RIAA
Certification
NASHVILLE, TN. – Seven-time CMA Female Vocalist of the Year Miranda Lambert has added six multi-Platinum certifications to
her repertoire, as albums REVOLUTION and CRAZY
EX-GIRLFRIEND have been certified double-Platinum by the RIAA, along
with singles “The House That Built Me” (3X Platinum), “Mama’s Broken Heart” (3X
Platinum), “Over You” (2X Platinum), and “Automatic” (2X
Platinum).
The most-decorated female artist in CMA Awards history, Lambert is nominated this year for Female Vocalist of the Year, as well as Single and Musical Event of the Year for “Drowns the Whiskey” with Jason Aldean.
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(Back l-r) Sony Music Nashville VP, Sales Caryl Atwood and EVP/COO Ken Robold; Shopkeeper Management’s Crystal Dishmon and Marion Kraft; Lambert; SMN Chairman/CEO Randy Goodman and EVP, Marketing and New Business John Zarling; RCA Director, Regional Promotion Mallory Michaels.
(Front l-r) Sony Music Nashville EVP, Promotions & Artist Development Steve Hodges; Director of Creative Services Tracy Fleaner ; and Director of Marketing Jen Way; RCA SVP, Promotion Dennis Reese.
Photo Credit: Rick Diamond/Getty
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The GRAMMY Award-winner recently wrapped her stand as the 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, performing two sold-out nights at the CMA Theater. Night one Lambert deemed “The Ones That Got Away,” performing deep cuts from her rich catalogue, many for the first time in a live setting. Her second show reunited supertrio Pistol Annies (Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley) for their first performance in five years, debuting tracks from their new album INTERSTATE GOSPEL, arriving Nov. 2 on RCA Records.
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of October 6, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** CRY PRETTY Carrie Underwood
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (44 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Hotel Key” Old Dominion
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (11 non-consecutive weeks) “Simple” Florida Georgia Line
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (11 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).
Hip-hop
collective Brockhampton bowed at No.1
on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart
(BB200) with its fourth studio album, IRIDESCENCE.
The set, which was released on Sept. 21 via Question Everything/RCA Records,
launches with 101,000 equivalent
album units earned in the week ending Sept. 27, according to Nielsen Music.
Of
Iridescence’s 101,000 units, most were in album sales: 79,335, as noted above. The
remainder was comprised of SEA units (22,000) and TEA units (a negligible
figure).
At
No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Josh
Groban arrived with his new studio album, Bridges. It starts with 96,000
units, of which 93,531
are in traditional
album sales. Bridges is the top-selling album of the week. Bridges garnered
just 1,000 SEA units (equaling 1.5 million on-demand audio streams for its
songs) and a little more than 1,000 TEA units.
Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY tumbled 1-7 in
its second week with 36,000 units
(down 86 percent)
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.
Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY
held at No.1 (1-7 Billboard 200) on Billboard Top Country Albums selling 28,382 copies (down 89%).
Her
first week sales (250,704) were fuelled by sales generated from a concert
ticket/album sale redemption offer
14
non-consecutive week No.1 Luke Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#18-20 Billboard 200; 4,449 sales;
69-week total 331,300).
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED moved
4-3 (#45-47 BB200; 2,918 sales; 95-week total 458,100)
Chris Stapleton with the 178-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
rose 6-4 (#52-48 BB200; 3,481 sales; 178 week total
2,358,300) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) climbed 16-14 (#149-158
BB200; 2,146 sales;
73-week total 842,600) and
From A
Room: Volume 2 rose 28-26 in its 43rd frame (2,042 sales; 43-week total 437,100).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.5 (#46-48 BB200; 1,385 sales; 14-week total 55,700).
Former 6-week
non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 3-6
(#22-64 BB200; 2,216 sales; 24-week
total 415,900).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) climbed 9-7 (#73-68 BB200; 1,076 sales; 55-week total 296,000).
In its sixth
frame former No1 Cole Swindell with ALL OF IT (Warner Bros./Warner Music
Nashville) rose 10-8 (83-78 BB200; 5,078 sales; 6-week total 64,000).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) fell 8-9 (#71-86 BB200; 1,070 sales; 85-week total 235,500).
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Kenny Chesney with
LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville) fell 12-13 (123-155 BB200; 2,240 sales; 9-week total 112,940).
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) fell 14-15 (#133-159 BB200; 1,433 sales; 42-week total 330,100).
Frank Foster with his 10-track set- 'Til I'm Gone (Lone
Chief Records | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.16 selling 5,335 copies.
Foster
shared:
"This is our seventh studio album, and I feel that we are an alternative
to the pop-country that is going on right now. It is a mixture of outlaw
country and rock and roll, with a traditional country mix in there. We are
doing a pretty good job at it." While it was difficult to select a
favorite song on the album, Foster said that "This Evenin'" is a very
special track, as well as the title cut.
Florida Georgia
Line
with their 4-track EP FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE (Big Machine Label Group, LLC | UK iTunes) fell 20-21 (#170-190
BB200).
Dierks Bentley with
THE MOUNTAIN (Capitol Nashville |
UMGN) fell 7-23 (#70-193 BB200; 2103 sales; down 66%; 16-week total 158,200).
Of
Note:
In
his second week Willie
Nelson with his 11-track MY WAY (Legacy Recordings | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) fell 36-88 on the Billboard 200 selling 7,921 copies; down 44%; 2-week
total 21.905)
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Joey+Rory with the Christian & Gospel 21-track- The Singer And The
Song: The Best Of Joey+Rory (Gaither Music Group | Amazon
UK – Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.7 with 2,575 sales.
The best of collection includes a CD with the
country music duo's hits, while a DVD offers interviews with Rory and more on
the couple's love story and life together. The Singer And The Song CD
features more than a dozen songs that brought out the best in the husband and
wife's lives and careers, along with a personal, 28-page booklet from Rory. The
DVD consists of more than two-and-a-half hours of content, including a tour of
the family farm, acoustic performances by Rory and an interview with Bill
Gaither that captures Rory's ever-inspiring story of hope in spite of hard
times.
Amy Helm with her 10-track THIS TOO SHALL LIGHT (Yep Roc Records | Amazon UK - UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.23 with 1,000 sales.
Amy
Helm sought what she calls a “circular sound” for her new album. It’s a
well-rounded one, one marked by streaks of Americana, country, blues, and
gospel, and the kinds of four-part harmonies that can burst open a melody and
close the loop of an octave. And sentimentally, it’s a sound that represents
the feeling of community.
'This
Too Shall Light', comprises 10 songs produced by Grammy-winning producer and
songwriter Joe Henry. Helm left her home and comfort zone of Woodstock, NY,
choosing to record in Los Angeles within the confines of just a four-day
window.
Bri Bagwell with her 10-track IN MY DEFENSE (Ruby Reds Records | Amazon UK - UK iTunes
- Amazon.com
) made a debut at No.30 with 800 estimated sales.
Tyler Rich with his 4-track EP TYLER RICH (EP; Big Machine Label Group) made a debut at No.31 with 700
estimated sales.
Mandy Barnett with her 10-track STRANGE CONVERSATION (Dame Productions | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.37 with 600 estimated sales.
Brian Grilli with his 10 track DEEP SOUTH SYMPHONY (Spectra Music Group | Amazon
UK) made a debut at No.45
Maggie Rose with her 12-track Rock/ Pop set CHANGE THE WHOLE THING (Starstruck
Records, LLC | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.46
The
powerhouse vocalist recorded the songs for her forthcoming project live in one
take with her 13-piece “family band." The full length LP will feature 12
songs, 12 live music videos and a 60-minute documentary on the making of the
album.
>>
Documentory
Year-To-Date Albums
11,635,000 (Physical sales 8,258,000
(down -15.2%) + Digital sales 3,387,000 (down -31.3%) which is 20.7% down at the same point in 2017 (14,671,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
37,512,000 down 27.5% at the same point in 2017 (51,722,000)
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./Big Machine Label Group) extended its record run
to 44 weeks at No.1 on Hot.Country
Songs chart (dated Oct. 6).
With its continued domination, FGL became the first act
to top the chart for 100 cumulative career weeks.
“Meant” extended its reign as it leads Country Streaming
Songs for a record-padding 40th week, decreasing by 2 percent to 11 million
U.S. streams in the tracking week, according to Nielsen Music. It fell 4-10 on
Country Digital Song Sales (6,000 sold, down 34 percent), where it ruled for 22
frames, and drew 12.3 million in country radio audience (43 million overall)
after leading the Country Airplay chart dated April 28 (while being dually
promoted to country and pop radio).
Florida Georgia Line — the duo of Tyler Hubbard and Brian
Kelley — celebrates its 100th total week atop Hot Country Songs among its six
No.1s, a first in the chart’s 59-year history. (The list began as an all-encompassing
genre survey in 1958. In October 2012, it became an airplay, streaming and
sales-driven list, at which point songs began logging far longer average
commands.)
“I continue to be humbled and am honestly speechless by
watching what our supporters and fans have done for us,” said Hubbard. “Being a
part of country music history is more than a dream come true, and getting to do
what we love on this level is something we will never take for granted.”
“We set out to write good songs, so to see them travel
far beyond our reach is still hard to wrap our heads around,” added Kelley. “We
are so thankful to country radio, our fans and our team for believing in even
our wildest dreams.”
Here’s how FGL achieved 100 weeks at No. 1: The pair’s
first hit, “Cruise,” led for 24 weeks in 2012 and 2013; followed by “Stay”
(six weeks, 2013-14); “This Is How We Roll” (featuring Luke
Bryan; six, 2014); “Dirt” (two weeks, 2014); “H.O.L.Y.” (18, 2016); and “Meant” (44, 2017-18).
FGL’s 100 cumulative weeks in the Hot Country Songs
penthouse outpace runner-up George Strait, as his record 44 No.1s spent 84 weeks atop the survey. Buck Owens
ranks third with 82 weeks (from 21
No. 1s), followed by Tim McGraw (73
weeks, 26 No. 1s) and Kenny Chesney (72
weeks, 23 No. 1s).
With 44 weeks, Rexha owns the mark for the most time at
No.1 among women on Hot Country Songs, thanks solely to “Meant.” She passes Tammy Wynette, in second place with 37
weeks at No. 1 (from 20 No. 1s); Carrie
Underwood follows with 35 weeks at the apex (among 14 No. 1s).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (44
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha & Florida
Georgia Line
**
Airplay Gainer” No.4 “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs
** Digital
Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** No.26 “Homesick” Kane Brown
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.49 “One That Got Away” Michael Ray
Debut
No.50 “Never Comin Down” Keith Urban
Old
Dominion with "Hotel Key" (RCA Nashville) held
at No.1 for a second week atop the chart in the week ending Sept. 30.
Maren
Morris with “Rich”
(Columbia Nashville) entered the Country Airplay top
10, climbing 11-10 with a 6 percent increase to 22.7 million
audience impressions.
The Morris co-penned “Rich” becomes her fourth top 10, following
the No.1s “Craving You,” by Thomas Rhett featuring Morris (July 2017); “I Could
Use a Love Song” (January 2018); and her breakthrough “My Church” (No. 9, May
2016).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Hotel Key” Old
Dominion 42.928 million audience / 7,957 radio plays
** Hot
Shot Debut/Most Increased Audience/Most Added ** No.28 “Back To Life” Rascal Flatts +6.265 million audience
gain
thanks
to 48 fresh radio commitments (ADDS)
Debut
No.59 “Buy My Own Drinks” Runaway June
Florida
Georgia Line with “Simple” (BMLG) held at No.1
(#25-27 Digital Songs; 9,000 sales, down 9 percent),) to log a 11th non-consecutive week atop the chart as their former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) fell 4-10 (#30 to off the top 50 Digital
Songs).
Simple was 26 places behind Eminem's Machine Gun Kelly diss track
"Killshot" which logged a second week at No.1 on Digital
Song Sales (53,000, up 37 percent), while falling 2-7 on Streaming Songs
(32.6 million, down 36 percent).
Kane
Brown with “Homesick”
rocketed 22-2 in its third frame as his track “Lose
It” fell 7-8 (#36-49 Digital Songs).
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” held at No.3 (#29-30
Digital Songs) in its 8th as his single “Beautiful
Crazy” rebounded 11-9.
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless” moved 6-4 (#33-31
Digital Songs) as “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR)
climbed 9-6 (#45-41
Digital Songs).
Chris Stapleton with “Tennessee Whiskey” pushed
17-5 (#40 Re-Entry Digital Songs) in its 142nd
frame.
Mitchell
Tenpenny with “Drunk
Me” rose 8-7 (#41-44 Digital
Songs) in his 10th week.
Outside
the Top 10
Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert with “Drowns The Whiskey” (Macon | Broken
Bow) fell 10-11 in their 20th frame.
Eric Church with “Desperate
Man” held at No.12 in his
11th week.
Jake Owen with “Down
To The Honkytonk” moved 16-13 in
his 5th week.
DEBUTS:
Billy Currington with “Bring
It On Over” made a bow at No.21.
Jimmie Allen with “Best
Shot” made an appearance at No.22.
Russell Dickerson with “Blue
Tacoma” made a debut at No.25.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
October
1, 2018
Old Dominion 2 weeks at No1
2 bottles for 2 weeks at #1 - thank you for making #HotelKey a huge song for us! 🥂🍾🍾...🏆 pic.twitter.com/KsDn9U8JcM— Old Dominion (@OldDominion) 2 October 2018
Chart Chat Congrats again to Old Dominion, Steve
Hodges, Dennis Reese and the entire RCA
promotion staff on landing adjoining weeks at No.1 with “Hotel Key.” The song is
the third consecutive No. 1 from HAPPY ENDINGS. Writers are Matthew Ramsey,
Trevor Rosen and Josh Osborne.
“Hotel Key” (RCA) held at No.1 logging 8,784 radio spins (+209), 54.613 million audience
impressions (+1.495 million) with 28387 Total Points (+678) from 158 tracking stations (158 ADDS) for
the tracking week September 23 to September 29, 2018 and published chart
October 1, 2018.
Thomas Rhett's 'Sixteen' Is Most-Added
Kudos to Chris
Palmer and the Valory reps for securing 57 adds on Thomas Rhett’s “Sixteen”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
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In celebration of Valory Music Co's Thomas Rhett earning most-added at Country radio this week with his new single, "Sixteen" Pictured L-R: Valory Music Co. Dir./Southwest Promotion Christy DiNapoli and Coord./Promotion Lauren Simon
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Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
THOMAS RHETT/Sixteen (Valory) 57 82
RASCAL
FLATTS/Back To Life (Big Machine) 28 28
JASON
ALDEAN/Girl Like You (Broken Bow) 21 91
ADAM
HAMBRICK/Rockin' All Night Long (Buena Vista/Capitol) 17 17
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Love Wins (Capitol) 13 80
DAN +
SHAY/Speechless (Warner Bros./WAR) 13 143
BRETT
YOUNG/Here Tonight (BMLGR) 11 66
BILLY
CURRINGTON/Bring It On Over (Mercury) 10 60
MORGAN
EVANS/Day Drunk (Warner Bros./WEA) 10 43
TENILLE
TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 9 29
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 7 7
DAVID LEE
MURPHY/I Won't Be Sorry (Reviver) 6 73
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 5 91
BROTHERS
OSBORNE/I Don't Remember Me (Before..) (EMI Nashville) 2 2
LEE
GANTT/Ruined This Town (HH Entertainment) 2 3
RACHEL
WAMMACK/Damage (RCA) 2 44
WATERLOO
REVIVAL/Wonder Woman (---) 2 2
ALISSA
GRIFFITH/Glasses (Dreamhaus) 1 1
AUSTIN
BURKE/Whole Lot In Love (Awal/In2une) 1 16
CHRIS LANE/I
Don't Know About You (Big Loud) 1 2
ERIC
CHURCH/Monsters (EMI Nashville) 1 1
JOHN
BERRY/Beautifully Broken (JB Music) 1 2
KID
ROCK/Po-Dunk (Wheelhouse) 1 1
LUKE BRYAN/What
Makes You Country (Capitol) 1 3
LUKE
COMBS/Beautiful Crazy (River House/Columbia) 1 7
WALKER
MCGUIRE/Growin' Up (Stoney Creek) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #11
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain, Bastian Baker, The Shires SSE Hydro Glasgow, Scotland
Dates:
Sept. 19-21, 2018 Gross Sales: $2,097,620 Attend: 21,125/ 21,238
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 (113 unsold tickets) Prices:
$111.75, $32.87
Promoters: DF Concerts
Rank
Artist: #18
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain, Bastian Baker, The Shires Manchester Arena Manchester,
England
Dates:
Sept. 22, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,425,280 Attend: 14,331/ 14,548
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (217 unsold tickets) Prices:
$111.88, $52.65
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #25
Event
Venue City/State: Chris Stapleton, Brent Cobb, Marty Stuart White River Amphitheatre
Auburn, Wash.
Dates:
July 21, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,062,696 Attend: 15,966/ 15,966
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$150, $34.75
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #27
Event
Venue City/State: Kylie Minogue SSE Hydro Glasgow, Scotland
Dates:
Sept. 30, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,041,470 Attend: 11,206/ 11,443
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (237 unsold tickets) Prices:
$195.36, $65.12
Promoters: Live Nation
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