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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of November 17, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** INTERSTATE GOSPEL Pistol Annies
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (50 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (4 non-consecutive 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).
Metro Boomin's
'Not All Heroes Wear Capes' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
Metro Boomin landed his
first No.1 album on the Billboard 200
Top 20 Chart (BB200) as the producer’s new guest-laden album, NOT ALL
HEROES WEAR CAPES, debuted in the top slot. The surprise set, which was
announced Oct. 31 and released Nov. 2 via Boominati/Republic Records, earned 99,000 equivalent album units in the
week ending Nov. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 5,000 were in album
sales, as the album was largely driven by streaming activity.
Lady
Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack held at No. 2 for a second
week, earning 79,000 units (down 15 percent); it spent its first three weeks at
No.1.
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.
Gospel Truth:
Pistol Annie's Interstate Gospel debuted at No. 1 on the Country chart.
Pistol Annies with INTERSTATE GOSPEL (RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) drove onto Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart
(dated Nov. 17) at No.1 (#15
Billboard 200; No.3 Top Album Sales, No.1 Top Digital Albums) , marking the
supergroup’s second leader. The set starts with 30,000 equivalent album units earned (26,500 in traditional album sales)
in its first week ending Nov. 8, according to Nielsen Music.
Gospel
simultaneously entered as the act’s first No. 1 on the Americana/Folk Albums
chart.
The
14-track Gospel is the third studio album from the trio of singer-songwriters
Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley.
It was produced by Frank
Liddell, Glenn Worf and Eric Masse. It’s the trio’s second top five album in a
row
CHART HISTORY:
Gospel
marked the first set from the group in over five years
ANNIE UP (Columbia) released May 7,
2013 arrived and peaked at No.2 on
the Top Country Albums and No.5 on all-genre Billboard 200 chart dated May 25,
2013 selling 83,460
copies sold and
remains Pistol Annies’ biggest sales week to date. As of the Chart week August
24, 2013 it had sold 211,500 copies.
HELL ON HEELS (Columbia, released August
23, 2011) became the threesome’s first No.1
on Top Country Albums (reached #5 Billboard 200) when it debuted atop the tally
on Sept. 10, 2011 with 44,000 sold which at the time was a digital only release. After 23-weeks
on the chart it was at No.119 on the Billboard 200 and had scanned GOLD (1/2 million) at retail with a total
of 503,313.
As
soloists, Lambert boasts six No.1s on Top Country Albums (encompassing her
entire output on the chart), Monroe has notched two top 10s and Presley reached
the top 30 with American Middle Class in 2014.
Critical reception for Pistol Annies’ Interstate Gospel:
The Guardian (4 STARS) ….There’s so little light here that the cheeky
Sugar Daddy is forgivable – plus there’s a forthrightness to their exhortations
to “saddle up and ride” that adds to their theme of women without time to waste.
Rollingstone (Rating: 4 STARS)…Much of the success of LP 3 can be chalked
up to the songwriting, which is sharper, deeper and funnier than ever. Songs
like “When I Was His Wife” and “Commissary” follow the crying-while-laughing
pathos of John Prine, telling stories
AllMusic (Rating: 4.1/2 STARS) …What makes Interstate Gospel so invigorating
is hearing how Lambert, Monroe, and Presley mesh as both songwriters and
singers. Their time apart has only strengthened their bond, resulting in a
fully realized and resonant record that is their best to date.
17
non-consecutive week No.1 from 2018 CMA New Artist of the Year Luke Combs with THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) slipped
1-2 (#23-27 Billboard 200; 3,300 sales; 75-week total 353,900).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#50-46 BB200; 1,400 sales; 19-week total 64,000).
Chris Stapleton with the 184-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.4 (#58-52 BB200; 3,400 sales; 184-week total
2,377,800) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) fell 12-15 (#164-157
BB200) and From A Room:
Volume 2 fell 21-23 in its 48th frame (2,200 sales; 49-week total 451,800).
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED held
at No.5 (#68-63 BB200; 2,200 sales; 101-week total
471,900).
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY
rose 7-6 (76-75
BB200; 6,600 sales;
8-week total 337,500) in her 7th frame.
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) rose 8-7
(#80-84 BB200; 1,700 sales; 29-week total 442,800).
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 2-8 (#41-91 Billboard 200; 8,300 sales; down 40%; 2-week total 22,200).
2-week No.1 Eric Church with his DESPERATE MAN (EMI Nashville/Universal
Music Group Nashville) fell 6-9 (69-94
Billboard 200; 4,700 sales; 5-week total 138,000).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) slipped 9-10 (#90-98 BB200; 700 sales; 61-week total 301,200).
Outside the
Top 10
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) fell 10-11 (#119-106 BB200; 1,100 sales; 91-week total 241,500).
Dierks Bentley with THE MOUNTAIN moved 40-13
(#119 Re-Entry BB200; 4,300 sales; 22-week total 171,200).
Rosanne Cash with SHE REMEMBERS EVERYTHING (Blue Note Records), the
singer-songwriter’s first LP since 2014’s The River & The Thread, debuted
at No.1 on Americana/Folk Albums and No.16
on Top Country Albums (#172 Billboard 200; #4 Country Album Sales), with 6,000
equivalent album units (5,600 in paid-for sales).
The
new project, her 16th album includes some influence from her husband and
singer/songwriter/producer John Leventhal. On their last project, Leventhal’s
virtuoso acoustic guitar provided the perfect complement to his wife’s voice,
which seems to have become even more soulful over the years.
Cash
recently signed with ICM Partners which hopefully alludes to an upcoming tour
to support the new project.
Among
Cash’s other accolades: She was awarded the SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement
award for Sound Recordings in 2012, received the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in
the Performing Arts in 2014, was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters’ Hall
of Fame in 2015 and to the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame in 2017. Cash, who
has authored four books, is also set to receive an honorary doctorate from
Boston’s Berklee School of Music.
CHART HISTORY:
THE RIVER & THE THREAD (Blue Note/Capitol)
released on January 14, 2014, entered No.2 on Top Country Albums with sales of 18,566. It marked her highest
SoundScan-era debut (her previous best was a No.5 start with THE LIST (Manhattan) in 2009 released
October 6, 2009 (#22 Billboard 200) selling 25,940 copies which was her best
overall rank in more than 28 years; she had not charted so loftily since
Rhythm & Romance topped the Dec. 7, 1985, chart. "Seven Year
Ache" reached #26 in 1981.
Critical reception for Rosanne Cash’s She Remembers
Everything:
AllMusic (Rating: 4 STARS) ..She Remembers Everything is a challenging
and rewarding set from an artist who is at the peak of her abilities, and if
anyone needs to be reminded that Rosanne Cash is one of America's best and
smartest songwriters, all they need to do is spend some time with these songs.
Rolling Stone (Rating: 4 STARS) ...She remains hard to categorize, refracting
country alongside rock, folk, and other elements befitting a longtime resident
of New York City’s melting pot. And her most beautiful work can lean into the
abstract.
Uncut (Rating: 7/10)…Too
often the music from both sessions provides little more than gauzy atmosphere,
lacking the drive and purpose of previous albums. But Cash is a deft singer and
evocative songwriter.
Adam Calhoun with his 13 track Hip-Hop & Rap set THE THRONE (2018 Adam Calhoun | Amazon
UK)
made a debut at No.21 selling 4,000 copies.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
The
Mavericks
with their first-ever 10-track
holiday set HEY! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
(Mono Mundo | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.14 selling 1,900 copies.
Always
a group to forge their own path, The Mavericks wrote eight original songs for
Hey! Merry Christmas! featuring the group’s distinctive blend of rockabilly
Latino, folk, swing, blues, jazz and more. The new songs inject a fresh style
and sound into the holiday season while seamlessly fitting into any rotation of
Christmas classics. The new collection includes The Mavericks’ renditions of
two yuletide favorites “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
and “Happy
Holiday”.
Led
by the incomparable vocals of Raul Malo, drummer Paul Deakin, guitarist Eddie
Perez and keyboardist Jerry Dale McFadden, The Mavericks will embark on their
30th Anniversary in 2019, but not before establishing some new holiday music
traditions. From the rollicking opening tracks “Christmas Time Is Coming ‘Round”
and "Santa Does” to the gorgeous, jazzy ballad “Christmas For Me Is You”
to the sultry blues of “Santa Wants To Take You For A Ride”
The Mavericks are said to help redefine what the sounds of Christmas can be.
Carter
Winter with his 7-track
set TEMPTATION (Average Joes | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.24 selling 900 copies.
Produced
by Chad Carlson (Taylor Swift, Chase Rice, Cole Swindell), Winter co-wrote all
seven tracks on his sophomore album with songwriters including Taylor Phillips,
John Gurney and Matt Roy on “Temptation,”
Tommy
Cecil, Jared Mullins and Matt Alderman on “Hands” and Vicky McGehee on “I Got
Me.” Soundtrack (Dolly Records/RCA).
Rodney
Crowell with his 12-track holiday set CHRISTMAS EVERYWHERE (New West | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.28 selling 800 copies.
The
12-song set of all original songs was produced by Dan Knobler and features
guest appearances from Vince Gill, Lera Lynn, the poet Mary Karr, Brennen
Leigh, and more. Christmas Everywhere exhibits a unique and masterful approach
to the traditional Christmas album from the legendary songwriter. While many
selections exhibit the joy of the season, the collection also explores crass
commercialization & loneliness exacerbated by the holidays, as well as
songs co-written with his daughters and granddaughters.
Charlie Daniels with Let's All Make The Day Count made a
debut at No.42 selling 600 copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
13,139,000 (Physical sales 9,341,000
(down -19.9%) + Digital sales 3,809,000 (down -32.9%) which is 24.2% down at the same point in 2018 (17,334,000 sales)
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 50
weeks.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (50
weeks)/ Streaming Gainer ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line
** Digital
Gainer/ Airplay Gainer ** No.4 “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Streaming Gainer ** No.5 “Best Shot” Jimmie Allen
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.48 “Got My Name Changed Back” Pistol Annies
Luke
Combs with “She
Got the Best of Me” (River House/Columbia Nashville) became the first
four-week Country Airplay No.1 of 2018 while extending his longest
reign on the survey.
The song holds in the penthouse with 42.9 million audience
impressions, down 5 percent, in the week ending Nov. 11.
Combs first reached No. 1 with his debut hit, “Hurricane,” which led for
two weeks starting on the chart dated May 27, 2017. He followed with “When It
Rains It Pours,” which also dominated for two frames beginning Nov. 4, 2017,
and “One Number Away,” which led on June 9, 2018.
“Best” becomes the longest-leading Country Airplay No. 1 since Dustin
Lynch’s “Small Town Boy,” the only song to dominate the list for four weeks in
2017. “Boy” began its No. 1 run atop the chart dated Sept. 16, 2017.
The last title to control Country Airplay for over four weeks? Thomas
Rhett’s “Die a Happy Man,” for six weeks beginning Jan. 2, 2016. Since the
chart launched in January 1990, two songs share the record for the longest stay
at No. 1: Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” (eight
weeks in 2003) and Lonestar’s “Amazed” (eight, 1999).
Kip
Moore with “Last
Shot” (MCA Nashville) became his fifth top
10 on Country Airplay as it
increased by 5 percent to 20.7 million impressions in its 46th week and pushed 13-9.
“Shot” is Moore’s first top 10 since “More Girls Like You,” which reached No. 4
last November. Moore’s sum of five top 10s includes his lone leader to date,
“Somethin’ ’Bout a Truck,” in 2012.
Blake
Shelton earned his 31st Country Airplay top10 as “Turnin’ Me On” (Warner Bros./Warner
Music Nashville) lifted 11-10 (20.6 million, up 1 percent). Shelton
keeps in ninth place for most top10s among solo males in the history of the
Country Airplay chart and ties Rascal Flatts for the 11th-best total among all
artists. George Strait leads all acts with 61 top 10s.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (4 weeks) *** “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs 44.941 million audience (+0.967 million) / 8,207 radio
plays (+4)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.8 “Speechless” Dan + Shay 3.885 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.41 “Miss Me More” Kelsea
Ballerini
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.53 “The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home” Justin Moore
Debut
No.58 “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Debut
No.60 “I Don't Remember Me” (Before You) Brothers
Osborne
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless”
held at No.1 (#20 Non-mover Digital Songs; 11,000 sales; 20-week total 171,000)
as their 42-week “Tequila” held at No.7 (5,000
sales; 41-week total 442,000).
“Speechless” was 19-places
behind Ariana Grande who scored her first No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100
(dated Nov. 17), as "Thank U,
Next" rocketed onto the chart at No.1, arriving as the
top-streamed (55.5 million U.S. streams) and top-selling song of the week (81,000 downloads sold in the week ending Nov. 8,
according to Nielsen Music). With "Next," Grande likewise earned her
first No.1 on the Streaming Songs chart and her fourth leader on Digital
Song Sales, after "Problem," for three weeks in 2014; "Bang
Bang," with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj (one week, 2014); and "No Tears
Left to Cry" (one, this May).
No. 1 in streams & sales: "Next" launches with and
Jimmie Allen with ballad “Best Shot” rose 3-2 in his seventh frame (#40-37 Digital Songs; 7,000 sales; 7-week total 80,000).
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” fell 2-3 (#31-38
Digital Songs; 7,000 sales; 14-week total 254,000).
Chris Stapleton with “Tennessee Whiskey”
climbed 5-4 in its 148th week (#42 Re-Entry Digital Songs;
7,000 sales; 148-week total 1,700,000)
as his 5-week “Millionaire”
held at No.14 (4,000
sales; 6-week total 153,000).
Brett Young with “In Case You Didn't Know”
made a re-entry at No.5 (#47 Re-Entry Digital
Songs; 7,000 sales; total 1,172,000)
Mitchell
Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” fell at
4-6 (7,000 sales; 16-week total 137,000).
Jake Owen with “Down
To The Honkytonk” fell 6-8 (6,000
sales; 11-week total 64,000).
Kane
Brown with “Lose It” held at No.9 (5,000 sales; 21-week total 155,000)
as the 50-week “Heaven”
slipped 16-17 in its 51st week (4,000 sales; 51-week total 656,000).
Their former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) held at No.10 (5,000 sales; 50-week total 1,335,000).
Outside
the Top 10
Dierks Bentley feat. Brothers Osborne with
“Burning
Man” climbed 13-11 (5,000
sales; 13-week total 79,000).
Florida
Georgia Line with “Simple” (BMLG) fell 8-12
(4,000 sales; 23-week total 336,000).
Chris
Lane with “I
Don’t Know About You”, the second single from Laps Around the Sun made
a re-entry at No.22 (3,000 sales). It follows “Take Back Home Girl”
(featuring Tori Kelly), which reached No.12 on Hot Country Songs in April.
“Know” rose 45-35, powered by bursts of 54 percent to 3,000 sold and 14 percent
to 1.8 million U.S. streams.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
November
12, 2018
Chris Young
Earns 11th #1 Hit With 'Hangin' On'
Congrats
to Chris Young, Steve Hodges, Dennis Reese and the RCA promotion staff on landing the week’s No.1 with “Hangin’
On.” The song is the second chart-topper from LOSING SLEEP (the
namesake for his 2018 arena headlining tour). Writers are Corey Crowder, Josh
Hoge and Young.
The
tune marks YOUNG's 11th hit single as “Hangin’ On” took the top spot on the
Mediabase Country Radio Chart. The song, which “finds Young revving up his rich
country baritone” (Rolling Stone), is the Opry member’s 9th No. 1 as a
songwriter.
“Hangin’ On” is also Young’s fifth consecutive No.1, topping a list
that includes the three-week No. 1 and 2x platinum certified “I’m Comin’ Over,” the ACM, CMA, Grammy
and RDMA nominated, platinum single “Think
Of You” with Cassadee Pope, the BBMA nominated Gold single “Sober Saturday Night” featuring Vince
Gill, and platinum certified and title of his sold-out arena headlining tour,
“Losing Sleep.”
“Making music is all I’ve ever wanted to do,
so to be celebrating my 11th #1 really is a dream come true,” said Young.
Over
the weekend, Young took his “Losing Sleep World Tour” to packed houses at Giant
Center in Hershey, PA and Onecenter War Memorial Auditorium in Syracuse, NY. He
is coming back to the UK with dates in May 2019
“Hangin’ On” (RCA)
moved 2-1 logging 8,520 radio spins (+346), 53.093 million audience
impressions (+1.68 million) with 27620 Total Points (+1091) from 156 tracking stations (156 ADDS) for
the tracking week November 4 to November 10, 2018
And
kudos to Matthew Hargis, Bobby Young and the BMLG Records and Capitol
promo crews for tying atop the add board at 21 with Florida Georgia Line’s “Talk You Out Of It” and Luke Bryan’s “What
Makes You Country,” respectively.
The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Talk You Out Of It (BMLGR) 21 61
LUKE BRYAN/What Makes You Country (Capitol) 21 142
OLD
DOMINION/Make It Sweet (RCA) 20 92
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 19 89
JUSTIN MOORE/The
Ones That Didn't Make It.. (Valory) 9 55
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Love Wins (Capitol) 8 126
COLE
SWINDELL/Love You Too Late (Warner Bros./WMN) 8 8
BRETT
YOUNG/Here Tonight (BMLGR) 7 105
CODY JOHNSON/On
My Way To You (CoJo Music/WMN) 6 103
WALKER
HAYES/90's Country (Monument/Arista) 6 38
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 5 84
LAUREN
ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 4 53
CARLY
PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 3 5
TENILLE
TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 3 41
PISTOL ANNIES/Got
My Name Changed Back (RCA) 2 15
RACHEL
WAMMACK/Damage (RCA) 2 47
COLT FORD/How
You Lose A Woman (Average Joes) 1 1
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Sittin' Pretty (BMLGR) 1 1
LUKE
COMBS/Beautiful Crazy (River House/Columbia) 1 11
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 1 97
RAELYNN/Tailgate
(Warner Bros./WMN) 1 14
ALKER
MCGUIRE/Growin' Up (Stoney Creek) 1 28
WATERLOO
REVIVAL/Wonder Woman (Show Dog) 1 32
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #11
Event
Venue City/State: Eagles Madison Square Garden New York
Dates:
Oct. 9-10, 2018 Gross Sales: $4,389,379 Attend:
26,375/ 26,375
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $393.50, $223.50, $143.50, $93.50,
$63.50
Promoters: Live Nation
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