In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of May 11, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (33
non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke
Combs
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (11 weeks)
** “Beautiful Crazy” Luke Combs
Country Airplay **
No.1 (1 week) ** “Eyes
On You” Chase Rice
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (5
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).
P!nk claimed her third total and
consecutive No.1 album on the Billboard
Top 200 Album Chart (BB200), as Hurts 2B Human arrived atop the tally with 115,000 equivalent album units earned
in the U.S. in the week ending May 2, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 95,000 were in album sales. Hurts
follows P!nk’s previous leaders Beautiful Trauma (2017) and The Truth About
Love (2012).
At
No.2 Hillsong United with People debuted, marking the act’s fourth top 10 and
highest-charting effort yet. The live set arrives with 107,000 equivalent album
units earned -- the largest week for a Christian music album in 2019. With
101,000 copies it claimed the week’s top-selling album and the act’s best sales
week yet.
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 33rd week at No.1 on Top Country Albums (#13-16
Billboard 200) .
This
One’s for You is the equal fourth-longest leading No.1 by a solo male
matching Garth Brooks’ 1991 album Ropin’ the Wind.
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#38-35 BB200) in their 45
th frame.
Dylan Scott with his 6 track EP NOTHING TO DO TOWN (Curb | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) arrived at No.3 (#50 New Entry Billboard 200) on
Top Country Albums with
Scott
previously reached the Top Country Albums top five with his self-titled first
full-length, which debuted and peaked at No.5 in 2016 (chart Sept 3, 2016; 11,000
units; 9,000 sold).
Produced
by Matt Alderman, Curt Gibbs and Jim Ed Norman, the six-track EP features five
songs co-penned by Scott, including single “Nothing To Do Town.”
Chris Stapleton with the 209-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) fell 3-4 (#49-55 BB200).
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) held at No.5 (#52-57 Billboard 200) in her 8th week.
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) fell 4-6 (#51-60 BB200) in her 52nd week
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) climbed
12-7 (#79-69 BB200) in his 48th
frame.
Former
No.1 George Strait with HONKY TONK
TIME MACHINE
(MCA Nashville | UMGN) pushed 13-8
(#85-78 BB200) in his 5th week.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 8-9 (#71-79 BB200; 25
chart weeks) as his self-titled album dropped 11-12 (#71-76 BB200;
126 weeks).
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) held at No.10 (#75-81 BB200) in his 55th week.
Outside the
Top 10
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) fell 6-11 (#63-83
BB200) in their 11th week.
Former No.1 Brooks & Dunn with REBOOT (Arista Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 9-14 (#72-120 Billboard 200) in their fourth frame.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY rose 16-15 (#110-124 BB200).
Former No.1 Brett Young with Ticket to L.A. fell 20-21 (#158-181 BB200) in his 21st
week.
Kelsea
Ballerini with UNAPOLOGETICALLY fell 21-23
(#188-169 BB200) in her 66th week.
Randy Rogers with 11-track HELLBENT (Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers |
Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.24.
The first release from the group in more than three years was produced
by Dave Cobb and features 11 songs, including lead single “Crazy People” and a
cover of Guy Clark’s “Hell Bent on a Heartache,” written by Clark with Chris
and Morgane Stapleton
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Maddie & Tae with 5-track EP One HEART TO ANOTHER (Mercury Nashville | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.22
The duo’s debut release on Mercury features five tracks, predominantly
co-written by Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye, including single “Friends Don’t.”
Kiefer
Sutherland with 10 track RECKLESS & ME
(BMG | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.24.
Jack Ingram with RIDIN' HIGH...AGAIN made a debut at No.35.
Steel Blossoms with 10 tracks STEEL BLOSSOMS (Billy Jam Records | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.37.
Steel
Blossoms is the musical collaboration of Sara Zebley and Hayley Prosser,
artists (and former elementary school teachers) who met by chance at a festival
in their home state of Pennsylvania, where each was performing with separate
groups. They recognized an instant chemistry and a shared perspective; an
appreciation for life’s moments, ironies and quirky little truths.
The
two began to write together, while also growing more involved in the music
scene in and around Pittsburgh. Sara and Hayley made their way to Nashville and
Steel Blossoms quickly bloomed as regulars at Music City honkytonks, and as
house concert favorites. Soon, the duo began playing top flight clubs, concert
venues and festivals across the US, sharing the stage with artists including Rhonda
Vincent, Tracey Lawrence and Collin Raye.
A
debut EP, Year Number One, was released in 2015, followed by a full-length
album, Country Enough, one year later. Steel Blossoms caught the ear of
multi-award-winning songwriter, Jerry Salley, who had become the Creative and
A&R Director of Nashville’s newest Americana label, Billy Jam Records. In
early 2019, Steel Blossoms became the first act signed to the emerging label.
Darryl Worley with 15-track SECOND WIND: Latest & Greatest (BFD/The Orchard | Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.44.
The
compilation includes fresh new takes on many of Worley's hit songs, including
"Have You Forgotten," "Awful Beautiful Life,"
"Tennessee River Run," and "I Miss My Friend."
The project also contains seven new tunes that put an unexpected spin on a
familiar voice. He describes the recording project as a musical passion that
continues to get better with time.
"Who would've ever dreamed that I'd still
be doing this after all these years. I'm not totally certain, but I think the
music could be better than ever," says Worley. "This record is
something unlike anything else we've ever done and I know you're going to love
it. I hope y'all have as much fun listening to this new stuff as we had making
it."
Second Wind is the first full-length album released
by Worley in eight years, following a self-imposed hiatus from recording while
focusing on family and his longtime commitment of giving back to those in need
through his charity, The Darryl Worley Foundation. The album is co-produced by
Worley and Billy Lawson.
The
project mixes his love of traditional country with the rugged soul found deep
in the heart of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, an area known for its rich musical
legacy and powerhouse recordings of Aretha Franklin, Bob Seger, Wilson Pickett
and the Rolling Stones. It's also where Worley got his start, bringing things
full circle for the singer's extraordinary career.
In addition to his regular touring schedule,
Worley recently announced his "Coming to Your House" tour, a series
of concerts that brings the country star to your very own living room for an
intimate live performance.
Year-To-Date Albums
3,815,000 (Physical sales 2,648,000
(down -28.5%) + Digital sales 1,166,000 (down -22.4%) which is 26.7% down at the same point in 2018 (5,206,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
11,958,000 down 27.4% at the same point in 2018
(16,467,000)
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) remained at the summit of Hot Country) for a eleventh
week.
Jon
Pardi earned his fifth Hot Country Songs top10 as “Night Shift” (Capitol Nashville)
pushed 11-9 in its 37th week. The
track bumped 8-7 on Country Airplay, up 8% to 29.4million impressions. It also
drew 6.2million U.S. streams (up 6%) and sold 4,000 downloads (down 4%) in the
tracking week.
“Night” is the fifth single from Pardi’s California
Sunrise LP, which bowed as his first No.1 on Top Country Albums in July 2016.
Lead single “Head Over Boots” peaked at No.4 on Hot Country Songs in August
2016, followed by “Dirt on My Boots” (No. 2, March 2017), “Heartache on the
Dance Floor” (No. 5, September 2017) and “She Ain’t in It” (No. 23, April
2018). Each of his “Boots”-titled singles topped Country Airplay: “Head Over
Boots” for one week and “Dirt on My Boots” for three.
Eli
Young Band with “Love Ain’t” (Valory) hopped 13-10 on Hot Country Songs, earning the
group its fourth top 10 and first since
2013. The track increases by 6% to 34 million in audience as it pushed 5-2 on
Country Airplay, while corralling 4.9 million U.S. streams (up 16%) and selling
4,000 downloads (up 7%).
EYB last reached the Hot Country Songs top10 with the No.
3-peaking “Drunk Last Night” in 2013. Its additional two top 10s are both No.
1s: “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” in 2012 and “Crazy Girl” in 2011.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (11 weeks) ** “Beautiful
Crazy” Luke Combs
**
Airplay/ Streaming Gainer **
No.2 “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen
** Digital
Gainer ** No.6 “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Hot Shot Debut ** No. 42 “Alcohol You Later” Mitchell Tenpenny
Debut
No.43 “Mr. Lonely” Midland
Debut
No.49 “Good Vibes” Chris Janson
Debut
No.50 “Make Me Want To” Jimmie Allen
Chase
Rice with “Eyes
on You” (Dack Janiels/Broken Bow) rose 2-1 in its 38th week on
Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated May 11), increasing by 6% to 38.5
million audience impressions in the week ending May 5, according to Nielsen
Music.
“Eyes,” which Rice wrote with Ashley Gorley and Chris DeStefano, became
the artist’s first Country Airplay leader among three top 10s. “All I can think
to say is, this isn’t my first No.1 at all,” said Rice.
“The ups and downs over
the last few years and all the songs that paved the way for ‘Eyes’ have changed
my perspective on life and this business for the better. I wouldn’t change a
thing. Yes, you work your ass off for your first No.1 song, but so do the
people around you who make it all happen, from the songwriters, musicians, band
and crew to country radio programmers and many more. [They] are the reason this
song has found its way to the top of the charts. This is our first No.1 song,
together.”
Rice, 33, who previously worked as a NASCAR pit crew member for Hendrick
Motorsports and placed second on the 21st season of CBS’ Survivor in 2010, has
charted seven Country Airplay entries dating to his 2013 debut. Before his
first leader, “Ready Set Roll” hit No. 5 in 2014 and “Gonna Wanna Tonight”
reached No. 2 in 2015.
“Eyes” is Rice’s second Country Airplay No.1 as a writer: He co-penned
Florida Georgia Line’s debut smash, “Cruise,” which reigned for three weeks in
2012 and led Hot Country Songs, which combines airplay, streaming and sales
data, for a then-record 24 frames.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Eyes On You” Chase
Rice 38.455 million audience (+2.083 million) / 8,026 radio plays (+469)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.6 “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen
**
Most Added ** No.44 “Southbound” Carrie Underwood (25 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No. 58 “Love Me Anyway” P!nk
featuring Chris Stapleton
Debut
No. 59 “Rival” LANCO
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 (#2-4
Digital Songs) to head the summit for a fifth week.
It was three places behind Taylor Swift's
record-extending 16th sales No. 1: "Me!"
which launched as Swift's record-padding 16th Digital Song Sales No.1
with 193,000 first-week downloads sold.
(Rihanna ranks second with 14 leaders.) The sum is the best since Swift's own
"Look What You Made Me Do" sold 353,000 in its first week (Sept. 16,
2017).
Lil Nas X led the Billboard Hot 100 for a fifth week with "Old
Town Road" (#1-2 Digital Songs), featuring
Billy Ray Cyrus. The song fended off Taylor Swift's new single,
"Me!," featuring Brendon Urie, which made the biggest vault in the
Hot 100's history, blasting from No.100 to No. 2.
Morgan Wallen with
“Whiskey Glasses” held at No.2 (#15-13 Digital Songs) in
his 23rd frame.
Dan + Shay (Dan
Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
advanced 11-3 (#18 Re-Entry Digital
Songs) in its 45th week
as hit single “Tequila” climbed 13-11 (67 chart frames).
Kane Brown with
“Good As You” moved 6-4 (#28-25 Digital Songs) in his
15th week.
Previous No.1 Thomas
Rhett with “Look What God Gave Her”
fell 3-5 (#18-26 Digital Songs) in its 9th week.
Former 7 non-consecutive week
No1 Luke Combs with Beautiful
Crazy” fell 5-6 (#23-27 Digital Songs) in its 52nd frame.
Luke
Bryan with “Knockin'
Boots” held at No.7 (#33-32 Digital Songs) in his 5th
week.
Lee
Brice with “Rumor”
held at No.8 (#39-37 Digital Songs) in his 20th week.
Kelsea
Ballerini with “Miss
Me More” held at No.9 (#46-47 Digital Songs) in her 26th week.
Outside
the Top 10
Chase
Rice with “Eyes
On You” held at No.10 (#47 New Entry Digital Songs) in his 11th
frame.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
May
6, 2019
Chase Rice
Scores #1 With 'Eyes On You'
Congrats
to Chase Rice, Carson James, Lee Adams, Shelley Hargis Gaines and the Broken Bow promotion staff on securing
the week’s No.1 with “Eyes On You.” The song is Rice’s
first chart-topper; writers are Chris DeStefano, Ashley Gorley and Rice.
“Eyes On You” (Broken
Bow) climbed 2-1 logging 8,596 radio spins (+625), 53.414 million audience impressions (+3.568) with 27714 Total Points (+2151) from 154 tracking stations (154 ADDS)
for the tracking week April 28 to May 4, 2019 and published chart dated May 6,
2019.
Maddie &
Tae Are Most-Added With 'Die From A Broken Heart'
Kudos
to Damon Moberly and the Mercury crew
on landing 30 adds for Maddie & Tae’s “Die
From A Broken Heart”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total
Historic Adds
MADDIE & TAE/Die From A Broken Heart (Mercury) 30 31
CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Southbound (Capitol) 29 80
TUCKER
BEATHARD/Better Than Me (Warner Bros./WAR) 19 19
ZAC BROWN
BAND/Someone I Used To Know (ZB Collective/BMG/Wheelhouse) 18 95
MIDLAND/Mr.
Lonely (Big Machine) 16 112
TENILLE ARTS/Call You Names (Reviver) 13 14
RILEY GREEN/In
Love By Now (BMLGR) 11 46
HIGH
VALLEY/Single Man (Atlantic/WEA) 9 41
DUSTIN
LYNCH/Ridin' Roads (Broken Bow) 8 89
MATT
STELL/Prayed For You (Wide Open/Records/GCE/Arista) 7 88
FILMORE/Slower
(Curb) 6 57
JORDAN
DAVIS/Slow Dance In A Parking Lot (MCA) 6 73
TENILLE TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 6 107
CAROLINE JONES/Chasing Me (Mailboat/New Revolution) 4 27
CAYLEE HAMMACK/Family Tree (Capitol) 2 52
ABBY ANDERSON/Good Lord (Black River) 1 47
MAREN MORRIS/A Song For Everything (Columbia) 1 1
SHERYL CROW
& JOHNNY CASH/Redemption Day (Valory) 1 1
TEDDY
ROBB/Really Shouldn't Drink... (Monument) 1 2
THOMAS
RHETT/Remember You Young (Valory) 1 1
TOBY
KEITH/That's Country Bro (Show Dog) 1 1
TYLER
RICH/Leave Her Wild (Valory) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #4
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church PPG Paints Arena Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dates:
May 3-4, 2019 Gross Sales: $2,743,772 Attend:
29,323/ 29,323
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $139.25, $39
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG
Presents
Rank
Artist: #11
Event
Venue City/State: iHeartRadio Country Festival Frank Erwin Center Austin, Texas
Dates:
May 4, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,452,800 Attend:
9,993/ 11,956
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (1,963 unsold tickets)
Prices: $425, $75
Promoters:
iHeartMedia + Entertainment
Rank
Artist: #14
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Caroline
Jones, David Lee Murphy Chesapeake
Energy Arena Oklahoma City, Okla.
Dates:
May 4, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,113,639 Attend:
11,983/ 11,983
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $129, $29
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG
Presents
Rank
Artist: #18
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Caroline
Jones, David Lee Murphy INTRUST Bank
Arena Wichita, Kan.
Dates:
April 3, 2019 Gross Sales: $772,406 Attend:
10,953/ 10,953
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $99, $29
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG
Presents
Rank
Artist: #41
Event
Venue City/State: Dierks Bentley Huntington Center Toledo, Ohio
Dates:
March 28, 2019 Gross Sales: $396,135 Attend:
5,997/ 6,662
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (665 unsold tickets) Prices:
$69.75, $34.75
Promoters:
Live Nation
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