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Country Billboard Chart News August 13, 2018


Country Billboard Chart News August 13, 2018

In Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of August 18, 2018)

Country Album Chart ** No.1 (9 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (37 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “I Was Jack” “Mercy” Brett Young
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (8 non-consecutive weeks) “Simple” Florida Georgia Line

Billboard Top 200 / Country Album Chart News (Chart issue week of August 18, 2018)

The Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

Travis Scott's 'Astroworld' Bows at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With Second-Largest Debut of 2018
Travis Scott with Astroworld bows atop the Billboard 200 chart with 2018’s second-largest week for an album, earning the rapper his second No. 1.
The set -- which was released Aug. 3 via Cactus Jack/Grand Hustle/Epic Records -- earned 537,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 9, according to Nielsen Music. Of that total, 270,000 were driven by traditional album sales. Of Astroworld’s total units, 261,000 are SEA units, 6,000 are TEA units, and 270,000 were traditional album sales.

Billboard Top Country Albums (Chart issue week of August 18, 2018)
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.

Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) moved 3-1 (#13-12 Billboard 200; 5,100 sales; 62-week total 298,000) to lead Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart for a 9th non-consecutive week.

Last weeks’ No.1 Kenny Chesney with SONGS FOR THE SAINTS (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) slipped 2-1 (2-13 Billboard 200; 16,300 sales; 2-week total 81,000).

Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) rose 4-3 (27-22 BB200; 7,800 sales; 17-week total 375,100).

Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED rose 6-4 (#38-34 BB200; 3,300 sales; 88-week total 438,100).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.5 (#33-35 BB200; 2,300 sales; 7-week total 43,200).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) moved 8-6 (#49-39 BB200; 2,000 sales; 78-week total 225,100).

Chris Stapleton with the 171-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) held at No.7 (#43-40 BB200; 3,400 sales; 171-week 2,335,400) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) climbed 18-17 (#139-119 BB200; 2,700 sales; 66-week total 826,900) and From A Room: Volume 2 moved 28-25 (2,700 sales; 36-week total 423,900).

Former No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) rose 9-8 (#51-44 BB200; 1,500 sales; 48-week 288,100).
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol Nashville | UMGN) rose 12-9 (#94-80 BB200; 2,400 sales; 35-week total 317,300).

Outside the Top 10
Former No.1 Keith Urban with GRAFFITI U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 10-13 (#77-104 BB200; 3,200 sales; 15-week total 228,100).

Dierks Bentley with THE MOUNTAIN (Capitol Nashville | UMGN) fell 13-20 (#149-111 BB200; 3,300 sales; 9-week total 132,900).
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Records) rose 22-21 (#182-158 BB200; 300 sales; 15-week total 8,300).

Outside the Top 25
Cody Jinks with LIFERS with (Cody Jinks/Rounder/Concord) fell 2-32 (#11 to fell off the top 200; 2,700 sales; down 87%; 2-week total 23,800).

Despite a 46-40 move for Various Artists NOW That's What I Call Country Vol.11 it was in fact the fourth best selling country album of the week with 3,900 sales (9-week total 52,200)

FALLING SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales; old methodology)

Dustin Collins with his 7-track set IT'S BEEN AWHILE (2018 DCDL Entertainment | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.25 with 1,000 sales.

Jim Lauderdale with his 11-track album TIME FLIES (2018 Yep Roc Records | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.41 with 500 sales.

Lauderdale's 31st album, is described as: a return to what he does best: classic country infused with striking notes of Americana and soul. As a two-time Grammy winner and multi-genre dabbler, Lauderdale is able to carve out space for himself in music worlds both familiar and foreign, and after a creative legacy spanning nearly three decades, it's no surprise that his ability to rejuvenate his sound is indomitable. Time Flies was recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, TN, and produced by Jim Lauderdale and Jay Weaver. Special guests include Charles Odie Blackmon, Mando Saenz, and Pete Bernhard (The Devil Makes Three).

Kevin Galloway with his 9-track album THE CHANGE (Nine Mile Records) made a debut at No.45 with 500 sales.

Year-To-Date Albums
9,718,000 (Physical sales 6,874,000 (down -16.2%) + Digital sales 2,854,000 (down -29.5%) which is 20.7% down at the same point in 2017 (12,248,000 sales) 

Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
32,061,000 down 26.8% at the same point in 2017 (43,821,000)

Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of August 18, 2018)

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:

Brett Young with “Mercy” (Big Machine Label Group) climbed 4-2 for a new high. Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./BMLG) led the list for a record-extending 37th week.
During the duet’s reign, five songs before “Mercy” reached No.2 peaks: Thomas Rhett’s “Marry Me,” Jason Aldean’s “You Make It Easy,” Kane Brown’s “Heaven,” Dan + Shay’s “Tequila” and Kenny Chesney’s “Get Along.”

Hot County Songs
** No.1 (37 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
** Airplay Gainer” No.9 “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” Luke Bryan  
** Streaming Gainer ** No.26 “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs  
** Digital Gainer ** No.28 “I Hate Love Songs” Kelsea Ballerini
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.39 “Goodbye Summer” Danielle Bradbery with Thomas Rhett
Debut No.48 “Weekend” Kane Brown

Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of August 18, 2018)

Brett Young with “Mercy” (Big Machine Label Group) held at the summit of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Aug. 18), increasing by 4 percent to 40.1 million audience impressions in the week ending Aug. 12, according to Nielsen Music.































Co-penned by Young and Sean McConnell, “Mercy” is Young’s third total and consecutive Country Airplay leader, all of which have now ruled for multiple weeks. “Like I Loved You” led the survey dated Jan. 3 for its first of three weeks on top, after “In Case You Didn’t Know” reigned for two frames in June 2017.
Young’s debut song, “Sleep Without You,” peaked at No. 2 in December 2016; all four tracks are from Young’s eponymous 2017 debut LP.
“‘Mercy’ is the last song we recorded for the album, and I always knew it was something special,” Young told Billboard. “Sean and I wrote it from such a raw place, and I hoped it would connect with fans in the way that it has. I’m proud of all of my songs, but this one digs deep, and it’s the perfect last single before album two.”

Old Dominion banked its sixth Country Airplay top 10, a run that includes four No.1s, as “Hotel Key” (RCA Nashville) bumped 11-10, up 7 percent to 27.4 million in audience. On Hot Country Songs, it hit a new peak, climbing 13-11.
“Key,” which Old Dominion’s Trevor Rosen and Matthew Ramsey wrote with Josh Osborne, is the third single from the group’s second LP, Happy Endings, which debuted at No.1 on the Top Country Albums chart dated Sept. 16, 2017. Lead single “No Such Thing As a Broken Heart” topped Country Airplay on Sept. 9, 2017, and follow-up “Written in the Sand” led the Feb. 17 list. The band first crowned Country Airplay with “Break Up With Him,” from its debut LP, Meat and Candy, for two weeks in November 2015

Country Airplay
*** No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Mercy” Brett Young 40.131 million audience (+1.669 million) / 7,681 radio plays (+314)
** Most Increased Audience ** No.4 “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” Luke Bryan +4.831 million audience gain
** Hot Shot Debut/ Most Added ** No.35 “Down To The Honkytonk” Jake Owen
Debut No.46 “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Debut No.53 “On My Way To You” Cody Johnson

Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart 
(Chart issue week of August 18, 2018)

Florida Georgia Line with “Simple” (BMLG) held at No.1 (#9 non-mover Digital Songs; 17,000 sales; 10-week total 214,000) for a 8th non-consecutive week atop the chart.
It was eight places behind Drake with "Feelings" which spent a fifth week atop the Digital Song Sales chart (58,000 downloads sold, down 20 percent, in the week ending Aug. 9). On Radio Songs, "Feelings" keeps at its No. 3 high, increasing by 12 percent to 107.4 million audience
Former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) fell 5-7 (#30-28 Digital Songs).

Brett Young with “Mercy” (BMLG) held at No.2 (#16-10 Digital Songs; 16,000 sales; 22-week total 348,000).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR) rose 4-3 (#23-18 Digital Songs; 12,000 sales; 29-week total 355,000)
Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert with “Drowns The Whiskey” (Macon | Broken Bow) slipped 3-4 (#19-20 Digital Songs; 11,000 sales; 13-week total 152,000).
Kenny Chesney with “Get Along” pushed 7-5 (#35-21 Digital Songs; 11,000 sales; 18-week total 260,000).

Luke Bryan with “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” held at No.6 (#33-26 Digital Songs; 8,000 sales; 9-week total 154,000).
Thomas Rhett with “Life Changes” climbed 9-8 (#43-33 Digital Songs; 8,000 sales; 12-week total 142,000).
Danielle Bradbery with Thomas Rhett and their new single "Goodbye Summer" made a debut at No.9 (#34 new entry Digital Songs; 8,000 sales).
Kane Brown with "Lose It" advanced 18-10 (#37 Re-Entry Digital Songs; 8,000 sales; 8-week total 76,000) as R&B-flavored new single “Weekend” (released Aug. 8) made a debut at No.12 (#40 New Entry Digital Songs; 8,000 sales) as “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA Nashville) slipped 10-13 (#46 non-mover Digital Songs).

Outside the Top 10
Luke Combs with “Beautiful Crazy” fell 8-11 (#42-39 Digital Songs; 8,000 sales; 38-week total 154,000).
Eric Church with “Desperate Man” fell 11-17 (6,000 sales; 4-week total 40,000).

Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart

August 13, 2018

Brett Young Earns Fourth Consecutive #1 With 'Mercy'
Congrats to Brett Young, Matthew Hargis, Michelle Kammerer and the BMLG Records crew on landing this week’s No.1 with “Mercy.” The song is the fourth consecutive chart-topper from his self-titled debut album. Songwriters are Sean McConnell and Young.
















Mercy” (BMLGR) moved 2-1 logging 8,524 radio spins (+675) and 51.575 million audience impressions (+2.674 million) with 27117 Total Points (+1977) from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS) for the tracking week August 5 to August 11, 2018 and published chart August 13th, 2018.

Kudos to Lee Adams and the Broken Bow reps on securing 29 adds for Chase Rice’s Eyes On You”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
The mid-tempo ballad paints a picture of a man so in love with a woman that nothing else in the world can take his eyes away from her. Hitting the U.S. Viral 50 Chart immediately after its release, “Eyes On You” was an instant fan-favorite on streaming services, having been streamed over 50 million times worldwide already – averaging more than 250,000 streams daily – before even being announced as a radio single.
Written by Rice alongside frequent collaborators Ashley Gorley and Chris DeStefano, the singalong chorus of “Eyes On You” tells the story of a man so enamored by a woman that the world’s most beautiful settings pale in comparison.

In celebration of Broken Bow Records' Chase Rice being most-added at Country radio #this week with his new single, "Eyes On You". Pictured L-R: Broken Bow Records Coord./Promotion Andrea Knipp and Co-VP/Promotion Shelley Hargis; and BBR Music Group Mgr./Secondary Promotion Matthew Holmberg


Mediabase Adds (Selective)

Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic Adds
CHASE RICE/Eyes On You (Broken Bow)          29         32        
JAKE OWEN/Down To The Honkytonk (Big Loud)           26         26        
BLAKE SHELTON/Turnin' Me On (Warner Bros./WMN)   14         105      
DUSTIN LYNCH/Good Girl (Broken Bow)           14         111      
DAN + SHAY/Speechless (Warner Bros./WAR)   13         60        
RILEY GREEN/There Was This Girl (BMLGR)     13         74        
DIERKS BENTLEY f/BROS. OSBORNE/Burning Man (Capitol)    12         114      
LUKE COMBS/She Got The Best Of Me (River House/Columbia) 12         134      
DAVID LEE MURPHY/I Won't Be Sorry (Reviver)            9          45        
BRETT ELDREDGE/Love Someone (Atlantic/WMN)        8          71        
CODY JOHNSON/On My Way To You (Cojo Music/WMN)           8          8         
ELI YOUNG BAND/Love Ain't (Valory)    8          63        
TRAVIS DENNING/David Ashley Parker From... (Mercury)           7          118      
MORGAN WALLEN/Whiskey Glasses (Big Loud)            6          43        
DANIELLE BRADBERY & THOMAS RHETT/Goodbye Summer (Valory/BMLGR)  5          21        
KENNY CHESNEY f/M. SMITH/Better Boat (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA)        3          8         
ASHLEY MCBRYDE/Radioland (Atlantic/WAR)   2          35        
CLARE DUNN/More (MCA)        2          52        
MADDIE & TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 2          77        
RACHEL WAMMACK/Damage (RCA)     2          32        
CODY JOHNSON/With You I Am (Cojo Music)   1          10        
HUNTER HAYES/Dear God (Atlantic/WMN)        1          1         
LUCAS HOGE/Power Of Garth (Forge Entertainment)     1          13        
RUNAWAY JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse)      1          3         
SMITHFIELD/Hey Whiskey (Deluge/In2une)        1          45        

For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 614 - August 13, 2018  - Magazine View  

For the very latest up to the minute Mediabase Chart (Past 7 Days) go here - www.mediabase.com

Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)

Rank Artist: #1
Event Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Camila Cabello, Charli XCXn Mercedes-Benz Stadium Atlanta, Ga.
Dates: August 10-11, 2018 Gross Sales: $18,089,415 Attend: 116,746/ 116,746
Shows/ Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $499.50, $49.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
                                                         
Rank Artist: #2
Event Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Brandon Lay, Old Dominion, Thomas Rhett Nissan Stadium Nashville, Tenn.
Dates: Aug 11, 2018 Gross Sales: $5,471,438 Attend: 55,182/ 55,182
Shows/ Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $278, $38
Promoters: Messina Touring Group

Rank Artist: #41
Event Venue City/State: Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, King Leg Greek Theatre Los Angeles, Calif.
Dates: August 2, 2018 Gross Sales: $196,364 Attend: 3,577/ 5,985
Shows/ Sellouts: 1/0 (2,408 unsold tickets) Prices: $99.50, $79.50, $69.50, $45, $22.13
Promoters: Nederlander Concerts/Live Nation
Latest Billboard Boxscore Chart

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