Country
Billboard Chart News January 14, 2018
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of January 19, 2019)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (23 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (8 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “Good Girl” Dustin Lynch
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (10 non-consecutive weeks) “Speechless”
Dan + Shay
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News (Chart issue week of
January 19, 2019)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
After
sitting in the runner-up slot on the Billboard
Top 200 Album Chart for its first two weeks, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN climbed to No.1, scoring the rapper his first
chart-topper.
The
set, released via Highbridge the Label/Atlantic Records, earned 58,000 equivalent album units in the
U.S. in the week ending Jan.10, according to Nielsen Music (down less than 1
percent compared to the previous week). Nearly all of that sum was driven by
streaming activity for the album.
Of
Hoodie SZN’s 58,000 total units, 56,000
come from SEA units (equalling 83
million on-demand audio streams for the album's 20 songs), 1,000 from TEA
units and 1,000 from album sales.
That
1,000-album sales figure is the smallest weekly sum for a No.1 on the Billboard
200 chart since it flipped from an album sales-only list to a multi-metric
consumption-ranking in December 2014.
Billboard Top Country
Albums (Chart issue week of
January 12, 2019)
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.
Based
on consumption units Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) moved held at No.1 (#18-17
Billboard 200; 3,200 sales; 84-week total 402,300)
to head the chart for a 23rd non-consecutive week No.1 in the albums 84th chart
frame.
Dan
+ Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#27-29 BB200; 2,900 sales; 29-week total 94,700).
Former
No.1 Kane Brown with
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT held at No.3 (#48-47
BB200; 2,700 sales;
9-week total 169,500). His self-titled debut Kane Brown held at No.6 (#68-67 BB200; 1,700 sales; 110-week total
498,600).
Chris Stapleton with the 193-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.4 (#53-54 BB200; 3,000 sales; total 2,428,400)
as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville)
held at No.17 (#168-179 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 fell
36-37 (2,000 sales; 58-week total
482,200).
Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory) held at No.5
(#57-59 BB200; 1,100
sales; 70-week
total 315,500) in his 70th frame.
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) held at No.7 (#77-82 BB200; 1,100 sales; 39-week
total 463,800) in its 39th week.
Mitchell Tenpenny with TELLING ALL MY SECRETS held at No.8
(#90-88 Billboard 200; 1,700 sales; 4-week
total 19,500) in his fourth frame.
Brett Young with his self-titled Brett Young (BMLG) rose 10-9 (#99 non-mover) as his former No.1
Ticket to L.A. (BMLG) held at No.12 (#117-130 BB200; 2,000 sales; 5-week total 42,500) in his fifth frame.
Legend
Dolly Parton achieved
her 44th Top Country Albums top 10 as her 2003 album ULTIMATE DOLLY PARTON re-entered the
chart at No.10 (#112 BB200)
for the first time since 2004, surging by 172 percent
to 8,000 equivalent album units.
The
set debuted at its former No.20 peak in June 2003.
Why
the boost? The album includes Parton’s 1977 five-week Hot Country Songs No. 1
“Here You Come Again,” which is being used to promote all-you-can-eat riblets,
shrimp and chicken tenders in a TV commercial for Applebee’s Grill & Bar.
The song surges by 39 percent to 3,000 downloads sold in the tracking week.
Parton
extended her record for the most Top Country Albums top 10s among women and
ranks second overall only to Willie Nelson, with 51.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY fell 9-11 (#92-126 BB200; 2,800 sales; 17-week total 403,600).
Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) fell 11-13 (#113-140
BB200; 3,200 sales; 35-week total 144,300) in
her 36th frame.
Jimmie Allen with his debut album MERCURY LANE (Stoney Creek/BMG/BBMG) held
at No.19 (#198-185 BB200; 300 sales; 11-week total 10,300)
Eric Church with DESPERATE MAN (EMI Nashville) fell 13-20 (#146-187
BB200; 3,400 sales; 14-week total 181,600) in
his 14th frame.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Balsam Range with their 11 track album AEONIC (Mountain Home Music Company | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.33 and No.1 on Bluegrass
Albums selling 500 copies.
On the heels of
their second International Bluegrass Music Association Entertainer of the Year
award, this eminent band continues to be a tour de force in Bluegrass with this
release.
With this
music, Balsam Range continues to grow the magic that has mesmerized audiences
and expanded their fandom — arresting songs full of humanity, dynamic
performances graced with subtleties, and material that is both personal and
profound. Music that would be powerful in any genre but is made all the more
compelling through this Western North Carolina band’s acoustic music mastery.
2018
Top-Selling
Albums/ Country Digital Songs/ Most-Streamed Country Songs:
Actual
product sales in 2018 were down
by double digits as consumers continue to move in overwhelming numbers to
streaming. No country album released in 2018 sold GOLD (500K) at retail.
Country
Album sales were down 25% with around
13,8 million
sold (charts dated Dec 15, 2018) compared to 18,46 million sold in 2017. Jason Aldean’s REARVIEW TOWN was the top seller with 463,000
copies sold.
On
balance, overall consumption — measured
through audio-equivalent album units, which is a combination of album sales,
track-equivalent album sales and on-demand audio streaming — grew by 10 percent for country, which
racked up 48.38 million audio-equivalent album units.
Kane Brown with “Heaven” snagged 470.5 million streams to land in the
top spot, appropriate since his phenomenal rise to stardom started with
homegrown YouTube covers. Additionally, “Heaven” ranked No.3 among country’s
top digital songs, thanks to 589,000
downloads. = 0.125% wished to own the music that they streamed
Top-Selling Country Albums,
2018
1) Jason Aldean, Rearview Town 463,000
* sales included a ticket bundle album redemption offer.
2) Carrie Underwood,
Cry Pretty 401,000 * sales included a ticket bundle album redemption offer.
3)
Keith Urban, Graffiti U 273,000 * sales included a ticket bundle album
redemption offer.
4)
Chris Stapleton, From A Room, Volume 2 249,000
5)
Chris Stapleton, Traveller 245,000
6)
Chris Stapleton, From A Room, Volume 1 230,000
7)
Luke Combs, This One’s for You 223,000
8)
Kane Brown, Kane Brown 199,000
9)
Alan Jackson, Precious Memories Collection 186,000
10)
Dierks Bentley, The Mountain 181,000
Top-Selling Country Digital
Songs, 2018
1) Bebe Rexha &
Florida Georgia Line, “Meant to Be” 1,042,000
2)
Jason Aldean, “You Make It Easy” 598,000
3)
Kane Brown, “Heaven” 589,000
4)
Dan + Shay , “Tequila” 509,000
5)
Thomas Rhett, “Marry Me” 365,000
6)
Florida Georgia Line, “Simple” 364,000
7)
Brett Young, “Mercy” 352,000
8)
Chris Stapleton, “Broken Halos” 334,000
9)
Chris Stapleton, “Tennessee Whiskey” 332,000
10)
Kenny Chesney, “Get Along” 320,000
Most-Streamed Country Songs, 2018 (By Total On-Demand
Streaming,
Audio and Video Combined)
1) Kane Brown, “Heaven” 470,494,000
2)
Dan + Shay, “Tequila” 354,587,000
3)
Chris Stapleton, “Tennessee Whiskey” 340,814,000
4)
Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina, “What Ifs” 313,430,000
5)
Thomas Rhett, “Marry Me” 308,375,000
6)
Sam Hunt, “Body Like a Back Road” 272,741,000
7)
Jason Aldean, “You Make It Easy” 249,390,000
8)
Luke Combs, “When It Rains It Pours” 232,052,000
9)
Brett Young, “In Case You Didn’t Know” 226,996,000
10)
Brett Young, “Mercy” 226,728,000
Billboard Hot Country Songs
(Chart issue week of
January 19, 2019)
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
for an eighth week atop Hot Country
Songs while their previous single, “Tequila,” resided at its No.2 peak for
an 18th week, extending its mark for the most weeks peaking at the runner-up
spot. The duo place at Nos.1 and 2 simultaneously for a fifth week, the
most among duos or groups and second only to Luke Bryan, who concurrently controlled
the top two spots on Hot Country Songs for nine weeks in 2014.
“Speechless” scored a 10th week atop Country Digital Song
Sales (14,000 sold, down 13 percent), held at its No. 2 high on Country
Streaming Songs (11.3 million U.S. streams, up 8 percent) and dipped to No. 2
after four weeks atop Country Airplay (38.4 million audience impressions).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (8 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Streaming Gainer ** No.7 “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
**
Airplay Gainer” No.8 “Good Girl” Dustin
Lynch
** Digital
Gainer ** No.27 “Rumor” Lee Brice
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.42 “Raised On Country” Chris Young
Debut
No.47 “To A T” - Ryan Hurd
Debut
No.48 “What Whiskey Does” Randy Houser feat.
Hillary Lindsey
Debut No.49 “Feels Like A Party” LOCASH
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of
January 19, 2019)
Dustin
Lynch with “Good
Girl” (Broken Bow) ascended 2-1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay
chart (dated Jan. 19), up 11 percent to 41.2 million audience
impressions in the tracking week ending Jan. 13, according to Nielsen Music.
The song became his sixth Country Airplay No.1 and first as a
writer. He co-authored it with Justin Ebach, who notched the second No.1 he has
penned, and Andy Albert, who achieved his first. “Shout-out to all of you who continue
to support and believe,” Lynch told Billboard. “Before we even had the lyric
finished on this song, I knew it was a special one, and, man, it has been. What
a way to kick off 2019.”
“Good Girl”, the lead single from his upcoming fourth full-studio album, is
Lynch’s first Country Airplay No.1 since “Small Town Boy,” which led for four
weeks starting in September 2017. Before that, he reigned with “Seein’ Red”
(February 2017, one week), “Mind Reader” (2016, one), “Hell of a Night” (2015,
one) and “Where It’s At (Yep, Yep)” (2014, two). He first reached the chart’s
top 10 with his debut hit, the No. 2-peaking “Cowboys and Angels,” in 2012.
As “Girl” reached the Country Airplay penthouse in its 37th week on the
chart, Lynch completes his second-longest trip to No.1: “Hell of a Night” rose
to the top in its 44th frame.
The song concurrently climbed 10-8 for a new peak on the airplay-,
streaming- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart.
Luke
Bryan with “What Makes You Country”
(Capitol Nashville) rose 11-10 on Country Airplay, increasing by 4
percent to 26.6 million audience impressions.
It is Bryan’s 27th Country Airplay top 10,
a total that includes 20 No.1s. He ties Carrie Underwood for 15th place among
all acts for the most top 10s, dating to the chart’s launch 29 years ago this
week (Jan. 20, 1990). George Strait leads, with 61 top 10s.
Bryan is working on a streak of 13 straight Country Airplay leaders, the
longest active run among all artists. His previous single, “Sunrise, Sunburn,
Sunset,” topped the chart for two weeks in September 2018.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week)/ Most Increased Audience ** No.1 “Good Girl” Dustin Lynch 41.174 million audience (+4.179 million) / 7,916 radio
plays (+692)
**
Most Added ** No.37 “Good As You” Kane
Brown (24 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.56 “Raised On Country” Chris
Young
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
(Chart issue week of
January 19, 2019)
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless”
held at No.1 (#10-9 Digital Songs; 15,000 sales; 29-week total 293,000) to
head the chart for an 10th non-consecutive week as their hit “Tequila”
held at No.2 (#21-30 Digital Songs; 8,000
sales; 51-week total 518,000) in its 51st frame.
Speechless was eight places behind Post Malone and Swae Lee's
"Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)" which ascended 2-1 on
the Streaming Songs chart, up 17 percent to 47.6 million U.S. streams in the
week ending Jan. 10, according to Nielsen Music. The track spent a second week
at No.1 on Digital Song Sales, up 19
percent to 48,000 downloads sold in the week
ending Jan. 10.
Luke
Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” climbed 4-3 (#37-32 Digital Songs; 8,000 sales;
36-week total 276,000) in its 36th frame as
“She Got The Best Of Me”
fell 3-5 (#34-40 Digital Songs; 6,000 sales; 23-week
total 329,000).
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk” moved
5-4 (#40-38 Digital Songs; 7,000
sales; 20-week total 117,000).
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss Me More” pushed 7-6 (#47 Non-mover Digital Songs; 6,000
sales; 10-week total 83,000). Of Note her Pop collaboration “This Feeling” with
The Chainsmokers fell 27-35 on Digital Songs (7,000 sales; total 110,000)
Chris
Young with “Raised
On Country” (RCA Nashville) made a debut at No.7 (#48 New Entry Digital Songs; 5,000
sales).
Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” rose 9-8 (5,000 sales; 157-week total 1,748,000)
as “Millionaire”
rose 13-11 (5,000 sales; 16-week
total 192,000).
Lee Brice with “Rumor” (Curb) lifted 18-9 (5,000 sales; 4-week total 65,000).
Dierks Bentley feat. Brothers
Osborne with “Burning Man” climbed 12-10 (5,000 sales; 22-week total 125,000).
Outside
the Top 10
Mitchell Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” fell 10-12 (5,000 sales; 25-week total 187,000)
in its 25th frame.
The former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) fell 6-13 (5,000 sales; 59-week total
1,383,000) as FGL’s “Simple” dived 8-23 (4,000 sales; 29-week total 367,000).
Kane Brown with “Lose It” fell 11-15 (4,000 sales; 28-week total 194,000).
Cody Johnson with “On My Way To You” made a
re-entry at No.22 (4,000 sales;
total 64,000).
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
January
14, 2019
Dustin Lynch Hits #1 With
'Good Girl'
Congrats to Dustin Lynch,
Carson James, Lee Adams, Shelley Hargis-Gaines and the Broken Bow promotion staff on securing the week’s No. 1 with “Good Girl.” The song is Lynch’s
first chart topper as a writer; co-writers are Justin Ebach and Andy Albert.
The song marks LYNCH's sixth career hit.
“Good Girl” (Broken Bow) moved 2-1 logging 8,519 radio spins (+1163), 49.932 million audience impressions (+6.46)
with 27395 Total Points (+3969) from 156 tracking stations (156 ADDS)
for the tracking week January 6 to January 12, 2019 and published chart dated
January 7, 2019.
Eric Church Is Most-Added
With 'Some Of It'
Kudos to Jimmy
Rector and the EMI Nashville reps on landing 46 adds for Eric Church’s “Some Of It”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Praised by the
Los Angeles Times as “one of Nashville’s most forthright truth-tellers,” Eric
Church has started the new year strong as his latest single “Some Of It” earned
most-added distinction with 46 first-day stations.
The song
described by Esquire as “an open-hearted look at life’s hard-won lessons” offers
Church’s honest reflection on what matters most in life. As Vulture explains,
“‘Some Of It’ coyly opens with a list of simple truths – ‘Beer don’t keep,
love’s not cheap, and trucks don’t wreck themselves’ – and builds to a chorus
about life being a game of patience and learning. You think he’s singing about
the value of wisdom, and then the bridge deals a haymaker: ‘What really makes
you a man / Is being true to her till your glass runs out of sand.’”
“I think it's
really interesting that the album took on an identity that allowed ‘Some Of It’
to make it from where it started to where it is now, and it just fit in the
dialogue,” explained Church of the song that nearly didn't find a home on
Desperate Man. “To me, it made the album
 |
| Pictured L-R: UMG Nashville Dir./Promotion & Artist Engagement Chris Fabiani being pushed out of his role by newly-named EMI Nashville Dir./Midwest Promotion Jackie Stevens and (cardboard) Sr. Dir./Southeast Promotion Trudie Daniell; UMG Nashville Dir./Promotion & Radio Marketing Chris Schuler with a paper sign in honor of Dir./West Coast Promotion Nick Kaper; EMI Nashville Coord./Promotion Connor Brock; UMG Nashville Nat. Dir./Radio Syndication Donna Hughes and EVP/Promotion Royce Risser; EMI Nashville Dir./Northeast Promotion Mike Krinik and VP/Promotion Jimmy Rector; UMG Nashville VP/Promotion David Friedman; and EMI Nashville Dir./Southwest John Trapanecaption |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
ERIC CHURCH/Some Of It (EMI Nashville) 46 57
DYLAN
SCOTT/Nothing To Do Town (Curb) 39 48
BRANTLEY
GILBERT & LINDSAY ELL/What Happens In A Small Town (Valory) 37 73
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/Girl Goin' Nowhere (Atlantic/WAR) 32 54
KANE BROWN/Good
As You (RCA) 28 92
LUKE COMBS/Beautiful
Crazy (River House/Columbia) 14 153
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Talk You Out Of It (BMLGR) 10 114
CARLY
PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 8 100
CHRIS
YOUNG/Raised On Country (RCA) 8 16
LEE BRICE/Rumor
(Curb) 8 120
BRETT
YOUNG/Here Tonight (BMLGR) 6 150
GARTH
BROOKS/Stronger Than Me (Pearl) 6 75
MORGAN
WALLEN/Whiskey Glasses (Big Loud) 6 126
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 6 105
LAUREN
ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 5 75
PISTOL
ANNIES/Got My Name Changed Back (RCA) 4 50
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 3 143
ERIC
CHURCH/Hangin' Around (EMI Nashville) 1 1
GEORGE
STRAIT/Codigo (MCA) 1 1
HARDY/Rednecker
(Tree Vibez/Big Loud) 1 1
JIMMIE
ALLEN/Make Me Want To (Stoney Creek) 1 1
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 1 111
MITCHELL
TENPENNY/Alcohol You Later (Riser House/Columbia) 1 2
SUNDANCE
HEAD/Leave Her Wild (Wildcatter) 1 12
TENILLE ARTS/I
Hate This (Reviver) 1 26
WATERLOO
REVIVAL/Wonder Woman (Show Dog) 1 35
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