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 AirplayFEBRUARY 19, 2021 Page 1 of 30 Leader; Travis Denning Makes History INSIDE Executive of the Week: 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• Publishers Music Group Nashville),Atlantic debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Records’s lion audience impressions, GM/Senior up 16%). VP Top CountryQuarterly: Albums Sony chart dated April 18. In its first week (ending April 9), it earnedDrops 46,000 ‘ATV’ equivalent and album units, including 16,000 in album sales, ac- TRY TO ‘CATCH’ UP WITH YOUNG Brett Youngachieves his fifth consecutive cordingStays to No. Nielsen 1 On Music/MRCSongs Data. Urban A&Rand total Country Lanre Airplay No. 1 as “Catch”Gaba (Big Machine Label Group) ascends SouthsideCharts marks Hunt’s second No. 1 on the 2-1, increasing 13% to 36.6 million impressions. chart and fourth top 10. It follows freshman LP BY DAN RYS Young’s first of six chart entries, “Sleep With- Montevallo• Can You, which Tour arrived in a at the summit in No - out You,” reached No. 2 in December 2016. He Land Down Under? vember 2014 and reigned for nineThis weeks. week, To date, Atlantic Records celebrated two significant now — songsfollowed that come with inthe and multiweek out of playlistsNo. 1s “In andCase You MontevalloStrict has Rules earned Are 3.9 million units, with 1.4 Didn’t Know” (two weeks, June 2017), “Like I Loved millionMaking in album Australasia sales. a hip-hop arrivals on the charts, from two artists at dif- people haveYou” no idea (three, what January the 2018),artists “Mercy” even look (two, like,” August MontevalloReality has spent 267 weeksferent on the points list, tying in their career. says Gaba, who2018) also and stresses“Here Tonight” that “to (two, truly April break 2019). a Luke• TaylorBryan’s Swift’s Crash MyNew Party as thePooh sixth-longest- Shiesty, the young upstart from Memphis, career artist, you“Catch” need completes A&R, marketing his longest and journey artist to No. 1, running‘Love titles Story’: in the Here’s chart’s 56-yearlanded history. his first No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart development.”having taken 46 weeks to reach the apex. It out- Onthe the Story all-genre (So Far)Billboard 200,with Southside his debut, ar- Shiesty Season, while the project’s Here, thepaces longtime the 30-week exec — climb who ofwas “Here also Tonight.” honored as rives at No. 5, awarding Hunt his second top 10 On Hot Country Songs, “Catch” pushes 7-5 for on Airplay, Sales & lead single “Back InHUNT Blood” feat. Lil Durk climbedYOUNG part of Billboard’s 2020 Hip-Hop/R&B Power Play- after the StreamingNo. 3-peaking Montevallo. a new high. Hunt first released the EPX2C into, which the debuted top 20 of the Hot 100, at No. 17. Meanwhile, ers in November and as a Change Agent stepping and• peakedSBA Provides at No. 5New on Top Countryone of Albumsthe label’s in August resident 2014. superstars, FollowingCardi COMBS B — who ‘DOES’ forwardIT AGAIN toLuke help Combs lead’ the“Does music to Me” industry (River House/Columbia during a year MontevalloInfo For ,Preparing Between the to Pines: atAcoustic this point Mixtape is almost started a atslam its No.dunk 7 high on the in chartsNashville), with featuringof turmoil Eric Church in January, ascends — 11-8talks on the Country success Airplay, of Cardi up 10% and to Submit SVO Grant November 2015. each release — roared back with her first solo24.7 single million in in audience.Pooh Shiesty, The song the isimportance Combs’ eighth of timing straight and career-opening space in MontevalloApplications 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 nearly two years, and first since last summer’s earth- music releases and the “amazing boss women” who Airplay:• Beach “Leave Boys the Partner Night On,” “Take Your Time,” “House Party” and “Make promoted No. 1 singles. shaking Megan Thee Stallion collab “WAP,” as her make up Atlantic’s brain trust. You WithMiss Me.” Irving “Break Azoff’s Up in a Small Town” peaked at No. 2. Church adds his 15th Country Airplay top 10. HuntIconic co-penned Artists Group all 12 songslatest on Southside song “Up”, including debuted “Body at No. Like 2 on a Back the Hot 100 while Pooh Shiesty landed his first No. 1 on the Rap Road,”in which Intellectual was released in 2017.topping The smash a slew hit of ruled other Country charts. Airplay for THAT TOOK QUITEAlbums ‘A FEW’ chart MONTHS with hisTravis debut, DenningShiesty shatters Season the record. What for three weeks and the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based Hot Country Songs the most weeks it has taken to penetrate the Country Airplay top 10 as “After Property Deal Each release represents a triumph of a different key decisions did you make to help him achieve chart for a then-record 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• As Georgia Texas Freezes, Line’s “Meant tokind Be” for (50 Atlantic,weeks atop which the latter has list a strongin 2017-18). recent liontrack in radio reach.that? “Downtown’sRadio Scrambles Dead,” which isrecord also on of the developing new set, reached young Nos. rappers 14 and into 15 establishedThe song surpassesA major two tracks key decision that took was50 weeks not rushing each to enter to put the out top the 10: on Hotto Country Stay On Songs Air & and Countryhit-makers. Airplay, respectively, And the twin in Junesuccesses 2018. “Kin help- Atlantic’sEaston GMCorbin ’smixtape. “A Girl LikeGucci You,” signed which Pooh reached to No.the 10New in J 1017/Atlanticanuary 2018 be - folks”Pivot led Country From Music Airplay on Feb.and 29, senior becoming vp urban Hunt’s A&R seventhLanre No. Gaba 1. 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