Country
Billboard Chart News August 12, 2019
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of August 17, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week)
** COUNTRY
SQUIRE Tyler
Childers
Hot Country Songs ** ** No.1 (5 non-consecutive weeks) ** “The
Git Up” Blanco Brown
Country Airplay ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Beer Never Broke My Heart”
Luke Combs
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (7 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).
Drake Achieves Ninth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Care
Package'
Drake
achieved
his ninth No. 1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200), as his new
archival compilation album, CARE PACKAGE, premiered in the top slot. The set,
which was released on Aug. 2 via OVO Sound/Republic Records, launched with 109,000
equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 8, according
to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 16,000 were in album sales.
Care
Package’s first-week units totaled 109,000. Of that sum, 90,000 were via SEA
units, equating to 115.5 million on-demand audio streams for its songs
during the tracking week. The remainder of the album’s starting unit sum came
from TEA units (3,000) and album sales (16,000). Notably, the latter figure
comprised only sales via digital retailers like the Apple iTunes Store. Care
Package did not have any merchandise/album bundles, or a
concert ticket/album sale redemption offer in play — as has become the norm
for many No. 1 albums
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.
Tyler Childers' Country Squire debuted at No. 1 on the Country albums
chart.
Singer-songwriter
Tyler
Childers with his new 9-track album, COUNTRY
SQUIRE (Hickman Holler/ RCA |Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com ),
blasted onto Billboard’s Top Country Albums (dated Aug. 17) at No.1 (#12
Billboard 200), marking his first chart-topper on the survey.
In
its first week (ending Aug. 8), the set earned 32,000 equivalent album
units, according to Nielsen Music. Of the sum, 24,000 were through traditional album sales.
Concurrently,
Country Squire arrives atop Billboard’s Country Album Sales and Americana/Folk Albums
chart, another first for Childers. On the all-genre Billboard 200, the Sturgill
Simpson- and David Ferguson-produced set began at No. 12.
The
first country radio single from Country Squire is the bluegrass-tinged “House
Fire.”
For
the 28-year-old Childers, who hails from Lawrence County, Ky., Country Squire
is his second Top Country Albums entry. His album Purgatory debuted and peaked
at No. 17 on the list in August 2017 and reached No. 4 on Americana/Folk
Albums.
Country
Squire dethroned Luke Combs’ debut
full length, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony
Music Nashville), which dipped to No.2 (#16-21 BB200; with 22,000 equivalent album
units (3,000 sold), down 1%. Combs’ LP
has spent 44 weeks in the penthouse, the most among male artists. (It passed
Randy Travis’ Always & Forever, which led for 43 weeks starting in June
1987.) Only one title ruled for longer on Top Country Albums, which launched in
1964: Shania Twain’s Come On Over, which dominated for 50 frames beginning in
November 1997.
Meanwhile,
Combs’ latest release, THE PREQUEL (River House/Columbia Nashville/ Sony
Music Nashville), held at No.5 (#50-58 BB200) in its nineth frame.
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#31-36 BB200) in their 59th
frame.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) held at
No.4 (#45-54 BB200) in his 62nd frame.
Chris Stapleton with the 223-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) held at No.6 (#55-62 BB200).
Former
No.1 Thomas
Rhett with CENTER POINT ROAD (Valory Music/ Big Machine Records) rose 8-7 (#64-65 BB200)
in his tenth week.
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 7-8 (#63-67 BB200) in his
69th week.
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) held at No.9 (#68-71 BB200) in her 22nd frame.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT held at No.10 (#74-75 BB200) as his self-titled album dropped 13-14 (#92-97
BB200; 139 chart frames).
Outside the
Top 10
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) moved 12-11 (#85-89
BB200) in their 25th week.
Justin
Moore with his 10-track LATE
NIGHTS AND LONG NECKS (Valory/Big Machine Label Group | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com )
fell 2-13 (#22-#96 New Entry Billboard 200).
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) held at No.17 (#145-133 BB200) in her 66th week.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY fell 22-25 (#178
– off the top BB200) in her 47th week
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Bryce
Canyon Wranglers with 17-track
set A SONG LIKE ME (BCW
Records | Amazon UK) made a debut at No.15.
Mike and the Moonpies with 8-track CHEAP
SILVER AND SOLID COUNTRY GOLD (Prairie Rose Records | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.23.
Year-To-Date Albums
6,024,000 sales which is 30.2% down at the same point in 2018 (8,635,000 sales).
Album consumption is 31,453,000 units which is 5.1% up at the same point in 2018 (29,940,000 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 fifth non-consecutive week.
Chris
Young attained his 14th top 10 as “Raised on Country”
(RCA Nashville) strode 11-10 in its 27th week. The ascent is sparked by
its 11% hike to 32.4 million in format radio reach as it hops 6-5 on Country
Airplay. The song also attracted 2.1 million U.S. streams (up 6%). “Raised” is
his first Hot Country Songs top 10 since “Hangin’ On,” which reached No. 8 last
November. It peaked at No. 2 on Country Airplay.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “The Git Up” Blanco Brown
** Digital
Gainer ** No.2 “Beer Never Broke My Heart” Luke Combs
** Streaming Gainer ** No.5 “All To Myself” Dan +
Shay
**
Airplay Gainer” No.10 “Raised On Country” Chris Young
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.32 “I Wish Grandpas Never Died” Riley Green
Debut
No.46 “All Your'n” Tyler Childers
Luke Combs with “Beer
Never Broke My Heart,” the first single from his EP The Prequel, reigned
on Country Airplay for a second week, increasing by 4% to 40.7
million audience impressions in the week ending Aug. 11.
“Beer” became his record-extending sixth straight career-opening No. 1
Country Airplay single when it topped the Aug. 10-dated tally (in its 13th
week, completing the quickest run to No. 1 this year).
“Beer” is Combs’ fifth Country Airplay multiweek leader. Of his six No.
1s, only his third, “One Number Away,” led for a single frame (June 9, 2018).
His longest run at the apex came courtesy of his most recent No. 1 prior to
“Beer,” “Beautiful Crazy,” which paced the list for seven weeks starting on
March 2.
Dierks Bentley notched his
25th Country Airplay top 10 as “Living” lifted 12-10 (21.1 million
in audience, up 6%). He is the 17th artist with at least 25 top 10s (tying
Vince Gill) since the chart launched in 1990. George Strait leads with 61
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Beer Never Broke My Heart” Luke Combs 40.716 million
audience (+1.668 million gain) / 7,806 radio plays (+176)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.5 “Raised On Country” Chris Young +3.274
million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No. 27 “Remember You Young” Thomas Rhett (14 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No. 45 “Homesick” Kane Brown
Debut
No.52 “Details” Billy Currington
Debut
No.55 “Wish Grandpas Never Died” Riley Green
Debut
No.58 “Even Though I'm Leaving” Luke Combs
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 seventh week (#2-3 Digital Songs).
It was two places behind Lil Nas X's "Old
Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus which led the
Streaming Songs chart for a record-padding 19th week, with 58.8 million U.S.
streams, down 13%, in the week ending Aug. 8, according to Nielsen Music.
"Road" set the record for the top streaming week (143 million)
following the April 5 arrival of its remix solely with Cyrus (who has been
billed on 18 of the song's 19 weeks atop the Hot 100) and claims nine of the 11
biggest streaming frames to date, including the top three.
"Road" concurrently spent a 15th week atop the Digital
Song Sales chart, with 34,000 downloads sold, down
28%, in the week ending Aug. 8. The track boasted the second-most weeks logged
atop the list, trailing only "Despacito," which ruled for 17 weeks.
9 non-consecutive week No1. Blake Shelton with “God’s Country” (Warner Bros./Warner
Music Nashville) held at No.2 (#11
non-mover Digital Songs) in its 19th frame.
Luke Combs with “Beer
Never Broke My Heart” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) held at No.3 (#13-14 Digital
Songs). Additionally, Combs’ “Let's Just Be Friends” made a debut
at No.18.
Riley Green with sentimental
"I Wish Grandpas Never Died" which previews
Green’s debut album, Different ’Round Here, due Sept. 20 marked his first
appearance on Country Digital Song Sales as it started at No.4 (#17 New
Entry Digital Songs) with 11,000
sold. On Hot Country Songs, it debuted at No. 32.
Luke Bryan with “Knockin' Boots” slipped 4-5 (#15-21
Digital Songs) in his 19th week.
Marshmello
& Kane Brown with “One
Thing Right” fell 5-6 (#18-25 Digital Songs) in their 5th frame.
Morgan Wallen with
“Whiskey Glasses” fell 6-7 (#23-34 Digital Songs) in
his 37th week.
Dan + Shay (Dan
Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless”
held at No.8 (#32-37 Digital
Songs) in their 59th frame. Additionally, All To Myself” advanced 20-10 (#48 Re-Entry Digital Songs
The Highwomen with their cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “The
Chain” (Elektra, Low Country Sound) made a debut at No.9 (#46 New Entry Digital Songs)
Outside
the Top 10
Lee
Brice with “Rumor”
fell 9-11 (#36-50 Digital Songs) in his 34th frame.
Brantley Gilbert with “Bad
Boy” (Valory) made a debut at No.13.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
August
12, 2019
Luke Combs Takes #1 Spot With 'Beer Never Broke My Heart'
Chart
Chat Double congrats to Luke Combs, Steve Hodges, Shane Allen and the Columbia promotion team on
landing a second consecutive week at No. 1 with “Beer Never Broke My
Heart.” The song is Combs’ sixth chart-topper and the first from his
EP, The Prequel. Songwriters are Randy Montana, Jonathan Singleton, Scott
Moffatt and Combs.
“Beer Never
Broke My Heart Girl” (River House/Columbia) held at No.1 logging 8,550 radio spins (+46), 53.599 million audience impressions (+1.859)
with 27609 Total Points (+558) from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS)
for the tracking week August 4 to August 10, 2019 and published chart dated August
12, 2019.
Riley Green Is Most-Added With 'I Wish Grandpas Never Died'
Kudos
to Matthew Hargis and the BMLG Records reps on notching 24 adds
for Riley
Green’s “I Wish Grandpas Never
Died”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart
week.
BMLG
Records' Riley Green performed his new single as a duet with Arista Nashville's
Brad Paisley during an August 11th tour stop at the PNC Plaza at SteelStacks in
Bethlehem, PA. Green is currently opening for Paisley's "2019 World
Tour," and changed the song's "Birmingham" lyric to "Bethlehem"
for this audience. After completing the song, Paisley told the crowd, in
reference to Green, "You saw him here first." View a video of the
performance here
 |
| BMLG Records celebrated Riley Green's "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" being most-added at Country radio this week. Pictured back row (L-R): BMLG's Michelle Kammerer, Madeline Farr, Cherylynne Nader, and Liz Santana. Pictured front row (L-R): BMLG's Jimmy Harnen, Matthew Hargis, and Andrew Thoen |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title
(Label) TW Total Historic Adds
RILEY GREEN/I Wish Grandpas Never Died (BMLGR) 24 31
BILLY
CURRINGTON/Details (Mercury) 18 62
KANE
BROWN/Homesick (RCA) 11 73
THOMAS
RHETT/Remember You Young (Valory) 9 139
MIRANDA
LAMBERT/It All Comes
Out In The Wash (RCA) 8 148
GONE WEST/What
Could've Been (Triple Tigers) 7 72
OLD
DOMINION/One Man Band (RCA) 7 113
CODY
JOHNSON/Nothin' On You (CoJo/Warner/WMN) 6 40
INGRID
ANDRESS/More Hearts
Than Mine (Warner/WEA) 6 61
JON
LANGSTON/Now You Know (EMI Nashville) 6 54
JON
PARDI/Heartache Medication (Capitol) 6 119
CHASE
RICE/Lonely If You Are (Dack Janiels/Broken Bow) 5 72
JAMESON
RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia) 5 56
TEDDY ROBB/Really
Shouldn't Drink... (Monument/Arista) 5 38
PARMALEE/Be
Alright (Stoney Creek) 4 21
THOMPSON
SQUARE/Masterpiece (Davmo) 4 22
KIP MOORE/She's
Mine (MCA) 3 3
JOHN KING/Try
Saying Goodbye (Starstruck) 1 1
JOSEPH
GALLANT/Better Buzz (---) 1 1
NOAH
SCHNACKY/I'll Be The One (Big Machine) 1 1
STEPHANIE
QUAYLE/Whatcha Drinkin
'Bout (Rebel Engine) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #32
Event
Venue City/State: Eagles SSE Hydro Glasgow, Scotland
Dates:
July 4, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,575,990 Attend: 10,962/ 10,955
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (7 unsold tickets) Prices:
$748.92, $84.83
Promoters: Live Nation
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