Country Billboard
Chart News June 24, 2019
In
Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of June 29, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (38
non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke
Combs
Hot Country Songs ** ** No.1 (5 non-consecutive weeks)
** “God's Country” Blake Shelton
Country Airplay **
No.1 (1 week) **
“Look What God Gave Her” Thomas Rhett
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (9
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).
Madonna Achieves Ninth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart as
'Madame X' Bundles To The Top
Plus:
Bruce Springsteen and Bastille debut in top 10.
Madonna landed her ninth No.1 album
on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200) as MADAME X entered atop
the tally. The set, released via Interscope Records on June 14, launches with
95,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 20,
according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 90,000 were in album sales.
Overall,
Madame X’s debut sum of 95,000 equivalent album units is comprised of 90,000
in album sales, 1,000 in TEA units and 4,000 in SEA units.
Madame
X grants Madonna her ninth leader on the Billboard 200. She last led the list
in 2012, with MDNA. Here’s a look at all of Madonna’s No. 1 albums: Madame X,
MDNA, Hard Candy (2008), Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005), American Life
(2003), Music (2000), Like a Prayer (1989), True Blue (1986) and Like a Virgin
(1985).
Madame
X’s debut week was comprised of 90,000 in album sales, which is the
fourth-largest sales week for an album in 2019 by a woman. The album’s sales
were bolstered by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer
with the Queen of Pop’s upcoming theater tour (starting on Sept. 12 in New York
at Brooklyn's Howard Gilman Opera House), as well as an array of
merchandise/album bundles sold via her official website.
At No.
2 on the new Billboard 200, Bruce Springsteen’s WESTERN STARS
debuted, marking his 20th top 10 effort. The
set begins with 66,000 equivalent album units (of which 62,000 were in
album sales). Springsteen first hit the top 10 back in 1975, when Born to Run
sprinted 84-8 in its second week on the list (dated Sept. 20, 1975). The Boss
last hit the top 10 in 2016 with the retrospective compilation release Chapter
and Verse (debuting and peaking at No. 5).
Across
the pond " Springsteen trounced Madonna in UK following bad publicity in
UK following Eurovision and The Graham Norton Show.
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.
Although
ranked #4 Country Album Sales and #30 on all-genre Top Album Sales based on
consumption units Luke Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU switched places with himself and rose 2-1 (#13
non-mover Billboard 200) to top the summit for a 38th
non-consecutive week.
Combs’
new five-track EP THE PREQUEL (River House/Columbia Nashville/ Sony
Music Nashville) fell 1-2 (#4-19 BB200).
Former
No.1 Thomas
Rhett with CENTER POINT ROAD ( Valory Music/ Big Machine Records | Amazon UK - iTunes ) held
at No.3 (#16-25 Billboard 200) in his third week..
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.4 (#29 non mover BB200) in
their 52nd frame.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) held at
No.5 (#41-38 BB200) in his 55th frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 216-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) held at No.6 (#55-53 BB200).
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) climbed 8-7 (#60-62 BB200) in
his 62nd week.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 7-8 (#58-65 BB200; 32
chart weeks) as his self-titled album slipped back 10-12 (#87-96
BB200; 133 weeks).
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) held at No.9 (#68-76 Billboard 200) in her 15th frame.
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) rose 11-10 (#89-88
BB200) in their 18th week.
Outside the Top
10
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY climbed 16-14 (#147-127
BB200) in her 40th week.
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) fell 14-16 (#114-130 BB200) in her 59th week.
Lee
Brice with his self-titled (Curb) rose
20-17 (#162-144 BB200) in his 18th frame.
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real with 13-track TURN OFF
THE NEWS (Build A Garden | Amazon UK - iTunes) made a debut at No.19
(#151 New Entry
Billboard 200) and topped the Country Album Sales this chart week
Nelson
and co. have omnivorous tastes and a sense of humor, a combination that results
in slow-grooving R&B numbers, sun-kissed pop, rangy rockers, and a
persistent good vibe. In troubled times, the band have managed to deliver an
album filled with optimism, and that's a remarkable feat. – Allmusic (Rating:
4 STARS)
(rating 60/100)
With
Shooter Jenning's outlaw holler and Sheryl Crow doing her backing-singer bit,
the results are country slick but the execution is flawless. [Summer 2019, p.82] Classic
Rock Magazine (rating 7/10)
These songs sound like they were made to be played on-stage (other than a few that
don't lift off the ground) – Mojo (rating 60/100)
There’s a fine line between escapist and naïve, though, and Nelson and
company aren’t afraid to toe it. The extent to which listeners enjoy this
record depends on how much they buy into the fantasy of Nelson and his famous
pals clinking Coronas around the pool while the rest of the world goes to hell.
If it feels a little hollow, well, that’s by design. – Pitchfolk (Rating:
6/10)
FALLING SHORT
of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Jon Wolfe with 5-track EP FEELS LIKE COUNTRY MUSIC (Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.23.
Chris Shiflett with 11-track HARD
LESSONS (East Beach Records & Tapes-Thirty Tigers | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.25.
Montgomery Gentry with 7-track OUTSKIRTS
[EP] (Average Joes Entertainment | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.26.
Recorded in Sept. 2017 and produced by Noah Gordon and Shannon Houchins,
the seven-track EP includes versions of Merle Haggard’s “What Am I Going To Do
With The Rest Of My Life” and Darrell Scott’s “You’ll Never Leave Harlan
Alive,” as well as “King of the World,” featuring Steve Vai on guitar, and the
Travis Denning co-penned “Joe’s Six-Pack.”
Year-To-Date Albums
5,246,000 (Physical sales 3,633,000
(down -31.7%) + Digital sales 1,612,000 (down -25.4%) which is 29.9% down at the same point in
2018 (7,485,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
17,167,000 down 29.5% at the same point in 2018
(24,360,000)
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:
Blake
Shelton with “God’s Country”
(Warner Music Nashville) topped Hot Country Songs for a fifth week.
‘UP’ IS UP Blanco Brown’s launch single, “The Git Up” (Trailer
Trap Music/BMG/Broken Bow), jumped 13-7 on Hot Country Songs. It soared
11-2 on Country Streaming Songs (13.7 million U.S. streams, up 55%) and 4-3 on
Country Digital Song Sales (18,000 downloads sold, up 10%).
Luke Bryan logged his
28th top 10 on Hot Country Songs as “Knockin’
Boots” (Capitol Nashville) bumped 11-8. It sported 18.7 million
in audience (up 13%) as it stepped 15-14 on Country Airplay, while attracting
6.7million streams (up 4%) and 10,000 sold (down 8%).
Eric Church collected
his 16th top 10 as “Some of It” (EMI Nashville)
surged 16-10. It gained by 11% to 28.7million impressions as it climbs
7-6 on Country Airplay, while drawing 4 million streams (up 6%) and 4,000 sold
(up 4%).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “God's Country” Blake Shelton
** Digital
Gainer ** No.3 “Rumor” Lee Brice
**
Airplay Gainer” No.5 “Look What God
Gave Her” Thomas Rhett
** Streaming Gainer ** No.7 “The Git Up” Blanco
Brown
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.18 “Drowning” Chris Young
Debut
No.34 “Dive Bar” Garth Brooks feat. Blake Shelton
Debut
No.44 “Man That Hung The Moon” Brantley Gilbert
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of June 29, 2019)
Thomas Rhett banked his 13th
No.1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Look What God Gave Her” (Valory)
romped 5-1 on the survey dated June 29.
“Look” leapt with a 19% increase to 35.9 million audience impressions
in the week ending June 23, according to Nielsen Music.
On the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart,
“Look” lifted 6-5, after reaching No. 3 two weeks earlier.
“Look,” which Rhett wrote with his father, Rhett Akins, Julian Bunetta,
John Ryan and J Cash, was inspired by his wife, Lauren. It’s the lead single
from Rhett’s fourth LP, CENTER POINT ROAD, which debuted atop the all-genre
Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums charts (June 15) with 76,000 equivalent
album units, making Rhett the first country artist to top the Billboard 200 in
2019.
“Look” made the biggest jump to No. 1 on Country Airplay since Dan
+ Shay’s “Speechless” (also 5-1; Dec. 22, 2018). Among solo males before Rhett,
Brett Young’s “Mercy” last made such a vault to the top (5-1; Aug. 11, 2018).
Additionally, “Look” is Rhett’s seventh straight No. 1 on Country
Airplay, the longest active run of consecutive leaders.
Chris Young with “Raised
on Country” (RCA Nashville) ascended to the top 10 (11-9). His 15th top 10 gained by 10%
to 24.3 million in audience.
Jason Aldean with “Rearview
Town” (Macon/Broken Bow) lifted 12-10 (22.2million, up 9%) on Country
Airplay. He notched his 30th top 10, becoming the
13th artist to reach the milestone; George Strait leads with 61.
Garth Brooks with “Dive
Bar” (Pearl), featuring Blake Shelton,
rocketed onto Country Airplay at No.16 with 15.7 million audience
impressions.
On Hot Country Songs, it started at No. 34. “Dive,” which Brooks wrote
with Mitch Rossell and Bryan Kennedy, is the first single from his forthcoming
album, Fun. Released June 18, the track received hourly plays on
participating iHeartMedia stations that day and on
June 19. The song is a radio exclusive; it will be an Amazon streaming
exclusive beginning in July.
“Dive” marked the highest Country Airplay debut since Luke Combs’ “Beer
Never Broke My Heart” (River House/Columbia Nashville) debuted at No. 15 (May
18).
Among Brooks’ 90 entries, it’s his second-highest-starting; he boasted the
only No. 1 launch in the chart’s 29-year history: “More Than a Memory” (Sept.
15, 2007). Brooks is runner-up to George Strait (99) for the most appearances
on Country Airplay. Kenny Chesney follows with 89.
Shelton makes his highest Country Airplay entrance. Two of his 25 No. 1s
each began at No. 18: “Came Here to Forget” (2016) and “Neon Light” (2014).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Look What God Gave Her” Thomas Rhett 35.911 million
audience (+5.679 million) / 7,628 radio plays (+1,013)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.16 “Dive Bar” Garth
Brooks feat. Blake Shelton +15.656 million audience gain thanks to
120 fresh radio commitments (ADDS)
Debut
No. 58 “Kiss
That Girl Goodbye” Aaron Watson
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Blake
Shelton with “God’s
Country” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) moved 2-1 (#5-6 Digital Songs) to
top the chart for a 9th non-consecutive week No1.
It was 5 places behind Taylor Swift's "You Need to
Calm Down" which bounded onto the Hot 100 at No. 2, marking her
24th top 10, a sum that now only 12 artists have achieved. It follows
"ME!," featuring Brendon Urie, which reached its No. 2 high on the
May 11 chart. Both songs are from her album Lover, due Aug. 23.
"Calm" opened atop Digital Song Sales with 79,000 sold, marking Swift's record-extending
17th No.1 on the chart (ahead of runner-up Rihanna's 14). Helped by its
star-studded official video, "Calm" started at No. 3 on Streaming
Songs (39 million) and No. 50 on Radio Songs (24.2 million).
Chris
Young with “Drowning”
made a debut at No.2 (#7 New Entry Digital Songs).
Blanco Brown with "The
Git Up" rose 4-3 (#8 non-mover Digital
Songs) in his third frame.
Luke Combs with “Beer
Never Broke My Heart” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville)
fell 3-4 (#6-13 Digital Songs). Last week’s
No.1 “Even Though I’m Leaving” fell 1-9 (#3-41 New
Entry Digital Songs). Combs “Beautiful Crazy” rose 15-12 (#42
– off the top 50 Digital Songs).
Morgan Wallen with
“Whiskey Glasses” climbed 6-5 (#13-17 Digital Songs) in
his 30th frame.
Lee
Brice with “Rumor”
rose 11-6 (#34-20 Digital Songs) in his 27th week.
Luke
Bryan with “Knockin'
Boots” rose 8-7 (#20-30 Digital Songs) in his 12th
week.
Brantley
Gilbert with "Man That
Hung the Moon" started at No. 8 on Country Digital Song
Sales (#38 New Entry Digital Songs), marking Gilbert’s eighth top 10. Released on June 14 in honor of
Father’s Day, the song sold 7,000 in the week ending June 20 as it entered Hot
Country Songs at No. 44.
Dan + Shay (Dan
Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
fell 5-10 (#11-42 Digital
Songs) in its 52nd week.
Outside
the Top 10
Thomas Rhett with
“Look What God Gave Her” rose 12-11 (#35-43 Digital
Songs) in its 16th week
Kane Brown with
“Good As You” rose 14-13 in his 22nd week.
Kelsea Ballerini
with
“Miss Me More” fell 13-14 in her 33rd frame.
Carrie Underwood with
“Southbound” moved 17-16 (#47 New Entry Digital Songs) in her 5th chart week.
Sturgill
Simpson with "The Dead
Don’t Die" the song from the same-named film in which the singer-songwriter
appeared (released June 14) started at No. 24 on Country Digital Song
Sales (3,000), marking his first entry
on the tally.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
June
24, 2019
Thomas Rhett Scores #1 With 'Look What God Gave Her'
Congratulations
to THE VALORY MUSIC CO.'s Thomas Rhett, who scored the #1 spot on the MEDIABASE Country singles chart
this week with his current hit, "Look What God Gave Her."
Writers are Rhett Akins, Julian Bunetta, Josh Ryan, Jacob Kashner, Ammar Malik
and Rhett.
“Look What
God Gave Her” (Warner/WMN) climbed 5-1 logging 8,380 radio spins (+1463), 49.974 million audience impressions (+8.393)
with 27183 Total Points (+4734) from 156 tracking stations (156 ADDS)
for the tracking week June 16 to June 22, 2019 and published chart dated June 24,
2019.
On
the heels of making history with his fourth studio album CENTER POINT ROAD (The
Valory Music Co.), claimed the biggest streaming debut week ever for a
country album, while also earning his second consecutive No. One on the
Billboard 200 Albums Chart in less than two years, reigning ACM Awards Male
Artist of the Year Thomas Rhett has notched his 13th career chart-topper with
“Look What God Gave Her."
Debuting on Saturday Night Live to
widespread applause and the highest chart debut of his career, the “buoyant”
(Rolling Stone) single simultaneously earns RIAA GOLD certification as it
summits both the Billboard and Country Aircheck/Mediabase Airplay charts this
week, while also tallying a second week atop the Canadian Country Airplay
charts.
“Thirteen…what
an incredible way to celebrate this chapter of new music,” said Thomas
Rhett. "This year has already been beyond anything I could have dreamed
of, I’m just so grateful and blown away by the continued support."
Additionally,
to critics' and fans' delight, Thomas Rhett announced today “Remember You
Young” as his next single. Co-written by hit-makers Thomas Rhett, Jesse Frasure
and Ashley Gorley, the song is available at country radio beginning July 15.
Having “comfortably grown into his role as a star with something to say” (Billboard),
the “sweet homage to Thomas Rhett’s friends and family” (American Profile)
is an instant standout as one of the album’s "most affecting songs” (Rolling
Stone). Watch the broadcast debut of the new single on NBC TODAY’s 2019
Citi Concert Series here.
Chris Young goes Top 10
Chris
Young's “Raised On Country,”
also the title of his massive 2019 headlining tour, becomes his 15th Top 10
single, climbing to #7 (Mediabase) / #9 (Billboard) as 21,500 people
sang-along Saturday at BB&T Pavilion in Philadelphia, PA.
Garth Brooks
Is Most-Added With 'Dive Bar' Featuring Blake Shelton
Congratulations
to PEARL RECORDS' GARTH BROOKS, who earned 120 MEDIABASE adds for his new
single featuring WARNER BROS./WMN's BLAKE SHELTON, "Dive Bar," making
it the most-added at Country radio this week.
Kudos to Andy
Elliott and the Pearl crew on landing 120 adds for the Garth Brooks single
“Dive Bar,” featuring Blake Shelton. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Garth
Brooks’ “rowdy” (Rolling
Stone) and “anthemic" (Billboard) new song featuring Blake
Shelton, “Dive Bar,” is the most added song at country radio with 135 total
stations. Additionally, the song has the highest debut in seven years landing
at No. 23 on Mediabase, and the second highest debut on Billboard of 2019
at No. 16. Fans can tune in exclusively to any country radio station to hear
the song before it becomes available on Amazon Music as part of Amazon Prime
Day. Praised as "an anthem that recalls Brooks’ massive hit “Friends in
Low Places” (Billboard) “Dive Bar” is taken from Brooks' forthcoming
studio album FUN, and is his first musical collaboration with Shelton, whose
current hit, “God’s Country,” is in the Top 5 at country radio. A preview of
“Dive Bar" can be heard here.
Brooks and
Shelton previously thrilled fans with the news they are set to perform the song
live for the first time at a sold-out show in Boise, ID on 7/19, at a stop on
the monumental THE GARTH BROOKS STADIUM TOUR. Since launching the tour, Brooks
has broken attendance records in St. Louis, MO at The Dome at America's Center,
Glendale, AZ at State Farm Stadium, Gainesville, FL at Ben Hill Griffin
Stadium, two sold-out nights at Minneapolis, MN’s U.S. Bank Stadium and Denver,
CO at Mile High Stadium. Additional upcoming shows are already sold-out in
Eugene, OR at Autzen Stadium on 6/29 with Regina, SK’s Mosaic Stadium show on
8/10 and Boise, ID’s Albertsons Stadium show on July 20 both selling out in
under an hour, averaging just over 75,000 tickets in each city. Brooks also
added a second date in Regina, SK on 8/9 due to demand.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title
(Label) TW Total Historic Adds
GARTH BROOKS f/B. SHELTON/Dive Bar (Pearl) 120 129
OLD DOMINION/One
Man Band (RCA) 14 73
MICHAEL RAY/Her
World Or Mine (Warner/WEA) 13 70
SHERYL
CROW f/S.NICKS & M.
MORRIS/Prove You Wrong (Valory) 12 43
RYAN HURD/To A
T (RCA) 8 85
CHRIS
JANSON/Good Vibes (Warner/WAR) 7 137
MATT
STELL/Prayed For You (Wide Open/Records/GCE/Arista) 7 126
TRISHA
YEARWOOD/Every Girl In
This Town (Gwendolyn/Pearl) 7 102
CHRIS LANE/I
Don't Know About You (Big Loud) 6 119
RANDY HOUSER/No
Stone Unturned (Stoney Creek) 6 43
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Southbound
(Capitol) 5 143
COLE
SWINDELL/Love You Too Late (Warner/WMN) 5 149
DIERKS
BENTLEY/Living (Capitol) 5 136
SCOTTY
MCCREERY/In Between (Triple Tigers) 5 102
TENILLE
ARTS/Call You Names
(Reviver) 5 33
CAROLINE
JONES/Chasin' Me
(Mailboat/New Revolution) 3 58
ABBY
ANDERSON/Good Lord
(Black River) 2 58
MADDIE
& TAE/Die From A
Broken Heart (Mercury) 2 59
TENILLE
TOWNES/Somebody's
Daughter (Columbia) 2 129
GONE WEST/What
Could've Been (Triple Tigers) 1 1
HALEY &
MICHAELS/Hail Mary (Hickory/Sony/ATV) 1 5
JON
LANGSTON/Now You Know (EMI Nashville) 1 1
KANE
BROWN/Short Skirt Weather (RCA) 1 1
MARSHMELLO
& KANE BROWN/One Thing Right (RCA) 1 1
NEONPPL f/B.
YOUNG/ONElittleTOWN (---) 1 3
RAYNE
JOHNSON/Front Seat (Legend) 1 4
Billboard Boxscores (Selective concerts)
Rank
Artist: #1
Event
Venue City/State: Spice Girls Wembley
Stadium London
Dates:
June
13-15, 2019 Gross
Sales: $27,571,100 Attend: 221,971/ 221,971
Shows/
Sellouts: 3/3 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $124.22
Promoters: SJM
Concerts
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.