RIAA
Certifications
Kenny Chesney’s Live In No
Shoes Nation Platinum
Nine Months
After Release, 2-CD Set Certified Platinum
When Kenny Chesney released LIVE
IN NO SHOES NATION, a two-disc live recording (Blue Chair/Columbia
Nashville), people thought he was crazy. Who buys records of concerts they’ve
already been to? But Kenny Chesney, who’d been listening back to the members of
No Shoes Nation shouting, singing and cheering along over the previous decade,
was blown away by the passion in venues ranging from Gillette Stadium to Red
Rocks, the Rose Bowl to Asbury Park’s famed Stone Pony – and he wanted the fans
to experience the rush, the energy and the passion he does every night
listening to their voices.
Now Live in No
Shoes Nation, the 29-song collection
featuring Chesney’s famous and not-so-famous friends, has been certified platinum. With his Songs for
the Saints having just arrived, it’s a heartening certification for the man
crowned “The King of the Road” by The Wall Street Journal and “The People’s
Superstar” by The Los Angeles Times
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of August 4, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (8 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S
FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (35 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 weeks) ** “I Was Jack” (You Were Diane) Jake Owen
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (6 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's
'Scorpion' Holds at No. 1 for Fourth Week on Billboard 200 Albums
Drake’s
SCORPION held onto the No.1 slot for
a fourth week on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, making it the album with
the most weeks atop the list in 2018.
The
set earned 184,000 equivalent album
units (down 29 percent) in the week ending July 26, according to Nielsen Music.
Of that sum, 15,000
were in
traditional album sales. The album debuted atop the list and hasn’t left the
penthouse since its arrival.
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) held at No.1 (#10-11
Billboard 200) to top the chart for an 8th non-consecutive week in his 60th
chart frame.
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow
Records) held at No.2 (21-24 BB200)
in his 15th week.
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#23-29 BB200)
in their fifth frame.
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED held
at No.4 (#31-34 BB200) in his 86th
frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 169-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.5 (#34-37 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville)
moved 20-19 (#157-158 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 rose 28-26 (Re-Entry
No.197 BB200) in its 34th.
Former No.1 Keith Urban with GRAFFITI
U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) advanced 18-6 (#141-43 BB200)
in his 13th week.
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) held at No.7 (#42-45 BB200) in his 76th week.
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 6-8 (#37-46 BB200) in his 45th frame.
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) held at No.10 (#95-94 BB200) in his 33rd
frame.
Outside the
Top 10
In his seventh frame Dierks Bentley with
THE MOUNTAIN (Capitol Nashville |
UMGN) rose 14-13 (#121-111 BB200).
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Records) rose 22-21 (#162-173 BB200) in his twelfth frame.
Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville | UMGN) fell 23-24 (#173-188 BB200) in her 17th frame.
Outside the Top 25
In his second frame Chris Lane with his 14-track set- LAPS AROUND THE SUN (Big Loud Records | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
plummeted 8-28 (#83 – off the Billboard
200).
Lori McKenna with her 11-track set THE TREE (CN
Records/ Thirty Tigers) made a debut at No.39
on the Top Country Albums list. Additionally, it debuted at: #7 Country Sales (Hot Shot Debut), #34 Top Album Sales, #12 Digital Albums, #1 Heatseeker Albums & #3 Americana/Folk Album Sales
Critical reception for Lori McKenna’s THE TREE:
11
Tracks/ Time: 35:21 Folk Amazon
UK - UK iTunes
- Amazon.com
Your Life In A Song (by James Daykin | Rating; Very Positive):
…‘The
Tree’, produced by Dave Cobb, reflects McKenna’s current position in life
adroitly. As a songwriter she has a terrific eye for detail and is able to turn
the minutia of everyday domesticity into something much more dramatic without
coating it in insincerity or saccharine….Whether ‘The Tree’ is a
The Guardian (Rating: 4 STARS) The Tree is another fabulous, understated record: 10 songs about
families and domesticity, and the tensions of everyday life, and one (Like
Patsy Would) about the aspirations of someone trying to write about the world
as well as Hemingway and sing about it as well as Cline…. It’s an album for
grown-ups, contemplative and wise.
Paste Magazine (Rating: 8.3/10): Like most of her
work, McKenna’s latest is a family-centered collection of rootsy folk songs,
and as usual, she finds profundity in the ordinary moments of everyday life.
McKenna’s attention to detail, and the way she makes universal sentiments
suddenly, and piercingly, specific, are why her songs are special enough to
have earned the deep respect of her fellow folk singers, and to have caught the
ear of the big-ticket country stars who have recorded them.
Pop Matters (Rating: 8/10):… The arrangements are deceptively simple and allow McKenna lots of open
space to express herself. Cobb understands the sophisticated musical rhetoric
of appearing effortless. McKenna tosses off the lyrics as if she's just singing
to a friend. She impresses by not trying to impress
Roughstock (Rating: Positive) … Lori McKenna remains an engaging storyteller
with a unique, identifiable voice. The Tree is a perfect example as to why she
remains one of country music’s best at crafting very good, listenable records.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Mason Ramsey
with his 6-track EP FAMOUS (Big Loud Records/Atlantic
Records) made a debut at No.20 on
Country Sales.
The
six-track EP includes his current single, "Famous," as well as his
modern twists on Country classics by Hank Williams, Sr.
The
six-track nod to country classics with a modern twist features his own
tip-of-the-hat to his idol Hank Williams, Sr. with renditions of such hits as
"Jambalaya (On The Bayou)" and "I Saw The Light," plus
brand new originals like "The Way I See It" and chart-rising lead
single, "Famous." Penned by Tyler Hubbard, Corey Crowder (Chris
Young, A Thousand Horses), Sarah Buxton (Chris Lane, Keith Urban), and Canaan
Smith (Florida Georgia Line, Love & Theft), "Famous" - dubbed
"The Song Of The Summer" by Refinery29 - rocketed to #1 on the iTunes
Country Songs chart immediately upon release and has since sold 300K+ US
copies.
Critics
can't get enough of Ramsey's signature yodel as first heard worldwide in a
viral video (53.7M views) of him performing "Lovesick Blues"
(Hank Williams, Sr.) in an aisle at his local Walmart in Harrisburg, IL. Rolling Stone hailed of his recording,
"He nails the tricky yodeling parts - as one would expect - but also
cruises through the dramatic dives and swoops of Williams' melody with ease,
never sounding like he's merely trying to copy his country hero but instead
adding his own flair."
Promoting
the EP the Big Loud Records and Atlantic Records’ rising star introduced
his lead single, “Famous,” at ABC’s Good
Morning America, performing the song for the first time on national
television week. Watch Mason Ramsey premiere “Famous” and chat with
ABC’s Paula Faris on Good
Morning America.
Critical reception for Mason
Ramsey’s Famous EP:
Saving Country Music (Rating: 4/10)…. So what should they do with Mason Ramsey? That’s a good question. What
intrigues us about prodigy musicians is they’re like molds of clay, and the
mystery and potential of what they could develop into is what makes them
enjoyable to follow. Most prodigies don’t develop into anything. They are
talented for their age, but ultimately not talented or original enough to make
a career of it in the adult world. Like family bands, many prodigies have a
finite shelf life, and that’s okay. So it’s best to enjoy them for what they
are, and in their time and place…What is sacrilege with young musicians is to
noodle with their sounds and influence so much that you risk irreparable damage
to what they could develop into as artists, or people. Better to let nature run
its course. Let the kid get his heart broken. Let him get pushed around by life
where he can sing his own “Lovesick Blues.” Then and only then will we know if
Mason Ramsey is worthy of our attention beyond a viral moment.
Jim
Lauderdale & Roland White with 12-track
Folk/Bluegrass set JIM LAUDERDALE &
ROLAND WHITE (Yep Roc Records Amazon) made a debut at No.44
Year-To-Date Albums
9,120,000 (Physical sales 6,483,000
(down -16.5%) + Digital sales 2,648,000 (down -30.3%) which is 21.1% down at the same point in 2017 (11,564,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
30,225,000 down 26.8% at the same point in 2017 (41,309,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of August 4, 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:
Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line claimed
the record for the longest-ruling No.1
in the history of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, which began as an
all-encompassing genre songs survey in 1958, as “Meant to Be” (Warner
Bros./Big Machine Label Group) logged its 35th week in the penthouse on the
Aug. 4-dated list. The song passed Sam
Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road,” which led for 34 weeks in 2017.
“Meant”
has spent its entire run at No.1, dating to its arrival at the summit on the
Dec. 16, 2017-dated chart.
Rexha
and FGL’s Tyler Hubbard wrote
“Meant” with Josh Miller and David Garcia. “I’m so honored to be a writer and
an artist on this song,” Hubbard tells Billboard. “I’m thankful to just be one
of the many people who put so much energy and effort into making music history.
Now it’s time to get back in the studio and try to break the new record.”
Duo
partner Brian Kelley added, “The power of music continues to blow our
minds, and we are extremely humbled and thankful that ‘Meant’ has spent the
better part of a year at the top. The connection we feel with our fans through
our music is extra special with this song. Bebe and her camp were a blast to
work with.”
FGL
also boasts the third- and fifth-longest commands on Hot Country Songs: Debut
hit “Cruise” ruled for 24 weeks in 2012-13, and “H.O.L.Y.” dominated for 18
weeks in 2016. (Leroy Van Dyke’s “Walk On By” ranks fourth with 19 weeks at No.
1 from 1961-62.)
Regarding
the pair having ownership of three of the five longest-leading Hot Country
Songs No.1s, BMLG executive VP Jimmy Harnen said, “For Florida Georgia Line to
have three in the top five is absolutely nuclear. We send out a big thank-you
to all of the believers.”
Says
Rexha, “I’m grateful to be able to
create music that allows me to push limits and push myself. I’m grateful for
all the love and warmth from the country community [and give] credit to country
greats who influenced me: Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Dixie Chicks, Shania
Twain, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and so many more. Here’s to writing with
your heart and breaking boundaries.”
In
addition, “Meant” crowned Country Streaming Songs for a 31st week (13.1 million
U. S. streams, according to Nielsen Music).
It
also topped the Country Airplay chart dated April 28 and, as it was dually
promoted to country and pop radio, it led Adult Pop Songs for two weeks and the
all-genre Radio Songs chart for five frames.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (35
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
**
Airplay Gainer” No.11 “Coming Home” Keith
Urban feat. Julia Michaels
** Digital
Gainer ** No.17 “Hooked” Dylan Scott
** Streaming Gainer ** No.20 “Desperate Man” Eric Church
** Streaming Gainer ** No.20 “Desperate Man” Eric Church
Jake
Owen with “I Was
Jack (You Were Diane)” (Big Loud) ascended 2-1 on Country
Airplay, despite declining by 3 percent to 40.1 million audience
impressions in the week ending July 29.
“Jack,” which 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 hit), is the latter artist’s seventh Country Airplay No.1 among
nine top 10s. Owen, who has logged 22 Country Airplay appearances, first ruled
with “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” for
two weeks in September 2011 and last led with “American Country Love Song” (Sept. 17, 2016).
Luke
Bryan achieved his 26th Country Airplay top 10 and
his 25th top 10 promoted single in succession as “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” (Capitol Nashville) darted 13-10
(26.3 million impressions, up 13 percent).
Starting with Bryan’s second Country Airplay top 10 — “Country Man” in
2008 — he has rattled off 25 straight top 10s (excluding holiday fare and
tracks not promoted to radio), the second-longest active streak after Carrie
Underwood’s 27.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “I Was Jack” (You Were Diane) Jake Owen 40.909 million audience (-1.455 million) / 7,635 radio
plays (-301)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.4 “Coming Home” Keith Urban feat. Julia
Michaels 8.059 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.48 “You're In It” Granger
Smith (16 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.54 “Night Shift” Jon
Pardi
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Florida
Georgia Line with “Simple” (BMLG) held at No.1
(#7-8 Digital Songs) for a 6th
non-consecutive week atop the chart.
It was seven places behind Drake with "Feelings" which spent a third
week atop the Digital Song Sales chart, although down 9 percent to 104,000
downloads sold in the week ending July 26. The song is the first to have sold
at least 100,000 in consecutive weeks since Ed Sheeran's "Perfect,"
which broke the barrier for three straight frames on charts dated Jan. 3, 6 and
13.
Former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) held at No.6 (#25-30 Digital
Songs; 10,000 sales).
Brett
Young with “Mercy”
(BMLG) rose 3-2 (#17 non-mover Digital
Songs).
Kenny Chesney with “Get Along” climbed 7-3 (#30-23 Digital Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR) held
at No.4 (#18-25
Digital Songs)
Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert with “Drowns The Whiskey” (Macon | Broken
Bow) held at No.5 (#23-28 Digital
Songs).
Luke Bryan with “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset”
pushed 12-7 (#47-40
Digital Songs).
Thomas
Rhett with “Life
Changes” held at No.8 (#41-42 Digital Songs).
Eric
Church with “Desperate
Man” the first single from Church’s same-titled album, due Oct. 5, fell
2-9 (9-43 Digital
Songs).
Kane Brown with “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA
Nashville) rebounded 13-10 (#47 Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Outside
the Top 10
Luke Combs with “Beautiful Crazy” held at No.11 (#44-48 Digital Songs).
Morgan Wallen feat. Florida Georgia Line with “Up Down” (Big Loud) fell 9-12.
Mitchell Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” made a debut at
No.18
The Texas-based country-rock outfit Whiskey
Myers with “Stone” made a debut at No.20
(5,000 downloads). They were featured prominently in the July 18 episode of
Paramount Network’s Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner. Following the
broadcast, the 2016 song bounded by 77 percent marking the band’s first
appearance on the chart.
Chris
Janson with “Drunk
Girl” made a debut at No.24.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
July
30, 2018
Congrats to Jake Owen,
Stacy Blythe, Ali Matkosky and the Big
Loud promotion staff on landing the week’s No.1 with “I Was Jack (You Were
Diane).” The song is Owen’s first single with the label. Writers are David Ray,
Tommy Cecil, Jody Stevens, Craig Wiseman and John Mellencamp.
“I Was Jack” (You Were Diane) (Big Loud) moved
2-1 logging 8,424 radio spins (-264) and 52.4 million audience
impressions (-1.061 million) with 27244 Total Points from 158 tracking stations (158 ADDS) for the
tracking week July 22 to July 28, 2018 and published chart July 30th, 2018.
Kudos to Katie
Bright and the WMN crew on notching 58 adds for Blake Shelton’s “Turnin’ Me On”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
 |
| In honor of Warner Bros./WMN's Blake Shelton being most-added at Country radio this week with his new single, "Turnin' Me On". Pictured L-R: WMN VP/Streaming & New Media Tim Foisset, Executive Asst. Kati Salverson, WMN Dir./Northeast Radio & Streaming Bridget Herrmann, and Coord./Radio & Streaming Justin Newell |
Mediabase Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
BLAKE SHELTON/Turnin' Me On (Warner Bros./WMN) 58 63
DAVID LEE
MURPHY/I Won't Be Sorry (Reviver) 28 28
MORGAN
WALLEN/Whiskey Glasses (Big Loud) 27 29
RACHEL
WAMMACK/Damage (RCA) 20 21
GRANGER
SMITH/You're In It (Wheelhouse) 15 99
JON PARDI/Night
Shift (Capitol) 8 43
LUKE COMBS/She
Got The Best Of Me (River House/Columbia) 8 111
CHRIS
YOUNG/Hangin' On (RCA) 7 126
RANDY HOUSER
f/H. LINDSEY/What Whiskey Does (Stoney Creek) 7 62
DIERKS BENTLEY
f/BROS. OSBORNE/Burning Man (Capitol) 6 91
ELI YOUNG
BAND/Love Ain't (Valory) 6 54
KANE BROWN/Lose
It (RCA) 6 133
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/Radioland (Atlantic/WAR) 5 32
KENNY CHESNEY
f/M. SMITH/Better Boat (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA) 4 4
DAN +
SHAY/Speechless (Warner Bros./WAR) 3 6
CHANCE
MCKINNEY/Take It Back (---) 2 4
RILEY
GREEN/There Was This Girl (BMLGR) 2 24
ABBY
ANDERSON/Make Him Wait (Black River) 1 51
CLARE DUNN/More
(MCA) 1 49
CORBETTE
JACKSON/Dandelion (Channel Greatness) 1 1
DYLAN
SCHNEIDER/How Does It Sound (Dylan Schneider/Placer Music) 1 39
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Talk You Out Of It (BMLGR) 1 1
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 1 72
STEPHANIE
QUAYLE/Selfish (Rebel Engine) 1 31
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #1
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Camila Cabello Gillette Stadium Foxborough,
Mass.
Dates:
July 26-28, 2018 Gross Sales: $21,779,846 Attend: 174,764/ 174,764
Shows/
Sellouts: 3/3 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$499.50, $49.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #14
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Brandon Lay, Old Dominion, Thomas Rhett Soldier Field Chicago, Ill.
Dates:
28 July 2018 Gross Sales: $5,751,195 Attend: 52,189/ 52,189
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$289, $31
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #27
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion Riverbend
Music Center Cincinnati, Ohio
Dates:
26 July 2018 Gross Sales: $880,074 Attend: 20,352/ 20,352
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$128.50, $32.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #47
Event
Venue City/State: Brad Paisley Honda Center Anaheim, Calif.
Dates:
21 July 2018 Gross Sales: $515,516 Attend: 10,735/ 14,121
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (3,386 unsold tickets)
Prices: $75,
$65, $45, $35
Promoters: Live Nation
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