Country Billboard Chart News September 2, 2019

Country Billboard Chart News September 2, 2019

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

August Wall Bling:

The RIAA has issued Gold certification for Old Dominion’s HAPPY ENDINGS

Multi-platinum single certs include Brett Young’s “In Case You Didn't Know” (5X), Keith Urban’s “The Fighter2 (2X), “You'll Think Of Me” (2X)           

Platinum single certs are Lee Brice’s “Rumor”, Kelsea Ballerini’s “Miss Me More”, Jason Aldean’s “Drowns The Whiskey”,

Chase Rice’s “Eyes On You”,  Billy Currington’s “We Are Tonight”, Jordan Davis’ “Take It From Me” and Keith Urban’s “Sweet Thing, “Making Memories Of Us”, “Only You Can Love Me This Way”, “Tonight I Wanna Cry”, “Kiss A Girl”,  “Somewhere In My Car”,  “Little Bit Of Everything”, “Stupid Boy” and “Long Hot Summer”

Gold singles include: Old Dominion’s “Hotel Key”,  Carrie Underwood’s “Love Wins”,  Keith Urban’s “Without You”, “I Told You So”, “Better Life”, “You Gonna Fly”, “You Look Good In My Shirt”, “Once In A Lifetime”, “Til Summer Comes Around”,  “You're My Better Half”, “Female”, “Put You In A Song”, “Raise 'Em Up” and Luke Bryan’s “Knockin' Boots”.

MULTI-PLATINUM SINGLES

Brett Young In Case You Didn't Know | released Feb 12, 2017 Big Machine Records | certified 5x Multi-Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 5 Million          

Keith Urban The Fighter | released May 6, 2016 Capitol Records Nashville | certified 2x Multi-Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 2 Million

Keith Urban You'll Think Of Me | released Dec 8, 2003 Capitol Records Nashville | certified 2x Multi-Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 2 Million   

PLATINUM SINGLES

Lee Brice Rumor | released November 3, 2017 Curb Records | certified Platinum July 2, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Kelsea Ballerini Miss Me More | released Aug 17, 2017 Black River Entertainment | certified Platinum Aug 5, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Jason Aldean Drowns The Whiskey (Feat. Miranda Lambert) | released April 13, 2018 Broken Bow Records | certified Platinum Aug 8, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Chase Rice Eyes On You | released Oct 13, 2017 Dack Janiels Records / Broken Bow Records | certified Platinum Aug 9, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Billy Currington We Are Tonight | released Sept 17, 2013 Mercury Records Nashville | certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Jordan Davis Take It From Me | released March 23, 2018 MCA Nashville | certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Keith Urban Sweet Thing | released Nov 11, 2008 Capitol Nashville certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Keith Urban Making Memories Of Us | released March 2, 2005 Capitol Nashville certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1

Keith Urban Only You Can Love Me This Way | released March 31, 2009 Capitol Nashville certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million   

Keith Urban Tonight I Wanna Cry | released Sept 21, 2004 Capitol Nashville certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Keith Urban Kiss A Girl | released March 31, 2009 Capitol Nashville certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Keith Urban Somewhere In My Car | released Nov 10, 2013 Capitol Nashville certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Keith Urban Little Bit Of Everything | released May 14, 2013 Capitol Nashville certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Keith Urban Stupid Boy | released Nov 7, 2006 Capitol Nashville certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million

Keith Urban Long Hot Summer | released Nov 16, 2010 Capitol Nashville certified Platinum Aug 16, 2019 Digital 1 Million

GOLD SINGLES:

Old Dominion Hotel Key | released Sept 1, 2017 RCA Nashville | certified Gold Aug 5, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Carrie Underwood Love Wins | released August 31, 2018 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban Without You | released October 1, 1991 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban I Told You So | released Nov 7, 2006 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban Better Life | released Sept 21, 2004 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban You Gonna Fly | released Nov 16, 2010 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban You Look Good In My Shirt | released October 8, 2002 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban Once In A Lifetime | released Aug 22, 2006 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban Til Summer Comes Around | released March 31, 2009 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban You're My Better Half | released Sept 21, 2004 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban Female | released Nov 8, 2017 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban Put You In A Song | released Sept 13, 2010 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Keith Urban Raise 'Em Up | released Nov 10, 2013 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million

Luke Bryan Knockin' Boots | released March 29, 2019 Capitol Records Nashville | certified Gold Aug 16, 2019 Digital 0.5 Million ( * Actual pure sales 153,000 at July 21, 2019)

GOLD ALBUMS

Old Dominion HAPPY ENDINGS | released August 25, 2017 RCA Nashville | certified Gold August 5, 2019 0.5 Million

In Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of September 7, 2019)

Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** LET IT ROLL Midland

Hot Country Songs ** ** No.1 (8 non-consecutive weeks) ** “The Git Up” Blanco Brown

Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** “The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home” Justin Moore

Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (10 weeks) ** “The Git Up” Blanco Brown

Billboard Top 200 / Country Album Chart News (Chart issue week of September 7, 2019)

The Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

Taylor Swift's 'Lover' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With 867,000 Units Earned in First Week in U.S.

Of the set’s 867,000 equivalent album units earned, 679,000 were in album sales. Album marks superstar’s sixth No. 1.

'Lover' Accounted for 27% of All U.S. Album Sales in Its First Week. All 18 Songs 'Lover' Chart On the Billboard Hot 100

Taylor Swift’s new album, LOVER, blasted in at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200) with the biggest week for any album since her last release, Reputation, in 2017.

Lover earned 867,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 29, according to Nielsen Music (13,000 were in TEA units and 175,000 were in SEA units. The latter figure translates to 226 million on-demand audio streams earned for the album’s songs during its release week).

Of that sum, 679,000 were in album sales. Both figures are the largest registered for any album in a single week since Swift’s REPUTATION debuted with 1.238 million units in its first week, of which 1.216 million were in album sales (in the week ending Nov. 16, 2017).

In total, Lover begins with 867,000 equivalent album units earned, of which 679,000 were in album sales; 13,000 were in TEA units and 175,000 were in SEA units. The latter figure translates to 226 million on-demand audio streams earned for the album’s songs during its release week.

Aiding Lover’s first week: the set’s release in four collectible deluxe CD editions at Target, as well as dozens of merchandise/digital album bundles sold through Swift’s official website. The album also had a standard CD edition that was available widely at retail, along with an equivalent digital album that was available via all digital retailers.

Comparably, the REPUTATION album was supported by two deluxe editions available exclusively at Target, and a standard CD and digital edition. Notably, during reputation’s first week, its digital edition was exclusively sold via the Apple iTunes Store. It became widely available via all digital retailers in its second week. Further, reputation’s sales were also likely goosed by fan participation in the Taylor Swift Tix powered by Ticketmaster Verified Fan program, where the purchase of an album would help secure greater access to tickets for Swift’s then-upcoming reputation stadium tour. (Swift has announced no plans to tour in support of Lover.)

In addition, Lover is Swift’s first album to be available to stream in full across all streaming services in its first week. Reputation was not available to stream in full during its debut week -- just four pre-release tracks were streamable.

Taylor becomes the first woman to have six different albums each sell at least 500,000 copies in a single week. (The only other act to do so is Eminem.) Swift previously managed the half-million one-week sales feat with the debut weeks of her last five full-length studio albums: REPUTATION (1.216 million, in 2017), 1989 (1.287 million, 2014), RED (1.208 million, 2012), SPEAK NOW (1.047 million, 2010) and FEARLESS (592,000; 2008). Swift also remains the only act to have four different albums each sell a million copies in a single week.

SIGN OF THE STREAMING TIMES: That said, Lover’s large sales debut is an anomaly, as overall album sales continue to erode in the U.S., as more fans opt to consume music via streaming services. So far in 2019, through Aug. 29, album sales are down 19% (70 million sold year-to-date, as compared to 86.5 million sold year-to-date in 2018). In total for the 2018 year, album sales fell 17.7% to 141 million sold.

Of Note: Lionel Richie's HELLO FROM LAS VEGAS fell off the Billboard 200 after debuting the previous  week at #2. It is the highest position from which an album directly left the chart. Richie is also the first artist in Artist 100 history (2014-present) to leave the Artist 100 from the #1 spot.

Billboard Top Country Albums (Chart issue week of September 7, 2019)

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.

Rockin' Roll: Big Machine's Midland had the top-selling country album this week with Let It Roll

Midland earned its first Top Country Albums No. 1 as its sophomore LP, produced by Dann Huff, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, LET IT ROLL (Big Machine Label Group | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com), launched with 22,000 equivalent album units (#16 new Entry Billboard 200; 16,400 in album sales).

The trio — which consists of Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson and Cameron Duddy — follows first album ON THE ROCKS, which entered at its No. 2 peak in October 2017 (17,230 debut sales). The set followed Midland’s self-titled EP (No. 38, June 2017). Roll’s first single, “Mr. Lonely,” pushes 29-25 on Country Airplay (6.5 million, up 10%) and 39-31 on Hot Country Songs.

Critical reception:

Variety (Rating 81/100): Just about everything about “Let It Roll” is better than that first album, which wasn’t bad, but which maybe was as interesting for what it represented as the songs. ... And there are some great ones on “Let It Roll,” whether they’re ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s pastiches or not.

AllMusic (Rating 3.1/2 STARS) It's a record that gets by on feel, not songs, which may mean that it doesn't provide many distinguishing hooks, but it does sound awfully good as it plays.

Classic Rock Magazine (Rating 50/100): This slick trio from Dripping Springs, Texas add cloying twang to yacht-rock tropes to asset-stripping effect

Luke Combs’ debut full-length, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 1-2 (#19-18 Billboard 200; 4,100 sales; 117-week total 519,200). Additionally, Combs’ latest release, THE PREQUEL (River House/Columbia Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville) fell 4-6 (#58-61 BB200; 800 sales; 12-week total 42,200) in its 12th frame.

Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 2-3 (#36-33 BB200; 800 sales; 62-week total 156,300) in their 62nd frame.

Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) slipped 3-4 (#49-54 BB200; 600 sales; 64-week total 32,500) in his 64th frame.

Chris Stapleton with the 226-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) held at No.5 (#59 non mover BB200; 2,500 sales; 226 week total 2,530,300).

Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 6-7 (#65-66 BB200; 800 sales; 72-week total 497,900) in his 72nd week.

Tanya Tucker with WHILE I’M LIVIN’ (Fantasy Records | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) arrived at No.8 on Top Country Albums (#68 New Entry Billboard 200; 10,000 units; 9,500 pure sales), marking her 10th top 10 and first top 10 start. Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, the set is Tucker’s first top 10 since What Do I Do With Me, which reached No. 6 in 1992. The new album is her first of all-new material since Tanya, which peaked at No. 39 in 2002.

Tanya also marked her first-ever No. 1 album on Nielsen’s Americana/Folk chart. Additionally, While I’m Livin’ scored impressive debuts overseas landing at No. 2 on the UK Country chart, No. 3 on the UK Americana chart and No. 3 on the Top Country Albums chart in Canada. The Fantasy Records release is the legendary country star’s first new material in 17 years. Watch the album trailer here, purchase the album here.
On Thursday, September 5th, Tucker and special guest Brandi Carlile made same day appearances on both the Today Show and The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. In between, they will tape “Fierce: Women In Music” with Tanya Tucker and Brandi Carlile, a conversation and audience event hosted by Lori Majewski at SiriusXM's New York City studios. The event will be recorded and air in September on SiriusXM Volume channel 106.

Garnering accolades in the U.S. and internationally, While I’m Livin’ is largely comprised of songs written by Carlile, the twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth and Tucker. “It’s a musical biography of sorts,” said Carlile, “about Tanya’s real life and the places she’s seen, and it’s narrated by the greatest country and western singer this side of Johnny Cash.”

Tanya Tucker Publicity Photo Photo Credit: Derrek Kupish / dkupish productions

Critical reception:

AllMusic (Rating: 80/100): Jennings and Carlile also direct Tucker toward a few outside covers, including the rousing "Hard Luck" and "The House That Built Me," a Tom Douglas & Allen Shamblin song popularized by Miranda Lambert, that add texture and deepen the emotional undercurrents flowing through the record. When combined with the Carlile/Hanseroth originals, these tunes paint a portrait of a mighty artist who has been through a lot but is fearless about the future.

Mojo (Rating 6/10): Tucker has created an album that should endear her to those who still raise the outlaw flag while also appealing to hard-edged pop-tinged rock believers. [Oct 2019, p.83]

Vince Gill notched his 16th top 10 as 12-track OKIE (MCA Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) bowed at No.9 (#71 New Entry Billboard 200; 10,000 units; 9,200 sold). The LP is his first since Down to My Last Bad Habit, which debuted at its No. 4 peak in March 2016 (17,088 copies; #35 Billboard 200 chart dated March 5, 2016)

Gill wrote or co-wrote all 12 songs, including focus tracks “A Letter To My Mama” and “When My Amy Prays,” a song about his wife, singer/songwriter Amy Grant.

Critical reception:

American Songwriter (Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars): But the exquisite Okie is nonetheless filled with emotions he evidently needed to express, which makes it an important entry in his bulging catalog and arguably his most intimate, deeply felt release.

Sounds Like Nashville (Rating: Positive): Gill’s latest studio LP, Okie, his first in three years, is yet another bullet point to fit under the “He Didn’t Have to Do This But He Did Anyway” section of his bio. It’s an intensely personal collection of songs, and it happens to be a sterling one at that. As is the case with other master songwriters, such as Jason Isbell and Hayes Carll, Gill uses some songs to intimately tell his own story while some songs are colorful tales of fiction….Vince Gill certainly didn’t have to record Okie for us to know he’s one of the greats. But because he did, we now know his more intimately than we ever have before.

Former No.1 Thomas Rhett with CENTER POINT ROAD (Valory Music/ Big Machine Records) fell 7-10 (#71-89 BB200; 1,200 sales; 13-week total 78,300) in his 13th week.

Outside the Top 10

Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 9-11 (#84-94 BB200; 600 sales; 42-week total 223,000) as his self-titled album dropped 11-15 (#100-108 BB200; 900 sales; 143-week total 542,300).

Former No.1 Maren Morris with GIRL (Columbia Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) fell 8-12 (#81-100 BB200; 700 sales; 25-week total 69,400) in her 25th frame.

Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) fell 10-14 (#96-106 BB200; 1,000 sales; 28-week total 93,300) in their 28th week.

Former No.1 Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville) fell 14-16 (#135-132 BB200; 1,600 sales; 69-week total 256,000) in her 69th frame.

Former No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY rose 21-18 (#152 Re-Entry Billboard 200; 1,000 sales; 50-week total 499,100) in her 50th week

Outside the Top 25

Former No.1 Tyler Childers with his new 9-track album, COUNTRY SQUIRE (Hickman Holler/ RCA | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com ) fell 22-26 (2,100 sales; 4-week total 32,500).

Justin Moore with his 10-track LATE NIGHTS AND LONG NECKS (Valory/Big Machine Label Group | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com ) fell 23-27 (1,500 sales; 5-week total 23,600) in his fifth week.

FALLING SHORT of Top 50:

On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales; old methodology)

Ty Herndon with 15-track GOT IT COVERED (BFD | Amazon UK - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.27 selling 600 copies.

David Wax Museum with LINE OF LIGHT (Nine Mile) made a debut at No.28 selling 600 copies.

Dalton Domino with 13-track SONGS FROM THE EXILE (Lightning Rod Records | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.33 selling 400 copies.

Kevin Fowler with BARSTOOL STORIES (Kevin Fowler Records | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.35 selling 400 copies.

SMO with 12-track THIS ONE'S FOR YOU (Average Joes Entertainment | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.37 selling 400 copies.

Who TF Is Justin Time? with Redneck Rave Dot Com made a debut at No.38 selling 400 copies.

The Hit Crew with Drew's: Country (Turn Up The Music) made a debut at No.43

Dylan Schneider -with 4 track EP Whole Town Talk (Interscope Records | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.48 selling 300 copies.

Year-To-Date Albums

6,524,000 sales which is 30.4% down at the same point in 2018 (9,372,000 sales).

Album consumption is 34,603,000 units which is 5.4% up at the same point in 2018 (32,836,000 units)

Billboard Hot Country Songs (Chart issue week of September 7, 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’s “The Git Up” (Trailer Trap Music/Broken Bow Music Group/BMG/Wheelhouse/ Stoney Creek/Broken Bow) held at No. 1 for an eighth non-consecutive week.

Taylor Swift’s “Soon You’ll Get Better,” featuring Dixie Chicks (Republic), few onto Hot Country Songs at No.10. The acts’ first collaboration is from Swift’s new album, Lover, which opened atop the all-genre Billboard 200 (867,000 units; 679,000 in album sales). The stripped-down ballad, which Swift wrote with Jack Antonoff for her mother, who is fighting breast cancer, begins with 10.3 million U.S. streams and 9,000 downloads sold.

“Better” marked Swift’s 21st Hot Country Songs top 10. It’s her first since her featured turn on Sugarland’s “Babe” (No. 8, May 2018) and first in a lead role since the No. 2-peaking “Red” in December 2013.

Dixie Chicks earned their 15th top 10 and first since their cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide,” which reached No. 2 in November 2002. They make their first appearance on the chart since 2006, when “Everybody Knows” reached No. 45.

Hot County Songs

** No.1 (8 weeks) ** “The Git Up” Blanco Brown

** Airplay Gainer” No.3 “Knockin' Boots” Luke Bryan

** Hot Shot Debut ** No.10 “Soon You'll Get Better” Taylor Swift feat. Dixie Chicks

** Digital Gainer ** No.13 “Prayed For You” Matt Stell

** Streaming Gainer ** No.17 “One Man Band” Old Dominion

Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of September 7, 2019)

Justin Moore banked his seventh No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home” (Valory) rose 3-1 on the list dated Sept. 7, up 7% to 40.8 million audience impressions in the week ending Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music.

Authored by Moore, Paul DiGiovanni, Chase McGill and Jeremy Stover, “Home” is a tribute to fallen soldiers.

“I’m so thankful that country radio has provided this song a platform,” Moore told Billboard. “It’s always special to enjoy a No. 1, but even more so when it’s a song that impacts people’s lives in a positive way. Here’s to the ones that didn’t make it back home.”

“Home” is the launch single from Moore’s fifth full-length, Late Nights and Long Necks, which debuted at its No. 2 high on the Top Country Albums chart dated Aug. 10, marking his fifth top 10.

With “Home,” Moore has mounted seven Country Airplay leaders among 10 top 10s. He first led in his second visit with “Small Town USA” in October 2009. He followed with the No. 1s “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away” (July 2011), “Til My Last Day” (January 2013), “Lettin’ the Night Roll” (July 2014), “You Look Like I Need a Drink” (October 2016) and “Somebody Else Will” (September 2017).

Runaway June’s “Buy My Own Drinks” (Wheelhouse) became the all-female trio’s first Country Airplay top 10 as it climbed 12-10 (21.7 million, up 2%). The song is the first top 10 on the tally by an entirely female group since August 2005, when SheDAISY’s “Don’t Worry ’Bout a Thing” hit No. 7.

The song continues momentum for the trio of Naomi Cooke, Hannah Mulholland and Jennifer Wayne. Runaway June's debut LP BLUE ROSES launched at No. 5 on Country Album Sales and No. 36 on Top Country Albums in July, while the act's supporting role, with Maddie & Tae, on Carrie Underwood's all-female-billed Cry Pretty Tour 360, which launched in May, runs through Oct. 31.

"It's a truly incredible feeling to be celebrating our first top 10," Cooke said. "We are overwhelmed. This has been such exciting year: being on the road with Carrie and releasing our first album. It feels so good to be able to swing open the door wider for female artists.

Country Airplay

*** No.1 (1 week)/ Most Increased Audience *** “The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home” Justin Moore 40.833 million audience (+2.813 million) / 8,150 radio plays (+515)

** Most Added ** No.24 “Heartache Medication” Jon Pardi (24 ADDS)

** Hot Shot Debut ** No.57 “Don't Let Her” Walker Hayes

Debut No.59 “I Hope” Gabby Barrett

Debut No.60 “Nothin' On You” Cody Johnson

Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart 

(Chart issue week of September 7, 2019)

Blanco Brown with “The Git Up” (Trailer Trap Music/BMG/Broken Bow) held at No.1 on Country Digital Song Sales for a tenth week (#3-4 Digital Songs, 22,000 sales; 13-week total 312,000).

It was three places behind Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” which was No. 1 in sales, Top five in streams & airplay: The track likewise became Lizzo's first No. 1, rising from No. 2, on the Digital Song Sales chart, more than doubling from 26,000 to 53,000 sold in the week ending Aug. 29, according to Nielsen Music. It also pushed 6-4 on Streaming Songs, up 21% to 34.4 million U.S. streams in the same span.

Matt Stell with “Prayed For You” (RECORDS, Arista Nashville) advanced 19-2 (#15 New Entry Digital Songs, 9,000 sales; total sales 74,000 since EP released May 24, 2019) in his third chart frame.

Taylor Swift Featuring Dixie Chicks with “Soon You'll Get Better” (Republic) made a debut at No.3 (#17 New Entry Digital Songs, 9,000 sales).

Marshmello & Kane Brown with “One Thing Right” fell rose 5-4 (#16-18 Digital Songs; 9,000 sales; 8-week total 88,000) in their 8th frame.

Luke Combs with “Beer Never Broke My Heart” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) rose 6-5 (#17-22 Digital Songs; 8,000 sales; 17-week total 234,000).

9 non-consecutive week No1. Blake Shelton with “God’s Country” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 3-6 (#14-23 Digital Songs; 8,000 sales; 22-week total 423,000) in its 22nd frame. Additionally, Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins with “Hell Right” (Warner Music Nashville) fell 4-12 (#15 – off top 50 Digital Songs; 4,000 sales; 2-week total 14,000).

Luke Bryan with “Knockin' Boots” held at No.7 (#21-26 Digital Songs; 7,000 sales; 22-week total 202,000) in his 22nd week.

Old Dominion with “One Man Band” (RCA Nashville) advanced 11-8 (#41-37 New Entry Digital Songs; 5,000 sales; 11-week total 84,000) in its 11th frame. Additionally, their new track “Young” climbed 22-14 (4,000 sales; 2-week total 7,000).

Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with Speechless” held at No.9 (#31-39 Digital Songs; 5,000 sales; 62-week total 536,000) in their 62nd frame as “All To Myself” (Warner Music Nashville) fell 13-19 (#48-50 Digital Songs; 3,000 sales; 16-week total 123,000) in its 16th frame.

Morgan Wallen with “Whiskey Glasses” held at No.10 (#37-45 Digital Songs; 5,000 sales; 40-week total 331,000) in his 40th week.

Outside the Top 10

Miranda Lambert with Maren Morris with “Way Too Pretty for Prison” sold 4,000 downloads in the week ending Aug. 29 and entered Country Digital Song Sales at No. 11 (#46 New Entry Digital Songs). The pairing previews Lambert’s Wildcard (due Nov. 1).

Kenny Chesney with “Tip Of My Tongue” (Blue Chair, Warner Music Nashville) slipped 12-13 (#46 – off the Top 50 Digital Songs).

Jana Kramer with “Good Enough” (Sophie Dog) made a debut at No.16 selling 4,000 copies.

Blair Mathews with “Back When” (Springland) made a debut at No.23 selling 3,000 copies.

Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart

September 2, 2019

Justin Moore Scores #1 Song With 'The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home'

Congratulations to Justin Moore, Chris Palmer, Ashley Sidoti and the Valory promotion team on landing at No. 1 with

“The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home.” The song is the first single from Moore’s recently released fifth studio album Late

Nights And Longnecks. Songwriters are Paul DiGiovanni, Chase McGill, Jeremy Stover and Moore.

“The Ones That Didn’t Make It...” (Valory) climbed 3-1 logging 8,931 radio spins (+863), 53.598 million audience impressions (+5.456) with 27916 Total Points (+2711) from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS) for the tracking week August 25 to August 31, 2019 and published chart dated September 2, 2019.

Kudos to Jimmy Rector and the EMI Nashville reps on notching 54 adds for Eric Church’s “Monsters”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.

The man The L.A. Times calls “one of Nashville’s most forthright truth-tellers,” Eric Church returns to Country radio with his reflective “Monsters,” the follow-up to recent No. 1 hit “Some Of It.”
 
Praised by Vulture for “turn[ing] a yarn about irrational childhood fears into an emboldening word about faith in the face of human cruelty,” the song celebrated by NPR for its “metaphors… broad enough to encapsulate an array of evils his listeners may imagine confronting” is the third single off Church’s critically-acclaimed Desperate Man.
 
“Anymore when a restless feelin’ keeps me up at night / Fallin’ on my knees is my new turnin’ on the light,” sings Church in the earnest chorus. “I keep my faith intact, make sure my prayers are said / ’Cause I’ve learned that the monsters ain’t the ones beneath the bed.”
 
As Entertainment Weekly notes, Church “believes in [music’s] power to heal, to transport you to the past, to make sense of the present and hold out hope for the future,” the full spectrum of which he accomplishes in this “blues-inflected tune contending with demons, real and imagined.”

Initially inspired by bedtime rituals with his two young sons, Church and co-writer Jeff Hyde broadened the metaphor to encompass the adult fears and worries that replace childhood monsters under the bed.

 
“A specific night, I can remember going in my oldest son Boone’s room… the dimmer wasn’t right, it wasn’t bright enough and he wanted it a brighter. And when I went in and made it a little brighter he said, ‘that’s good, that’s good, that’s perfect.’ And it wasn’t much… but that stuck with me that it’s kind of all he needed was just more light,” reflects Church. “It will always be a song that I think about where I was at that time in my life, where my kids were, and just how that little bit of light is what made the difference.”
 
“Monsters” comes on the heels of Church’s recently-announced CMA Award nominations, as he earned nods in three categories: Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year (for Desperate Man, Producer: Jay Joyce) and Music Video of the Year (for “Some Of It,” Director: Reid Long).

Mediabase Adds (Selective)

Artist/Title (Label)        TW       Total Historic Adds

ERIC CHURCH/Monsters (EMI Nashville)           54         56        

LUKE COMBS/Even Though I'm Leaving (River House/Columbia)           30         35        

JON PARDI/Heartache Medication (Capitol)        17         145      

BLAKE SHELTON f/T. ADKINS/Hell Right (Warner/WMN)            16         125      

ALISSA GRIFFITH/Glasses (Dreamhaus/PlayMore)        13         14        

MAREN MORRIS/The Bones (Columbia)            12         60        

RILEY GREEN/I Wish Grandpas Never Died (BMLGR)    12         88        

OLD DOMINION/One Man Band (RCA)  10         135      

TRAVIS DENNING/After A Few (Mercury)           9          125      

KANE BROWN/Homesick (RCA)            7          103      

INGRID ANDRESS/More Hearts Than Mine (Warner/WEA)          6          89        

SCOTTY MCCREERY/In Between (Triple Tigers)            6          124      

ELI YOUNG BAND/Break It In (Valory)   5          49        

GABBY BARRETT/I Hope (Warner/WAR)           5          47        

JON LANGSTON/Now You Know (EMI Nashville)           5          65        

JORDAN DAVIS/Slow Dance In A Parking Lot (MCA)      5          145      

KIP MOORE/She's Mine (MCA)  5          54        

JESSIE G/Whatever This Is (Redneck)   2          2         

ASHLEY MCBRYDE/One Night Standards (Warner/WAR)           1          1         

CHRIS YOUNG/Drowning (RCA)            1          1         

CLIFF CODY/Guardian Angel (---)          1          1         

DIPLO & MORGAN WALLEN/Heartless (Columbia)        1          1         

NOAH SCHNACKY/I'll Be The One (Big Machine)           1          3

For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly September 3, 2019, Issue 669  - Magazine View

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Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)

Rank Artist: # 2

Event Venue City/State: George Strait, Ashley McBryde T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas

Dates: Aug. 23-24, 2019 Gross Sales: $4,465,304 Attend: 34,562 / 34,838

Shows/ Sellouts: 2/1 (276 unsold tickets) Prices: $499, $50

Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents

Rank Artist: #10

Event Venue City/State: Chris Stapleton, The Marcus King Band, Margo Price Darling's Waterfront Pavilion Bangor, Maine

Dates: July 25, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,070,720 Attend: 14,902 / 14,902

Shows/ Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $150, $89.75, $69.75, $34.75

Promoters: Live Nation

Rank Artist: #11

Event Venue City/State: Chris Stapleton, The Marcus King Band, Margo Price CHI Health Center Omaha, Neb.

Dates: July 19, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,060,420 Attend: 13,142 / 14,053

Shows/ Sellouts: 1/0 (911 unsold tickets) Prices: $150, $89.75, $69.75, $39.75

Promoters: Live Nation

Rank Artist: #26

Event Venue City/State: Brad Paisley, Chris Lane, Riley Green Sunlight Supply Amphitheater Ridgefield, Wash.

Dates: June 15, 2019 Gross Sales: $574,039 Attend: 13,064 / 15,500

Shows/ Sellouts: 1/0 (2,436 unsold tickets) Prices: $81, $22.50

Promoters: Live Nation

Rank Artist: #47

Event Venue City/State: Chris Young, LoCash MGM Grand Garden Las Vegas

Dates: Aug. 17, 2019 Gross Sales: $296,152 Attend: 5,556 / 6,655

Shows/ Sellouts: 1/0 (1,099 unsold tickets) Prices: $159, $45

Promoters: Live Nation

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