Country Billboard Chart News July 29, 2019
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of August 3, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (43
non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke
Combs
Hot Country Songs ** ** No.1 (3 non-consecutive weeks) ** “The
Git Up” Blanco Brown
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** GIRL” Maren Morris
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “The Git
Up” Blanco Brown
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Ed Sheeran's 'No. 6' Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200
Albums Chart, Beyonce & Nas Bow in Top 10
After
debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart (BB200) a week
ago, Ed Sheeran’s star-studded No. 6 Collaborations Project ruled the
list for a second week, making it the first album to
spend its first two weeks at No. 1 in four months. The last title to do
so was Juice WRLD’s Death Race for Love, which opened at No. 1 on the March
23-dated list, and held on for its second, and so-far final, frame on March 30.
No.
6 earned 78,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 25 in the
U.S., according to Nielsen Music. That’s down 55% compared to its debut of
173,000 units.
Of
No. 6’s second-week total units, 16,000 were in album sales (down 77%), which keeps the set at No. 1 for a
second week on the Top Album Sales chart. The remainder of No. 6’s second-week
unit total was comprised of 5,000 TEA units (down 52%) and 57,000 SEA units
(down 39%). The latter sum equates to 74.7 million on-demand audio streams
for the album’s tunes during the tracking week — which makes it the
most-streamed album of the week for the second week in a row.
Beyonce Nets Third Top 10 Album of 2019 As 'The Lion King: The
Gift' Debuts at No. 2 on Billboard 200 Chart
Beyoncé, who voices the character
Nala in Disney’s new The Lion King film, saw her King-inspired album The Lion
King: The Gift debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard
200 chart. The set starts with 54,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S.
(with 11,000 of that sum in album sales)
in the week ending July 25, according to Nielsen Music.
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.
Ranked
at #1 on Country Album Sales and at #34 (up five places) on all-genre Top Album
Sales Luke
Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU
(River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) remained at No.1
(#12 non-mover Billboard 200) to top the summit for a 43rd
non-consecutive week in 111 chart frames.
It
reigned with 23,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%) in the week
ending July 25. Of that sum, 3,000 were in album sales.
The
set ties Randy Travis’ Always & Forever, which ruled for 43 weeks beginning
in June 1987 as the second-longest-leading album since the list launched in
1964. Among male artists, Travis and Combs are tied for first.
Just
one title has spent more time at No. 1: Shania Twain’s Come on Over, which
dominated for 50 weeks beginning in November 1997.
Meanwhile,
Combs’ latest release, THE PREQUEL (River House/Columbia Nashville/ Sony
Music Nashville), moved 4-3 (39 non-mover BB200; 13,000 units, down 3%;
7 chart frames) after the fivetrack EP debuted atop the list dated June 22.
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#30-27 BB200) in their 57th
frame.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) moved 5-4 (#42-40
BB200) in his 60th frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 220-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) climbed 6-5 (#47-46 BB200).
Former
No.1 Thomas
Rhett with CENTER POINT ROAD (Valory Music/ Big Machine Records) rose 7-6 (#52-55 BB200)
in his eighth week.
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) moved 8-7 (#65-61 BB200) in his
67th week.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 3-8 (#38-62 BB200)
as his self-titled album dropped 11-12 (#84-87 BB200; 138 chart
frames).
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) held at No.9 (#71-72 BB200) in her 20th frame.
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) held at No.10 (#82-84
BB200) in their 23rd week.
Outside the Top
10
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) held at No.13 (#99-97 BB200) in her 64th week.
Lee
Brice with his self-titled
set (Curb) slipped 18-20 (#156-174 BB200) in his 23rd frame.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY fell 17-21 (#149-185
BB200) in her 45th week.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Ryan Hurd with 4-track EP PANORAMA
(Sony Music Entertainment | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a Hot Shot debut at #23.
Jenny Tolman with her 13-track THERE
GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD (Jenny Tolman | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at #25.
Released on 20 July Josh Weathers with his 8-track album WILD ONES
(Integrity Artist Agency | Amazon UK ) made a debut at #48.
Year-To-Date Albums
5,668,000 sales which is 29.8% down at the same point in 2018 (8,078,000 sales).
Album consumption is 29,300,000 units which is 5.0% up at the same point in 2018 (27,916,000 units)
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:
Blanco
Brown’s “The Git Up” (Trailer Trap
Music/Broken Bow Music Group/BMG/Wheelhouse/ Stoney Creek/Broken Bow) held at No.
1 for a third non-consecutive week.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (3 weeks)/
Streaming Gainer ** “The Git Up” Blanco
Brown
**
Airplay Gainer” No.8 “GIRL” Maren Morris
** Digital
Gainer ** No.28 “It All Comes Out In The Wash” Miranda Lambert
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.36 “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” Willie
Nelson feat. Paula Nelson
Debut
No.50 “Slow Dance In A Parking Lot” Jordan Davis
MAREN MORRIS' HISTORY-MAKING
"GIRL" REACHES #1 FIRST SOLO #1 BY A WOMAN ON THE BILLBOARD COUNTRY
AIRPLAY CHART SINCE FEBRUARY OF 2018
Maren Morris
banked
her third No.1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Girl” (Columbia
Nashville) ascended 4-1 in its 28th week on the Aug. 3-dated list. It increases
by 13% to 37.4 million audience impressions in the tracking week ending July
28, according to Nielsen Music.
“Girl” marked the first time that a solo female artist has topped the
chart in well over a year. The last time was on the list dated Feb. 24,
2018, when Kelsea Ballerini’s “Legends” led for one week, becoming her fourth
Country Airplay No. 1.
“I am so proud that ‘Girl’ is my third Billboard No. 1,” said Morris. “The
title of the song alone feels like poetic justice breaking this year-anda-half
streak of a woman not having a No. 1 on [Country Airplay], so let’s be hopeful
we never see that dry spell again.”
It’s also the first time in 2019 that a woman has ruled the radio
airplay-fueled chart in any fashion, including groups, duos or as a featured
artist. The most recent was Jason Aldean’s “Drowns the Whiskey,” which features
Miranda Lambert. The collaboration topped Country Airplay for two frames
starting Aug. 25, 2018.
For the 29-year-old Morris — who hails from Arlington, Texas — “Girl” is
her second No.1 as a solo artist. Her first visit to the summit was on
the Feb. 22, 2017, chart when she was featured on Thomas Rhett’s “Craving You,”
which led for one week. “I Could Use a Love Song” marked
Morris’ second No. 1 and her first as a solo act when it ruled the Jan. 20,
2018, chart for one week.
Morris’ additional Country Airplay top 10s include her debut
single, “My Church,” which peaked at No. 9 on May 21, 2016, and “Rich,” which
reached No. 4 on Nov. 17.
“Girl,” which Morris wrote with Greg Kurstin and Sarah Aarons, is the
title song from the album of the same name. The set, her second full-length
studio album, debuted in the penthouse of the Top Country Albums tally dated
March 23 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week (with
25,000 of that sum in album sales).
The next single from Girl will be “The Bones,” which ranks at No. 26 on
the hybrid Hot Country Songs survey, powered by airplay, streaming and sales.
Meanwhile, “Girl” bumps 9-8 for a new peak.
Upon its release earlier this year, "GIRL" had the highest
debut on Billboard's Country Streaming Songs chart by a female artist
and the highest weekly streams by a female country artist ever.
The song is the
title track from the multi-Platinum artist's second album, which shattered the
record for the largest-ever debut streaming week for a country album by a woman
with 23.96 million streams in its first week. The album debuted at #4 on the
Billboard 200, #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and continues to
receive rave reviews. GIRL is out now via Columbia Nashville.
Morris is currently in the midst of a sold-out world tour, including
appearances at Newport Folk Festival with The Highwomen-her all-star
collaboration with Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby and Amanda Shires-and with
Dolly Parton and The Highwomen as part of a history-making all women Saturday night
headline set, during which Parton congratulated Morris on the #1 from stage.
GIRL: The World Tour continues this summer, and Morris will support Miranda
Lambert on her Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars tour this fall. Visit
marenmorris.com for full tour details.
This year Morris received five Grammy nominations including Record of the
Year and Pop Duo/Group performance for her massively acclaimed hit "The
Middle" with Zedd and Grey, Country Solo Performance, Country Duo/Group
Performance and Country Song of the Year. In May, alongside Zedd and Gray she
was awarded with a Billboard Music Award for Dance/Electronic Song.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week)/ Most Increased Audience *** “GIRL” Maren Morris 37.425
million audience (+4.326 million gain) / 7,424 radio plays (+789)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.60 “Die From A Broken Heart” Maddie & Tae
**
Most Added ** No.30 “Remember You Young” Thomas Rhett (21 ADDS)
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Blanco Brown with “The
Git Up” (Trailer Trap Music/BMG/Broken Bow) held at No.1 on Country
Digital Song Sales for a fifth week (#3-2 Digital Songs).
It was one place behind Lil Nas X's "Old
Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus which spends
a 13th frame atop the Digital Song Sales chart with 46,000 downloads sold (up 1%) in the week ending
July 25. On Radio Songs, where it reached No. 2, "Road" backtracked
10-14, with 47 million audience impressions, down 12%, in the week ending July
28.
Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, claims
one of the most prized records in the Billboard Hot 100's 60-year history as it
spent an unprecedented 17th week at No. 1.
"Road" bests the previous record of 16 weeks first achieved by
Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day," in 1995-96, and later
matched by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito," featuring
Justin Bieber in 2017.
"OLD TOWN ROAD" RECORD-BREAKING 17
WEEKS AT NO. 1 ON BILLBOARD HOT 100
"17 is my new favorite number! 17 weeks
No. 1 Single "Old Town Road." 17 weeks No. 1 Album Some
Gave All. My goal was always to make music that would
touch people's lives around the world." -
Billy Ray Cyrus
NASHVILLE, Tenn. –
No other artist in the history of music has ever achieved what Billy Ray Cyrus has now accomplished.
The singer/songwriter and worldwide entertainment icon hailing from Flatwoods,
Kentucky shattered records when "Old Town Road," featuring Cyrus,
charted at No. 1 on the Billboard
Hot 100 with Lil
Nas X for 17 consecutive weeks. Cyrus also holds the
record for 17
weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 all-genre albums
chart in 1992 with Some Gave All.
"Old Town Road" (Columbia Records) also leads
Streaming Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap
Songs charts for 17 weeks each, according to Billboard.
With
a 17th week atop the Hot 100 for "Old Town Road," here's an updated
leaderboard of the 10 longest-leading No. 1s in the chart's archives:
Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 1
17, "Old Town Road," Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 13, 2019
16, "Despacito," Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, May 27, 2017
16, "One Sweet Day," Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, Dec. 2, 1995
14, "Uptown Funk!," Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, Jan. 17, 2015
14, "I Gotta Feeling," The Black Eyed Peas, July 11, 2009
14, "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey, June 4, 2005
14, "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight," Elton John, Oct. 11, 1997
14, "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)," Los Del Rio, Aug. 3, 1996
14, "I'll Make Love to You," Boyz II Men, Aug. 27, 1994
14, "I Will Always Love You," Whitney Houston, Nov. 28, 1992
(Source: Billboard)
Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 1
17, "Old Town Road," Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 13, 2019
16, "Despacito," Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, May 27, 2017
16, "One Sweet Day," Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, Dec. 2, 1995
14, "Uptown Funk!," Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, Jan. 17, 2015
14, "I Gotta Feeling," The Black Eyed Peas, July 11, 2009
14, "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey, June 4, 2005
14, "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight," Elton John, Oct. 11, 1997
14, "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)," Los Del Rio, Aug. 3, 1996
14, "I'll Make Love to You," Boyz II Men, Aug. 27, 1994
14, "I Will Always Love You," Whitney Houston, Nov. 28, 1992
(Source: Billboard)
9 non-consecutive week No1. Blake Shelton with “God’s Country” (Warner Bros./Warner
Music Nashville) moved 3-2 (#7-11
Digital Songs) in its 17th frame.
" After its inclusion in the season finale of
the HBO series Big Little Lies (July 21) Willie Nelson
featuring Paula Nelson
with "Have You Ever Seen the Rain, the collaboration,
which was originally released in 2013, sold 13,000 downloads
(up from a negligible figure last week) and arrived at No. 3 on Country
Digital Song Sales (#12 New Entry Digital Songs).
It’s the first top 10 on the list for legend Nelson as well as for his daughter
Paula.
Luke Combs with “Beer
Never Broke My Heart” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville)
rose 5-4 (#13-14 Digital Songs).
Additionally, Comb’s “Beautiful Crazy” climbed 15-14
on its 64th frame.
Luke Bryan with “Knockin' Boots” rose 6-5 (#15-17
Digital Songs) in his 17th week.
Marshmello
& Kane Brown with “One
Thing Right” pushed 10-5 (#40-20 Digital Songs).
Morgan Wallen with
“Whiskey Glasses” held at No.7 (#22 non-mover Digital
Songs) in his 35th week.
Miranda Lambert with
“It All Comes Out In The Wash” advanced 16-8 in her second
frame.
Lee
Brice with “Rumor”
fell 8-9 (#29-30 Digital Songs) in his 32nd frame.
Dan + Shay (Dan
Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
fell 9-10 (#32-35 Digital
Songs) in their 57th frame.
Outside
the Top 10
Kenny Chesney with
“Tip Of My Tongue” fell 4-11 (#11-40 Digital Songs) in
his 2nd frame.
Eric Church with “Some Of It” fell 11-12 (#46-42
Digital Songs) in his 16th frame.
Kane Brown with
“Like A Rodeo” retreated 2-13 (#6-47 Digital
Songs) in his second week.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
July
29, 2019
Maren Morris Hits #1 With ‘Girl’
Congrats
to Maren
Morris,
Steve Hodges, Shane Allen and the Columbia promotion team on earning
this week’s No.1 with “Girl.” The song is Morris’ second
charttopper and first from her second album of the same name. Songwriters are
Sarah Aarons, Greg Kurstin and Morris.
“Girl” (Columbia)
rose 4-1 logging 8,168 radio spins (+1208), 50.144 million audience impressions (+7.975)
with 26839 Total Points (+4024) from 155 tracking stations (155 ADDS)
for the tracking week July 21 to July 27, 2019 and published chart dated July
22, 2019.
Morgan Wallen Is Most-Added With 'Chasin' You'
Kudos
to Stacy Blythe and the Big Loud reps on notching 36 MEDIABASE adds
for Morgan
Wallen’s “Chasin’ You”.
The song
topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
Effective
this week, MCCN/Music Choice, KNUC/Seattle and KTGX/Tulsa have been added to
the Country Aircheck/ Mediabase reporting panel.
The
Big Loud team (July 30) celebrate Morgan Wallen being most-added
at Country radio with "Chasin' You." Pictured back row (L-R): John
D'Amico, Dave Kirth, Seth England, Stacy Blythe, and Patch Culbertson. Front
row (L-R): Ali Matkosky, Nikki Wood, Tyler Waugh and Brittani Koster
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title
(Label) TW Total Historic Adds
MORGAN
WALLEN/Chasin' You (Big
Loud) 36 38
DREW
BALDRIDGE/Middle Of Nowhere Kids (Cold River) 23 24
GABBY
BARRETT/I Hope (Warner/WAR) 23 29
ELI YOUNG
BAND/Break It In (Valory) 20 20
MIRANDA
LAMBERT/It All Comes Out In
The Wash (RCA) 20 128
PARMALEE/Be
Alright (Stoney Creek) 16 16
THOMAS RHETT/Remember
You Young (Valory) 16 120
BLANCO
BROWN/The Git Up (BMG/BBR) 13 48
JON
LANGSTON/Now You Know (EMI Nashville) 8 43
INGRID
ANDRESS/More Hearts Than
Mine (Warner/WEA) 7 43
GONE WEST/What
Could've Been (Triple Tigers) 6 59
CAYLEE
HAMMACK/Family Tree
(Capitol) 4 76
TENILLE
ARTS/Call You Names
(Reviver) 3 38
HALEY &
MICHAELS/Hail Mary (Hickory) 2 20
BILLY
CURRINGTON/Details (Mercury) 1 1
GEORGE
STRAIT/Codigo (MCA) 1 2
MAREN
MORRIS/The Bones (Columbia) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #14
Event
Venue City/State: Eagles
First Direct Arena Leeds, England
Dates:
July 2, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,681,120 Attend:
10,690/ 11,150
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (460 unsold tickets) Prices:
$253.17, $88.61
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #48
Event
Venue City/State: Blake Shelton Lake Tahoe
Outdoor Arena at Harveys Stateline, Nev.
Dates:
July 12, 2019 Gross Sales: $857,446 Attend:
6,558/ 6,558
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $278.50, $108.45
Promoters: Another Planet Entertainment
