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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of September 28, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (48
non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke
Combs
Hot Country Songs ** **
No.1 (11 non-consecutive weeks) ** “The Git Up” Blanco
Brown
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Living” Dierks Bentley
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “1 1, 2
Many” Luke Combs & Brooks & Dunn
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding spends a second week at No. 1
on the Billboard 200 albums chart
As
Hollywood’s Bleeding held for a second week at No. 1, it halted the revolving
door at the top of the tally, where in the six weeks before Bleeding bowed at
No. 1, there were six different No. 1s.
Bleeding
remains at No. 1 with 198,000 units, of which 26,000 were in album sales, 6,000
were in TEA units, and 166,000 were in SEA units. The lattermost sum easily
makes Bleeding the most-streamed album of the week, and the SEA total
translates to 220.9 million on-demand streams for the album’s songs during the
tracking week.
At
No. 2 on the Billboard 200, The Lumineers’ III started with 86,000
equivalent album units (of which 73,000 were in album sales). III is the band’s third studio effort, all
of which have reached the top two of the tally. The group’s last album, 2016’s
Cleopatra, bowed at No. 1, while their self-titled debut peaked at No. 2 in
2013.
III’s
debut week sales were boosted by a concert ticket/album sale redemption
offer with The Lumineers’ tour.
Taylor
Swift’s
former leader, LOVER, dipped 2-3 in its third week, with 79,000
equivalent album units earned (down 25%).
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.
Thanks
to consumption units Luke Combs’ first
LP, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU, rebounded 2-1 on Top Country Albums (#26-21
Billboard 200; 20,000 equivalent album units, up 6%; 2,000 sales; 120-week total 525,100).
The set scores a 48th week at No. 1 and is now only two weeks from potentially
tying the record for the longest reign in the chart’s history (which dates to
1964). Shania Twain’s COME ON OVER ruled for 50 weeks beginning in 1997.
THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU was in fact the 7th best selling album in this chart frame
trailing The Highwomen, A Film By Ken
Burns (Soundtrack; 3,900 sales), Sheryl Crow (Threads; 3,500 sales), Trisha
Yearwood (Every Girl; 2,300 sales), Carrie Underwood (Cry Pretty) and Chris
Stapleton’s (Traveller; 2,100 sales) on the Country Sales listings.
Additionally,
Combs’ latest release, THE PREQUEL (River House/Columbia Nashville/ Sony
Music Nashville) rose 6-3 (#58-43 BB200) in its 15th frame
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) moved 3-2 (#36-39 BB200; 700 sales; 65-week total 158,400)
in their 65th frame.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) moved 5-4 (#50-51
BB200; 500 sales; 68-week total 34,500)
in his 68th frame.
Previous weeks’ No.1 The Highwomen (Low
Country Sound/Elektra/EMG | Amazon UK - Amazon.com ) with their self-titled
album fell 1-5 (#10-53 BB200; 8,100 sales; down 72%; 2-week total 37,100).
Chris Stapleton with the 229-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) rose 7-6 (#63-62 BB200; 2,100 sales; Total sales 2,357,000).
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) rose 8-7 (#66-76 BB200) in his
75th week.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT rose 10-8 (#76-77 BB200; 700
sales; 45-week total 225,800) in his 45th week as his self-titled album moved
13-12 (#107-111 BB200; 800
sales; 146-week total 544,900).
Former
No.1 Thomas
Rhett with CENTER POINT ROAD (Valory Music/ Big Machine Records) climbed 11-9 (#93-87
BB200; 1,100 sales; 16-week total 81,600) in his 16th week.
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) rose 12-10 (#94-107; 700 sales;
28-week total 71,700) in her 28th frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) rebound 16-14 (#133-132
BB200; 700 sales; 31-week total 95,500)
in their 31st chart frame.
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) rose 17-16 (#139-148 BB200; 1,400 sales; 72-week total 260,100)
in her 72nd frame.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY dropped 15-17 (#123-182
BB200; 1,500 sales; 53-week total 504,500)
in her 53rd week.
Outside the Top 25
HARDY with 10-track HIXTAPE, Vol. 1 (Big
Loud Records / TVM | Amazon UK - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.35
(#13 Country Album Sales) with 1,300 sales.
Various Artists with Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns - Soundtrack (Legacy) made a
debut at No.44 (#2 Country Album Sales; 3,900 sales).
Sheryl
Crow with THREADS
(Valory/Big Machine Label Group | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) fell 9-42 (#68 to off the Billboard 200) but held at No.3 on
Country Sales selling 3,500 copies (3-week total 26,600).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Corb Lund with the 8-track rock set COVER
YOUR TRACKS (New
West Records | Amazon UK) made
a debut at No.23 selling 700 copies.
Lainey Wilson with 4-track REDNECK
HOLLYWOOD (EP; Broken Bow Records | Amazon UK - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.47 selling
300 copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
7,087,000 sales which is 29.0% down at the same point in 2018 (9,986,000 sales).
Album consumption is 37,674,000 units which is 6.0% up at the same point in 2018 (35,543,000 units).
Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of September 28, 2019)
Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of September 28, 2019)
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 with “The Git Up”
(Trailer Trap Music/Broken Bow Music Group/ BMG/Wheelhouse/Stoney Creek/Broken
Bow) topped Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart (dated Sept. 21) for a 11th
week,
Matt
Stell earned his first Hot Country Songs top 10 as
his debut charting single, “Prayed for You” (Wide
Open/RECORDS/Good Company/Arista Nashville), climbed 11-9 in its 36th
week on the tally. On Country Airplay, “Prayed” hopped 9-6, up 19% to 29
million in radio reach. It also drew 4.7 million U.S. streams and sold 5,000
downloads in the tracking week.
Luke
Combs’ new single, “Even Though I’m
Leaving” (River House/Columbia Nashville), flew 20-10, marking
his seventh top 10. After its
official video arrived Sept. 9, the song scored 7.1 million U.S. streams (up
34%) and 9,000 downloads sold (up 34%) in the Sept. 13-19 tracking week, On
Country Airplay, “Leaving” leapt 21-16 (14.8 million in audience, up 44%).
Ingrid
Andress with her co-penned debut single "More
Hearts Than Mine" ranked at No. 36 on Hot Country Songs. It rose
27-26 on Country Airplay, up 4% to 6.8 million in audience, while also sporting
2,000 sold (up 5%).
Hot County Songs
** No.1 (11-weeks) ** “The Git Up” Blanco Brown
**
Airplay Gainer” No.9 “Prayed For You” Matt Stell
** Digital
Gainer ** No.10 “Even Though I'm Leaving” Luke Combs
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.20 ”1 1, 2 Many” Luke Combs & Brooks
& Dunn
** Streaming Gainer ** No.27 “We Back” Jason Aldean
Debut
No.47 “Fooled Around And Fell In Love” Miranda Lambert featuring Maren Morris,
Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes, Caylee Hammack & Elle King
Debut
No.50 “Homemade” Jake Owen
Dierks Bentley earned his 17th
No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Living” (Capitol
Nashville) lifted 2-1 on the list (dated Sept. 28), up
12% to 39.5 million audience impressions in the week ending Sept. 22, according
to Nielsen Music.
On the Hot Country Songs chart, which is fueled by airplay, streaming and
sales data, “Living” rose 8-6.
“The dream is to write and record songs that are authentically personal
to me, but also have commercial success; I want both,” Bentley told Billboard.
“Usually, you wind up with a little bit of one and a little bit of the other.
But with ‘Living,’ I got it both ways. I got to write something that has
deep meaning for me, a song with the importance of gratitude at its core. And I
get to go out there onstage and pound my chest and sing it at the top of my
lungs along with all our fans, who know it by heart thanks to country radio.
That is the dream, and it came true with this one.”
The singer-songwriter co-authored “Living” with Ashley Gorley, Jon Nite
and Ross Copperman. It’s the third single from Bentley’s ninth full-length, The
Mountain, which was produced by Copperman and Jon Randall, and launched as
Bentley’s seventh No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart in June 2018.
The set’s lead single, “Woman, Amen,” led Country Airplay for a week in
June 2018. Second single “Burning Man” (featuring Brothers Osborne) reached No.
2 in February.
Bentley landed his first Country Airplay leader with his debut single,
“What Was I Thinkin’,” for a week in September 2003. He’s the 13th artist with
as many as 17 No. 1s since the chart launched in January 1990. Kenny Chesney
leads all acts with 30 chart-toppers.
As “Living” crosses the finish line in its 30th week on Country Airplay,
he ties the ascent of “Say You Do” (2014-15) for his second-longest journey to
the summit; “I Hold On” took a 31-week trip to the top in 2013-14. He made his
speediest sprint to No. 1 with “Somewhere on a Beach”: 16 weeks, in 2016.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Living” Dierks Bentley 39.521 million audience (+4.168
million) / 7,971 radio plays (+921)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.6 “Prayed For You” Matt Stell
**
Most Added ** No.16 “Even Though I'm Leaving” Luke Combs (32 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.58 “I Do For You” Dillon Carmichael
Debut
No.60 “Break It In” Eli Young Band
The latest release
from Luke Combs’ sophomore LP, What You See Is What You Get (due
Nov. 8), is the 90’s country-inspired “1, 2 Many” (River
House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville), with Brooks
& Dunn. Released Sept. 12, the track sold 16,000
downloads in its first full week and launched at No.1 on Country
Digital Song Sales (#5 New Entry Digital Songs. The coronation marks his
fourth on the survey and Brooks & Dunn’s first.
Due to earning
4.4 million U.S. streams in its first full week, the track debuts at No. 20 on
Hot Country Songs, representing Brooks & Dunn’s highest-career entrance
among 64 appearances starting in 1991.
Combs was four
places behind Lizzo with "Truth
Hurts". Released on Nice Life/Atlantic Records it rose 2-1 on Radio Songs,
up 4% to 116.4 million audience impressions in the week ending Sept. 22,
according to Nielsen Music.
The track totals a fourth week atop the Digital Song Sales chart, although down
12% to 27,000 sold, and rebounded 14-8 on Streaming Songs, up 1% to 29.4
million U.S. streams, in the week ending Sept. 19.
Twelve week non-consecutive No1 Blanco Brown with “The
Git Up” (Trailer Trap Music/BMG/Broken Bow) slipped 1-2 (#5-7 Digital
Songs; 14,000 sales; 16-week total 359,000).
Craig Morgan
with “The Father, My Son, And The Holy Ghost” (Broken Bow)
climbed 4-3 (#19-18 New Entry Digital
Songs; 9,000 sales; 2-week total 19,000).
Luke Combs with “Even Though
I'm Leaving” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) rose 6-5 (#28-20 Digital Songs; 9,000 sales; 10-week total 78,000) as “Beer
Never Broke My Heart” climbed 7-6 (#29-24 Digital
Songs; 7,000 sales; 20-week total 255,000) in his 20th
frame.
Marshmello
& Kane Brown with “One
Thing Right” slipped 3-4 (#16-19 Digital Songs) in their 11th
frame.
Miranda Lambert
with
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" entered
Country Digital Song Sales at No. 7 (#25 New Entry Digital Songs; 7,000 sold). It's a remake of Elvin Bishop’s 1976
No. 3 Billboard Hot 100 hit found Lambert joined by fellow Roadside Bars &
Pink Guitars Tour 2019 acts Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes,
Caylee Hammack and Elle King.
Luke Bryan with “Knockin' Boots” fell 5-8 (#27-33 Digital
Songs; 6,000 sales; 25-week total 222,000) in his 25th week.
Old Dominion with “One
Man Band” (RCA Nashville) held at No.9 (#34 Non mover Digital
Songs; 6,000 sales; 14-week total 101,000) in its 14th
frame.
9 non-consecutive week No1. Blake Shelton with “God’s Country” (Warner Bros./Warner
Music Nashville) fell 8-10 (#31-36
Digital Songs; 6,000 sales; 25-week
total 442,000) in its 25th frame. Additionally, Blake
Shelton featuring Trace
Adkins with “Hell Right” (Warner
Music Nashville) slipped 11-13 (#39-46 Digital Songs; 5,000
sales; 5-week total 27,000).
Outside
the Top 10
Jason Aldean
with
“We Back” (Broken Bow, BMG, Macon) moved 12-11
(41-43 Digital Songs; 5,000 sales;
9,000 2-week total). The single introduces Aldean’s album 9, due Nov. 22.
Matt Stell with “Prayed
For You” (RECORDS, Arista
Nashville) fell 1012
(#38-45 Digital
Songs; 5,000 sales; total 91,000)
in his sixth chart frame.
Kelsea
Ballerini
with "homecoming
queen?" retreated 2-22 on Country Digital Song Sales (#7 - off
the top 50 Digital Songs; 3,000 sales; down 79%; 2-week total 17,000).
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
September
23, 2019
Dierks
Bentley Scores #1 Spot With 'Living'
Congratulations
to Dierks Bentley, Royce Risser,
Bobby Young, David Friedman, Chris Schuler and the Capitol promotion
team on landing at No. 1 with “Living.” The song is the third
single from Bentley’s “The Mountain” album. Songwriters are Ross Copperman,
Ashley Gorley, Jon Nite and Bentley.
“Living”
(Capitol) climbed 2-1 logging 8,537 radio spins (+893), 51.66 million audience impressions (+4.318)
with 27050 Total Points (+2368) from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS)
for the tracking week September 15 to September 21, 2019 and published chart
dated September 23, 2019.
Kudos to
Matthew Hargis and the BMLG Records reps on notching 49 adds for Florida Georgia Line’s
“Blessings”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total
Historic Adds
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Blessings
(BMLGR) 49 53
CHRIS YOUNG/Drowning (RCA) 36 40
ASHLEY MCBRYDE/One
Night Standards (Warner/WAR) 24 26
JASON ALDEAN/We Back (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 21 129
DILLON CARMICHAEL/I Do For You (Riser House) 14 59
ERIC CHURCH/Monsters (EMI Nashville) 13 101
LITTLE BIG TOWN/Over Drinking (Capitol) 12 52
RAYNE JOHNSON/Front Seat (Legend/Studio2Bee) 12 24
KELSEA BALLERINI/Homecoming
Queen? (Black River) 11 135
GABBY BARRETT/I
Hope (Warner/WAR) 9 65
INGRID ANDRESS/More
Hearts Than Mine (Warner/WEA) 8 107
MADDIE & TAE/Die
From A Broken Heart (Mercury) 5 91
JUSTIN MOORE/Why We Drink (Valory) 2 4
CRAIG MORGAN/The Father, My Son, And The... (Broken
Bow) 1 5
FOR KING & COUNTRY/God Only Knows (Curb Word) 1 1
LAUREN ALAINA/Getting
Good (Mercury) 1 1
MORGAN WALLEN/Cover Me Up (Big Loud) 1 1
NEONPPL/Love2Love (---) 1 1
PARKER MCCOLLUM/Pretty Heart (MCA) 1 2
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #4
Event
Venue City/State: Hootie & The Blowfish,
Barenaked Ladies Colonial Life Arena
Columbia, S.C.
Dates:
Sept. 11-13, 2019 Gross Sales: $2,799,039 Attend:
32,179 / 32,179
Shows/
Sellouts: 3/3 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $129.50, $29.50
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #6
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church Resch
Center Green Bay, Wis.
Dates:
Sept. 13-14, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,947,703 Attend:
17,081 / 17,081
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $149, $39
Promoters:
Messina Touring Group/AEG
Presents
Rank
Artist: #19
Event
Venue City/State: Miranda Lambert Mohegan
Sun Arena Uncasville, Conn.
Dates:
Sept. 13-14, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,074,627 Attend:
12,143 / 12,928
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 (785 unsold tickets) Prices:
$99, $79, $59
Promoters:
in-house
Rank
Artist: #43
Event
Venue City/State: Chris Young,
Chris Janson, LoCash
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion The Woodlands, Texas
Dates:
Sept. 7, 2019 Gross Sales: $493,568 Attend:
11,511 / 15,900
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (4,389 unsold tickets)
Prices: $79.75, $25
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #55
Event
Venue City/State: Toby Keith H-E-B
Center at Cedar Park Cedar Park, Texas
Dates:
Sept. 6, 2019 Gross Sales: $306,534 Attend:
4,101 / 5,097
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (996 unsold tickets) Prices:
$147.75, $47.75
Promoters: Pizzitola Productions/Red Tail
Entertainment
Rank
Artist: #56
Event
Venue City/State: Kacey Musgraves Starlight
Theatre Kansas City, Mo.
Dates:
Sept. 4, 2019 Gross Sales: $304,244 Attend:
7,200 / 7,200
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $65, $29.50
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #60
Event
Venue City/State: Maren Morris Radio City
Music Hall New York
Dates:
Sept. 6, 2019 Gross Sales: $255,198 Attend:
5,779 / 5,779
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $63.50, $53.50, $43.50, $33.50, $23.50
Promoters: AEG Presents
