Sunday, 13 January 2019

Country Billboard Chart News December 31, 2018


In Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of January 5, 2018)

Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics Gene Autry
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (6 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Country Airplay ** No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (8 non-consecutive weeks) “Speechless” Dan + Shay

Billboard Top 200 / Country Album Chart News (Chart issue week of January 5, 2019)

The Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

21 Savage's 'I Am > I Was' Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
21 Savage scored his first No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart (BB200) with the chart-topping bow of I Am > I Was. The set was released on Dec. 21 via Slaughter Gang/Epic Records and launches with 131,268 equivalent album units (17,870) [151,871,930 streams] earned in the week ending Dec. 27, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 18,000 were in traditional album sales, as the bulk of the album was driven by streaming activity.

Billboard Top Country Albums (Chart issue week of January 5, 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. 
Christmas is still in the air! This first week of 2019 based on total consumption Gene Autry with Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics rose 2-1 (#40-24 Billboard 200; 11 chart frames) to lead Billboard Top Country Albums.

20 non-consecutive week No.1 Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) slipped 1-2 (#30-32 Billboard 200) in its 82nd chart frame.
Burl Ives with RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER lifted 4-3 (#52-; 13 chart frames).

Elvis Presley with IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME dropped 3-4.
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) climbed 7-5 (#66-52 BB200).

Brenda Lee with The Best Of Brenda Lee: 20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection lifted 9-6 (#78-59 BB200).
Former No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY advanced 12-7 (#102-60 BB200).
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 6-8 (#60-65 BB200).

Chris Stapleton with the 191-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) fell 8-9 (#68-74 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 15-17 (#129-138 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 moved 21-20 (#179-190 Billboard 200).

Outside the Top 10
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) frose 14-12 (#111-116 BB200) in its 36th week.
Mitchell Tenpenny with TELLING ALL MY SECRETS slumped 5-14 (#53-129 Billboard 200) in his second frame.
Former No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. fell 10-18 in his third frame.

Upchurch with 12-track Hip-Hop & Rap set RIVER RAT [Explicit] (Redneck Nation Records | Amazon UK - UK iTunes) made a debut at No.21 (#191 New Entry Billboard 200) and #8 Country Album sales.

Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of January 5, 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 Hot Country Songs for a sixth week.

Hot County Songs
** No.1 (6 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay 
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.40 “People Are Different” Florida Georgia Line  
Debut No.41 “Prayed For You” Matt Stell
Debut No.47 “Rules Of Breaking Up” Brandon Ratcliff
Debut No.49 “Glow” Brett Eldredge

Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of January 5, 2019)

In it’s 21st chart frame Dan + Shay with “Speechless” (writers Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) led the chart for third successive week.

Country Airplay
*** No.1 (3 weeks) *** “Speechless” Dan + Shay 33.459 million audience (-5.307 million) / 6475 radio plays
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.60 “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” Dylan Scott

Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart 
(Chart issue week of January 5, 2019)

Previous weeks’ chart topper Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless” returned to No.1 moving 2-1 (#12-10 Digital Songs) to head the summit for an 8th non-consecutive week as their hit “Tequila” advanced 11-2 in its 49th frame.
Speechles was nine places behind Halsey's "Without Me" which spent a third week at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. It led Digital Song Sales for a sixth week (47,000, up 27 percent).

Luke Combs with “She Got The Best Of Me” pushed 9-3 (#44-31 Digital Songs) and “Beautiful Crazy” lifted 14-4 (#34 Re-Entry Digital Songs) in its 34th frame.
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk” rose 12-5 (#50 Re-Entry Digital Songs).

Mitchell Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” climbed 16-6 in its 23rd frame.
Kane Brown with “Lose It” made a re-entry at No.7 and Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” rose 17-8.
Brenda Lee with “Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree” fell 8-9. It also two-stepped 11-9 on the Hot 100, also reaching the top 10 at last; originally released in 1958, it first appeared on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 12, 1960, reaching No. 14 two weeks later, its best rank until last week. On Streaming Songs, "Tree" rose 12-3 (44.9 million, up 50 percent).
The former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) climbed 25-10.

Outside the Top 10
Florida Georgia Line with “People Are Different” made a debut at No.13

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