Country
Billboard Chart News June 3, 2019
Eric
Church presented with plaque commemorating 30
million RIAA certifications for singles and albums by President, UMG
Nashville Cindy Mabe and Founder, Q Prime South John Peets | Credit: John
Shearer
On Tuesday (May 28), multi-PLATINUM selling performer Brett Young, celebrated the catapulting success of his fifth consecutive No. One single “Here Tonight,” alongside co-writers Ben Caver, Justin Ebach and Charles Kelley.
Hosted by ASCAP and SESAC at Nashville’s The Sutler packed with BMLG Records, teammates, family and friends, the lead single from Young’s TICKET TO L.A. (BMLG Records) touts multi-week chart-topping status and has quickly surpassed 100 million streams in the US. “Here Tonight” serves as the first-ever No. One as a songwriter for Ben Caver (ASCAP), fourth for Justin Ebach (SESAC) and eighth for Charles Kelley (ASCAP). Additionally, this week, Young shared the highly-anticipated follow-up single, “Catch,” with country radio. The irresistible song “soars” (Taste of Country) with "emotional balladry” (UpRoxx) and was co-written by Young, Ross Copperman and Ashley Gorley.
Wall Bling:
The RIAA issued certifications in May for the following:
RIAA Certifications
Multi-Platinum
= 2,000,000 plus units
Platinum =
1-million units
Gold = 500,000
units
Note: For ALBUM
certifications the RIAA base their figures
on the number of units SHIPPED together with, track sales and on demand audio/
video stream units and NOT based purely on traditional retail sales.
1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale.
150 on-demand streams = 1
track download
The RIAA has
issued multi-platinum certifications for Eric Church's "Springsteen"
(5X) and Lil Nas X's
"Old Town Road" (3X). Gold singles include Kane Brown's "Good
As You," Alison
Krauss and Union
Station's "When You Say Nothing At All," Dan
+ Shay's "All To Myself," Cody Johnson's "On My Way To You"
and Brett Young's
"Here Tonight."
MULTI-PLATINUM SINGLES
Bebe
Rexha Meant To Be (Feat. Florida Georgia Line) | released
Aug 11, 2017 Warner Bros Records | certified 7x Multi-Platinum May 3, 2019 7
Million units POP
Eric
Church Springsteen | released March 13, 2011 EMI Records
Nashville | certified 5x Multi-Platinum May 1, 2019 5 Million units
Lil
Nas X Old Town Road | released April 5, 2019 Columbia |
released May 10, 2019 | certified 3x Multi-Platinum May 10, 2019 3 Million units
GOLD SINGLES:
Alison
Krauss & Union Station When
You Say Nothing At All | released April 10, 1995 Rounder | certified
Gold May 10, 2019 0.5 Million units
Kane
Brown GOOD AS YOU | released Oct 19, 2018RCA Nashville | certified
Gold May 7, 2019 0.5 Million units
Cody
Johnson On My Way To You | released Aug 10, 2018 COJO Music /
Warner Music Nashville | certified Gold May 30, 2019 0.5 Million units
Brett
Young Here Tonight | released Dec 7, 2018 BMLG Records | certified
Gold May 30, 2019 0.5 Million units
Dan
+ Shay All To Myself | released April 27, 2018 | certified
Gold May 30, 2019 0.5 Million units
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of June 8, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (37
non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke
Combs
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks non-consecutive
weeks) ** “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen
Country Airplay **
No.1 (1 week) **
“Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (8
non-consecutive 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 Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
Billie
Eilish with
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? claimed a third non-consecutive
week at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart (BB200), as it
set rose 3-1 in its ninth week on the list.
The
set earned 62,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 30,
according to Nielsen Music (down 1% compared to the previous week).
When
debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 13, then slipped to No. 2 for the
next two frames. It jumped back to No.
for a week on May 4, then ranked at Nos. 4-2-2-3 for the next four weeks
before returning to No. 1 for a third frame on the new chart.
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’ debut LP, THIS ONE’S FOR
YOU (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville), logged its 37th week at No.1 on Top Country
Albums (#14 non-mover BB200; 25,000 equivalent album units, down 1%).
Combs’ collection claimed a solo share of the fourth-longest reign in
the chart’s 55-year history, one-upping the rule of Dixie Chicks’ 1999
album Fly.
The only albums with more weeks on top than This One’s for You:
Shania Twain’s Come On Over (50 weeks, starting in 1997), Randy Travis’ Always
& Forever (43 weeks, 1987) and Garth Brooks’ No Fences (41 weeks, 1990).
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#33-25 BB200) in their 49th
frame.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) held at
No.3 (#50-44 BB200) in his 52nd frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 213-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) held at No.4 (#56-1 BB200).
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) rose 7-5 (#66-59 BB200) in his
59th week.
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) fell 5-6 (#61 non-mover Billboard 200) in her 12th week.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT slipped 6-7 (#64-67
BB200; 29 chart weeks) as his self-titled album held at No.10 (#84-83
BB200; 130 weeks).
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) held at No.8 (#80-73
BB200) in their 15th week.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) fell 9-11 (#81-90 BB200) in her 56th week.
Lee
Brice with his self-titled (Curb)
set rose 19-18 (#177-166 BB200) in his 15th frame.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY fell 14-23 (#116-189 BB200) in her 37th week.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Jimmy Fortune with his 14 track Country/
Christian set GOD & COUNTRY (Gaither | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a Hot Shot debut at No.6.
From the heart of country and gospel music legend Jimmy Fortune comes an
all-new recording that reflects and celebrates the beauty of America, the
courage of those who have made it free and the hymns that have warmed the
hearts of its citizens for centuries. Jimmy lends his unmistakable tenor voice
to stirring renditions of national classics and congregational favorites,
creating an expression of gratitude for our faith and freedoms.
Eric Church with 36 track- 61 Days in
Church, Volume. 5 (EMI Music Nashville (ERN) | Amazon UK - iTunes) made a debut at No.14
Ray Fulcher with 6-track Somebody Like
Me (EP; Larkin Hill | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.21.
Billy Ray Cyrus with 9-track set THE
SNAKEDOCTOR CIRCUS (BMG | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.35.
Matt Stell with 7-track EVERYWHERE
BUT ON (EP; Arista Nashville | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.36.
Dustin Sonnier with 14-track BETWEEN
THE STONES & JONES (Dustin Sonnier Entertainment | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.44.
Year-To-Date Albums
4,590,000 (Physical sales 3,196,000
(down -31.3%) + Digital sales 1,393,000 (down -24.8%) which is 30.0% down at the same point in
2018 (6,556,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
14,825,000 down 30.5% at the same point in 2018
(21,324,000)
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:
Morgan Wallen with “Whiskey
Glasses” rebounded 2-1 on the Hot Country Songs chart topping
the tally for a second total week after first leading the May 18-dated list.
“Whiskey” increased by 7% to 12.8 million U.S. streams in
the week ending May 30 and held at its No. 2 high on Country Streaming Songs.
It also maintains its No. 2 best on Country Digital Song Sales, with 15,000
downloads sold (up 7%) in the same period.
“Whiskey” dethroned Blake
Shelton’s “God’s Country”
(Warner Music Nashville) atop Hot Country Songs, although the latter tune,
which dropped to No. 2 after two weeks on top, ruled both Country Streaming Songs
and Country Digital Song Sales for a second week on the former (13.5 million
streams, up 7%) and an eighth frame on the latter (23,000 sold, down 7%).
The Hot Country Songs top
10 included two female artists
(SHOCK!), each unaccompanied by other acts, for the first time in over
two-and-a-half years.
Kelsea Ballerini with “Miss
Me More” (Black River) pushed 10-9, propelled by its 6% bumped
to 31.6 million in audience, as it ranks at No. 3 on Country Airplay.
Plus, Maren Morris’ “Girl” (Columbia Nashville) hopped 11-10,
returning to the Hot Country Songs top 10 for the first time since March 23,
when it reached No. 9.
“Girl” pushes 10-9 on Country Airplay (22.2 million impressions,
up 6%).
Women hold two spots in the Hot Country Songs top 10 for
the first time since the April 6-dated chart, when Bebe Rexha and Florida
Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be” and Ballerini’s “More” placed at Nos. 3 and 8,
respectively.
The last time until this week that two women each with
no co-billed acts shared space in the Hot Country Songs top 10? Oct. 1,
2016, when Ballerini’s “Peter Pan” and Miranda Lambert’s “Vice” were stationed
at, respectively, Nos. 1 and 7
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (2 weeks)/
Airplay Gainer ** “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan
Wallen
** Streaming Gainer ** No.13 “Some Of It” Eric Church
** Digital
Gainer ** No.19 “The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home” Justin Moore
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.33 “Center Point Road” Thomas Rhett feat.
Kelsea Ballerini
Debut
No.41 “Shut Up About Politics” John Rich feat. The Five
Morgan
Wallen with “Whiskey Glasses”
(Big Loud) ascended 2-1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated June
8), increasing by 7% to 41.2 million audience impressions in the week ending
June 2, according to Nielsen Music.
With “Whiskey”
— written by Ben Burgess and Kevin Kadish — Wallen netted his second Country
Airplay No.1. “Up Down,” featuring Florida Georgia Line, led nearly a year ago
(June 30, 2018).
“Never had I
dreamed I’d be celebrating a No.1 song, so the fact that this is two in a row
is mindblowing to me,” Wallen told Billboard. “I’m thankful for everyone
who has believed in me since day one: the Lord, my team, my family, my fans and
my friends
at country
radio. This song is a special one, and I’m just getting started.”
Eric
Church banked his 14th Country Airplay top 10, a sum that includes seven No.1s, as “Some
of It” (EMI Nashville) hopped 12-10, up 8% to 22.1 million
impressions. On Hot Country Songs, “Some” bumped 18-13 for a new high. Church
last reached the Country Airplay top 10 with “Round Here Buzz” (No. 2, January
2018). He last led the list with “Record Year” in August 2016.
Country
Airplay
**
No.1 (1 week)/ Most Increased Audience ** “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen
41.220 million audience (+2.775 million gain)/ 8,340 radio plays (+408)
**
Most Added ** No.25 “Day Drunk” Morgan Evans (13 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.48 “Catch” Brett Young
Debut
No.58 “Her World Or Mine” Michael Ray
Debut
No.59 “Remember You Young” Thomas Rhett
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Blake
Shelton with “God’s
Country” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.1 (#4-3 Digital Songs; 23,000 sold, down 7%) to lead for an 8th non-consecutive
week.
It was 2 places behind Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road"
(on
Columbia Records), featuring Billy Ray Cyrus which led the Streaming
Songs chart for a ninth week, with 115.3 million U.S. streams, down 12%, in the
week ending May 30, according to Nielsen Music; a week earlier, it drew 130.7
million in the tracking week encompassing the first seven days of availability
for its official video, released May 17. "Road" set the record for
the top streaming week ever following the April 5 arrival of its remix with
Cyrus and now claims eight of the 10 biggest frames to date, including the top
three:
"Road" logged a sixth week atop the Digital Song Sales chart with 81,000 downloads sold, up 8%, in the week ending May
30, good for the Hot 100's top Sales Gainer award.
Morgan Wallen with
“Whiskey Glasses” moved 4-2 (#16-9 Digital Songs; 15,000
sales; up 7%)) in his 27th frame.
Previous No.1 Luke Combs with “Beer Never Broke My Heart” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony
Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#14-11 Digital Songs) as “Beautiful Crazy” which led for seven weeks rose 12-11 (#46 non-mover Digital Songs).
John Rich featuring The Five with "Shut Up About Politics" which
Rich debuted on Fox News’ on May 30, sold 11,000 downloads
in its first day of tracking. It arrived on Country Digital Song Sales at No.4
(#20 New-Entry Digital Songs), Rich’s first
solo appearance on the chart.
Luke
Bryan with “Knockin'
Boots” rebounded 6-5 (#27-24 Digital Songs) in his 9th
week.
Previous No.1 Thomas
Rhett with “Look What God Gave Her”
rose 8-6 (#38-28 Digital Songs) in its 13th week.
Kane Brown with
“Good As You” fell 5-7 (#23-30 Digital Songs) in his
19th week.
Lee
Brice with “Rumor”
climbed 10-8 (#41-31 Digital Songs) in his 24th week.
Thomas Rhett featuring Kelsea Ballerini with “Center Point Road” made a
debut at No.9 (#40 New-Entry Digital Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan
Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
slipped 9-10 (#40-41 Digital
Songs) in its 49th week.
Outside
the Top 10
Lady
Antebellum with “What If I Never
Get Over You” retreated 2-14 (#5 – off the top 50 Digital
Songs) in their second week.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
June
3, 2019
Morgan Wallen Reaches #1 With ‘Whiskey Glasses’
Congrats
to Morgan
Wallen,
Stacy Blythe, Ali Matkosky and the entire Big Loud team on earning the week’s
No. 1 with “Whiskey Glasses.” The song is Wallen’s second
consecutive chart-topper. Writers are Ben Burgess and Ken Kadish.
“Whiskey Glasses” (Big Loud) climbed 2-1 logging 9,020 radio spins (+573), 56.437 million audience impressions (+3.596) with 29106 Total Points (+2091) from 155 tracking stations (156 ADDS)
for the tracking week May 26 to June 1, 2019 and published chart dated June 3,
2019.
Jake Owen Is Most-Added With 'Homemade'
Kudos
to Blythe and the crew on the daily double, notching 47 adds for Jake Owen’s “Homemade”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
 |
| Big Loud team celebrate Jake Owen being most-added at Country radio this week. Owen's single, "Homemade". Pictured L-R (front row): the label's Lloyd Aur Norman, Tori Johnson, Ali Matkosky, and Chief Zaruk. Pictured L-R (back row): the label's Candice Watkins, Tyler Waugh, Patch Culbertson, Clay Hunnicutt, Stacy Blythe and Brittani Koster |
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total
Historic Adds
JAKE OWEN/Homemade (Big
Loud) 47 50
BRETT YOUNG/Catch (BMLGR) 45 49
JON PARDI/Heartache Medication (Capitol) 42 45
JAMESON RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia) 32 32
CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Southbound (Capitol) 15 119
MORGAN EVANS/Day Drunk (Warner/WEA) 14 137
CAROLINE JONES/Chasin' Me
(Mailboat/New Revolution) 8 52
JIMMIE ALLEN/Make Me Want To (Stoney Creek) 8 122
KEITH URBAN/We Were (Capitol) 7 139
DIERKS BENTLEY/Living (Capitol) 6 124
LADY ANTEBELLUM/What If I
Never Get Over You (BMLGR) 5 132
MATT STELL/Prayed For You (Wide Open/Records/GCE/Arista) 5 107
MICHAEL RAY/Her World Or Mine (Warner/WEA) 5 49
MADDIE & TAE/Die From A
Broken Heart (Mercury) 4 51
RALEIGH KEEGAN/Don't Take Time (Creekhouse) 2 2
BRODIE STEWART f/C. FORD/Born American (---) 1 1
BROOKS & DUNN w/K. MUSGRAVES/Neon Moon (Arista) 1 1
HALEY & MICHAELS/Hail Mary (Hickory/Reviver) 1 2
JAMES BARKER BAND/Keep It Simple (Universal Music Canada) 1 4
LIL NAS X/Old Town Road (Columbia) 1 5
LUCAS HOGE/That'll Be The Day (Forge Entertainment) 1 1
NEONPPL f/B. YOUNG/ONElittleTOWN (---) 1 2
OLD DOMINION/One Man Band (RCA) 1 1
RAYNE JOHNSON/Front Seat (Legend Entertainment) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #25
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney,
Caroline Jones, David
Lee Murphy Tuscaloosa Amphitheater Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Dates:
May 24, 2019 Gross Sales: $606,540 Attend:
7,134 / 7,134
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $125, $45
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #37
Event
Venue City/State: Chris Young,
Chris Janson, Dylan
Scott PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel,
N.J.
Dates:
May 26, 2019 Gross Sales: $439,588 Attend:
12,644 / 16,970
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (4,326 unsold tickets)
Prices: $75.25, $25.50
Promoters: Live Nation
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