In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of December 29, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (21 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** "Broken Hearts" Chevel Shepherd
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Kodak Black
Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With 'Dying to Live'
Rapper
Kodak Black scored his first No.1 on
the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart
(BB200), as DYING TO LIVE debuted atop the tally.
The
set, which was released on Dec. 14 via Dollaz N Dealz/Atlantic Records, earned 89,000 equivalent album units in the
week ending Dec. 20, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 5,000 were in traditional album
sales -- as the bulk of the album’s units were driven by streaming activity.
Top
100 Album Sales in 2018
#1 REPUTATION
Taylor Swift
#2 THE
GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack
#3 ÷
(DIVIDE) Ed Sheeran
#4 BEAUTIFUL
TRAUMA P!nk
#5 FROM
A ROOM: VOLUME 2 Chris Stapleton
#6 REARVIEW
TOWN Jason Aldean
#7 KAMIKAZE
Eminem
#8 A
STAR IS BORN (SOUNDTRACK) Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
#9 MAN
OF THE WOODS Justin Timberlake
#10
ASTROWORLD Travis Scott
#15
CRY PRETTY Carrie Underwood
#17
WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Luke Bryan
#22
FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 Chris Stapleton
#23
THE ANTHOLOGY: PART I, THE FIRST FIVE YEARS Garth Brooks
#25
TRAVELLER Chris Stapleton
#27
GRAFFITI U Keith Urban
#35
KANE BROWN Kane Brown
#49
THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs
#65
DESPERATE MAN Eric Church
#80
SWEET SOUTHERN SUGAR Kid Rock
#85
SONGS FOR THE SAINTS Kenny Chesney
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 total consumption (20
non-consecutive weeks) Luke Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) moved 2-1 (#31-30 Billboard 200) to top the chart for a 21
non-consecutive week in its 81st chart frame.
Gene
Autry with Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other
Christmas Classics rose 3-2 (#42-40
Billboard 200; 11 chart frames).
Elvis Presley with IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME climbed 4-3
(#51-50 Billboard 200;
12 chart weeks).
Burl
Ives with RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER rose 5-4
(#54-52; 13 chart frames).
“What an
incredible gift I received on Christmas Eve,” remarked Mitchell Tenpenny. “I
was so pleasantly surprised with the news that Telling All My Secrets debuted
on the Billboard album chart in such a huge way!"
Former
No.1 Kane Brown with
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT rose 7-6 (#67-60
BB200).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 6-7 (#66 Non-mover BB200).
Chris Stapleton with the 190-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.8 (#70-68 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) rose
18-15 (#161-129 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 climbed
23-21 (#179 Re-Entry Billboard 200).
Brenda Lee with The Best Of Brenda Lee: 20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection
held at No.9 (#79-78 BB200).
Previous
weeks No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. slumped 1-10
in his second frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY rose 14-12 (#123-102 BB200).
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 13-14
(#113-111 BB200) in its 36th week.
Outside the Top 25
Dolly Parton with 12-track DUMPLIN' (Soundtrack; Dolly Records/RCA Nashville | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com) fell 16-28 (#143 to off Billboard 200) in
its third frame.
The Voice Season
15 contestents Kirk
Jay with The Voice: The Season 15 Collection made a debut at No.32 and Chevel Shepherd
with The Voice: The Season 15 Collection was new at #49.
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 fifth week.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.24 “Broken Hearts” Chevel Shepherd
Debut
No.31 “What Happens In A Small Town” Brantley
Gilbert + Lindsay Ell
Debut
No.37 “Defenseless” Kirk Jay
Debut
No.39 “Human” Chris Kroeze
Debut
No.47 “You Look So Good In Love” Kirk
Jay & Blake Shelton
Debut
No.48 “I Won't Let Go” Kirk Jay
In it’s 20th chart frame Dan + Shay with “Speechless”
(writers Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) held at No.1.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** 38.765 million audience (+0.136 million) / 7230 radio plays
(+1)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.5 “Good Girl” Dustin Lynch +3.391 million audience gain/ 6395 plays
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
The Voice
Season 15 winner Chevel Shepherd with her original song "Broken Hearts" (US iTunes) made a debut at No.1
on the Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart (#6
New Entry Digital Songs).
Performing
on The Voice Live Finale, Part 1
It was 5 places behind Halsey's "Without Me" which spent a
second week at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. It led Digital Song Sales for a
fifth week (37,000, essentially even week-over-week).
Chevel
Shepherd and her The Voice coach Kelly
Clarkson with a cover of The Judds’ "Rockin' with the Rhythm of the Rain"
made a debut at No.10 (#48 New Entry
Digital Songs). It was performed on The Voice Week 6: Finale (Dec. 17 & 18). Additionally, Chevel Shepherd debuted
at No.18 with a cover of Tanya Tucker’s 1993 #2 hit 1993 "It's a Little Too Late".
Previous weeks’
chart topper (7 non-consecutive weeks) Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless”
held at No.2 (#12 non-mover Digital Songs) as their hit “Tequila”
fell 8-11 in its 48th frame.
Voice Season 15
Runner-up contestant (Team Blake) Kirk Jay with
original “Defenseless” made a debut at No.3 (#14 New Entry Digital
Songs). Kirk Jay & coach Blake Shelton with a cover of George Strait’s No1 hit (1984) "You Look So Good in Love" made a debut at No.6 (#27
New Entry Digital Songs) and Kirk Jay’s cover of Rascal Flatts’ #2 hit (2011) "I
Won't Let Go" made a bow at No.7 (#32 New Entry Digital Songs).
Kirk Jay The Voice Live Finale, Part 1.
Voice Season 15 Runner-up contestant (Team Blake) Chris Kroeze with original song “Human” made a debut at No.4. (#16 New Entry Digital Songs).
Brantley
Gilbert + Lindsay Ell with “What
Happens In A Small Town” made a deut at No.5 (#17 New Entry Digital Songs).
Seasonal
chesnutt Brenda
Lee with “Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree”
fell 3-8 (#29-39 Digital Songs).
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” fell 4-9 (#31-44
Digital Songs).
Outside
the Top 10
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk” fell
7-12.
Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” fell 10-15.
Mitchell Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” fell 5-16 in its 22nd frame.
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #2
Event
Venue City/State: George Strait T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas
Dates:
Dec. 7-8, 2018 Gross Sales: $5,475,575 Attend: 36,333/ 36,999
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 (666 unsold tickets) Prices:
$225, $50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #29
Event
Venue City/State: John Prine Arvest Bank Theatre at The
Midland Kansas City, Mo.
Dates:
Nov. 16, 2018 Gross Sales: $165,917 Attend: 2,035/ 2,035
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0* (Prices:
$102.50, $62.50
Promoters: NS2
Rank
Artist: #36
Event
Venue City/State: Dwight Yoakam Charleston Music Hall
Charleston, S.C.
Dates:
Nov. 15, 2018 Gross Sales: $77,979 Attend: 873/ 873
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$110, $79.50
Promoters: NS2
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