Country
Billboard Chart News August 13, 2018
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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
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.
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)
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
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
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
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
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