Country
Billboard Chart News September 10, 2018
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of September 15, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (13 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (41 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” Luke Bryan
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Love Wins” Carrie
Underwood
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Eminem Earns
Ninth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Kamikaze'
Eminem
earned his ninth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his surprise
release Kamikaze made a debut at No.1. The set, which was released without
warning on Aug. 31 via Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records, earned 434,000
equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 6, according to Nielsen Music.
Of that sum, 252,000 were in traditional album sales.
Kamikaze’s
start of 434,000 units blows past the launch of Eminem’s last album, Revival,
which entered at No. 1 with 267,000 units (197,000 in album sales) on the chart
dated Jan. 3, 2018.
Of
the 434,000 units, traditional album sales comprised 252,000, while TEA units
equaled 14,000 and SEA units totaled 168,000.
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 #1 (#15-14
Billboard 200; 4,613 sales; 66-week total 317,300)
to lead for a 13th non-consecutive week.
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) held at No.2 (27-31 BB200; 5,028 sales; 21-week
total 398,900).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) rose 4-3 (#40-36 BB200; 1,696 sales; 11-week total 51,000).
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED rose
5-4 (#43-37 BB200; 2,742 sales; 92-week total
449,000).
Chris Stapleton with the 175-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) rose 6-5 (#45-41 BB200; 3,060 sales; 175-week total 2,348,300) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) held at No.17 (#137 non-mover BB200; 2,342 sales; 70-week total 433,200) and From A Room: Volume 2 fell 30-32 (2,215 sales; 39-week total 435,330).
Dierks Bentley with
THE MOUNTAIN (Capitol Nashville |
UMGN) rocked 21-6 (#185-50 BB200; 7,470 sales; 377% increase; 13-week
total 148,770).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) held at No.7 (#53-56 BB200; 1,516 sales; 82-week total 231,700).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) held at No.8 (#58-59 BB200; 1,000 sales; 52-week total 293,000).
In its third
frame former No1 Cole Swindell with ALL OF IT (Warner Bros./Warner Music
Nashville) fell 3-9 (37-61 BB200; 4,960 sales; down 28%; 3-week total 50,900).
Outside the
Top 10
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) fell 11-12 (#107-112 BB200; 2,007 sales; 39-week total 325,400).
Florida Georgia
Line
with their 4-track EP FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE (Big Machine Label Group, LLC | UK iTunes) fell 10-15 (#72-125
BB200).
Former
No.1 Keith
Urban with GRAFFITI U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group
Nashville) moved 26-16 (130 Re-Entry
BB200; 4,059 sales)
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
The
37-track compilation Various - King
Of The Road: A Tribute To Roger Miller (BMG | Amazon UK - UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.12 on Country Album
Sales selling 2,300 copies
Released on Aug. 31 via BMG, it pays long
overdue respects to one of American music’s premier entertainers and
songwriters. The two-disc collection contains new renditions of Miller’s songs
by Ringo Starr, Dolly Parton, Eric Church, Loretta Lynn, John Goodman and more
than two dozen others, including Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Merle
Haggard on one track. Produced by Miller’s son, Dean Miller, and Colby Barnum
Wright, ‘King of the Road’ offers a fresh look at the work of a creative giant
who has been gone 26 years but whose genius continues to shape contemporary
music in ways both overt and subtle.
‘King of the Road’ includes versions of
Miller’s biggest ’60s hits, like “Chug-A-Lug” (Asleep at the Wheel ft. Huey
Lewis) and “England Swings” (Lyle Lovett), and lesser-known treasures from a
catalog full of gems. As with Miller’s own output, the album contains plenty of
unexpected turns — country superstar Eric Church’s playful take on Robin Hood’s
“Oo De Lally,” for instance, or Starr’s selection of “Hey, Would You Hold It
Down?,” a song from Miller’s long-out-of-print 1979 ‘Making a Name for Myself’
album.
Sister Sadie with the 12-track Sister Sadie II
(Pinecastle Records | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.42.
"Sister
Sadie is an inspiring musical collaboration bringing together some of the best
women bluegrass music has ever claimed." - Alison Krauss
Year-To-Date Albums
10,712,000 (Physical sales 7,574,000
(down -16.4%) + Digital sales 3,149,000 (down -30.1%) which is 21% down at the same point in 2017 (13,562,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
35,412,000 down 27.0% at the same point in 2017 (48,498,000)
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) paced Hot Country Songs for a record
extending 41st week. The
collaboration led Country Streaming Songs for a record-padding 37th frame (13
million U.S. streams, down 8 percent).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (41
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
**
Airplay Gainer” No.12 “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs
** Digital
Gainer ** No.20 “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.30 “Love Wins” Carrie Underwood
** Streaming Gainer ** No.31 “Good Girl” Dustin Lynch
Debut
No.44 “Rumor” Lee Brice
Luke
Bryan became the ninth artist to have tallied at least 20
No.1s on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (out of nearly a thousand of
artists who have appeared on the survey since its inception in January 1990) as
“Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset”
(Capitol Nashville) ascended 2-1 on the survey dated Sept. 15. The track
reigned with a 6 percent gain to 44.3 million audience impressions in
the tracking week ending Sept. 9, according to Nielsen Music.
“I promise you there has never been, and will never be, a time when getting
a song to the top of the charts gets old,” Bryan told Billboard. “I’m grateful
for each one. ‘Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset’ is a perfect, reflective song about
young summer love. I knew it was special the first time I heard it, and it’s so
fun watching the fans react to it on tour.”
Zach Crowell, Ryan Hurd and Chase McGill wrote “Sunrise,” which Jeff
Stevens and Jody Stevens produced.
Kenny Chesney leads with 30 Country Airplay No.1s, followed by Tim McGraw
(29), Alan Jackson and George Strait (26 each), Blake Shelton (25), Keith Urban
(21), and Brooks & Dunn and Toby Keith (20 each).
“Sunrise” also is Bryan’s 13th Country Airplay leader in a row,
extending the longest active streak among all artists (as a lead act and
counting singles promoted to country radio and excluding holiday fare).
Since “Drink a Beer” led for two weeks beginning Feb. 15, 2014, none of
Bryan’s lead singles have missed the pinnacle. (During that run, Florida
Georgia Line’s “This Is How We Roll,” featuring Bryan, peaked at No. 2 in May
2014.) Thomas Rhett owns the second-longest active No. 1s streak, with five.
“Sunrise” is the third single, and third Country Airplay No. 1, from
Bryan’s album WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY, following “Light It Up,” which topped the Dec. 23, 2017-dated chart, and
second single “Most People Are Good,”
which led for three weeks beginning March 31. Bryan is the sixth artist with a
pair of No.1s in 2018 (during which 25 songs have topped the chart), joining
Aldean, Chesney, Florida Georgia Line, Rhett and Brett Young.
Chris
Young collected his 14th Country Airplay top 10 as “Hangin’ On” (RCA Nashville) rose 11-9. The song climbed
with an 11 percent increased to 23.6 million in audience.
Young is seeking his fifth consecutive Country Airplay No. 1 (excluding a
charted holiday track), following “Losing Sleep” (Feb. 10); “Sober Saturday
Night,” featuring Vince Gill (March 18, 2017); “Think of You,” with Cassadee
Pope (May 14, 2016); and “I’m Comin’ Over” (three weeks beginning Nov. 28,
2015).
All 13 of Young’s prior Country Airplay top 10s reached the top five,
with nine hitting No. 1. He first ranked in the top tier with “Gettin’ You
Home,” which led the Oct. 24, 2009-dated list.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” Luke Bryan 44.331 million audience (+2.334 million) / 8,157 radio
plays (+416)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.4 “Hooked” Dylan
Scott 3.013 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.39 “Better Boat” Kenny
Chesney feat. Mindy Smith 21
ADDS
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.56 “Feels Like A Party” LOCASH
Debut
No.59 “Rumor” Lee Brice
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Carrie Underwood with “Love Wins”, the newest
taste of Underwood’s Cry Pretty album, due Sept. 14, bounded onto Hot Country
Songs at No. 30. It launched as her seventh No.1 on Country Digital Song Sales (#16 New Entry Digital Songs),
with 12,000 sold.
It
was 15 places behind Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," featuring
Cardi B, which ranked at its No. 2 Hot 100 high for a fifth week, while ruling
Radio Songs for a sixth frame (127.6 million, up 1 percent). It rebounded 3-1 for a sixth week atop Digital Song Sales (32,000 sales, up 15 percent),
marking the band's longest-leading No.1.
Previous
week No1 Florida
Georgia Line with their new track “Sittin’ Pretty’ fell off the top 25 while FGL’s former No.1 (9th
non-consecutive weeks atop the chart) “Simple” (BMLG) held at No.2 (#18 non-mover Digital
Songs) as former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) fell 6-9 (#46-49 Digital
Songs).
Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert with “Drowns The Whiskey” (Macon | Broken
Bow) held at No.3 (#27-29 Digital
Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR) rose 5-4 (#38-32
Digital Songs) as their 11-week single “Speechless” advanced 16-10.
Brett
Young with “Mercy”
(BMLG) fell 4-5 (#32-38 Digital
Songs).
Mitchell
Tenpenny with “Drunk
Me” pushed 7-6 (#49-45 Digital
Songs).
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” advanced 9-7 (#46
New Entry Digital Songs) as his single “Beautiful
Crazy” fell 10-13.
Luke Bryan with “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset”
held at No.8 (#47 Re-Entry Digital
Songs; 7,000 sales; down 3%).
Outside
the Top 10
Kane Brown with “Lose
It” climbed 15-11.
Eric Church with “Desperate
Man” held at No.12 in his 8th
frame.
Thomas
Rhett with “Life
Changes” fell 13-14 in his 16th frame.
Kenny Chesney with “Get Along” fell 11-15 in his 21st week.
Walker Hayes with his throwback track “90’s
Country” entered Country Digital Song Sales at No.22 (4,000 sold). The tune’s lyrics playfully pay tribute to
1990s smashes by Garth Brooks, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Dixie Chicks, Shania
Twain, Trisha Yearwood and others.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart
September
10, 2018
Congrats to Luke Bryan,
Royce Risser, Bobby Young, David Friedman and the Capitol promotion staff on landing No.1 with “Sunrise, Sunburn,
Sunset” which moved 2-1.
The song is the third consecutive chart-topper
from WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY. Songwriters are Zach Crowell, Ryan Hurd and Chase
McGill.
“Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” (Capitol) moved
2-1 logging 8,954 radio spins (+537), 56.044 million audience
impressions with 28979 Total Points from 158 tracking stations (158 ADDS) for the
tracking week September 2 to September 8, 2018 and published chart September
10, 2018.
Kudos to Lee
Adams and the Broken Bow crew for
notching 39 adds on Jason Aldean’s “Girl
Like You”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
JASON ALDEAN/Girl Like You (Broken Bow) 39 39
CODY JOHNSON/On
My Way To You (CoJo/WMN) 28 57
JON
LANGSTON/When It Comes To Loving You (EMI Nashville) 23 26
CHASE RICE/Eyes
On You (Broken Bow) 17 73
MICHAEL RAY/One
That Got Away (Atlantic/WEA) 14 98
SETH ENNIS
f/LBT/Call Your Mama (Arista) 14 17
RILEY
GREEN/There Was This Girl (BMLGR) 13 124
DIERKS BENTLEY
f/BROS. OSBORNE/Burning Man (Capitol) 11 143
KENNY CHESNEY
f/M. SMITH/Better Boat (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA) 11 93
DAN +
SHAY/Speechless (Warner Bros./WAR) 10 104
LOCASH/Feels
Like A Party (Wheelhouse) 10 53
AUSTIN
BURKE/Whole Lot In Love (Awal/in2une) 9 10
KEITH
URBAN/Never Comin Down (Capitol) 9 77
D. BRADBERY
& T. Rhett/Goodbye Summer (Valory/BMLGR) 5 71
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 5 49
TENILLE ARTS/I
Hate This (Reviver) 3 21
THOMAS
RHETT/Sixteen (Valory) 2 7
CHRIS LANE/I
Don't Know About You (Big Loud) 1 1
CHRIS
STAPLETON/Tennessee Whiskey (Mercury) 1 14
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Colorado (BMLGR) 1 3
LUKE
COMBS/Beautiful Crazy (River House/Columbia) 1 4
LUKE
COMBS/Houston, We Got A Problem (River House/Columbia) 1 1
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 1 83
RACHEL
WAMMACK/Damage (RCA) 1 40
For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 618 - September 10, 2018 - Magazine View
For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 618 - September 10, 2018 - Magazine View
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #1
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Camila Cabello, Charli XCX U.S. Bank Stadium
Minneapolis
Dates:
Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 2018 Gross Sales: $10,242,024 Attend: 98,774/ 98,774
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$499.50, $49.50
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #2
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Camila Cabello, Charli XCX Nissan Stadium Nashville
Dates:
Aug. 25, 2018 Gross Sales: $9,007,179 Attend: 56,112/ 56,112
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$499.50, $49.50
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #9
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain Air Canada Centre Toronto
Dates:
July 6-7, 2018 Gross Sales: $2,068,550 Attend: 28,360/ 29,233
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/1 ** (873 unsold
tickets) Prices: $152.17, $45.62
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #16
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain Talking Stick Resort Arena
Phoenix, Ariz.
Dates:
July 30, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,177,835 Attend: 12,822/ 12,822
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$149.95, $29.95
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #17
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain TD Garden Boston
Dates:
July 11, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,169,606 Attend: 12,818/ 12,818
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$159.95, $39.95
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #31
Event
Venue City/State: Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini Bridgestone
Arena Nashville
Dates:
Aug. 24, 2018 Gross Sales: $959,181 Attend: 15,630/ 15,630
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$89.50, $35
Promoters:
AEG
Rank
Artist: #45
Event
Venue City/State: Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker, Russell Dickerson Bank of New Hampshire
Pavilion Gilford, N.H.
Dates:
July 27, 2018 Gross Sales: $550,555 Attend: 7,588/ 7,558
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$100, $40
Promoters:
Meadowbrook/Live
Nation
Rank
Artist: #50
Event
Venue City/State: Sugarland Mohegan Sun Arena
Uncasville, Conn.
Dates:
Aug. 30, 2018 Gross Sales: $484,097 Attend: 6,034/ 6,508
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (474 unsold tickets) Prices: $90.50, $70.50, $50.50
Promoters:
in-house
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