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 SEPTEMBERAirplay 11, 2020 Page 1 of 15 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 Music Group Nashville),RECORDS debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s lion CEO audience impressions, Barry up 16%). Weiss Top Country• Brain Albums Drain, chart dated April 18. 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It out- Onon the Top all-genre Five Weeks Billboard 200, Southside ar- paces the 30-week climb of “Here Tonight.” & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, strategy have you used to support its success rives at No.Later 5, awarding Hunt his second top 10 On Hot Country Songs, “Catch” pushes 7-5 for HUNT YOUNG after the No. 3-peaking Montevallowhile. maintaining a slot at No. 5 on the Hot Rap Songs there? a new high. • Department of Hunt first released the EPX2C chart., which debuted It’s a streaming monster as evidenced by it being Justice Argues and peaked at No. 5 on Top CountryAnd Albums that’s helped in August RECORDS 2014. Following CEO COMBS ‘DOES’ theIT AGAIN No. 2 Luke Spotify Combs record’ “Does in theto Me” world (River behind House/Columbia’s TikTok Employee Barry Cardi B Montevallo, Between the Pines: Acoustic Mixtape started at its No. 7 high in Nashville), featuring Eric Church, ascends 11-8 on Country Airplay, up 10% to Can’t Stop Trump’s Weiss earn the title of Billboard’s Executive of the “Wap.” [Ed. Note: Cardi’s business partner, Brooklyn November 2015. 24.7 million in audience. The song is Combs’ eighth straight career-opening ByteDance Ban Week, for helping shepherd the song to huge gains Johnny, was previously Billboard’s Executive of 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 across the board. And while this is the first top 10 for the Week.] He’s a darling at digital service provid- Airplay:• “LeaveSony Music the Night On,” “Take Your Time,” “House Party” and “Make promoted No. 1 singles. 24kGoldn, Weiss isn’t expecting it to be his last. “He’s ers and on TikTok and YouTube, so we’ve built him You MissReaches Me.” “Break$12.7M Up in a Small Town” peaked at No. 2. Church adds his 15th Country Airplay top 10. HuntSettlement co-penned in all 12 songsbeen on Southside building, includingthrough old-fashioned“Body Like a Back artist develop- up from the success of prior singles to get him great Road,” Challengewhich was releasedto in 2017.ment The and smash a series hit ruled of prior Country hits Airplayleading for up to THATthis,” TOOKhe QUITEplacement ‘A FEW’ and MONTHS exposure Travis on Denning all of these shatters platforms the record and for three weeksDecades-Old and the airplay-, streaming-says. “He’s and not sales-based some flash Hot inCountry the pan, Songs one-hit the TikTokmost weeks services.it has taken He’s to penetrate been building the Country through Airplay old-fashioned top 10 as “After 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 - Contracts, Royalty artist that seems to occupy so much of the industry’s artist development and a series of prior hits leading up Florida GeorgiaMethods Line’s “Meant to Be” (50 weeks atop the latter list in 2017-18). lion in radio reach. “Downtown’s Dead,” which isattention also on the these new days.” set, reached Nos. 14 and 15 The song surpassesto this. two He’s tracks not that some took flash 50 weeks in the each pan, to enterone-hit the TikToktop 10: on Hot Country Songs and CountryWhat Airplay, were respectively, the key decisionsin June 2018. you “Kin have- Eastonmade that Corbin ’sartist “A Girl that Like seems You,” to which occupy reached so much No. 10 of in the January industry’s 2018 be - folks” led Country Airplay on Feb.led 29, to becomingthe success Hunt’s of “Mood”? seventh No. 1. It hit fore peaking at No.attention 6 that February, these days. and Aaron Watson’s “Outta Style,” which No. 3 on Hot Country Songs. achieved its No. 10 high in December 2017. Barry Weiss: The key decision was choosing this “Mood” is also the top gainer on airplay. What’s 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 as the single among a bevy of other great candidates. (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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