In
Brief:Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of January 5, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** Rudolph The Red Nosed
Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics
Gene Autry
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (6 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (3 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (8 non-consecutive weeks) “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News(Chartissue week of
January 5, 2019)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
21 Savage's 'I
Am > I Was' Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
21 Savage scored his first No.1 on
the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart (BB200) with the chart-topping bow of I Am > I Was. The set was released
on Dec. 21 via Slaughter Gang/Epic Records and launches with 131,268 equivalent album units (17,870)
[151,871,930 streams] earned in the week ending Dec. 27, according to Nielsen
Music. Of that sum, 18,000 were in traditional album sales, as the bulk of the album was
driven by streaming activity.
Billboard Top Country
Albums(Chart issue week of
January 5, 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.
Christmas
is still in the air! This first week of 2019 based on total consumption Gene Autrywith
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics rose 2-1 (#40-24 Billboard 200; 11 chart frames) to lead Billboard Top Country
Albums.
20
non-consecutive week No.1 Luke Combswith
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) slipped 1-2 (#30-32 Billboard 200) in its 82nd chart frame.
Elvis Presleywith IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME dropped 3-4.
Former No1Dan + Shaywith their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) climbed 7-5 (#66-52 BB200).
Brenda Leewith The Best Of Brenda Lee: 20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection
lifted 9-6 (#78-59 BB200).
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwoodwith CRY PRETTY advanced 12-7 (#102-60 BB200).
Former
No.1 Kane Brownwith
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT fell 6-8 (#60-65
BB200).
Chris Stapletonwith the 191-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
fell 8-9 (#68-74 BB200) as hisset From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell
15-17 (#129-138 BB200)and From A Room: Volume 2 moved
21-20 (#179-190 Billboard 200).
Outside the
Top 10
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason AldeanwithREARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) frose 14-12
(#111-116 BB200) in its 36th week.
Mitchell Tenpennywith TELLING ALL MY SECRETS slumped 5-14
(#53-129 Billboard 200) in his second frame.
Former No.1 Brett YoungwithTicket to L.A. fell 10-18 in his third frame.
Upchurch with 12-track Hip-Hop & Rap set RIVER RAT [Explicit] (Redneck Nation
Records | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes)
made a debut at No.21 (#191 New
Entry Billboard 200) and #8 Country Album sales.
Billboard Hot Country Songs(Chartissue week of
January 5, 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 + Shaywith “Speechless” (Warner
Bros./ WAR) led Hot Country Songs for a sixth week.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (6 weeks)** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.40 “People Are Different” Florida Georgia Line
Debut
No.41 “Prayed For You” Matt Stell
Debut
No.47 “Rules Of Breaking Up” Brandon
Ratcliff
Debut
No.49 “Glow” Brett Eldredge
Billboard Country Airplay(Chart issue week of
January 5, 2019)
In it’s 21st chart frame Dan + Shaywith “Speechless”
(writers Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) led the chart for third successive week.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (3 weeks) *** “Speechless” Dan +
Shay 33.459 million audience (-5.307 million) / 6475 radio plays
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.60 “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” Dylan Scott
Previous weeks’
chart topper Dan
+ Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney)with “Speechless” returned to No.1 moving 2-1(#12-10 Digital Songs) to
head the summit for an 8th non-consecutive week as their hit “Tequila”
advanced 11-2 in its 49th frame.
Speechles was
nine places behind Halsey's "Without Me" which spent a third week at
its No. 2 Hot 100 high. It led Digital
Song Sales for a sixth week (47,000, up 27 percent).
Luke
Combswith “She
Got The Best Of Me” pushed 9-3 (#44-31
Digital Songs) and “Beautiful Crazy” lifted 14-4
(#34 Re-Entry Digital Songs) in its 34th frame.
Jake Owenwith “Down To The Honkytonk”
rose 12-5 (#50 Re-Entry Digital
Songs).
Mitchell Tenpennywith “Drunk Me” climbed 16-6 in its 23rd frame.
Kane Brown with “Lose It” made a re-entry
at No.7 and Chris Stapleton’s“Tennessee Whiskey” rose 17-8.
Brenda Leewith “Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree”
fell 8-9. It alsotwo-stepped 11-9 on the Hot 100, also
reaching the top 10 at last; originally released in 1958, it first appeared on
the Hot 100 dated Dec. 12, 1960, reaching No. 14 two weeks later, its best rank
until last week. On Streaming Songs, "Tree" rose 12-3 (44.9 million,
up 50 percent).
The former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexhaand Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) climbed
25-10.
Outside
the Top 10
Florida
Georgia Linewith “People
Are Different” made a debut at No.13
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Brief:Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of December 29, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (21 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (5 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** "Broken Hearts" Chevel Shepherd
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News(Chartissue week of
December 29, 2018)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Kodak Black
Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With 'Dying to Live'
Rapper
Kodak Black scored his first No.1 on
the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart
(BB200), as DYING TO LIVE debuted atop the tally.
The
set, which was released on Dec. 14 via Dollaz N Dealz/Atlantic Records, earned 89,000 equivalent album units in the
week ending Dec. 20, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 5,000 were in traditional album
sales -- as the bulk of the album’s units were driven by streaming activity.
Top
100 Album Sales in 2018
#1 REPUTATION
Taylor Swift
#2 THE
GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack
#3 ÷
(DIVIDE) Ed Sheeran
#4 BEAUTIFUL
TRAUMA P!nk
#5 FROM
A ROOM: VOLUME 2 Chris Stapleton
#6 REARVIEW
TOWN Jason Aldean
#7 KAMIKAZE
Eminem
#8 A
STAR IS BORN (SOUNDTRACK) Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
#9 MAN
OF THE WOODS Justin Timberlake
#10
ASTROWORLD Travis Scott
#15
CRY PRETTY Carrie Underwood
#17
WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Luke Bryan
#22
FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 Chris Stapleton
#23
THE ANTHOLOGY: PART I, THE FIRST FIVE YEARS Garth Brooks
#25
TRAVELLER Chris Stapleton
#27
GRAFFITI U Keith Urban
#35
KANE BROWN Kane Brown
#49
THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs
#65
DESPERATE MAN Eric Church
#80
SWEET SOUTHERN SUGAR Kid Rock
#85
SONGS FOR THE SAINTS Kenny Chesney
Billboard Top Country
Albums(Chart issue week of
December 29, 2018)
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.
Based
on total consumption (20
non-consecutive weeks) Luke Combswith
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) moved 2-1 (#31-30 Billboard 200) to top the chart for a 21
non-consecutive week in its 81st chart frame.
Gene
Autrywith Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other
Christmas Classics rose 3-2 (#42-40
Billboard 200; 11 chart frames).
Elvis Presleywith IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME climbed 4-3
(#51-50 Billboard 200;
12 chart weeks).
Burl
Iveswith RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER rose 5-4
(#54-52; 13 chart frames).
He may have
released his album a week before Christmas but it seems to have paid off as Mitchell Tenpennyended 2018 as the newcomer with the biggest selling
debut. TELLING ALL MY SECRETS debuted
at #5 (#53 Billboard 200; as the
second-highest non-holiday release) on the multi-metric Country Albums list
from Billboard and #1 on the pure
album sales driven Country Albums chart.
“What an
incredible gift I received on Christmas Eve,” remarked Mitchell Tenpenny. “I
was so pleasantly surprised with the news that Telling All My Secrets debuted
on the Billboard album chart in such a huge way!"
Former
No.1 Kane Brownwith
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT rose 7-6 (#67-60
BB200).
Former No1Dan + Shaywith their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 6-7 (#66 Non-mover BB200).
Chris Stapletonwith the 190-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.8 (#70-68 BB200) as hisset From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) rose
18-15 (#161-129 BB200)and From A Room: Volume 2 climbed
23-21 (#179 Re-Entry Billboard 200).
Brenda Leewith The Best Of Brenda Lee: 20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection
held at No.9 (#79-78 BB200).
Previous
weeks No.1 Brett YoungwithTicket to L.A. slumped 1-10
in his second frame.
Outside the
Top 10
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwoodwith CRY PRETTY rose 14-12 (#123-102 BB200).
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason AldeanwithREARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 13-14
(#113-111 BB200) in its 36th week.
Outside the Top 25
Dolly Parton with 12-track DUMPLIN' (Soundtrack; Dolly Records/RCA Nashville | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
-Amazon.com) fell 16-28 (#143 to off Billboard 200) in
its third frame.
The Voice Season
15 contestents Kirk
Jaywith The Voice: The Season 15 Collection made a debut at No.32 and Chevel Shepherd
with The Voice: The Season 15 Collection was new at #49.
Billboard Hot Country Songs(Chartissue week of
December 29, 2018)
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 + Shaywith “Speechless” (Warner
Bros./ WAR) led Hot Country Songs for a fifth week.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (5 weeks)** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.24 “Broken Hearts” Chevel Shepherd
Debut
No.31 “What Happens In A Small Town” Brantley
Gilbert + Lindsay Ell
Debut
No.37 “Defenseless” Kirk Jay
Debut
No.39 “Human” Chris Kroeze
Debut
No.47 “You Look So Good In Love” Kirk
Jay & Blake Shelton
Debut
No.48 “I Won't Let Go” Kirk Jay
Billboard Country Airplay(Chart issue week of
December 29, 2018)
In it’s 20th chart frame Dan + Shaywith “Speechless”
(writers Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) held at No.1.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** 38.765 million audience (+0.136 million) / 7230 radio plays
(+1)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.5 “Good Girl” Dustin Lynch +3.391 million audience gain/ 6395 plays
The Voice
Season 15 winner Chevel Shepherdwith her original song "Broken Hearts" (US iTunes) made a debut at No.1
on the Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart (#6
New Entry Digital Songs).
Performing
on The Voice Live Finale, Part 1
It was 5 places behind Halsey's "Without Me" which spent a
second week at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. It led Digital Song Sales for a
fifth week (37,000, essentially even week-over-week).
Chevel
Shepherdand her The Voice coach Kelly
Clarksonwith a cover of The Judds’ "Rockin' with the Rhythm of the Rain"
made a debut at No.10 (#48 New Entry
Digital Songs). It was performed on The Voice Week 6: Finale (Dec. 17 & 18). Additionally, Chevel Shepherd debuted
at No.18 with a cover of Tanya Tucker’s 1993 #2 hit 1993 "It's a Little Too Late".
Previous weeks’
chart topper (7 non-consecutive weeks) Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney)with “Speechless”
held at No.2(#12 non-mover Digital Songs) as their hit “Tequila”
fell 8-11 in its 48th frame.
Voice Season 15
Runner-up contestant (Team Blake) Kirk Jaywith
original “Defenseless” made a debut at No.3(#14 New Entry Digital
Songs).Kirk Jay& coach Blake Sheltonwith a cover of George Strait’s No1 hit (1984) "You Look So Good in Love" made a debut at No.6 (#27
New Entry Digital Songs) and Kirk Jay’s cover ofRascal Flatts’ #2 hit (2011) "I
Won't Let Go" made a bow at No.7 (#32 New Entry Digital Songs).
Kirk Jay The Voice Live Finale, Part 1.
Voice Season 15
Runner-up contestant (Team Blake) Chris Kroezewith
original song “Human” made a debut at No.4.
(#16 New Entry Digital Songs).
Brantley
Gilbert+ Lindsay Ellwith “What
Happens In A Small Town” made a deut at No.5 (#17 New Entry Digital Songs).
Seasonal
chesnutt Brenda
Leewith “Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree”
fell 3-8 (#29-39 Digital Songs).
Luke
Combswith “She
Got The Best Of Me” fell 4-9 (#31-44
Digital Songs).
Outside
the Top 10
Jake Owenwith “Down To The Honkytonk” fell
7-12.
Bobby Helms’“Jingle Bell Rock” fell 10-15.
Mitchell Tenpennywith “Drunk Me” fell 5-16 in its 22nd frame.
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist:#2
Event
Venue City/State: George Strait T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas
In
Brief:Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of December 8, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (19 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “Lose It” Kane Brown
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (6 non-consecutive weeks) “Speechless” Dan + Shay
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News(Chartissue week of
December 8, 2018)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
The results of the Billboard 200 chart dated Dec. 8, which was announced on Sunday(Dec. 2),
are being audited by Nielsen Music due to a processing discrepancy. Upon
completion of the in-depth audit of data sources across streaming and retail, Billboard will
announce any resulting changes that may affect chart rankings.
That seems to be the industry-wide refrain in
response to the latest Billboard chart flap, as the Bible’s prior anointing of Travis Scott as #1
on its Top 200 after a squeaker of a race with 6ix9ine will now be
re-run and may be reversed after a challenge.
Billboard Top Country
Albums(Chart issue week of
December 8, 2018)
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.
Topping
the weeks total consumption figures Luke Combswith THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) held at No.1 (4,700
sales; 78-week total 368,800) to land 19 non-consecutive weeks at No.1.
Former
No.1 Kane Brownwith
sophomore album, entitled EXPERIMENT held at No.2 (9,700
sales; 3-week total 128,600).
In its 104th
chart frame Brown’s10 non-consecutive week No.1SELF-TITLED (released
Dec 2, 2016) fell 5-9 (2,900 sales;
104-week total 481,600).
Elvis Presleywith IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME made a re-entry at No.3.
Former No1Dan + Shaywith their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 3-4 (2,500 sales; 23-week total 70,200).
Burl
Iveswith RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER rose 14-5
(10 chart frames).
Gene
Autrywith Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other
Christmas Classics lifted 16-6 (8 chart frames).
Chris Stapletonwith the 187-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
fell 4-7 (4,800 sales; 14-week
total 2,391,900) as hisset From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) dropped 12-16 and From A Room: Volume 2 retreated 19-30 (2,600
sales; 52-week total 459,700).
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwoodwith CRY PRETTY slipped 6-8(8,500 sales; 11-week
total 358,300).
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason AldeanwithREARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) fell 7-10
(2,100 sales; 33-week total 448,700).
Outside the
Top 10
Brenda Leewith The Best Of Brenda Lee: 20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection snagged
theHot Shot Debut with a No.11 bow.
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 8-12 (1,100 sales; 64-week total 304,100).
2-week No.1 Eric Churchwith his DESPERATE MAN (EMI Nashville/Universal
Music Group Nashville) fell 10-14 (4,600 sales; 8-week
total 152,100).
Brett Youngwith self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) slipped 11-15 (1,000 sales; 94-week total 245,300).
Kacey Musgraveswith the 2018 CMA Album Of
The Year GOLDEN HOUR fell 13-24 (2,800 sales; 30-week total 118,100)
Holiday
sets Reba McEntirewith My Kind Of Christmas lifted 23-13 (24 chart frames), Brett Eldredgewith
GLOW made a re-entry at No.17 (15
chart frames), Blake Sheltonwith CHEERS, IT'S CHRISTMAS was up 39-18
(24 chart frames), Garth Brooks & Trisha
Yearwoodwith CHRISTMAS TOGETHER pushed 29-21 (16 chart frames) and Lady Antebellumwith
ON THIS WINTER'S NIGHT made a re-entry
at No.25 (15 chart frames).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Various Artistswith COUNTRY FAITH CHRISTMAS, VOL. 2 made a debut at No.20 (1,400 sales)
Ward Daviswith ASUNDER 4-track EP (Ward Davis Music | Amazom.com) made a debut at No.21 selling 1,200 copies.
34
New 1 - Lone Justicewith THE WESTERN TAPES, 1983 (Omnivore Recordings | Amazon.com) made a debut at No.34 selling 800 copies.
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
14,144,000(Physical sales 10,128,000
(down -22.2%) + Digital sales 4,027,000 (down -33.2%) which is25.7%down at the same point in 2017 (19,047,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
43,664,000down27.7%at the same point in 2017 (60,403,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs(Chartissue week of
December 8, 2018)
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 + Shaywith “Speechless” (Warner
Bros./ WAR) led Hot Country Songs for a second week after becoming pair’s first
No.1 and the chart’s third leader of 2018, following Kane Brown’s “Lose It” and
Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be.”
Dustin Lynchadded his seventh top 10on
both Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay as “Good Girl” (Broken Bow)
climbed 13-10 and 11-7 on the lists, respectively. On the latter, the song
hikes by 14 percent to 25 million in audience. Lynch first reached the top 10
in 2012, with the No.2-peaking “Cowboys and Angels.”
** Streaming Gainer ** No.32 “Whiskey Glasses” Morgan Wallen
** Digital
Gainer ** No.41 “You're In It” Granger
Smith
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.47 “Bring It On Over” Billy Currington
Debut
No.48 “Die From A Broken Heart” Maddie
& Tae
Debut
No.50 “Friends Don't” Maddie & TaeBillboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of
December 8, 2018)
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of
December 8, 2018)
Kane
Brownwith “Lose
It” (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) ascended 3-1 on Billboard’s
Country Airplay chart (dated Dec.8), increasing by 6 percent to 40.5
million audience impressions in the week ending Dec.2, according to Nielsen
Music.
On the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart,
“Lose” rebounded 5-3. It crowned Hot Country Songs two weeks earlier (Nov.24),
dethroning Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be” (Warner
Bros./Big Machine Label Group), which dominated for a record 50 weeks.
“Lose,” which Brown wrote with Chase McGill and Will Weatherly, is the
first single from Brown’s second full-length, Experiment, which debuted atop both
the all-genre Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums charts dated Nov. 24 with
126,000 equivalent album units.
“Lose” is the third total and consecutive Country Airplay No. 1 for the
25-year-old singer-songwriter.
“Heaven” led for two weeks in May, after “What Ifs” (featuring Lauren
Alaina) reigned on Oct. 28, 2017.
Brown charted two prior Country Airplay songs: “Used to Love You Sober,”
his maiden posting, which peaked at No. 35 in May 2016, followed by “Thunder in
the Rain,” which reached No. 43 that November.
All five songs have been released by RCA Nashville, to which Brown signed
in early 2016 after building a strong social media following starting in 2014,
mainly by posting covers of songs by artists including Brantley Gilbert, Alan
Jackson and George Strait.
Thomas
Rhettrolled up his 13th Country Airplay top10 as “Sixteen”
(Valory) pushed 12-8 (24.3 million, up 11 percent). The track, which
Rhett co-authored, bumped 12-10 on Hot Country Songs.
Of his prior 12 Country Airplay top 10s, Rhett logged 11 as a lead artist
— all of which have hit No.1. (“Small Town Throwdown,” by Brantley Gilbert featuring
Justin Moore and Rhett, reached No.8 in 2014.) Rhett has racked up 18
appearances on the tally, having first reached the upper tier in 2013 with his
first No. 1, “It Goes Like This,” which ruled for three weeks.
Garth
Brooksnotched his 89th Country Airplay appearance —
a total that includes 19 chart-toppers among 35 top 10s — as “Stronger Than Me” (Pearl), a tribute
to wife Trisha Yearwood, debuted at No.56 (1.2 million impressions).
Brooks ties Kenny Chesney for the second-most career appearances on
Country Airplay, dating to the chart’s launch in January 1990. George Strait
leads with 98 entries. Rounding out the top five most frequent visitors: Tim McGraw
(83) and Alan Jackson (82).
Brooks premiered “Stronger” with a performance at the 52nd annual Country
Music Association Awards that aired on ABC on Nov. 14. “Stronger” followed “All
Day Long,” which hit No.11 on Country Airplay in September, and “Ask Me How I
Know,” which last December became Brooks’ first No.1 on the survey since 2007.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Lose It” Kane Brown
40.549 million audience (+2.404 million) / 7,810 radio plays (+468)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.7 “Good Girl” Dustin Lynch +3.116 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.33 “One That Got Away” Michael
Ray (16 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.56 “Stronger
Than Me” Garth Brooks
Debut
No.57 “Love You Too Late” Cole Swindell
Debut
No. 60 “When It Comes To
Loving You” Jon Langston
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart (Chart issue week of
December 8, 2018)
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney)with “Speechless”
held at No.1(#9-12 Digital Songs; 10,000 sales; 23-week total 206,000) for
a 6th non-consecutive week as “Tequila” dropped 3-5 (20-41 Digital Songs; 5,000 sales;
45-week total 471,000).
“Speechless”
was eleven places behind Halsey’s “Without Me” which was steady at its No. 4 Hot
100 peak, while leading Digital Song
Sales for a second frame (29,000, down 22 percent).
Kelsea Balleriniwith “Miss Me More” climbed 6-2 (45-22 Digital Songs; 7,000 sales;
4-week total 54,000). Ballerini, moonlighting as a coach on NBC’s The Voice,
performed the song on the show’s Nov. 27 episode. It lifted 30-25 on Hot
Country Songs, up 32 percent to 4.3 million in radio audience, as it hopped
37-32 on Country Airplay and 8 percent to 7,000 sold.
Luke
Combswith “She
Got The Best Of Me” slipped 2-3 (#12-23
Digital Songs; 7,000 sales; 17-week total 284,000).
Jimmie Allenwith “Best Shot” climbed 5-4 (44-38 Digital Songs; 5,000 sales;
10-week total 99,000).
Seasonal
chesnutt Brenda
Leewith “Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree”
made a re-entry at No.6 (#44
Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexhaand Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) held at No.8 (5,000 sales; 53-week total
1,354,000).
Jake Owenwith “Down To The Honkytonk” bounded
fell 7-9 (5,000
sales; 14-week total 80,000).
Granger Smithwith “You’re in It” made a debut at No.10 (5,000 sales; total 29,000). It
marked Smith’s second Country Digital Song Sales top 10, following the No.
4-peaking “Backroad Song” in 2015. “You’re in It” is from Smith’s military ode,
They Were There: A Hero’s Documentary, which premiered Nov. 30 on YouTube.
Chevel Shepherdwith a cover of Kasey Musgraves’ “Space
Cowboy” made a debut at No.16 (3,000 sales). Team Kelly's (Kelly Clarkson)
Chevel performed it during The Voice Live Top 11 Performances.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
December
3, 2018
Kane Brown Scores #1 With
'Lose It'
Congrats to Kane Brown,
Steve Hodges, Dennis Reese and the RCA
promotion team on landing this week’s No.1 with “Lose It.” The song is the
first single from his new album Experiment. Writers are Chase McGill, Will Weatherly
and Brown. The tune marks Brown's third consecutive career hit, following the
success of his two-week #1," Heaven" and "What If’s,"
featuring Lauren Alaina.
“Lose It” (RCA)
climbed 3-1 logging8,466 radio spins (+633), 52.081 million audience impressions
(+5.092 million) with27027Total Points (+2138) from
155 tracking stations (155 ADDS) for the tracking week November 25 to December
1, 2018 and published chart dated December 3, 2018.
Luke Combs Is Most-Added
With 'Beautiful Crazy'
And kudos to Shane
Allen and the Columbia reps on landing 52
adds for Luke
Combs’“Beautiful Crazy”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
LUKE COMBS/Beautiful Crazy (River House/Columbia) 52 77
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Every Little Thing (Triple Tigers) 44 46
BIG &
RICH/Brand New Buzz (B&R/New Revolution) 22 22
GARTH
BROOKS/Stronger Than Me (Pearl) 18 47
OLD
DOMINION/Make It Sweet (RCA) 15 126
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Talk You Out Of It (BMLGR) 12 83
COLE
SWINDELL/Love You Too Late (Warner Bros./WMN) 10 54
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 9 106
MICHAEL RAY/One
That Got Away (Atlantic/WEA) 7 142
BRAD
PAISLEY/Bucked Off (Arista) 6 79
CHASE RICE/Eyes
On You (Broken Bow) 6 117
KEITH
URBAN/Never Comin Down (Capitol) 6 139
BRETT
YOUNG/Here Tonight (BMLGR) 5 124
CARLY
PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 5 64
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Love Wins (Capitol) 4 137
LAUREN
ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 4 60
