SCOTTY McCREERY CELEBRATES
SUCCESS OF NO. 1 SINGLE “THIS IS IT”
Two Week Chart-Topping
Song Is McCreery's Second Consecutive No. 1 Hit From His Seasons Change Album
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. – On Wednesday night (March 20) Triple Tigers recording artist Scotty McCreery celebrated his chart
topping single, “This Is It,” in Nashville with friends, family, colleagues and
media in attendance at an industry celebration hosted by ASCAP and BMI.
"This Is It" is McCreery's second ever No. 1 and second consecutive
No. 1 hit off his Seasons Change album. He was joined by fellow song co-writers
(and two of the three album co-producers) Frank Rogers and Aaron Eshuis at the
event where the North Carolina native received a plaque to signify the song's
two weeks at No. 1 as well as RIAA Gold Certification.
"If you
had told me a couple years ago we'd be here, I'd have told you, you were crazy.
It has been an incredible feeling and an incredible ride," shared McCreery
who went on to thank wife Gabi who served as the inspiration for the hit song.
 |
| Back row: Lee Krabel (Senior Creative Director, Smack Songs); Scott Stem (McCreery’s manager, Triple 8 Management); George Couri (McCreery’s manager, Partner, Triple 8 Management; Partner, Triple Tigers Records); Kevin Herring (SVP of Promotion, Triple Tigers Records); Norbert Nix (Partner/GM, Triple Tigers Records); David Macias (Partner, Triple Tigers Records); and A.J. Burton (VP, Fluid Music Revolution). Front row: Robin Palmer (SVP Creative, Smack Songs); writers Aaron Eshuis, Scotty McCreery, Frank Rogers| Photo Credit: Ed Rode |
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of March 23, 2019)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** GIRL Maren Morris
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Airplay
** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Ridin’ Roads”
Dustin Lynch
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Juice WRLD claimed his first No.1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200), as Death Race for Love
debuted atop the tally. The set, which was released on March 8 via Grade
A/Interscope Records, earned 165,000
equivalent album units in the week ending March 14, according to Nielsen Music.
Of that sum, 43,000
were in album
sales.
Death
Race logs both the biggest week overall, and the largest streaming week, for an
R&B/hip-hop album in 2019. Of Death Race’s 165,000 equivalent album units earned
in its opening frame, 120,000 were in SEA units, which translates to 176.44
million on-demand audio streams for its songs.
Maren Morris netted her highest-charting
album yet on the Billboard 200, as GIRL bowed
at No.4 with 46,000 units (with 25,000 of that sum in album sales). It surpassed her previous high,
logged when Hero debuted and peaked at No. 5 (June 25, 2016). Further, Morris
logged the highest charting country album by a female artist in over five
months. Carrie Underwood was the last female act to go higher with a
country set, when Cry Pretty debuted at No. 1 on the Sept. 29, 2018-dated list,
with 266,000 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.
Columbia's
Maren Morris debuted
at No.1 on the Country albums chart
with GIRL (Columbia Nashville/ Sony
Music Nashville [SMN]) released March 8. Total activity was more than almost
46,000 units according to Nielsen SoundScan.
With
Girl, Morris notched the largest debut week streaming sum for a country
album by a female artist: Its songs logged 23.96 million ondemand audio streams in its premiere frame.
She
surpassed the previous such best debut-week total that was set when Underwood’s
Cry Pretty generated 14.44 million on-demand audio streams (Sept. 29, 2018).
Girl also logged the largest streaming week for a studio country album by a
woman and the largest opening streaming week for any such album in 2019.
“I
am blown away by the support this last week,” Morris, 28, told Billboard. “My
fans were already screaming the lyrics at the show the day after the album came
out.”
“Achieving
significant streaming success was a key goal, and to attain it in such a
dramatic fashion makes it all the more sweet,” says SMN chairman/CEO Randy
Goodman, who also praises Morris’ manager, Janet Weir. “[We] embraced this
album with the attitude of, ‘Let’s go do this,’ and we did just that.”
CHART HISTORY: Girl is the second
full-length from the Arlington, Texas, native to open at the Top Country Albums
summit. Morris’ first major-label LP, HERO,
began in the penthouse — and at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 — on chart week
dated June 25, 2016 (45,000 units; 37,142 copies sold). As of February 20,
2019, it had sold a total of 308,700 copies in America.
Thank you for one of the best weeks of my life. I’m truly grateful I get to do this with y’all and I can’t fully process this news. 😭🙌🏼👑 pic.twitter.com/rc8DMhN2ZV— MAREN MORRIS (@MarenMorris) 18 March 2019
Her
new set is her third entry on Top Country Albums. Her self-titled EP entered at
No. 27 in November 2015 and peaked at No. 22 the following April.
The
album’s title-track lead single rockets 27-9
on Hot Country Songs, which blends streaming, airplay and sales data. It’s
Morris’ fifth top 10 on the chart. On Country Airplay, “Girl” rose 26-25 (7.7
million in audience, essentially even week over week). The track is the first
Hot Country Songs top 10 by a female unaccompanied by another artist since
Morris’ “Rich” ranked at its No. 8 high on Dec. 8.
Morris
co-wrote all 14 songs on Girl, which was produced by busbee and Greg Kurstin.
She is nominated for female vocalist of the year at the 54th annual Academy of
Country Music Awards, to will be held April 7 in Las Vegas.
Billboard
Top Country Albums (Chart issue week of June 25, 2016)
Singer-songwriter
Maren Morris with her debut major-label, full-length album, HERO (Columbia
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville), became the first launch album to debut atop
Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart in 2016.
The
set started with 37,142 copies sold in its first week (ending June 9),
according to Nielsen Music. On the all-genre, multimetric consumption-based Billboard
200, Hero opened at No.5 with 45,000 equivalent album units.
Critical reception for Maren Morris’ GIRL:
Debut #1 UK Country
iTunes Album hart (#13 UK iTunes all-genres) | Debut #1 US Country iTunes Album
Chart (#1 US iTunes all-genres)
On her happier second album, Morris
straddles the pop/country divide much as she did on the first. Why don't we
just meet her in the middle?......To cut to the chase, then: “Girl” is every
bit as much a country album as her 2016 debut, “Hero.” Which leads to another
question: Does that say anything? A taste test of the first release might have
had the man on the street not noticing much that was identifiably Nashville
about it and, if anything, singling out Rihanna as a major influence, not Reba.
But in her accomplished country/pop ambivalence, Morris is not unlike the
freshest reigning male country superstar of the day, Thomas Rhett; he just gets
judged a lot less for it.....
(Rating: 88/100 Variety.com)
But “A Song For Everything” is smile
city as Morris flips through a phonebook’s worth of the pop musicians who’ve
soundtracked her life. “What’s your time machine?” she asks.....GIRL probably
won’t drum up quite the same level of critical spectacle as Golden Hour, but Morris’
endearing and earnest second album is country-pop polished for radio that still
feels down-to-earth.
(Rating: 7.1/10 Paste Magazine)
In a sense, Girl is the sequel to
"The Middle," not Hero. Largely produced by Greg Kurstin -- the Bird
& The Bee veteran who became the producer du jour after his Grammy-winning
work for Adele and Beck -- Girl is bright, shiny, and big, an album designed to
appeal to any imaginable audience.....By foregrounding her lyrical intent and
offering no room for interpretation, Morris winds up with songs that feel less
imaginative than their execution, a flaw that is by no means fatal but does
mean that Girl plays on a smaller scale than intended. - (Rating: 3.1/2 STARS AllMusic)
For all the biographical sincerity,
Morris’s songs about unfettered good times feel unconvincing. Morris has a
compellingly hardbitten voice that’s wasted on the boozy camaraderie of All My
Favourite People and the blown-out Flavour, not to mention the twee,
plinky-plonky A Song for Everything, which strings together nostalgic tropes to
push cheap emotional buttons......Also disappointing is Common, featuring
Brandi Carlile, a gothic plea for unity that feels feeble next to Morris’s
brazen (for a country star) real-life proclamations on gun control. It’s
stranger still because the best songs on Girl dwell on friction. “What’s left
of my halo’s black / Lucky for me, your kind of heaven’s been to hell and
back,” she sings on To Hell & Back, a bittersweet, pragmatic love song that
swells between anxiety and mellow reassurance, while The Bones draws out the
inherent ruefulness in her voice
(Rating: 2 STARS The Guardian)
Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) fell 1-2 (#20-17
Billboard 200) in its 93rd frame.
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) slipped 2-3 (#33-43 Billboard 200) in their
fourth frame.
Dan
+ Shay with their self-titled album (Warner Bros./Warner
Music Nashville) dropped 3-4 (#45-47 BB200) in their 38th week.
Former No.1 Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) slipped 4-5 (#51 non-mover BB200) in her 45th week.
Chris Stapleton with the 202-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
fell 5-6 (#54-53 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) held
at No.18 (#188-190 BB200; 97 weeks) and From A Room: Volume 2 fell 17-19 (#184-194 BB200) in his 67th week.
Former
No.1 Kane Brown with
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 7-8 (#76-86
BB200; 8 chart frames) as his self-titled album moved 6-7 (#75-76 BB200; 118 chart weeks).
Former 6-week
non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 8-9
(#91-93 BB200; 48 chart weeks).
Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory) fell 9-10
(#96-113 BB200) in his 79th frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY pushed 16-11 (#172-129 BB200; 26 chart weeks).
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) held at No.14 (#164-144 BB200; 41
chart weeks).
Jordan Davis with HOME STATE (MCA Nashville) rose 19-17 (#199-174 BB200) in his 39th chart frame.
Former
No1 Cody Johnson with AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT
(Cojo/Warner Music Nashville) fell 22-23
in his 8th week.
Scotty McCreery with SEASONS CHANGE (Triple Tigers) held at No.25 in his 27th week.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Townes Van Zandt with the 11-track set SKY BLUE (TVZ Records | Amazon UK - UK iTunes), released
March 7, made a debut at No.7.
Year-To-Date
Albums
2,136,000 (Physical sales 1,461,000
(down -27.5%) + Digital sales 675,000 (down -16.0%) which is 24.2% down at the same point in 2018 (2,818,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
6,952,000 down 27.2% at the same point in 2018
(9,552,000)
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 with “Beautiful Crazy’’ (River House/
Columbia Nashville) led both Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay for a fourth
frame. It topped the latter chart with 40.1 million impressions (down 1
percent). It is his unprecedented fifth consecutive career-opening Country
Airplay leader.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (4 weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
**
Airplay Gainer” No.8 “Here Tonight” Brett
Young
** Digital
Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** No.9 “GIRL” Maren Morris
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.26 “Ridin' Roads” Dustin Lynch
Debut
No.37 “A Song For Everything” Maren
Morris
Debut
No.46 “All My Favorite People” Maren
Morris feat. Brothers Osborne
Debut
No.49 “I Hope” Gabby Barrett
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of March 23, 2019)
Luke
Combs with “Beautiful
Crazy” topped
the chart for a fourth week with a 2% decrease in audience (-0.243 million)
Chase
Rice with “Eyes
on You” (Dack Janiels/Broken Bow) entered the Country Airplay top 10 (13-9),
increasing by 15 percent to 22.1 million audience impressions. “Eyes” marked
his third top 10 on the tally and first since 2015’s No.2-peaking “Gonna Wanna
Tonight.” Rice first reached the region with “Ready Set Roll,” which hit No. 5
in 2014.
Jake
Owen with “Down
to the Honkytonk” (Big Loud) hopped 12-10 (21.7 million, up 7
percent) on the chart, his 10th top 10 on the list. Owen last reached that level with
his seventh No.1, “I Was Jack (You Were Diane),” which led for a week in August
2018.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (4 weeks) *** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke
Combs 40.569 million audience (-0.243 million) / 8,184 radio plays (-109).
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.5 “Here Tonight” Brett Young
**
Most Added ** No. 55 Re-Entry “90's Country” Walker
Hayes
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.58 “After A Few” Travis
Denning
Debut No.60 “We Got A Problem” Luke Combs
Debut No.60 “We Got A Problem” Luke Combs
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Dustin Lynch with Ridin’ Roads bowed atop Country Digital Song Sales (#8 New Entry Digital Songs)
with 16,000 sold
in its first week, marking Lynch’s first No.1
(and sixth top 10). On Hot Country Songs, it arrived at No. 26. The 3-track
single released March 8 (iTunes) and the other 2 tracks “Red
Dirt, Blue Eyes” and “Little Town Livin'” debuted at No.19 & No.22 respectively.
“Ridin’ Roads” was seven places behind Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's "Shallow" which returned for an eighth
week atop Digital Song Sales (34,000, down 39 percent).
Former No1 Luke Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” held at No.2 (#16 non mover Digital Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
held at No.3 (#32-26 Digital Songs) as hit single “Tequila” fell 5-8 (#42-39 Digital Songs) in its 60th
frame.
Last weeks No.1
Thomas Rhett with
“Look What God Gave Her” fell 1-4
(#7-27 Digital Songs).
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss Me More” fell 4-5 (#37-33 Digital Songs) in her 19th
week.
Morgan Wallen with “Whiskey Glasses” rose 8-6 (#49-34 Digital Songs) in his 16th week.
Kane Brown with “Good As You” rose 9-7 (#35 Re-Entry Digital Songs) in his
8th frame.
Lee Brice with “Rumor” lifted 10-9 (#43 Re-Entry Digital Songs) in
his 13th week.
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk”
fell 7-10 (#46-49 Digital Songs) in
his 29th frame.
Outside
the Top 10
Kacey Musgraves with “Rainbow” held at No.11 in her 5th week.
Maren Morris with GIRL advanced 25-12 in her 8th frame.
Gabby Barrett with “I Hope” pushed 21-15 in
her 3rd week.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
March
18, 2019
Luke Combs Strikes #1 For
Second Week With 'Beautiful Crazy'
Double congrats
to Luke Combs,
Steve Hodges, Shane Allen and the Columbia
promotion team on landing a second week
at No.1 with “Beautiful Crazy.” The song is the fifth chart-topper from his
debut album THIS ONE’S FOR YOU. Songwriters are Wyatt Durrette, Robert
Williford and Combs.
“Beautiful Crazy” (River House/Columbia) held at No.1 logging 8,914 radio
spins (+43), 57.126 million audience impressions (+1.002) with 28959 Total Points (+121) from
156 tracking stations (156 ADDS) for the tracking week March 10 to March 16,
2019 and published chart dated March 18, 2019.
Jason Aldean Is Most-Added
With 'Rearview Town'
Kudos to Lee
Adams, Shelley Hargis Gaines and the Broken
Bow reps on notching 16 adds for
Jason Aldean’s “Rearview Town”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
 |
| Broken Row Records staffers honor Jason Aldean being most-added at Country radio this week. Pictured L-R: BBR Mgr./Secondary Promotion Matthew Holmberg; VP/Promotion Shelley Hargis; and Coord./ Promotion Ashley Wojcinski |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total
Historic Adds
JASON ALDEAN/Rearview Town (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 16 106
HARDY/Rednecker
(Tree Vibez/Big Loud) 13 79
KACEY
MUSGRAVES/Rainbow (MCA) 10 114
CHRIS
JANSON/Good Vibes (Warner Bros./WAR) 9 61
DIERKS
BENTLEY/Living (Capitol) 9 75
THOMAS RHETT/Look
What God Gave Her (Valory) 9 152
CHRIS
YOUNG/Raised On Country (RCA) 8 127
DAN + SHAY/All
To Myself (Warner Bros./WAR) 8 95
JUSTIN
MOORE/The Ones That Didn't Make It.. (Valory) 8 92
ZAC BROWN
BAND/Someone I Used To Know (BMG/Wheelhouse) 7 64
B. GILBERT
& L. ELL/What Happens In A Small Town (Valory) 6 142
KING
CALAWAY/World For Two (Stoney Creek) 6 35
KIP MOORE/The
Bull (MCA) 6 38
WALKER
HAYES/90's Country (Monument/Arista) 6 65
BROTHERS
OSBORNE/I Don't Remember Me (Before..) (EMI Nashville) 5 99
LAUREN
ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s
(19/Mercury) 5 101
MAREN
MORRIS/Girl (Columbia) 3 134
CASSADEE
POPE/If My Heart Had A
Heart (Awake Music) 2 3
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks
(Wheelhouse) 2 136
SCOTTY
MCCREERY/In Between (Triple Tigers) 2 2
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/Girl Goin' Nowhere
(Atlantic/WAR) 1 82
CARLY
PEARCE/Closer To You (Big
Machine) 1 139
HUNTER
HAYES/Heartbreak (Atlantic/WMN) 1 1
JENNIFER
NETTLES/I Can Do Hard
Things (Big Machine) 1 2
MAREN
MORRIS f/BROS. OSBORNE/All
My Favorite... (Columbia) 1 1
TERRA
BELLA/Middle Of Nowhere USA (DAX) 1 1
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