Country
Billboard Chart News February 25, 2019
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of March 2, 2019)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY Florida Georgia Line
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (4 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).
Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next spents a second week at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200),
making it the first album by a solo woman to spend more than a single week at
No. 1 in over a year.
Thank
U earned 151,000 equivalent album
units in the week ending Feb. 21 (down 58 percent from its debut of 360,000
units), according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 20,000 were in album sales (down 82 percent).
Thank
U’s second week sum of 151,000 units is mostly comprised of SEA units: 124,000. That figure
translates to 168.6 million on-demand
audio streams for the album’s songs in its second week (down from 307 million
in its debut frame, when it set the record for both an album by a woman and for
a pop album). The 168.6 million streaming figure for Thank U’s second week
easily makes it the most streamed album of this week, and also ranks it as
the third-largest week for a woman ever (trailing its own debut frame, plus
the first week of Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy, with 202.6 million) and the
second-biggest week ever for a pop album (after only Thank U’s debut week).
At No.4 on the Billboard 200, Florida Georgia Line with
CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY started at
No.4, giving the country duo its fourth top five effort. The set enters with
50,000 units (29,000
in album
sales). The act’s last album, Dig Your Roots, entered at No. 2 on the Sept. 17,
2016-dated chart with 145,000 units.
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.
Florida Georgia Line with fourth studio LP, CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine
Label Group | Amazon
UK),
entered Top Country Albums at No.1 (#4
Billboard 200), earning 50,000 equivalent album units (29,000 in traditional album sales)
in its first week, ending Feb. 21.
The
19-track collection features songs “Sittin’ Pretty, “Colorado” and their No.1
single, “Simple.”
The
twosome of Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard notched its fourth leader on the
chart and third to debut in the penthouse. Dig Your Roots and Anything Goes led
for two weeks each.
CHART HISTORY:
DIG YOUR ROOTS launched atop the list
dated Sept. 17, 2016 with 125,747 copies sold (#2 Billboard 200). The album had sold 444,300 copies
as of February 2018.
ANYTHING GOES, released Oct 14, 2014
entered at No.1 on Nov. 1, 2014 (197,000 sales) marking the pair’s
strongest sales week). The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 1,
2014 and then certified Platinum (1
Million units) on March 29, 2016. As of June 2015, the album had sold 858,000
copies in the US
First
LP HERE’S TO THE GOOD TIMES,
released Dec 4, 2012, opened on the survey dated Dec. 22, 2012, at No.3 (63,000 sales) and topped it on June
29, 2013 (33K sales), for its first of 10 weeks at No.1.
The
album was the sixth best-selling album of 2013 in the United States, with 1,350,000
copies sold during the year. The album reached its 2 million sales mark in
August 2014. On Dec 4, 2012 it was certified 2x Multi-Platinum (2 Million
units)
Critical reception for Florida Georgia Line’s Can' Say I
Ain’t Country:
Allmusic (Rating: 4 STARS)… Can't Say I Ain't Country is a successful
blend of the cosmopolitan and country, sounding as assured on soulful slow jams
and percolating crossover pop as it does on the breakneck twang of "Y'all
Boys," a duet with their protégé HARDY.
Exclaim.ca (Rating: 7/10): Even though their unique music production
always nudges musical boundaries, Can't Say I Ain't Country attempts to knock
down musical barriers by affixing a fresh glow on past country music trends.
Rollingstone (Rating: 2.5 STARS) ..
At 19 tracks, FGL’s fourth album often feels more like a
streaming-era hip-hop blockbuster than a traditional Nashville LP. This is
playlist country, with a cross-section of sounds — R&B slow jams, thumping
country rockers, folky Edward Sharpe knockoffs — that’s wide enough to appeal
to any subset of the group’s pop fan base…. The result is an uneven
record that leaves country’s most irreverent hitmakers sounding needlessly
cautious.
The Guardian (Rating: 2 STARS)… For
all the shopping-mall feel of their songs, they can be industrially catchy. ...
If only their lyrics weren’t so cringey.
Sputnikmusic (Rating: 1.5 STARS) Can’t Say I Ain’t Country is an amalgamation
of country-pop’s worst features. It’s country without the grit or emotion; pop
without any of the fun or hooks…. If this is
country, then get me the hell away from it forever.
Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) held at No.2 (#15-16
Billboard 200) in its 90th frame.
Previous weeks’
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with
GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) fell 1-3 (#9-23 Billboard 200) in her 42nd
frame
Dan
+ Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 3-4 (#31-38 BB200) in their 35th frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 199-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
fell 4-5 (#44-47 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell
16-21 (#175-176 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 fell
14-23 (#161-198 Billboard 200).
Former
No.1 Kane Brown with
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 5-6 (#70-77
BB200) in his 15th frame as his self-titled debut slipped 6-7 in its 116th frame.
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 7-8
(#82-83 BB200) in its 45th week.
Elvis Presley with Elvis: The '68 Comeback Special: The Best Of (Soundtrack) made a
debut at No.9.
Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory) fell 8-10
(#97-99 BB200) in his 76th frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY rose 13-11 (#155-106 BB200) in her 23rd week.
Ryan Bingham with 15-track AMERICAN LOVE SONG (Axster Bingham
Records/ Thirty Tigers | Amazon
UK)
made a debut at No.12 (#124 Billboard
200; No.4 Country Album Sales).
Ryan
Bingham’s highly anticipated sixth studio album was co-produced with renowned
guitarist/artist Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan) and was recorded at Arlyn Studios
and Public Hi-Fi in Austin, TX with additional recording at Matter Music in Los
Angeles.
Bingham’s
first new LP in four years, American Love Song finds the award-winning
singer-songwriter furthering his already remarkable creativity by honing in
upon both the personal and the cultural on songs such as the rocking “Jingle
and Go.”
Former No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. advanced
29-17 (#167 Re-Entry Billboard 200).
Former
No1 Cody Johnson with AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT
(Cojo/Warner Music Nashville) fell 11-18
(#146-168 Billboard 200).
Outside the Top 25
Hayes Carll with his 12 track WHAT IT IS (Dualtone Music Group | Amazon UK - Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.26 (No.5 Country Album Sales).
‘What
It Is’ really is a great record from Hayes Carll, and a great record by
anyone's standards. The songs are very strong indeed, the production values
faultless and the performances from all involved, endlessly tight and creative.
It’s still only early January 2019 but I can see this one being around for the
end of year awards – a fine piece of work indeed. Fatea Records
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
The five-track
debut EP from NBC’s The Voice season 12 runner-up includes singles “Costume
Party” and “Heart Hurt Good.”
Dale Watson with Alt-Country 12 track CALL ME LUCKY (Red House Records | Amazon UK) made a debut at No.33.
Watson has a
new home base, Memphis, TN and recorded all but one song on his new Red House
Records release, at historic Sam Phillips Recording studio in Memphis.
The
album features some of city's finest as well as Dale's longtime band, His Lone
Stars, and includes a horn section on some of the tracks. With nods to the Man
in Black and Hank, Watson pays homage to the greats and proves he's the real
deal.
The Long Ryders with 12 track PSYCHEDELIC COUNTRY SOUL (Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.38.
The Long Ryders
were formed Thanksgiving 1981 in west Los Angeles, California. Kentucky born
guitarist Sid Griffin left his sixties punk band The Unclaimed after having
bonded musically with former Boxboys drummer Greg Sowders at a jam session in
the notorious ON Klub in Silverlake.
Year-To-Date Albums
1,473,000 (Physical sales 984,000
(down -29.5%) + Digital sales 490,000 (down -15.2%) which is 25.4% down at the same point in 2018 (1,974,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
4,860,000 down 27.7% at the same point in 2018
(6,725,000)
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:
Luke Combs achieved his second No.1 as “Beautiful” rose 2-1 in its 42nd week. He first topped the tally for two weeks in
November-December 2017 with “Rains.” “Beautiful” also lifted 2-1 on Country
Streaming Songs to become his first No.1 among five top 10s. The track gained
by 8 percent to 11.7 million U.S. streams in the week ending Feb. 21 with 15,000
downloads sold.
Michael
Ray with “One That Got Away” strode 22-20 marking Ray’s fourth top 20 hit.
It bumped by 7 percent to 22.7 million in radio reach, while a 69-cent sale tag
in the iTunesStore helped push its 11 percent gain to 2,000 downloads sold.
Runaway
June with “Buy My Own Drinks” made its third
visit as “Drinks” debuted at No.43 snagging
Hot Shot Debut honours . The track
rose 30-28 on Country Airplay, up 12
percent to 5.6 million impressions.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (1 week)/
Streaming Gainer ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
**
Airplay Gainer” No.7 “What Makes You Country” Luke Bryan
** Digital
Gainer ** No.11 “Here Tonight” Brett
Young
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.43 “Buy My Own Drinks” Runaway June
Debut
No.46 “Can't Hide Red” Florida Georgia
Line featuring Jason Aldean
Luke Combs made history as the first
artist to reach No.1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with
his first five entries.
On
the list dated March 2, “Beautiful Crazy” (River
House/Columbia Nashville) ascended 2-1,
increasing by 7 percent to 38.8 million
audience impressions in the week ending Feb.24, according to Nielsen Music.
Written
by Combs, Wyatt Durrette and Robert Williford, “Beautiful” reached the summit
in its 16th week. It matched Combs’ quickest trip to No.1, which he first
achieved with his fourth leader, “She Got
the Best of Me.” The song reigned for four weeks starting in October 2018.
His
debut, “Hurricane,” which led for two
weeks beginning May 27, 2017, hit No. 1 in its 30th week. Follow-up “When It Rains It Pours” also dominated
for two frames, beginning Nov. 4, 2017, and reaching the apex in its 28th week.
His third single, “One Number Away,”
led for a week in its 24th frame (June 9, 2018).
Dating
back to the Country Air play list’s January 1990 launch, Combs bests two acts
that each sent their first four singles (as lead artists) to No.1. Brooks & Dunn did so in 1991-92
with “Brand New Man,” “My Next Broken Heart,” “Neon Moon” and “Boot Scootin’
Boogie.” Another duo, Florida Georgia
Line, achieved the feat in 2012-14 with “Cruise,” “Get Your Shine On,” “Round
Here” and “Stay.”
Combs
thus simultaneously leads Billboard’s four main country song charts. He became the
first artist to do so since Kane Brown,
who was the first to simultaneously top four country song surveys on Oct. 28,
2017. That week, his “What Ifs,” featuring Lauren Alaina, led Hot Country
Songs, Country Airplay and Country Streaming Songs, and “Heaven” arrived atop
Country Digital Song Sales. He also ruled Top Country Albums during the same
frame with his self-titled first LP.
Combs
missed his own quintuple coronation by one ranking. His debut LP, This One’s
for You, which has dominated Top Country Albums for 26 weeks and whose deluxe
edition houses all five of his Country Airplay leaders was placed at No.2.
Old Dominion scored its seventh Country
Airplay top 10 as “Make It Sweet” (RCA Nashville) hopped 11-10, up 4 percent to 21 million in audience. The act now boasts
five No. 1s, including its last four singles prior to “Sweet.”
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke
Combs 38.781 million audience (+2.444 million) / 7,849 radio plays (+620)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.2 “What Makes You Country” Luke Bryan
**
Most Added ** No.24 “Every Little Honky Tonk Bar” George Strait
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.57 “To A T” Ryan Hurd
Debut
No.60 “Alcohol You Later” Mitchell
Tenpenny
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Luke
Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” pushed 3-1 (#21-10 Digital Songs; (15,000 downloads sold, up 26%, in the week ending
Feb. 21) to head the Country Digital Songs summit for a 4th non-consecutive
week in its 42nd frame. Additionally, Combs’ “She Got The Best Of Me”
rebounded 18-14.
It was nine
places behind Cardi
B and Bruno
Mars which surged onto the Hot 100 at No.5 with "Please Me." The
stand-alone single (released on Atlantic Records, both artists' home label)
started at No.1 on Digital Song Sales
with 51,000 sold.
Cardi B collected her third No.1 on the sales survey, while Mars added his
ninth.
Brett Young with “Here Tonight” made a
re-entry at No.2 (#25 Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Previous weeks’ chart toppers Grammy winners Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila”
fell 1-3 (#10-32 Digital Songs) while
their 11 non-consecutive week No1 “Speechless” rose 5-4 (#32-37
Digital Songs).
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk”
climbed 8-5 (#49
Re-Entry Digital Songs) in its 26th frame.
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss Me More” held at No.6 (#42 – off Top 50 Digital Songs)
in her 16th week.
Lee Brice with “Rumor” rose 9-7 in his 10th frame.
Kacey Musgraves with “Rainbow” fell 2-8 in her second frame.
Morgan Wallen with “Whiskey Glasses” advanced
17-9 in his 13th week.
Chris Stapleton’s Millionaire” rose 13-10 as 163-week “Tennessee Whiskey” climbed 14-12.
Outside
the Top 10
Bebe Rexha & Florida
Georgia Line
with multi-week No1 “Meant
To Be” slipped 10-11 in
their 65th frame.
Chase Rice with “Eyes on You “Eyes” opened
at No.18 on Country Digital Song
Sales, up 26 percent to 4,000 sold, and rose 20-16 on Hot Country Songs. Rice was
slated to perform the song on ABC’s Good Morning America on Feb. 26.
New album
tracks from Florida
Georgia Line with “Blessings”
and “Can't
Hide Red” featuring Jason Aldean arrived at No.21 and No.25 respectfully.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
February
25, 2019
Congrats
to Luke Bryan, Royce Risser, Bobby Young, David Friedman and the Capitol promotion team on landing the
week’s No.1 with “What
Makes You Country.”
The
song is the fourth chart-topper from the album by the same name. Writers are
Dallas Davidson, Ashley Gorley and Bryan.
“What Makes You Country” (Capitol) rose 4-1
logging 8,482 radio spins (+1,148),
51.057 million audience impressions (+5.591) with 27162 Total Points (+3458) from
156 tracking stations (156 ADDS) for the tracking week February 17 to February 23,
2019 and published chart dated February 25, 2019.
Kudos
to Lee Adams, Shelley Hargis Gaines and the Broken Bow reps on securing 39 adds for Jason Aldean’s “Rearview Town”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart
week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
JASON ALDEAN/Rearview Town (Macon
Music/Broken Bow) 39 45
DIERKS
BENTLEY/Living (Capitol) 38 38
FLORIDA
GEORGIA LINE/Talk You Out Of It (BMLGR) 15 145
ZAC
BROWN BAND/Someone I Used To Know (No Reserve/BMG/Wheelhouse) 14 44
GEORGE
STRAIT/Every Little Honky Tonk Bar (MCA) 13 125
TENILLE TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter
(Columbia) 13 86
DAN
+ SHAY/All To Myself (Warner Bros./WAR) 12 72
ERIC
CHURCH/Some Of It (EMI Nashville) 11 118
TIM
MCGRAW/Thought About You (Columbia) 11 82
CHRIS
YOUNG/Raised On Country (RCA) 10 110
MAREN
MORRIS/Girl (Columbia) 9 121
CHRIS
JANSON/Good Vibes (Warner Bros./WAR) 8 13
KACEY MUSGRAVES/Rainbow (MCA) 8 78
RYAN
HURD/To A T (RCA) 8 36
B.
GILBERT & L. ELL/What Happens In A Small Town (Valory) 7 120
BROOKS
& DUNN w/L. COMBS/Brand New Man (Arista) 7 23
HARDY/Rednecker
(Tree Vibez/Big Loud) 6 27
JIMMIE
ALLEN/Make Me Want To (Stoney Creek) 6 86
RUNAWAY JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks
(Wheelhouse) 6 133
CARLY PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 5 131
AJ
MCLEAN/Boy And A Man (Crowdsurf/In2une) 4 4
LAUREN ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s
(19/Mercury) 4 94
KELSEA BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 2 155
MADDIE & TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 2 123
AARON
WATSON/Kiss That Girl Goodbye (Big Label) 1 32
ASHLEY MCBRYDE/Girl Goin' Nowhere
(Atlantic/WAR) 1 75
TEDDY
ROBB/Really Shouldn't Drink... (Monument) 1 1
For
a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly February 25, 2019, Issue 641
- Magazine View
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #3
Event
Venue City/State: George Strait T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas
Dates:
Feb. 1-2, 2019 Gross Sales: $4,333,646 Attend: 33,937/ 33,937
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT **Prices:
$499, $50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #6
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church Little Caesars Arena
Detroit, Mich.
Dates:
Feb. 15-16, 2019 Gross Sales: $3,038,833 Attend: 31,187/ 31,187
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$139, $39
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #7
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church U.S. Bank Arena Cincinnati,
Ohio
Dates:
Feb. 22-23, 2019 Gross Sales: $3,022,783 Attend: 28,766/ 28,766
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$164, $39
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #10
Event
Venue City/State: Keith Urban, Julia Michaels Brisbane
Entertainment Centre Brisbane, Australia
Dates:
Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2019 Gross Sales: $2,481,496 Attend: 23,134/ 25,410
Shows/
Sellouts: 3/0 (2,276 unsold tickets)
Prices: $121.17,
$22.40
Promoters: TEG Live
Rank
Artist: #15
Event
Venue City/State: Keith Urban, Julia Michaels Rod Laver Arena Melbourne,
Australia
Dates:
Feb. 5-6, 2019 Gross Sales: $2,146,004 Attend: 20,615/ 23,932
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 (3,317 unsold tickets)
Prices: $122.70,
$24.14
Promoters: TEG Live
Rank
Artist: #40
Event
Venue City/State: Blake Shelton, Lauren Alaina,
Trace Adkins
& others Sprint Center Kansas City, Mo.
Dates:
Feb. 15, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,101,782 Attend: 12,999/ 12,999
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$129, $29
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Present
Rank
Artist: #50
Event
Venue City/State: Tedeschi Trucks Band Chicago Theatre Chicago
Dates:
Jan. 18-19, 25-26, 2019 Gross Sales: $874,889 Attend: 13,227/ 14,162
Shows/
Sellouts: 4/2 (935 unsold tickets) Prices:
$131.50, $16
Promoters: Live Nation
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