Tuesday 4 September 2018

Country Billboard Chart News August 27, 2018


Country Billboard Chart News August 27, 2018

In Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of September 1, 2018)

Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** ALL OF IT Cole Swindell
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (39 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Drowns The Whiskey” Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (9 non-consecutive weeks) “Simple” Florida Georgia Line

Billboard Top 200 / Country Album Chart News (Chart issue week of September 1, 2018)

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

Ariana Grande Earns Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Sweetener'
Plus: Cole Swindell’s “All of It” and the “Young Stoner Life: Slime Language” compilation debut in the top 10.

Ariana Grande earned her third No. 1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200), as her fourth full-length studio effort, SWEETENER, entered atop the tally. The set, which was released on Aug. 17 via Republic Records, started with 231,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 23, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 127,000 were from traditional album sales.
Grande’s Third No. 1: Sweetener is Grande’s third leader on the Billboard 200, following the chart-topping debuts of her second album, My Everything (Sept. 13, 2014), and her debut effort, Yours Truly (Sept. 21, 2013). Of her four full-length studio sets, only her third release, Dangerous Woman, missed the top. It debuted and peaked at No. 2 on June 11, 2016 (stuck behind Grande’s labelmate, Drake, with his blockbuster album Views, which was in its fourth of 14 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1).

Aretha Franklin’s 30 Greatest Hits climbs 7-6, granting the diva her highest-charting album in 50 years. 30 Greatest Hits ascends with 52,000 units earned in the tracking week (up 49 percent), with 18,000 of that sum coming from traditional album sales (up 47 percent).
One step below Franklin on the new chart was Cole Swindell with ALL OF IT, which debuted at No.7 with 50,000 units (39,000 in traditional album sales). It marked the country singer’s third top 10 effort, following YOU SHOULD BE HERE (No. 6; May 28, 2016) and his SELF-TITLED DEBUT (No. 3; March 8, 2014).

Billboard Top Country Albums (Chart issue week of September 1, 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.

Cole Swindell's 'All Of It' Is #1 Country Album
Cole Swindell with new album ALL OF IT (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) became his first No.1 (among five top 10s) on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart (dated Sept. 1) as it bowed at the summit. In its first week (ending Aug. 23), All of It earns 50,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 39,000 were in traditional album sales.

Michael Carter produced ALL OF IT.

Swindell co-wrote five of the 12 songs featured on his third album, including “Love You Too Late,” “I’ll Be Your Small Town” and “The Ones Who Got Me Here.” The lead single “Break Up In The End” is his ninth single and was written by Jon Nite, Chase McGill and Jessie Jo Dillon. 

 “We’ve poured so much into making this album, and to find out that’s its debuting at No. 1 is something a little extra special,”
Swindell told Billboard. “I’m just a little taken back that it actually happened. I’m so thankful for the writers who trusted me with their songs and continue to be blown away by the fans that show up each night and support this music.”

CHART HISTORY
The No.1 start on Top Country Albums for All of It follows Swindell’s YOU SHOULD BE HERE, which debuted at No.2 on Top Country Albums with a career-best 65,353 sold on the chart dated May, 28, 2016.
His self-titled debut also opened at No. 2 in 2014 with sales of 63,247 (Chart week dated March 8, 2014). Swindell's single, "Chillin' It," hit No.1 on the Hot Country Songs chart a week previous.

Swindell has also released three Down Home Sessions EPs. The first instalment arrived at No.8 on Dec. 6, 2014 (12,000 sales), followed by DOWN HOME SESSIONS II (No.11 Country & #43 Billboard 200, Nov. 28, 2015; debut 10,322 copies) and DOWN HOME SESSIONS III (No.5 Country & #36 Billboard 200, Nov. 19, 2016; debut 10,708 copies).
Meanwhile, All of It’s launch single, “Break Up in the End,” lifts 15-10 for a new peak on Billboard’s hybrid Hot Country Songs chart, which blends airplay streaming and sales. It marks Swindell’s eighth top 10. On Country Airplay, it pushes 14-12, climbing to a new high as it hikes by 17 percent to 21.8 million audience impressions in the tracking week ending Aug. 26.

Critical reception for Cole Swindell's All Of It:
12 Tracks/Time: 40:58 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
AllMusic: As both a songwriter and singer, Cole Swindell played no small part in popularizing the party-hearty sound of bro-country in the early 2000s, but there comes a time when every man must slow his roll. For Swindell, that time is his third album, All of It. Deliberately heavy on ballads.... Swindell's heart belongs to the sounds of the first half of the decade. This retro bent, combined with the concentration on slow tunes, means All of It winds up agreeably sleepy, the kind of record that dissipates as soon as it's finished playing.

Last weeks’ No1 Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 1-2 (#11-15 Billboard 200) having led for 10 non-consecutive weeks.
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 2-3 (25-33 BB200).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.4 (#32-35 BB200).
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED held at No.5 (#36-42 BB200).

Chris Stapleton with the 173-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) rose 7-6 (#43-46 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 16-18 (#122-142 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 fell 25-28 (#186 to off the top 200 BB200) in its 38-week.

Former No.1 Kenny Chesney with SONGS FOR THE SAINTS (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 3-7 (27-47 Billboard 200).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) fell 6-8 (#42-49 BB200).
Former No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 8-9 (#48-54 BB200).
Former No.1 Keith Urban with GRAFFITI U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 9-10 (#80-82 BB200).

Outside the Top 10
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol Nashville | UMGN) fell 10-11 (#86-103 BB200).
Dierks Bentley with THE MOUNTAIN (Capitol Nashville | UMGN) rose 18-12 (#137-106 BB200).

Outside the Top 25
Mitchell Tenpenny with his SELF- TITLED (EP) was new at No.47.

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

Charlie Farley with 12-track WINNING WITH THE LOSERS (Backroad Records/Average Joes Entertainment | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com ) was new at No.39

Various Artists with compilation album COUNTRY LEGENDS was new at No.42

Year-To-Date Albums
10,244,000 (Physical sales 7,239,000 (down -16.2%) + Digital sales 3,015,000 (down -29.9%) which is 20.9% down at the same point in 2017 (12,944,000 sales) 

Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
33,790,000 down 27.1% at the same point in 2017 (46,344,000)

Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of September 1, 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’s Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./Big Machine Label Group) extended its record run atop Hot Country Songs to 39 weeks, having bested Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road,” which led for 34 weeks in 2017.
On Country Streaming Songs, “Meant” remained at No. 1 for a record-breaking 35th frame, with 13.7 million U.S. streams (up less than 1 percent). Hunt’s “Body” led the list, which began in April 2013, for 34 weeks starting Feb. 25, 2017.

Hot County Songs
** No.1 (39 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
** Digital Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** No.10 “Break Up In The End” Cole Swindell
** Airplay Gainer” No.15 “Blue Tacoma” Russell Dickerson  
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.33 “Dad's Old Number” Cole Swindell  
Debut No.35 “Heart Like A Wheel” Eric Church
Debut No.39 “Turnin' Me On” Blake Shelton
Debut No.49 “All Of It” Cole Swindell
Debut No.50 “Night Shift” Jon Pardi

Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of September 1, 2018)

Jason Aldean’s Drowns the Whiskey,” featuring Miranda Lambert (Macon/Broken Bow), held atop Country Airplay for a second frame as it increases by 8 percent to 41.7 million audience impressions. On Hot Country Songs, it rose 6-3 for its new peak and claimed the week's leading position on the Mediabase/Country Aircheck singles chart with his 21st career No.1.

“Whiskey,” which is Aldean’s 19th Country Airplay No.1, is his second single from the REARVIEW TOWN LP following “You Make it Easy,” which led for two weeks beginning May 5. It’s his ninth multiweek Country Airplay leader. “Big Green Tractor,” which led for four weeks starting Sept. 5, 2009, is his longest.
For Lambert, “Whiskey” marks her fifth Country Airplay No. 1 and the second to reign for more than one week. Her first multiweek No.1, “The House That Built Me,” was also her first Country Airplay leader. It ruled for four weeks beginning June 12, 2009.
Written by Brandon Kinney, Jeff Middleton and Josh Thompson, “Drowns the Whiskey” is saturated in well-worn emotions and "harkens back to songs by country legends that explored turning to vices in an attempt to stomp out a heartache" (Wide Open Country). "In true Aldean fashion, he looks at different sides of the small-town experience" (Rolling Stone) as the No. One hit "does not stray far from what he’s been doing so successfully for more than a decade" (Kansas City Star).

Russel Dickerson with “Blue Tacoma” (Triple Tigers) reached the Country Airplay top 10 as it increased 22 percent to 25.9 million impressions and bumped 13-10.
“Blue” is Dickerson’s second consecutive Country Airplay top 10, following his debut single, “Yours,” which led Country Airplay for two weeks starting Jan. 27.

Country Airplay
*** No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Drowns The Whiskey” Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert 41.715 million audience (+3.124 million) / 7,754 radio plays (+662)
** Most Increased Audience ** No.10 “Blue Tacoma” Russell Dickerson +4.728 million audience gain
** Most Added ** No.23 “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs (25 ADDS)
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.55 “Better Boat” Kenny Chesney feat. Mindy Smith  
Debut No. 56 “Never Comin Down” Keith Urban
Debut No. 58 “Floatin'” Uncle Kracker

Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart 
(Chart issue week of September 1, 2018)

Florida Georgia Line with their No1 “Simple” (BMLG) moved 2-1 (#12-16 Digital Songs) to return to the top for 9th non-consecutive week.
It was 15 places behind Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin's former No. 1 hit "I Like It" which held at No. 3 on the Hot 100, while it topped the Digital Song Sales chart for the first time, in its 20th chart week. The collaboration moved 32,000 downloads in the week, a 4 percent dip. With “Like” needing 20 weeks to top Digital Song Sales, it claims the sixth-longest wait to the summit since the chart began in 2004. Only The All-American Rejects’ “Dirty Little Secret,” (26 weeks, reaching No. 1 in 2006), Train’s “Hey Soul Sister” (25, 2010), The Fray’s “How to Save a Life” (25, 2006), Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance,” featuring Colby O’Donis (24, 2009) and Adele’s “Set Fire to The Rain” (23, 2012) required more time to ascend to No. 1.

Former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) held at No.7 (#33-41 Digital Songs).
Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert with “Drowns The Whiskey” (Macon | Broken Bow) pushed 6-3 (#27-30 Digital Songs).
Brett Young with “Mercy” (BMLG) climbed 3-2 (#16-24 Digital Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR) held at No.4 (#25-33 Digital Songs).

Cole Swindell with “Dad’s Old Number” made a debut at No.5 (#34 New Entry Digital Songs).
Eric Church with “Heart Like a Wheel” The R&B-flavored ballad, released on Aug. 17, is the latest sample from Church’s upcoming full-length studio set, Desperate Man, due Oct. 5. “Heart” shifted 8,000 downloads in its first week ending Aug. 23 and bounded onto Country Digital Song Sales at No. 6 (#37 New Entry Digital Songs), marking the artist’s 14th top 10. It also debuted at No. 35 on Hot Country Songs.

Luke Combs with “Beautiful Crazy” advanced 11-8 (#44-50 Digital Songs).
Thomas Rhett with “Life Changes” rose 10-9.
Luke Bryan with “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” fell 8-10.

Outside the Top 10
Kenny Chesney with “Get Along” fell 9-11.
Last weeks’ No.1 Cody Johnson with his new single, “On My Way to You” (Cojo/Warner Music Nashville) fell off the top 25.

Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart

August 27, 2018

Jason Aldean Hits #1 With 'Drowns The Whiskey'
Congrats to Jason Aldean, Carson James, Lee Adams and the Broken Bow promotion crew on landing the week’s No.1 with “Drowns The Whiskey,” featuring Miranda Lambert. The song is second chart-topper from REARVIEW TOWN. Writers are Brandon Kinney, Jeff Middleton and Josh Thompson. The track marks ALDEAN's 21st career #1, following the success of his two-week hit, "You Make It Easy," earlier this year.




















Drowns The Whiskey” (Broken Bow) moved 2-1 logging 8,476 radio spins (+972) and 53.521 million audience impressions (+5.053 million) with 27706 Total Points (+3,240) from 158 tracking stations (158 ADDS) for the tracking week August 19 to August 25, 2018 and published chart August 27th, 2018.

Kenny Chesney Is Most-Added With 'Better Boat'
Kudos to Adrian Michaels and the WEA team on securing 51 MEDIBASE adds for Kenny Chesney’s Better Boat” featuring Mindy Smith. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
In celebration of Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA's Kenny Chesney most-added at Country radio. Pictured L-R: (back) WMN VP/Original Content & Radio Marketing Chad Schultz, Dir./National Radio & Streaming Katie Bright, and SVP/Radio & Streaming Kristen Williams; (front) Team WAR Coord./Radio & Streaming Taylor Aretz; Team WEA Coord./Radio & Streaming Kate Myers and Dir./National Radio & Streaming Adrian Michaels; and WMN Exec. Asst. Kati Salverson


Mediabase Adds (Selective)

Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic Adds
KENNY CHESNEY f/M. SMITH/Better Boat (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA) 51   66        
KEITH URBAN/Never Comin Down (Capitol)       44         45        
D. BRADBERY & T. RHETT/Goodbye Summer (Valory/BMLGR)  30         57        
ELI YOUNG BAND/Love Ain't (Valory)    17         86        
LUKE COMBS/She Got The Best Of Me (River House/Columbia) 15         155      
TENILLE ARTS/I Hate This (Reviver)      14         14        
DAN + SHAY/Speechless (Warner Bros./WAR)   13         82        
JAKE OWEN/Down To The Honkytonk (Big Loud)           13         93        
BLAKE SHELTON/Turnin' Me On (Warner Bros./WMN)   12         132      
D. RUCKER f/ALDEAN/BRYAN/KELLEY/Straight To Hell (Capitol)           11         62        
RILEY GREEN/There Was This Girl (BMLGR)     11         94        
RUNAWAY JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse)      10         39        
DUSTIN LYNCH/Good Girl (Broken Bow)           9          125      
KANE BROWN/Lose It (RCA)     9          151      
KIP MOORE/Last Shot (MCA)    8          149      
CHASE RICE/Eyes On You (Broken Bow)          7          52        
MIDLAND/Burn Out (Big Machine)          7          147      
MITCHELL TENPENNY/Drunk Me (Riser House/Columbia)         7          151      

CODY JOHNSON/On My Way To You (CoJo/WMN)       3          22        
ABBY ANDERSON/Make Him Wait (Black River)            2          55        
LOCASH/Feels Like A Party (Wheelhouse)          2          3         
MADDIE & TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 2          80        
SETH ENNIS f/LITTLE BIG TOWN/Call Your Mama (Arista)        2          2         
UNCLE KRACKER/Floatin' (Hit Bunch/New Revolution)   2          39        
AARON CRAWFORD/Heart Like Hers (---)          1          1         
CASEY DONAHEW/That Got The Girl (Alm.Country/Thirty Tigers)           1          3         
CLARE DUNN/More (MCA)        1          54        
MORGAN EVANS/Day Drunk (Warner Bros./WEA)         1          1

For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 616 - August 27, 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: Kenny Chesney, Brothers Osborne, Dierks Bentley Gillette Stadium Foxborough, Mass.
Dates: Aug. 24-25, 2018 Gross Sales: $11,631,679 Attend: 121,714/ 121,714
Shows/ Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $271, $66
Promoters: Messina Touring Group

Rank Artist: #12
Event Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, Md.
Dates: Aug. 22, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,179,407 Attend: 16,978/ 16,978
Shows/ Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $127.50, $50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
                                                         
Rank Artist: #19
Event Venue City/State: Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini Amphitheater at the Wharf Orange Beach, Ala.
Dates: Aug. 25, 2018 Gross Sales: $515,313 Attend: 9,484 /9,484
Shows/ Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $92.75, $16          
Promoters: Red Mountain Entertainment

Rank Artist: #41
Event Venue City/State: Lyle Lovett Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center Midland, Texas 
Dates: Aug. 23, 2018 Gross Sales: $69,480 Attend: 1,086/ 1,742
Shows/ Sellouts: 1/0 (656 unsold tickets) Prices: $70, $40
Promoters: Pizzitola Productions
Latest Billboard Boxscore Chart

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