KOE WETZEL BECOMES ONLY THE
SIXTH ARTIST TO EVER EARN A FIVE-WEEK NO. 1
WITH BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY DEBUT Platinum-Certified 9
Lives Lead Single Featuring Jessie
Murph Remains No. 1
at Country Radio, Climbs Top 15 at Hot AC & Approaches Top 25 at Top
40
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. – Koe Wetzel continues his meteoric rise into 2025 as “High
Road” (originally released 12 July 2025) featuring Jessie Murph,
both artists’ first single at Country radio, remains atop the Billboard Country
Airplay chart for a fifth consecutive week. “High Road” is only the sixth debut
single to achieve this feat since the chart’s inception in 1990 and marks the
first song by two acts each charting for the first time to ever earn that
distinction.
“The way ‘High Road’ has connected has been unreal, and to wrap my head around
the fact that it’s stayed at No. 1 for over a month now is honestly hard to
do,” marvels Wetzel. “It’s a hell of a way to start 2025.”
“Getting to No. 1 is difficult; staying there for five weeks is very difficult
and only happens if the song is a true bonafide smash hit record,” RECORDS
Nashville EVP Josh Easler shared
with Billboard as
he earned Executive of the Week honors in recognition of the milestone
achievement.
“High Road” is the lead single off Wetzel’s fifth studio album and fourth Billboard Top
10,9 Lives(Columbia),
which has proven to be a defining album for the Texan renegade, earning
recognition on multiple year-end best-of lists, including Rolling Stone, Billboard,
the Tennessean, Holler and more, with the Los
Angeles Times naming “High Road” specifically as the No. 8 best song
of 2024 across all genres.
High
Road (Official Video)
Written by Wetzel alongside Murph, Amy Allen, Carrie Karpinen, Laura Veltz,
Josh Serrato and producer Gabe Simon, the single has amassed more than 330
million global streams en route to becoming Wetzel’s fastest RIAA Platinum
certification to date.
As Wetzel dominates the airwaves, he’s also gearing up for another
high-throttle year on the road, with upcoming headlining shows at the San
Antonio Rodeo, Windy City Smokeout, Tailgates N’ Tallboys and more, plus
prominent sets at Stagecoach and CMC Rocks (Australia) and more exciting tour
news coming soon.
For more information, visit KoeWetzelMusic.com and
follow on Instagram and Facebook @KoeWetzelMusic, TikTok @Koe_Wetzel and
Twitter/X @KoeWetzel.
9 LivesTrack List:
(songwriters in parentheses; full credits available here)
“Continued” Skit
“9 Lives (Black Cat)” (Ropyr Wetzel, Amy
Allen, Gabe Simon)
“Casamigos” (Ropyr Wetzel, Amy Allen, Sam
Nelson Harris, Ben Burgess, Gabe Simon)
“Damn Near Normal” (Ropyr Wetzel, Amy Allen,
Gabe Simon, Carrie Karpinen, Sam Harris)
“Leigh” (Ropyr Wetzel, Amy Allen, Gabe Simon)
“Twister” (Ropyr Wetzel, Steve Rusch, Ben
Burgess, Josh Serrato)
“High Road” feat. Jessie Murph (Ropyr Wetzel,
Amy Allen, Gabe Simon, Carrie Karpinen, Jessie Murph, Laura Veltz, Josh
Serrato)
“Reconsider” (Keith Gattis cover: Charles John
Brocco, Keith Quenton Gattis)
“Hatchet” (Gabe Simon, Mike Coogan)
“Sweet Dreams” (Ropyr Wetzel, Amy Allen, Josh
Serrato, Gabe Simon, Sam Harris)
“Runnin’ Low” (Ropyr Wetzel, Amy Allen, Sam
Harris, Gabe Simon, Ben Burgess)
“Bar Song” (Blake “Shy” Carter, Breyan Isaac,
Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II, Dave Gibson)
“Last Outlaw Alive” (Josh Serrato, Ben
Burgess, Sam Harris)
“Good Times (Bonus Track)” (Ropyr Wetzel,
Steph Jones, Gabe Simon, Charlie Handsome, Josh Serrato)
About
Koe Wetzel
Koe Wetzel never met a genre wall he couldn’t tear down. The Texas
singer-songwriter has earned a rabid audience for his songs that mix country,
rock, hip-hop, and even Nineties grunge. With his defining fifth studio
album, 9 Lives, released in 2025 via Columbia Records, Wetzel
earned recognition on several major year-end best-of lists, including Rolling
Stone, Billboard, the Tennessean and more,
with the Los AngelesTimes naming lead single
“High Road” (feat. Jessie Murph) as the No. 8 best song of 2024 across all
genres. The single not only marked Wetzel’s debut at Country radio, it also
held the No. 1 spot for five weeks and became his fastest song to reach the RIAA
Platinum milestone to date. Previously, his 2016 album Noise Complaint endeared
him to fans with its no-holds-barred lyrics about drunken nights, broken hearts
and stints in jail, and included the Gold-certified hits “Love” (feat. Parker
McCollum), “Something to Talk About” plus the infamous “February 28, 2016.”
Wetzel’s 2020 major label debut, Sellout, only furthered his legend
with the Platinum-certified “Drunk Driving” and “Good Die Young” plus the
Gold-certified “Kuntry & Wistern.” The 2022 follow-up, Hell Paso,
hit No. 3 on Billboard’s Country Albums and spawned hits on both
the country and rock charts, including the Gold-certified “Creeps” and “Cabo.”
To date, Wetzel has amassed 3.7 billion total streams and has created a genuine
experience with his live concerts, which he describes as “total chaos.” In 2023
alone, he sold more than 275,000 tickets, appearing for a third time on POLLSTAR’s
Top Worldwide Tours. Wetzel again performed for well over 200,000 fans across
the U.S. in Europe in 2024, with over 96% of all headline tickets sold, in
addition to playing prominent festival sets and opening for Morgan Wallen on
the superstar’s One Night at a Time Stadium Tour.
"SAVE
ME" BY JELLY ROLL FEATURING LAINEY WILSON ASCENDS TO #1 ON COUNTRY AIRPLAY
CHARTS
"Save
Me" Marks 2X GRAMMY Nominee Jelly Roll's Third Consecutive #1 Song in
2023
2X
GRAMMY Nominee Lainey Wilson Sets Billboard Record for the Shortest Gap
Between #1 Singles for a Female Country Artist
Nashville,
TN (December 4, 2023) – Stoney Creek Records' Jelly Roll and Broken
Bow Records' Lainey Wilson cap off a monumental year with
a Billboard and Country Aircheck/Mediabase #1 single with "Save
Me." The monster hit flew up the charts serving as Jelly Roll’s
third consecutive single to top the charts in 2023 with "Son of A
Sinner" reaching that position in January followed by "Need a
Favor" in August.
Country
Airplay
** No.1
(1 week) / Most Increased Audience ** “Save Me” Jelly Roll With Lainey Wilson
34.578 million audience (+2.689 million gain) / 8477 radio plays (+900)
Country
Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart
Congratulations
to Jelly Roll (Jason DeFord), Adrian Michaels, Shelley Hargis, Scotty O’Brien
and the Stoney Creek promotion team on taking “Save Me” with Lainey Wilson to
No.1. Its 9,604 spins represented the largest one-week total in the Mediabase
era.
“Save Me” (Curb) moved 2-1 logging 9,604 radio spins (+967), 42.292 million audience impressions
(+2.643 million) with 33840 Total Points from
155 tracking stations (155 ADDS) for the published chart dated December 4,
2023.
Written
by 2X GRAMMY nominee/2023 CMA Best New Artist of the Year winner Jelly
Roll, “Save Me”(writers are David
Ray and DeFord) featuring Lainey Wilson was released as part of his debut
Country Album, WHITSITT CHAPEL (released
June 2nd, 2023) – which earned the biggest Country debut album in Billboard
Consumption Chart history. For Lainey, it marks her sixth release to top the
charts and with just a six-week gap since she last peaked at #1 with
"Watermelon Moonshine", she now holds the Billboard chart history
record for the shortest break between #1 singles by a female country artist.
2023 has
served as a career defining year for both Jelly and Lainey with each recently
earning two GRAMMY nominations including a joint nomination
for "Save Me" in the Best Country Duo/Group Performance
category. In the general categories, Jelly Roll earned a Best New Artist
nomination and Lainey Wilson's Bell Bottom Country landed
a nomination for Best Country Album. In addition, you'll find both up for
nominations at the Pollstar Awards in 2024.
In
addition to earning a 2023 CMA Award for Best New Artist of the Year, Jelly's
rolling right into the New Year having earned four People's Choice Country
Awards and three CMT Awards. He also recently wrapped his sold-out 44-city 2023 Backroad Baptism Arena Tour and
celebrated multi-format success with "Need a Favor" peaking inside the Top 10 on Hot AC and Top 25 on Top
40. In Music City, he's currently spearheading Nashville's largest toy drive
through December 15 with donation bins located at eight Walmart locations
around the metro area.
Already this year, Lainey has won five CMA Awards
including the top honor of "Entertainer of the Year", four ACM
Awards, two CMT Music Awards, three People's Choice Country
Awards, completed a 28-date sold-out headlining
tour, made her Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Lollapalooza debut. Wilson was also
honored as Billboard Women in Music’s 2023 “Rulebreaker”. Fans can catch Lainey
closing out HARDY’s The Mockingbird & The Crow tour and at
her four sold-out “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” shows at NFR this month before
she embarks on the highly anticipated "Country's Cool Again" and
“Lainey Wilson: LIVE” tours in 2024.
About
Jelly Roll:
Nashville
native singer/songwriter Jelly Roll (Jason DeFord) recently debuted Top 3 on
the Billboard 200 All Genre Chart and #2 on the Top Country Album charts with
his debut Country Album, WHITSITT CHAPEL (released June
2nd, 2023) - earning the biggest Country debut album in Billboard Consumption
Chart history.
Following his sweep at the 2023 CMT Music Awards where he earned
3 awards to become the most awarded artist of the night, the Billboard Country
Power List Cover star and “country’s ‘most authentic’ new artist” (The New
Yorker) recently received Billboard’s 2023 Breakthrough Award. “One of
Nashville’s fastest rising stars” (The New York Times), Jelly was an 8X
nominee and 4X winner at the People’s Choice Country Awards and was the
most nominated male at the 2023 CMA Awards, with five total nominations
capturing his first CMA Award for "New Artist of the Year."
His
current hit single “Save Me” — a confessional, vulnerable
expression of self-doubt— set the stage for his new season of life and took him
to new heights, has more than 155 million views on YouTube and Platinum
certification from the RIAA.
Jelly
debuted the song along with Lainey Wilson at the 2023 ACM Awards on the heels
of his 28-week reign at No. 1 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart. “Save Me” became his third consecutive #1 single in
2023 following his multi-week #1 hits on Country and Rock radio, “Need A Favor” and “Son of A Sinner.”
Having just wrapped his sold-out 44-city 2023 Backroad Baptism Arena Tour and
celebrated multi-format success with "Need a
Favor"
inside the Top 10 on Hot AC and Top 25 on Top 40, Jelly Roll continues to
resonate with fans on a global scale and earn numerous industry milestones -
from playing his sold-out hometown show for 18,000 fans at Nashville’s
Bridgestone Arena to sold-out dates at the Ryman Auditorium and the release of
his critically acclaimed Hulu documentary produced by ABC News, “Save
Me.” Featured by Nightline, GMA, GMA3,The New
York Times, The
Tennessean, Billboard, Variety, American
Songwriter, CMT and more, his
self-built, unconventional industry rise and unique fan connection has garnered
praise from numerous outlets, with Variety noting, “for everyone who’s facing
the same struggles, Jelly Roll is their Springsteen,” and American Songwriter
echoing, “with a string of accolades and an extremely dedicated following,
Jelly Roll has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the music industry.”
In
Brief:Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of November 23, 2019)
Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week)
** WHAT YOU SEE
IS WHAT YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country Songs **
No.1 (6 weeks) ** “10,000 Hours” Dan + Shay &
Justin Bieber
Country Airplay ** No.1 (1 week) **“Even Though I’m Leaving” Luke
Combs
Country Digital Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** "One Man
Band" Old Dominion
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News(Chartissue week of
November 23, 2019)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Luke Combs Bundles First No. 1 Album With Record-Setting Week on
Billboard 200 Chart
Luke
Combsblasted in at No.1 on the
Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart with his new release, WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT
YOU GET. The country album, which was released on Nov. 8 via River
House/Columbia Nashville, launched with 172,000 equivalent album units
earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 14, according to Nielsen Music. Of
that sum, 109,000
were in album, TEA
units equal 6,000 and SEA units total 58,000. The latter sum translates to 74
million on-demand audio streams for the album’s 17 tracks..
WHAT
YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET marked Combs’ first No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard
200 chart, it logged the largest week for a country album in over a year,
and it's the biggest streaming week ever for a country album.
What
You See Is What You Get is Combs' second full-length studio album, follows
2017's THIS ONE'S FOR YOU. The latter peaked at No. 4 and has been in
the top 40 every week since June 2018.
Biggest
Week for a Country Album in Over a Year:
With
172,000 equivalent album units earned, What You See Is What You Get tallies the
largest week for a country album in over a year. The last larger week earned by
a country set came when Carrie Underwood’s CRY PRETTY bowed at No. 1 with
266,000 units on the Sept. 29, 2018-dated chart.
Second
No. 1 Country Album in 2019:
What
You See Is What You Get is just the second country album to top the
Billboard 200 in 2019, of a total of 35 No. 1 albums. Earlier in the year,
Thomas Rhett's CENTER POINT ROAD logged country's first No. 1 of 2019, when it
debuted atop the list dated June 15 and spent one week in the penthouse. In all
of 2018, there were 40 total No. 1s, with three country leaders: Jason Aldean's
REARVIEW TOWN (one week, April 28), Underwood's CRY PRETTY (Sept. 29) and Kane
Brown's EXPERIMENT (one week, Nov. 24).
Combs’
Biggest Week in Units & Album Sales:
WHAT
YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET logged Combs his largest week in both total units
earned, and in album sales. His previous high in units came when THIS ONE’S FOR
YOU garnered 55,000 units (June 16, 2018-dated chart) after it was reissued
with bonus tracks a year after its initial release. Combs’ previous high in
album sales was registered in the debut week of This One’s for You, with 35,000 sold (June 24, 2017 chart).
What You See Is What You Get’s debut week was bolstered by a concert
ticket/album sale redemption offer (AXS.com) with Combs’ upcoming tour,
in addition to some merchandise/album bundles sold via Combs’ official website.
Record
Streaming Week for a Country Album:
What
You See Is What You Get logged 58,000 in SEA units, which translates to 74
million on-demand audio streams for the album's 17 tracks during the tracking
week ending Nov. 14. That easily smashes the previous one-week streaming record
for a country album. Previously, Gene Autry’s Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
and Other Christmas Classics held the record for the biggest streaming week for
a country album, when it earned 43.71 million streams for its tracks on the
Jan. 5-dated list -- thanks heavily to Christmastime plays of the album’s
holiday favorites “Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)” and
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
Billboard Top Country
Albums (Chart issue week of
November 16, 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 streamingequivalent 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.
Luke
Combswith second full-length, WHAT
YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville),
blasted in at No. 1 on the Nov. 23-dated Top Country Albums chart (#1
New Entry Billboard 200), starting with 172,000 equivalent album units (109,000 in album sales) in the week
ending Nov.14, according to Nielsen Music.
The
set is Combs’ third leader on the list, following his first LP, 2017’s This
One’s for You, and this year’s 5-track EP, THE PREQUEL (River House/Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville) which stormed to the top of Billboard’s Top
Country Albums chart (dated June 22), earning 48,000 equivalent album units
in its first week (ending June 13), according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 22,000 copies were from traditional
album sales; the set earned 25.3 million on-demand audio streams for its
songs in its debut frame.
As
for Combs’ prior history on Top Country Albums, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU arrived
atop the chart dated June24, 2017 (with 43,000 units; 35,009 in traditional album sales).
The set followed his same-named EP, which debuted at No. 36 in December 2015
and peaked at No. 24 in May 2017. A deluxe version of the LP, released on June 1, 2018, sparked the title’s
top weekly unit count (55,000, as reflected on the chart dated June 16, Combs’
former biggest week). The LP (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville),, at No. 2 on Top Country Albums (#18-14 Billboard 200, 21,000,
up 11%’ #14-5 Country Sales), has logged 50 weeks at No. 1, tying Shania
Twain’s Come on Over for the most weeks at the summit — 50 each — in the chart’s
nearly 56-year history.
Critical reception for Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You
Get:
Exclaim (Rating:90/100)….The quality
of musicianship, lyrical content and melodies on What You See Is What You Get
marks one of the top calibre country albums of the decade.
Allmusic (Rating: 4 STARS) …At 60 minutes, the album
runs through so many sturdy midtempo tunes about family, heartbreak, and love
that the seams holding Combs' everyday persona together start to show -- all
the variations on a theme can't help but reveal the calculation behind the
image -- but taken on a song-by-song basis, What You See Is What You Get is a
solid album, proudly made just the way they used to be back in the '90s.
Variety (Rating: 78/100) Did the album, as good as it is, need to be 17 songs
long? No; it feels less like taking listeners on an old-school album journey
than just flooding the streaming zone with potential hits.
Rollingstone (Rating: 3.1/2 STARS) Over 17 songs (five of which were released
this summer on The Prequel EP), Combs doubles down on the Miller-chugging bona
fides he’s sculpted in the process of becoming country’s most relatable
everyman. His second LP reworks and revamps the now-quaint Nineties country
styles of Brooks & Dunn (who appear on the clever drinking anthem “1, 2
Many”) and Alan Jackson, and is littered not just with crushed beer cans but
also resolute life lessons….Combs’ second full-length, then, sounds less like
an album and more like a collection of singles that will be crowding country
radio for the next two years.
The New York Times (Rating: 50/100)…“What You See Is What
You Get” challenges him less than his debut album did. It is mundanely
forceful, laden with chunky guitars and hard-snap drums, and just barely
ambitious. Which is to say, in the current country ecosystem, reasonably
effective. Where Combs shows the most promise is in his emergent desire to
restore the genre to the high-octane pep of the 1990s.
Entertainment Focusby Pip Ellwood-Hughes (Rating: 3.5/5) …At 17 songs long there’s bound to
be filler and it’s true that some of these songs are indistinguishable from one
another. All Over Again sounds pretty much the same as his hit Hurricane while
Every Little Bit Helps and the title track What You See Is What You Get are
Luke Combs by numbers. 1, 2 Many featuring Brooks & Dunn is a nice
throwback to the 90s and it works far better than Does To Me, the collaboration
with Eric Church.
Following several listens I’m still not fully in the Luke Combs camp.
The album is too long and there are too many similar sounding tracks.
HE GOOD: There are glimpses of Combs' potential, His vocals are strong,
The more sensitive moments are the best
THE BAD: The album is very samey, The production often removes Combs'
personality
Your Life In A Song by James Daykin (Rating: Positive) ..Don’t
get me wrong, Luke Combs is a special artist. What he has, right now, is
exactly what Country music needs. A humble, unassuming, down to earth guy that
could just be one of us is up there on stage, filling arenas with simple songs
about love, loss and the vagaries of life. Backed by a honky-tonk attitude,
Combs is leading the charge against the clean-cut pretty boys of Country pop
and is doing a damn fine job of it too. He just needs to be careful that, going
forward, across all the albums yet to come, he doesn’t become a parody of
himself or begin to plagiarise himself in an effort to meet the demands of his
rabid fan base. Someone in his team needs to be brave enough to say no to him
and to point out that he’s already written ‘Hurricane’ and ‘When it Rains it
Pours’. Combs needs someone to push him on in his creative endeavours so that
he evolves and develops into the genre-defining artist that he could, quite
clearly, so easily become. ‘What You See is What You Get’ is a great album but
it’s a relatively safe album.
Last
weeks’ No.1 Miranda Lambert withWILDCARD (Vanner/RCA Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) fell 1- 3 (#4-26 Billboard 200).
Former No.1 Old Dominionwithself-titled third LP (RCA
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville | Amazon UK - iTunes -Amazon.com) held at No.4 (#34-33
BB200) in their third frame.
Dan
+ Shaywith their self-titled album
(Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.5 (#53-47 BB200) in their 73rd
frame.
Morgan Wallenwith IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Digital EX) climbed
7-6 (#64 non-mover) in his 76th frame.
Former
No.1 Maren
Morriswith GIRL (Columbia
Nashville/ Sony Music Nashville [SMN]) rose 10-7 (#89-66 BB200) in her 36th frame.
Former
No.1 Kane
Brownwith sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT slipped 6-8 (#59-70 BB200) in his 53rd week as his self-titled
album held at No.12 (#128-126 BB200).
Chris Stapleton’s 237-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN) held at No.9(#71-79 BB200).
Former No.1 Thomas RhettwithCENTER POINT ROAD (Valory Music/ Big Machine
Records) moved 13-10 (#138-93 BB200;) in his 24th frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Kacey
Musgraveswith GOLDEN HOUR (MCA
Nashville) pushed 14-11 (148-115 BB200) in her 80th frame.
Former No.1 Brantley GilbertwithFIRE
& BRIMSTONE (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 11-13 (#117-136
BB200) in his 6th frame.
Former 6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason AldeanwithREARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) moved 15-14 (#150-144 BB200) in
his 83rd week.
In their second week Hootie & The Blowfishwith their first country LP, IMPERFECT
CIRCLE (Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville | Amazon
UK - iTunes - Amazon.com) fell 3-16 (#26-179 Billboard 200).
Florida Georgia Line withCAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY (Big Machine Label Group) rose 22-19
in their 39th chart frame.
Jon Pardiwith
HEARTACHE MEDICATION (Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville)
fell 17-20 (#187 – off theBillboard 200) in his 7th frame.
Former No.1 Carrie Underwoodwith CRY PRETTY climbed 37-25 in her 61st frame.
Bed
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Ned LeDouxwith 13-track NEXT IN
LINE (Powder River Records/ Thirty Tigers | Amazon UK - iTunes) made a debut at No.11.
Year-To-Date Albums
8,954,000 sales which is25.2%down at the same point in 2018
(11,964,000 sales).
Album consumption is 47,304,000 units which is8.7% up at the same point in 2018 (43,520,000 units)
Billboard Hot Country Songs(Chartissue week of
November 23, 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:
Dan
+ Shayand Justin Bieber’s“10,000 Hours”
(Warner Music Nashville/ WAR) held at No. 1 (chart dated Nov 16) for
their sixth week at the summit.
Thomas Rhettearned his
14th top 10as “Remember You Young” (Valory) jumped 11-6. The
track, which Rhett performed at the Country Music Association Awards on Nov.
13, rocketed by 99% to 6,000 sold and by
15% to 3.7 million U.S. streams in the week ending Nov. 14. It also bumped 5-3
on Country Airplay (31.3 million, up 8%).
Lady Antebellumwith “What
If I Never Get Over You” (Big Machine Label Group) jumped 17-7
on Hot Country Songs, likewise awarding the trio its 14th top 10 via a CMAs
assist, as Lady A performed the song with Halsey at the festivities. The
song surged by 288% to 10,000 sold and
pushed by 6% to 4.2 million clicks. On Country Airplay, it rose 10-8 (24.2
million, up 10%).
** Airplay Gainer/ Streaming & Sales Gainer ** No.2
“Even Though I'm Leaving” Luke Combs
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.14 “Better Together” Luke Combs
Debut
No.32 “Does To
Me” Luke Combs featuring Eric Church
Debut
No.38 “All Over Again” Luke Combs
Debut
No.39 “Reasons” Luke Combs
Debut
No.41 “Nothing Like You” Luke Combs
Debut
No.42 “Blue Collar Boys” Luke Combs
Debut
No.43 “Dear Today” Luke Combs
Debut
No.45 “New Every Day” Luke Combs
Debut
No.47 “Every Little Bit Helps” Luke Combs
Debut
No.49 “Angels Workin' Overtime” Luke Combs
Billboard Country Airplay(Chart issue week of
November 23, 2019)
Luke Combsbanked his record-extending
seventh straight career-opening No. 1 single on Country Airplay, as “Even
Though I’m Leaving” ascended 2-1 in its 15th week, up 12% to 41.5
million audience impressions in the week ending Nov. 17.
The track, which Combs co-wrote with Wyatt Durrette and Ray Fulcher, is
the second single from What You See Is What You Get.
It followed “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” which became Combs’ sixth No. 1
for two weeks in August.
Combs concurrently sent titles to their first weeks at No.1 on both
Country Airplay and Top Country Albums. He is the first to achieve the feat
since Dan+ Shay, whose “Tequila” hit the top of Country Airplay as the duo’s
self-titled set opened at No. 1 on Top Country Albums on July7, 2018.
Combs is the first solo male to earn such a double since Blake Shelton,
whose “Came Here to Forget” and If I’m Honest took over atop their respective
tallies on the charts dated June 11, 2016.
Jon Pardiadded his
fifth Country Airplay top10 as “Heartache
Medication” (Capitol Nashville) lifted 11-7 (24.5
million, up 9%).
Dustin Lynchbanked his
sixth Country Airplay top10 as “Ridin’
Roads” cruised 12-10 (22.5 million, up 14%).
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week)/ Most Increased Audience *** “Even Though I'm Leaving” Luke
Combs 41.463 million audience (+4.595 million) / 8,154 radio plays (+718)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.57 “Big, Big Plans” Chris Lane
Performances
at the CMA Awards give sales boosts and chart re-entries.
Old Dominionwith “One
Man Band” (RCA Nashville) climbed 3-1 (#10-4 Digital
Songs) to top the chart for the first time in their 22nd frame.
They were three places behind Taylor Swift's "Lover" (which became
her 25th Hot 100 top 10 in September) which surged 43-26, as it returned for a
second week atop Digital Song Sales, blasting
17-1 with a 192% gain to 20,000 sold in the
week ending Nov. 14 after the Nov. 13 arrival of its remix with Shawn Mendes.
The ballad also climbed 33-26 on Radio Songs (33.1 million, up 14%), while
soaring by 33% to 10.2 million streams.
Dan + Shay and Justin Bieberwith "10,000 Hours" held at
No.2 (#9-10 Digital
Song Sales) in their sixth week.
Luke Combswith new track
“Better Together” (Columbia Nashville, River
House) made a debut at No.3 (#11 New Entry Digital Songs).
Additionally, 35 NEW 1 - Luke Combsfeaturing Eric
Church with “Does To Me” (Columbia
Nashville, River House) blew in at No.13(#35 New Entry
Digital Songs).
Lady Antebellumwith “What
If I Never Get Over You” (BMLG) advanced 21-4 (#13 Re-Entry
Digital Songs).
Blake Sheltonwith 2019 CMA
Song of the Year “God’s Country” (Warner
Music Nashville) climbed 16-5 (#15 Re-Entry Digital Songs) in
his 33rd frame. Also Blake Sheltonfeaturing
Trace Adkinswith “Hell Right” (Warner
Music Nashville) dropped 8-16 (#27-42 Digital Songs) in their
13th week.
Marshmello
& Kane Brownwith “One
Thing Right” fell 4-6 (#11-19 Digital Songs) in their 19th
frame.
CMA nominated Dan
+ Shaywith “Speechless” (Warner
Music Nashville) made a re-entry at No.7(#20 Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Luke Combswith “Beautiful
Crazy” (River House/Columbia
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) pushed 22-8 (#28 Re-Entry
Digital Songs).
Thomas Rhettwith
“Remember You Young” (Valory) rose 17-9 (#30 Re-Entry
Digital Songs).
Maren Morriswith “The
Bones“ (Columbia Nashville)
retreated 7-10 (#25-31 Digital Songs) in her 13th frame.
Additionally, 7 “GIRL” made a re-entry at No.15 (#40 Re-Entry
Digital Songs).
Outside
the Top 10
Kelsea Balleriniwith
“Club” (Black River) made a debut at No.11 (#32 New Entry
Digital Songs) as her song
“homecoming queen?” made a
re-entry at No.12 (#33 Re-Entry Digital Songs).
14 non-consecutive week No1. chart topper Blanco Brownwith “The
Git Up” (Trailer Trap Music/BMG/Broken Bow) fell 6-14 (#24-39 Digital
Songs) in its 24th week.
Kacey Musgraveswith “Rainbow”
(MCA Nashville), which she performed with Willie Nelson at the CMA Awards, made
a return at No.17 (#43 Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Re-entered at No.
Carrie Underwood’slatest
radio single “Drinking Alone” (Capitol Nashville) re-entered at No.18
(#46 Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Riley
Greenwith “I Wish Grandpas Never Died”
(BMLG) fell 10-19 (#41-50 Digital Songs).
Keith Urbanwith “We
Were” (Capitol Nashville, Hit Red) made a re-entry at No.20.
Ingrid Andresswith “More
Hearts Than Mine” (Atlantic, Warner Music Nashville) fell 12-22 in
her 8th frame.
Following Little Big Town’sperformance
at the CMA Awards on Nov. 13 with Lindsay Ell, Maddie & Tae, Ashley
McBryde, Carly Pearce and Runaway June, the 2015 smash re-entered Country
Digital Song Sales at No. 24, up 649% to 3,000 sold.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
November
18, 2019
Luke Combs Scores #1 With 'Even Though I'm Leaving'
Congratulations
to Luke Combs, Steve Hodges, Shane Allen
and the Columbia promotion team on landing at No. 1 with “Even
Though I’m Leaving.” The song is the seventh consecutive career
chart-topper and second single from Combs’ recently released second studio
album, WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET. Songwriters are Wyatt Durrette, Ray
Fulcher and Combs.
“Even Though I’m Leaving” (River House/Columbia) climbed 2-1 logging8,641
radio spins (+751),
51.169 million audience impressions (+5.659) with27233 Total Points (+2381) from 157 tracking stations (157 ADDS)
for the tracking week November 10 to November 16, 2019 and published chart
dated November 18, 2019.
Granger Smith Is Most-Added With 'That's Why I Love Dirt Roads'Kudos to Ken Tucker and the
Wheelhouse reps on notching 44 adds for Granger Smith’s“That’s Why I Love
Dirt Roads”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart
week.
Wheelhouse Records celebrated Granger Smith's "That's Why I Love Dirt Roads" being most-added at Country radio this week with a bagel delivery from All Access. The song earned 44 Mediabase adds.Pictured (L-R): Wheelhouse Records Dir./Regional Promotion Cait Gordon, BBR Music Group Coord./Promotion Ashley Wojcinski, cardboard Earl Dibbles, Jr (a.k.a. Smith), Wheelhouse VP/Promotion Ken Tucker and Wheelhouse Dir./Regional Promotion Brittany Pellegrino-Pittman
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title
(Label) TW Total Historic Adds
GRANGER
SMITH/That's
Why I Love Dirt Roads (Wheelhouse) 44 45
MITCHELL
TENPENNY f/SEAFORTH/Anything She Says (Riser House/Columbia) 26 29
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Drinking
Alone (Capitol) 17 80
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Head
Over Heels (Wheelhouse) 14 58
BRETT
YOUNG/Catch (BMLGR) 7 137
CARLY
PEARCE& LEE BRICE/I Hope
You're Happy Now (Big Machine/Curb) 7 134
CHRIS
YOUNG/Drowning (RCA) 7 79
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/One
Night Standards (Warner/WAR) 6 46
MAREN
MORRIS/The
Bones (Columbia) 5 119
MORGAN
WALLEN/Chasin' You (Big Loud) 5 104
INGRID
ANDRESS/More
Hearts Than Mine (Warner/WEA) 3 144
BRANTLEY
GILBERT/Fire't Up (Valory) 2 2
LINDSAY
ELL/I Don't
Love You (Stoney Creek) 2 2
MATT
STELL/Everywhere But On (Wide Open/Records/GCE/Arista) 2 2
