Black River Entertainment surprised Kelsea Ballerini at tour rehearsals with a Gold-certified plaque
for the now Top 10 and climbing single “Miss Me More.”
This milestone marks her eighth career RIAA Gold-certified single and third one from her Grammy-nominated album, Unapologetically, following “I Hate Love Songs” and “Legends.”
This milestone marks her eighth career RIAA Gold-certified single and third one from her Grammy-nominated album, Unapologetically, following “I Hate Love Songs” and “Legends.”
The track is
also the title of Ballerini’s first headlining arena tour, which launches April
11 in Maryland, with support from Brett Young and Brandon Ratcliff.
“We couldn’t have imagined this song going gold and being top 10 at country radio while kicking off this tour,” shared Ballerini. “It feels like a perfect storm and I’m so excited that this song, all about self-empowerment and love, surrounds my first ever arena headlining tour. See you this week on the road!”
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of April 13, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week)
** HONKY TONK
TIME MACHINE George Strait
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (7 weeks)
** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Airplay **
No.1 (7 weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (1 week)
** “God’s Country” Blake Shelton
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes traditional
album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums
(SEA).
Billie Eilish scores her first No.1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, as When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do
We Go? stormed in atop the tally with 313,000
equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 4, according
to Nielsen Music, scoring the second-largest week of 2019 for any album. Of the
album’s starting sum, 170,000 were in album sales, the second-largest sales week for an album
this year.
The
new album follows the steady success of Eilish’s first release, Don’t Smile at
Me, which has spent 67 weeks on the chart, and rises 20-15 on the new tally.
(It peaked at No. 14 in January.) The nine-song set was issued in 2017, has
earned 947,000 equivalent album units, and generated more than 1.2 billion
on-demand audio streams for its tracks.
Country
king George Strait clocks his 21st top 10 Billboard
200 album, as his new HONKY TONK TIME
MACHINE debuts at No.4 with
51,000 units (with 44,000 of that sum in album sales). Strait continues to have the most top
10s on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart among all country artists. Strait
debuted on the Billboard 200 chart 35 years ago, on March 3, 1984 with Right or
Wrong; logged his first visit to the top 10 with the Pure Country soundtrack in
1992; and was last in the top 10 with 2015’s Cold Beer Conversation (also
debuting, and peaking, at No. 4).
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.
Strait’s 30th
Studio Album is the Best-Selling Country Album of 2019 and Sets a Record-Making
27th No. 1 Album of His Career
George Strait further cemented his iconic
status within the history of country music with a record-making 27th No.1 on Billboard’s Top Country
Albums Chart with his latest, HONKY TONK
TIME MACHINE. With 51,000 equivalent album units (44,000 sales), the album
also lands at No.4 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and marked the largest
week of 2019 for any country album.
As reported by Billboard, “George Strait
extends his record for the most No. 1s in the five-decade history of
Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, as the King of Country logs his 27th
leader with the chart-topping debut of Honky Tonk Time Machine.”
He
continues to widen the gap between the acts tied for the second-most No.1s,
Garth Brooks and Willie Nelson, each with 17.
Produced by George Strait and Chuck Ainley,
Honky Tonk Time Machine includes 13 tracks, eight of which were written by
Strait himself. The album includes “Sing One with Willie” featuring Willie
Nelson and Strait's own take on the Johnny Paycheck classic “Old Violin.”
Strait
kicked off his album launch with a sold-out show at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz
Stadium. Performing hits from across his 30+ year career plus debuting songs
from the new album, the Atlanta Journal Constitution notes, “More than 50,000
sang along heartily” with Strait, “a guy who can command a massive audience
merely by tapping his right boot heel.”
George
Strait extended his record for the most No. 1s in the five-decade history of
Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart as the King of Country logs his 27th
leader with the debut of Honky Tonk Time Machine (MCA Nashville/Universal Music
Group Nashville) on the list dated April 13.
The
album is Strait’s first new studio effort since 2015’s Cold Beer Conversation (Debut
82,667 copies sold; #4 Billboard
200/ #2 Country chart dated Oct 17,
2015), his most recent No.1 on the chart. He achieved his first chart-topping
debut since Love Is Everything in 2013. Strait made his Top Country Albums
debut on the list dated Oct. 3, 1981, with his debut effort, Strait Country,
which peaked at No. 26. He notched his first No.1 in 1984 with his third studio
set, Right or Wrong.
Meanwhile,
the new set’s first single, “Every Little Honky Tonk Bar,” which Strait wrote
with son Bubba and longtime collaborator Dean Dillon, bumped 19-18 on Country
Airplay (12.4 million impressions, up 1%) and 25-22 on the airplay-, streaming-
and sales-fueled Hot Country Songs chart.
After his historic run atop all five of Billboard’s country charts
simultaneously Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/Columbia Nashville | SMN; 30 weeks at No1), slipped 1-2 (#15-13
Billboard 200).
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#35-42 BB200) in their 40th
week.
Previous week No.1 Maren Morris with GIRL (Columbia Nashville/ Sony Music
Nashville [SMN]) fell 2-4 (#30-43 Billboard 200) in her fourth week.
Chris Stapleton with the 204-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) fell 4-5 (#49 non mover BB200) as his set From A Room:
Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 21-25 and From A Room: Volume 2 rose fell
20-23 (#182-189 BB200) in its 70th week.
Former No.1 Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) slipped 5-6 (#52-55
BB200) in her 48th week.
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) fell 6-7 (#55-60
Billboard 200) in their seventh frame.
Jake Owen with his 14-track set GREETINGS FROM... JAKE OWEN (Big Loud |
Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.8 (#65 Billboard 200) selling 4,000 copies.
The
album marked his first full-length release since signing with Big Loud, and follow-up
to Owen’s “American Love” album, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top
Country Albums chart and No.4 on the all-genre Billboard 200 (selling 29,408 copies chart dated Aug 20,
2016)
The
new album includes “I Was Jack (You Were Diane),” “Down To The Honkytonk,”
“Grass Is Always Greener,” featuring Kid Rock, and “Drink All Day,” written by
Daniel Ross, Ernest K Smith, Brian Kelley and Josh Miller.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT held at No.9 (#90-70
BB200) in its 21st frame as his self-titled album 8-10 (#81-82
BB200) in its 122nd chart week.
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 7-11 (#72-86 BB200) in his 51st chart week.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) held at
No.13 (#117-105 BB200; 44 Top
Country Chart weeks).
Steve Earle
& The Dukes with
the 16-track GUY (New West Records |
Amazon UK - UK iTunes) made a debut at No.14 (#107 Billboard 200).
The album features 16 songs written by the legendary Guy Clark,
and guest appearances by Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Terry Allen, Jerry Jeff
Walker, Mickey Raphael, and more. First single "Dublin Blues" was featured at NPR.
Former No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY fell 10-20 (#105-171 BB200) in her 29th chart
week.
Former No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. rose 22-21 (#172 Re-Entry BB200) in his 17th
frame.
Kelsea
Ballerini with UNAPOLOGETICALLY fell 19-22
(#178-186 BB200)
Jordan Davis with HOME STATE (MCA Nashville) fell 18-24 (#175-195
BB200) in his 42nd chart frame.
FALLING SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Various Artists with Now That's What I Call
Country, Volume 12 (UMG/Sony | Amazon.com) made a debut at No.27 selling 5,300 copies.
The
latest installment in the Now series features 18 songs from artists including
Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Luke Combs, Jordan Davis, Jon Pardi, Pistol Annies,
Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban.
LoCash with 11-track BROTHERS (Wheelhouse | Amazon UK - UK iTunes ) made a debut at No.34 selling 3,800 copies.
Produced
by Corey Crowder, Tyler Hubbard, Lindsay Rimes and Jordan Schmidt, the project
is their first for new label Wheelhouse Records/ BBR Music Group and boasts 11
songs, including single “Feels Like A Party,” co-written by the duo and Crowder
and Hubbard.
Eli Young Band with 14-track THIS IS ELI YOUNG BAND (Greatest Hits)
(Valory | Amazon
UK)
made a debut at No.46 selling 900 copies.
The
group’s first greatest hits collection boasts 14 tracks, including new songs
“Where Were You” and current single “Love Ain’t” in addition to past releases
“Drunk Last Night,” “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” and “Crazy Girl.”
Year-To-Date Albums
2,807,000 (Physical sales 1,942,000
(down -26.2%) + Digital sales 864,000 (down -17.3%) which is 23.7% down at the same point in 2018 (3,678,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
9,006,000 down 26.8% at the same point in 2018
(12,309,000)
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) commanded Hot Country Songs and Country Streaming Songs
for a seventh week.
Blake
Shelton earned his 31st Hot Country Songs top 10
as “God’s Country” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) stormed 46-5. Following its first full week of
tracking, it launches atop Country Digital Song Sales with 32,000 sold in its
first week, marking Shelton’s fifth leader; it also arrives as his first No.1
on the all-genre Digital Song Sales chart. The track ranked at No. 25 on
Country Airplay (6.8 million, down 26%) while adding 3.7 million U.S. streams.
Michael
Ray notched his third Hot Country Songs top 10
as “One That Got Away” (Atlantic/WEA) climbed 11-10. It’s powered by its 8% hike to 36.2 million in audience as
it held at its No.3 high on Country Airplay.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (7 weeks) ** “Beautiful
Crazy” Luke Combs
** Digital Gainer/
Streaming Gainer ** No.5 “God's Country” Blake Shelton
**
Airplay Gainer” No.20 “Love Ain't” Eli
Young Band
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.25 “Knockin' Boots” Luke Bryan
Debut
No.36 “That Old Truck” Thomas Rhett
Debut
No.39 “Lost In The Middle Of Nowhere” Kane
Brown & Becky G
Luke
Combs with “Beautiful
Crazy” (River House/Columbia Nashville) ruled Country Airplay
for a seventh week (38.6 million, down 4%).
“Crazy” is now tied for the second-longest rule in the history of Country
Airplay, which launched in 1990. It matches Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying”
(2004), Kenny Chesney’s “There Goes My Life” (2003-04), Darryl Worley’s “Have
You Forgotten?” (2003) and Chesney’s “The Good Stuff” (2002).
Only one week stands between Combs’ fifth leader and the two
longest-leading No.1s, both with eight frames in the penthouse: Alan Jackson
and Jimmy Buffet’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” (2003) and Lonestar’s “Amazed”
(1999).
Kelsea
Ballerini banked her sixth Country Airplay top 10 as “Miss Me More” (Black River) ascended 11-10 (20.9
million, up 6%). She made her first trip to the region since “Legends” led the
list in February 2018. Ballerini banked No.1s with her first three singles in
2015-16: “Love Me Like You Mean It,” “Dibs” and “Peter Pan.”
Notably, “Miss” marked the first Country Airplay top 10 by a female
artist since the chart dated Dec. 1, 2018, when Maren Morris’ “Rich” ranked at
its No. 4 peak. In the same span a year earlier (Dec. 2, 2017-April 14, 2018),
two songs by solo women hit that level of the chart: Morris’ “I Could Use a
Love Song” and Ballerini’s “Legends,” which both reached No. 1. The same
stretch a year before yielded three top 10s by females: Carrie Underwood’s
“Dirty Laundry,” the No. 1 “Road Less Traveled” by Lauren Alaina and
Ballerini’s “Yeah Boy.”
Eli
Young Band scored its fourth Country Airplay top 10 and
first since 2013 as “Love Ain’t”
(Valory) leapt 12-7 (23.1 million, up 21%). The group topped the chart
with its first three top 10s: “Drunk Last Night” (2013), “Even If It Breaks
Your Heart” (2012) and “Crazy Girl” (2011).
Country
Airplay
*** No.1 (7 weeks) *** “Beautiful
Crazy” Luke Combs 38.601
million audience (-1.468 million) / 7,264 radio plays (-723).
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.7 “Love Ain't” Eli Young Band
**
Most Added ** No.25 “God's Country” Blake
Shelton
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.53 “Old Town Road” Lil
Nas X
Debut
No.57 “The Bull” Kip Moore
Debut
No.60 “World For Two” King Calaway
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Blake
Shelton with “God’s
Country” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) launched atop Country Digital
Song Sales with 32,000 sold in its first week,
marking Shelton’s fifth leader; it also arrived as his first No.1 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales chart.
Of Note: Lil Nas X blasted from No.15 to No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his
debut hit and viral smash "Old Town Road." "Road" also rose
11-3 on Digital Song Sales, surging
by 83% to 22,000 downloads sold in the week
ending April 4, as it claims top Sales Gainer honors for the second time in
three weeks.
Luke
Bryan with “Knockin'
Boots” made a debut No.2 (#14 New Entry Digital Songs; 11,000
sales)
Former 7 non-consecutive week
No1 Luke Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” fell 1-3 (#13-15 Digital Songs).
Kane Brown & Becky G with “Lost In The Middle Of Nowhere”
made
a debut No.4 (#17 New Entry Digital Songs; 11,000
sales) whilst Kane Brown with “Good
As You” dropped 5-9 (#33-36 Digital Songs) in his 11th
frame.
Previous No.1 Thomas
Rhett with “Look What God Gave Her”
fell 2-5 (#24 non-mover Digital Songs) in his 5th frame whilst
new song “That Old Truck” made a debut No.7 (#29
New Entry Digital Songs; 8,000 sales).
Morgan Wallen with
“Whiskey Glasses” fell 3-6 (#25-28 Digital Songs) in
his 19th week.
Jake Owen with
“Down To The Honkytonk” pushed 10-8 (#42-34 Digital
Songs) in his 32nd frame.
Kelsea Ballerini with
“Miss Me More” fell 4-10 (#29-39 Digital Songs) in
her 22nd week.
Outside
the Top 10
Jana Kramer with “Beautiful Lies” the first
single from Kramer’s forthcoming album debuted on Country Digital Song Sales
at No.11 (#29 New Entry
Digital Songs; 5,000 sales). It’s her highest rank since
“I’ve Done Love” became her third top 10, reaching No. 8 in September 2017.
Lee Brice with
“Rumor” fell 8-12 (#38-50 Digital Songs) in his 16th
week.
Kacey Musgraves with
“Rainbow” fell 7-13 (#36 – off the Top 50 Digital
Songs) in her 8th week.
Dan + Shay (Dan
Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
fell 6-14 (#28 - off the Top 50 Digital Songs; 41 weeks) as hit
single “Tequila” fell 9-18 in its 63rd frame.
Midland with “Mr. Lonely” made a bow at
No.23.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
April
8, 2019
Michael Ray Is
#1 With 'One That Got Away'
Congrats
to Michael Ray, Kristen Williams, Tom Martens, Adrian Michaels and the WEA promotion staff on earning the
week’s No.1 with “One
That Got Away.” The song is the first chart-topper from the album Amos.
Writers are Nashville hit-makers Jesse Frasure, Josh Osborne, Matthew Ramsey and
Trevor Rosen.
“One That Got Away” (Atlantic/WEA) climbed 3-1 logging 8,582 radio
spins (+854), 51.421 million audience impressions (+5.691)
with 27356 Total Points (+3224) from 156 tracking stations (156 ADDS)
for the tracking week March 31 to April 6, 2019 and published chart dated April
8, 2019.
Coming
off his first-ever ACM Award nomination for New Male Artist of the Year,
Michael Ray is celebrating his third career No.1 on the Mediabase country
radio singles chart this week with his addictive hit single “One That Got
Away.” It’s the first single to hit the top spot on the charts from his
critically acclaimed album AMOS, which debuted in the Top 3 on the Billboard
country albums chart upon its release last summer.
“From the moment we began playing ’One That
Got Away’ in our live show, we could feel it was a special song,” Ray said
after getting the good news. “What makes it even more meaningful to me is
that’s it’s the first number one single from Amos, which personally is a record
that means so much to me.”
“One
that Got Away” now joins Ray’s previous No. 1s “Think a Little Less” and “Kiss
You in the Morning,” and continues a career ascension propelled by the Florida
native’s drive to succeed.
Ray celebrated his latest professional
accomplishment in Las Vegas, serving as a co-host for the official PEOPLE red
carpet pre-show telecast at the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday
(April 7). Soon after, Ray also served as an award presenter on the show
alongside fiancé Carly Pearce, which aired live from the MGM Grand Garden
Arena.
“Grew
up watching the ACM Awards,” Ray posted on his Instagram page on Thursday (April
4) alongside a pic of him looking out at the Vegas skyline. “I can’t believe I
get to be part of them this year.”
 |
| Michael Ray co-hosted the PEOPLE red carpet pre-show telecast at the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards with Andrea Boehlke | Photo credit: courtesy of ACM |
Luke Bryan Is
Most-Added With 'Knockin' Boots'
Kudos
to Bobby Young and the Capitol crew
on landing 50 adds for Luke Bryan’s “Knockin’
Boots”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart
week.
 |
| Capitol Nashville staff celebrate in honor of Luke Bryan being most-added at Country radio this week. Bryan’s single, “Knockin’ Boots,” can be heard on All Access’ Cool New Music page. Front row (L-R): the label’s David Friedman; Katelyn Lester; and Bobby Young. Back row (L-R): Chris Schuler; Ashley Laws; Donna Hughes; and Kaileen Mangan |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total
Historic Adds
LUKE BRYAN/Knockin' Boots (Capitol) 50 93
BLAKE
SHELTON/God's Country (Warner Bros./WMN) 27 134
DAN + SHAY/All
To Myself (Warner Bros./WAR) 21 132
COLE
SWINDELL/Love You Too Late (Warner Bros./WMN) 16 118
BRAD PAISLEY/My
Miracle (Arista) 15 64
SCOTTY
MCCREERY/In Between (Triple Tigers) 11 48
JASON
ALDEAN/Rearview Town (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 10 131
DIERKS
BENTLEY/Living (Capitol) 6 98
DUSTIN
LYNCH/Ridin' Roads (Broken Bow) 6 63
TIM
MCGRAW/Thought About You (Columbia) 6 120
HARDY/Rednecker
(Tree Vibez/Big Loud) 5 96
MATT STELL/Prayed
For You (Wide Open/Records/GCE) 5 62
MIDLAND/Mr.
Lonely (Big Machine) 5 8
CHRIS
YOUNG/Raised On Country (RCA) 4 139
RUNAWAY JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 4 142
ASHLEY MCBRYDE/Girl Goin' Nowhere (Atlantic/WAR) 2 88
JENNIFER NETTLES/I Can Do Hard Things (Big Machine) 2 11
ABBY ANDERSON/Good Lord (Black River) 1 1
CARLY PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 1 143
CAROLINE JONES/Chasin' Me (Mailboat/New Revolution) 1 2
DANIELLE BRADBERY f/P. MCCOLLUM/Shallow (Big Machine) 1 2
EASTON CORBIN/Somebody's
Gotta Be Country (Tape Room) 1 1
HIGH VALLEY/Single
Man (Atlantic/WEA) 1 1
RACHEL WAMMACK/Enough (RCA) 1 3
SUNDANCE
HEAD/Close Enough To Walk (Wildcatter) 1 4
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #11
Event
Venue City/State: Eagles Rod
Laver Arena Melbourne, Australia
Dates:
March 5-6, 2019 Gross Sales: $3,730,010 Attend:
22,722/ 22,722
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$164.16
Promoters: Frontier Touring
Rank
Artist: #19
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Caroline
Jones, David Lee Murphy Van Andel Arena Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Dates:
April 6-7, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,920,474 Attend:
22,539 / 22,539
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $150, $46.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
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