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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of February 23, 2019)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (2 non-consecutive weeks) ** GOLDEN
HOUR Kacey Musgraves
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “Tequila” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “This Is It” Scotty McCreery
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Tequila” Dan
+ Shay
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Ariana Grande’s THANK U, NEXT stormed in at No.1
on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart with 360,000
equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 14, according
to Nielsen Music. The set launched with the biggest week for a pop album in
over a year and garnered Grande her fourth No.1 -- and second in less
than six months. Of Thank U, Next’s starting unit sum, 116,000 were in album sales.
Largest
Streaming Week for a Pop Album & Any Album by a Woman: Of Thank U, Next’s
starting unit sum of 360,000 units, 228,000
were in SEA units. That latter sum translated to a whopping 307 million on-demand audio streams for
the album’s songs during the tracking week.
Thank
U, Next easily sets the record for the largest streaming week for a POP album
(beating the debut frame of Ed Sheeran’s ÷ [Divide] with 126.7 million
on-demand audio streams for its songs; March 25, 2017) and the biggest
streaming week for an album by a woman (surpassing the debut week of Cardi B’s
Invasion of Privacy with 202.6 million; April 21, 2018).
Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR rode its pair of Grammy Award wins on Feb. 10 to a
return to the top 10, as the set re-entered the chart straight in at No.9 with 35,000 units (up 524
percent). Of that sum, 20,000 were in album sales -- a gain of 735 percent.
Golden
Hour won Grammy Awards for Album Of
The Year and Best Country Album, while its songs “Butterflies” and “Space
Cowboy” also took home trophies, for best country solo performance and best
country song, respectively. Musgraves performed the album’s “Rainbow” on the
Grammy Awards broadcast and also took part in an all-star tribute performance
to Dolly Parton. (“Rainbow” is now being promoted as Musgraves latest single at
country, adult pop and adult contemporary radio stations.) Golden Hour debuted
and peaked at No. 4 last April.
Golden
Hour won Grammy Awards for album of the year and best country album (both
trophies were presented on-air during CBS’ live broadcast of the show), while
its songs “Butterflies” and “Space Cowboy” also took home two awards, for best
country solo performance and best country song, respectively.
Musgraves
performed the album’s “Rainbow” on the Grammy Awards and also took part in an
all-star tribute performance to Dolly Parton. (“Rainbow” is now being promoted
as Musgraves’ latest single at country, adult pop and adult contemporary radio
stations.) Golden Hour debuted and peaked at No. 4 last April.
In
total, Musgraves earned an increase of 414 percent in overall
equivalent album units across all of her albums -- rising to 40,000
earned in the week ending Feb. 14 (up from 8,000 the previous week). Her album
sales climbed 639 percent to 22,000 (up from 3,000), while her digital song
sales jumped 926 percent to 28,000 (up from 3,000).
In
terms of U.S. streams, Musgraves’ catalog of songs vaulted 234 percent in
on-demand streams (both audio and video), rising to 23.9 million for the week
(up from 7.1 million).
Year Album Gain % From To
2008 River: The Joni Letters (Herbie Hancock) 967% 5,000 54,000
2001 Two Against Nature (Steely Dan) 748% 4,000 32,000
2019 Golden
Hour (Kacey Musgraves) 735% 2,000 20,000 (3rd highest % sales gain since 2000)
2009 Raising Sand (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss) 715% 9,000 77,000
2007 Taking The Long Way (Dixie Chicks) 714% 13,000 103,000
2002 O Brother Where Art Thou (Soundtrack) 259% 58,000 209,000
2016 1989 (Taylor Swift) 109% 15,000 31,000
2010 Fearless (Taylor Swift) 58% 34,000 53,000
Brandi Carlile "BY THE WAY, I FORGIVE
YOU" re-entered Top Rock Albums at No. 2 with 20,000 equivalent album
units earned, an 897 percent vault. The LP previously ruled the March 3,
2018-dated chart upon its entrance. On the all-genre Billboard 200, the set
returned at No.22, its best rank since its No. 5 debut.
Performer
and three-time winner Brandi Carlile surges back onto the chart with her album
of the year-nominated By the Way, I Forgive You.
The set (which won best
Americana album, while its song “The Joke” won two trophies) vaults back onto
the tally at No. 22 with 20,000 units (up 897 percent). Of that sum, 15,000
were in album sales (up 1,054 percent).
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.
Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) rocketed 19-1 (#9 re-entry Billboard 200) on the back of her Grammy success (20,200 sales;
41-week total 173,500).
This is the second week Golden Hour has reached the summit. The album became Musgraves’ third Top Country Albums leader when it arrived atop the chart dated April 14, 2018 (with 49,000 units) previously its lone prior week at No. 1!
This is the second week Golden Hour has reached the summit. The album became Musgraves’ third Top Country Albums leader when it arrived atop the chart dated April 14, 2018 (with 49,000 units) previously its lone prior week at No. 1!
Kacey Musgraves releases new music
video for 'Rainbow'
Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) fell 1-2
Dan
+ Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 2-3 (#37-31 BB200) in their 34th frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 198-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
fell 3-4 (#55-44 BB200; 4,500 sales; 198-week total 2,445,800) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) held
at No.16 (#184-175 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 rose
22-14 (#161 Re-Entry Billboard 200).
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 4-5 (#64-70 BB200; 2,400 sales; 14-week total 182,500) in his 14th frame as his self-titled debut held at No.6 (1,700 sales; total 506,500) in its 115th frame.
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 5-7 (#81-82 BB200; 1,200 sales; total 469,000) in its 44th week.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 4-5 (#64-70 BB200; 2,400 sales; 14-week total 182,500) in his 14th frame as his self-titled debut held at No.6 (1,700 sales; total 506,500) in its 115th frame.
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 5-7 (#81-82 BB200; 1,200 sales; total 469,000) in its 44th week.
Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory) fell 7-8
(#85-97 BB200) in his 75th frame.
Former
No1 Cody Johnson with AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT
(Cojo/Warner Music Nashville) fell 8-11
(#118-146 Billboard 200; 2,000 sales; 4-week total 31,500).
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY fell 11-13 (#148-155 BB200; 2,600 sales; 22-week total 425,200).
Mitchell Tenpenny with TELLING ALL MY SECRETS fell 17-19
(1,000 sales; 9-week total 24,300).
Outside the Top 25
Former No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. fell 25-29 (1,300
sales; 10-week total 49,700).
Sister Hazel with 7-track set FIRE (Croakin' Poet Records | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a Hot Shot Debut at No.48 (#8 Country Album Sales) selling 3,300 copies.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Adam Calhoun & Demun Jones with 5-track EP CRAZY WHITE BOY (EP; ACal/Rahhh | Amazon UK) made a debut No.10 selling 2,200 copies.
Adam Calhoun & Demun Jones with 5-track EP CRAZY WHITE BOY (EP; ACal/Rahhh | Amazon UK) made a debut No.10 selling 2,200 copies.
Jacob Bryant with 12-track PRACTICE WHAT I PREACH (American Roots Records | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.22 selling 900 copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
1,227,000 (Physical sales 820,000
(down -30.2%) + Digital sales 407,000 (down -18.3%) which is 26.6% down at the same point in 2018 (1,672,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
4,132,000 down 28.5% at the same point in 2018
(5,778,000)
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 fourth consecutive week.
Luke
Bryan earned his 27th Hot Country Songs top 10, as "What
Makes You Country" rose 11-9.
It held at No.4 on Country Airplay (32.4 million impressions, up 5 percent) and
gained by 22 to 3.2 million U.S. streams.
Chris
Stapleton's "Millionaire" completed a record
run to the Hot Country Songs top 10, ascended 12-10 in its 56th week. The song stepped 7-6 on Country Airplay
(25.4 million in audience, up 2 percent) and increased by 5 percent to 3.9
million streams.
"Millionaire," Stapleton's third Hot Country
Songs top 10, passed Lee Brice's 46-week climb to the top 10 with his No.
3-peaking "Love Like Crazy" in 2010 (when the chart was solely
airplay-based).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “Tequila” Dan
+ Shay
**
Airplay Gainer/ Digital
Gainer/ Streaming Gainer No.2 “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.17 “Rainbow” Kacey Musgraves
Debut
No.30 “Brand New Man” Brooks & Dunn
With Luke Combs
Debut
No.36 “Every Little Honky Tonk Bar” George
Strait
Debut
No.42 “Believe” Brooks & Dunn With
Kane Brown
Debut
No.47 “Common” Maren Morris feat. Brandi
Carlile
Scotty
McCreery held at No.1 on Billboard’s
Country Airplay Chart with “This
Is It” (Triple Tigers) logging 37.7 million audience impressions (down
5%) in the week ending Feb. 17, according to Nielsen Music.
Two Can: Triple Tigers' Scotty
McCreery celebrates his two week No. 1 "This Is It"
with his team. Pictured (back, l-r) are the label's Laura
Hostelley and Hope Garrison, McCreery, the label's Diane Lockner, Triple 8's Scott Stem and the label's Julianna Vaughn, Annie Brooksand Parker Fowler; (front, l-r) Triple 8's George Couri and the label's Norbert Nix and Kevin Herring.
George
Strait posted his record-extending 99th Country Airplay
entry, as "Every Little Honky
Tonk Bar" bowed at No. 20 with 11.2 million impressions. On Hot
Country Songs, it started at No. 36, marking his 123rd visit. (Hot Country
Songs began in 1958, while Country Airplay's history dates to 1990.)
Written by Strait with son Bubba and Dean Dillon, "Bar" is the
first radio single from Strait's album Honky Tonk Time Machine (due March 29).
Helped by hourly plays on participating iHeartMedia stations
starting Feb. 11, "Bar" marked Strait's second-highest Country
Airplay debut. It trails only "I Saw God Today," which launched at
No.19, and later hit No. 1, in 2008.
"Bar" is Strait's first Country Airplay entry since "Cold
Beer Conversation," which peaked at No. 33 in 2015; he ends his longest
break from the chart, after he had appeared on the list every year from 1990 to
2015.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “This Is It” Scotty
McCreery 37.687 million audience (-1.699 million) / 7541 radio plays (-560)
**
Most Increased Audience/ Hot Shot Debut/ Most Added ** No.20 “Every Little
Honky Tonk Bar” George Strait
Debut
No.56 “Somebody's Daughter” Tenille
Townes
Debut
No.57 “All To Myself” Dan + Shay
Debut
No.60 “Someone I Used To Know” Zac Brown
Band
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Following their win at The Grammys Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila”
advanced 8-1 (#40-10 Digital Songs; 15,000
sales; total 558,000) to
top the chart for the first time in their 56th frame while their 11
non-consecutive week No1 “Speechless” fell 3-5 (#23-32
Digital Songs.
“Tequila” was nine places behind “Shallow” by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper which ruled the Digital Song Sales
chart once more, in the week ending Feb. 14.
Kacey Musgraves with new radio single “Rainbow”
made a debut at No.2 (#15 New Entry Digital Songs; 13,000 sales; total 18,000) thanks to her 4 Grammy wins and show performance exposure. Her single “Butterflies” also made a
re-entry at No.16.
Previous weeks
No1 Luke Combs with
Beautiful Crazy” fell 1-3
(#13-21 Digital Songs) in its 41st frame. Additionally, Combs’ “She
Got The Best Of Me” retreated 10-18.
Brooks
& Dunn with Luke Combs with “Brand
New Man” made a debut at No.4 (#23 New Entry Digital Songs; 11,000
sales) and a bow at No.7 (#48
New Entry Digital Songs; 6,000 sales) with “Believe”
and the new collaboration with Kane
Brown.
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss Me More” held at No.6 (#35-42 Digital Songs) in her 15th
week.
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk”
fell 5-8 in its 25th frame.
Lee Brice with “Rumor” fell 7-9 in his 9th frame.
Bebe Rexha & Florida
Georgia Line
with their Grammy nominated
multi-week No1 “Meant To Be” pushed 19-10
in their 64th frame.
Outside
the Top 10
Following her Grammy Awards tribute Dolly
Parton’s “Jolene” made a re-Entry at No.11 (5,000 sales).
12 New 1 - Chris Janson with “Good
Vibes” made a debut at No.12. Co-penned by Janson, it’s the first
single from his upcoming album. He earned his highest start since his
breakthrough hit, “Buy Me a Boat,” bowed at No. 8 in 2015.
Chris Stapleton’s Millionaire” fell 9-13 as 162-week “Tennessee Whiskey” fell 11-14.
Florida Georgia Line featuring HARDY with “Y'all Boys” made a debut at
No.15.
Maren Morris featuring Brandi Carlile with album
pregrat track “Common” made a debut at
No.21 as first single “GIRL”
fell 18-20 in her fourth frame.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
February
18, 2019
Scotty McCreery Remains At
#1 With 'This Is It'
Congrats to Scotty McCreery,
Kevin Herring and the Triple Tigers
promotion staff on landing a second week
at 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. As
previously reported (Feb 11), this marks Scotty’s second career #1, following
the success of "Five More Minutes.”
“This Is It” (Broken Bow) held at No.1 logging 8,209 radio spins (-404), 51.838 million audience impressions (-1.929)
with 26519 Total Points (-1380) from 156 tracking stations (156 ADDS)
for the tracking week February 10 to February 16, 2019 and published chart
dated February 18, 2019.
George Strait Is
Most-Added With 'Every Little Honky Tonk Bar'
Congratulations
to MCA NASHVILLE's GEORGE STRAIT who is most-added at Country radio this week
with "Every Little Honky Tonk Bar." The single earned 97 MEDIABASE
adds.
Kudos to Katie
Dean and the MCA crew on securing 97 adds on George Strait’s “Every Little Honky Tonk Bar”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
"Every Little Honky
Tonk Bar" Debuts Top 20 on Billboard Country Airplay Chart
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. – King of Country Music George Strait’s brand new single “Every Little
Honky Tonk Bar” debuts as the most-added single at country radio this week with
117 stations, landing the tune in
the Top 20 on Billboard’s Country
Airplay Chart.
“This is
Straight Up the best Country song that has crossed my desk in a long time. The King still reigns supreme.” - Bill
Black, WKSJ (Mobile)
“The format’s standard is back! Tempo....a
little two-step and all is well in the world! Great to have new music from The
King of Country.” – Tom Hanrahan, WDXB
(Birmingham)
“We love this
new George single. It’s got tempo and exactly what we need on KMLE right now.”
– Tim Richards, KMLE (Phoenix)
“George Strait, ‘The King,’ is back at it,
asking everybody else to hold his beer while he delivers another solid
performance.” – Danny Dwyer, KUPL
(Portland OR)
“‘That ain’t
country;’ ‘We don’t play new songs;’ ‘Too poppy;’ ‘No tempo.’ Yep, pretty much
there is no excuse not to play this huge hit song from the icon in the format.”
– Nate Deaton, KRTY (San Jose CA)
“Every Little
Honky Tonk Bar,” written by George Strait, Bubba
Strait and longtime collaborator Dean
Dillon, is the first radio single to come from Strait’s upcoming 30th
studio album, Honky Tonk Time Machine, due out March 29 on MCA Nashville
 |
| Team MCA Nashville Celebrates Most-Added: |
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
GEORGE STRAIT/Every Little Honky Tonk Bar (MCA) 97 112
ZAC BROWN
BAND/Someone I Used To Know (No Reserve/BMG/Wheelhouse) 26 30
RYAN HURD/To A
T (RCA) 21 28
KACEY MUSGRAVES/Rainbow (MCA) 17 70
TENILLE TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 12 73
DAN + SHAY/All
To Myself (Warner Bros./WAR) 11 60
BRANTLEY
GILBERT & LINDSAY ELL/What Happens In A Small Town (Valory) 8 113
BROOKS &
DUNN w/L. COMBS/Brand New Man (Arista) 8 16
TIM
MCGRAW/Thought About You (Columbia) 8 71
CHRIS
YOUNG/Raised On Country (RCA) 7 100
MAREN MORRIS/Girl (Columbia) 7 112
CARLY PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 3 126
RUNAWAY JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 3 127
ASHLEY MCBRYDE/Girl Goin' Nowhere (Atlantic/WAR) 2 74
DAVID LEE
MURPHY/No Zip Code (Reviver) 1 1
LAUREN ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 1 90
STEPHANIE QUAYLE/If I Was A Cowboy (Rebel Engine) 1 11
For
a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly February 19, 2019, Issue 640
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