Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous' Spends Fourth Week at No. 1 on Billboard
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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; ENTERTAINMENTBrett Young ‘Catc NEWSh UPDATE’-es Fifth AirplayFEBRUARY 8, 2021 Page 1 of 25 Leader; Travis Denning Makes History INSIDE Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous’ Spends 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 GroupFourth Nashville), debuts at No. Week1 on Billboard’s lion at audience No. impressions, 1 upon 16%). Billboard Top Country• Olivia AlbumsRodrigo’s chart dated April 18. In its first week (ending April 9), it earned‘Drivers 46,000 License’ equivalent album units, including 16,000 in album sales, ac- TRY TO ‘CATCH’ UP WITH YOUNG Brett Youngachieves his fifth consecutive cordingLeads to Hot Nielsen 100 for Music/MRC 4th Data. 200 Albumsand total Country Airplay ChartNo. 1 as “Catch” (Big Machine Label Group) ascends SouthsideWeek, The marks Weeknd Hunt’s second No. 1 on the 2-1, increasing 13% to 36.6 million impressions. chart &and CJ fourth Hit Top top 10 10. It follows freshman LP BY KEITH CAULFIELD Young’s first of six chart entries, “Sleep With- Montevallo• Super ,Bowl which Synch arrived at the summit in No - out You,” reached No. 2 in December 2016. He vember 2014 and reigned for nine weeks. To date, followed with the multiweek No. 1s “In Case You Report: Sony/ATV Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album holds demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales Montevallo has earned 3.9 million units, with 1.4 Didn’t Know” (two weeks, June 2017), “Like I Loved Walking on Air at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for a fourth comprise 25,000 (up 102%) and TEA units comprise millionAfter in Placingalbum sales. Most You” (three, January 2018), “Mercy” (two, August MontevalloAd Music has spent 267 weeksconsecutive on the list, tying week. The set earned 149,000 equivalent 6,000 (up 67%).2018) and “Here Tonight” (two, April 2019). Luke Bryan’s Crash My Party as thealbum sixth-longest- units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 4 (up The album’s“Catch” across-the-board completes his gains longest came journey during to No. 1, running• How titles The in the NFL chart’s 56-year14%), history. according to MRC Data. The album arrived atop the same trackinghaving takenweek 46in weekswhich to TMZ reach published the apex. It a out - OnPulled the all-genre Off a SafeBillboard 200, Southside ar- paces the 30-week climb of “Here Tonight.” the list three weeks ago, on the chart dated Jan. 23. video showing Wallen using a racial slur. As previous- rives atSuper No. 5, Bowl awarding LV Hunt his second top 10 On Hot Country Songs, “Catch” pushes 7-5 for HUNT YOUNG after theHalftime No. 3-peaking Show MontevalloThe. Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular ly reporteda, TMZ new high. posted a video on Feb. 2 of Wallen, in the Middle of Hunt first released the EPX2C albums, which debutedof the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric who was positioned to be the next global country a Pandemic and peaked at No. 5 on Top Countryconsumption Albums as in measured August 2014. in equivalent Following albumCOMBS units. ‘DOES’ star IT AGAIN, yelling Luke expletives, Combs’ “Does including to Me” (Riverthe N-word. House/Columbia He Montevallo• Universal, Between Music the Pines:Units Acoustic comprise Mixtape album started sales, at its trackNo. 7 highequivalent in Nashville), albums featuringsubsequently Eric Church issued, ascends an apology, 11-8 on Country while hisAirplay, record up 10% label, to November 2015. 24.7 million in audience. The song is Combs’ eighth straight career-opening Group Partners With (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each Big Loud Records, suspended his recording contract MontevalloTikTok for produced Artist five singles, four of which hit the pinnacle of Country top 10, following a record run of seven consecutive out-of-the-gate, properly Airplay:Collabs, “Leave Data the & MoreNight On,” “Takeunit equals Your Time,” one album “House sale, Party” or 10 and individual “Make trackspromoted No. 1 indefinitely.singles. The news broke with two full days left in You Miss Me.” “Break Up in a Smallsold Town” from anpeaked album, at No. or 2.3,750 ad-supported or 1,250Church adds thehis 15th chart’s Country tracking Airplay week top 10.(which ended on Feb. 4). Hunt• co-pennedSuper Bowl all 12 songspaid/subscription on Southside, including on-demand “Body Like official a Back audio and video On Feb. 6, Billboard reported that Wallen’s airplay Weekend Concerts Road,” which was released in 2017.streams The smashgenerated hit ruled by songs Country from Airplay an album. for TheTHAT new TOOK QUITEhad collapsed‘A FEW’ MONTHS to a nominal Travis Denningamount shattersthrough the Feb. record 5, for three weeksAre Scarceand the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based Hot Country Songs the most weeks it has taken to penetrate the Country Airplay top 10 as “After Feb. 13, 2021-dated chart (where Dangerous holds at after multiple radio groups dropped his music. Con- chart forBut a then-record Causing 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 - Headaches in Tampa Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant toNo. Be” 1) (50will weeks be posted atop the in latter full on list Billboardin 2017-18).’s websitelion in on radio reach.currently, his songs were removed from over 30 influ- “Downtown’s• BMG Announces Dead,” which Feb.is also 9. on For the all new chart set, news, reached follow Nos. 14@billboard and 15 andThe @ song surpassesential playliststwo tracks across that took Spotify, 50 weeks Apple each Music, to enter Amazon the top 10: on HotRestructuring, Country Songs Ups and Countrybillboardcharts Airplay, respectively, on both in Twitter June 2018. and “Kin Instagram.- Easton Corbin’sMusic “A Girl and Like Pandora You,” which (though reached his No. music 10 in remained January 2018 avail be-- folks”Thomas led Country Scherer Airplay on Feb.Of 29,Dangerous becoming ’Hunt’s 149,000 seventh equivalent No. 1. Italbum hit unitsfore peaking at No.able 6 thaton all February, services). and Also,Aaron though Watson Big’s “Outta Loud Style,”suspended which No. 3 onto HotRepertoire Country & Songs. earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 4, SEAachieved units its No.Wallen’s 10 high in recording December contract 2017. indefinitely, his music was LatestMarketing single President “Hard to Forget” jumps 17-9 on Hot Country Songs. It’s his “After” is Denning’s second Country Airplay entry. “David Ashley Parker comprise 118,000 (up 3%, equaling 159.76 million on- (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. 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ISSUE DATE 2/20 | AD CLOSE 2/10 | MATERIALS DUE 2/11 Page 3 of 25 IN BRIEF not removed from any digital retailers (like Baby’s My Turn rises 9-8 (29,000; down (up 32%) in the week ending Feb. 7, as it iTunes), and remains available in brick-and- 3%) and Ariana Grande’s Positions dips 7-9 wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award mortar retail stores. (28,000; down 9%). for a third consecutive frame. With Dangerous having spent its first Closing the Billboard 200’s top tier, Me- The track adds a fourth week at No.