Wednesday 23 January 2019

Country Billboard Chart News January 14, 2018


Country Billboard Chart News January 14, 2018

In 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’sSome 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

For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly January 14, 2019, Issue 635 - Magazine View

For the very latest up to the minute Mediabase Chart (Past 7 Days) go here - www.mediabase.com



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