In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of December 8, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (19 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “Lose It” Kane Brown
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (6 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).
The results of the Billboard 200 chart dated Dec. 8, which was announced on Sunday (Dec. 2),
are being audited by Nielsen Music due to a processing discrepancy. Upon
completion of the in-depth audit of data sources across streaming and retail, Billboard will
announce any resulting changes that may affect chart rankings.
That seems to be the industry-wide refrain in
response to the latest Billboard chart flap, as the Bible’s prior anointing of Travis Scott as #1
on its Top 200 after a squeaker of a race with 6ix9ine will now be
re-run and may be reversed after a challenge.
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.
Former
No.1 Kane Brown with
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT held at No.2 (9,700
sales; 3-week total 128,600).
In its 104th
chart frame Brown’s 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED (released
Dec 2, 2016) fell 5-9 (2,900 sales;
104-week total 481,600).
Elvis Presley with IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME made a re-entry at No.3.
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 3-4 (2,500 sales; 23-week total 70,200).
Burl
Ives with RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER rose 14-5
(10 chart frames).
Gene
Autry with Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other
Christmas Classics lifted 16-6 (8 chart frames).
Chris Stapleton with the 187-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
fell 4-7 (4,800 sales; 14-week
total 2,391,900) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) dropped 12-16 and From A Room: Volume 2 retreated 19-30 (2,600
sales; 52-week total 459,700).
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY slipped 6-8 (8,500 sales; 11-week
total 358,300).
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 7-10
(2,100 sales; 33-week total 448,700).
Outside the
Top 10
Brenda Lee with The Best Of Brenda Lee: 20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection snagged
the Hot Shot Debut with a No.11 bow.
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 8-12 (1,100 sales; 64-week total 304,100).
2-week No.1 Eric Church with his DESPERATE MAN (EMI Nashville/Universal
Music Group Nashville) fell 10-14 (4,600 sales; 8-week
total 152,100).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) slipped 11-15 (1,000 sales; 94-week total 245,300).
Kacey Musgraves with the 2018 CMA Album Of
The Year GOLDEN HOUR fell 13-24 (2,800 sales; 30-week total 118,100)
Holiday
sets Reba McEntire with My Kind Of Christmas lifted 23-13 (24 chart frames), Brett Eldredge with
GLOW made a re-entry at No.17 (15
chart frames), Blake Shelton with CHEERS, IT'S CHRISTMAS was up 39-18
(24 chart frames), Garth Brooks & Trisha
Yearwood with CHRISTMAS TOGETHER pushed 29-21 (16 chart frames) and Lady Antebellum with
ON THIS WINTER'S NIGHT made a re-entry
at No.25 (15 chart frames).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Various Artists with COUNTRY FAITH CHRISTMAS, VOL. 2 made a debut at No.20 (1,400 sales)
Ward Davis with ASUNDER 4-track EP (Ward Davis Music | Amazom.com) made a debut at No.21 selling 1,200 copies.
34
New 1 - Lone Justice with THE WESTERN TAPES, 1983 (Omnivore Recordings | Amazon.com) made a debut at No.34 selling 800 copies.
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
14,144,000 (Physical sales 10,128,000
(down -22.2%) + Digital sales 4,027,000 (down -33.2%) which is 25.7% down at the same point in 2017 (19,047,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
43,664,000 down 27.7% at the same point in 2017 (60,403,000)
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:
Dan + Shay with “Speechless” (Warner
Bros./ WAR) led Hot Country Songs for a second week after becoming pair’s first
No.1 and the chart’s third leader of 2018, following Kane Brown’s “Lose It” and
Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be.”
Dustin Lynch added his seventh top 10 on
both Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay as “Good Girl” (Broken Bow)
climbed 13-10 and 11-7 on the lists, respectively. On the latter, the song
hikes by 14 percent to 25 million in audience. Lynch first reached the top 10
in 2012, with the No.2-peaking “Cowboys and Angels.”
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay **
** Airplay
Gainer” ** No.10 “Good Girl” Dustin
Lynch
** Streaming Gainer ** No.32 “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen
** Digital
Gainer ** No.41 “You're In It” Granger
Smith
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.47 “Bring It On Over” Billy Currington
Debut
No.48 “Die From A Broken Heart” Maddie
& Tae
Debut
No.50 “Friends Don't” Maddie & Tae
Kane
Brown with “Lose
It” (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) ascended 3-1 on Billboard’s
Country Airplay chart (dated Dec.8), increasing by 6 percent to 40.5
million audience impressions in the week ending Dec.2, according to Nielsen
Music.
On the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart,
“Lose” rebounded 5-3. It crowned Hot Country Songs two weeks earlier (Nov.24),
dethroning Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be” (Warner
Bros./Big Machine Label Group), which dominated for a record 50 weeks.
“Lose,” which Brown wrote with Chase McGill and Will Weatherly, is the
first single from Brown’s second full-length, Experiment, which debuted atop both
the all-genre Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums charts dated Nov. 24 with
126,000 equivalent album units.
“Lose” is the third total and consecutive Country Airplay No. 1 for the
25-year-old singer-songwriter.
“Heaven” led for two weeks in May, after “What Ifs” (featuring Lauren
Alaina) reigned on Oct. 28, 2017.
Brown charted two prior Country Airplay songs: “Used to Love You Sober,”
his maiden posting, which peaked at No. 35 in May 2016, followed by “Thunder in
the Rain,” which reached No. 43 that November.
All five songs have been released by RCA Nashville, to which Brown signed
in early 2016 after building a strong social media following starting in 2014,
mainly by posting covers of songs by artists including Brantley Gilbert, Alan
Jackson and George Strait.
Thomas
Rhett rolled up his 13th Country Airplay top10 as “Sixteen”
(Valory) pushed 12-8 (24.3 million, up 11 percent). The track, which
Rhett co-authored, bumped 12-10 on Hot Country Songs.
Of his prior 12 Country Airplay top 10s, Rhett logged 11 as a lead artist
— all of which have hit No.1. (“Small Town Throwdown,” by Brantley Gilbert featuring
Justin Moore and Rhett, reached No.8 in 2014.) Rhett has racked up 18
appearances on the tally, having first reached the upper tier in 2013 with his
first No. 1, “It Goes Like This,” which ruled for three weeks.
Garth
Brooks notched his 89th Country Airplay appearance —
a total that includes 19 chart-toppers among 35 top 10s — as “Stronger Than Me” (Pearl), a tribute
to wife Trisha Yearwood, debuted at No.56 (1.2 million impressions).
Brooks ties Kenny Chesney for the second-most career appearances on
Country Airplay, dating to the chart’s launch in January 1990. George Strait
leads with 98 entries. Rounding out the top five most frequent visitors: Tim McGraw
(83) and Alan Jackson (82).
Brooks premiered “Stronger” with a performance at the 52nd annual Country
Music Association Awards that aired on ABC on Nov. 14. “Stronger” followed “All
Day Long,” which hit No.11 on Country Airplay in September, and “Ask Me How I
Know,” which last December became Brooks’ first No.1 on the survey since 2007.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Lose It” Kane Brown
40.549 million audience (+2.404 million) / 7,810 radio plays (+468)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.7 “Good Girl” Dustin Lynch +3.116 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.33 “One That Got Away” Michael
Ray (16 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.56 “Stronger
Than Me” Garth Brooks
Debut
No.57 “Love You Too Late” Cole Swindell
Debut
No. 60 “When It Comes To
Loving You” Jon Langston
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless”
held at No.1 (#9-12 Digital Songs; 10,000 sales; 23-week total 206,000) for
a 6th non-consecutive week as “Tequila” dropped 3-5 (20-41 Digital Songs; 5,000 sales;
45-week total 471,000).
“Speechless”
was eleven places behind Halsey’s “Without Me” which was steady at its No. 4 Hot
100 peak, while leading Digital Song
Sales for a second frame (29,000, down 22 percent).
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss Me More” climbed 6-2 (45-22 Digital Songs; 7,000 sales;
4-week total 54,000). Ballerini, moonlighting as a coach on NBC’s The Voice,
performed the song on the show’s Nov. 27 episode. It lifted 30-25 on Hot
Country Songs, up 32 percent to 4.3 million in radio audience, as it hopped
37-32 on Country Airplay and 8 percent to 7,000 sold.
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” slipped 2-3 (#12-23
Digital Songs; 7,000 sales; 17-week total 284,000).
Jimmie Allen with “Best Shot” climbed 5-4 (44-38 Digital Songs; 5,000 sales;
10-week total 99,000).
Seasonal
chesnutt Brenda
Lee with “Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree”
made a re-entry at No.6 (#44
Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Mitchell Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” climbed 11-7 (5,000 sales; 19-week total 154,000).
Former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) held at No.8 (5,000 sales; 53-week total
1,354,000).
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk” bounded
fell 7-9 (5,000
sales; 14-week total 80,000).
Granger Smith with “You’re in It” made a debut at No.10 (5,000 sales; total 29,000). It
marked Smith’s second Country Digital Song Sales top 10, following the No.
4-peaking “Backroad Song” in 2015. “You’re in It” is from Smith’s military ode,
They Were There: A Hero’s Documentary, which premiered Nov. 30 on YouTube.
Outside
the Top 10
Dierks
Bentley feat. Brothers
Osborne with “Burning Man” fell 4-13 (4,000
sales; 16-week total 96,000).
Chevel Shepherd with a cover of Kasey Musgraves’ “Space
Cowboy” made a debut at No.16 (3,000 sales). Team Kelly's (Kelly Clarkson)
Chevel performed it during The Voice Live Top 11 Performances.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart
December
3, 2018
Kane Brown Scores #1 With
'Lose It'
Congrats to Kane Brown,
Steve Hodges, Dennis Reese and the RCA
promotion team on landing this week’s No.1 with “Lose It.” The song is the
first single from his new album Experiment. Writers are Chase McGill, Will Weatherly
and Brown. The tune marks Brown's third consecutive career hit, following the
success of his two-week #1," Heaven" and "What If’s,"
featuring Lauren Alaina.
“Lose It” (RCA)
climbed 3-1 logging 8,466 radio spins (+633), 52.081 million audience impressions
(+5.092 million) with 27027 Total Points (+2138) from
155 tracking stations (155 ADDS) for the tracking week November 25 to December
1, 2018 and published chart dated December 3, 2018.
Luke Combs Is Most-Added
With 'Beautiful Crazy'
And kudos to Shane
Allen and the Columbia reps on landing 52
adds for Luke
Combs’ “Beautiful Crazy”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
LUKE COMBS/Beautiful Crazy (River House/Columbia) 52 77
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Every Little Thing (Triple Tigers) 44 46
BIG &
RICH/Brand New Buzz (B&R/New Revolution) 22 22
GARTH
BROOKS/Stronger Than Me (Pearl) 18 47
OLD
DOMINION/Make It Sweet (RCA) 15 126
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Talk You Out Of It (BMLGR) 12 83
COLE
SWINDELL/Love You Too Late (Warner Bros./WMN) 10 54
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 9 106
MICHAEL RAY/One
That Got Away (Atlantic/WEA) 7 142
BRAD
PAISLEY/Bucked Off (Arista) 6 79
CHASE RICE/Eyes
On You (Broken Bow) 6 117
KEITH
URBAN/Never Comin Down (Capitol) 6 139
BRETT
YOUNG/Here Tonight (BMLGR) 5 124
CARLY
PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 5 64
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Love Wins (Capitol) 4 137
LAUREN
ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 4 60
PISTOL
ANNIES/Got My Name Changed Back (RCA) 2 20
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 2 91
TENILLE
TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 2 45
RAELYNN/Tailgate
(Warner Bros./WMN) 1 17
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #1
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Charli XCX Tokyo Dome
Tokyo
Dates:
Nov. 20-21, 2018 Gross Sales: $14,859,847 Attend: 100,109/ 100,109
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$148.44
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #2
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Broods ANZ
Stadium Sydney
Dates:
Nov. 2, 2018 Gross Sales: $7,686,564 Attend: 72,805/ 72,805
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$105.58
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #3
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Broods The
Gabba Brisbane, Australia
Dates: Nov. 6, 2018 Gross Sales: $4,338,127 Attend: 43,907/ 43,907
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$98.80
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #4
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Broods, Charli XCX Mt
Smart Stadium Auckland, New Zealand
Dates:
Nov. 9, 2018 Gross Sales: $3,617,593 Attend: 35,749/ 35,749
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$101.19
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #27
Event
Venue City/State: Gregory Alan Isakov, Haley Heynderickx The Vic
Chicago
Dates:
Nov. 7, 2018 Gross Sales: $48,480 Attend: 1,425/ 1,425
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$39, $34
Promoters: Jam Productions
Rank
Artist: #40
Event
Venue City/State: Elle King The Vic Chicago
Dates:
Nov. 10, 2018 Gross Sales: $25,026 Attend:
776/ 1,000
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (224 unsold tickets) Prices:
$32.25
Promoters: Jam Productions
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