Country
Billboard Chart News May 30, 2016
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of June 11, 2016)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (1 week) IF I’M HONEST Blake
Shelton
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (4 weeks) ** H.O.L.Y. Florida
Georgia Line
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** “Came Here To Forget” Blake Shelton
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (4 weeks) ** H.O.L.Y. 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).
"Views"
now has the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by a male artist in over four
years.
Drake with VIEWS refused to budge
from the No 1 position on the Billboard Top
200 Album Chart (BB200), as it netted a fourth straight week atop the list.
It now has the most weeks at No.1 for an album by a male artist in over four
years.
The
last man to spend more time at No. 1 with an album was Michael Buble, who
racked up five weeks (all consecutive) in the penthouse with his Christmas set
(on the Dec. 10, 2011 - Jan. 7, 2012-dated charts).
What
was the last non-holiday set by a man to spend longer at No.1? Eminem's
Recovery, with seven non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 between July and September
in 2010.
Since
Buble’s Christmas, the only albums by men to score three weeks at No.1 have
been Views, Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience and The Weeknd’s Beauty
Behind the Madness.
Views
earned another 189,000 equivalent
album units (down 21%) in the week ending May 26, according to Nielsen Music.
Of that sum, 50,267 were in
traditional album sales (down 39 percent). Views is overwhelmingly powered
by streams of its songs, as its SEA totalled 111,000 units for the week.
(It gathered an additional 27,000 units in TEA.)
Views
has been incredibly popular on streaming services. How popular? It owns the top
four largest streaming weeks for an album ever: its debut frame (245.1 million streams for its tracks),
its third week (186.1 million), its fourth -- and current -- week (166.2
million) and its second week (140.8 million).
At
No.2 on the new Billboard 200 chart was Ariana
Grande with her third full-length studio album, DANGEROUS WOMAN, which made
a debut with 175,000 equivalent album units (of which 129,279 were in traditional album sales). Her first two albums --
Yours Truly in 2013 and My Everything in 2014 -- both bowed at No.1. My
Everything bowed with 169,000 copies sold in its first week.
Blake Shelton with IF I’M HONEST entered at No.3 with 170,000 units and a sturdy 153,030 copies in traditional album
sales. The latter sum makes Honest the best-selling album of the week, and it
debuts at No.1 on the Top Album Sales
chart (which ranks the week’s highest selling albums in terms of pure
album sales).
Honest
is Shelton’s tenth top 10 album on the Billboard 200, and followed his 2015
greatest hits package Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits (No. 5 debut and peak; 33,000 sold
in its first week) and his last studio effort, 2014’s Bringing Back the
Sunshine (No.1; 101,000 sold). Honest logged Shelton’s best sales week for an
album since 2013’s Based On a True Story… launched with 199,000 sold.
Blake Shelton Tops Country, All-Genre
Album Sales Charts
Blake Shelton: #1 Single And Album This
Week
It was congratulations to WARNER BROTHERS/WMN artist Blake Shelton and
the entire WMN team for a #1 debut on the Country and all-genre album sales
chart with IF I’M HONEST (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville), produced
by Scott Hendricks, which sold 153,030 copies in its
debut week, according to Neilsen Music.
It marked Shelton's best first week total since 2013’s BASED ON A TRUE
STORY, an album that went on to achieve Platinum status. Additionally, it
coincides with Shelton topping the Country singles chart this chart week – his
22nd career #1 - with the album's debut single, “Came Here To Forget”
“What an amazing ride this has
been,” said Warner Music Nashville chairman/CEO John Esposito. “I sincerely feel that, with If I’m Honest,
Blake has made his best album ever.”
Shelton, who just wrapped up his 10th season as a coach on NBC’s The
Voice saw lead single, “Came Here to Forget,” jump 4-1 on Country Airplay in
its 12th week, increasing by 9% to 44.9 million audience impressions. Shelton
leads both charts simultaneously for the second time — and for the first time
with a full LP and a single.
On Aug. 28, 2010, he debuted at No. 1 on Top
Country Albums with his All About Tonight EP; the same week, its title track
began a three-week reign on Country Airplay.
“At almost 40 years old and after
15 years in this business, who would have ever thought that I would have the
biggest week of my career now?” Shelton muses to Billboard. “After hearing the news that I have the No. 1
album and No. 1 [radio] song, I am beside myself, my friends. Thank you for
this incredible journey.”
IF I’M HONEST’s sum was the biggest for a country album in 2016 and the
largest since Chris Stapleton’s TRAVELLER
sold 153,428 following the 2015 Country Music Assn. Awards (Nov.
4), reflected on the chart dated Nov. 21. Shelton scores the best debut sales
week since Carrie Underwood’s STORYTELLER (164,212, Nov. 14,
2015).
Shelton additionally earned his second-largest album sales week. His last
No.1, 2013’s Based on a True Story, arrived with 199,086; all five of his Top
Country Albums toppers have bowed at No. 1.
Prior
to the launch of TV show The Voice in April 2011, on which Shelton has gained
popularity as a coach and judge for 6 seasons, he had never sold more than 77K
copies of an album in one week.
- His self-titled BLAKE SHELTON released July 31,
2001 made a #45 Billboard 200 debut (#3 Country) but went on to be certified
PLATINUM by Feb 6, 2014 nearly 13 years
later.
- BARN
AND GRILL released
Oct 26, 2004 landed at #20 on the BB200 (#3 Country) and was certified GOLD
by May 31, 2005.
- Pure
BS released May 1,
2007 made a debut the chart week of chart week May 19, 2007 selling 48,494 copies #8 BB200 (#2 Country) then
20,801 the following week (69,391 after 2 weeks) and was certified GOLD
by March 5, 2009.
- RED
RIVER BLUE (Warner
Bros. Nashville | WMN) released July 12, 2011 made a debut the chart week of
July 30, 2011 selling 116,402
copies then 46,975
(163,452 in first 2
weeks). By Dec 28, 2011 it had gone GOLD at retail selling 25,478 units to reach 499,000. For the
Chart week of August 10, 2013 as a Catalog Album at #29 it sold 2,099 and
went PLATINUM scanning over 1-million at retail (1,002,514
total) as of Sept 10, 2014 it had shifted 1,354,000 copies. Last week it
was # 3 on the Catalog chart.
- BASED
ON A TRUE STORY...released
March 26, 2013 made a debut the chart week of April 13, 2013 selling 199,086 copies. By the chart week of Oct
12, 2013 it had gone PLATINUM (1,000,000 units shipped to retail,
907,000
copies actually sold
at retail). It had sold 1,109,000 copies
at retail in 40 weeks. As of March 2015, the album had sold a total of
1.46 million copies
- BRINGING
BACK THE SUNSHINE released
by Warner Bros. Nashville Records on Sept. 30, 2013 sold 100,544 copies in the week ending Oct. 5,
2013 earning Shelton his second No.1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album
chart (BB200). The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on Jan 7, 2015.
The album had sold 437,100 copies in the U.S. as of December 2015.
- Reloaded:
20 #1 Hits,
released October 23, 2015 made a debut at No.5 on the Billboard 200 and #2
Country with 40,000 equivalent-album units (32,749 in pure album sales) as Blake collected his ninth top 10 album on the Billboard
200. The 21-track best-of
compilation set featured all 20 of his No.1 singles on the Billboard
Country Airplay chart, plus the single “Gonna.” Reloaded was Shelton’s
second greatest hits album, following LOADED:
The Best of Blake Shelton (released November 9, 2010), which debuted at
No.24 (22,893 sales chart dated Nov 27, 2010)
and peaked at No.8 on the Billboard 200 and #4 Top Country Albums in 2011.
Blake
promoted his new album IF I’M HONEST with TV appearances:
This
Morning May 19: The Today Show (performance:
"Came Here To Forget"); Friday, May 20: Live With Kelly (performed “Came Here To Forget”); Sunday, May 22: Billboard Music Awards (performance:
"Go Ahead And Break My Heart" w/ Gwen Stefani);
Monday,
May 23: Ellen; Tuesday, May 24: The Today Show (performed
"Friends" & "Honey Bee") and The Voice (performed "She's Got A Way With Words"
Though
he had been sitting pretty at No. 1 on iTunes, the "She's Got a Way with
Words" singer hadn't begun celebrating just yet.
"I
want to wait and see what happens," he told PEOPLE. "There's going to be a celebration either
way, but there's a No. 2 album celebration and there's a No. 1 album
celebration."
Shelton released his new album on the same day
as Ariana Grande and had already settled for the second spot on iTunes before
being pleasantly surprised.
"It
crazy 'cause when I heard last week that my album and Ariana Grande's album
were going to be released at the same time, I was like 'Aw, well, that's still
okay. Maybe we can get No. 2.' So when I saw that it got to No. 1 on iTunes,
it's like, 'Are you kidding me?' I can't wrap my head around it!"
So what exactly is the difference between
celebrating an album that's sitting at the top spot versus just one below on
the sales chart? "A couple of
gallons, for sure!" he said, laughing.
Critical
reception for Blake Shelton’s If I’m Honest:
Rolling Stone (Rating: 3 STARS) ...It can be tempting to hear Shelton's new
breakup songs – the bitterly comic "She's Got a Way with Words," the
coolly regretful "Bet You Still Think About Me" – as targeted toward
Lambert, or to imagine Stefani as the someone new he flirts with tipsily on the
first single, "Came Here to Forget." Shelton's warmly confident
delivery makes those romantic twists and turns sound both lived in but
universal, and the reverent finale, "Savior's Shadow," suggests that
the good ol' boy's maturing into a man. Still, rowdy party-starters like
"Straight Outta Cold Beer" (its title riffing off the N.W.A. classic)
and the self-explanatory "Doin' It to Country Songs" (with help from
the Oak Ridge Boys) are there to prove that he's got a little more hell to
raise before he goes to heaven.
Allmusic (Rating: 3 STARS)… Blake Shelton veered toward the somnolent on
the quite pleasing Bringing Back the Sunshine so it's not entirely surprising
its 2016 sequel, If I'm Honest, is a bit crisper and livelier. Some of this
brightening in attitude may be due to him lightening his load following a
much-publicized 2015 divorce from singer Miranda Lambert -- certainly the title
suggests it's time for the singer to get down to what's real -- but the
electronic
sheen and good times also feel like a reaction to Shelton sliding too deeply
into softness. If If I'm Honest is indeed a divorce album, it's a Back in the
High Life, not a Blood on the Tracks: Shelton is seizing the day, embracing his
new lease on life with renewed vigor and a new love....Set aside "Doing It
to Country Songs," a bit of single-entendre smut inexplicably graced by
the Oak Ridge Boys: Shelton usually has enough swagger to let these jokes land
with a crooked smile, evidenced by the heavy-handed wordplay of "She's Got
a Way with Words" and the not necessarily pro-environment puns of
"Green." Shelton remains appealing when he raises a little hell --
and "Straight Outta Cold Beer" deliberately raises no more than a
little hell -- but like Bringing Back the Sunshine before it, If I'm Honest is
at its core a balladeer's record, and Shelton pulls off these romance tunes
with a sly, masculine grace that complements the album's sleek modern surfaces.
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Entertainment Weekly (Rating: C | 50/100) ...It
doesn’t take a CSI detective to figure out who these songs, along with many
others on Shelton’s If I’m Honest, are about. They are chronicles of his
relationship with fellow Voice judge Gwen Stefani, a connection famously forged
in the wake of symmetrical breakups: he from Miranda Lambert, she from Gavin
Rossdale.....So why does it end up seeming about as weighty and true as a
reality show? For one thing, Shelton’s voice lacks the kind of emotional depth
that’d bring a listener to tears. On his duet with Stefani, her ache upstages
his from the first phrase. What’s more: the album’s breezy
Nashville-pop tunes never
strike below the surface. Small wonder the toss-off songs seem more credible.
There’s everything from “Straight Outta Beer,” an ode to getting soused, to
“Doing It to Country Songs,” where the object of his affection isn’t a
person—but Music Row creations every bit as slick as this.
LA Times (Rating; 60/100) ....this is an opportunity no label president
wants to pass up. And if Shelton needed rushing to seize it? Why, that would
only ensure the music stayed raw and personal (as the album is described in its
marketing propaganda). Problem is, that’s not how Nashville operates. In
country music’s capital, where some of the world’s most talented songwriters
and producers work, the default setting is polished professionalism; rawness
actually takes time. And here Shelton seldom pushes beyond that finesse to
reach something less smooth.
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER climbed 4-2 Country
(#13 Billboard 200) selling another 18,853
copies (56-week total 1,340,900).
Keith
Urban with RIPCORD (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/ Universal Music Group
Nashville) fell 1-3 in his third chart frame with sales of 14,493 (down
54%; 3-week total 139,000)
In their second chart frames Jennifer Nettles with PLAYING WITH
FIRE (Big Machine/BMLG), fell 10-30 on the Billboard 200 & 2-4 Country with 12,209 sales (down 60%
on first week 30,760; 2-week total 43,000). The Nashville Cast: The Music Of Nashville, Season 4: Volume 2 - Soundtrack (ABC
Studios/Big Machine | BMLG) fell 12-24
Country selling around 1,700 copies (down 54% on first week 3,700 copies;
2-week total 5,400). Cimorelli with their teen-pop/Country
Pop set UP AT NIGHT fell 24-43 Country selling another 700
copies (down 53% of first week 1,500 copies sold).
Cole Swindell with YOU SHOULD BE HERE (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville [WMN]) fell
12-28 BB200 and 3-5 Country selling 11,266
(down 51%; 3-week total 99,800)
Joey + Rory with HYMNS (Farmhouse/Gaither | Capitol CMG) in its 14th frame fell
76-84 BB200 and 5-6 Country (7,345
sales; down 43%; 15-week total 381,600). It led Top Christian Albums for 15
non-consecutive weeks.
The Highwaymen - American Outlaws: The Highwaymen Live
| 4 Disc Box set (Sony Music Cmg; Amazon UK - Amazon.com - HMV ) made a debut at #16 Country (#96 Top Selling Albums) with 2,748 copies sold.
On
March 29, 2016 Columbia/Legacy proudly announced the upcoming release of The
Highwaymen Live - American Outlaws, a deluxe new 3CD/1DVD (or 3CD/1 Blu-ray) box set of concert
performances--including a previously unreleased complete concert on CD and DVD
(or Blu-ray)--from country music's legendary first "super-group".
The
Highwaymen Live - American Outlaws includes:
a)
two audio discs recorded live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, March
14, 1990
b)
an audio disc with tracks recorded live at various Farm Aid Festivals and
c)
a previously unreleased full-length concert film recorded live at Nassau
Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, March 14, 1990 and transferred from the original
film reels especially for this collection.
The
Highwaymen--Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson,
Waylon Jennings and Kris
Kristofferson--were country music's first bonafide "supergroup,"
an epic quartet of blockbuster star power comprised of the four prime forces of
America's outlaw country music revolution. An essential musical and cultural
influence, the Highwaymen were active for the decade spanning 1985 to 1995,
recorded three major label albums, charted hit singles (including their Number
1 debut, "Highwayman," which won the Best Country Song Grammy Award
in 1986) and performed a variety of shows achieving mythic status for those
lucky enough to have been there.
Outside Of Top 25 Country Albums
Columbia/Legacy
also released a new 16 track single disc compilation, The Highwaymen - The Very Best of The Highwaymen (Legacy, HMV Store) which made a debut at #26 Country with 1,500 copies sold.
14 years after the passing of Waylon Jennings and 13 years after the
passing of Johnny Cash, it's been announced that a new previously unreleased
and unheard song will be included in a new compilation album featuring the two
along with their Highwaymen brothers.
Frequently referred to as "the Mount Rushmore of country
music," The Highwaymen Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings
and Kris Kristofferson were American country music's first bona fide
supergroup, an epic quartet comprised of the outlaw country genre's pioneering
stars. The Very Best Of The Highwaymen contains the group's best known songs
plus a previously unreleased cover of Bob Dylan's "One Too Many
Mornings." "One Too Many Mornings" is a song by Bob Dylan,
released on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964.
Critical
reception for The Highwaymen’s The Very Best of The Highwaymen:
Allmusic (Rating: 4 Stars) .. For a band that only released three albums, the Highwaymen have a lot of
compilations -- at least four full-fledged CDs prior to this 2016 set, which
was released in conjunction with the triple-disc package Live: American Outlaws.
The Very Best of the Highwaymen covers familiar ground, adding three selections
-- "City of New Orleans," "Big River," and "The King
Is Gone (So Are You)" -- from Live: American Outlaws, along with the
"One Too Many Mornings" from Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings' 1986
Heroes, now featuring harmonies by Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.
Outside of this, the 16-track collection contains six selections from their
first (and best) album from 1985, four tracks from 1990's Highwayman 2 and a
couple of cuts from 1995's The Road Goes on Forever. It's a good cross-section
of their material and sequenced nicely, making for the best single-disc
overview of the supergroup's recordings.
Adam
Wakefield with The Voice:
The Complete Season 10 Collection (Amazon.com - US
iTunes) made a debut at No.34 on the all genre Billboard 200 (measures multi-metric album
consumption) yet arrived at No.28
Country with pure sales of 1,300
copies sold.
The
Complete Season 10 Collection rounds up all of the songs that the country-pop
singer/songwriter performed and recorded throughout his run on the tenth season
of the popular reality program. Wakefield, who was part of Blake Shelton's team, didn't take home the top prize, but he came
in at a very respectable second. Highlights from the compilation include the
rousing "Tennessee Whiskey," his soulful take on the Marshall Tucker
Band's "Can't You See," and his own self-penned hit, "Lonesome
Broken and Blue," the latter of which hit number one on iTunes.
Track
Listing:
Tennessee
Whiskey (cover of "Tennessee Whiskey" by David Allan Coe)
Can't
You See (with Jared Harder) (cover of "Can't You See" by The Marshall
Tucker Band)
Bring
It On Home to Me (cover of "Bring It On Home to Me" by Sam Cooke)
Seven
Spanish Angels (cover of "Seven Spanish Angels" by Ray Charles and
Willie Nelson)
Soulshine
(cover of "Soulshine" by The Allman Brothers Band)
Lights
(cover of "Lights" by Journey)
I
Got a Woman (cover of "I Got A Woman" by Ray Charles)
Love
Has No Pride (cover of "Love Has No Pride" by Bonnie Raitt)
I'm
Sorry (cover of "I'm Sorry" by Blake Shelton)
When
I Call Your Name (cover of "When I Call Your Name" by Vince Gill)
The
Conversation (with Blake Shelton) (cover of "The Conversation" by
Hank Williams, Jr. and Waylon Jennings)
Lonesome,
Broken and Blue
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| The Voice: Adam Wakefield (L) with his coach/mentor Blake Shelton (R) |
Tuesday
at noon when the vote was being counted to determine the winner of Season 10 of The Voice, Adam Wakefield
had the No.1 song on iTunes. It was the song he had written and performed on
Monday night: “Lonesome, Broken and Blue.”
So,
for a while, he looked as if he might be this year’s winner — but when the
final announcement was made on Tuesday night, Adam finished in second place
behind Team Christina’s Alisan Porter
whose Complete Season 10 Collection made a debut at #27 Billboard 200 (2,087 pure
sales).
Adam Wakefield: 5 Things To Know About ‘The Voice’ Season 10 Finalist
Adam left his hometown in New Hampshire to attend college at The New School in New York City, where he studied in the Jazz and Contemporary Arts Program. Throughout his schooling and career, Adam has studied all sorts of music, including Jazz, Rock, Blues and Soul, although, on The Voice, he’s mostly performed as a country artist.
What makes Shelton so consistently successful at radio?
Adam’s cover of Vince Gills "When I Call Your Name" (first released May 1990) made a debut at #4 selling 32,000 copies (#35 Digital songs).
Kudos to Katie Dean and the MCA crew on notching 59 adds for Josh Turner’s “Hometown Girl”. The song topped the week’s "Most Added" board
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)
Adam Wakefield: 5 Things To Know About ‘The Voice’ Season 10 Finalist
Adam left his hometown in New Hampshire to attend college at The New School in New York City, where he studied in the Jazz and Contemporary Arts Program. Throughout his schooling and career, Adam has studied all sorts of music, including Jazz, Rock, Blues and Soul, although, on The Voice, he’s mostly performed as a country artist.
After
college, Adam moved to Baltimore and was part of a fairly successful local band
called Old Man Brown. The group performed Soul/Funk music, and Adam stayed in
Maryland for ten years.
Adam
moved to Nashville in 2013 to focus on country music, and while he was there,
he started doing a lot of songwriting. It was then that he decided that he
wanted to make music his career.
Unfortunately,
things didn’t pick up all that quickly for Adam as a solo artist, and instead,
he worked as a background vocalist and musician for artists like Lee Brice, Keith Anderson, Michelle Wright
and more.
Adam
met his girlfriend, Jenny Leigh (also a country singer), when they were both
living in Baltimore, and then they moved to Nashville together. She competed on
the CW series The Next, and also performed with Adam in Old Man Brown.
Now,
she’s working on her own solo career, while also supporting her man, of course!
Year-To-Date
Albums
9,607,000 (Physical sales 6,299,000
(down 9%) + Digital sales 3,309,000 (down -17.7%)) which is 10.4% down at the same point in 2015 (10,728,000
sales)
Year-To-Date
Digital Tracks
38,369,000 down 20.9% at the same point in 2015 (48,493,000)
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:
Florida
Georgia Line with new single “H.O.L.Y.”
(Republic Nashville) held the No.1 for a fourth week atop Billboard’s Hot
Country Songs chart (dated June 4) and gained “Airplay Gainer” stripes.
‘CHURCH’ MUSIC: Carrie Underwood with “Church Bells” (19/Arista Nashville)
vaulted 13-10, marking her 24th top 10.
She has yet to miss the top 10 with any song that has been promoted as a
non-seasonal country single. “Church” rose 14-12 on Country Airplay (24.3
million, up 11%) and 15-13 on Country Streaming Songs (2 million, up 3%).
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (4 weeks)/
Airplay Gainer ** H.O.L.Y. Florida
Georgia Line
** Streaming
Gainer ** No.2 “Came Here To Forget” Blake
Shelton
** Hot Shot
Debut ** No.14 “Lonesome Broken And Blue” Adam
Wakefield
** Digital
Gainer ** No.24 “Unlove You” Jennifer
Nettles
Debut
No.27 “When I Call Your Name” Adam
Wakefield
Debut
No.28 “She's Got A Way With Words” Blake
Shelton
Debut
No.44 “Bet You Still Think About Me” Blake
Shelton
Blake
Shelton with “Came Here To Forget” rose 4-1 as he achieved
not only his 22nd Country Airplay No.1 but also his record 17th
consecutive hit (counting only officially promoted, non-seasonal singles).
In its 12 chart frame “Forget” drew a 44.89 million audience with a
+3.667 million gain
The run, which began with 2010’s “Hillbilly Bone” (featuring Trace
Adkins), is the longest active streak by a wide margin; Luke Bryan follows with
six (it’s seven counting only lead billings).
“Forget” has researched strongly, “as most of his singles do,” says
Cumulus Media director of Nash programming John Shomby. “His music is real, but it’s also pretty
simple. You hear the song, and most of us can identify with the feeling.
The story of
the song requires no interpretation, kind of like Blake himself.” “Blake is a
superstar because he has this incredible gift for finding meaningful music,”
echoes iHeartMedia senior vp programming Gator Harrison. “If I’m Honest goes even deeper because it’s
his life’s diary, song by song. It’s seriously none of our business, but we all
want to know, and there’s no way not to listen.”
Shelton’s next single from the new set will be “She’s Got a Way With
Words,” which is going for adds on June 6.
Jason
Aldean with “Lights On” (Broken Bow) lit up top 10 on Country Airplay,
(12-10; 27.8 million, up 10 percent), becoming his 23rd top 10.
Country
Airplay
***
No. 1 (1 week) *** "Came Here To Forget” Blake Shelton 44.89 million audience (+3.667 million) / 8,028 radio
plays (+564)
** Hot
Shot Debut/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.32 “Different For Girls” Dierks Bentley feat. Elle King 7.167
million audience gain thanks to 51
fresh radio commitments (ADDS)
Debut
No.59 “Lipstick” Runaway June
Florida
Georgia Line (Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley) with “H.O.L.Y.”
(Republic Nashville) remained at No.1 for the fourth week on Billboard’s
Country Digital Singles Chart and fell 5-8 on the all genre Digital
Songs Chart with 72,000 78,000 sales (down 8%; 4-week total 365,000).
Adam Wakefield (The Voice contestant) with
original song "Lonesome Broken & Blue" performed on Week 7: Finals
(May 23 and May 24) made a debut at #2 selling
57,000 copies (#12 Digital songs).
Adam’s cover of Vince Gills "When I Call Your Name" (first released May 1990) made a debut at #4 selling 32,000 copies (#35 Digital songs).
Tim
McGraw with “Humble and Kind” (McGraw/Big
Machine/Big Machine Label Group) climbed 4-3 (#28-32 Digital Songs; 35,000 sales; up 6%; 19-week total 612,000
copies).
Dierks
Bentley with “Somewhere On A Beach" rose 7-5
(#36-38 Digital
Songs; 29,000 sales; 19-week total 492,000).
Blake
Shelton with “She’s Got A Way With Words” (Warner
Bros./ WMN) made a debut at #6 (#42
Digital
Songs; 26,000 sales) as
“Came Here to Forget” (Warner Bros./ WMN) retreated 5-14 (18,000
sales; 12-week total 388,000).
Thomas Rhett with “T-Shirt” (Valory | BMLG) climbed 11-7 (#46 Digital Songs re-entry; 23,000 sales; 19-week total
362,000)
Luke Bryan with "Huntin' Fishin' & Loving Every Day"
rose #10-8 (22,000 sales; 12-week
total 251,000)
Maren
Morris with "My Church" (Columbia
Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) was a non-mover at #9 (#46-48 Digital Songs; 22,000 sales;
20-week total 557,000).
Jennifer
Nettles with “Unlove You” (Big Machine| BMLG) leapt
up 31-10 (21,000 sales; 10-week total 126,000)
Falling
Keith Urban's feat. Carrie Underwood, "The Fighter"
fell 3-30 (10,000 sales; down 80%;
3-week total 85,000)
Brad Paisley and Demi Lovato with
their duet “Without A Fight" who
a debut at #16 (17,000 copies sold) the previous week fell off the top 50
selling only 4,000 copies in their second week.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
30
May 2016
Congrats
to Blake Shelton, Kevin Herring, Kristen Williams, Katie Bright and the WMN promotion staff on landing “Came
Here To Forget” at No. 1. The song and lead single, from his No.1 debuting
album IF I’M HONEST, extended Shelton’s Country Aircheck
record
for consecutive chart-toppers to 17. "Came Here To Forget" is
Shelton's 22nd career #1 single.
The
song logged 8,592 radio spins (+707)
and 58.832 million audience
impressions (+4.972) with 27187
Total Points from 158 tracking stations
for the tracking week May 22 to May 28, 2016 and published chart May 30th 2016.
Kudos to Katie Dean and the MCA crew on notching 59 adds for Josh Turner’s “Hometown Girl”. The song topped the week’s "Most Added" board
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L-R: UMG Nashville SVP/Promotion Royce Risser, Promotion Asst.
Sarah Beth Watson, VP/Promotion David Friedman; and MCA Nashville
Promotion
Coordinator Julianna Vaughn.
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Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)
Rank
Artist: #6
Event
Venue City/State: Dixie Chicks, Augustana Hallenstadion
Zurich, Switzerland
Dates:
April 17, 2016 Gross Sales: $754,847 Attend: 9,500 / 9,500
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$91.88, $79.52
Promoters:
abc Production
Rank
Artist: #9
Event
Venue City/State: Cyndi Lauper & Boy George, DJ EMZ
Beacon Theatre New York, N.Y.
Dates:
May 25-26, 2016 Gross Sales: $531,630 Attend: 5,509/ 5,509
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/2 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$150, $90, $80, $70
Promoters:
Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #29
Event
Venue City/State: ABC's Nashville in Concert Citi Wang Theatre Boston,
Mass.
Dates:
May 6, 2016 Gross Sales: $151,637 Attend: 2,827/ 3,530 (703 unsold tickets)
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 ** Prices: $69.50, $59.50, $49.50, $39.50
Promoters:
AEG Live/MSG
Entertainment
Rank
Artist: #87
Event
Venue City/State: Deana Carter, Brian
Sutherland Murray Studio Theatre at
Ruth Eckerd Hall Clearwater, Fla.
Dates:
Nov. 13, 2015 Gross Sales: $3,240 Attend: 116 /167 (51 unsold tickets)
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 ** Prices: $30, $20
Promoters:
Ruth Eckerd Hall
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