Attend: 5,421/ 5,421
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$247, $36.50
Promoters: NS2/FPC Live
Rank
Artist: #72
Event
Venue City/State: John Prine, Colter Wall Louisville
Palace Louisville, Ky.
Dates:
8 June 2018 Gross Sales: $210,352 Attend: 2,527/ 2,527
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$102, $62
Promoters: NS2
Rank
Artist: #81
Event
Venue City/State: Alison Krauss Benedum Center Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Dates:
8 June 2018 Gross Sales: $164,645 Attend: 2,145/ 2,835
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (690 unsold tickets) Prices:
$85, $65
Promoters: NS2/FPC Live
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