Country
Billboard Chart News May 29, 2017
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of June 10, 2017)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (2 non-consecutive weeks) From A Room:
Volume 1 Chris Stapleton
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (16 weeks) ** “Body Like A Back
Road” Sam Hunt
Country Airplay
** No.1 (1 week) ** "In Case You Didn’t Know” Brett Young
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Déjà Vu” Lauren
Duski
Billboard Top 200 / Country
Album Chart News (Chart issue week of
June 10, 2017)
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Linkin Park Scores Sixth
No.1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'One More Light'
Linkin Park notched its sixth No. 1
album on the Billboard Top 200Album Chart (BB200), as ONE MORE LIGHT debuted atop the tally. The set earned 111,000 equivalent album units in the
week ending May 25, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 99,515 were in traditional album
sales. The album is Linkin Park’s seventh studio effort, and was released on
May 25 through Machine Shop/Warner Bros. Records.
Chris Stapleton with From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) fell
4-5 Billboard 200 with 50,000 equivalent album units (down
33%)
Second-place finisher Lauren Duski (Coach Blake Shelton) arrives at No.26 (19,000 units; 1,000 from traditional album sales; #38 Country Album Sales), winner Chris Blue bows at No. 50 (12,000 units; 1,000 in album sales) and fourth place finisher Jesse Larson debuted at No. 163 (5,000 units; negligible album sales).
Billboard Top Country
Albums (Chart issue week of June 10, 2017)
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.
Chris Stapleton with From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) rose
2-1 (4-5 Billboard
200) selling 42,168
copies (down 36%; 3-week total 310,191) to lead Top Country Albums for
a second non-consecutive week.
Stapleton’s
TRAVELLER
(MERCURY/ UMGN) fell 3-5 (#28-29 BB200) selling 11,356 copies (down 11%; 108-week total 1,954,600).
Rascal Flatts with BACK TO US (Big Machine/BMLG) made a bow at No.2 (#11 BB200; 30,000 units) selling 25,263 copies. The album is the
trio’s 12th top 10 on Top Country Albums, a sum that includes eight No.1s.
CHART HISTORY: Rascal
Flatts last release was their
Christmas album THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL which debuted at #167
Billboard 200 (#7 Country; chart dated Nov 5, 2016) selling 4,156
copies and was the 5th best country Seasonal seller (9-week
total 64,400).
Their
last non holiday studio REWIND (Big
Machine/Big Machine Label Group) scored its seventh No.1 debut and
eighth overall leader on Billboard Top Country Albums (and starts at No.5 on
the BB200) arrived with 61,207 copies sold. Rewind’s opening sales sum was less than half
of what the trio’s previous studio set, CHANGED
released April 3, 2012, scored upon its debut (129,569 copies) in April 2012 and marked
the smallest opening-week sum for a new studio set since its self-titled debut
bowed with 11,000
copies on June
24, 2000. The band claimed its biggest weekly haul when ME AND MY GANG debuted at the summit with 722,000 in 2006.
Promoting the album Rascal Flatts head coast to coast for
a hard-hitting release week as their 10th studio album, BACK TO US, debuts on
Big Machine Records.
The superstar vocal
group took over TODAY, featuring in all four hours of the show on Monday (May 22)
beginning at 7:00am EST on NBC.
Their NYC jaunt then takes them across town to
chat in depth about their album for an AOL Build Series livestream at 12:00pm
EST; watch here.
They round out the day with SiriusXM for a special Rascal
Flatts’ Artist Confidential at 2:00pm EST on SiriusXM The Highway. The following day (May 23) the trio stopped
by mega-platform Facebook's headquarters allowing fans to catch up with them
and ask them anything during a LIVE Q&A at 10:30am EST.
Later that night, fans caught Rascal Flatts on the finale
of The Voice for a special performance at 8:00pm EST on NBC. Fans tuned in (May
19) to relive the group’s rousing iHeartCountry Festival performance, which aired
at 9pm ET/PT on DIRECTV Channel 239, DIRECTV NOW or U-verse Channel 1114.
Billboard - Rascal Flatts Discuss Why New Album 'Back
To Us' Was 'One of the More Fun Projects We've Done'
Critical
reception for Rascal Flatts’ Back To Us:
10 Tracks/ Time: 35:09 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Allmusic (Rating:
3 Stars) …The group produced the album
themselves apart from one track on the deluxe edition by busbee. "Yours If
You Want It" (writers the late Andrew Dorff & Jonathan Singleton) was
released in January 2017 which has so far peaked at #12 on the Billboard
Country Airplay chart and #20 on Hot Country Songs.
If the
title of Back to Us suggests that the three members of Rascal Flatts have
decided to ditch everything extraneous and return to their roots, well, that's
intentional. ....there's not a trace of hip-hop in its rhythms, although there
is some R&B -- but busbee helps push the veteran trio toward a hipper adult
contemporary. The shift is crystallized on "Vandalized," a song
co-written by neo-outlaw sensation Chris Stapleton and Luke Laird..-- the group
remains cheerfully square, prizing gentle melodies, slick harmonies, and shiny
surfaces. That's been their specialty since 2000, and Back to Us delivers the
goods just as reliably as any of the nine albums they've released since.
Sounds Like Nashville
(Rating: Positive) The 10 tracks within
the project feature LeVox’s distinctive warm and emotive vocals while Jay
DeMarcus’ production skills only amplify Joe Don Rooney’s guitar chops. Many of
the songs recall early hits from the trio. All the while, the band continuously
prove that they know their fan base well with the project’s story songs
USA Countryuk.com
(Rating: 10/10) ...Each song has a
detailed story that comes together as one big picture. The path is laid out
from the beginning, middle and end of a relationship with joy, pain and hope
toying against one another.
Also
on Top Country Albums, The Voice: The
Complete Season 12 Collection (Republic), featuring singer-songwriter Lauren Duski, debuts at No.4 (#26 BB200; 19,000 sales; Amazon.com | US iTunes). Duski, who competed for
coach Blake Shelton’s team, finished
second to Chris Blue (Gospel/Pop&Soul Singer/Songwriter, Dancer and Actor).
“Deja Vu,” an original song that she
performed on the season finale (May 22), debuts at No.1 on Country Digital Song
Sales (86,000 downloads sold) and No.4 on Hot Country Songs. The second song
that Duski sang on the finale was Garth Brooks’ 1990 Hot Country Songs No.1
“The Dance.” Her take entered Country Digital Song Sales at No.4 (37,000) and
Hot Country Songs at No.18.
"Lauren is the Cassadee Pope of Season 12"
Published
on May 22, 2017 Team Blake's Lauren Duski performs an original song, "Deja
Vu," on the live finale. (474K YouTube Views)
Chris Blue:
— The Voice (@NBCTheVoice) 27 May 2017
I wrote this a few weeks before the show started, and I want to hear how "Deja Vu" makes you feel. Tweet me! https://t.co/Ac8EtIShNA— Lauren Duski (@LaurenDuski) 25 May 2017
Last week’s
No.1 Zac Brown
Band with WELCOME HOME (Southern
Ground/Elektra/Atlantic Group) fell 1-3
(2-15 BB200) selling 23,108 copies
(down 83%; 2-week total 161,888).
Brett Young with self-titled debut (BMLG) slipped 5-6 (#48-46 BB200) selling 3,946 copies
(down 14%; 15-week total 77,000).
Keith Urban with RIPCORD (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville)
fell 4-7 (39-52 BB200) selling 5,555 copies
(down 28%; 55-week total 583,300).
Florida Georgia Line with DIG YOUR ROOTS (BMLG) fell 6-8
(#51-55 BB200) selling 2,480 copies (down 2%; 39-week total 391,900).
Thomas Rhett with
TANGLED UP (Valory) fell 9-10 (#83-93 BB200) selling 1,400
copies (down 21%; 87-week total 574,700).
Outside the
Top 10
Miranda Lambert with THE WEIGHT OF THESE WINGS (Vanner/ RCA Nashville/Sony Music
Nashville) fell 10-12 (84-112 BB200) selling 2,814 copies (down 29%; 27-week total 353,500).
Kane Brown with
self-titled KANE BROWN (Zone 4/RCA
Nashville) fell 12-13 (#97-115 BB200) selling
2,759 copies
(down 17%; 25-week total 152,400)
Willie Nelson with GOD’S PROBLEM CHILD (Legacy) fell 11-22 (#86-168 BB200) selling 4,726 copies (down 37%; 4-week total 56,500).
Brantley Gilbert with The Devil Dont Sleep (Valory | BMLG)
fell 15-16 selling 2,058 copies
(down 23%; 17-week total 170,500).
Maren Morris with HERO (Columbia Nashville | SMN)
retreated 11-20 (88-140 BB200)
selling 1,400 copies
(down 26%; 51-week total 224,900).
Outside the
Top 25
Brad Paisley with LOVE
AND WAR (Arista Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 26-37 selling 2,176 copies (down 39%, 5-week total 45,900).
Mechanicsville,
Maryland native now Nashville based Singer/Songwriter/Performer Sam Grow with his 6 track EP THE
BLAME (2017 ole; Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com ) made a debut at No.42 on Billboard Top Country Albums, No.8 on Country Album Sales, #13
Independent Albums and was ranked at #75 on Top Album Sales this chart frame
selling 2,975 copies.
Music
has been part of Sam Grow's life ever since he took his first breath, so it
comes as no surprise that 30 years later he is burning up the charts with his
latest self-released EP, The Blame. Born in southern Maryland to a blue-collar
powerline worker, Sam's first taste of music was none other than the King of
Rock n Roll, Elvis. “He had me when he was almost 40, so that's the kind of
music I grew up on – old school music,” Sam explains.
“Start
This Car” by Sam Grow (Official Lyric Video)
His infatuation with music only continued to grow as years went on and his family relocated to Winfield, Kansas due to his father's traveling occupation.... Read More
Sam
released his debut self-titled EP in 2014, gaining him chart success when the
project landed at No. 8 on the iTunes Country Albums chart. His follow-up and
most recent compilation of music, THE
BLAME, succeeded that charting position when it made its charting debut at
No. 5 on iTunes. The Blame also gained charting attention at No.8 on
Billboard's Current Country Albums chart and No. 2 on its Top New Artist Albums
chart following first week's 3,383 units.
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Pokey Lafarge with his 10 track set MANIC REVELATIONS (New Rounder; Amazon
UK - UK iTunes) made a #19 debut selling 1,800 copies.
The Empty Pockets with THE TEN CENT TOUR (first released June 2, 2015) made an entry at No.28, #11 Americana/Folk Album Chart
and #13 Heatseekers Chart selling 1,400 copies.
They shared on
Facebook: Two years ago this week, we released our first full-length album, The
Ten Cent Tour, recorded completely on our own in a studio we built with our
bare hands. TODAY... The Ten Cent Tour is CHARTING on Billboard (more than
once)!
The Steel Woods with their 13 track album STRAW IN THE WIND (2017 Woods Music; Amazon
UK - UK iTunes) made a debut at #31 selling 1,300 copies.
Nashville-based
Southern rockers The Steel Woods make their debut to the world with the release
of Straw In The Wind.
“We’ve had a
vision for this album for over two years now and it’s always been about
retaining our artistic integrity,” the band told American Songwriter. “We could not be more
proud of how the album turned out and the sound we were able to hone in on. Our
sound is very much soaked in southern culture even though our influences range
from Led Zeppelin and Metallica to Darrell Scott and Jason Isbell. This being
our introduction to the world, we feel this album truly represents who we are
as musicians, songwriters and artists.
Jake Worthington with his 5 Track EP HELL OF A HIGHWAY (W3 Music; Amazon UK
- UK iTunes) made a debut at No.43 selling 800
copies.
Hell of a Highway gives me flashbacks to
the 90's of the Tracy Lawrence and Shenandoah days. I'm not sure if that is
what he was going for but if it was it hit the head. If you know me I am a
sucker for an album that really showcases a great steel guitar. I really
enjoyed the album and can't wait to see what Jake will do in the future. I
really hope that he can follow this up with more. This album really showcases
his great voice - West Texas Sweetheart
Falling
short of a Country Album Sales position were:
Chancey Williams & The
Younger Brothers Band with 10 track RODEO COLD BEER (Younger Brothers
Records; Amazon UK) sold 700
copies.
Maggie Rose with her 5 track Country/ Pop EP Dreams > Dollars (EP) (2017 Maggie
Rose) sold 500 copies.
Tyler Barham with his 6 track EP HISTORY (EP; YN Records; UK iTunes) sold 400
copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
8,243,000 (Physical sales 5,535,000
(down -6.9%) + Digital sales 2,709,000 (down -18.1%) which is 14.2% down at the same point in 2016 (9,607,000
sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
29,460,000 down 23.2% at the same point in 2016 (38,369,000)
Billboard Hot Country Songs
(Chart issue week of
June 10, 2017)
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:
Sam Hunt with “Body Like a Back Road”
(MCA Nashville) led Hot Country Songs for a 16th week. Fueling its continuing
domination are 16.3 million U.S. clicks (down 2%), leading “Road” to also top
Country Streaming Songs for a 16th frame. It dropped to No.2 after 16 weeks
atop Country Digital Song Sales, although it gains 11% to 53,000 sold and
remained at No.3 on Country Airplay after leading the survey for three weeks
(starting on the chart dated May 6), with 41.2 million in audience (down 3%).
With
a sweet 16 weeks at No.1 on Hot Country Songs, “Road” ties Buck Owens’ “Love’s Gonna Live Here” (1963-64) as the
fifth-longest-leading No.1 in the history of the chart, which began as an
all-encompassing song scorecard for the genre in 1958. Florida Georgia Line’s
“Cruise” leads with 24 weeks in charge in 2012 and 2013.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (16
weeks) ** “Body Like A Back Road” Sam
Hunt
** Digital Gainer
** No.2 “In Case You Didn't Know” Brett
Young
** Hot Shot
Debut ** No.4 “Déjà vu” Lauren Duski
** Airplay
Gainer ** No.7 “God, Your Mama, And Me” Florida
Georgia Line feat. Backstreet Boys
Debut
No.18 “The Dance” Lauren Duski
Debut
No.19 “Boy” Lee Brice
Debut
No.37 “One Number Away” Luke Combs
** Streaming
Gainer ** No. 41 “They
Don't Know” Jason Aldean
Debut
No.46 “There's A Tear In My Beer” Lauren
Duski & Blake Shelton
Debut
No.47 “Somebody Else's Heart” Lady
Antebellum
Debut
No.48 “Ask Me How I Know” Garth Brooks
Billboard Country Airplay (Chart issue week of
June 10, 2017)
Brett
Young achieved his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Country
Airplay chart (dated June 10) as “In
Case You Didn’t Know” (Big Machine Label Group/ BMLG Records) ascended 2-1,
increasing 3% to 46 million audience impressions in the week ending May
28, according to Nielsen Music.
The ballad, which the 36-year-old Young wrote with Trent Tomlinson, Tyler Reeve and Kyle Schlienger, hit the summit in its 25th week. It follows Young’s debut single, “Sleep Without You,” which peaked at No.2 on Country Airplay (Dec. 10, 2016) and No.3 on Hot Country Songs (Dec. 3). (Both songs are from Young’s self-titled debut LP.) “Case” held at its No.2 high for a seventh straight week on the latter list. Aided by a 69-cent sale price in the iTunes Store,
“Case” sported a 56% surge with 46,000 downloads sold as it bulleted at
No.3 on Country Digital Song Sales. It retained its No. 2 high on Country
Streaming Songs with 9 million U.S. streams (down 4%).
“There are fewer greater rewards
for a songwriter than when you write a song that impacts someone’s life,”
says Young. “I think as a writer that may
be one of our biggest inspirations and challenges. And when it happens it’s
simply the most fantastic feeling a songwriter can have.” WKLB
Boston program director Mike Brophey told Billboard that the love song “connected with listeners as soon as we
started playing it. It [also] gained noticeable excitement with listeners
through social media chatter.”
Dylan Scott scored his first Country
Airplay top 10, with his third chart entry, “My
Girl” (Curb), climbed 11-9,
rising 9% to 26.2 million impressions.
Thomas Rhett with “Craving You” (Valory),
featuring Maren
Morris, jumped 13-10 on Country Airplay (26.2 million,
up 16%). It’s Rhett’s eighth Country Airplay top 10 and Morris’ second,
following her launch single, “My Church,” which peaked at No. 9 on the chart
dated May 21, 2016.
Country
Airplay
***
No. 1 (1 week) *** "In Case You Didn’t Know” Brett Young 45.965 million audience (+1.424 million) / 8,264 radio
plays (+263)
** Most
Increased Audience ** No.7 “God, Your Mama, And Me” +4.311 million audience
gain
**
Most Added ** No.51 “Yours” Russell
Dickerson (16 ADDS)
**
Hot Shot Debut ** No.57 “Five More Minutes” Scotty McCreery
Debut
No.59 “God Made a Woman” Jerrod Niemann
Debut
No.60 “What I Wanna be” Jacob Davis
The Voice Season 12 runner-up Lauren Duski dominated
the Billboard
Country Song Sales Chart with 4 songs on the Top 30.
Her
self-penned original song “Déjà Vu” made a debut at #1 (#2 Digital Songs) selling 86,000 downloads thus halting the
16-week run by Sam Hunt. It was one place behind "Despacito"
(released on Universal Music Latino / Raymond Braun / SchoolBoy / Def Jam /
UMLE / Republic Records) which ruled the Digital Song Sales chart for a fourth
week, with 137,000 downloads sold (up 19%) in the week ending May 25; the remix
with Bieber, released April 17, accounted for 77% of the song's sales (up from
73% each of the two previous weeks).
Lauren Duski with "The Dance" (writer
Tony Arata; recorded by Garth Brooks; April 30, 1990) debuted at No.4 selling 37,000 copies, her cover
of “Ghost
In This House” (Shenandoah, Alison Krauss) fell 2-6 in her second frame (#12-37 Digital Songs; 21,000 sales; down 43%) and her duet with coach Blake Shelton "There's a Tear in My Beer"
(written and recorded by Hank Williams; 1950) made a bow at #16 selling 12,000 downloads. Three of the
songs were performed on The Voice Week 6: Finals (May 22 and 23)
Sam Hunt with “Body Like a Back Road”
(MCA Nashville) slipped 1-2 (8-9 Digital
Songs; 53,000 sales;
up 11%; 17-week total 1,005,000) thus passing the 1-million Platinum status.
Brett Young with “In Case You Didn’t Know” held
at #3 (#17-15 Digital Songs;
46,000 sales; up 53%; 34-week
total 606,000).
Lee Brice with “Boy” made a debut at No.5 (#32 Digital Songs; selling 25,000 downloads).
Chris Stapleton with “Either Way” lifted 18-7 (#38 Re=Entry Digital Songs;
11,000 sales; up 90%; 3-week
total 53,000)
Luke Combs with “Hurricane” fell 4-8 (#24-39 Digital
Songs; 20,000 sales; down 15%; 26-week total 434,000).
Keith Urban with “The Fighter,” featuring Carrie Underwood (Hit Red/Capitol
Nashville), fell 5-9 (#29-42 Digital Songs; 19,000 sales; down 10%; 21-week total 555,000).
Darius Rucker with “If I Told You” fell 6-10 (33-44 Digital
Songs; 19,000 sales; down 5%; 22-week
total 309,000).
Outside the Top 10
Lady Antebellum with “You Look Good” fell 10-11 (#49 Re-entry Digital Songs; 16,000 sales;
up 45%; 18-week total 236,000) along with their pre-grat album track “Somebody
Else's Heart” which arrived at #20
selling 10,000 copies.
Thomas Rhett feat. Maren Morris with “Craving
You” fell 8-12 (15,000 sales;
8-week total 161,000).
Florida Georgia
Line feat. Backstreet Boys with
“God,
Your Mama, And Me” fell 9-13 (14,000 sales; up 7%; 16-week total 305,000).
Luke Combs with “One Number Away” made a
debut at #14 selling 14,000 copies.
Kane Brown feat Lauren Alaina with “What If’s” fell 11-22 in their second week (11,000 sales; down 18%; 2-week total 95,000)
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
29
May 2017
Dierks Bentley Is #1 With
'Black'
Congrats
to Dierks Bentley, Royce
Risser, Bobby Young, David Friedman and the Capitol promotion staff on securing the week’s No.1 with “Black.” The song is the third
consecutive chart-topper from the album that shares the title. Songwriters are
Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley and Bentley. It follows “Somewhere On A Beach" for two consecutive weeks last year (May
16) and "Different For Girls"
(Sept 19). This also marks BENTLEY's 16th career #1.
Black logged 8,803 radio spins (+829) and 57.57 million audience impressions (+4.148 million) with 26257 Total Points from 159 tracking stations for the tracking week May 21 to May 27, 2017 and published chart May 29th 2017.
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| RCA Nashville celebrate Chris Young's Losing Sleep Most Adds |
Chris Young Is Most-Added With 'Losing Sleep'
Kudos
to Dennis Reese and the RCA team for
notching 32 Mediabase adds with Chris Young’s “Losing Sleep”. The song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.
For a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly Issue 552 - May 30, 2017 [PDF File]
For the very latest up to the minute Mediabase Chart (Past 7 Days) go here - www.mediabase.com
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #12
Event
Venue City/State: Jason Aldean, Chris Young,
Kane Brown, Dee Jay Silver Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville, Conn.
Dates:
May 19-20, 2017 Gross Sales: $1,211,520 Attend: 12,700/ 14,229
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 (1,529 unsold tickets) Prices: $99,
$79
Promoters:
Live Nation/in-house
Rank
Artist: #65
Event
Venue City/State: Martina McBride, Hailey
Whitters, High Valley Ruth
Eckerd Hall Clearwater, Fla.
Dates:
Dec. 9, 2016 Gross Sales: $88,128 Attend: 1,262/ 1,500
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (238 unsold tickets) Prices: $85,
$45
Promoters:
Ruth Eckerd Hall
Presents/AEG Presents
Rank
Artist: #97
Event
Venue City/State: Chase Rice, Ryan Kinder Iron City Birmingham, Ala.
Dates:
May 11, 2017 Gross Sales: $34,559 Attend: 1,161/ 1,300
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/0 (373 unsold tickets) Prices: $34,
$29
Promoters:
in-house/Red Mountain
Entertainment
Rank
Artist: #98
Event
Venue City/State: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Capitol Theatre Clearwater,
Fla.
Dates:
March 26, 2017 Gross Sales: $33,868 Attend: 629/ 629
Shows/
Sellouts: 1/1 ** SOLD OUT ** Prices:
$57, $35
Promoters:
Ruth Eckerd Hall
Presents
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