In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of January 26, 2019)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (24 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (9 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “Sixteen” Thomas Rhett
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (11 non-consecutive weeks) “Speechless”
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).
A
Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN
spent a second week leading the Billboard
Top 200 Albums Chart (BB200), as the set earned 56,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Jan.
17, according to Nielsen Music (down 4 percent).
Hoodie
SZN’s second stanza atop the list is also the eighth straight week a rap album
has been No.1 on the tally – the longest streak for any genre since Drake’s
Views spent its first eight weeks at No.1 (May 28-July 16, 2016-dated charts).
Hoodie
SZN continues to be overwhelmingly driven by streaming activity on the
chart, as almost 55,000 of its total units come from SEA units, while TEA units
equal 1,000, and album sales number a little under 1,000. The set’s
album sales actually dip a bit from what they were a week ago. (Billboard
rounds all Nielsen Music units and sales to the nearest thousand.) Thus, with
Hoodie SZN’s sales slipping further, it beats its own record for the smallest
weekly album sales total for a No.1 on the Billboard 200 since the tally
transitioned from an album sales-only list to a multi-metric-consumption
ranking in December of 2014.
Billboard Top Country
Albums
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) held at No.1 (#17
Non-mover Billboard 200) to head the chart for a 24th non-consecutive week No.1
in the albums 85th chart frame.
Dan
+ Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#29-25 BB200) in its 30th
frame.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY advanced 11-3 (#126-38 BB200) in its 18th frame,
her 16,000 units (up 115 percent) surge was thanks to
sales generated from concert ticket/album sale redemption offers.
Former
No.1 Kane Brown with
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 3-4 (#47-48
BB200) in his 10th frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 194-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
was down 4-5 (#54 non-mover BB200)
as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville)
held at No.17 (#179-181 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 moved 37-36.
Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory) slipped 5-6
(#59-64 BB200) in his 71st frame.
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 7-8
(#82-78 BB200) in its 40th week.
Mitchell Tenpenny with TELLING ALL MY SECRETS fell 8-9
(#88-104 Billboard 200) in his fifth frame.
Brett Young with his self-titled Brett Young (BMLG) fell 9-10 (#99-111 BB200) as his former No.1
Ticket to L.A. (BMLG) was down one 12-13 (#130-154 BB200) in his sixth frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Randy Houser with his 12-track MAGNOLIA (Stoney Creek | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.11 (#135 Billboard 200) and Hot Shot
bows with No.13 on all-genre Top Album Sales and No.2 on Country Album Sales.
Named
for Houser’s home state of Mississippi, Magnolia was co-produced by Keith
Gattis at his studio in east Nashville. It features 12 tracks, all co-written
by Houser, including the first single “What Whiskey Does,” co-penned by and
featuring Hillary Lindsey.
Promoting
the album the Stoney Creek Records artist made an appearance on Friday morning
(Jan 11) episode of ABC-TV's "Good Morning AMERICA." Houser performed "No Stone
Unturned".
Critical reception:
“Each of the songs stands on its own, but
when heard collectively, they gain strength from each other. The result is
Houser's best album yet: A casually confident, emotionally resonant record that
feels born out of hard-won wisdom” – Allmusic
(Rating 4 STARS).
His voice really is a terrific
instrument, capable of an affecting tenor tone that is canonically country, but
also of absurd growls and double-take-inducing low notes that have gone out of
fashion in nearly every corner of popular music. He tests every vocal gradation
singing “Our Hearts” with Lucie Silvas over lightly brushed drums. On “New
Buzz,” co-written with producer Keith Gattis and Jeff Trott, Houser’s voice is
so flat and low it’s almost worrying – Rollingstone
(Rating: 3.1/2 STARS).
The ‘back to basics’ tag is
a little bit of a misdirection, a bit of smoke and mirrors PR to be honest
because whilst there are plenty of songs on ‘Magnolia’ that will appeal to fans
of rootsier, bluesier music in Houser’s post-charts, post-Stapleton guise the
album is not without tons of commercial appeal and catchy choruses. - Your Life In A Song
Eric Church with DESPERATE MAN (EMI Nashville) pushed 20-15 (#187-160
BB200) in his 15th frame.
Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) fell 13-16 (#140-169
BB200) in her 37th frame.
Jimmie Allen with his debut album MERCURY LANE (Stoney Creek/BMG/BBMG) fell
19-22 (#185 to off the BB200) in his
12th week.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Caleb and Kelsey with 10-track GOD GAVE ME YOU: Country Love Songs (Rhodes Records/The Fuel Music
| Amazon UK
- Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.25.
It comprises a
cover album of 10 songs originally sung by country artists (Faith Hill, Racal
Flatts, Keith Urban, Lady A, Carrie Underwood..) about love, being in love, or
what to do when you’re ‘out of love’.
Year-To-Date Albums
406,000 (Physical sales 278,000
(down -32.0%) + Digital sales 128,000 (down -19.0%) which is 28.3% down at the same point in 2018 (566,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
1,384,000 down 29.5% at the same point in 2018 (1,962,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs
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 ninth week atop Hot Country Songs while their previous
single, “Tequila,” resided at its No.2 peak for an 19th week, extending its
mark for the most weeks peaking at the runner-up spot.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (9 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
**
Airplay Gainer” No.5 “Beautiful Crazy” Luke
Combs
** Digital
Gainer ** No.40 “What Whiskey Does” Randy
Houser feat. Hillary Lindsey
** Streaming Gainer ** No.27 “Good As You” Kane Brown
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.43 “Nothing To Do Town” Dylan Scott
Debut
No.44 “GIRL” Maren Morris
Billboard Country Airplay
Thomas
Rhett with “Sixteen”
(Valory) ascended 3-1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Jan.
26), up 6 percent to 40.2 million audience impressions in the week
ending Jan. 20, according to Nielsen Music.
Co-written by Rhett, “Sixteen” is his 12th leader on the chart and
the fifth from his album LIFE CHANGES. The set debuted at the summit of
the Top Country Albums and all-genre Billboard 200 charts in September 2017,
becoming his first No.1 on both rankings.
Each Life Changes single has topped Country Airplay. “Sixteen” follows
the Maren Morris-assisted “Craving You,” which led the list dated July 22,
2017; “Unforgettable” (Nov. 18, 2017); “Marry Me” (March 10 and 17, 2018); and
the title track (Sept. 8, 2018).
Luke Bryan holds the record with six Country Airplay No. 1s from one album:
2015’s Kill the Lights.
Prior to Life Changes, three other albums generated five such No.1s
apiece: Brad Paisley’s 5th Gear (2007-08), Blake Shelton’s Based on a True
Story… (2013-14) and Bryan’s Crash My Party (2013-15), his LP that directly
preceded Kill the Lights.
Life Changes had already become Rhett’s second straight set to produce at
least four Country Airplay No.1s, following his second LP, Tangled Up, which
yielded “Crash and Burn,” “Die a Happy Man,” “T-Shirt” and “Star of the Show”
in 2015-17.
“Sixteen” also extends Rhett’s streak to six straight Country Airplay No.
1s. That’s the second-longest active run, behind only Bryan’s stretch of 13
(counting promoted, proper singles in a lead role).
Chris
Stapleton achieves his third Country Airplay top 10 as “Millionaire” (Mercury) rose 11-9
(23.7 million impressions, down less than 1 percent). He first reached the
upper tier with the No.10-peaking “Nobody
to Blame” in April 2016 and followed with his first No. 1, “Broken Halos,”
in March 2018.
Jordan
Davis with “Take
It From Me” (MCA Nashville) also bumped into the Country Airplay top 10, lifting
12-10 (23.4 million, down 1 percent). He earned his second top 10 in as
many appearances: His debut hit, “Singles You Up,” topped the tally for a week
in April 2018.
For a second straight week, Luke Combs simultaneously charted two songs,
unaccompanied by another artist, in the Country Airplay top 15, a feat that has
not been achieved in over a dozen years. “She Got the Best of Me” (River House/Columbia Nashville), which
led for four weeks starting Oct. 27, 2108, dipped 6-7 (28.5 million,
down 14 percent), while follow-up single “Beautiful Crazy” climbed 15-12 (20.6 million, up 18
percent).
Prior to Combs, no artist had logged such a double since George Strait,
whose “It Just Comes Natural” and “Give It Away” ranked at Nos. 12 and 13,
respectively, on Nov. 18, 2006.
Maren
Morris with “Girl”
(Columbia Nashville), the first single from her forthcoming second full-length
album, launched at No. 28 on Country Airplay with 6.6 million
impressions. On the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based Hot Country Songs
chart, it started at No.44.
“Girl” was released to country radio on Jan. 17 at 5 p.m. ET, so it debuted
with roughly three-and-a-half days of tracked airplay. Morris penned the song
with Sarah Aarons, who charts her first entry on the lists as a writer, and
Greg Kurstin, another first-timer on the tallies.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Sixteen” Thomas Rhett
40.228 million audience (+2.208 million) / 7,846 radio plays (+730)
**
Most Increased Audience/ Hot Shot Debut/ Most Added ** No.28 “GIRL” Maren Morris +6.624 million audience
gain thanks to 64 fresh radio
commitments (ADDS)
Debut
No.55 “Nothing To Do Town” Dylan Scott
Debut
No.60 “Rockin' All Night Long” Adam
Hambrick
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless”
held at No.1 (#9 Non Mover Digital Songs) to head the chart for an 11th
non-consecutive week as their hit “Tequila” held at No.2 (#30-23 Digital Songs) in its 52nd
frame.
Speechless was eight places behind Post Malone and Swae Lee's "Sunflower" which retreated to No.2
on the Hot 100, a week after becoming the former's third No.1 and the latter's
first as a soloist. The track topped Streaming Songs for a second week (52.8
million, up 11 percent; helped by a new video released Jan. 9) and Digital Song
Sales for a third frame (41,000, down 14
percent).
Luke
Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” held at No.3 (#32-25 Digital Songs) in its 37th
frame as “She Got The Best Of Me” held at No.5 (#40-47 Digital Songs; 6,000 sales; 23-week total 329,000).
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk”
held at No.4 (#38 Non mover Digital
Songs) in its 21st frame.
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss Me More”held at No.6 (#47-48 Digital Songs).
Lee Brice with “Rumor” (Curb) pushed 9-7 (#49 New Entry Digital Songs).
Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” held at No.8 (#50 Re-Entry Digital Songs) as “Millionaire”
rose 11-9.
Cody Johnson’s ballad “On My Way To You”
advanced 22-10 gaining by 28 percent to 5,000 sold
and 12 percent to 3.8 million U.S. streams.
Outside
the Top 10
Dierks Bentley feat. Brothers
Osborne with “Burning Man” slipped 10-11 in its 23rd frame. (5,000 sales;
22-week total 125,000).
Chris
Young with “Raised
On Country” (RCA Nashville) dropped off the top 25 after a debut No.7
the previous week.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
January
21, 2019
Thomas Rhett
Hits #1 With 'Sixteen'
Congrats
to Thomas Rhett, Chris Palmer, Ashley Sidoti and the Valory promotion staff on securing the week’s No.1 with ”Sixteen.”
The song is Rhett's fifth consecutive No.1 from his LIFE CHANGES album.
Songwriters are Rhett, Sean Douglas and Joe Spargur. This marks RHETT's 12th career
#1.
“Sixteen” (Valory)
moved 3-1 logging 8,464 radio spins (+1,006), 52.953 million audience impressions (+6.627)
with 27601 Total Points (+3539) from 156 tracking stations (156 ADDS)
for the tracking week January 13 to January 19, 2019 and published chart dated
January 21, 2019.
The Latest
Chart-Topper Marks Fifth Consecutive No.One Off LIFE CHANGES and Over One
Billion Album Streams
Country
Radio’s most played artist of 2018, Thomas Rhett, racks up his 12th career No.
One with “Sixteen”, summiting both the Billboard and Country Aircheck/Mediabase
Airplay charts after already spending four weeks in the position in Canada.
Co-written by Thomas Rhett, the nostalgic song is the fifth consecutive
chart-topper from the PLATINUM-certified smash LIFE CHANGES (The Valory Music
Co.), which has now surpassed one billion on-demand streams. Thomas Rhett
topped Billboard’s year-end Country Airplay chart and is Mediabase’s Top
Performing Artist and Top Male of 2018 as the only artist to have four songs in
the top 100 songs of the year – “Unforgettable” (PLATINUM), "Marry Me” (2X
PLATINUM), "Life Changes” (GOLD) and “Sixteen.”
Since
its release, LIFE CHANGES has earned the top position on the all-genre
Billboard 200 chart, a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album, as well as CMA
and ACM Awards nominations. Thomas Rhett was named iHeartRadio’s Country Artist
of the Year for the second year in a row and was recently honored with his
second CMA Triple Play award for penning three No. One songs within a 12-month
period (“Unforgettable, “Marry Me” and “Life Changes”).
Maren Morris Is Most-Added
With 'Girl'
Kudos to Shane
Allen and the Columbia reps on
landing 67 adds for Maren Morris’ “Girl”. The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
MAREN MORRIS/Girl (Columbia) 67 67
ERIC
CHURCH/Some Of It (EMI Nashville) 27 84
MATT
STELL/Prayed For You (Wide Open/Records/GCE) 19 22
KANE BROWN/Good
As You (RCA) 15 107
CHRIS
YOUNG/Raised On Country (RCA) 12 28
BRANTLEY
GILBERT & LINDSAY ELL/What Happens In A Small Town (Valory) 11 84
DYLAN
SCOTT/Nothing To Do Town (Curb) 11 59
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/Girl Goin' Nowhere (Atlantic/WAR) 8 62
CARLY
PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 8 108
CHASE RICE/Eyes
On You (Broken Bow) 7 138
LEE BRICE/Rumor
(Curb) 5 125
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 5 110
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 4 147
LAUREN
ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 4 79
JIMMIE
ALLEN/Make Me Want To (Stoney Creek) 2 3
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 2 113
JESSICA
MEUSE/Thank God It Didn't Work (Warrior) 1 1
SMITHFIELD/Our
World (Deluge/In2une) 1 1
TIM
MCGRAW/Thought About You (Columbia) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #2
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain Qudos Bank Arena Sydney
Dates:
Dec. 14-15, 2018 Gross Sales: $2,455,260 Attend: 21,744/ 22,000
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 (256 unsold tickets) Prices:
$183.99, $73.54
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #17
Event
Venue City/State: Lucinda Williams Beacon Theatre New York
Dates:
Nov.7, 2018 Gross Sales: $167,231 Attend: 2,638/ 2,791
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (153 unsold tickets) Prices:
$95, $35
Promoters: The Bowery Presents
Rank
Artist: #24
Event
Venue City/State: The Oak Ridge Boys H-E-B Center at Cedar Park Cedar
Park, Texas
Dates:
Jan. 15, 2019 Gross Sales: $77,571 Attend: 1,789/ 2,301
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (512 unsold tickets) Prices:
$60, $35
Promoters: Stonebridge Productions
Rank
Artist: #25
Event
Venue City/State: Kacey Musgraves Metropolis Montreal, Quebec
Dates:
Jan. 12, 2019 Gross Sales: $67,720 Attend: 2,296/ 2,296
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$34.01
Promoters: evenko/Greenland Productions
Rank
Artist: #36
Event
Venue City/State: Easton Corbin, Temecula Road City
National Grove of Anaheim Anaheim,
Calif.
Dates:
Dec. 16, 2018 Gross Sales: $23,399 Attend: 1,149/ 1,438
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (289 unsold tickets) Prices:
$45, $35
Promoters: Nederlander Concerts
Latest
Billboard Boxscore Chart
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