Country Album Chart ** No.1 (49
non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S FOR YOU Luke
Combs
Hot Country Songs **
No.1 (2 weeks) ** “10,000 Hours” Dan + Shay &
Justin Bieber
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Good Vibes” Chris
Janson
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “10,000 Hours” Dan + Shay &
Justin Bieber
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Rapper
YoungBoy Never Broke Again scoreds his first No.1 album on the Billboard
Top 200 Album Chart (BB200), as AI YoungBoy 2 debuted atop the list.
The
set, which was released on Oct. 11 via Never Broke Again/Atlantic Records,
starts with 110,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the
week ending Oct. 17, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, just 3,000 were in album sales, while
the rest was overwhelmingly powered by streaming activity. 1,000 were in
TEA units, while 106,000 were in SEA units. The latter figure equates to 144.7
million on-demand audio streams earned for the album’s tracks in its first
week.
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.
At
the Top Country Albums apex, Luke Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville)
rebounded 2-1 (#18-20 Billboard 200; 19,000 units; 2,100 sales; 124-week total 533,400).
It was the 9th best country seller of the week.
The
set, which debuted at No. 1 in June 2017, led for a 49th frame and is
now just one week from potentially tying for the longest rule in the chart’s
history. Shania Twain’s Come On Over dominated for 50 weeks beginning in
November 1997.
Additionally,
Combs’ latest release, THE PREQUEL (River House/Columbia Nashville/ Sony
Music Nashville) fell 4-6 (#51-55 BB200) in its 18th frame.
Cody
Jinks with AFTER THE FIRE (Late
August) flew onto Top Country Albums at No. 2 (#33 Billboard 200 New Entry;
15,000 equivalent album units; 12,700 sales), the set started as his first No.1 on Country Album Sales.
Critical reception for Cody Jinks’ After the Fire:
Roughstock (Rating: Positive) Even
if Cody ends up competing with himself for sales and attention, the talent he
possesses is that which few artists possess in 2019 and we’re all the better
for him choosing to release a cohesive collection of songs like After The Fire.
Allmusic (Rating: 4 STARS) ..Jinks
nimbly glides between the light and dark on After the Fire, never dwelling too
long in either extreme, and that balance helps the album feel both modest and
fully realized. It's too humble to be seen as a major statement, but its ease
and craft are a testament to the depths of Jinks' talent as both a songwriter
and a singer.
Saving Country Music (Rating: 1 3/4 Guns Up
(8.5/10) But ultimately it’s the music that you remember, that you go back
to over and over, and numbers and achievements feel meaningless compared to how
a record like After The Fire can make you feel overall. The other way artists
are judged is as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, as bandleaders, and
friends. All the money and fame can still leave you bankrupt if your priorities
are not properly aligned, and After The Fire doesn’t just capture Cody Jinks
making sure those priorities are in proper order, it reminds and inspires the
audience to do the same.
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#35-40 BB200; 800 sales; 69-week total 161,300)
in their 69th frame.
Previous weeks’ No.1 Brantley Gilbert with FIRE
& BRIMSTONE (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 1-4 (#9-51 BB200; 5,700 sales; down 80%; 2-week
total 33,900).
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) moved 6-5
(#56-54 BB200; 600 sales; 72-week total 37,300)
in his 72nd frame.
Chris Stapleton’s 233-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) rose 9-7 (#65 non-mover BB200; 2,000 sales; total 2,545,400).
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY rose 12-8 (#92-80
BB200; 4,300 sales; 57-week total 515,800)
in her 57th week.
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT rose 10-9 (#82 non-mover BB200; 500 sales; 49-week total 228,000) in his 49th week as his self-titled
album held at No.14 (#108-105 BB200;).
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) fell 8-10 (#62-86 BB200; 500
sales;32-week total 73,800) in her 32nd frame.
Outside the
Top 10
In his third week Jon Pardi with
HEARTACHE MEDICATION (Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville)
fell 7-11 (#60-86 Billboard 200; 3,100 sales; 3-week total 30,300).
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) held at No.13 (#97-106 BB200)
in his 78th week.
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) rose 17-15 (#135-147 BB200) in her 75th frame.
Blanco
Brown with his first LP, HONEYSUCKLE
& LIGHTNING BUGS (Trailer Trap Music/BMG/Broken Bow Music Group | Amazon UK - iTunes), arrived at No.16 (#130 Billboard 200; 7,000 consumption
units; 1,200 album
sales). Lead single “The Git Up” commanded Hot Country Songs for 12 weeks
beginning in July.
In
his third frame Sturgill Simpson with SOUND
& FURY
(Elektra/EMG) fell 5-19 (#55-152 Billboard 200; 3,900 sales; 3-week total 37,900).
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) fell 19-20 (#153-163
BB200; 500 sales; 35-week total 97,900)
in their 35th chart frame.
Outside the Top 25
Former No.1 Zac Brown Band with
THE OWL (ZB Collective/BMG | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) fell 18-27 (#151 -off the top 200 Billboard 200) in their
fourth week.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Chris
Knight with the 11-track ALMOST DAYLIGHT
(Drifter's Church Productions | Amazon UK - iTunes) made a debut at No.6 selling 2,800 copies.
Trigger Hippy with FULL CIRCLE & THEN SOME (Turkey Grass) made a debut at No.24. selling 800 copies.
Various
Artists with Five Decades, One Voice (Cracker
Barrel, Universal Special Markets) made a debut at No.45. selling 300 copies.
Kelleigh
Bannen with the 14-track FAVORITE COLORS
(Whiskey Rain | Amazon UK - iTunes) made a debut at No.48 selling 300 copies.
Kendell
Marvel with SOLID GOLD SOUNDS (Easy Eye Sound) made
a debut at No.49. selling 300 copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
8,056,000 sales which is 28% down at the same point in 2018 (11,182,000 sales).
Album consumption is 42,087,000 units which is 6.8% up at the same point in 2018 (39,421,000 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:
Dan
+ Shay and Justin Bieber’s “10,000 Hours”
(Warner Music Nashville/ WAR) held at No. 1 (chart dated Oct. 26),
following the collaboration’s second full week of tracking.
Cole
Swindell banked his ninth Hot Country
Songs top10 as “Love You Too Late” (WMN) rose 12-9. The
song climbed 4-3 on Country Airplay, up 5% to 33.1 million in audience, while
sporting 5 million U.S. streams and 2,000 downloads sold.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (2 weeks)/
Airplay Gainer ** “10,000 Hours” Dan + Shay
& Justin Bieber
** Streaming Gainer/ Digital Gainer ** No.10 “Kinfolks”
Sam Hunt
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.37 “What You See Is What You Get” Luke Combs
Debut
No. 42 “Got What I Got” Jason Aldean
Debut
No. 47 “Tequila
Does” Miranda Lambert
Chris Janson scored his
first No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Good
Vibes” (Warner Music Nashville/WAR) rose 2-1 in its 34th
week on the tally (dated Oct. 26). The song reigned with a 10% gain to 40.1
million audience impressions in the week ending Oct. 20, according to Nielsen
Music.
On Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart “Good” ascended 8-6.
“I’m humbled to have a No. 1 hit,” Janson told Billboard. “I’m even more humbled to be able to do this for a living. I feel really blessed, and that’s exactly what ‘Good Vibes’ expresses in song.”
“Good,” which Janson wrote with Ashley Gorley and Zach Crowell, is the
launch single from Janson’s third LP, Real Friends, released Oct. 18. Janson
co-wrote all 13 tracks on the set, with “Done” following as the next
single (going for adds on Nov. 25).
Janson has logged nine Country Airplay entries, including four top 10s.
The Missouri native, who became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2018, first
charted in 2010 with the No. 56-peaking “ ’Til a Woman Comes
Along.” He sailed to his breakthrough hit and first top10 with “Buy Me a
Boat,” which reached No. 3 in 2015. His additional top 10s prior to his first
leader: “Fix a Drink” (No. 2, 2017) and “Drunk Girl” (No. 7, 2018).
Hootie & The Blowfish, fronted by
Darius Rucker, made its inaugural appearance on a Billboard country chart as
its genre debut, “Hold On” (Capitol
Nashville), entered Country Airplay at No. 30 with 6.3 million audience
impressions.
The track, written by Chris Stapleton and Jim Beavers, is the first
single from the band’s album Imperfect Circle, due Nov. 1. It was released
Friday, Oct. 18, so it achieved its chart start from just three days of
airplay,
aided in its first day by hourly plays on participating iHeartMedia stations.
The group scored three Billboard Hot 100 top 10s in the mid-1990s (“Hold
My Hand,” “Let Her Cry” and “Only Wanna Be With You”), all from debut LP Cracked
Rear View, the 20th-best-selling album in the United
States (10.4 million copies) since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in
1991.
Rucker has been a country format staple since his 2008 genre debut,
“Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It,” became his first of eight Country Airplay
No.1s.
Ingrid Andress with More
Hearts Than Mine co-written by Andress, her debut single reached the
Country Airplay top 25 (26-24), up 8% to 9.4 million audience impressions.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Good Vibes” Chris Janson 40.074 million
audience (+3.637 million) / 7,943 radio plays (+649)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.30 “Hold On” Hootie
& The Blowfish 6.336 million audience gain thanks to 52 fresh radio
commitments (ADDS)
Debut
No.59 “Getting Good” Lauren Alaina
Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber with "10,000 Hours" held at
No.1 (#1-4 Digital Song Sales; 17,000
sales; down 68%; 2-week total 71,000) in the week ending Oct. 17. It charged
onto Radio Songs at No. 28 (30.5 million, up 56%), while commanding Hot Country
Songs for a second week.
It was three places behind Maroon 5's "Memories" which jumped
20-12 on the Hot 100, hitting a new high, as it posted a second week atop
Digital Song Sales (21,000, up 3%).
Sam Hunt with Kinfolks
(MCA Nashville), following its first full week of
tracking, bounded onto Country Digital Song Sales at No.
2 (#7 New Entry Digital Song Sales 13,000 sold),
marking Hunt’s 15th top 10. On Hot Country Songs, it rocketed 38-10, awarding
the artist with his seventh top 10.
14 non-consecutive week No1. chart topper Blanco Brown with “The
Git Up” (Trailer Trap Music/BMG/Broken Bow) climbed 5-3 (#17-11 Digital
Songs; 10,000 sales; 20-week total 400,000).
Marshmello
& Kane Brown with “One
Thing Right” fell 3-4 (#15-12 Digital Songs; 10,000 sales;
15-week total 156,000) in their 15th frame.
Luke Combs with “Even Though
I'm Leaving” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) fell 4-5 (#16-14 Digital Songs; 9,000 sales; 14-week total 114,000) as “Beer
Never Broke My Heart” fell 8-13 (#30-37 Digital
Songs; 4,000 sales; 24-week total 275,000) in his 24th
frame. Additionally, “What You See Is What You Get” climbed 23-16
(#44 New Entry Digital Sales; 4,000 sales;
2-week total 6,000).
Old Dominion with “One
Man Band” (RCA Nashville) held at No.6 (#19-17 Digital
Songs; 8,000 sales; 18-week total 131,000) in its 18th
frame.
Jason Aldean with “Got
What I Got” (Broken Bow, BMG, Macon) made a debut at No.7 (#21
New Entry Digital Songs; 6,000 sales).
Miranda Lambert with “Tequila
Does” (RCA Nashville, Vanner) made a debut at No.8 (#23 New Entry Digital Songs;
6,000 sales).
Matt Stell with “Prayed For You” (Arista
Nashville) fell 7-9 (#26-24 Digital Songs; 5,000
sales; 10-week total 112,000) in his tenth
frame.
Kacey Musgraves with “Rainbow”
(MCA Nashville) made a re-entry at No.10 (#31 Re-Entry Digital Songs; 5,000 sales; total 122,000).
Outside
the Top 10
Maren Morris with “The
Bones“ (Columbia Nashville) fell 2-11 (#7-35 Digital Songs; 4,000 sales; 9-week total 98,000).
Blake Shelton featuring
Trace Adkins with “Hell Right” (Warner
Music Nashville) slipped 11-12 (#36-38 Digital Songs; 4,000
sales; 9-week total 45,000) in their 9th week. Additionally, 9
non-consecutive week No1. Blake Shelton with “God’s
Country” (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) retreated 14-15 (#45-41 Digital
Songs) in his 29th frame.
Dan + Shay with
“Speechless” (Warner Music Nashville) fell 9-18 (#31-50
Digital Songs; 4,000 sales; 69-week total 563,000).
Chris Lane with “I
Don't Know About You“ (Big Loud) fell 10-20 (#27-35
Digital Songs; 3,000 sales; 16-week total 158,000).
Ingrid Andress with “More
Hearts Than Mine” (Atlantic, Warner Music Nashville) fell 18-22 (3,000 sales; total 43,000) in her 4th frame.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
October
21, 2019
Chris
Janson Hits #1 With 'Good Vibes'
Congratulations
to Chris Janson, Kristen Williams, Tom
Martens, James Marsh and the Warner/WAR promotion team on landing at No.
1 with “Good Vibes.” It is the first single from Janson’s third studio album, Real Friends.
Songwriters are Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley and Janson.
“Good Vibes” (Warner/WAR)
climbed 2-1 logging 8,724 radio spins (+972), 53.207 million audience impressions (+5.083)
with 27865 Total Points (+2736) from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS)
for the tracking week October 13 to October 19, 2019 and published chart dated October
21, 2019.
 |
| Warner Music Nashville/WAR's Chris Janson (r) celebrated his single, "Good Vibes," hitting #1 with a custom cake he shared with Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters KKGO (Go Country 105)/Los Angeles' Michael Levine (l). "Good Vibes" marks Janson's third career #1 |
Kudos to Bobby
Young and the Capitol reps on notching 57 adds for Hootie And The Blowfish’s
“Hold On”. The song topped the
"Most Added" board this chart week.
Hootie & the Blowfish earn most-added
distinction at Country radio with their first new music in nearly 15 years. The
band will perform new single “Hold
On,” praised by Rolling Stone for its “uplifting”
message and “funky, staccato guitar riff,” live on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on
Friday, Nov. 1 to celebrate Imperfect Circle’s
highly-anticipated release date.
Since bursting onto the scene with their Diamond-certified debut album Cracked Rear View, Hootie & the Blowfish have been difficult to box into a genre, demonstrating influences ranging from pop and rock to folk, soul and blues. With “Hold On,” penned by Country music stalwart Chris Stapleton together with Jim Beavers, the GRAMMY Award-winning band makes their debut at Country radio, where frontman Darius Rucker has found success throughout the past decade of his solo career.
Since bursting onto the scene with their Diamond-certified debut album Cracked Rear View, Hootie & the Blowfish have been difficult to box into a genre, demonstrating influences ranging from pop and rock to folk, soul and blues. With “Hold On,” penned by Country music stalwart Chris Stapleton together with Jim Beavers, the GRAMMY Award-winning band makes their debut at Country radio, where frontman Darius Rucker has found success throughout the past decade of his solo career.
“I truly believe that ‘Let Her Cry’ is the first Country song I ever wrote.
What we’re doing now and the music we made in our earliest days, even what I’ve
done in my solo career – the lines are all so blurred that it’s hard to define
genres today.” shares Rucker. “It’s really exciting for me to be back on the
Country charts, now with my Hootie & the Blowfish bandmates, and to know
that at the end of the day people are still connecting with our music all these
years later.”
“Hold On” follows “Rollin’,” “Miss California” and “Lonely On A Saturday Night” as a preview of what’s to come with the November 1 release of Imperfect Circle, available for pre-order now.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title
(Label) TW Total Historic Adds
HOOTIE AND
THE BLOWFISH/Hold On
(Capitol) 57 57
LAINEY
WILSON/Dirty Looks
(Broken Bow) 24 24
CARLY
PEARCE & LEE BRICE/I Hope You're Happy Now (Big
Machine/Curb) 10 91
DAN + SHAY
& JUSTIN BIEBER/10,000 Hours (Warner/WAR) 10 134
RILEY GREEN/I
Wish Grandpas Never Died (BMLGR) 9 124
SAM HUNT/Kinfolks
(MCA) 9 134
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Blessings (BMLGR) 6 84
RYAN HURD/To A
T (RCA) 6 128
DUSTIN LYNCH/Ridin'
Roads (Broken Bow) 5 150
KANE
BROWN/Homesick (RCA) 5 129
LAUREN
ALAINA/Getting Good
(Mercury) 5 63
THE
HIGHWOMEN/Redesigning
Women (LCS/Elektra/WMN) 5 15
BRETT
YOUNG/Catch (BMLGR) 4 114
MAREN
MORRIS/The Bones
(Columbia) 4 92
MORGAN WALLEN/Chasin'
You (Big Loud) 4 94
GABBY BARRETT/I
Hope (Warner/WAR) 3 75
INGRID
ANDRESS/More Hearts
Than Mine (Warner/WEA) 3 130
STEPHANIE
QUAYLE/Whatcha Drinkin
'Bout (Rebel Engine) 2 11
LAINEY
WILSON/LA (Broken Bow) 1 1
LANCO/What I
See (Arista) 1 2
MARSHMELLO
& KANE BROWN/One Thing Right (RCA) 1 4
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #11
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church Van Andel
Arena Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dates:
Oct.
04-05, 2019 Gross
Sales: $2,165,044 Attend: 21609/ 21609
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $149, $17.50
Promoters:
Messina
Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #17
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church Wells Fargo
Center Philadelphia, Pa.
Dates: Gross Sales: Attend:
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** (1** unsold
tickets) Prices:
Promoters:
Oct. 11-12, 2019 $1,727,753 24814/24814 02-Feb $149, $20 Messina Touring
Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #20
Event
Venue City/State: Florida Georgia Line Glen Helen
Amphitheater Devore, Calif.
Dates:
Sep.
21, 2019 Gross
Sales: $1,629,688 Attend: 26814/ 31418
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** (1** unsold
tickets) Prices: $109.25, $35.25
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #39
Event
Venue City/State: Thomas Rhett Madison Square
Garden New York, N.Y.
Dates:
Sept
20, 2019 Gross
Sales: $1,345,659 Attend:
13367/
13367
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** (1** unsold
tickets) Prices: $112.75, $45.75
Promoters:
Live
Nation
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