Country
Billboard Chart News November 26, 2018
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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of December 1, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (18 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “Speechless” Dan
+ Shay
Country Airplay
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Best Shot” Jimmie Allen
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (5 non-consecutive weeks) “Speechless” Dan + Shay
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
Mumford &
Sons Score Third No.1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Delta' which Bundles
To The Top
Delta”
scores the year’s biggest week for an alternative rock album.
Mumford & Sons score their third No.1
album on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart
(BB200), as the band’s new studio set, Delta, debuts in the top slot. The
quartet’s album, which was released on Nov. 16 via Gentlemen of the
Road/Glassnote Records, launches with 230,000
equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 22, according to
Nielsen Music. That’s the biggest week for an alternative rock album in 2018.
Of the album’s starting sum, 214,000 were in album sales.
Delta,
Mumford & Sons’ fourth full-length studio album, marks the third leader for
group, following their last two studio sets: Wilder Mind (2015) and Babel
(2012). Wilder Mind launched with 249,000 units (231,000 in album sales), while
Babel bowed with 600,000 in album sales (before the album transitioned to a
units-ranked tally in late 2014). The act’s first full-length set, Sigh No
More, peaked at No. 2 in 2011.
Delta’s
first-week album sales of 214,000 is 2018’s largest week for an alternative
album, the second-biggest for a rock
title (following Come Tomorrow, with 285,000) and the sixth-largest
among all titles this year. The only bigger sales weeks in 2018 were
tallied by the debut frames of Come Tomorrow (the largest sales week of 2018
overall), Travis Scott’s Astroworld (270,000; Aug. 18), Eminem’s Kamikaze
(252,000; Sept. 15), Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty (251,000; Sept. 29) and
Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods (242,000; Feb. 17).
Delta’s
first-week sales was bolstered by
sales generated by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with
the group’s upcoming U.S. tour.
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) returned to the top moving 2-1
(#25-22 Billboard 200; 76-weeks) to land 18 non-consecutive weeks at No.1.
Previous
weeks No.1 Kane Brown with sophomore
album, entitled EXPERIMENT slipped 1-2 (#1-26 Billboard 200). In its 103rd
chart frame Brown’s 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED (released
Dec 2, 2016) held at No.5 (57-69
BB200).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.3 (#48-51 BB200; 22-weeks).
Chris Stapleton with the 186-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.4 (#52-55 BB200) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville) was
a non-mover at No.12 (#136-127
BB200) and From A Room:
Volume 2 rose 22-19 in its 51st frame.
Former
No.1 Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY rebounded 7-6 (90-89
BB200; 10-weeks).
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) held at No.8 (#96-102 BB200; 63-weeks).
Elvis Presley’s The Classic
Christmas Album lifted 16-9 (27 chart frames).
2-week No.1 Eric Church with his DESPERATE MAN (EMI Nashville/Universal
Music Group Nashville) rose 11-10 (114-115
Billboard 200; 7-weeks).
Outside the
Top 10
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) slipped 9-11 (#99-120 BB200; 93-weeks).
Kacey Musgraves with the 2018 CMA Album Of
The Year GOLDEN HOUR climbed 17-13 (#195-150 Re-entry BB200; 29
weeks)
Former
No1 Pistol Annies with INTERSTATE GOSPEL (RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) fell 10-15 (#107-155 Billboard 200) in their
third frame.
Kip Moore with his 7-track Room To Spare: The Acoustic Sessions
(EP | Amazon
UK)
made a debut at No.20.(#7 Country
Album Sales).
Reba McEntire with My Kind Of Christmas made a Re-Entry
at No.23 (24 chart frames).
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Garth Brooks released The Anthology Part III Live on Nov. 20 and it made a debut at No.40.
The coffee-table book, written by Garth Brooks with Warren Zanes, includes five CDs with 52 live recordings, as well as 10 augmented-reality experiences available through the Garth Live app to book purchasers.
The coffee-table book, written by Garth Brooks with Warren Zanes, includes five CDs with 52 live recordings, as well as 10 augmented-reality experiences available through the Garth Live app to book purchasers.
According to Billboard
the book traces the six-time CMA
Entertainer of the Year from his college appearances while attending Oklahoma
State University in Yukon to his rise to stardom opening for acts like Reba
McEntire, The Judds and Kenny Rogers, through his most recent tour, which drew
6.4 million people.
The 52 recordings include the music from Triple Live, a live album from Brooks recorded during his three-year tour, which ended in December 2017. The music from that set was available for free download for a limited time through Ticketmaster to American and Canadian residents.
FALLING SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Montgomery Gentry with the 12-track Montgomery Gentry: 20 Years of Hits (Average Joes | Amazon UK - Amazon.com)
made a debut at No.25.
The album
features 12 of the duo’s songs re-recorded to commemorate the band’s 20th
anniversary. Contributors include Jimmie Allen, Rodney Atkins, Colt Ford, Logan
Mize, Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker and Granger Smith.
Glen Campbell with Sings For The King (Capitol/UME | ) made a debut at No.33.
Glen recorded the
18-track album intended only for Elvis Presley's ears back from 1964 to 1968.
The songs were never released, until now some 50 years later. The collection is
also available on a limited edition 180-gram clear vinyl. Read more Billboard
Roy Orbison with Unchained Melodies: Roy Orbison with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Sony Legacy/Roy’s Boys LLC) made a debut at No.41.
Produced by Don
Reedman and Nick Patrick, the material spans Orbison’s 1963-1988 recording
sessions and features contributions from his sons Wesley (guitar), Roy Jr.
(guitar) and Alex (drums).
Year-To-Date Albums
13,802,000 (Physical sales 9,843,000
(down -21.4%) + Digital sales 3,969,000 (down -33.1%) which is 25.2% down at the same point in 2017 (18,455,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
43,072,000 down 27.8% at the same point in 2017 (59,655,000)
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:
Dan +
Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney), achieved their first No.1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart as “Speechless”
(Warner Bros./WAR) leapt 5-1 on the
airplay-, streaming- and sales-based survey dated Dec. 1.
“Speechless” is just the third Hot Country Songs No.1
of 2018. Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./Big
Machine Label Group) led for 50 straight weeks (starting Dec. 16, 2017) until
it was finally unseated on the Nov.24-dated chart by Kane Brown’s “Lose It”
(Zone 4/RCA Nashville), which jumped 5-1 as parent album Experiment launched at
No.1 on Top Country Albums. “Lose” fell to No.5, while “Meant,” in its 52nd
frame (marking a full year on the tally), dropped 2-4.
Smyers and Mooney wrote “Speechless” with Laura Veltz and
Jordan Reynolds.
It flew to No.1 on Hot Country Songs on the strength of
across-the-board gains, aided by the pair’s performance of the ballad on the
Nov.19 season finale of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars.
“Speechless” rebounded 3-1 for a fifth week atop Country
Digital Song Sales (14,000 sold, up 29 percent, in the week ending Nov. 22,
according to Nielsen Music), dipped 3-6 on Country Streaming Songs (8.9 million
U.S. streams, up 4 percent, in the week ending Nov. 22) and pushed 7-6 on
Country Airplay (30.5 million audience impressions, up 3 percent, in the week
ending Nov. 25).
The track follows the twosome’s first five Hot Country
Songs top 10s: “Tequila,” which peaked at No. 2 on June30; “How Not To” (No. 7,
2017); “From the Ground Up” (No. 3, 2016); “Nothin’ Like You” (No. 5, 2015);
and debut single “19 You + Me” (No. 7, 2014). “Tequila,” “Not,” “Ground” and
“Nothin’” all topped Country Airplay.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (1 week)/
Digital Gainer ** “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Streaming Gainer ** No.2 “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs
**
Airplay Gainer” No.13 “Good Girl” Dustin
Lynch
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.43 “From Now On” Zac Brown Band
Debut
No.50 “You're In It” Granger Smith
Jimmie Allen with launch single, “Best
Shot” (Stoney Creek), led Country Airplay for a second week, with 40 million impressions (down 4 percent).
The song is the
13th multiweek No.1, of 31 total toppers, on Country Airplay this year.
It followed Luke Combs’ “She Got the
Best of Me,”
which led for four weeks; Luke Bryan’s “Most People Are Good,” which led for
three; and 10 two-week leaders:
Bryan’s
“Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset,” Old Dominion’s “Hotel Key,” Brett Young’s “Mercy,”
Kenny Chesney’s “Get Along,” Dan + Shay’s “Tequila,” Kane Brown’s “Heaven,”
Thomas Rhett’s “Marry Me,” Russell Dickerson’s “Yours,” and Jason Aldean’s
“Drowns the Whiskey” (featuring Miranda Lambert) and “You Make It Easy.”
Similarly, in 2017, 12 of 33 songs that ascended to No. 1 on Country Airplay
led
for multiple
weeks.
Dierks Bentley with “Burning Man” (Capitol
Nashville), featuring Brothers Osborne, pushed 11-10 on Country Airplay, up 5 percent to 22.1 million impressions.
“Man” marks
Bentley’s 24th Country Airplay top 10, a sum that includes 16 No.1s. He first
reigned with his debut single, “What Was I Thinkin’,” in 2003.
Bentley ties
Alabama for 18th place among acts with the most Country Airplay top 10s, dating
to the chart’s January
1990 inception.
George Strait leads with 61. Brothers Osborne bank their second Country Airplay
top 10, after “Stay a Little Longer” reached No. 2 in 2016
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** “Best Shot” Jimmie
Allen 40.418 million audience (-1.558 million) / 7,647 radio plays (-399)
**
Most Increased Audience ** No.4 “Rich” Maren
Morris +2.570 million audience gain
**
Most Added ** No.25 “Love Wins” Carrie
Underwood (14 ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.59 “I Don't Know About You” Chris Lane
Debut
No.60 “Closer To You” Carly Pearce
Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with “Speechless”
returned to the top of the chart moving 3-1
(#18-9 Digital Songs; 14,000 sales) for a 5th
week “Tequila” climbed 4-3 (25-20
Digital Songs).
“Speechless”
was eight places behind Halsey’s “Without Me” which reached No.1 on the Digital Song Sales chart (37,000, up 5 percent), while holding at No.
4 on the Hot 100.
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” held at No.2 (#17-12
Digital Songs).
The Zac Brown Band with 'Someone
I Used to Know' entered Country Digital Song Sales (#8 New Entry
Digital Songs; 17,000 sales) as the
group’s second No.1, following “Homegrown” in 2015. The act debuted the track,
which Zac Brown wrote with Shawn Mendes, among others, on NBC’s The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Nov. 6.
“Someone I Used to Know”” was
7-places behind Ariana Grande who scored a repeat atop the Digital
Song Sales chart, with 63.4 million U.S. streams (up 14 percent) and 43,000 downloads sold (down 47 percent) in the
week ending Nov. 15, according to Nielsen Music.
Dierks
Bentley feat. Brothers
Osborne with “Burning Man” advanced 8-4 on Country
Digital Singles (#43-42
Digital Songs).
Jimmie Allen with “Best Shot” climbed 11-5 (49-44 Digital Songs).
Kelsea
Ballerini with “Miss
Me More” pushed 10-6 (#48-45 Digital
Songs).
Jake Owen with “Down To The Honkytonk” bounded
15-7 (#47
New-Entry Digital Songs) up 26 percent to 6,000 sold
in the week
ending Nov. 22. The increase followed Owen’s performance of the song on ABC’s
Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Nov. 13.
Former 22 non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) fell 5-8 (#32-50
Digital Songs).
Chris Stapleton with the CMA Single and Song
of The Year “Broken Halos” fell 7-10 as “Tennessee
Whiskey” held at No.9 in its
150th week.
Outside
the Top 10
13 New 1 - Zac Brown Band with “From Now On” made a bow at No.13.
Team Blake The Voice Contestant Kirk Jay made
a debut at No.16 with "I'm
Already There" (Recorded and released by Lonestar on March 26,
2001) following his Top 13 performance. >> YouTube (1-million views)
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
November
26, 2018
Jimmie Allen's 'Best Shot'
Hits #1 For Second Consecutive Week
Repeat congrats
to Jimmie Allen,
Carson James, Byron Kennedy, Heather Propper and the Stoney Creek promotion team
on landing a second week at No.1 with “Best Shot.” The song is Allen’s
debut single from his first album Mercury Lane. Writers are Josh London, J.P.
Williams and Allen.
He now becomes
the seventh artist in Country Aircheck history (since 2006) to launch their
country career with a multi-week debut single, joining Luke Combs,
Florida Georgia Line, Zac Brown Band, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood and The
Wreckers.
More than a
decade ago, Delaware native Jimmie Allen moved to Music City with only $21 to his
name after dropping out of the University of Delaware. Working odd jobs, he
focused on songwriting and performing at any writers round or show he could
book. Now, the 33-year-old finds his debut single “Best Shot” occupying the top
slot as the most-played song on Country radio for a second consecutive week
after a 41-week climb on the charts.
“Best Shot” (Stoney
Creek) held at No.1 logging 8,244 radio spins (-364), 51.885 million audience impressions (-1.234 million) with 26489 Total Points (-954) from 155
tracking stations (155 ADDS) for the tracking week November 19 to November 24,
2018 and published chart dated November 26, 2018.
Garth Brooks Is Most-Added
With 'Stronger Than
Me'
Kudos to Andy
Elliott and the Pearl reps on securing 18
adds for Garth
Brooks’ “Stronger Than Me”. The song topped the "Most Added"
board this chart week.
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
GARTH BROOKS/Stronger Than Me (Pearl) 18 29
CARLY
PEARCE/Closer To You (Big Machine) 12 59
LUKE COMBS/Beautiful
Crazy (River House/Columbia) 11 25
BRAD
PAISLEY/Bucked Off (Arista) 8 73
JON PARDI/Night
Shift (Capitol) 8 136
OLD
DOMINION/Make It Sweet (RCA) 8 111
COLE
SWINDELL/Love You Too Late (Warner Bros./WMN) 6 44
BRETT
YOUNG/Here Tonight (BMLGR) 5 119
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 5 97
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Love Wins (Capitol) 4 133
LAUREN
ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 4 56
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 4 89
MADDIE &
TAE/Die From A Broken Heart (Mercury) 1 1
MADDIE & TAE/Friends
Don't (Mercury) 1 99
PISTOL
ANNIES/Got My Name Changed Back (RCA) 1 18
RAELYNN/Tailgate
(Warner Bros./WMN) 1 16
RUSSELL
DICKERSON/Every Little Thing (Triple Tigers) 1 2
TENILLE
TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 1 43
WALKER
HAYES/90's Country (Monument/Arista) 1 39
For
a detailed report check out Country Aircheck Weekly November 26, 2018; Issue 629 - Magazine View
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #28
Event
Venue City/State: Donny & Marie The
Showroom at The Flamingo Las Vegas, Nev.
Dates:
Nov. 6-10, 2018 Gross Sales: $293,043 Attend:
3,143/ 3,636
Shows/
Sellouts: 5/0 (493 unsold tickets) Prices:
$283, $136, $119, $104, $54
Promoters: Caesars Entertainment
