In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of October 27, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** DESPERATE MAN Eric Church
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (47 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks) “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A STAR IS
BORN soundtrack spent a second week at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart
(BB200), as the set earned 143,000
equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 18, according to Nielsen Music
(down 38 percent compared to its opening frame a week ago). Of the latest
tracking week’s unit sum, 86,000 were in album sales -- down 47 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.
Eric Church with his sixth studio LP, DESPERATE MAN (EMI Nashville/Universal
Music Group Nashville), held at No.1 (5-16
Billboard 200) on Billboard’s Top
Country Albums chart (dated Oct.27)
15
non-consecutive week No.1 Luke Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#23-21 Billboard 200) in his 72nd frame.
Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY
held at No.3 (33-34 Billboard 200) in her 5th frame.
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) climbed 7-4 (#76-42 BB200) in his 27th week.
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 4-5 (#50-53 BB200) in
their 17th week.
Chris Stapleton with the 181-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
fell 5-6 (#55 non-mover BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville)
fell 12-13 (#153-149 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 rose 26-25 in
its 46th frame.
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED fell
6-7 (#58-57 BB200) in his 98th week.
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) held No.8 (#92-80 BB200) in his 58th week.
Morgan Evans with his first U.S. LP, THINGS THAT WE DRINK TO (Warner Bros./
Warner Music Nashville), opened at No.9
with 7,000 equivalent album units (4,000 in traditional album sales).
The Australian singer-songwriter
co-penned all 11 tracks on the set, including new single “Day Drunk,” which
debuted at No. 55 on Country Airplay with 1.4 million audience impressions (up
99percent). Lead single “Kiss Somebody” hit No.3 on Country Airplay in August.
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) fell 9-10 (#128-11 BB200) in his 88th week.
Outside the
Top 10
Jimmie Allen with his debut album, the 15-track MERCURY LANE (Stoney Creek/BMG/BBMG),
released Oct. 12, arrived on Top Country Albums at No.11, earning 7,000
equivalent album units (3,000 in traditional
album sales) in its first week.
As an homage
to the origin of his story and how far he’s come, the soul-baring album takes
its name from the street Allen grew up on and pays tribute to the influence
home and family has had on his incredible journey. Fans will instantly receive
six songs with a pre-order of Mercury Lane, including “Best Shot,” “Underdogs,”
“21,” “Warrior,” “Back of Your Mind” and “Make Me Want To,” a brand-new track
that highlights the singer’s hopeless romantic side.
He shared: “Mercury Lane is where my journey began. All
of the fundamental life lessons that shaped my values and make me who I am
today, I was taught on that street—its where I learned about love, family,
life, how to believe in myself, the concept of never giving up, following your
dreams and being a good person,” said Jimmie Allen. “This album touches on
all of those ideals and truly feels like I’m sharing a piece of my heart with
the world. I’ve been working toward this moment for so long; I can’t wait to
share it with everyone.”
In its nineth
frame former No1 Cole Swindell with ALL OF IT (Warner Bros./Warner Music
Nashville) rose 17-15 (197-165 BB200).
Colter Wall with his 11-track set SONGS OF THE PLAINS (Young Mary’s Record Co.-Thirty Tigers) made a
debut at No.17 (#180 New Entry
Billboard 200).
Critical reception for Colter Wall’s Songs of the Plains:
11 Tracks/ Time: 34:08 Folk Amazon UK
American Songwriter
(Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars) ….From
“Saskatchewan 1881” to “Manitoba Man” and “Calgary Round-Up,” Wall explores the
life of 19th-century cowboys living hard in the frigid Canadian plains. “My
heart it lies far from the East or West Coast,”
Former
No.1 Kenny Chesney with
LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville) fell 19-23 in his 12th week.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
(12
Oct 2018) Cypress
Spring with the 13-track AMERICAN WHITE TRASH (Average
Joes/Select-O | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.17.
Dailey &
Vincent with their 14-track holiday set THE SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS (BMG | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes) made a debut at No.21.
Year-To-Date Albums
12,417,000 (Physical sales 8,817,000
(down -16.4%) + Digital sales 3,611,000 (down -31.1%) which is 21.3% down at the same point in 2017 (15,786,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
39,696,000 down 27.5% at the same point in 2017 (54,760,000)
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:
Florida
Georgia Line and Bebe Rexha’s “Meant
to Be” (Warner Bros./Big Machine Label Group) stretched its record
domination on Hot Country Songs to 47
weeks. It also topped Country Streaming Songs for a record-extending 43rd
week with 12.2million U.S. streams (up 1percent) in the week ending Oct. 18.
Mitchell
Tenpenny tallied his first Hot Country Songs top 10
as his launch single, “Drunk Me” (River House/Columbia
Nashville), hopped 11-10. It
bulleted at No.6 on Country Digital Song Sales (7,000 sold, up 2 percent); at
No.11, its highpoint, on Country Airplay (22.1 million, up 4 percent); and at
No.12 on Country Streaming Songs (5.6 million, up 1 percent).
Jimmie
Allen with debut single, “Best Shot” (Stoney Creek), became
his first top
10 on Hot Country Songs, rising 12-9. On Country Airplay, it vaulted
10-5, surging 20 percent to 28.5 million in audience.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (47
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha & Florida
Georgia Line
**
Airplay Gainer” No.4 “Break Up In The End” Cole
Swindell
** Digital
Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** No.28 “Make It Sweet” Old
Dominion
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.46 “Things That We Drink To” Morgan Evans
Debut
No.47 “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen
Singer-songwriter Luke Combs became the first soloist to score four straight
career-opening leaders on Country Airplay as “She Got the Best of Me” (River House/Columbia Nashville)
climbed 2-1 on the Oct.27-dated list. “Best” moves to the summit with an
8 percent hike to 40.3 million audience points in the week ending Oct. 21,
according to Nielsen Music.
The 28-year-old Combs, originally from Asheville, N.C., first topped
Country Airplay with debut hit “Hurricane,”
for two weeks, starting on the chart dated May 27, 2017, and followed with “When It Rains It Pours,” which also
dominated for two frames, beginning Nov. 4, 2017, and third single “One Number Away,” which led on June
9.
“Best” also completes Combs’ fastest trip to No.1 on Country Airplay,
moving up to the penthouse in its 16th week. “Hurricane,” “Rains” and “Number”
needed 30, 28 and 24 weeks, respectively.
Combs is the third artist overall to send four career-opening singles to
No.1 on Country Airplay since the list launched in January 1990, and the first
since Florida Georgia Line. The duo’s first four singles — “Cruise,” “Get Your
Shine On,” “Round Here” and “Stay” — ruled between 2012 and 2014.
Prior to FGL, another famous twosome, Brooks & Dunn, rattled off
No.1s with its first four singles (“Brand New Man,” “My Next Broken Heart,”
“Neon Moon,” “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”) in 1991 and 1992.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke
Combs 40.307 million audience (+2.904 million) / 7,692 radio plays (+603)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.2 “Break Up In The End” Cole Swindell
**
Most Added ** No.22 “Sixteen” Thomas
Rhett
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.54 “What Makes You Country” Luke Bryan
Debut
No.55 “Day Drunk” Morgan Evans
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless” held at No.1 (#23
non-mover Digital Songs) to top the Billboard Country Digital Singles
Chart for a second week as their 39-week “Tequila” fell 7-8.
“Speechless” was 22-places behind Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's
"Shallow" which held
at No.1 on Digital Song Sales for a third week.
Old Dominion with “Make It Sweet” pushed 10-2 (#26
New Entry Digital Songs)
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” fell 2-3 (#31
Non mover Digital Songs).
Morgan Evans with “Things That We Drink To”
made a debut at No.4 (#32 New Entry Digital Songs).
Florida
Georgia Line with “Simple” (BMLG) fell 3-5
(#32-36 Digital Songs). Their former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia
Line with “Meant to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) fell 9-12.
Mitchell
Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” fell 4-6
(#48-43 Digital Songs; 7,000 sales).
Kane
Brown with “Lose It” fell 6-7 as “Heaven”
held at No.14 in its 18th week.
Chris Stapleton with “Tennessee Whiskey” fell 8-9 in its 145th week.
Jimmie Allen with ballad “Best Shot” rose 15-10 in his fourth frame.
Outside
the Top 10
Jake Owen with “Down
To The Honkytonk” held at No.11 in
his 8th frame.
Jason Aldean with “Girl Like You” made a
debut at No.21.
Blake Shelton with “Turnin’ Me On” arrived at
No.23 (3,000 sold) and pushed 16-13
on Country Airplay.
LANCO with “Born To Love You” made a
debut at No.25.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
October
22, 2018
Congrats to Cole Swindell,
Kristen Williams, Tom Martens and the rest of the Warner Bros./WMN crew on this week’s No.1 “Break Up In The End.”
Writers are Jessie Jo Dillon, Chase McGill and Jon Nite. The track is Swindell's eighth #1 hit.
“Break Up In The End” (Warner Bros./WMN) moved 4-1 logging 8,564 radio spins (+1446), 50.726 million audience impressions (+6.164 million) with 27456 Total Points (+4542) from
157 tracking stations (157 ADDS) for the tracking week October 14 to October
20, 2018 and published chart October 22, 2018.
And kudos to
Bobby Young and the Capitol team for
notching 59 adds for Luke Bryan’s “What Makes You Country”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
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| Capitol Team celebrate Luke Bryan's Most Added single |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
LUKE BRYAN/What Makes You Country (Capitol) 59 66
DILLON
CARMICHAEL/Dancing Away With My Heart (Riser House) 22 24
OLD DOMINION/Make
It Sweet (RCA) 16 36
TIM MCGRAW/Neon
Church (Columbia) 15 148
SMITHFIELD/Hey
Whiskey (Deluge/In2une) 14 65
LAUREN
ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 13 44
THOMAS
RHETT/Sixteen (Valory) 13 139
JASON
ALDEAN/Girl Like You (Broken Bow) 12 129
MORGAN
WALLEN/Whiskey Glasses (Big Loud) 11 97
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 10 55
CODY JOHNSON/On
My Way To You (CoJo Music/WMN) 8 90
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Love Wins (Capitol) 7 107
JAKE OWEN/Down
To The Honkytonk (Big Loud) 7 141
KEITH
URBAN/Never Comin Down (Capitol) 7 114
RASCAL
FLATTS/Back To Life (Big Machine) 7 97
WALKER
HAYES/90's Country (Monument/Arista) 7 30
TENILLE
TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 4 36
JUSTIN
MOORE/The Ones That Didn't Make It.. (Valory) 3 5
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 3 61
ABBY
ANDERSON/Make Him Wait (Black River) 2 58
DANIELLE
BRADBERY & THOMAS RHETT/Goodbye Summer (Valory/BMLGR) 2 83
JON
LANGSTON/When It Comes To Loving You (32 Bridge/EMI Nashville) 2 53
ADAM
HAMBRICK/Rockin' All Night Long (Buena Vista/Capitol) 1 31
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/Girl Goin' Nowhere (Atlantic/WAR) 1 2
AUSTIN
BURKE/Whole Lot In Love (Awal/In2une) 1 19
LUKE
COMBS/Houston, We Got A Problem (River House/Columbia) 1 2
MICHAEL
TYLER/Remember These Words (Reviver) 1 1
SUNDANCE
HEAD/Leave Her Wild (Wildcatter) 1 6
THOMPSON
SQUARE/A Love Like This (---) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #15
Event
Venue City/State: Kylie Minogue O2 Arena London
Dates:
Sept. 26-28, 2018 Gross Sales: $3,368,900 Attend: 30,100/ 43,227
Shows/
Sellouts: 3/0 (13,127 unsold tickets)
Prices: $197.27, $72.33
Promoters: Live Nation
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