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 1, 2021 Page 1 of 27 Leader; Travis Denning Makes History INSIDE Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ Tops 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 AprilHot 18. In its first 100 week (ending for April 9),7th it Week, Chris Brown & earned‘Dangerous’ 46,000 equivalentBecomes album units, including 16,000 in album sales, ac- TRY TO ‘CATCH’ UP WITH YOUNG Brett Youngachieves his fifth consecutive cordingOnly to Country Nielsen Album Music/MRC Data.Young Thug’s ‘Goand total Crazy’ Country Airplay No. Jumps1 as “Catch” (Big Machine to Label No. Group) ascends 3 Southsideto Spend marksFirst Seven Hunt’s second No. 1 on the 2-1, increasing 13% to 36.6 million impressions. chartWeeks and fourth at No. top 1 10.on It follows freshman LP BY GARY TRUST Young’s first of six chart entries, “Sleep With- MontevalloBillboard, which 200 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 Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” logs a seventh ing Feb. 25, according to MRC Data. It also drew 67.3 Montevallo• Ethiopia has earned 3.9 million units, with 1.4 Didn’t Know” (two weeks, June 2017), “Like I Loved millionHabtemariam in album sales. week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, encompass- million radioYou” airplay (three, audience January 2018), impressions “Mercy” (up(two, 13%) August in MontevalloPromoted has spent to 267 weeksing on itsthe entire list, tying run on the chart so far. the week ending2018) andFeb. “Here 28. Tonight” (two, April 2019). Luke MotownBryan’s Crash Records My Party as theThe sixth-longest- song also accelerates to No. 1 on the Pop Air- Enhancing the“Catch” song’s completes profile his in longest the tracking journey toweek, No. 1, runningChairman/CEO titles in the chart’s 56-yearplay history. radio chart. NBC’s Saturdayhaving Night taken Live 46 weeks aired toa skitreach Feb. the apex. 20 in It out- On the all-genre Billboard 200, Southside ar- paces the 30-week climb of “Here Tonight.” Meanwhile, Chris Brown and Young Thug’s “Go tribute to its popularity. (Rodrigo, who celebrated her rives at No.• On 5, Beingawarding Hunt his second top 10 On Hot Country Songs, “Catch” pushes 7-5 for HUNT YOUNG after Black:the No. TimeZone 3-peaking MontevalloCrazy”. vaults from No. 8 to No. 3 on the Hot 100, sur- birthday thata new day, high.approved of the gift.) HuntInternational’s first released the EPX2C passing, which debuted its prior No. 5 high, aided by a new remix. The track rebounds 8-2 on the Digital Song and Vivianpeaked Scott at No. Chew 5 on Top CountryThe AlbumsHot 100 in blends August all-genre 2014. Following U.S. streaming COMBS (of- ‘DOES’ SalesIT AGAIN chart Luke (after Combs three’ “Does weeks to Me” at No.(River 1), House/Columbia as it wins the Montevallo, Between the Pines: ficialAcoustic audio Mixtape and startedofficial at itsvideo), No. 7 highradio inairplay Nashville), and sales featuring Hot Eric100’s Church top Sales, ascends Gainer 11-8 award; on Country pushes Airplay, 5-2 on up 10%Ra- to November• Seventeen, 2015. 24.7 million in audience. The song is Combs’ eighth straight career-opening data. All charts (dated March 6) will update on Bill- dio Songs; and slips 2-3 on Streaming Songs (after MontevalloMonstaX andproduced More 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:K-Pop “Leave Recordings the Night On,” “Takeboard.com tomorrow Your Time,” “House (March Party” 2). and For “Make all chart promoted news, No. 1 singles.four weeks at No. 1). YouPulled Miss Me.” From “Break Spotify Up in a Smallyou Town” can follow peaked @billboard at No. 2. and @billboardchartsChurch on adds his“License” 15th Country also Airplay claims top top 10. Airplay Gainer honors on HuntIn Licensing co-penned Flap all 12 songsboth on Southside Twitter ,and including Instagram. “Body Like a Back the Hot 100 for a sixth consecutive week, becoming Road,” which was released in 2017. The smash hit ruled Country Airplay for THAT TOOK QUITE ‘A FEW’ MONTHS Travis Denning shatters the record for • Mau5trap Is “License” was released Jan. 8 on Geffen/Interscope the first song to link such a streak since Sia’s “Cheap 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 Launching a House- Records and debuted at No. 1 on the Jan. 23-dated Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, in June-July 2016. 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 - FloridaOriented Georgia Imprint, Line’s “Meant toHot Be” 100, (50 weeksmarking atop Rodrigo’s the latter list first in 2017-18). leader. Thelion song in radio reach.Helping power its radio surge, “License” shifts 2-1 “Downtown’sHau5trap: ‘It’s Dead,” Time which isfrom also theon the singer-songwriter new set, reached Nos.and 14actress, and 15 who brokeThe song surpasseson the two Pop tracks Airplay that chart took 50 (which weeks reflectseach to enter plays the on top a 10: on HotProgressive Country Songs House and Countrythrough Airplay, with respectively, roles on Disney in June Channel’s 2018. “Kin-BizaardEaston- Corbin’spanel “A Girl of Like over You,” 160 mainstreamwhich reached top No. 40 10 stations).in January The2018 be- Made a Comeback’ folks” led Country Airplay on Feb.vark 29, and becoming Disney+’s Hunt’sHigh seventh School No. Musical: 1. It hit Thefore Musical: peaking at No.song 6 that reaches February, the andsummit Aaron in Watson its seventh’s “Outta week, Style,” com which- (Exclusive) No. 3 on Hot Country Songs. The Series, totaled 21.5 million U.S. streams achieved(down 4%) its No. pleting 10 high inthe December fastest trip 2017. to the top since Ed Sheeran’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 and 13,000 downloads sold (up 38%) in the week end- (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 20 21 5TH ANNIVERSARY Raleigh Music Group was founded in 2016 by industry veteran As Raleigh’s reputation has grown, the company has partners Peter Raleigh and Steven Storch. 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