Country
Billboard Chart News March 4, 2019
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of March 9, 2019)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (27 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Airplay
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (5 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).
Lady Gaga
& Bradley Cooper's 'A Star Is Born' Soundtrack Back at No. 1 on Billboard
200 Post-Oscars
Lady
Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack returned to No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200)
for a fourth non-consecutive week on top, as the set stepped 3-1 with 128,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 28
(up 152 percent), according to Nielsen Music. The set’s album sales surged by
166 percent (to 76,000; up from 29,000). Further, its digital album sales rose by
353 percent (to 50,000; up from 11,000).
The
album got a big boost from publicity and promotion spurred by its parent film’s
showcase on the Feb. 24 Academy Awards. The movie was nominated for eight
awards, including best picture. A Star Is Born took home one award, for best
original song, for “Shallow.” The tune was sung on the show by newly minted
Oscar-winner Gaga ("Shallow's" co-writer), alongside Cooper, in a
warmly-received performance.
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.
Quintuplet:
Luke
Combs Becomes The Second Artist To Simultaneously Lead All Five Country Charts
For only the
second time, a single artist rules all five of Billboard’s main country
charts at once: Luke
Combs ruled Top Country
Albums, Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, Country Streaming Songs and Country
Digital Song Sales (all dated March 9).
Kane Brown first
achieved such a quintuple coronation in 2017. “This is a great day,” said
Combs. “From being chosen as one of Billboard’s artists to watch in 2017 to now
topping all five charts is very humbling. This doesn’t happen unless radio and
the fans embrace the music and me as much as they have. That is the best part:
that I get to wake up ever y day and do this. I appreciate everyone supporting
me and the music.”
A week earlier,
Combs just missed crowning all five surveys when his debut LP, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville), ranked at No.2 on Top Country Albums.
The set returned to the summit for a 27th week on the new March 9 tally,
ascending 2-1 with 25,000 equivalent album units (down 1
percent; #16-18 Billboard 200) in the week ending Feb. 28.
The album
dethroned Florida
Georgia Line’s CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group),
which dipped to No.2 (22,000 units,
down 56 percent; #4-22 Billboard 200). The LP became FGL’s fourth Top Country
Albums leader and third to start at the pinnacle when it arrived atop the
March2-dated chart with 50,000 units.
Luke Combs and Kane
Brown are now the only artists to pull off such a sweep. Notably, both acts
record for Sony Music Nashville. Brown first achieved the feat by
simultaneously topping the tallies dated Oct. 28, 2017. That week, “What Ifs,”
featuring Lauren Alaina, controlled Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay and
Country Streaming Songs; “Heaven” arrived atop Country Digital Song Sales; and
his self-titled debut LP led Top Country Albums.
Former No.1 Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) held at No.3 (#23-39 Billboard 200) in her 43rd frame.
Dan
+ Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.4 (#38-43 BB200) in their 36th
frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 200-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.5 (#47-49 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) rose
21-20 (#176-186 BB200; 95 weeks) and From A Room: Volume 2 rose 23-19 (#198-177 Billboard 200) in its 65th frame.
SWITCHING
PLACES: Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore
album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 6-7 (#77-75 BB200) in his 16th frame as
his self-titled debut rose 7-6 (#81-74
Billboard 200) in its 117th frame.
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) held at No.8 (#83-81 BB200) in its 46th week.
Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory) climbed 10-9
(#99-96 BB200) in his 77th frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY fell 11-13 (#106-149 BB200) in her 24th
week.
Elvis Presley with Elvis: The '68 Comeback Special: The Best Of (Soundtrack) fell 9-18 in its second frame.
Former
No1 Cody Johnson with AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT
(Cojo/Warner Music Nashville) fell 18-21
(#168-194 Billboard 200).
Former No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. fell 17-22 (#167-195 Billboard 200).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Chris Kroeze with his
7-track self-titled set CHRIS KROEZE
(Chris Kroeze | Amazon UK) made a
debut at No.19.
The Singer / Songwriter & Nashville recording artist appeared
on The Voice Season 15.
Who TF is Justin Time? and
Big Murph with 8-track Hip-Hop & Rap REBELS ONLY [Explicit | Amazon] made a debut at No.36.
Year-To-Date Albums
1,686,000 (Physical sales 1,139,000
(down -28.4%) + Digital sales 547,000 (down -16.0%) which is 24.8% down at the same point in 2018 (2,241,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
5,533,000 down 27.5% at the same point in 2018
(7,628,000)
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:
Luke
Combs with “Beautiful
Crazy ”( River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) topped
all four country song charts for a second straight week. The ballad (which
he co-wrote with Wyatt Durrette and Robert Williford) paced Hot Country Songs
chart for a second week.
On Country
Airplay, it also led for a second frame — up 4 percent to 40.5 million audience
impressions in the week ending March 3, according to Nielsen Music — as well as
dominating Country Streaming Songs for a second week, gaining by 3 percent to
12 million U.S. streams in the week ending Feb. 28. It leases the penthouse on
Country Digital Songs Sales for a fifth frame (12,000 sold, down 21 percent in
the week ending Feb. 28).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
**
Airplay Gainer/ Streaming Gainer No.4 “Take It From Me” Jordan Davis
** Digital
Gainer ** No.26 ”GIRL” Maren Morris
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.34 “The Bones” Maren Morris
Debut
No.37 “Look What God Gave Her” Thomas
Rhett
Debut
No.50 “Rockin' All Night Long” Adam
Hambrick
Billboard Country Airplay
The chart achievements keep rolling in for 29-year-old Luke Combs. On the March 2-dated Country Airplay
list, “Beautiful
Crazy
became the Asheville, N.C., native’s fifth total and consecutive No.1,
the most by any artist out of the gate. The track follows
his first four Country Airplay leaders: “She Got the Best of Me,” “One
Number Away,” “When It Rains It Pours”
and his debut hit,
“Hurricane.”
All five songs are on the deluxe edition of his debut LP, which bowed
atop the June 24, 2017-dated Top Country Albums chart and led for three more weeks
that year. It returned to the top on June 16, 2018, following the arrival of
its deluxe version and has added another 22 weeks at No. 1 through the latest
ranking
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke
Combs 40.487 million audience (+1.485 million) / 8,159 radio plays (+261)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.20” Look What God Gave
Her” Thomas Rhett
Debut
No.54 “Rearview Town” Jason Aldean
Debut
No.57 “Good Vibes” Chris Janson
Debut
No.58 "Living” Dierks Bentley
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Luke
Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” held at No.1 (#10-17 Digital Songs; 12,000 downloads sold, down 21%, in the week ending
Feb. 28) to head the Country Digital Songs summit for a 5th non-consecutive
week in its 43rd frame. Additionally, Combs’ “She Got The Best Of Me”
fell 14-20.
“Crazy” was
sixteen places behind Lady Gaga &
Bradley Cooper’s "Shallow" which rebounded
2-1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, for a seventh total week on top
(extending Gaga's longest command of her six career No. 1s on the chart), up
225 percent to 115,000 sold in the week ending Feb. 28, according to Nielsen
Music.
Maren Morris with pregrat track “The
Bones” made a debut at No.2 (#37 Digital Songs)
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss Me More” pushed 6-3 (#40 Re-Entry Digital Songs) in her
17th week.
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila”
fell 3-5 (#32-44 Digital Songs) while
their 11 non-consecutive week No1 “Speechless” held at No.4 (#37-41
Digital Songs).
Brett Young with “Here Tonight” fell 2-6.
Lee Brice with “Rumor” held at No.7 in his 11th frame.
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk” fell
5-8 in its 27th frame.
Morgan Wallen with “Whiskey Glasses” held at No.9 in his 14th week.
Kacey Musgraves with “Rainbow” fell 8-10 in her third frame.
Outside
the Top 10
Chris Stapleton’s Millionaire” fell 10-13 as 164-week “Tennessee Whiskey” fell 12-14.
Jennifer Nettles with “I Can Do Hard Things”
made a debut at No.16.
Jimmie Allen + Abby Anderson with their interpretation of
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow” made a debut at No.21.
Gabby Barrett with “I Hope” made a debut at No.25.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
March
4, 2019
Jordan Davis Lands #1 Song
With 'Take It From Me'
Congrats to Jordan Davis,
Royce Risser, Katie Dean, David Friedman and the MCA promotion staff on landing this week’s No. 1 with “Take
It From Me.” The song is the second consecutive chart-topper from Home
State. Writers are Jacob Davis, Jason Gantt and Jordan Davis.
The singer
stated, “Jacob and I had a dream of having a #1 song together when we moved to
NASHVILLE, and we both cannot thank everyone enough for their support of this
tune.” He added, “From Country radio to the fans, thank you from the bottom of
my heart.”
“Take It From Me” (MCA) rose 3-1 logging 8,703 radio spins (+1,475),
52.623 million audience impressions (+8.486) with 28104 Total Points (+4750) from
156 tracking stations (156 ADDS) for the tracking week February 24 to March 2,
2019 and published chart dated March 4, 2019.
Thomas Rhett's 'Look What
God Gave Her' Is Most-Added
And kudos to
Chris Palmer and the Valory staff
for notching 130 adds on Thomas Rhett’s “Look What God Gave Her”. The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week. It logged 5785 fresh radio spins and 12.108 million audience
impressions.
Thomas Rhett Debuts Top 20 w/ New Single
“Most Added” Single of the Week Enters into Twenties on
Both Country Radio Charts
NASHVILLE, TN - March 4, 2019 – Fresh off introducing his
“buoyant” (Rolling Stone)
new single, Multi-PLATINUM selling performer Thomas Rhett continues to
thrill fans and rack up accolades. Today, the in-demand entertainer earned
the highest chart debut of his career with “Look What God Gave Her,” as country radio’s most-added
song this week, debuting at No. 20 on Billboard’s Country Airplay and No. 29 on
the Country Aircheck Mediabase chart after its release Friday. Additionally,
Thomas Rhett also dropped “Don’t
Threaten Me With A Good Time” (feat. Little Big Town) immediately following
his performance on Saturday
Night Live, which was layered with “soul” and a “funkier edge”
(Billboard).
Fans can get both tracks now when they pre-order his hotly-anticipated upcoming fourth
studio album CENTER
POINT ROAD ahead of its May 31 release on The
Valory Music Co.
Making his ‘SNL’ debut as the first country artist of the show’s current season, Thomas Rhett delivered the television world-premiere of “Look What God Gave Her,” once again showcasing his “commanding stage presence” (Rolling Stone) and earning his reputation as “a man with no boundaries” (Billboard). The 12x chart-topper later launched into the ‘80’s inspired blast of feel-good fire, “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time,” featuring longtime friends Little Big Town. Enlisting a horn section and powerhouse back-up vocalists, Thomas Rhett “kicked his onstage party up a notch” (Billboard).
Thomas Rhett co-produced “Look What God Gave Her” with Julian Bunetta and Dann Huff, both of whom are longtime collaborators with producer credits on his previous two albums – PLATINUM-certified LIFE CHANGES and TANGLED UP. More details about Thomas Rhett’s fourth studio album, named after the street in his Tennessee hometown that shaped and influenced much of his life experiences, will be revealed soon, with Country radio’s most-played artist of 2018 hinting that it will find him “getting back to his roots.”
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
THOMAS RHETT/Look What God Gave Her (Valory) 130 130
CHRIS
JANSON/Good Vibes (Warner Bros./WAR) 34 47
HARDY/Rednecker
(Tree Vibez/Big Loud) 28 55
KIP MOORE/The
Bull (MCA) 26 26
JASON
ALDEAN/Rearview Town (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 24 69
KACEY MUSGRAVES/Rainbow (MCA) 19 97
DAVID LEE
MURPHY/No Zip Code (Reviver) 14 15
DIERKS
BENTLEY/Living (Capitol) 14 52
TIM
MCGRAW/Thought About You (Columbia) 11 93
BRANTLEY
GILBERT & LINDSAY ELL/What Happens In A Small Town (Valory) 8 128
DAN + SHAY/All
To Myself (Warner Bros./WAR) 8 80
ZAC BROWN
BAND/Someone I Used To Know (No Reserve/BMG/Wheelhouse) 7 51
ERIC
CHURCH/Some Of It (EMI Nashville) 5 123
GEORGE
STRAIT/Every Little Honky Tonk Bar (MCA) 5 130
TRAVIS
DENNING/After A Few (Mercury) 5 67
CARLY PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 4 135
TENILLE TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 4 90
ASHLEY MCBRYDE/Girl Goin' Nowhere (Atlantic/WAR) 3 78
MAREN MORRIS/Girl (Columbia) 3 124
BOBBY BONES
& THE RAGING IDIOTS/Emoji Love (---) 2 2
STEPHANIE QUAYLE/If I Was A Cowboy (Rebel Engine) 2 13
CLAY
WALKER/Change (Maven) 1 3
JENNIFER NETTLES/I Can Do Hard Things (Big Machine) 1 1
LUKE
COMBS/Houston, We Got A Problem (River House/Columbia) 1 3
RAYNE
JOHNSON/Laid Back (Legend Entertainment Corp) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #40
Event
Venue City/State: Blake Shelton, Lauren Alaina, Trace Adkins & others PPG Paints
Arena Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dates:
Feb. 23, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,079,264 Attend: 12,979/ 12,979
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$149, $32
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #47
Event
Venue City/State: Blake Shelton, Lauren Alaina, Trace Adkins & others KeyBank Center Buffalo, N.Y.
Dates:
Feb. 22, 2019 Gross Sales: $930,429 Attend: 12,301/ 12,301
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$119, $29
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Latest
Billboard Boxscore Chart
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