Country Billboard Chart News December 17, 2018
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of December 22, 2018)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** TICKET TO L.A Brett Young
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) *** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ““Don't Wanna Write This Song” Brett Young
RIAA Certifications
Multi-Platinum
= 2,000,000 plus units
Platinum =
1-million units
Gold = 500,000
units
Note: For ALBUM
certifications the RIAA base their figures
on the number of units SHIPPED together with, track sales and on demand audio/
video stream units and NOT based purely on traditional retail sales.
1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale.
150 on-demand streams = 1
track download
GOLD ALBUM:
Brantley Gilbert THE
DEVIL DON'T SLEEP |
released Jan 27, 2017 The Valory Music Co | certified Gold Dec 12, 2018 0.5 Million units
MULTI-PLATINUM ALBUMS:
2X PLATINUM ALBUM:
Martina McBride WHITE CHRISTMAS | released Sept 29, 1998 RCA Nashville
| certified 2x Multi-Platinum Dec 12, 2018 2
Million units
4X PLATINUM ALBUM:
Martina McBride GREATEST HITS | released Sept 18, 2001 RCA Nashville |
certified 4x Multi-Platinum Dec 12, 2018 4
Million units
GOLD SINGLES:
Chris Stapleton Millionaire | released Oct 20, 2017 Mercury
Nashville | certified Gold Dec 6, 2018 0.5
Million units
Lee Brice Boy
| released April
27, 2017 Curb Records | certified Gold certified Gold Dec 12, 2018 0.5 Million units
Martina McBride Anyway |
Cole Swindell Break Up In The End | released Feb 23, 2018 Warner Bros |
certified Gold Dec 12, 2018 0.5 Million
units
Martina McBride Independence
Day | released Sept
14, 1993 RCA Nashville | certified Gold Dec 12, 2018 0.5 Million units
PLATINUM SINGLES:
Eric Church Round
Here Buzz | released
Nov 3, 2015 EMI Records Nashville | certified Platinum Dec 6, 2018 1 Million
Brothers Osborne It
Ain't My Fault | released
Jan 15, 2016 EMI Records Nashville | certified Platinum Dec 7, 2018 1 Million units
Cole Swindell Flatliner | released May 6, 2016 Warner Bros
| certified Platinum Dec 12, 2018 1 Million units
Florida Georgia Line Simple | released June 1, 2018 Big Machine
Label Group | certified Platinum Dec 12, 2018 1 Million units
MULTI-PLATINUM SINGLES:
2X PLATINUM SINGLE:
Florida Georgia Line May
We All | released July
17, 2016 BMLG Records | certified 2x Multi-Platinum Dec 12, 2018 2 Million units
3X PLATINUM SINGLE:
Dierks Bentley Drunk
On A Plane | released
Dec 6, 2018 Capitol Records Nashville | certified 3x Multi-Platinum Dec 6, 2018
3 Million units
Luke Bryan Do
I | released May 5,
2009 Capitol Nashville | certified 3x Multi-Platinum Dec 10, 2018 3 Million units
Eli Young Band Crazy Girl | released March 8, 2011 The Valory
Music Co | certified 3x Multi-Platinum Dec 12, 2018 3 Million units
Florida Georgia Line Get Your Shine On | released Dec 4,
2012 Republic Nashville | certified 3x Multi-Platinum Dec 12, 2018 3 Million units
5X PLATINUM SINGLE:
Luke Bryan Play
It Again | released
August 13, 2013 Capitol Records Nashville | certified 5x Multi-Platinum Dec 10,
2018 5 Million units
Florida Georgia Line This
Is How We Roll | released
Dec 4, 2012 BMLG Records | certified 5x Multi-Platinum Dec 12, 2018 5 Million units
6X PLATINUM SINGLE:
Zac Brown Band Chicken
Fried | released Oct
28, 2008 Elektra | certified 6x Multi-Platinum Dec 6, 2018 6 Million units
Sam Hunt Body
Like A Back Road | released
Feb 1, 2017 MCA Records Nashville | certified 6x Multi-Platinum Dec 6, 2018 6 Million units
Luke Bryan Country
Girl (Shake It For Me)
| released April 19, 2011 Capitol Nashville | certified 6x Multi-Platinum Dec 10,
2018 6 Million units
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
XXXTentacion’s first posthumously released
album, SKINS, debuted at No.1 the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200).
The set, which was released on Dec. 7 via Bad Vibes Forever/EMPIRE, is
XXXTentacion’s second No.1, and it earned 132,000 equivalent album units in the
week ending Dec. 13, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 52,000 were in album sales.
Skins
is the first posthumous No.1 album since Prince’s The Very Best of Prince
re-entered the chart dated May 6, 2016 at No. 1, following his death on April
21 of that year.
Skins’
debut week was largely driven by streaming activity of the album, as it tallied
78,000 SEA units, which equals 121.8 million on-demand audio streams of the
set’s tracks.
XXXTentacion
(real name: Jahseh Onfroy) died on June 18, 2018. Before his death, he notched
a pair of top 10 albums with Skins’ predecessor, ?, which opened at No. 1 on the
list dated March 31, 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.
Brett Young notched his first No.1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, as his sophomore full-length,
Ticket to L.A., arrives atop the
tally (dated Dec. 22) with 37,000 equivalent album units earned in its first
week, ending Dec. 13, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 27,000 were from traditional sales.
On the all-genre Billboard 200, Ticket boards at a career-best No.15.
"Having
my second record out was already super-exciting, but seeing it debut at No. 1
is something special," Young told Billboard. "I have the most
amazing fans."
Ticket
follows the 37-year-old singer-songwriter's self-titled debut LP, which entered
and peaked at No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart dated March 2, 2017 (with
25,000 first-week units; pure sales were 17,827). Young first appeared on Top Country Albums with his self-titled
EP, which opened at No. 35 in March 2016 and peaked at No. 30 in February 2017.
On the Billboard 200, the LP hit No. 18 and the EP reached No.189.
The
13-song Ticket, with 10 of its songs co-written by Young, was produced by Dann
Huff, who returns after producing Young's first album.
The
first single from Ticket, "Here Tonight," penned by Young
with Ben Caver, Justin Ebach and Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley, rose 24-18
for a new high on the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based Hot Country Songs
chart. It's helped by a 22 percent burst to 7.7 million radio audience
impressions, as it climbed 30-26 on Country Airplay. It also rose by 29 percent
to 3.8 million U.S. streams.
Young's
first LP yielded four top five Hot Country Songs hits and three No. 1s on
Country Airplay: "In Case You Didn't Know," "Like I Loved
You" and "Mercy." (And his only other single, debut hit
"Sleep Without You," reached No. 2 on the chart.)
Previous
week No.1 (20
non-consecutive weeks) Luke Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) slipped 1-2 (#28-31 Billboard 200).
Gene
Autry with Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other
Christmas Classics cheld at No3 (#49-42 Billboard 200; 10 chart frames).
Elvis Presley with IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME fell 2-4
(#45-51 Billboard 200).
Burl
Ives with RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER held at
No.5 (#53-54; 12 chart frames).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.6 (#57-66 BB200).
Former
No.1 Kane Brown with
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 4-7 (#51-67
BB200).
In its 106th
chart frame Brown’s 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED (released
Dec 2, 2016) fell 9-11 (#86-95
Billboard 200).
Chris Stapleton with the 189-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
fell 7-8 (#67-70 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville)
dropped 17-18 (#161 non-mover BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 rebounded
25-23.
Brenda Lee with The Best Of Brenda Lee: 20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection
fell 8-9 (#81-79 BB200).
Brett Eldredge with GLOW climbed 11-10 (#111-89
BB200).
Outside the
Top 10
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 10-13
(#106-113 BB200) in its 35th week.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY slipped 13-14 (#123 non-mover BB200).
Dolly Parton with 12-track DUMPLIN' (Soundtrack; Dolly Records/RCA Nashville | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com) held at
No.16 (#160-143 Billboard 200) in
its second frame.
Country Year-End Charts
Following are
the No.1 entries on each of the
country year-end charts.
Most of the 33
lists can be found at billboard.biz.
• Top Country Artists Chris Stapleton
• Top Country Artists — Duo/Group Florida
Georgia Line
• Top Country Artists — Female Carrie
Underwood
• Top Country Artists — Male Chris
Stapleton
• Top New Country Artists Jordan Davis
• Top Country Labels Universal Music
Group Nashville
• Top Hot Country Songs Artists Florida
Georgia Line
• Top Hot Country Songs “Meant to Be,”
Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line
• Top Hot Country Songs Imprints Warner
Bros.
• Top Hot Country Songs Labels BMLG
Records
• Top Hot Country Songs Producers Dann
Huff
• Top Hot Country Songs Publishing
Corporations Warner/Chappell
• Top Hot Country Songs Publishers
Warner-Tamerlane Publishing (BMI)
• Top Hot Country Songwriters Tyler
Hubbard
• Top Country Airplay Artists Thomas
Rhett
• Top Country Airplay Songs “Heaven,”
Kane Brown
• Top Country Airplay Labels Capitol
Nashville
• Top Country Airplay Imprints Warner
Bros.
• Top Country Digital Songs Artists
Florida Georgia Line
• Top Country Digital Songs Titles “Meant
to Be,” Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line
• Top Country Albums Titles This One’s
for You, Luke Combs
• Top Country Albums Artists Chris Stapleton
• Top Country Albums Imprints Capitol
Nashville
• Top Country Albums Labels Universal
Music Group Nashville
• Top Country Albums Distributors
Universal Music Group
• Top Country Streaming Songs “Meant to
Be,” Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line
• Top Country Streaming Songs Artists
Luke Combs
• Top Americana/Folk Albums Traveller,
Chris Stapleton
• Top Bluegrass Albums Artists Old Crow
Medicine Show
• Top Bluegrass Albums Titles: The
Long-Awaited Album, Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers
• Top Country Boxscores Kenny Chesney,
Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass.
• Top Country Tours Kenny Chesney
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 fourth week.
Jason
Aldean banked his 30th Hot Country Songs top
10, as "Girl Like You" hopped 11-10.
It gained by 18 percent to 26 million audience impressions, as it pushes 10-9
on Country Airplay, and by 5 percent to 3.8 million streams.
"Girl" is the third single from Aldean's eighth
studio LP Rearview Town, which debuted at No. 1 on Top Country Albums and the
Billboard 200 charts dated April 28 (183,000 opening-week units).
Town’s lead single "You Make It Easy" hit No. 2
on Hot Country Songs in February and second single "Drowns the
Whiskey," featuring Miranda Lambert, reached No. 3 in September. Both
songs topped Country Airplay for two weeks each
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay **
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.32 “Don't Wanna Write This Song” Brett Young
Debut
No.45 “Don't Let The Old Man In” Toby
Keith
Debut No.47 “Blue” Chevel Shepherd
Debut No.47 “Blue” Chevel Shepherd
In it’s 19th chart frame Dan + Shay with “Speechless”
(writers Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) advanced 5-1.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** No.1 “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay 38.629 million audience impressions
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most
Added ** No.32 “What Happens In A Small Town” Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell +4.846 million audience impressions gain
Debut
No.43 “Don't Let The Old Man In” Toby
Keith
Debut
No.59 “Got My Name Changed Back” Pistol
Annies
Debut
No.60 “Girl Goin' Nowhere” Ashley
McBryde
Brett Young with new album pre-grat track “Don't
Wanna Write This Song” blew in at No.1
(#11 Digital Songs).
It was ten
places behind Halsey’s "Without Me" which hit a new Hot 100 peak,
rising 3-2. It led Digital Song Sales
for a fourth week (37,000, down 26 percent) and lifted 4-3 on Streaming Songs.
Previous weeks’
chart topper (7 non-consecutive weeks) Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless”
slipped 1-2 (#16-12
Digital Songs) as their hit “Tequila” rose 9-8 in its 47th frame.
Seasonal
chesnutt Brenda
Lee with “Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree”
rose 4-3 (#34-29 Digital Songs).
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” fell 3-4 (#30-31
Digital Songs).
Mitchell Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” advanced 10-5 in its 21st frame.
Chevel Shepherd with a cover of Leann Rimes’ “Blue”
made a debut at No.6 (#45 New Entry Digital
Songs). Team Kelly's (Kelly Clarkson) Chevel performed it during The Voice
Season 15’s Episode 23 (Monday, December 10, 2018) Top 8 Semi Final.
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk”
held at No.7 (#49-47 Digital Songs).
The Voice
Season 15 contestant Kirk Jay (team Blake) with a cover of John
Michael Montgomerys “I Swear” made a bow at No.9. He too
performed it on The Voice Live Semi-Final, Top 8.
Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” rose 12-10.
Outside
the Top 10
Jimmie Allen with “Best Shot” fell 8-11.
Thurl Ravenscroft with “You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
was new at No.23. The Christmas song that was originally written and composed
for the 1966 cartoon special How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
December
17, 2018
Congrats to Dan + Shay’s Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney, Kristen Williams, Tom
Martens, James Marsh and the WAR
promotion staff on landing the week’s No. 1 with “Speechless.” The song is
the second chart-topper from their current self-titled album. Writers are
Jordan Reynolds, Laura Veltz, Smyers and Mooney
“Speechless” (Warner Bos./WAR) climbed 3-1
logging 8,040 radio spins (+747), 48.104 million audience
impressions (+5.111 million) with 25306 Total Points (+2264) from 155 tracking stations (155 ADDS) for
the tracking week December 9 to December 15, 2018 and published chart dated
December 17, 2018.
Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers
JASON
ALDEAN/Girl Like You (Broken Bow) 2540
SCOTTY
MCCREERY/This Is It (Triple Tigers) 2428
BRANTLEY
GILBERT f/L. ELL/What Happens In A... (Valory) 2370
THOMAS
RHETT/Sixteen (Valory) 2352
DAN +
SHAY/Speechless (Warner Bros./WAR) 2264
For
a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly December 17, 2018, Issue 632 - Magazine View
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #29
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain RAC Arena Perth, Australia
Dates:
Nov. 30, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,310,410 Attend: 11,499/ 12,633
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,134 unsold tickets)
Prices: $188.23,
$76.47
Promoters: Live Nation
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