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Billboard Chart News March 25, 2019
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of March 30, 2019)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (29 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country
Airplay ** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country
Digital Songs ** No.1 (6 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).
Juice WRLD’s DEATH RACE FOR LOVE spent a second straight week at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart (BB200), as the set earned 74,000 equivalent album units in the
week ending March 21, according to Nielsen Music. That’s down 55 percent
compared to its chart-topping opening frame of 165,000 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.
Luke Combs made history as the first
artist to simultaneously lead all five of Billboard’s country charts for
multiple weeks: Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, Country Streaming
Songs, Country Digital Song Sales and Top
Country Albums (all dated March 30). He first staged the quintuple chart
achievement on the lists dated March 9.
One
other artist previously led all five charts at the same time for one week:
Kane Brown, on Oct. 28, 2017.
Combs,
who co-penned “Beautiful Crazy” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) with Wyatt Durrette and Robert Williford, tops all four country song
charts — and makes for a personal best for himself on Country Airplay. The
ballad leads that chart for a fifth frame, down 3 percent to 39.4 million
audience impressions in the week ending March 24, according to Nielsen Music.
Combs surpassed his prior longest stay atop the tally, when “She Got the Best
of Me” reigned for four weeks starting in October 2018.
“Crazy”
initially topped the Country Airplay chart dated March 2, becoming C o m b s’
unprecedented fifth consecutive career-opening entry on the survey to hit No.
1. Before “Crazy” and “Best,” his debut hit, “Hurricane,” led for two weeks beginning
May 27, 2017, followed by “When It Rains It Pours,” which also dominated for
two frames, beginning Nov. 4, 2017, and “One Number Away” (June 9, 2018).
Combs’
hit is the longest-ruling Country Airplay No. 1 by any act since Thomas Rhett’s
“Die a Happy Man,” which crowned the chart for six weeks starting Jan. 2, 2016.
“Crazy” likewise paced Hot Country Songs chart
for a fifth week, as well as Country
Streaming Songs for a fifth frame, essentially even week over week with
12.1 million U.S. streams in the week ending March 21. On Country Digital Song Sales, it rebounds 2-1 for a sixth total week
at the summit (12,000 sold, up 15 percent in the week ending March 21).
Meanwhile, Combs’ debut LP, THIS ONE’S
FOR YOU, returned to the Top Country Albums attic (17-12 Billboard 200) for
a 29th cumulative week, up less than 1 percent to 24,000 equivalent album
units.
Previous
week No.1 Maren Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) slipped 1-2 (#4-18 Billboard
200) in her second week.
Dan
+ Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) moved 4-3 (#47-31 BB200) in their 39th week.
Chris Stapleton with the 203-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) climbed 6-4 (#53-47 BB200) as his
set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) fell 18-21 (#190-194
BB200; 98 weeks) and From A Room: Volume 2 rose 19-18 (#194-176
BB200) in its 68th week.
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) slipped 3-5 (#43-48 Billboard 200) in their fifth
frame.
Former No.1 Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) slipped 5-6 (#51-50 BB200) in her 46th week.
Former
No.1 Kane Brown with
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 8-9 (#86-88
BB200 frames) in its 19th frame as his self-titled album held at No.7 (#76-78 BB200) in its 120th chart
week.
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) rose 9-8
(#93-79 BB200) in his 49th chart week.
Outside
the Top 10
Thomas Rhett with LIFE CHANGES (Valory) fell 10-11
(#113-131 BB200) in his 80th frame.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) moved 14-13 (#144-133 BB200; 42 Top Country Chart weeks).
Jordan Davis with HOME STATE (MCA Nashville) retreated 17-19 (#174-177 BB200) in his 40th chart frame.
Former
No1 Cody Johnson with AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT
(Cojo/Warner Music Nashville) rose 23-20
(#193 re-entry BB200) in his 9th
week.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY dropped 11-22 (#129 to off the BB200) in her 27th
chart week.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Lauren
Jenkins with her 10 track set NO SAINT (Big Machine Label Group, LLC
| Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.18.
Year-To-Date Albums
2,342,000 (Physical sales 1,610,000
(down -27.2%) + Digital sales 732,000 (down -18.5%) which is 24.2% down at the same point in 2018 (3,090,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
7,641,000 down 27.1% at the same point in
2018 (10,476,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of March 30, 2019)
Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of March 30, 2019)
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 for a fifth frame.
Kane
Brown netted his fourth Hot
Country Songs top 10 as “Good
as You” (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) hopped 11-10. It increased by 9 percent to 18.7 million audience
impressions and climbed 14-11 on Country Airplay.
Brown boasts two Hot Country Songs No. 1s: “What Ifs,”
featuring Lauren Alaina (five weeks, beginning Oct. 21, 2017), and “Lose It”
(Nov.24, 2018). His other top 10, “Heaven,” hit No. 2 in March 2018.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (5 weeks)/
Digital Gainer ** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke
Combs
**
Airplay Gainer” No.4 “Millionaire” Chris
Stapleton
** Streaming Gainer ** No.33 “Raised On Country” Chris Young
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.43 “The Weight Of The Badge” George Strait
Debut
No.50 “The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home” Justin Moore
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of March 30, 2019)
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of March 30, 2019)
Luke
Combs with “Beautiful
Crazy” topped
the chart for a fifth week with a 3% decrease in audience (-1.205 million).
What
makes it such a rare lengthy leader? “It’s a special song,” said KKBQ Houston PD Johnny Chiang.
“It’s pretty amazing to see that in a matter of just a few songs, Luke Combs
has become a core artist on most country stations . . . a new artist whose
songs are now pretty much must-adds out of the box. It’s really incredible.”
Superstar Reba McEntire extended her record for the most Country Airplay
appearances among women as “Freedom” (Rockin’ R/Big Machine)
entered as the chart’s top debut at No. 52 with 1.7 million impressions.
It’s her 69th
visit to the chart and first since December 2017.
McEntire padded
her lead among women over runner-up Martina McBride, with 56 Country Airplay
appearances. Among all acts, McEntire, who has notched 11 No. 1s among 36 top
10s, ranks seventh for the most entries.
George Strait
leads all artists with 99; his latest, “Every Little Honky Tonk Bar” (MCA
Nashville), lifts 22-21 (10.9 million in audience, up 7 percent)
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (5 weeks) *** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke
Combs 39.364 million audience (-1.205 million) / 8,083 radio plays (-151).
**
Most Increased Audience ** No. “Millionaire” Chris Stapleton +2.569 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No. 40 “Every Little Thing” Russell
Dickerson (24 ADDS)
**
Hot Shot Debut ** No.52 “Freedom” Reba
McEntire
Debut
No.60 “Better Off Gone” Logan Mize
Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart
Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart
Former No1 Luke Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” moved 2-1 (#16-12 Digital Songs) to lead the Country
Digital Songs chart for a 6th non-consecutive week.
It was eleven places behind Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's
"Shallow" as the ballad ruled Digital Song Sales for a ninth week
(32,000, down 8 percent), extending Gaga's longest command among her six No.1s
and marking the chart's longest-running leader since Luis Fonsi and Daddy
Yankee's "Despacito," featuring Justin Bieber, ran up a record 17
weeks at No. 1 in 2017.
Previous No.1
Thomas Rhett with
“Look What God Gave Her” rose 4-2
(#27 non-mover Digital Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
held at No.3 (#26-28 Digital Songs; 39 chart weeks) as hit single “Tequila”
fell 8-9 (#39-37 Digital Songs) in
its 61st frame.
George Strait with “The Weight Of The Badge”
made a debut at No.4 (#29 New Entry Digital
Songs).
Morgan Wallen with “Whiskey Glasses” rose 6-5 (#34-30 Digital Songs) in his 17th
week.
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss Me More” fell 5-6 (#33-31 Digital Songs) in her 20th
week.
Kane Brown with “Good As You” held at No.7 (#35 non-mover Digital Songs) in
his 9th frame.
Kacey Musgraves with “Rainbow” pushed 11-8 (#36 Re-Entry Digital Songs) in
her 6th week.
Maren Morris with GIRL advanced 12-10 (#40
Re-Entry Digital Songs) in her 9th frame.
Outside
the Top 10
Lee Brice with “Rumor” fell 9-11 (#43-42 Digital Songs) in his 14th
week.
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk”
fell 10-12 (#49-44 Digital Songs) in
his 30th frame.
Previous weeks’ No.1 Dustin Lynch with Ridin’ Roads fell 1-17.
Brad Paisley’s new single “My Miracle” honored his
wife of 16 years, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley. It entered Country Digital
Song Sales at No.19 (4,000 sold) in
its first full week of tracking.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart
March
25, 2019
Luke Combs Hits #1 For A
Third Consecutive Week
Triple
congrats to Luke
Combs, Steve Hodges, Shane Allen and the Columbia promotion team on
landing a third 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 8,491 radio
spins (-423), 54.199 million audience impressions (-2.927)
with 27821 Total Points (-1138) from 156 tracking
stations (156 ADDS) for the tracking week March 17 to March 23, 2019 and
published chart dated March 25, 2019.
Dustin Lynch
Rides Road To Most Added
Kudos
to Lee Adams, Shelley Hargis Gaines and the Broken Bow reps on notching 40 adds for Dustin Lynch’s “Ridin’
Roads”. The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total
Historic Adds
DUSTIN LYNCH/Ridin' Roads (Broken Bow) 40 44
BRAD
PAISLEY/My Miracle (Arista) 36 43
HUNTER
HAYES/Heartbreak (Atlantic/WMN) 28 29
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Every Little Thing (Triple Tigers) 13 123
LAUREN ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 12 113
CHRIS
JANSON/Good Vibes (Warner Bros./WAR) 10 71
TIM
MCGRAW/Thought About You (Columbia) 10 110
DIERKS
BENTLEY/Living (Capitol) 9 84
HARDY/Rednecker
(Tree Vibez/Big Loud) 8 87
JASON
ALDEAN/Rearview Town (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 8 114
KING
CALAWAY/World For Two (Stoney Creek) 7 42
LOGAN
MIZE/Better Off Gone (Big Yellow Dog) 7 55
MAREN MORRIS/Girl (Columbia) 7 141
DAN +
SHAY/All To Myself (Warner Bros./WAR) 5 100
ERIC
CHURCH/Some Of It (EMI Nashville) 5 135
GEORGE
STRAIT/Every Little Honky Tonk Bar (MCA) 5 144
WALKER
HAYES/90's Country (Monument/Arista) 5 70
JENNIFER NETTLES/I Can Do Hard Things (Big Machine) 4 6
CASSADEE POPE/If My Heart Had A Heart (Awake Music) 3 6
REBA MCENTIRE/Freedom (Big Machine) 3 3
CARLY PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 2 141
RACHEL WAMMACK/Enough (RCA) 2 2
RUNAWAY JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 2 138
BLAKE
SHELTON/God's Country (Warner Bros./WMN) 1 1
BRANDON
RATCLIFF/Rules Of Breaking Up (Monument/Columbia) 1 1
DANIELLE BRADBERY f/P. MCCOLLUM/Shallow (Big Machine) 1 1
FLORIDA
GEORGIA LINE f/J. ALDEAN/Can't Hide Red (BMLGR) 1 1
GONE
WEST/Gone West (Triple Tigers) 1 1
KACEY MUSGRAVES/Rainbow (MCA) 1 115
LANCO/Rival
(Arista) 1 1
RANDALL
KING/Takin' Me A Heartbreak (---) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #4
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, N.C.
Dates:
March 15-16 Gross Sales: $2,972,763 Attend:
31,570/ 31,570
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $149, $29
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #17
Event
Venue City/State: Blake Shelton, Lauren Alaina, Trace Adkins, John Anderson, The Bellamy
Brothers Xcel Energy Center Xcel Energy Center St. Paul, Minn.
Dates:
Mar-15 Gross Sales: $1,275,949
Attend: 13,785/ 13,785
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $129, $29
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #29
Event
Venue City/State: Blake Shelton, Lauren Alaina, Trace Adkins, John Anderson, The Bellamy
Brothers Resch Center Green Bay, Wis.
Dates: Mar-16
Gross Sales: $927,588
Attend: 7,780/ 7,780
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $129, $49
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
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