BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 13, 2020 | PAGE 4 OF 19 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Bulletin SamHunt’s Southside Rules Top Country YOURAlbu DAILYms; BrettENTERTAINMENT Young ‘Catc NEWSh UPDATE’-es Fifth AirplayJULY 27, 2020 Page 1 of 44 Leader; Travis Denning Makes History INSIDE DaBaby’s ‘Rockstar’ Rules Hot 100 for Sam Hunt’s second studio full-length, and first in over five years, Southside sales (up 21%) in the tracking week. On Country Airplay, it hops 18-15 (11.9 mil- (MCA Nashville/Universal Music GroupSeventh Nashville), debuts at No. Week, 1 on Billboard’s lion audienceDrake impressions, Debuts up 16%). Record Top Country• Juice Albums WRLD’s chart dated April 18. In its first week (ending April 9), it earned‘Legends 46,000 equivalentNever album units, including 16,000 in album sales, ac- TRY TO ‘CATCH’ UP WITH YOUNG Brett Youngachieves his fifth consecutive cordingDie’ toSpends Nielsen Second Music/MRC Data. 39th &and total40th Country Airplay Top No. 1 as “Catch” 10s (Big Machine Label Group) ascends SouthsideWeek at marks No. 1 Hunt’son second No. 1 on the 2-1, increasing 13% to 36.6 million impressions. chartBillboard and fourth 200 top Chart 10. It follows freshman LP BY GARY TRUST Young’s first of six chart entries, “Sleep With- Montevallo, which arrived at the summit in No - out You,” reached No. 2 in December 2016. He vember 2014• Revealed: and reigned for nine weeks. To date, followed with the multiweek No. 1s “In Case You DaBaby’s “Rockstar,” featuring Roddy Ricch, Sales, it drops 3-5 with 11,000 sold, down 6%, in the MontevalloBillboard’s has 2020 earned Top 3.9 million units, with 1.4 Didn’t Know” (two weeks, June 2017), “Like I Loved millionMusic in album Lawyers sales. spends a seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot week endingYou” July (three, 23. January 2018), “Mercy” (two, August Montevallo has spent 267 weeks100 on songsthe list, chart.tying “Rockstar”2018) concurrently and “Here Tonight” rules the (two,Hot April R&B/Hip- 2019). • ‘We’re Providing Luke Bryan’s Crash My Party as the sixth-longest-’s “Popstar” and “Greece,” both featur- and “Catch” completes his charts, longest which journey use to No. 1, An Essential Service’: DJ Khaled Hop Songs Hot Rap Songs running titles in the chart’s 56-year history. having taken 46 weeks to reach the apex. It out- The New Strategies ing Drake, launch at Nos. 3 and 8 on the Hot 100, the same multi-metric formula as the Hot 100, for a On the all-genre Billboard 200, Southside ar- paces the 30-week climb of “Here Tonight.” Keeping A&R Reps respectively. The debuts are historic for Drake, who seventh week each. rives at No. 5, awarding Hunt his second top 10 On Hot Country Songs, “Catch” pushes 7-5 for Busier Than Ever HUNT YOUNG after the No. 3-peaking Montevalloadds. his 39th and 40th top 10s and passes Madonna Jack Harlow’sa new high.“Whats Poppin,” featuring DaBaby, (38) for the most in the chart’s history. Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne, revisits its No. 2 high on Hunt• Copyright first released Lawyer the EPX2C , which debuted and peakedRichard at Busch No. 5 on on Top CountryPlus, AlbumsChris Brownin August and 2014.Young Following Thug’s “GoCOMBS Crazy” ‘DOES’ theIT AGAIN Hot 100, Luke rising Combs from’ “Does No. to 3. 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It now ranks second only to Bebe Rexha and a Few” (Mercury Nashville) climbs 12-10 in its 57th week, up 4% to 21.4 mil - Records, rebounds from No. 2 for a ninth week at No. 1 ing Songs with 28.4 million and 22.1 million streams, Florida GeorgiaVenues Line’s “Meant to Be” (50 weeks atop the latter list in 2017-18). lion in radio reach. “Downtown’s Dead,” which ison also the onStreaming the new set, Songs reached chart, Nos. with14 and 36.2 15 millionThe U.S. song surpassesrespectively. two tracks On that Digital took 50Song weeks Sales, each they to enter arrive the attop 10: on Hot• Country Peter Green, Songs and Countrystreams, Airplay, down respectively, 7%, in the in Juneweek 2018. ending “Kin July- 23,Easton accord Corbin- ’sNos. “A Girl 1 and Like 7 You,”with whicha respective reached 15,000 No. 10 in and January 9,000 2018 sold, be - folks”Fleetwood led Country Mac Airplay Co- on Feb.ing 29, to Nielsenbecoming Music/MRC Hunt’s seventh Data. 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IMAGES MILLER/GETTY ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ SONG OF THE YEAR ­ ­ SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR ­ ­ ­ PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­­ MUSIC MOVES OUR WORLD ­ Page 3 of 44 IN BRIEF “Popstar” and “Greece” also drew 13.1 ing Radio Songs No. 1s: Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Chris million and 3.5 million in radio airplay audi- Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Date Reached Brown and Young Thug’s “Go Crazy” roars ence, respectively, in the tracking week. No. 1 into the region, blasting from No. 29 to No. Khaled collects his fifth and sixth Hot 100 18, “Iris,” Goo Goo Dolls, Aug. 1, 1998 10, after the July 17 premiere of its official top 10s, while Drake makes history, notch- 16, “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd, April 18, video. It leaps 37-15 on Streaming Songs ing his 39th and 40th top 10s, as he passes 2020 (16.5 million, up 38%) and 43-17 on Digital Madonna (38) for the most career top 10s on 16, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, Song Sales (5,000, up 59%) and advances 21- the chart, which began on Aug. 4, 1958. Aug. 4, 2018 20 on Radio Songs (34.9 million, up 1%). Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10s 16, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, Brown tallies his 16th Hot 100 top 10 and 40, Drake May 28, 2005 Young Thug adds his third. 38, Madonna 16, “Don’t Speak,” No Doubt, Dec. 7, 1996 For all chart news, you can follow @bill- 34, The Beatles 14, “High Hopes,” Panic! at the Disco, Dec. board and @billboardcharts on both Twitter 31, Rihanna 1, 2018 and Instagram. And again, be sure to visit 30, Michael Jackson 14, “No One,” Alicia Keys, Nov. 3, 2007 Billboard.com tomorrow (July 28), when all 28, Mariah Carey 14, “Because You Loved Me,” Celine Dion, charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, 28, Stevie Wonder April 13, 1996 will refresh. 27, Janet Jackson “Blinding Lights” tops the multi-met- 27, Elton John ric Hot R&B Songs chart for a 19th week. 25, Lil Wayne SAINt JHN’s “Roses” returns to No. 5 on 25, Elvis Presley the Hot 100 from No. 8, after hitting No. 4, 25, Taylor Swift while leading the Hot Dance/Electronic Meanwhile, with his two new features on Songs chart for a 13th week; Megan Thee Khaled’s tracks, Drake makes his record- Stallion’s former one-week Hot 100 leader extending 24th and 25th debuts in the Hot “Savage,” featuring Beyoncé, keeps at No.