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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of November 24, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** EXPERIMENT Kane Brown
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Lose It” Kane
Brown
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “Best Shot” Jimmie Allen
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Someone I Used to Know” Zac Brown Band
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News (Chart issue week of
November 24, 2018)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Kane Brown
Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart as 'Experiment' Bundles To The
Top
Kain Brown’s EXPERIMENT earned his first No.1
album on the Billboard Top 200 Album
Chart (BB200), as his second full-length studio effort, Experiment, bows in
the top slot. The set, which was released on Nov. 9 via Zone 4/RCA Nashville,
started with 124,000 equivalent
album units earned in the week ending Nov. 15, according to Nielsen Music. Of
that sum, 105,000
were in album
sales.
It’s
just the third country album to reach No.1 on the all-genre Billboard 200. It follows Carrie Underwood’s CRY PRETTY (Sept. 29; 266,000 units
in its debut frame) and Jason Aldean’s REARVIEW TOWN (April 28; 183,000). There
were four country leaders in 2017, but they all occurred in the last four
months of the year: Luke Bryan’s WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Dec. 30; 108,000),
Kenny Chesney’s LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION (Nov. 18; 219,000), Shania Twain’s NOW
(Oct. 21; 137,000) and Thomas Rhett’s Life Changes (Sept. 30; 123,000).
Experiment
bowed with the fourth-largest week for any country album in 2018, both in terms
of overall units and album sales. Ahead of it are the debut frames of Cry
Pretty (266,000 units, of which 251,000 were in album sales), Rearview Town
(183,000 units, with 162,000 in album sales) and Keith Urban’s Graffiti U (May
12; 145,000 units, with 137,000 in album sales). All four albums received a
first-week boost from sales generated by concert
ticket/album sale redemption offers.
Experiment
was led by the single “Lose It,” which has so far peaked at
No.5 on both the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts. It climbed 6-5
on the most recently published latter list (dated Nov. 17).
Billboard Top Country
Albums (Chart issue week of
November 24, 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.
RCA
NASHVILLE artist Kane Brown's sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT debuted at #1 on the Top
Country Albums chart this week with 124,000 units (105,000 were in album sales; pure
retail numbers and internet sales).
Brown has set a
new U.S. record on Apple Music with the newly-released "Experiment"
which has been marked as the platform's largest Country album debut in the
first 24 hours of release.
Brown teamed up
with Apple Music to host an exclusive performance for fans at Nashville's 12th
& Porter venue on Thursday, November 1st ahead of the album's Friday,
November 9th release. He premiered new music from "Experiment" and
showcased an advanced screening of the "Apple Music Presents: Kane Brown
-- Experiment" project.
Brown signed to
RCA Nashville in early 2016 after building a following through social media
starting in 2014, mainly by posting covers of songs by such artists as George
Strait, Brantley Gilbert and Alan Jackson. Prior to his deal with RCA, Brown
independently released the six-song EP Closer, which debuted on Top Country
Albums at No. 22 in June 2015 and peaked at
No. 7 that
November. Five-song follow-up EP Chapter 1 (on RCA) debuted and peaked at No. 3
in April 2016.
In its 102nd
chart frame Brown’s 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED (released
Dec 2, 2016) held at No.5 (#63-57
BB200). It has sold over 472,000 copies and opened at No.10 on the Billboard
200 with 51,000 units (45,457 pure sales)
17
non-consecutive week No.1 Luke Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#27-25 Billboard 200; 76-weeks).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#46-48 BB200;
19-weeks).
Chris Stapleton with the 185-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.4 (#52 Non mover BB200)
as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville)
moved 15-12 (#157-136 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 rose 23-22 in
its 50th frame.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY
fell 6-7 (75-90
BB200; 8-weeks).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) climbed 10-8 (#98-96 BB200; 62-weeks).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) lifted 11-9 (#106-99 BB200; 1,100 sales; 92-weeks).
Previous
weeks’ No1 Pistol Annies with INTERSTATE GOSPEL (RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) slumped 1-10 (#15-107 Billboard 200) in their
second frame.
Outside the
Top 10
2-week No.1 Eric Church with his DESPERATE MAN (EMI Nashville/Universal
Music Group Nashville) fell 9-11 (94-114
Billboard 200; 6-weeks).
Kacey Musgraves with the 2018 CMA Album Of
The Year GOLDEN HOUR made a re-entry
at No.17 (#195 Re-entry BB200)
Dierks Bentley with THE MOUNTAIN fell 13-18
(23-weeks).
In his
second week Josh
Turner with
first faith-based set, I SERVE A SAVIOR
(MCA Nashville/ Universal Music Group Nashville | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com), fell 8-19. (#91 – off the top 200 BB200).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Stryker Brothers with 13-track BURN BAND made a debut at No.31 (Scriptorium Rex
| Amazon UK)
Year-To-Date Albums
13,492,000 (Physical sales 9,608,000
(down -20.1%) + Digital sales 3,894,000 (down -32.9%) which is 24.3% down at the same point in 2017 (17,829,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
42,377,000? down 27.8% at the same point in 2017 (58,723,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs
(Chart issue week of
November 24, 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:
There’s a New No.1!
Kane
Brown concurrently crowns the airplay-, streaming and sales-based
Hot Country Songs chart as Experiment lead single “Lose It” leapt 6-1.
“Lose” dethroned Bebe Rexha and
Florida
Georgia Line’s country-pop crossover
smash “Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./Big Machine Label Group), down 1-2, which debuted at the apex on Dec.
16, 2017, and spent a record 50 total weeks a No.1!
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (1
week)/ Digital Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** “Lose
It” Kane Brown
**
Airplay Gainer” No.5 “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.27 “Someone I Used To Know” Zac Brown Band
Debut
No.42 “Baby Come Back To Me” Kane Brown
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of
November 24, 2018)
Jimmie
Allen with “Best
Shot” (Stoney Creek) rose 3-1 in its 40th week on
Country Airplay. The song increased by 4 percent to 42 million audience impressions.
The 32-year-old Allen — who hails from Milton, Del. — co-wrote “Shot” with
Josh Landon and JP Williams. It is the freshman single from his first LP, Mercury
Lane, which debuted and peaked at No. 11 on Top Country Albums (dated Oct. 27).
“Shot” is the third debut hit to top Country Airplay in 2018, following
Jordan Davis’ “Singles You Up” (April 21) and Russell Dickerson’s “Yours” (Jan.
27 and Feb. 3).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Best Shot” Jimmie
Allen 41.976 million audience (+1.478 million) / 8,046 radio plays (+322)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.24 “Bucked Off” Brad Paisley 7.931 million audience gain
thanks to 62 fresh radio commitments (ADDS).
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
(Chart issue week of
November 24, 2018)
The Zac Brown Band with 'Someone
I Used to Know' entered Country Digital Song Sales (#8 New Entry
Digital Songs; 17,000 sales) as the
group’s second No.1, following “Homegrown” in 2015. The act debuted the track,
which Zac Brown wrote with Shawn Mendes, among others, on NBC’s The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Nov. 6.
“Someone I Used to Know”” was
7-places behind Ariana Grande who scored a repeat atop the Digital
Song Sales chart, with 63.4 million U.S. streams (up 14 percent) and 43,000 downloads sold (down 47 percent) in the
week ending Nov. 15, according to Nielsen Music.
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” moved 3-2 (#38-17
Digital Songs).
Previous weeks
No.1 Dan + Shay
(Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless” fell 1-3 (#20-18
Digital Songs) as “Tequila” which they performed at the
2018 CMAs rose 7-4.
Former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) climbed 10-5 (#32
Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Brett Young with Mercy advanced 15-6 (#40 Re-Entry Digital
Songs).
Chris Stapleton with the CMA Single and Song
of The Year “Broken Halos” made a re-entry at No.7
(#41 Re-Entry Digital Songs)
as “Tennessee Whiskey” fell 4-9 in its 149th week (#42-45 Digital Songs).
Dierks
Bentley feat. Brothers
Osborne with “Burning Man” performed the song at
the 52th annual Country Music Association Awards on Nov. 14, it surged by 51
percent to 7,000 sold and rose 11-8
on Country Digital Singles (#43 New Entry Digital
Songs), 12-10 on Hot Country Songs. It
marked Bentley’s 23rd top 10 and Brothers Osborne’s second.
Another live CMA performance propelled Kelsea
Ballerini with “Miss Me More” to a re-entry at #10
(#43 Re-Entry
Digital Songs).
Outside
the Top 10
Jimmie Allen with “Best Shot” fell 2-11 in his 8th frame (#37-49 Digital Songs).
Mitchell
Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” fell 6-12.
New Entries:
Keith Urban with “Never Comin Down” made a
debut at #14.
Kane Brown with “Baby Come Back To Me”
arrived at #17.
Kacey Musgraves with “Slow Dance” made a bow at
#22.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
November
19, 2018
Jimmie Allen
Earns First Career #1 With 'Best Shot'
Congrats
to Jimmie Allen, Carson James, Byron Kennedy, Heather Propper and the Stoney
Creek promotion team on landing this week’s No.1 with “Best Shot.” The song is
Allen’s debut single from his first album Mercury Lane. Writers are Josh
London, J.P. Williams and Allen.
“Best Shot” (Stoney
Creek) moved 3-1 logging 8,646 radio spins (+430), 53.812 million audience impressions (+1.899 million) with 27823 Total Points (+1375) from
155 tracking stations (155 ADDS) for the tracking week November 11 to November
17, 2018 and published chart dated November 19, 2018
In
2016, Jimmie Allen spent his last
$100 to buy a ticket to the CMA Awards as a fan. Two years later, the rising
country star stood on stage to present the CMA Award for Single of the Year and
is currently holding the No. 1 spot at the top of the Billboard and Mediabase/Country Aircheck Country Airplay
charts with his own "Best Shot," which has been the
most Shazamed song in Country music for the past eight consecutive weeks. This
impressive feat marks the first time a
black artist has garnered a career No.1
hit with their debut single on Country radio. He joins only Darius Rucker
to claim the top spot in Country with a debut single.
"If
someone asked me two years ago if I thought that this would be my life
today-that I'd be on the red carpet at the CMAs or my song would be the No. 1
song on country radio, I would have honestly said no," reflects Allen.
"Did I think it would happen eventually? Absolutely! Just not this soon.
I'm humbled and grateful- it's such an honor to get my first No. 1 and to know
that my song is connecting with people and resonating in a way that hopefully
makes us all better people in the end, because that's really what 'Best Shot'
is all about."
Written
by Allen, Josh London and JP Williams, "Best Shot" is the first
single from Allen's label debut project Mercury Lane. Described as "a rare
honest love song, with a catchy, melodic chorus that flirts with pop-rock power
balladry" by Rolling Stone, "Best Shot" is a self-evaluation
song that comes from a personal place in Allen's life and focuses on taking
each day to be a better person.
"When you're a better person, you can be
a better husband, wife, parent or friend," injects Allen. "In writing
this song, we just wanted to be honest with ourselves and write something that
others can empathize with."
Dubbed
"a self-made man" with "one of the most inspiring tales to come
out of music row in the last decade" by CMT, Sounds Like Nashville
declares that Allen "is on his way to becoming one of the most important
young voices in country music" and Pandora states "it's only a matter
of time before his is a household name."
Following
an incredible co-hosting job, Allen will return for his fourth appearance
(since October) on NBC's TODAY as part of Kathi Lee and Hoda's "Guys Tell
All Panel" on November 28. Fans will have a chance to see Allen on the
road this winter playing direct support to Scotty McCreery on his Seasons
Change Tour and playing select dates on Kane Brown's Live Forever Tour.
And
kudos to Josh Easler and the Arista reps
on securing 65 adds on Brad Paisley’s “Bucked
Off”. The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
BRAD PAISLEY/Bucked Off (Arista) 65 65
CARLY
PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 42 47
COLE SWINDELL/Love
You Too Late (Warner Bros./WMN) 30 38
RASCAL
FLATTS/Back To Life (Big Machine) 14 122
OLD
DOMINION/Make It Sweet (RCA) 12 103
GARTH
BROOKS/Stronger Than Me (Pearl) 11 11
BRETT
YOUNG/Here Tonight (BMLGR) 10 114
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Talk You Out Of It (BMLGR) 8 68
LUKE BRYAN/What
Makes You Country (Capitol) 8 149
KEITH
URBAN/Never Comin Down (Capitol) 7 131
MICHAEL RAY/One
That Got Away (Atlantic/WEA) 7 132
JAKE OWEN/Down
To The Honkytonk (Big Loud) 6 152
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Love Wins (Capitol) 5 129
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 3 92
PISTOL
ANNIES/Got My Name Changed Back (RCA) 2 17
JADE
EAGLESON/Got Your Name On It (Universal Music Canada) 1 1
RACHEL
WAMMACK/Damage (RCA) 1 47
RAELYNN/Tailgate
(Warner Bros./WMN) 1 15
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 1 85
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Every Little Thing (Triple Tigers) 1 1
TENILLE
TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 1 42
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Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #31
Event
Venue City/State: Charley
Pride Wagner Noel Performing Arts
Center Midland, Texas
Dates:
Nov.18, 2018 Gross Sales: $106,610 Attend:
1,439/ 1,774
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (335 unsold tickets) Prices:
$85, $50
Promoters: FMSquared
Latest
Billboard Boxscore Chart
