Country
Billboard Chart News May 20, 2019
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of May 25, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (35
non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke
Combs
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (1 week) “God's
Country” Blake Shelton
Country Airplay **
No.1 (1 week) ** “Love
Ain't” Eli Young Band
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (1 week)
** “Beer Never Broke My Heart” Luke
Combs
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News (Chart issue week of
May 25, 2019)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Logic Scores
Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'
Logic notched his third No. 1
album on the Billboard Top 200 Album
Chart (BB200) as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind debuted atop the tally.
The
set started with 80,000 equivalent
album units earned in the week ending May 16, according to Nielsen Music. Of
that sum, 24,000
were in album
sales. Confessions was released on May 10 via Visionary/Def Jam Recordings.
Logic
previously led the list with Bobby Tarantino II (in 2018) and Everybody (2017).
Logic made his Billboard 200 debut in 2014 with Under Pressure, which peaked at
No. 4 -- his first of six top 10 albums (including Confessions).
Confessions’
debut frame was largely powered by streaming activity, as the set racked up
54,000 SEA units (of its total 80,000 overall units). That 54,000 SEA number
equates to 73.93 million on-demand audio
streams for its tracks in the album’s debut frame, which also made it the
most streamed album of the week.
Luke
Combs’ This One’s For You jumped 12-7, revisiting the top 10 for the first time
in nearly a year. The album, which was released in 2017, was last in the top 10
(at No.10) on the July 28, 2018-dated chart, and peaked at No.4 on June 16 of
that same year (following a deluxe reissue of the set).
Billboard Top Country
Albums (Chart issue week of
May 25, 2019)
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 with his debut LP, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River
House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) logged its 35th week at No.1 on Top Country Albums (#12-7 Billboard 200; 28,000
equivalent album units, up 5%) and moved into a tie for the fifth-longest reign
with Taylor Swift’s FEARLESS and the O'Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack.
With those sets from 2008 and 2000, respectively, Combs’ 2017 album ties them
for the longest rule of any title released this century. Shania Twain’s 1997
album Come On Over holds the record for the most time at No.1 (50 weeks) in the
chart’s history, which dates to 1964.
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#31-35 BB200) in their 47th
frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 211-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) moved 4-3 (#53-49 BB200).
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) climbed
6-4 (#62-51 BB200) in his 50th
frame.
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) fell 3-5 (#52 non mover Billboard 200) in her 10th week.
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) fell 5-6 (#59-55 BB200) in her 54th week.
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) held at No.7 (#75-69 BB200) in his 57th week.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT held at No.8 (#79-74 BB200;
27 chart weeks) as his self-titled album dropped 10-11 (#89-86
BB200; 128 weeks).
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY pushed 23-9 (#77 Re-Entry BB200) in her 35th week.
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) slipped 9-10 (#80-79
BB200) in their 13th week.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 George Strait with HONKY TONK
TIME MACHINE
(MCA Nashville | UMGN) fell 12-13 (#113-109
BB200) in his 7th week.
Former No.1 Brooks & Dunn with REBOOT (Arista Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 16-19 (#152-171 Billboard 200) in their 6th frame.
Former No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. retreated
18-21 (#188 – off the top BB200) in his
23rd week.
Outside the Top 25
Rodney Atkins with 12-track CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY (Curb | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) his fifth
LP and first since 2011’s Take a Back Road, which debuted at its No. 3 Top
Country Albums peak, arrived at No.28
with 5,000 equivalent album units (#8
debut on Country Album Sales).
Atkins co-penned all 12 tracks on his fifth studio album — his first new
music project since 2011’s Take a Back Road — including the lead single and
title track, featuring vocals from the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales; old
methodology)
Year-To-Date Albums
4,218,000 (Physical sales 2,946,000
(down -31.2%) + Digital sales 1,272,000 (down -24.6%) which is 29.4% down at the same point in 2018 (5,971,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
13,339,000 down 27.3% at the same point in 2018
(18,347,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs
(Chart issue week of
May 25, 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:
Blake
Shelton scored his 14th No.1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, and first since “Sure
Be Cool If You Did” led for five weeks in 2013, as “God’s Country”
(Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) rose 2-1
in its eighth week on the airplay-, streaming- and sales-driven survey (dated
May 25).
“Honestly, I wasn’t even looking for songs or to go in
the studio, but my producer [Scott Hendricks] called me one day and said, ‘I’ve
got a few songs you need to listen to,’ and ‘God’s Country’ was the first one
that he played,” Shelton told Billboard. “And man, it stopped me in my tracks.
I called him and said, ‘We’ve got to record this now.’ I love the song and
think it really fills a spot musically that’s missing in country music right now,
and I’m so glad the fans like it as much as I do.”
The song concurrently climbed into the top 10 on the
Country Airplay chart (11-10), becoming his 32nd top 10, with a 13% gain to
23.4 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen Music. The song also
surges by 26% to 26,000 downloads sold, although it dipped to No.2 after six
weeks atop Country Digital Song Sales, and is up 6% to 10.8 million U.S.
streams, despite a 2-4 retreat on Country Streaming Songs.
Following its
first full week of tracking, Luke Combs with
“Beer
Never Broke My Heart” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) released May 8, romped 12-3
on Hot Country Songs. It became his sixth top 10, a total that includes the No.1s
“When It Rains It Pours” and “Beautiful Crazy.”
His new hit bounded onto Country Streaming Songs at No.2
with 11 million U.S. streams, marking the best first full week of streaming
ever for a country song. It topped the 7 million that Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a
Back Road” drew in its first full frame in February 2017. Combs performed
“Beer” on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on May 9.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (1 week) ** “Sure Be Cool If You Did” Blake Shelton
** Digital Gainer/
Streaming Gainer ** No.3 “Beer Never Broke My Heart” Luke Combs
** Airplay Gainer” ** No.8 “Love
Ain't” Eli Young Band
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.28 “We Were” Keith Urban
Debut
No.47 “Southbound” Carrie Underwood
Debut
No.49 “Ladies In The '90s” Lauren Alaina
Debut
No.50 “Love That” Seaforth
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of
May 25, 2019)
Eli
Young Band banked its fourth Country Airplay No.1 and first
since “Drunk Last Night,” which led the chart dated Dec. 28, 2013 — as “Love Ain’t” (Valory) climbed 2-1
in its 49th week, up 8% to 38.6 million impressions.
The song completed the longest journey to the apex since Canaan Smith’s
“Love You Like That” took the same amount of time in 2014-15. The longest run
to the top belongs to Chris Young’s “Voices”: 51 weeks, over two cycles, in
2008 and 2010-11.
EYB first led Country Airplay with “Crazy Girl” (November 2011), followed
by “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” (July 2012).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Love Ain't” Eli Young
Band 38.553 million audience (+2.828 million) / 7,893 radio plays (+573)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.24 “We Were” Keith Urban
Debut
No.59 “Love By Now” Riley Green
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
(Chart issue week of
May 25, 2019)
Luke
Combs with “Beer Never Broke My Heart”
(River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) bumped 2-1 (#7-3 Digital
Songs) on Country Digital Songs (26,000 sold),
becoming Combs’ second No.1 on the list, following “Beautiful Crazy” (5-4; (#27-22
Digital Songs) which led for seven weeks.
It was 2 places behind Ed Sheeran and Bieber's "I Don't Care," released at
midnight ET Friday, May 10 which soared onto the Hot 100 at No. 2, as it opened
at No.1 on Digital Song Sales (77,000) and
No.3 on Streaming Songs (34.1 million). No.1 in sales: Bieber added his ninth
Digital Song Sales No. 1 and 30th top 10. Sheeran scored his fourth No. 1 and
10th top 10. Taylor Swift leads all artists with 16 No. 1s and 45 top 10s on
the tally.
Slipping 2-1 Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus dipped to
No. 2 on the Digital Song Sales chart. It led the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a
seventh week (Total weekly U.S. streams: 143 million, "Old Town
Road," Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 20, 2019 | 125.2 million,
"Old Town Road," April 27, 2019). The track four weeks at No. 1, with
69,000 downloads sold (down 12%) in the week ending May 16.
Blake
Shelton with “God’s
Country” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) dropped 1-2 (#6-4 Digital
Songs).
Morgan Wallen with
“Whiskey Glasses” held at No.3 (#15-9 Digital Songs) in his
25th frame.
Luke
Bryan with “Knockin'
Boots” climbed 6-5 (#29-24 Digital Songs) in his 7th
week.
Previous No.1 Thomas
Rhett with “Look What God Gave Her”
moved 7-6 (#31-29 Digital Songs) in its 11th week.
Kane Brown with
“Good As You” lifted 8-7 (#32-30 Digital Songs) in
his 17th week.
Lee
Brice with “Rumor”
moved 10-8 (#35-32 Digital Songs) in his 22nd week.
Dan + Shay (Dan
Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
fell 4-9 (#23-38 Digital
Songs) in its 47th week.
Maren
Morris with “Girl”
(Columbia Nashville) advanced 12-10 (#39-44 Digital Songs)
Outside
the Top 10
Kelsea
Ballerini with “Miss
Me More” rose 13-11 (#50-46 Digital Songs) in her 28th week.
Chase
Rice with “Eyes
On You” rose 14-12 (#47 Re-Entry Digital Songs) in his 13th
frame.
Gyth
Rigdon with a cover of Lee Greenwood's “God Bless The U.S.A” made a debut at
No.14. He performed it on The Voice Top 8 Semi-Final 2019.
Keith Urban with “We Were” made a debut at No.15.
Dexter Roberts with “Here Without You” made a debut at No.23 which he
performed on The Voice Top 8 Semi-Final.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
May
20, 2019
Eli Young Band Hits #1
With 'Love Ain't'
Congrats to the
Eli Young
Band, Chris Palmer, Ashley Sidoti and the entire Valory promotion team on securing the week’s
No.1 with “Love Ain’t.” The song is from their Greatest Hits, which was
released in March. Writers are Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley and Shane
McAnally.
“Love Ain’t” (Valory) climbed 2-1 logging 8,661 radio spins (+901), 53.826 million audience impressions (+4.522) with 28379 Total Points (+3057) from 156 tracking stations (156 ADDS)
for the tracking week May 12 to May 18, 2019 and published chart dated May 20,
2019.
Keith Urban Is Most-Added
With 'We Were'
Kudos to Bobby
Young and the Capitol reps for
landing 120 adds on Keith Urban’s “We Were”. The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total
Historic Adds
KEITH URBAN/We Were (Capitol) 120 122
LADY
ANTEBELLUM/What If I Never Get Over You (BMLGR) 115 115
MICHAEL RAY/Her
World Or Mine (Atlantic/WEA) 32 36
RANDY HOUSER/No
Stone Unturned (Stoney Creek) 23 24
SEAFORTH/Love
That (RCA) 19 19
TOBY
KEITH/That's Country Bro (Show Dog) 14 15
BROTHERS
OSBORNE/I Don't Remember Me (Before..) (EMI Nashville) 9 127
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Southbound (Capitol) 8 98
THE CADILLAC
THREE/Crackin' Cold Ones With The... (Big Machine) 7 8
LUKE COMBS/Beer
Never Broke My Heart (River House/Columbia) 6 155
ZAC BROWN
BAND/Someone I Used To Know (ZB Collective/BMG/Wheelhouse) 6 106
CAYLEE
HAMMACK/Family Tree (Capitol) 5 58
JUSTIN
MOORE/The Ones That Didn't Make It... (Valory) 5 145
MADDIE &
TAE/Die From A Broken Heart (Mercury) 5 45
CAROLINE
JONES/Chasin' Me (Mailboat/New Revolution) 1 35
INGRID
ANDRESS/More Hearts Than Mine (Warner Music) 1 2
P!NK f/C.
STAPLETON/Love Me Anyway (RCA) 1 4
TENILLE
ARTS/Call You Names (Reviver) 1 23
For
the very latest up to the minute Mediabase Chart (Past 7 Days) go here - www.mediabase.com
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #24
Event
Venue City/State: Jimmy Buffett Ameris Bank Amphitheatre Alpharetta, Ga.
Dates:
April 25, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,180,555 Attend:
12,022/ 12,022
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $146, $36
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #28
Event
Venue City/State: Zac Brown Band Coastal Credit Union Music Park at
Walnut Creek Raleigh, N.C.
Dates:
April 13, 2019 Gross Sales: $790,836 Attend:
15,283/ 19,846
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (4,563 unsold tickets)
Prices: $134.50, $29
Promoters: Live Nation
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