Country
Billboard Chart News April 29, 2019
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of May 4, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (32
non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke
Combs
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (10 weeks)
** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Airplay **
No.1 (1 week) ** “Make
It Sweet” Old Dominion
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (4
weeks) ** “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’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP,
WHERE DO WE GO? jumped back to No.1
on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart
(BB200), rising 2-1 in its fourth
week on the tally and collecting its second total week at No. 1. The effort earned
88,000 equivalent album units in the
week ending April 25 in the U.S. according to Nielsen Music (up 10%).
When
We All Fall Asleep debuted at No. 1 on the April 13-dated list with 313,000
equivalent album units earned in its first week, according to Nielsen Music.
The set then slipped to No. 2 for the next two weeks.
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 a 32nd week at No.1 on Top Country Albums (27,000
equivalent album units earned, up 2%).
The
set breaks out of a tie for the ninth-longest reign in the chart’s history,
which dates to 1964. It has surpassed Lady Antebellum’s 2010 album NEED YOU NOW
and Clint Black’s 1989 debut set, KILLIN’ TIME, each of which ruled for 31
frames.
This
One’s for You is the fifth-longest leading No.1 by a solo male. It’s a
week from matching Garth Brooks’ 1991 album Ropin’ the Wind for fourth place.
Among solo men, Randy Travis’ 1987 set Always & Forever holds the mark,
with 43 weeks at No.1. In overall artists, he’s second only to Shania Twain’s
1997 LP Come on Over, which dominated for 50 weeks.
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) rose 3-2 (#32-38 BB200) in their 44th
frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 208-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) rose 8-3 (#48-49 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume
1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 25-26.
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) rose 5-4 (#43-51 BB200) in her 51st week.
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) rose 6-5 (#44-52 Billboard 200) in her 7th week.
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) climbed 9-6 (#61-63
BB200) in their 10th week.
Hick-hop
country-rocker Upchurch debuted at No.7 on Top Country Albums (#66
Billboard 200) with CREEKER 2 (Redneck
Nation | Amazon
UK),
which started with 11,000 equivalent album units.
Upchurch,
aka 27-year-old Nashville native Ryan Edward Church, scores his fourth top 10
on the chart among 12 appearances.
He
previously reached the region with King of Dixie (No. 10; Dec 2017; 8,100 sales),
Creeker (No. 5; May 2018; 11,900 sales) and Supernatural (No. 6; September 2018;
selling 9,200). With 10,000 copies sold, Creeker 2 opened at No.1 on the Country Album Sales
chart. It’s his second No. 1 on the retail list, after Supernatural.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT rose 10-8 (#68-71 BB200; 24
chart weeks) as his self-titled album held at No.11 (#71-76
BB200; 125 weeks).
Former No.1 Brooks & Dunn with REBOOT (Arista Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 4-9 (#41-72 Billboard 200) in their third frame.
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) rose 12-10 (#78-75 BB200) in his 54th week.
Outside the
Top 10
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) rose 13-12 (#99-96 BB200) in his 47th
frame.
Former
No.1 George Strait with HONKY TONK
TIME MACHINE
(MCA Nashville | UMGN) fell 7-13 (#46-85
BB200) in his 4th week.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY advanced 29-16 (#110 Re-Entry BB200).
Former No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. held at
No.20 (#147-158) in his 20th week.
Kelsea
Ballerini with UNAPOLOGETICALLY rose 22-21
(#188-169 BB200) in her 65th week.
Outside the Top 25
In her third week Reba McEntire with STRONGER THAN THE TRUTH (Rockin R/Big Machine/BMLG) fell 19-47 on (#146 – off the BB200).
Aaron Lewis with his third country LP,
10-track STATE I’M IN (Valory/BMLG |
Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) fell off the top 50 (#1-11
Country Sales) after previous week debut at No.2
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
The Cole Trains with LUCKY STARS (Pony Rock Records | Amazon UK - UK iTunes ) made a debut at No.42.
With her new
album, the second in a series of three new records—Rita Wilson continues to
establish herself as a significant, rising singer-songwriter. This latest
chapter, and her ongoing creative development, is a manifestation of her view
that all of us keep growing and changing, whether we intend to or not. Most of
Halfway to Home was recorded in Nashville and co-produced by Wilson and Nathan
Chapman (Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Shania Twain), who she calls “an incredible
creative partner.”
Year-To-Date Albums
3,592,000 (Physical sales 2,488,000
(down -27.8%) + Digital sales 1,104,000 (down -20.9%) which is 25.8% down at the same point in 2018 (4,838,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
11,263,000 down 27.3% at the same point in 2018
(15,483,000)
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) stayed fixed at the summit of Hot Country) for a
tenth week.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (10 weeks) ** “Beautiful
Crazy” Luke Combs
** Digital Gainer / Airplay Gainer” No.4 “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen
** Streaming Gainer ** No.21 “Rearview Town” Jason Aldean
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.27 “Remember You Young” Thomas Rhett
Debut
No.49 “Day Drunk” Morgan Evans
Old
Dominion with “Make
It Sweet” (RCA Nashville) became the group’s sixth Country Airplay No.1
and fifth in succession as it ascended 3-1 on the chart dated May 4. The
song hit the summit with an 8% increase to 38 million audience
impressions in the week ending April 28, according to Nielsen Music.
All five members of the band wrote the launch track from their upcoming
third full-length studio album with the song’s producer, Shane McAnally. Old
Dominion consists of Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff Sprung
and Brad Tursi.
“From the moment we wrote it, we’ve
always felt ‘Make It Sweet’ was a special song,” Ramsey told Billboard. “We
wrote and recorded it all in the same day. We feel that the song captured the
spirit of this band in a way we hadn’t been able to do in the past.
The guys
and I didn’t know it at the time, but it would set the tone for the entire
third album. Having ‘Make It Sweet’ go all the way to No. 1 will go down as one
of our proudest moments.”
Old Dominion scored its first Country Airplay No. 1 in November 2015 when
“Break Up With Him” led for
two weeks. Its next single, “Snapback,”
peaked at No. 2 in June 2016, followed by five straight leaders: “Song for Another Time” (December
2016; one week), “No Such Thing As a
Broken Heart” (September 2017; one), “Written in the Sand” (February 2018; one), “Hotel Key” (September 2018; two) and
“Sweet.” The quintet, which
was crowned group of the year at the 54th annual Academy of Country Music
Awards on April 7, owns the second-longest active run of Country Airplay
leaders. Thomas Rhett has the current longest streak, with six.
On the Hot Country Songs chart, which blends airplay, streaming and sales
data, “Sweet” hits a new high, lifting 9-8.
Brett Eldredge banked his
eighth Country Airplay top 10 as “Love
Someone” (Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville) strolled 12-10 in its
43rd frame, up 14% to 22.2 million in audience. On Hot Country Songs, it climbed
19-17. It’s Eldredge’s first such hit since “The Long Way” reached No. 3 in
April 2018. He has tallied five No.1s.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** No.1 “Make It Sweet” Old
Dominion 37.970 million audience (+2.793 million) / 7,851 radio plays (+459)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.7 “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen +4.042 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.23 “Knockin' Boots” Luke
Bryan
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.51 “Slow Dance In A Parking Lot” Jordan Davis
Debut
No.56 “Slower” Filmore
Debut
No.57 “Heartbreak” Hunter Hayes
Debut
No.60 “Southbound” Carrie Underwood
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Blake
Shelton with “God’s
Country” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.1 on Country Digital Song Sales (#4-2
Digital Songs) to head the summit for a fourth week.
It was one place behind Lil Nas X with "Old
Town Road" "which topped the Digital Song Sales chart
for a third week with 89,000 downloads sold
(down 2%) in the week ending April 25. It continues to surge in radio airplay,
bounding 18-12 on the Radio Songs chart (55.4 million audience impressions, up
23%, in the week ending April 28), as it won the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer
award for a third week.
Morgan Wallen with
“Whiskey Glasses” lifted 4-2 (#18-15 Digital Songs)
in his 22nd frame.
Previous No.1 Thomas
Rhett with “Look What God Gave Her”
fell 2-3 (#15-18 Digital Songs) in its 8th week as new track “Remember
You Young” made a debut at No.4
(#21
New Entry Digital Songs).
Former 7 non-consecutive week
No1 Luke Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” fell 3-5 (#16-23 Digital Songs) in its 51st frame.
Kane Brown with
“Good As You” fell 5-6 (#25-28 Digital Songs) in his
14th week.
Luke
Bryan with “Knockin'
Boots” fell 6-7 (#35-33 Digital Songs) in his 4th
week.
Lee
Brice with “Rumor”
slipped 7-8 (#43-39 Digital Songs) in his 19th week.
Kelsea
Ballerini with “Miss Me
More” rose 10-9 (#50-46 Digital Songs) in her 25th week.
Chase
Rice with “Eyes
On You” rose 11-10 (#47 New Entry Digital Songs) in his 10th frame.
Outside
the Top 10
Dan + Shay (Dan
Smyers and Shay Mooney) with hit
single “Tequila” fell 8-13 as Speechless” rose 12-11.
Brantley Gilbert featuring Colt Fold, Lukas Nelson
& Willie Nelson with “Welcome To Hazeville” made a debut
at No.21.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
April
29, 2019
Old Dominion ‘Makes It
Sweet’ By Reaching #1
Congrats to Old Dominion, Steve Hodges, Dennis Reese and the RCA promotion staff on landing this
week’s No.1 with “Make
It Sweet.” The song is their sixth chart-topper. Writers are Matthew
Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff Sprung, Brad Tursi and Shane
McAnally.
“Make It Sweet” (RCA) climbed 2-1 logging 8,452 radio spins (+742), 52.643 million audience impressions (+3.926) with 27488 Total Points (+2325) from 156 tracking stations (156 ADDS)
for the tracking week April 21 to April 27, 2019 and published chart dated April
29, 2019.
Carrie Underwood Is
Most-Added With 'Southbound'
Kudos to Bobby
Young and the Capitol reps for notching 51
adds on Carrie
Underwood’s “Southbound”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Her last and second
single '"Love Wins" from her sixth studio album, CRY PRETTY peaked at
No.11 on Billboard Country Airplay and No.10 on the Mediabase chart (26.977 million
audience; 155 station ADDS)
 |
| Staff at Capitol Nashville celebrate Carrie Underwood being most-added at Country radio this week. Pictured Front Row (L-R): UMG’s Kaileen Mangan; Capitol Nashville’s Katelyn Lester, Bobby Young and Ashley Laws. Back row (L-R): UMG’s David Friedman; Capitol Nashville’s Brent Jones and UMG’s Chris Schuler |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total
Historic Adds
CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Southbound (Capitol) 51 51
RILEY GREEN/In
Love By Now (BMLGR) 34 35
HIGH
VALLEY/Single Man (Atlantic/WEA) 30 32
BRANDON
RATCLIFF/Rules Of Breaking Up (Monument/Columbia) 20 21
LUKE
BRYAN/Knockin' Boots (Capitol) 20 146
MIDLAND/Mr.
Lonely (Big Machine) 14 96
ADAM CRAIG/If
You're Lucky (Stoney Creek) 13 13
HARDY/Rednecker
(TVM/Big Loud) 10 112
JORDAN
DAVIS/Slow Dance In A Parking Lot (MCA) 9 67
BROTHERS
OSBORNE/I Don't Remember Me (Before..) (EMI Nashville) 7 116
SCOTTY
MCCREERY/In Between (Triple Tigers) 7 68
TIM
MCGRAW/Thought About You (Columbia) 7 137
FILMORE/Slower
(Curb) 6 51
JUSTIN
MOORE/The Ones That Didn't Make It.. (Valory) 6 131
JASON
ALDEAN/Rearview Town (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 5 149
ABBY ANDERSON/Good Lord (Black River) 4 46
CAYLEE HAMMACK/Family Tree (Capitol) 4 50
CHRIS LANE/I
Don't Know About You (Big Loud) 4 88
COLE
SWINDELL/Love You Too Late (Warner Bros./WMN) 4 130
DUSTIN
LYNCH/Ridin' Roads (Broken Bow) 4 81
CAROLINE JONES/Chasing Me (Mailboat/New Revolution) 3 23
TENILLE TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 2 101
STEPHANIE QUAYLE/If I Was A Cowboy (Rebel Engine) 1 19
Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers:
Here are the
top point gainers for April 28-30 compared with the same days last week,
according to Mediabase 24/7.
1. CHASE
RICE/Eyes On You (Broken Bow) +955 points
2. MORGAN
WALLEN/Whiskey Glasses (Big Loud) +860 points
3. ELI YOUNG
BAND/Love Ain't (Valory) +846 points
4. BLAKE
SHELTON/God's Country (Warner Bros./WMN) +684 points
5. THOMAS
RHETT/Look What God Gave Her (Valory) +581 points
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #2
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church Bon Secours Wellness Arena Greenville,
S.C.
Dates:
April 26-27, 2019 Gross Sales: $2,613,373 Attend:
26,962/ 26,962
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $139, $36
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #16
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Caroline
Jones, David Lee Murphy Volvo Car
Stadium Charleston, S.C.
Dates:
April 25, 2019 Gross Sales: $876,831 Attend:
7,547/ 7,547
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $150, $54.50
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG
Presents
Rank
Artist: #46
Event
Venue City/State: Luke Combs Resch Center Green Bay, Wis.
Dates:
April 25, 2019 Gross Sales: $318,255 Attend:
7,517/ 7,517
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $60, $35
Promoters: FPC Live/NS2
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