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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 AirplayMARCH 8, 2021 Page 1 of 29 Leader; Travis Denning Makes History INSIDE Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ 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 Group Nashville), debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s lion audience impressions, up 16%). Top •Country Morgan Albums Wallen’s chart dated April 18. In itsLeads first week (ending AprilHot 9), it 100 for 8th Week, earned‘Dangerous’ 46,000 equivalent Hits album units, including 16,000 in album sales, ac- TRY TO ‘CATCH’ UP WITH YOUNG Brett Youngachieves his fifth consecutive cordingEighth to Nielsen Week at Music/MRC No. Data. The Weeknd’sand total Country ‘Blinding Airplay No. 1 as “Catch” (BigLights’ Machine Label Group) ascends Southside1 on Billboard marks 200 Hunt’s second No. 1 on the 2-1, increasing 13% to 36.6 million impressions. chart andAlbums fourth Chart top 10. It follows freshman LP Marks a Year in TopYoung’s first 10 of six chart entries, “Sleep With- Montevallo, which arrived at the summit in No - out You,” reached No. 2 in December 2016. He • New Annenberg vember 2014 and reigned for nine weeks. To date, BY GARY TRUST followed with the multiweek No. 1s “In Case You MontevalloStudy hasShows earned ‘No 3.9 million units, with 1.4 Didn’t Know” (two weeks, June 2017), “Like I Loved millionMeaningful’ in album Changesales. You” (three, January 2018), “Mercy” (two, August MontevalloFor Women has spent in 267 weeksOlivia on the Rodrigolist, tying ’s “Drivers License” adds an eighth sical: The Musical:2018) and The “Here Series Tonight”, totaled (two, 19.7 April million 2019). U.S. Luke BryanRecorded’s Crash Music My Party as theweek sixth-longest- at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, encompass- streams (down“Catch” 9%) and completes 9,000 downloads his longest journey sold (down to No. 1, running titles in the chart’s 56-year history. having taken 46 weeks to reach the apex. It out- • Music’s First ing its entire run on the chart so far. 30%) in the week ending March 4, according to MRC On the all-genre Billboard 200, Southside ar- paces the 30-week climb of “Here Tonight.” Blockchain Ticketer Meanwhile, The Weeknd’s former leader “Blind- Data. It also drew 73.2 million radio airplay audience rives at No. 5, awarding Hunt his second top 10 On Hot Country Songs, “Catch” pushes 7-5 for Big Neon Has Run HUNT YOUNG after the No. 3-peaking Montevalloing. Lights,” at No. 3, becomes the first song in the Hot impressionsa (upnew 7%) high. in the week ending March 7. Out of Money Hunt first released the EPX2C 100’s, which history debuted to spend a year in the top 10, as it logs its The track holds at its No. 2 high on the Radio and •peaked Snap’s at New No. Pact 5 on Top Country52nd week Albums in the in August region. 2014. Following COMBS ‘DOES’ SongsIT AGAIN chart; Luke slipsCombs 3-4’ “Does on Streaming to Me” (River Songs House/Columbia, after four MontevalloWith ,DistroKid Between the Pines: AcousticThe Hot Mixtape 100 blends started all-genre at its No. U.S.7 high streaming in Nashville), (of- featuringweeks Eric at Church No. 1; and, ascends drops 11-8 2-5 on on Country Digital Airplay, Song up Sales 10%, to NovemberLets Artists 2015. License ficial audio and official video), radio airplay24.7 millionand sales in audience.after three The weeks song is at Combs’ No. 1. eighth straight career-opening Montevallo produced five singles, four of which hit the pinnacle of Country top 10, following a record run of seven consecutive out-of-the-gate, properly Music to Snapchat: data. All charts (dated March 13) will update on Bill- “License” also wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Airplay: “LeaveExclusive the Night On,” “Take Your Time,” “House Party” and “Make promoted No. 1 singles. You Miss Me.” “Break Up in a Smallboard.com Town” peaked tomorrow at No. (March 2. 9). For all chart news,Church adds hisGainer 15th Countryaward for Airplay a seventh top 10. consecutive week, becom- Hunt• BTS co-penned & Taylor Swift all 12 songsyou on Southsidecan follow, including @billboard “Body and Like @billboardcharts a Back on ing the first song to link such a streak since Pharrell’s Road,”Among which 22 wasArtists released Set in 2017.both The Twitter smash and hit ruled Instagram. Country Airplay for THAT TOOK QUITE“Happy” ‘A FEW’ claimed MONTHS the Travis honor Denning for eight shatters straight the weeksrecord for in threeto weeks Perform and on the 2021 airplay-, streaming-“License” and sales-based was released Hot Jan. Country 8 on Songs Geffen/Interscope the most weeks February-Marchit has taken to penetrate 2014. the Country Airplay top 10 as “After chartGrammy for a then-record Awards 34 frames. 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 - Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant toRecords Be” (50 andweeks debuted atop the latterat No. list 1 in on 2017-18). the Jan. 23-datedlion in radio reach.Additionally, “License” is just the seventh single to “Downtown’s• Roc Nation Dead,” Wins which isHot also 100, on the marking new set, Rodrigo’s reached Nos. first 14 leader and 15 (after Theher song surpasseshave debuted two tracks at that No. took 1 on 50 the weeks Hot each100 andto enter spent the at top least 10: on Hot$12M Country Insurance Songs and Countrydebut Airplay, entry, respectively, “All I Want,” in Junereached 2018. No. “Kin 90- in EastonJanu- Corbin’sits “A first Girl Likeeight You,” weeks which on reachedtop. It’s No.the 10 first in January to earn 2018 the be dis- folks”Claim led Over Country Maroon Airplay 5 on Feb.ary 29, 2020). becoming The song Hunt’s from seventh the singer-songwriterNo. 1. It hit fore peaking and at No.tinction 6 that February,for an artist’s and Aaron first WatsonNo. 1 as’s the “Outta sole Style,” billed which act. Manager’s Death No. 3 on Hot Country Songs. actress, who broke through with roles on Disneyachieved its No. 10Singles high in December to Spend 2017.First Eight Weeks or More on Hot Latest single “Hard to Forget” jumps 17-9 on Hot Country Songs. It’s his “After” is Denning’s second Country Airplay entry. “David Ashley Parker Channel’s Bizaardvark and Disney+’s High School Mu- (continued) eighth top 10, having corralled 8.2 million U.S. streams (up 96%) and 5,000 in From Powder Springs” traveled to No. 32 in September 2018. ETHAN MICHAEL YOUNG: VIA MARTIN/NHLI GETTY HUNT: IMAGES. IMAGES MILLER/GETTY BEST ACTRESS GOLDEN GLOBES WINNER THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY NEW SINGLE “TIGRESS & TWEED” FROM THE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK: THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY OUT NOW ! BRAND NEW ALBUM COMING SOON! LOVE, YOUR WARNER RECORDS FAMILY Page 3 of 29 IN BRIEF 100 at No. 1 on Feb. 29, 2020, and has spent all but two chart overall, and the first since OneRepub- 16 weeks, “One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & frames in the top tier since (ranking at Nos. lic’s “Counting Stars” wrapped a 68-week Boyz II Men, 1995-96 11 and 18 for two weeks in December). run in October 2014. Imagine Dragons’ 14 weeks, “Candle in the Wind Here’s an updated look at the songs that “Radioactive” spent a record 87 weeks on 1997”/”Something About the Way You Look have spent the most time in the Hot 100’s the Hot 100 in 2012-14. Tonight,” Elton John, 1997-98 top 10. “Lights” also notches a record-extending 11 weeks, “God’s Plan,” Drake, 2018 Most Weeks in Billboard Hot 100’s Top 10 48th week at No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot 11 weeks, “I’ll Be Missing You,” Puff Daddy 52, “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd, 2020-21 R&B Songs chart. & Faith Evans feat. 112, 1997 39, “Circles,” Post Malone, 2019-20 Ariana Grande’s “34+35” holds at No. 4 on 10 weeks, “Hello,” Adele, 2015-16 33, “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the the Hot 100, two weeks after it revisited its 8 weeks, “Drivers License,” Olivia Rodrigo, Spider-Verse),” Post Malone & Swae Lee, No. 2 peak (sparked by the Feb. 12 pre- 2021 2018-19 miere of its official video starring Grande, 8 weeks, “Fantasy,” Mariah Carey, 1995 33, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion). Cardi B’s “Up” keeps at its No. 2 high on 2018-19 Chris Brown and Young Thug’s “Go the Hot 100; it debuted at the runner-up 33, “Shape of You,” Ed Sheeran, 2017 Crazy” dips to No. 5 from its No. 3 Hot 100 spot three weeks ago. It returns for a second 32, “Sicko Mode,” Travis Scott, 2018-19 high and tallies an eighth week atop Radio week atop Streaming Songs (23.9 million, 32, “Closer,” The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, Songs (74.7 million in audience, down 5%). down 1%), repeats at No. 4 on Digital Song 2016-17 The Weeknd’s other current Hot 100 Sales (10,000, up 9%) and climbs 33-28 on 32, “How Do I Live,” LeAnn Rimes, 1997-98 top 10, “Save Your Tears,” is steady at No.