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Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of November 3, 2018)
Country Album
Chart ** No.1 (16 non-consecutive weeks) ** THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU Luke Combs
Hot Country
Songs ** No.1 (48 weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe
Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “She Got The Best Of Me” Luke Combs
Country Digital
Songs ** No.1 (1 week) “Good As You” Kane Brown
The
Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric album consumption, which includes
traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent
albums (SEA).
'A Star Is
Born' Soundtrack Earns Third Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A STAR IS BORN soundtrack held steady at No.1 on
the Billboard 200 albums chart for a third week, earning 109,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 25 (down 24
percent) according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 61,000 were in traditional album
sales (down 30 percent).
A
Star Is Born is the first soundtrack to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 in
more than 10 years. The last title to do so was the soundtrack to the Disney
Channel TV movie High School Musical 2, which ruled for its first four weeks
(Sept. 1-Sept. 22, 2007).
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.
Based on
consumption units Luke Combs with
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU (River House/
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) moved 2-1 (#21-24 Billboard 200; 3,900
sales; 73-week total 347,200) in his 73rd frame to top the chart for a 16th
non-consecutive week No.1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart (dated Nov.3)
Former
6-week non-consecutive week No.1 Jason Aldean with REARVIEW
TOWN (Macon/Broken Bow Records) climbed 4-2 (#42-27 BB200; 13,000 sales;
28-week total 439,200) in his 27th week.
Tagged
“Rock” Jason
Isbell & The 400 Unit Southeastern with
LIVE FROM THE RYMAN debuted at No.3 (#38 Billboard 200) selling 14,100 copies. Additionally, it topped the Americana/Folk
Album Sales chart.
2-week No.1 Eric Church with his DESPERATE MAN (EMI Nashville/Universal
Music Group Nashville) fell 1-4 (16-41
Billboard 200; 8,500 sales; 3-week total 127,300).
Former No1 Dan + Shay with their self-titled
album (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) held at No.5 (#53-51 BB200; 1,300 sales; 18-week total 61,200) in their 17th
week.
Chris Stapleton with the 182-week TRAVELLER (MERCURY/ UMGN)
held at No.6 (#55-56 BB200; 3,200 sales; 182-week total
2,371,300) as his set From A Room: Volume 1 (Mercury/Universal
Music Group Nashville) held at No.13 (#149-156
BB200; 1,900 sales; 77-week total 850,600) and From A Room: Volume 2 rose 25-21 in its 47th frame (2,100 sales; 47-week total
447,600).
Kane Brown with his 10 non-consecutive week No.1 SELF-TITLED held
at No.7 (#57-58 BB200; 2,200 sales; 99-week total
467,900) in his 99th week.
Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY
fell held at 3-8 (34-59
BB200; 7,500 sales;
6-week total 324,500) in her 6th frame.
Former
No.1 Thomas Rhett with LIFE
CHANGES (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) fell 8-9 (#80-79 BB200; 900 sales; 59-week total 299,700) in his 59th
frame.
Brett Young with self- titled BRETT YOUNG (BMLG) held at No.10 (#111-114 BB200; 1,000 sales;
89-week total 239,500) in his 89th week.
Outside the
Top 10
Former No1 Cole Swindell with ALL OF
IT (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) moved 15-14 (165-166 BB200; 1,900 sales; 10-week
total 72,200).
Despite
selling just 200 copies Morgan Wallen with IF I
KNOW ME returned to the top 25 rising 30-24
(26-week total 10,400)
Outside the Top 25
In his
second week Jimmie
Allen with his debut album, the
15-track MERCURY LANE (Stoney
Creek/BMG/BBMG) fell 11-31 (900 sales; 2-week total 3,700)
Colter Wall with his 11-track set SONGS OF THE PLAINS (Young Mary’s Record Co.-Thirty Tigers) fell off the top 50 after opening
at No.17 the previous week (1,000 sales; 2-week total 5,700 | 4-21 Country Sales).
Morgan Evans with his first U.S. LP, THINGS THAT WE DRINK TO (Warner Bros./
Warner Music Nashville) fell off the top 50 after opening at No.9 the previous week (600 sales; 2-week total 4,500)
FALLING
SHORT of Top 50:
On the Country Album Sales list (pure sales;
old methodology)
Martina McBride with her 9-track holiday album IT'S THE HOLIDAY SEASON (Vinyl
Recordings | Amazon UK
- UK iTunes
- Amazon.com
) made a debut at #12 selling 1,400 copies.
Walker Montgomery with his 5-track EP SIMPLE TOWN (2018 Stringtown Records | Amazon UK - UK iTunes
- Amazon.com
) made a debut at #44 selling 400 copies.
HARDY
with his 4-track EP THIS OLE BOY (EP; Big Loud Records /
Tree Vibez Music | UK iTunes
) made a debut at #47 selling 400 copies.
Year-To-Date Albums
12,623,000 (Physical sales 8,969,000
(down -17.0%) + Digital sales 3,665,000 (down -31.8%) which is 22.0% down at the same point in 2017 (16,182,000 sales)
Year-To-Date Digital Tracks
42,453,000 down 25.2% at the same point in 2017 (56,753,000)
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 and Bebe Rexha’s “Meant
to Be” (Warner Bros./Big Machine Label Group) stretched its record
domination on Hot Country Songs to 48
weeks.
Chris
Young banked his 13th top 10 as “Hangin’
On” (RCA Nashville) hopped 11-9.
It pushed 3-2 on Country Airplay, up 7 percent to 37.8 million impressions.
Hot County
Songs
** No.1 (48
weeks) ** “Meant To Be” Bebe Rexha & Florida
Georgia Line
** Streaming Gainer ** No.4 “Speechless” Dan + Shay
** Digital
Gainer ** No.7 “Drunk Me” Mitchell
Tenpenny
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.17 “Good As You” Kane Brown
**
Airplay Gainer” No.25 “Sixteen” Thomas
Rhett
Singer-songwriter Luke Combs with “She Got the Best of Me” (River
House/Columbia Nashville) held at No.1 on the Nov.3-dated list. “Best” increased
10 percent hike to 44.3 million audience points in the week ending Oct. 28,
according to Nielsen Music.
Mitchell Tenpenny earned his first top 10
on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as his debut single, “Drunk
Me” (Riser House/Columbia Nashville), ascended 11-9 on the list dated Nov. 3, increasing by 11 percent to 24.8
million audience impressions in the week ending Oct. 28, according to Nielsen
Music.
“Drunk” is from
Tenpenny’s debut LP, Telling All My Secrets, due Dec. 14.
Tenpenny
becomes the eighth artist to hit the top 10 in a first visit to the
Country Airplay chart in 2018, so we thought that this was the perfect time to
see exactly how rookie friendly the survey has been so far this year, compared
with the same span (measuring each January through the first week of November)
last year, five years and 10 years ago.
2018 easily
tops the other years, compared with five in 2017, two in 2013 and three in
2008.
Before
Tenpenny, the acts who reached the region in 2018 with their first entries (in
chronological order) were Devin Dawson (“All On Me,” No.2 peak), Jordan Davis
(“Singles You Up,” No. 1), Bebe Rexha (with Florida Georgia Line on the No.1
“Meant to Be), Julia Michaels (as featured on Keith Urban’s “Coming Home,” No.
3), Tori Kelly (as featured on Chris Lane’s “Take Back Home Girl,” No. 8),
Morgan Evans (“Kiss Somebody,” No. 3) and Jimmie Allen (“Best Shot,” currently
up to No.3)
Country
Airplay
***
No.1 (1 week) *** 44.302 million audience (+3.666 million) / 8,306 radio plays
(+564)
**
Most Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No.31 “What Makes You Country” Luke Bryan 5.599 million audience gain
thanks to 40 fresh radio commitments
(ADDS)
** Hot
Shot Debut ** No.54 “Miss Me More” Kelsea
Ballerini
Kane
Brown with new track “Good As You” made a debut at No.1 (#12 New
Entry Digital Songs; 15,000 sales) to top the Billboard Country Digital
Singles Chart as his single “Lose
It” fell 7-10 (5,000 sales;
19-week total 145,000) in its 19th
frame as “Heaven” slipped 14-16 in its
49th week.
“Good As You” was 11-places behind Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's
"Shallow" which held
at No.1 on Digital Song Sales for a fourth week.
Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) with
previous weeks’ No1 “Speechless” slipped 1-2 (#23-19
Digital Songs; 11,000 sales; 18-week total 149,000) as their 40-week “Tequila”
held at No.8 (6,000 sales; 40-week
total 436,000)
Luke
Combs with “She
Got The Best Of Me” held at No.3 (#31
Non mover Digital Songs; 8,000 sales; 12-week total 239,000).
Mitchell
Tenpenny with “Drunk Me” rebounded
6-4 (#43-35
Digital Songs; 8,000 sales;
14-week total 124,000).
Florida
Georgia Line with “Simple” (BMLG) held at No.5
(#36-45 Digital Songs; 6,000 sales; 21-week total 327,000). Their former 22
non-consecutive week No1 Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant
to Be" (Warner Bros. | BMLG) held at No.12 (5,000 sales; 48-week total
1,327,000).
Jimmie Allen with ballad “Best Shot” rose 10-6 in his fifth frame (6,000 sales; 5-week total 66,000).
Jake Owen with “Down
To The Honkytonk” advanced 11-7 in
his 9th frame (6,000 sales; 9-week total 53,000).
Maddie & Tae with
their ballad "Die From a Broken", which the duo (Maddie Marlow and
Taylor Dye) co-wrote, made a bow at No.9
on Country Digital Song Sales (5,000 sold). It marked the pair’s second top 10
on the chart, after 2014’s breakthrough “Girl in a Country Song” (No. 6).
Outside
the Top 10
Chris Stapleton with “Tennessee Whiskey” fell 9-11 in its 146th week (5,000 sales;
146-week total 1,687,000).
Old Dominion with “Make It Sweet” retreated 2-13 (4,000 sales; 3-week total 19,000).
Kip Moore with "Last Shot" lifted
22-19 on Hot Country Songs, marking Moore’s fifth top 20 hit. It bumped 16-14
on Country Airplay (18.3 million impressions, up 9 percent) and debuted at No.25 on Country Digital Song Sales (3,000
sold, up 10 percent).
Morgan Evans with “Things That We Drink To”
(1,000 sales; 2-week total 9,000) fell off the top 25 after No.4 debut the previous week.
Country Aircheck MEDIABASE
Chart
October
29, 2018
Luke Combs Lands Fourth
Consecutive #1 With 'She Got The Best Of Me'
Chart Chat
Congrats to Luke
Combs, Steve Hodges, Shane Allen and the Columbia promotion staff on
landing the week’s No.1 with “She
Got The Best Of Me.”
The song is the
fourth consecutive chart-topper from Combs’ River House/Columbia debut THIS
ONE’S FOR YOU. Writers are Rob Snyder, Channing Wilson and Combs. His fourth
consecutive #1, follows "One Number
Away" in June and last year's success with "When It Rains It Pours" (Oct 30, 2017) and his debut single,
"Hurricane" (May 22, 2017).
“She Got The Best Of Me” (River
House/Columbia) moved 2-1 logging 8,902 radio spins (+659), 55.385 million audience impressions
(+5.504 million) with 28718 Total Points (+2307) from
158 tracking stations (158 ADDS) for the tracking week October 21 to October 27,
2018 and published chart October 29, 2018.
Justin Moore's 'The Ones That Didn't
Make It Back Home' Is Most-Added
And kudos to
Chris Palmer and the Valory reps on notching 33 adds for Justin Moore’s “The
Ones That Didn’t Make It”. The song topped the
"Most Added" board this chart week.
 |
Celebration of Valory Music Co's Justin Moore
being most-added at Country radio this week with his new single, "The Ones
That Didn't Make It Back Home.
Pictured L-R: Valory Music Co. VP/Promotion
Chris Palmer, Coord./Promotion Lauren Simon, Dir./Southeast Promotion Brooke
Nixon, GM George Briner, and Dir./Southwest Promotion Christy DiNapoli
|
Mediabase
Adds (Selective)
Artist/Title (Label) TW Total Historic
Adds
JUSTIN MOORE/The Ones That Didn't Make It.. (Valory) 33 38
LUKE BRYAN/What
Makes You Country (Capitol) 29 95
RUNAWAY
JUNE/Buy My Own Drinks (Wheelhouse) 14 75
MICHAEL
TYLER/Remember These Words (Reviver) 12 13
THOMAS
RHETT/Sixteen (Valory) 12 151
JASON ALDEAN/Girl
Like You (Broken Bow) 10 139
KELSEA
BALLERINI/Miss Me More (Black River) 10 65
OLD
DOMINION/Make It Sweet (RCA) 9 45
PISTOL
ANNIES/Got My Name Changed Back (RCA) 9 9
RAELYNN/Tailgate
(Warner Bros./WMN) 9 9
JON PARDI/Night
Shift (Capitol) 8 121
KENNY CHESNEY
f/M. SMITH/Better Boat (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA) 8 133
BILLY
CURRINGTON/Bring It On Over (Mercury) 7 75
KEITH
URBAN/Never Comin Down (Capitol) 6 120
CARLTON
ANDERSON/Drop Everything (Arista) 5 107
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD/Love Wins (Capitol) 5 112
FLORIDA GEORGIA
LINE/Talk You Out Of It (BMLGR) 5 6
WATERLOO
REVIVAL/Wonder Woman (Show Dog) 4 29
LAUREN
ALAINA/Ladies In The '90s (19/Mercury) 3 47
AUSTIN
BURKE/Whole Lot In Love (Awal/In2une) 1 20
CLARE DUNN/More
(MCA) 1 64
MADDIE &
TAE/Friends Don't (Mercury) 1 96
TENILLE ARTS/I
Hate This (Reviver) 1 26
TENILLE
TOWNES/Somebody's Daughter (Columbia) 1 37
WALKER
MCGUIRE/Growin' Up (Stoney Creek) 1
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country
concerts)
Rank
Artist: #15
Event
Venue City/State: Kylie Minogue O2 Arena London
Dates:
Sept. 26-28, 2018 Gross Sales: $3,368,900 Attend: 30,100/ 43,227
Shows/
Sellouts: 3/0 (13,127 unsold tickets)
Prices: $197.27, $72.33
Promoters: Live Nation
Rank
Artist: #22
Event
Venue City/State: Shania Twain O2 Arena, London
Dates:
Oct. 2-3, 2018 Gross Sales: $2,009,010 Attend:
20,652/ 25,485
Shows/
Sellouts: 2/0 ** (4,833 unsold
tickets) Prices: $110.84, $32.60
Promoters: Live Nation
