Country
Billboard Chart News August 27, 2018
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of September 1, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** ALL OF IT Cole Swindell
Hot Country Songs
** No.1 (39 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Drowns The Whiskey” Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (9 non-consecutive weeks) “Simple” Florida Georgia Line
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Ariana Grande
Earns Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Sweetener'
Plus:
Cole Swindell’s “All of It” and the “Young Stoner Life: Slime Language”
compilation debut in the top 10.
Ariana Grande earned her third No. 1
album on the Billboard Top 200 Album
Chart (BB200), as her fourth full-length studio effort, SWEETENER, entered atop the tally. The
set, which was released on Aug. 17 via Republic Records, started with 231,000 equivalent album units earned
in the week ending Aug. 23, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 127,000 were from traditional album
sales.
Grande’s
Third No. 1: Sweetener is Grande’s third leader on the Billboard 200, following
the chart-topping debuts of her second album, My Everything (Sept. 13, 2014),
and her debut effort, Yours Truly (Sept. 21, 2013). Of her four full-length
studio sets, only her third release, Dangerous Woman, missed the top. It
debuted and peaked at No. 2 on June 11, 2016 (stuck behind Grande’s labelmate,
Drake, with his blockbuster album Views, which was in its fourth of 14 non-consecutive
weeks at No. 1).
Aretha Franklin’s 30 Greatest Hits climbs
7-6, granting the diva her highest-charting album in 50 years. 30 Greatest Hits
ascends with 52,000 units earned in the tracking week (up 49 percent), with
18,000 of that sum coming from traditional album sales (up 47 percent).
One
step below Franklin on the new chart was Cole Swindell with ALL OF IT, which debuted at No.7
with 50,000 units (39,000 in traditional album sales). It marked the country singer’s third
top 10 effort, following YOU SHOULD BE HERE (No. 6; May 28, 2016) and his
SELF-TITLED DEBUT (No. 3; March 8, 2014).
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.
Cole Swindell's 'All Of
It' Is #1 Country Album
Cole Swindell with new album ALL OF IT (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) became his first No.1 (among five top 10s) on
Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart (dated Sept. 1) as it bowed at the summit.
In its first week (ending Aug. 23), All of It earns 50,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. Of that
sum, 39,000 were in traditional album sales.
Michael Carter produced ALL OF IT.
Swindell
co-wrote five of the 12 songs featured on his third album, including “Love You
Too Late,” “I’ll Be Your Small Town” and “The Ones Who Got Me Here.” The lead
single “Break Up In The End” is his ninth single and was written by Jon Nite,
Chase McGill and Jessie Jo Dillon.
“We’ve poured so much into making this album,
and to find out that’s its debuting at No. 1 is something a little extra
special,”
Swindell told
Billboard. “I’m just a little taken back that it actually happened. I’m so
thankful for the writers who trusted me with their songs and continue to be
blown away by the fans that show up each night and support this music.”
CHART HISTORY
CHART HISTORY
The No.1 start
on Top Country Albums for All of It follows Swindell’s YOU SHOULD BE HERE, which debuted at No.2 on Top Country Albums with a career-best 65,353 sold on the chart dated May, 28, 2016.
His self-titled debut also opened at No. 2 in 2014 with sales of 63,247 (Chart week dated March 8, 2014). Swindell's single,
"Chillin' It," hit No.1 on the Hot Country Songs chart a week
previous.
Swindell has
also released three Down Home Sessions EPs. The first instalment arrived at No.8 on Dec. 6, 2014 (12,000 sales), followed by DOWN HOME SESSIONS II (No.11
Country & #43 Billboard 200, Nov. 28, 2015; debut 10,322
copies) and DOWN HOME SESSIONS
III (No.5 Country & #36
Billboard 200, Nov. 19, 2016; debut 10,708 copies).
Meanwhile, All
of It’s launch single, “Break Up in the End,” lifts 15-10 for a new peak on
Billboard’s hybrid Hot Country Songs chart, which blends airplay streaming and
sales. It marks Swindell’s eighth top 10. On Country Airplay, it pushes 14-12,
climbing to a new high as it hikes by 17 percent to 21.8 million audience
impressions in the tracking week ending Aug. 26.
Critical reception for Cole Swindell's All Of It:
Critical reception for Cole Swindell's All Of It:
AllMusic: As
both a songwriter and singer, Cole Swindell played no small part in
popularizing the party-hearty sound of bro-country in the early 2000s, but
there comes a time when every man must slow his roll. For Swindell, that time
is his third album, All of It. Deliberately heavy on ballads.... Swindell's
heart belongs to the sounds of the first half of the decade. This retro bent,
combined with the concentration on slow tunes, means All of It winds up
agreeably sleepy, the kind of record that dissipates as soon as it's finished
playing.
Last weeks’
No1 Luke
Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) fell 1-2 (#11-15
Billboard 200) having led for 10 non-consecutive weeks.
Former 6-week
non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 2-3
(25-33 BB200).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.4 (#32-35 BB200).
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED held
at No.5 (#36-42 BB200).
Chris Stapleton with the 173-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
rose 7-6 (#43-46 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell
16-18 (#122-142 BB200) and From A Room: Volume 2 fell 25-28 (#186
to off the top 200 BB200) in its 38-week.
Former No.1 Kenny Chesney with SONGS FOR THE SAINTS (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./Warner Music
Nashville) fell 3-7 (27-47 Billboard
200).
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) fell 6-8 (#42-49 BB200).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 8-9 (#48-54 BB200).
Former No.1 Keith Urban with GRAFFITI
U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 9-10 (#80-82 BB200).
Outside the
Top 10
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) fell 10-11 (#86-103 BB200).
Dierks Bentley with
THE MOUNTAIN (Capitol Nashville |
UMGN) rose 18-12 (#137-106 BB200).
Outside the Top 25
Mitchell Tenpenny with
his SELF- TITLED (EP) was new at No.47.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Charlie Farley with 12-track WINNING WITH THE LOSERS (Backroad Records/Average Joes
Entertainment | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com
) was new at No.39
Various Artists with compilation album COUNTRY LEGENDS was new at No.42
Year-To-Date Albums
10,244,000 (Physical sales 7,239,000
(down -16.2%) + Digital sales 3,015,000 (down -29.9%) which is 20.9% down at the same point in 2017 (12,944,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
33,790,000 down 27.1% at the same point in 2017 (46,344,000)
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:
Bebe
Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant
to Be” (Warner Bros./Big Machine Label Group) extended its record run
atop Hot Country Songs to 39 weeks,
having bested Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road,” which led for 34 weeks in
2017.
On Country Streaming Songs, “Meant” remained at No. 1 for
a record-breaking 35th frame, with 13.7
million U.S. streams (up less than 1 percent). Hunt’s “Body” led the list,
which began in April 2013, for 34 weeks starting Feb. 25, 2017.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (39
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
** Digital
Gainer/ Streaming Gainer ** No.10 “Break Up In
The End” Cole Swindell
**
Airplay Gainer” No.15 “Blue Tacoma” Russell
Dickerson
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.33 “Dad's Old Number” Cole Swindell
Debut
No.35 “Heart Like A Wheel” Eric Church
Debut
No.39 “Turnin' Me On” Blake Shelton
Debut
No.49 “All Of It” Cole Swindell
Debut
No.50 “Night Shift” Jon Pardi
Jason
Aldean’s “Drowns the
Whiskey,” featuring Miranda Lambert (Macon/Broken Bow), held atop Country Airplay for a
second frame as it increases by 8 percent to 41.7 million audience
impressions. On Hot Country Songs, it rose 6-3 for its new peak and claimed the
week's leading position on the Mediabase/Country Aircheck singles chart with
his 21st career No.1.
“Whiskey,” which is Aldean’s 19th Country Airplay No.1, is his
second single from the REARVIEW TOWN LP following “You Make it Easy,” which led
for two weeks beginning May 5. It’s his ninth multiweek Country Airplay leader.
“Big Green Tractor,” which led for four weeks starting Sept. 5, 2009, is his
longest.
For Lambert, “Whiskey” marks her fifth Country Airplay No. 1 and the
second to reign for more than one week. Her first multiweek No.1, “The House
That Built Me,” was also her first Country Airplay leader. It ruled for four
weeks beginning June 12, 2009.
Written by Brandon Kinney, Jeff Middleton and Josh Thompson, “Drowns the
Whiskey” is saturated in well-worn emotions and "harkens back to songs by
country legends that explored turning to vices in an attempt to stomp out a
heartache" (Wide Open Country). "In true Aldean fashion, he looks at
different sides of the small-town experience" (Rolling Stone) as the No.
One hit "does not stray far from what he’s been doing so successfully for
more than a decade" (Kansas City Star).
Russel
Dickerson with “Blue
Tacoma” (Triple Tigers) reached the Country Airplay top 10 as
it increased 22 percent to 25.9 million impressions and bumped 13-10.
“Blue” is Dickerson’s second consecutive Country Airplay top 10,
following his debut single, “Yours,” which led Country Airplay for two weeks
starting Jan. 27.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Drowns The Whiskey” Jason
Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert 41.715
million audience (+3.124 million) / 7,754 radio plays (+662)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.10 “Blue Tacoma” Russell Dickerson +4.728 million
audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.23 “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs (25 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.55 “Better Boat” Kenny
Chesney feat. Mindy Smith
Debut
No. 56 “Never
Comin Down” Keith Urban
Debut
No. 58 “Floatin'”
Uncle Kracker
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Florida
Georgia Line with their No1
“Simple” (BMLG) moved 2-1
(#12-16 Digital Songs) to return to the top for 9th non-consecutive
week.
It was 15 places behind Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin's
former No. 1 hit "I Like It"
which held at No. 3 on the Hot 100, while it topped the Digital Song Sales
chart for the first time, in its 20th chart week. The collaboration moved 32,000
downloads in the week, a 4 percent dip. With “Like” needing 20 weeks to top
Digital Song Sales, it claims the sixth-longest wait to the summit since the
chart began in 2004. Only The All-American Rejects’ “Dirty Little Secret,” (26
weeks, reaching No. 1 in 2006), Train’s “Hey Soul Sister” (25, 2010), The
Fray’s “How to Save a Life” (25, 2006), Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance,” featuring
Colby O’Donis (24, 2009) and Adele’s “Set Fire to The Rain” (23, 2012) required
more time to ascend to No. 1.
Former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) held at No.7 (#33-41 Digital Songs).
Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert with “Drowns The Whiskey” (Macon | Broken
Bow) pushed 6-3 (#27-30 Digital
Songs).
Brett
Young with “Mercy”
(BMLG) climbed 3-2 (#16-24 Digital
Songs).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR) held
at No.4 (#25-33
Digital Songs).
Cole
Swindell with “Dad’s Old Number” made a debut at No.5 (#34 New Entry Digital Songs).
Eric
Church with “Heart
Like a Wheel” The R&B-flavored ballad, released on Aug. 17, is the
latest sample from Church’s upcoming full-length studio set, Desperate Man, due
Oct. 5. “Heart” shifted 8,000 downloads in its
first week ending Aug. 23 and bounded onto Country Digital Song Sales at No.
6 (#37 New Entry
Digital Songs), marking the artist’s
14th top 10. It also debuted at No. 35 on Hot Country Songs.
Luke Combs with “Beautiful Crazy” advanced
11-8 (#44-50 Digital Songs).
Thomas
Rhett with “Life
Changes” rose 10-9.
Luke Bryan with “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset”
fell 8-10.
Outside
the Top 10
Kenny Chesney with “Get Along” fell 9-11.
Last weeks’ No.1 Cody Johnson with his new single, “On My Way to You” (Cojo/Warner Music Nashville) fell off the
top 25.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
August
27, 2018
Jason Aldean Hits #1 With
'Drowns The Whiskey'
Congrats to Jason Aldean,
Carson James, Lee Adams and the Broken Bow promotion crew on landing the week’s
No.1 with “Drowns The Whiskey,”
featuring Miranda Lambert. The song is second chart-topper from REARVIEW TOWN.
Writers are Brandon Kinney, Jeff Middleton and Josh Thompson. The track marks
ALDEAN's 21st career #1, following
the success of his two-week hit, "You Make It Easy," earlier this
year.
“Drowns The Whiskey” (Broken Bow) moved 2-1 logging 8,476 radio spins (+972) and 53.521 million audience
impressions (+5.053 million) with 27706 Total Points (+3,240) from 158 tracking stations (158 ADDS) for
the tracking week August 19 to August 25, 2018 and published chart August 27th,
2018.
Kenny Chesney Is
Most-Added With 'Better Boat'
Kudos to Adrian
Michaels and the WEA team on securing 51
MEDIBASE adds for Kenny Chesney’s “Better
Boat” featuring Mindy Smith. The song
topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
 |
| In celebration of Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA's Kenny Chesney most-added at Country radio. Pictured L-R: (back) WMN VP/Original Content & Radio Marketing Chad Schultz, Dir./National Radio & Streaming Katie Bright, and SVP/Radio & Streaming Kristen Williams; (front) Team WAR Coord./Radio & Streaming Taylor Aretz; Team WEA Coord./Radio & Streaming Kate Myers and Dir./National Radio & Streaming Adrian Michaels; and WMN Exec. Asst. Kati Salverson |
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
KENNY CHESNEY f/M. SMITH/Better Boat (Blue
Chair/Warner Bros./WEA) 51 66
KEITH
URBAN/Never Comin Down (Capitol) 44 45
D. BRADBERY
& T. RHETT/Goodbye Summer (Valory/BMLGR) 30 57
ELI YOUNG
BAND/Love Ain't (Valory) 17 86
LUKE COMBS/She
Got The Best Of Me (River House/Columbia) 15 155
TENILLE ARTS/I
Hate This (Reviver) 14 14
DAN +
SHAY/Speechless (Warner Bros./WAR) 13 82
JAKE OWEN/Down
To The Honkytonk (Big Loud) 13 93
BLAKE
SHELTON/Turnin' Me On (Warner Bros./WMN) 12 132
D. RUCKER
f/ALDEAN/BRYAN/KELLEY/Straight To Hell (Capitol) 11 62
RILEY
GREEN/There Was This Girl (BMLGR) 11 94
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 10 39
DUSTIN
LYNCH/Good Girl (Broken Bow) 9 125
KANE BROWN/Lose
It (RCA) 9 151
KIP MOORE/Last
Shot (MCA) 8 149
CHASE RICE/Eyes
On You (Broken Bow) 7 52
MIDLAND/Burn
Out (Big Machine) 7 147
MITCHELL
TENPENNY/Drunk Me (Riser House/Columbia) 7 151
CODY JOHNSON/On
My Way To You (CoJo/WMN) 3 22
ABBY
ANDERSON/Make Him Wait (Black River) 2 55
LOCASH/Feels
Like A Party (Wheelhouse) 2 3
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 2 80
SETH ENNIS
f/LITTLE BIG TOWN/Call Your Mama (Arista) 2 2
UNCLE
KRACKER/Floatin' (Hit Bunch/New Revolution) 2 39
AARON
CRAWFORD/Heart Like Hers (---) 1 1
CASEY DONAHEW/That
Got The Girl (Alm.Country/Thirty Tigers) 1 3
CLARE DUNN/More
(MCA) 1 54
MORGAN
EVANS/Day Drunk (Warner Bros./WEA) 1 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #1
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Brothers Osborne, Dierks Bentley Gillette Stadium Foxborough,
Mass.
Dates:
Aug. 24-25, 2018 Gross Sales: $11,631,679 Attend: 121,714/ 121,714
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$271, $66
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #12
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion Merriweather
Post Pavilion Columbia, Md.
Dates:
Aug. 22, 2018 Gross Sales: $1,179,407 Attend: 16,978/ 16,978
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$127.50, $50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #19
Event
Venue City/State: Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini Amphitheater
at the Wharf Orange Beach, Ala.
Dates:
Aug. 25, 2018 Gross Sales: $515,313 Attend: 9,484 /9,484
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$92.75, $16
Promoters: Red Mountain Entertainment
Rank
Artist: #41
Event
Venue City/State: Lyle Lovett Wagner Noel Performing Arts
Center Midland, Texas
Dates:
Aug. 23, 2018 Gross Sales: $69,480 Attend: 1,086/ 1,742
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (656 unsold tickets) Prices:
$70, $40
Promoters: Pizzitola Productions
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