Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (7 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS ONE’S
FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (34 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
*** No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Get Along” Kenny Chesney
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (5 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).
For
a third straight week, Drake with SCORPION holds at No.1 on the Billboard Top
200 Albums Chart (BB200). The set earned 260,000 equivalent album units in
the week ending July 19, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 29,000 were in traditional album
sales.
Second-Smallest
Sum for the Week’s Top-Selling Album: Conversely, reflecting the continued decline
of album sales, as Scorpion stays steady at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, it's
also stationary at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart for a third frame. The
latter list ranks albums based on traditional album sales. Scorpion sold 29,000
copies in the latest tracking week (up less than 1 percent) and tallies the
second-smallest sum for the week’s top-selling album since Nielsen Music
began tracking sales in 1991.
The
smallest sales total ever for the week’s No. 1-selling album was actually
notched by Scorpion a week ago, when it sold a handful of copies less than this
week's total. Scorpion was able to squeak out a small gain in the week ending
July 19, as its CD was released on July 13. The set was previously only
available to purchase as a digital album. The CD debuts with 13,000 copies sold
in the week ending July 19, while the digital album sold 16,000 (down 44
percent).
Closing
out the new top 10 was Luke Combs’ THIS ONE’S FOR
YOU, as it
stepped 13-10 with 25,000 units (up 2 percent).
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.
Luke Combs with THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/ Columbia Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) held at No.1 (#13-10
Billboard 200) to top the chart for a 7th non-consecutive week in his 59th
chart frame.
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow
Records) moved 3-2 (22-21 BB200) in
his 14th week.
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) fell 2-3 (#20-23 BB200) in
their fourth frame.
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED held
at No.4 (#31 non-mover BB200) in his
85rd frame.
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER (MERCURY/
UMGN) rebounded 6-5
(#42-34 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) moved 21-20 (#153-157
BB200) and From A Room:
Volume 2 rose 31-28 (off the Billboard top 200 for a second week) in its 33rd frame.
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 5-6 (#38-37 BB200) in his 45th frame.
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) held at No.7 (#45-42 BB200) in his 75th week.
Chris Lane with his 14-track set- LAPS AROUND THE SUN (Big Loud Records |
Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com)
made at debut at No.8 (#83 Billboard
200) & No7 on Country Album Sales list.
The new album warrants a
lot of inspirations from sun-travelling icon Kenny Chesney, that Lane explains "When I recorded my first record I was still figuring it out, trying to
figure out what kinda songs I wanted to write and I had a moment last year when
I opened up for Kenny Chesney and I got to watch from a different perspective
as an artist this time...I watched how he connected with people that night and
how he made people feel, how he made me feel and just the atmosphere and
everything about the show and his songs and what they do. I ultimately realized
that night I want songs that do the same exact thing, that make people feel the
same way, that take you somewhere. That was my ultimate goal when I was writing
for this record." There's no doubt
that Chesney should be honoured that his performance, style and music instilled
this drive in a young artist to go out and strive for that same feeling.
The 14-track collection
continued to impact fans and critics as Sounds
Like Nashville claimed “Laps Around
the Sun Reflects Growth, Clarity” and One
Country praised his “Country
Evolution is Evident” on the album.
Your Life In A Song (by James Daykin; Rating;
Negative)… Lane’s output, however,
remains generally clichéd and rather signposted. His lyrics are quite
one-dimensional in their ‘chase girl, drink with girl, sh*g girl, get dumped by
girl, sh*g girl again’ repetitive nature and I’d even go as far as saying that
some of the messages on the album, in these post #MeToo days, are quite
worrying in what we are telling our young men is acceptable behaviour in both
their sexual conduct and their attitude towards women. The first four songs on,
‘Laps Around the Sun’, are the best – the most interesting and the ones with
any type of depth whatsoever. ‘...‘Laps Around the Sun’ is an album lacking in
any sort of moral compass – it’s a hook up album, like many of the songs on it
– a one-time affair. It might scratch an itch for the night when you listen to
it but you’ll wake up feeling guilty in the morning and return to the security,
safety and integrity of your Chris Janson or Sugarland or Brothers Osborne
albums. You’ll try and banish the experience to the back of your mind and hope
that you’ll never have recourse to bump into him out there ever again.
Former No.1 Luke Bryan with WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY (Capitol
Nashville | UMGN) held at No.10 (#92-95 BB200) in his 32nd
frame.
Outside the
Top 10
In his sixth frame Dierks Bentley with THE MOUNTAIN (Capitol Nashville | UMGN) rose 18-14 (#127-121 BB200).
Former No.1 Keith Urban with GRAFFITI
U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell 9-18 (#84-141 BB200)
in his 12th week.
Morgan Wallen with IF I KNOW ME (Big Loud Records) dropped 19-22 (#144-162 BB200) in his twelfth frame.
Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR (MCA Nashville | UMGN) advanced 26-23 (#190-173 BB200) in her 16th frame.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Rodney Crowell with his 12-track set ACOUSTIC CLASSICS (2018 RC1 Records | Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com) made a debut at No.24.
Marking the debut release from his new label, RC1, Crowell’s 19th solo effort includes acoustic versions of 12 songs from his 40+-year career. The project includes songs that were later covered by Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, The Oak Ridge Boys, Bob Seger and Tim McGraw.
Marking the debut release from his new label, RC1, Crowell’s 19th solo effort includes acoustic versions of 12 songs from his 40+-year career. The project includes songs that were later covered by Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, The Oak Ridge Boys, Bob Seger and Tim McGraw.
Karen Waldrup with her 11 track album JUSTIFIED (Waldrup Worldwide
Records/The Fuel Music Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.26 on Country Sales.
New Orleans native, Karen Waldrup, is described as "a triple threat musician, songwriter and recording artist known for her thrilling performances and bold style of country music".
She has spent the last few years touring the world performing thousands
of shows everywhere from Memphis, TN to Dublin, Ireland and is now a true viral
sensation with her social media videos gaining mass appeal and more than 125
million views. She was a Nashville Rising Star finalist in 2015 and was
previously named a GAC Top 25 Songwriter.
Karen’s new album, produced by award-winning producer Garth Fundis (Trisha Yearwood, Alabama,
Sugarland, etc) features “a fresh new country sound meshed with the soulful
nostalgia of Waldrup’s home state of Louisiana”. The first single from the new
record, “Warm In Your Sunshine”, charted in the Top 100 on the Billboard
Country Chart in September 2017.
Year-To-Date Albums
Year-To-Date Albums
8,860,000 (Physical sales 6,301,000
(down -16.6%) + Digital sales 2,569,000 (down -30.4%) which is 21.2% down at the same point in 2017 (11,249,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
29,258,000 down 27.0% at the same point in 2017 (40,093,000)
29,258,000 down 27.0% at the same point in 2017 (40,093,000)
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 have
chalked up a U.S. chart record by tying Sam
Hunt for the longest run at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs
countdown.
Rexha's Meant To Be collaboration with the
duo has spent 34 weeks at number one, after first hitting the summit in
December (17), and the singer admited she had no idea the song would be such a
smash when she recorded it.
"Meant to Be was truly unexpected, and I'm starting
to find out that the best things in life are," she tells Billboard.
"I'd never think a New York City girl like me, who grew up writing pop
music, would stumble into the country world.
"I have my Florida Georgia Line collaborators and
brothers? to thank for that. They've truly opened my world and taught me to
believe."
Meanwhile, the success of the track on the 60-year-old
Hot Country Songs chart extended Florida Georgia Line's record-breaking run at
number one. The duo has now taken six songs to number one, spending 90 weeks
there in total - six more than George Strait.
"We are absolutely blown away and extremely humbled
to even be on the same chart as George Strait and some of our other heroes and
country legends, so it's wild to see our songs total 90 weeks at number
one," bandmember Brian Kelley
stated. "It's really hard to wrap our brains around that, but it's also
super-inspiring to get back in the studio and create more music for our
fans."
Thomas
Rhett banked his 11th top 10 on
Hot Country Songs as “Life Changes” (Valory), the title
track from his 2017 album, rose 12-10.
It increased by 10 percent to 27.2 million audience impressions in the week
ending July 22 and lifted 10-8 on Country Airplay.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (34
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
**
Airplay Gainer” No.6 “Mercy” Brett Young
** Digital Gainer/
Streaming Gainer ** No.16 “Desperate Man” Eric Church
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.45 “Love You Too Late” Cole Swindell
Kenny
Chesney with “Get
Along” (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA) paced Country Airplay for a second
week (45.4 million, down 2 percent). His 30th No.1, the most of all artists, is
his 20th multiweek leader.“Get Along” previews his album SONGS FOR THE SAINTS,
due July 27.
Chris
Lane with “Take
Back Home Girl” (featuring Tori Kelly) (Big Loud) pushed 12-10
on Country Airplay, up 6 percent to 25.6 million impressions. Lane landed his
third Country Airplay top 10, while
Kelly collected her first in her first visit to the chart.
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (2 weeks) *** “Get Along” Kenny
Chesney 45.365 million audience (-0.864 million) / 8,347 radio plays (-99)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.4 “Mercy” Brett
Young +4.876 Million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.23 “Desperate Man” Eric
Church (40 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.56 “One That Got Away” Michael
Ray
Debut
No.58 “What Whiskey Does” Randy Houser
Debut No.60 “How Does It Sound” Dylan Schneider
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Florida
Georgia Line with “Simple” (BMLG) held at No.1
(#7 non-mover Digital Songs) for a 5th
non-consecutive week atop the chart.
It was six places behind Drake with "Feelings" which spent a second week atop the Digital Song
Sales chart, up by 29 percent to 115,000 downloads sold in the week
ending July 19. The song is the first to sell at least 100,000 in a week since
Ariana Grande's "No Tears Left to Cry," which arrived with 100,000
(May 5), and sports the highest weekly sum since his own "Plan"
launched with 127,000 (Feb. 3).
Former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) fell 4-6 (#13-25 Digital Songs;
12,000 sales).
Eric
Church with “Desperate
Man” the first single from Church’s same-titled album, due Oct. 5,
debuted at No.2 on Country Digital Song Sales (20,000 sold). He earns
his 13th top 10 on the tally and his second best start after “The Outsiders,”
which entered at No. 1 in November 2013, marking one of his three leaders.
Brett
Young with “Mercy”
(BMLG) rose 5-3 (#20-17 Digital
Songs; 14,000 sales).
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Tequila” (Warner Bros. | WAR) fell 3-4 (#12-18
Digital Songs)
Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert with “Drowns The Whiskey” (Macon | Broken
Bow) climbed 6-5 (#25-23 Digital
Songs) as Aldean’s “You Make It Easy” fell 13-14.
Kenny Chesney with “Get Along” held at No.7 (#27-30 Digital Songs).
Thomas
Rhett with “Life
Changes” rose 10-8 (#42-41 Digital Songs).
Morgan Wallen feat. Florida Georgia Line with “Up Down” (Big Loud) fell 8-9 (#33-42
Digital Songs).
Cole
Swindell with co-penned track from his third full-length, All of It (due Aug. 17), arrived at
No. 45 on Hot Country Songs and entered Country Digital Song Sales at No.10
(#43 New
Entry Digital Songs; 8,000 sold), his ninth top 10.
Outside
the Top 10
Luke Combs with “Beautiful Crazy” rose 12-11 (#44 Re-Entry Digital Songs).
Luke Bryan with “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset”
fell 11-12 (#44-47
Digital Songs).
Kane Brown with “Heaven” (Zone 4 | RCA
Nashville) fell 9-13.
Kenny Chesney with “Better Boat” (featuring
Mindy Smith) was released July 13. It debuted at No. 22 on Country Digital Song
Sales with 5,000 sold. The song marked
Chesney’s 30th appearance on the chart and the first on any Billboard country
ranking for Americana/folk singer-songwriter Smith.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
July
23, 2018
Double down
congrats to Kenny
Chesney, Kristen Williams, Adrian Michaels and the WEA promotion team on landing a second
week at No.1 with “Get
Along.” The song is the first single from Chesney’s current album Songs
For The Saints. Writers are Shane McAnally, Ross Copperman and Josh Osborne.
“Get Along” (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA) held at No.1 logging 9,063 radio spins (-33) and 56.335 million audience impressions (-6.318 million) with 29259 Total Points from 158 tracking stations (158 ADDS) for the tracking week July 15 to July 21, 2018 and published chart July 23rd, 2018.
Kudos to Byron
Kennedy and the Stoney Creek crew on
securing 52 adds for Randy Houser’s “What Whiskey Does”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
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| In celebration of Stoney Creek Records' Randy Houser being most-added at Country radio this week with his new single, "What Whiskey Does," All Access delivered bagels to the Stoney Creek Records staff. Pictured L-R: Stoney Creek Records Dir./National Promotion Heather Propper, Dir./Midwest Promotion Stan Marczewski, VP/Promotion Byron Kennedy, and Coord./Promotion Andrea Knipp; and All Access Nashville Editorial Asst. Athena Puharic |
Year To Date Charts
Valory’s Thomas Rhett is the most-heard artist at Country radio, at least
in terms of current airplay (titles that start the year as recurrent or gold
are not included). Rhett’s airplay is driven largely by “Marry Me” and “Unforgettable,”
which check in at Nos. 7 and 17, respectively, on the Top Songs list. Rounding
out the top five are Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Brett Young and Jordan Davis.
The top 10
most-heard artists in 2018 so far are all male, with two groups – Old
Dominion and Lanco – interspersed.
The most-heard
female is Bebe
Rexha at No.15, followed by Kelsea Ballerini at No.18.
The top new
artist is Davis at No. 5 overall.
Top 10 Airplay Artists
1. Thomas Rhett 2. Luke Bryan 3. Blake
Shelton 4. Brett Young 5. Jordan Davis
6. Old Dominion
7. Russell Dickerson 8. Kane Brown 9. Lanco 10. Jason Aldean
Top Airplay Songs
1 JORDAN DAVIS/Singles You Up (MCA)
2 KANE
BROWN/Heaven (RCA)
3 BRETT
YOUNG/Like I Loved You (BMLGR)
4 LUKE
BRYAN/Most People Are Good (Capitol)
5 RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Yours (Triple Tigers)
6 D.L.
MURPHY/K. CHESNEY/Everything’s... (Blue Chair/Reviver)
7 THOMAS
RHETT/Marry Me (Valory)
8 BRETT
ELDREDGE/The Long Way (Atlantic/WMN)
9 BEBE REXHA f/FGL/Meant To Be (WBR/BMLGR)
10 SCOTTY
MCCREERY/Five More Minutes (Triple Tigers)
11 CHRIS
STAPLETON/Broken Halos (Mercury)
12 OLD
DOMINION/Written In The Sand (RCA)
13 HIGH
VALLEY/She’s With Me (Atlantic/WEA)
14 JASON
ALDEAN/You Make It Easy (Broken Bow)
15
LANCO/Greatest Love Story (Arista)
16 LUKE
COMBS/One Number Away (River House/Columbia)
17 THOMAS
RHETT/Unforgettable (Valory)
18 DEVIN
DAWSON/All On Me (Atlantic/WEA)
19 BLAKE
SHELTON/I’ll Name The Dogs (Warner Bros./WMN)
20 ERIC
CHURCH/Round Here Buzz (EMI Nashville)
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
RANDY HOUSER/What Whiskey Does (Stoney Creek) 52 55
JON PARDI/Night
Shift (Capitol) 34 35
ERIC
CHURCH/Desperate Man (EMI Nashville) 20 136
LUKE COMBS/She
Got The Best Of Me (River House/Columbia) 20 103
CHRIS
STAPLETON/Millionaire (Mercury) 13 125
SCOTTY
MCCREERY/This Is It (Triple Tigers) 13 92
DIERKS BENTLEY
f/BROS. OSBORNE/Burning Man (Capitol) 12 85
LEE BRICE/Rumor
(Curb) 11 42
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Blue Tacoma (Triple Tigers) 8 153
MICHAEL RAY/One
That Got Away (Atlantic/WEA) 7 57
KANE BROWN/Lose
It (RCA) 6 127
MIDLAND/Burn Out
(Big Machine) 6 123
ASHLEY
MCBRYDE/Radioland (Atlantic/WAR) 5 27
BLAKE
SHELTON/Turnin' Me On (Warner Bros./WMN) 5 5
LUKE
BRYAN/Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset (Capitol) 5 158
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 5 71
MAREN
MORRIS/Rich (Columbia) 5 142
MITCHELL
TENPENNY/Drunk Me (Riser House/Columbia) 5 128
OLD
DOMINION/Hotel Key (RCA) 5 156
RILEY
GREEN/There Was This Girl (BMLGR) 5 22
UNCLE
KRACKER/Floatin' (New Revolution/Hit Bunch) 5 25
BLACKJACK
BILLY/Straight Line Sober (1608/Reviver) 2 8
CLARE DUNN/More
(MCA) 2 48
EVERETTE/Slow
Roll (Broken Bow) 2 59
MORGAN
WALLEN/Whiskey Glasses (Big Loud) 2 2
ABBY
ANDERSON/Make Him Wait (Black River) 1 50
AJ MCLEAN/Back
Porch Bottle Service (ATCK Music) 1 1
DAN +
SHAY/Speechless (Warner Bros./WAR) 1 3
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Colorado (BMLGR) 1 1
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 1 1
STEPHANIE
QUAYLE/Selfish (Rebel Engine) 1 30
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)
Rank
Artist: #1
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Camila Cabello MetLife Stadium East
Rutherford, N.J.
Dates:
July 20-22, 2018 Gross Sales: $22,031,386 Attend: 165,654/ 165,654
Shows/
Sellouts: 3/3 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$499.50, $49.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #2
Event
Venue City/State: Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato FirstEnergy Stadium
Cleveland, Ohio
Dates:
17 July 2018 Gross Sales: $5,148,757 Attend: 51,323/ 51,323
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$499.50, $49.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #3
Event
Venue City/State: Kenny Chesney, Brandon Lay, Old Dominion, Thomas Rhett Busch
Stadium St. Louis, Mo.
Dates:
21 July 2018 Gross Sales: $4,753,889 Attend: 44,529/ 44,529
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$263.50, $37.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #9
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain, Bastian Baker Bridgestone Arena Nashville,
Tenn.
Dates:
21 July 2018 Gross Sales: $1,441,204 Attend: 16,264/ 16,264
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$159.75, $39.95
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #16
Event
Venue City/State: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Devin Dawson Golden 1 Center Sacramento,
Calif.
Dates:
22 July 2018 Gross Sales: $944,746 Attend: 12,189/ 12,189
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$129.50, $29.50
Promoters: Messina Touring Group
Rank
Artist: #34
Event
Venue City/State: John Prine, Langhorne Slim Heinz Hall for the
Performing Arts Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dates:
20 July 2018 Gross Sales: $215,095 Attend: 2,692/ 2,692
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$103.75, $63.75
Promoters: NS2
