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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of October 5, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week)
** THE OWL Zac Brown Band
Hot Country Songs ** **
No.1 (12 non-consecutive weeks) ** “The Git Up” Blanco
Brown
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) ** “I Don't Know About You” Chris
Lane
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (13 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).
Post
Malone’s HOLLYWOOD’S
BLEEDING netted a third straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
(BB200), as it earned 149,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the
week ending Sept. 26 (down 25%), according to Nielsen Music. The album is the
first to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 in nearly a year.
At
No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Zac Brown Band’s THE
OWL debuted,
scoring the group its sixth top 10 effort. The Owl flew in with 106,000
equivalent album units earned (with 99,000 of that sum in album sales). The act previously visited the top 10
with Welcome Home (No. 2 in 2017), Jekyll + Hyde (No. 1, 2015), Uncaged (No. 1,
2012), You Get What You Give (No. 1, 2010) and The Foundation (No. 9, 2010).
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.
Zac
Brown Band earned its fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s
Top Country Albums chart, as THE OWL (ZB Collective/BMG) flew in
atop the Oct. 5-dated tally with 106,000 equivalent album units (99,000 in
album sales) in its opening week, ending Sept. 26, according to Nielsen Music.
ZBB’s
sixth full-length, and first via BMG, includes collaborations with EDM DJ
Skrillex and pop talents Benny Blanco, Jason “Poo Bear” Boyd, Max Martin, Shawn
Mendes, Ryan Tedder and Andrew Watt, among others.
Meanwhile, the track “Finish
What We Started” features singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile. (Some of the
names above also worked on Brown’s surprise solo set The Controversy, released
Sept. 27.)
CHART
HISTORY
WELCOME HOME, their fifth full-length
album, debuted atop the tally dated June 3, 2017 with 146,000 equivalent album
units, with 138,780
in pure sales
JEKYLL + HYDE, bowed at No. 1 with
228,000 units (214,224
in pure sales)
on the chart dated May 16, 2015.
UNCAGED arrived atop the July 28,
2012-dated list with 234,289 sold
YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE opened at No.1 on Oct. 9,
2010, with 153,706
sold.
The
group’s breakthrough album, THE
FOUNDATION, started at No.3 on the Top Country Albums chart dated Dec. 6,
2008, with 43,531
sold. It rose
to its No.2 peak on the March 28, 2009-dated survey.
Critical reception for Zac Brown Band’s The Owl:
All
Music
(Rating: 2.1/2 STARS) The ghost of Sir Rosevelt looms over The Owl. Zac
Brown's dance side project released an album soon after Welcome Home, the 2017
album from the Zac Brown Band, but it was buried, not even making an appearance
on Billboard's Top 400. …The fact that a good chunk of the numbers work does
not erase how deeply strange this album is. A band who once celebrated the
simple pleasures of toes in the sand are now singing about champagne glasses
filled with diamonds and, no matter how many times The Owl is spun, it's
impossible to tell how they got to this point.
Sounds Like Nashville (Rating: Mixed) You have
got to hand it to the Zac Brown Band. The highly decorated outfit has long
since given up worrying about what country purists think of its music. It would
be one thing if the Georgia-bred band teamed up with noted
Entertainment-focus (Rating 2/5) ….In the
middle of the mess and over-production, there are a couple of gems. Brandi
Carlile continues her quest to save Country music by featuring on Finish What
We Started. While it’s hardly traditional Country, it’s at least listenable,
which is more than can be said for much of the record. ....Sadly The Owl just
isn’t a very good record. Zac Brown Band have shown what they can do in the
past and this set of songs doesn’t come close. If this were the debut album of
a new pop band, it may be received kindlier but this is a misjudged project
from a beloved Country band that attempts to push boundaries but will likely
just turn their fans off. It’s a shame, especially when the beautiful Leaving
Love Behind is the closer and it deserves so much better than being part of
this record.
Thanks
to consumption units Luke Combs’ first
LP, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU, fell 1-2 on Top Country Albums (#21
non-mover Billboard 200).
THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU was in fact the 10th best selling album in this chart frame
trailing Zac Brown Band, Upchurch, The Highwomen, A Film By Ken Burns, Colt Ford, Sheryl Crow, Chris Stapleton, Riley Green and Vince Gill.
Additionally,
Combs’ latest release, THE PREQUEL (River House/Columbia Nashville/ Sony
Music Nashville) fell 3-5 (#43-46 BB200) in its 16th frame
Dan + Shay with their self-titled album (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) dropped 2-3 (#39-37 BB200) in their 66th
frame.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) held at
No.4 (#51-43 BB200) in his 69th frame.
Upchurch with the 10-track PARACHUTE (Redneck Nation Records | Amazon
UK),
tagged Hip-Hop & Rap, made a debut at No.6 (#52 New Entry Billboard
200; #2 Country Sales)
Chris Stapleton with the 230-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) slipped 6-7 (#62-57 BB200).
Former No.1 Thomas Rhett with CENTER POINT ROAD (Valory Music/ Big Machine
Records) climbed 9-8 (#87-74 BB200) in his 17th week
Former No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 8-9 (#77-79 BB200) in his 46th week as his self-titled
album fell 12-14 (#111 non mover BB200).
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 7-10 (#76-86 BB200) in his
76th week.
Outside the
Top 10
Riley Green with 14-track Different
Round Here (BMLGR | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.11
(#95 New
Entry Billboard 200; #8 Country Sales)
Green’s debut album features 14 tracks, including No. 1 “There Was This
Girl” and current single “I Wish Grandpa’s Never Died,” a song he shares
co-writing credits posthumously alongside his two grandfathers.
Former
No.1 Maren
Morris with GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) fell 10-12 (#107-100 BB200) in her 29th frame.
Former No.1 The Highwomen (Low
Country Sound/Elektra/EMG | Amazon UK - Amazon.com ) with their self-titled
album retreated 5-13 (#53-106 BB200).
Florida Georgia Line with CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) fell 14-17 (#132-135
BB200) in their 32nd chart frame.
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) fell 16-18 (#148-138 BB200) in her 73rd frame.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY dropped 19-22 (#182-184
BB200) in her 54th
week.
Outside the Top 25
Colt Ford with 14-track WE THE
PEOPLE (Average Joes | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.42
(#5
Country Sales).
The 14-song, seventh album from Ford includes collaborations with Jimmie
Allen (“Back To Them Backroads”), Mitchell Tenpenny (“Slow Ride”) and Michael
Ray (“Nightcap”).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Charley Crockett with 15-track THE VALLEY
(Son of Davy | Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.22.
Ryan Hurd with 5-track PLATONIC
(EP; Sony Music Entertainment/ RCA Records Label Nashville |Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.38.
Jonah
Tolchin with FIRES FOR THE COLD (Yep Roc)
made a
debut at No.49.
Year-To-Date Albums
7,391,000 sales which is 29.2% down at the same point in 2018 (10,443,000 sales).
Album consumption is 38,842,000 units which is 5.9% up at the same point in 2018 (36,685,000 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 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 12th
week,
Old
Dominion banked its eighth Hot
Country Songs top10 as “One Man Band”
(RCA Nashville) sprinted 14-10. It hiked by 23% to 17.7 million audience
impressions as it rose 17-14 on Country Airplay, while gaining by 6% to 6.8
million U.S. streams and 8% to 6,000 sold.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (12 weeks) ** “The Git Up” Blanco Brown
**
Airplay Gainer” No.2 “I Don't Know About You” Chris Lane
** Streaming Gainer ** No.21 “Heartless” Diplo
Presents Thomas Wesley featuring Morgan Wallen
** Digital
Gainer ** No.23 “Someone I Used To Know” Zac Brown Band
** Hot Shot Debut ** No. 37 “Ocean” Lady Antebellum
Chris
Lane notched his second Country Airplay
No. 1 as “I Don’t Know About You” (Big Loud) ascended 2-1
in its 45th week on the survey, up 11% to 38.7 million audience impressions in
the week ending Sept. 29.
“I’m so
proud of this song and all who worked really hard to make this happen,”
said Lane. “Thank you to the songwriters who let me record it and country
radio for playing it, and a huge shoutout to the fans.”
Penned by
Ashley Gorley, Hardy, Hunter Phelps and Jameson Rodgers, the track is the
second single from Lane’s LP LAPS AROUND THE SUN, which debuted and peaked at
No. 8 on Top Country Albums in July 2018. Lead single “Take Back Home Girl”
(featuring Tori Kelly) reached No. 8 on Country Airplay in August 2018.
Lane first
crowned Country Airplay with his second entry, “Fix,” for a week in August
2016. Lane landed his second of four top 10s to date with follow-up “For Her,”
which hit No. 10 in September 2017.
On Hot Country
Songs, “Know” pushed 4-2 for a new best in its 51st week. It drew 7.5million
U.S. streams and sold 4,000 downloads in the week ending Sept. 26.
Russell Dickerson rolled up his third straight
career-opening Country Airplay top10,
as “Every Little Thing” (Triple Tigers) climbed 11-10, gaining
by 8% to 25million in radio reach. His first two hits led the list last year:
“Yours,” for two weeks starting on Jan. 27, and “Blue Tacoma” (one week, Oct.
13).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “I Don't Know About You” Chris Lane 38.653 million
audience (+3.873 million) / 7,693 radio plays (+858)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.3 “Prayed For You” Matt Stell +3.879
million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.16 “Even Though I'm Leaving” Luke Combs (17 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.54 “Drowning” Chris Young
Debut
No. 55 “Blessings”
Florida Georgia Line
Debut
No.59 “Now You Know” Jon Langston
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Blanco Brown with “The
Git Up” (Trailer Trap Music/BMG/Broken Bow) returned to the top for a 13th non-consecutive
week moving 2-1 (#7 non-mover Digital
Songs).
It was 6 places behind Maroon 5’s “Memories” which
debuted at No.1 on Digital Country Songs chart with 27,000
sold.
Marshmello
& Kane Brown with “One
Thing Right” pushed 4-2 (#19-10 Digital Songs) in their 12th
frame.
Lady Antebellum with ballad
"Ocean", released on Sept. 20, previews the group’s
forthcoming album of the same name, due Nov. 15. It entered Country Digital
Song Sales at No. 3 (9,000 sold),
marking the band’s 15th top 10, and Hot Country Songs at No. 37.
Old Dominion with “One
Man Band” (RCA Nashville) advanced 9-5 (#34-21 Digital
Songs) in its 15th frame.
Luke Combs with “Even Though
I'm Leaving” (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) rose 5-4 (#20-13 Digital Songs) as “Beer
Never Broke My Heart” held at No.6 (#24 non-mover Digital
Songs) in his 21st frame.
Additionally, previous weeks No.1 the
90’s country-inspired “1, 2 Many” (River House/Columbia
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) with Brooks &
Dun plummeted 1-16.
Luke Bryan with “Knockin' Boots” rose 8-7 (#33-27 Digital
Songs) in his 26th week.
Matt Stell with “Prayed For You” (Arista
Nashville) climbed 12-8 (#45-28 Digital Songs).
9 non-consecutive week No1. Blake Shelton with “God’s Country” (Warner Bros./Warner
Music Nashville) rose 10-9 (#36-29
Digital Songs) in his 26th frame. Additionally, Blake
Shelton featuring Trace
Adkins with “Hell Right” (Warner
Music Nashville) moved 13-10 (#46-32 Digital Songs) in
their 6th week.
Outside
the Top 10
Kenny
Chesney with “Tip Of My Tongue”
(Blue Chair, Warner Music Nashville) lifted 18-11 (#38 Re-Entry Digital
Songs).
Thomas
Rhett with “Remember You
Young” (Valory) pushed 20-12 (#40 Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Ingrid Andress with “More
Hearts Than Mine” (Atlantic, Warner Music Nashville) made a debut at
No.23
Zac Brown Band with (ZB
Collective) with “The Woods” made a debut at No.25.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
September
30, 2019
Chris Lane Hits #1 With 'I Don't Know About You'
Congratulations
to Chris Lane, Stacy Blythe, Ali Matkosky
and the Big Loud promotion team on landing at No.1 with “I Don’t
Know About You.” It is the second single from Lane’s Laps Around The
Sun album. Songwriters are Ashley Gorley, Michael Hardy, Hunter Phelps and Jameson
Rodgers.
“I Don’t Know About You” (Big Loud) climbed 2-1 logging 8,461 radio spins (+1,195), 51.109 million audience impressions (+7.472) with 26860 Total Points (+3663) from 153 tracking stations (153 ADDS)
for the tracking week September 22 to September 28, 2019 and published chart
dated September 30, 2019.
Justin Moore Is Most-Added With 'Why We Drink'
And
kudos to Chris Palmer, Ashley Sidoti and the Valory reps on notching 37
adds for Justin
Moore’s “Why We Drink”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart
week.
 |
| The Valory Music Co. celebrated 37 Mediabase adds this week for Justin Moore's new single, "Why We Drink". Pictured (L-R): Valory Dir./Southwest Promotion Christy DiNapoli, VP/Promotion & Digital Ashley Sidoti, Pres. George Briner and Coordinator Athena Puharic |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title
(Label) TW Total Historic Adds
JUSTIN MOORE/Why We Drink (Valory) 37 41
TENILLE
TOWNES/Jersey On The
Wall(I'm Just...) (Columbia) 25 25
GEORGE
STRAIT/The Weight Of The Badge (MCA) 24 25
CHASE
RICE/Lonely If You Are (Dack Janiels/Broken Bow) 10 103
LUKE COMBS/Even
Though I'm Leaving (River House/Columbia) 10 154
C.
PEARCE & L. BRICE/I Hope You're Happy Now
(Big Machine/Curb) 9 9
CHRIS
YOUNG/Drowning (RCA) 9 49
JASON ALDEAN/We
Back (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 9 138
OLD
DOMINION/One Man Band (RCA) 9 156
INGRID
ANDRESS/More Hearts
Than Mine (Warner/WEA) 8 115
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Blessings (BMLGR) 7 60
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/One Night
Standards (Warner/WAR) 6 32
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Homecoming
Queen? (Black River) 6 141
CAYLEE
HAMMACK/Family Tree
(Capitol) 5 113
ALISSA
GRIFFITH/Glasses
(Dreamhaus/PlayMore) 2 22
STEPHANIE
QUAYLE/Whatcha Drinkin
'Bout (Rebel Engine) 2 7
HARDY f/T.
RHETT/Nothin' Out Here (TVM/Big Loud) 1 1
TRISHA
YEARWOOD/Every Girl In
This Town (Gwendolyn/Pearl) 1 137
For
a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly September 30, 2019, Issue 672
- Magazine View
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #3
Event
Venue City/State: Zac Brown Band
Fenway Park Boston, Mass
Dates:
Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 2019 Gross Sales: $5,492,558 Attend:
71,514 / 71,514
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $500, $47.50
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #5
Event
Venue City/State: Zac Brown Band Mile High
Stadium Denver, Colo.
Dates:
Aug. 9, 2019 Gross Sales: $3,276,856 Attend:
41,276 / 45,449
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0* (1** unsold
tickets) Prices: $148.50, $15
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #11
Event
Venue City/State: Eric Church Scotiabank
Saddledome Calgary, Alberta
Dates:
Sept. 20-21, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,600,560 Attend:
24,491 / 24,491
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $135.63, $11.30
Promoters: Messina Touring Group/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #12
Event
Venue City/State: Florida Georgia Line XFINITY Center
Mansfield, Mass.
Dates:
July 12, 2019 Gross Sales: $1,549,401 Attend:
19,646 / 19,646
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $109.25, $35.25
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #28
Event
Venue City/State: Luke Bryan Lake Tahoe
Outdoor Arena at Harveys Stateline, Nev.
Dates:
Aug. 25, 2019 Gross Sales: $851,058 Attend:
7,184 / 7,184
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices: $162.96, $75.76
Promoters:
Another Planet
Entertainment
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