Country Billboard Chart
News July 24, 2014
In Brief: Billboard Country Charts
Country Album Chart ** No.1
(6 weeks; non consecutive)
** “Based On A True Story…” Blake Shelton
Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Dirt” Florida Georgia Line
Country Airplay ** No.1 (2 weeks) ** Yeah’“ Joe Nichols
Country Digital Songs **
No.1 ** (2 weeks) ** “Dirt” Florida Georgia
Line
In this easy-to-use format discover
where your favourite acts songs and album are charting across the four Billboard
Country charts. It is prioritized by the first column showing the Hot Country
Songs chart frame standings for the week of July 26, 2014.
There are also separate rows
highlighting Women of Country music.
Scroll down for further
details on each of the individual charts.
Billboard Top
200 / Country Album Chart News
After more than
30 years on the charts, comedian-singer "Weird Al" Yankovic earned his first No.1 album on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (BB200),
as "Mandatory Fun" debuts atop the list. The album is the first
comedy set to top the chart since 1963, and logs the largest sales week for a
comedy album since 1994.
"Mandatory
Fun" was released July 15 through Way Moby and RCA Records, and sold 103,880 copies in the week ending July
20, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was promoted by a well-received daily
viral video campaign that launched Monday, July 14. Starting with his parody of
Pharrell's "Happy," Yankovic released eight music videos for the
album through the week on various sites, like The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo,
Nerdist, College Humor and YouTube.
"Mandatory"
is the first comedy album to top the Billboard 200 since Allan Sherman's
"My Son, the Nut" spent eight weeks at No. 1 beginning on the chart
dated Aug. 31, 1963.
Blake Shelton closed out the BB200 top 10 as "BASED ON A TRUE STORY …" (Warner
Bros./Warner Music Nashville) album vaulted 63-10 with 22,000 copies sold ( up
a whopping 386%). The album was sale-priced in the iTunes Store last week for
$5.99 and grew by 1,000% in overall download sales. To promote the sale
pricing, Shelton's Twitter account sent out two Tweets during the week to the
country star's 6.8 million followers. His Facebook page, which has 8.3 million
likes, also spread the word about the discount.
Blake ended the
longest gap between stands at No.1 on Billboard’s
Top Country Albums chart as it surged 12-1 to spend a sixth cumulative week
at the summit. It hadn’t ranked at No.1 since the June 22, 2013 chart.
Shelton’s 13-month, two-week span between No1s ranks with the same set
surpasses Waylon Jennings’ six-month, three-week hiatus with his Greatest Hits
in 1979-80. Shelton’s set also made the biggest leap for an album returning
to No1 in the 23-year-old Nielsen SoundScan era, topping Dixie Chicks’
Taking the Long Way, which flew 11-1 on the March 7, 2007 list (marking the
seventh of nine cumulative weeks at No. 1 for the set).
Shelton’s album
dislodged the latest by his wife, Miranda Lambert!
PLATINUM had spent five weeks on top. What can he tell her? “Sorry, honey.
It was nothing personal, just stack em’ high and sell em’ cheap”
Neo Honky Tonk
artist Sturgill Simpson’s METAMODERN SOUNDS IN
COUNTRY MUSIC (Thirty Tigers) enjoyed a sales push this week which helped him return to
the BB200 at No.129 (28-17 Country)
Lucy Hale’s ROAD
BETWEEN fell off the Top 25 County albums (23-29) in her seventh chart
frame selling 1,500 copies with a new tally of 34,000.
Garth Brooks, who announced his return to recording
and touring this week, is the best-selling artist in the USA since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began
tracking music sales. He's sold 69.6 million albums, topping The Beatles (65.8
million), Metallica (54.42 million), Mariah Carey (54.40 million) and Celine
Dion (52.2 million).
Brooks' biggest
albums in the SoundScan era:
Ropin' the Wind
(1991; 9.6 million copies sold), No Fences (1990; 9 million), The Hits (1994,
7.8 million), Double Live (1998; 6 million), Sevens (1997; 5.7 million) and The
Chase (1992; 5.1 million)
2014 Country Album sales Year-To
Date:
16,847,000 (Physical sales 11,124,000 (down 9%) + Digital
sales 5,723,000 (down -12.6%)) which is 21.1% down at the same point in 2013 (21,352,000
sales)
Billboard Top 200 / Country Album
Placings
(Issue dated Chart week of August 2, 2014)
(Country Album positions #1 - #25)
(TW) This Week, (LW) Last
Week, Co (Country Album Chart placing / Movement)
Top 25 Hot Country Songs (week of August
2, 2014)
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 “Dirt” (Republic
Nashville) logged a second week at No.1. It sold 99,000 copies (down 49%)
percent) and on Country Streaming Songs received 1.7 million hits (down 21%).
It fell #11 to #20 on the Billboard all genre Hot 100.
- Luke Bryan's “Roller Coaster” snagged Digital
Gainer and Airplay Gainer stripes with a #29 - #19
jump and a new entry at #88 on the Hot 100. It's vying to become the fifth
top 40 hit from Crash My Party.
- Rookie duo Maddie & Tae landed the Hot Shot
Debut at No.39 with “Girl
in a Country Song,” (Dot/BMLG) which marked the first charted song on
the latest incarnation of the Dot imprint. Dot last ranked in the Hot
Country Songs top 10 when Joe Stampley’s “Take Me Home to Somewhere”
peaked at No.5 on Nov. 23, 1974.
Top 25 Hot Country Songs:
Florida Georgia Line with “Dirt” held at #1
Kenny Chesney with “American Kids” stays at #2
Dierks Bentley with “Drunk On A Plane” stays at #3
Lady Antebellum with “Bartender” is up two, #5 - #4 p
Lee Brice with “I Don’t Dance” climbs two, #7 - #5 p
Jake Owen with former #1 “Beachin’” falls two, #4 - #6 q
Joe Nichols with “Yeah” moves up one, #8 - #7 p
Florida Georgia Line
feat Luke Bryan with former #1 “This Is How Me Roll” fell,
#6 - #8 q
Chris Young with “Who I Am With You” climbs two, #11 - #9 p
Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood with former No1 “Somethin’ Bad” holds at #10
Tim McGraw feat Faith
Hill with “Meanwhile Back At Mama’s” is up, #15 - #11 p
Sam Hunt with “Leave The Night On” rises five, #17 - #12 p
Brad Paisley with “River Bank” stays at #13
Billy Currington with “We Are Tonight” is up two, #16 - #14 q
Dustin Lynch with “Where It’s At” (Yep, Yep) climbs three, #18 -
#15 p
Blake Shelton featuring Gwen Sebastion with “My Eyes” slips two,
#14 - #16 q
Chase Rice with “Ready Set Roll” is
up two, #19 - #17 p
Cole Swindell with “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight” is three, #21 -
#18 p
Luke Bryan with “Roller Coaster” flies
up eight, #27 - #19 p
Eric Paslay with “Song About A Girl” holds at #20
Brantley Gilbert with “Small Town Throwdown” is up one, #22 - #21 p
Frankie Ballard with “Sunshine & Whiskey” lifts three, #25 - #22 p
Eli Young Band with “Dust” is up
one, #24 - #23 p
Little Big Town with “Day Drinking” is up two, #26 - #24 p
Eric Church with “Cold One”, advances four, #29 - #25
p
Hot County Songs
** No.1 (2 weeks) ** “Dirt”
Florida Georgia Line
** Streaming Gainer ** No.12 “Leave The Night On” Sam Hunt
** Digital Gainer/ Airplay Gainer ** No.19 “Roller Coaster” Luke Bryan
** Hot Shot Debut ** No.39 “Girl
In A Country Song” Maddie & Tae
Debut No.42 “Burnin’ It
Down” Jason Aldean
Billboard
Country Airplay Chart Week of August 2, 2014
Joe Nichols claimed his second multiweek No.1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, as “Yeah” (Red Bow) bulleted for a second
week at the summit.
The song logged 48.220 million audience impressions
(+2.571 million; up 6%) receiving 7,381 radio
plays (+367). The track is Nichols’ fifth career leader and his first to reign
for more than one week since his third No. 1, “Gimmie That Girl,” spent the
first of two weeks atop the May 8, 2010 chart.
Top local
audience stations for “Yeah” during the July 14-20 tracking week: KKBQ Houston (1.6 million impressions),
WUSN Chicago (1.5 million), WNSH New York (1.1 million), WKLB Boston (1 million) and KPLX Dallas (1 million).
- Trio Lady Antebellum scored its 12th top 10 with “Bartender”
(Capitol Nashville), which climbed 11-9
in its 10th chart week (30.4 million impressions, up 12%). The threesome
last reached the upper region with “Compass,” which became its eighth No. 1 on the March 22 list.
Since Lady Antebellum’s first week in the top 10 (May 3, 2008), only Zac
Brown Band (which scored its first top 10 in November 2008) boasts more
such hits among groups (13). Dating to the chart’s January 1990 inception,
Lady Antebellum ranks eighth among groups with the most top 10s:
Rascal Flatts leads with 29, followed by Alabama (24), Diamond Rio (19),
Lonestar (18), Dixie Chicks and Sawyer Brown (14 each). Lady A announced
details of its upcoming fifth studio album on July 18 co-produced with
Nathan Chapman “747” will be released Sept. 30. “Bartender,” the lead
track from the album, has sold 452,000 downloads to date.
- Luke Bryan nabbed
the Most Increased Audience and Most Added trophies with “Roller Coaster” (Capitol Nashville) which flew 30-21 in its
fifth week. The song logged 16.317 million audience impressions (up 80%),
a gain of +7.729 million
receiving 2,348 radio plays (+1,221) thanks to 55 fresh radio commitments (ADDS).
- Jerrod Niemann logged
his second-highest debut with “Buzz
Back Girl” (Sea Gayle/Arista Nashville), which arrived with Hot Shot Debut
honours at No.50. His highest bow was a No.49 start for “What Do You Want”
(Oct. 9, 2010); it peaked at No. 4 (May 7, 2011). Niemann’s chart history
includes a pair of leaders: “Lover, Lover” (2010) and “Drink to That All
Night,” which led for two weeks starting on the April 26 chart.
Women of
Country 2014 Watch:
There were no
solo female artists on the Top 30 Country Airplay songs
Miranda Lamberts’ duet with Carrie Underwood Somethin’ Bad” moved 21-19 in its
19th chart week
Cassadee Pope #34,
Kacey Musgraves #38, Jana Kramer #40, RaeLynn #44, Danielle Bradbery #49, and Maggie
Rose #58 were the six solo females in the remaining 31-60 slots, to make it
just 10.0% of the entire Top 60 chart.
Country
Airplay
*** No. 1 (2
weeks) *** "Yeah" Joe Nichols
** Most
Increased Audience/ Most Added ** No. 21 "Roller Coaster" Luke Bryan
Hot Shot Debut
No.50 "Buzz Back Girl" Jerrod Niemann
Debut No.51
"Take It On Back" Chase Bryant
Debut No.56
"We'll Come Back Around" Craig Morgan
Debut No.58
"Girl In Your Truck Song" Maggie Rose
Billboard
Country Digital Singles Chart Week of August 2, 2014
- Florida Georgia Line with "Dirt" (Republic Nadhville/
BLMG) remained at No.1 for a second week selling 99,000 downloads (down 49% on first week sales of 182,929). On
the all genre Digital Songs chart it fell 2-7.
- No new songs
entered the Top 30 with a slight shuffle of the upper top ten tier..
- Lady Antebellum’s “Bartender” went past the ½-million
sales mark in their 9th chart frame to gain GOLD eligibility having
reached a new tally of 513,000.
- Outside the Top 30 young newbie female duo Maddie & Tae made their debut at #32 with “Girl In A Country Song” (Dot/BMLG) with just under 10,500 tracks downloaded in their first week.
Women Of Country Watch
There were no solo female artists on the Top 30 placings.
Miranda Lambert’s “Automatic” moved 34-40 as the ONLY solo female song on the Top 50!
Dropping off the Top 30:
Top 30 Digital Singles in Country Music
(published July 24, 2014)
(LW) Last Week (TW) This Week
*Numbers are
rounded to nearest 1000th
Country
Aircheck/ Mediabase chart
Chris Young landed the No1 on Mediabase with “Who I Am With You’” (RCA) which moved 2-1. The song logged 7,684 radio spins (+395) and 58.621 million audience impressions
(+3.153 million) from 149 tracking stations for the tracking week July 13 to
July 19, 2014 and published chart July 21st.
Congratulates to
RCA SVP/Promotion Keith Gale,
Dir./National Promotion Josh Easler and the entire RCA promo team for scoring
the week’s #1 spot on the MEDIABASE Country singles chart with Chris Young’s “Who
I Am With You.”
This is the
second single from Young’s “A.M.” album and his first #1 single since “You” in February
of 2012 and his sixth career chart-topper.
Congratulations
to Dot Records GM Chris Stacey,
Dir./National Promotion KRIS LAMB, and the entire Dot Records promotions team
for earning 32 MEDIABASE Country
adds with Maddie & Tae's "Girl In A Country
Song," making it the most added song of the day. Maddie & Tae was
signed as the inaugural act on the new imprint of Big Machine Label Group (BMLG)
in June.
"Girl In A
Country Song" is the debut single from the female duo.
Bagels were due
to be delivered to the Dot Records office (July 22nd) to congratulate the staff
on their achievement.
Billboard Boxscores (Selective Country concerts)
Chart Week of August
2, 2014
