Country
Billboard Chart News February 11, 2019
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of February 16, 2019)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (26 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Tequila” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “This Is It” Scotty McCreery
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (3 non-consecutive weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
A Boogie Wit
da Hoodie's 'Hoodie SZN' Returns to No.1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
In
a sleepy week on the Billboard Top 200
Albums Chart (BB200), rapper A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s former No. 1, Hoodie
SZN, reclaimed the crown for a third non-consecutive week. The set rose 3-1 and earned 47,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 7, according
to Nielsen Music (down 1 percent). The album previously led the list on charts
dated Jan. 19 and Jan. 26.
Hoodie
SZN’s chart fortunes are powered almost entirely by streaming activity.
In the tracking week, of its total of 47,000 units, 45,000 were in SEA units,
which equals 68.4 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s songs. The
remaining overall units were from TEA units (about 1,000) and album sales (less
than 1,000). The album once again
trumped its own record for the smallest weekly album sales total for a No.1
album on the Billboard 200 since the chart flipped from an album sales-only
list to a multi-metric consumption ranking in December of 2014.
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.
Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) held at No.1 (#20-14
Billboard 200) to top the chart for a 26th non-consecutive week in the albums 88th
chart frame.
Dan
+ Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#36-37 BB200) in their 33rd
frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 197-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.3 (#53-55 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) slipped
14-16 (#184 non-mover BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 fell
20-22.
Former
No.1 Kane Brown with
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT held at No.4 (#66-64
BB200) in his 13th frame as his self-titled debut moved 7-6 in its 114th frame.
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) lifted 8-5
(#85-81 BB200) in its 43rd week.
Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory) fell 6-7
(#73-85 BB200) in his 74th frame.
Former
No1 Cody Johnson with AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT
(Cojo/Warner Music Nashville) fell 5-8
(#68-118 Billboard 200) in his third frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY climbed 12-11 (#164-148 BB200) in its 21st
frame.
Mandolin Orange with their 10-track- TIDES OF A TEARDROP (Yep Roc Records Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.13 (#164 Billboard 200) .
Additionally,
they topped both Country Album Sales and Bluegrass Albums charts.
The Wolves lead
single impacted radio on January 14th. They have logged 1.2 million active
monthly listeners on Spotify and over 117 million catalog track streams.
"There’s
an earnestness to the duo’s delivery and approach that imbues the music with a
rustic honesty and simplicity that belies the complexity of the harmonies and
instrumentation." – Pop Matters
Mitchell Tenpenny with TELLING ALL MY SECRETS fell 13-17
(#166-195 BB200) in his eighth frame.
Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) held at No.19 in her 40th
frame.
Former No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. fell 21-25 in his nineth frame.
Outside the Top 25
Cassadee Pope with
her 11-track album STAGES (Awake
Music LLC | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com ) made
a debut at No.39 (4,000 equivalent
album units).
Additionally, it landed at No.11 on Country Album Sales (16/02/2019), No.81 on Top Album Sales (all-genres) and No.16 on Digital Albums
CHART HISTORY:
Stages is Pope’s first full-length project since 2013’s FRAME BY FRAME (released
October 8, 2013). As a 23-year old Cassadee became the first former contestant
on The Voice (Season 3 winner; Team Blake) to land a top 10 album when she
achieved the feat after it debuted at No.9 on the all-genre Billboard 200
selling 43,196 copies. By mid-August 2014 it had sold
181,000 copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
996,000 (Physical sales 669,000
(down -30.4%) + Digital sales 326,000 (down -21.1%) which is 27.5% down at the same point in 2018 (1,374,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
3,387,000 down 30.6% at the same point in 2018 (4,878,000)
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 held at No.1 with
“Tequila”
(Warner Bros./WAR) for a third consecutive following a record 54-week trip to the top.
Jordan
Davis notched his second Hot Country Songs top 10
as “Take It From Me” (MCA Nashville) strode 11-9, fueled heavily by its performance on Country Airplay, where
it lifted 7-5, up 10 percent to 29.1 million impressions.
George
Strait debuted new music as “God and Country Music”
(MCA Nashville) bowed at No.36, his
122nd entry on Hot Country Songs. It entered Country Digital Song Sales at No.4
(7,000 downloads sold), his highest-charting entry and third top 10, following
“Let’s Go” (No. 9, 2015) and “Give It All We Got Tonight” (No. 8, 2013).
Strait charts on Hot Country Songs for the first time in
three years, after he had graced the survey every year between 1981 and 2016.
He last appeared with the No. 36-peaking “Cold Beer Conversation.”
“God” is the first single from his 30th studio album,
Honky Tonk Time Machine, due March 29.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Tequila” Dan
+ Shay
** Digital Gainer/ Airplay
Gainer” No.2 “Beautiful Crazy” Luke
Combs
** Streaming Gainer ** No.4 “This Is It” Scotty McCreery
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.29 “Women” Florida
Georgia Line feat. Jason Derulo
Debut
No.36 “God And Country Music” George
Strait
Debut
No.46 “Thought About You” Tim McGraw
Debut
No.49 “Rednecker” HARDY
Scotty
McCreery notched his second No.1 on Billboard’s
Country Airplay chart as “This Is
It” (Triple Tigers) ascended 2-1 in its 37th week (on the chart
dated Feb. 16).
The ballad gained by 8 percent to 39.6 million audience impressions in
the week ending Feb. 10, according to Nielsen Music. On the airplay-,
streaming- and sales-blended Hot Country Songs list, it entered the top five
(6-4).
McCreery co-authored the song with Frank Rogers and Aaron Eshuis for his
then-longtime girlfriend Gabi Dugal and sang it at their wedding last
June. “Two weeks before I proposed, we
wrote ‘This Is It’ as a love song for Gabi,” McCreery told Billboard. “It’s our story. If the song existed solely
for she and I, that would be completely fine with me. But to have our story on
the radio and then reach No.1 on the Billboard chart just makes my heart sing.
Gabi is my world, she inspires me every day, and I think people can feel the
realness of our love story when they listen to the song and watch the video.
The fact that so many couples are now using ‘This’ in their own weddings gives
me chills.”
The 2011 American Idol winner earned his second Country Airplay leader in
a row from Seasons Change, which became his third Top Country Albums No.1 in
March 2018. He notched his first Country Airplay No.1 with the album’s first
single, “Five More Minutes,” which led for a week the same month just ahead of
the album’s release and is nearing double-Platinum status.
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| "This Is It" Cover Art | Photo Credit: Jeff Ray |
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| Scotty McCreery weds Gabi Dugal in North Carolina on June 16, 2018 | Photo Credit: Krista Stevens & Amber Beasley for Six Foot Photography |
The singer/songwriter wrapped up his headlining, 14-city Seasons Change Tour with special guests Jimmie Allen and Heather Morgan on January 26 in Westbury, NY. The tour saw multiple sold-out performances from Raleigh, NC to Boston, MA and beyond. “CMT Hot 20 Countdown” recently broadcast an episode filmed almost entirely at the Atlanta date on his tour.
Achieving one of the strongest first weeks for a country music album in
the last year, Seasons Change moved over 40,000 albums in the first week alone.
For the first time, McCreery is featured as a songwriter on all the album’s
tracks. With themes such as losing loved ones, moving out on his own, falling
in love and coming of age, Seasons Change is a reflective and honest narrative
of the artist’s experience navigating life in his early twenties. The album was
produced by Frank Rogers, Aaron Eshuis and Derek Wells.
Michael
Ray netted his third Country Airplay top 10 as “One That Got Away” (Atlantic/WEA)
rose 12-10 (20.1 million, up 6 percent).
Riley
Green earned his first Country Airplay top 10
as his debut single, “There Was This Girl” (Big Machine Label Group),
hopped 11-9 (21 million impressions,
up 6 percent). The track is from his EP In a Truck Right Now, released in June
2018. A full album is expected later this year.
Brooks
& Dunn returned to Country Airplay with a new version of
their first of 20 No.1s — a record among duos —as “Brand New Man” (Arista Nashville), featuring Luke Combs, bowed at
No.49, the chart’s highest opener (1.7 million impressions). The
original version, which launched the pair, led for two weeks in 1991, becoming
the first of four straight leaders for the twosome.
The reimagined “Man” is the first Country Airplay appearance for Brooks
& Dunn since their collaboration with Mac Powell, “Over the Next Hill,” which
peaked at No.55 in 2010. In 2016, Ronnie Dunn’s “Damn Drunk,” featuring Kix
Brooks, reached No. 36.
“Man” is the first single from Brooks & Dunn’s Reboot (due April 5),
which finds the pair covering their greatest hits with next-generation stars,
including Kane Brown, Kacey Musgraves and Brothers Osborne. The set is their
first of newly recorded material since 2007’s Cowboy Town, which reached No.4
on Top Country Albums
Hardy co-wrote
Morgan Wallen’s “Up Down,” featuring Florida Georgia Line, and FGL’s “Simple,”
both of which topped
Country Airplay in 2018. His debut single “Rednecker” as an artist began on the list at No.50 with 1.6
million audience impressions.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week)/ Most Increased Audience *** “This Is It” Scotty McCreery 39.602 million audience (+2.844 million gain) / 8,151
radio plays (+553)
**
Most Added ** No.23 “Good As You” Kane
Brown (35 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.49 “Brand New Man” Brooks
& Dunn with Luke Combs
Debut
No.50 “Rednecker” HARDY
Debut
No.58 “Rainbow” Kacey Musgraves
Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart
Luke
Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” held at No.1 (#15-13 Digital Songs) in its 40th
frame. Additionally, Combs’ “She Got The Best Of Me” was a
non-mover at No.10.
Beautiful
Crazy was twelve places behind Ariana Grande's "7 Rings" which ruled the
Billboard Hot 100 for a third week and led the Streaming Songs chart for a
third frame, with 57.7 million U.S. streams, down 9 percent, in the week ending
Feb. 7, according to Nielsen Music. It also topped the Digital Song Sales
chart for a third week, with 42,000 downloads
sold, up 7 percent, in the week ending Feb. 7.
Florida
Georgia Line featuring Jason Derulo with “Women” made a debut at No.2 (New Entry #14
Digital Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless”
fell 2-3 (#21-23
Digital Songs) as their hit “Tequila” slipped 6-8 (#41-40 Digital Songs) in its 55th
frame.
George Strait with “God And Country Music”
made a debut at No.4 (New Entry #25 Digital Songs)
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk” fell
3-5 (#32-34 Digital Songs) in its 24th
frame.
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss Me More” lifted 7-6 (#42-35 Digital Songs) in her 14th
week.
Lee Brice with “Rumor” fell 4-7 in his 8th frame.
Chris Stapleton’s Millionaire” held at No.9 (#49 Re-Entry Digital Songs) as 161-week “Tennessee Whiskey” fell 8-11.
Outside
the Top 10
Tim McGraw with “Thought About You” made a
re-entry at No.16 (4,000 downloads
sold.)
Former No.1 Maren Morris with “GIRL” fell 5-18 in her
second frame.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
February
11, 2019
Scotty McCreery Hits #1
With 'This Is It'
Congrats to Scotty McCreery,
Kevin Herring and the Triple Tigers promotion staff on landing the week’s No.1 with “This Is It.” The song is
the second consecutive chart-topper from SEASONS CHANGE. Writers are Aaron
Eshuis, Frank Rogers and McCreery. This marks Scotty’s second career #1,
following the success of "Five More Minutes"
“This Is It” (Broken Bow) moved 2-1 logging 8,613 radio spins (+550), 53.767 million audience impressions (+3.489)
with 27899 Total Points (+2112) from 156 tracking stations (156 ADDS)
for the tracking week February 3 to February 9, 2019 and published chart dated February
11, 2019.
Dan + Shay Are Most-Added
With 'All To Myself'
Kudos to James
Marsh and the WAR reps on zipping up
41 adds on Dan + Shay’s “All To Myself”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
DAN + SHAY/All To Myself (Warner Bros./WAR) 41 49
MITCHELL
TENPENNY/Alcohol You Later (Riser House/Columbia) 40 42
KACEY MUSGRAVES/Rainbow (MCA) 37 53
LOGAN
MIZE/Better Off Gone (Big Yellow Dog) 18 31
KANE BROWN/Good
As You (RCA) 17 148
TIM
MCGRAW/Thought About You (Columbia) 16 63
GEORGE
STRAIT/Every Little Honky Tonk Bar (MCA) 15 15
CHRIS YOUNG/Raised
On Country (RCA) 11 93
BRANTLEY
GILBERT & LINDSAY
ELL/What Happens In A Small Town (Valory) 9 105
STEPHANIE QUAYLE/If I Was A Cowboy (Rebel Engine) 9 10
TENILLE TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 9 61
TRAVIS
DENNING/After A Few (Mercury) 9 56
AARON
WATSON/Kiss That Girl Goodbye (Big Label) 8 29
BROOKS &
DUNN w/L. COMBS/Brand New Man (Arista) 8 8
JIMMIE
ALLEN/Make Me Want To (Stoney Creek) 8 77
HALEY &
MICHAELS/Taking Off (Hickory/Reviver) 3 20
CLAY
WALKER/Change (Maven) 2 2
AARON
GOODVIN/Bars & Churches (1608) 1 1
CASSADEE POPE/If My Heart Had A Heart (Awake Music) 1 1
KACEY MUSGRAVES/Wonder Woman (MCA) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #5
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church Target Center Minneapolis,
Minn.
Dates:
Feb. 8-9, 2019 Gross Sales: $3,559,805 Attend: 30,426/ 30,426
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$139, $25
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Latest
Billboard Boxscore Chart
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