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BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS EDITED BY TOM ROLAND, [email protected] OCTOBER 16, 2014 | PAGE 1 OF 11
INSIDEMakin’
Tracks: Carrie Underwood’s ‘Something In
The Water’ >page 2
Questions Answered: Big
Loud Mountain’s ‘Chief’ Zaruk
>page 6
Kacey, Church, FGL Make
Commitments >page 6
Kelly Clarkson Ropes
Garth, Reba >page 6
‘Coaster’ Eureka! Luke
Still Atop Radiofeedback
>page 10
Jason Aldean scores his third No. 1 bow and fourth overall leader on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart — and his sec-ond No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — with Old Boots, New Dirt (Bro-ken Bow/BBMG), which arrives with 278,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Among all genres, Aldean’s set debuts with the third- largest sales week of 2014, outpaced only by the arrivals of Coldplay’s Ghost Sto-ries (383,000) and Eric Church’s The Outsiders (288,000). Boots also opens with the largest sales week of 2014 for an independently distributed album: It’s distributed by RED Distribution, Sony Music’s independent distribution shop.
Boots’ lead single, “Burnin’ It Down,” crowns Hot Country Songs for a 12th straight frame and posts Streaming Gainer honors. It tops Country Stream-ing Songs for a 10th week with 2.7 million U.S. streams (up 7 per-cent), according to Nielsen BDS, with 42 percent of those plays from Spotify. According to Spotify, Aldean’s album drew the big-gest first-week action (3 million) on the service in the United States for a country album.
With the duo’s second full-length, Anything Goes (Republic Nashville/BMLG), poised to debut on next week’s charts (dated
Nov. 1), Florida Georgia Line nets a career-high debut on Hot Country Songs and logs its third No. 1 bow on Country Digital Songs. The twosome (Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard) snares the Hot Shot Debut at No. 10 on Hot Country Songs with “Sippin’
on Fire,” besting the pair’s previous top bow: No. 15 with “Bumpin’ the Night” (also from the new album)(Oct. 18). “Fire” starts atop Country Digital Songs (79,000). As previ-ously reported, Florida Georgia Line’s “Dirt” rises 2-1 on Country Airplay.
Country Music Hall of Fame honoree Glen Campbell makes his first Hot Country Songs appearance in nearly 22 years with “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” (Big Machine) at No. 50. As Campbell faces the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease, the track is his final recording and first chart entry since “Somebody Like That” (No. 66 peak) in 1993. He last charted higher
with 1991’s No. 27-peaking “Unconditional Love.” “Miss” is from a soundtrack EP for the documentary Glen Campbell … I’ll Be Me, which includes The Band Perry’s cover of Campbell’s 1967 hit “Gentle on My Mind” (No. 47 on Country Airplay). “Miss” starts with 81 percent of its Hot Country Songs points from streaming (all from 498,000 Vevo on YouTube clicks for its moving clip promoting the doc.)
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Carrie Underwood gets a little teary when she talks about a transformation —teary enough that she apologizes for the show of emotion.
She certainly knows a thing or two about life-changing moments — there was a historic win on American Idol, a college graduation ceremony and a walk down the aisle with hockey-playing husband Mike Fisher. The memory of those events might indeed make her cry, but in this instance, it’s the recollection of her baptism.
“I was dunked,” she says, laughing initially, “in our tiny little church in Checo-tah, Oklahoma. It was my idea, I wanted to do that. I had gotten saved, and that was the next step, you know. That was kind of what we had always been taught. But I just remember being so proud that day.”
It’s when she addresses the pride in that public statement about her faith that the tears sneak out for just a second.
“It really was just kind of a wonderful day,” she says, quickly regaining her composure.
Given the power of the memory, it’s appropriate that Underwood invests her powerhouse voice in “Something in the Water,” her new baptism-themed single that’s made an amazingly graceful leap into the public consciousness. Following a Sept. 29 release to radio and digital outlets, it debuted at No. 48 on Bill-board’s Hot Country Songs, then leapt to No. 2 in its second week on the sales/streaming/airplay chart, thanks to heavy rotation at radio and 125,000 down-loads, a personal record for first-week sales.
“That gave me chills,” says co-writer Chris DeStefano (“Rewind,” “That’s My Kind of Night”), upon hearing of its 46-place jump. “That’s beautiful.”
The single’s speed is appropriate given the quick pace it took from conception to its marketplace debut. Underwood, DeStefano and co-writer Brett James (“I Hold On,” “Jesus, Take the Wheel”) fashioned it in a creative blitz during a May 2 songwriting session at a cabin in Tennessee. There was certainly some home-work involved — DeStefano had put together a track that laid out the song’s basic musical format from front to back.
It was unique, to say the least. Instead of hitting a crescendo when it reached the chorus, the production dropped down to a rolling piano for the first two lines. And after the second verse and chorus, it snuck into an unusually lengthy eight-line bridge that’s just similar enough that it sort of masquerades as a third verse.
“He was like, ‘You’re either going to love this or you’re going to hate this,’ ” says Underwood. “And we loved it.”
As is standard practice among songwriters, Underwood keeps a running list of titles, and that list included a familiar phrase she’d heard in a conversation: “There must be something in the water.” She offered that title, along with a con-viction that the song should be about baptism, a topic that’s nearly as unusual as the music. Toby Keith referenced that Christian rite in passing during “God Love Her” (“she was baptized in dirty water”), and Brooks & Dunn put it in the chorus of “Brand New Man” (“I’ve been baptized by the fire in your touch”). But it’s likely that there hasn’t been a country hit centered on baptism since before Underwood’s 1983 birth: Johnny Russell reached No. 14 in 1973 with “The Baptism of Jesse Taylor,” and T.G. Sheppard hit No. 1 in 1980 by using the sacrament as a sexual metaphor in “Do You Wanna Go to Heaven.”
“Carrie mentioned that title, and it just felt perfect with the way [the track] sounded,” says DeStefano. “The subject matter, the direction she wanted to take the song in immediately felt like something really special.”
As much as “Water” revolves around a spiritual transformation, the key lyrics — “Now I’m changed/Now I’m stronger,” delivered over that quiet rolling piano in the chorus — could be applied to any life crossroads, broadening the emotional impact of the song.
“We definitely want to write like that,” says Underwood. “You want it to be as relatable as possible and to as many people as possible. I’ve had tons of people over the years — from ‘Jesus, Take the Wheel’ to ‘Temporary Home’ to ‘See You Again’ and now with this one — be like, ‘You know, I’m not really like into the whole organized-religion thing.’ But they like the songs.”
The writers did throw in a little more organized re-ligion. They referenced Hank Williams’ “I Saw the Light,” borrowed the phrase “no turning back” from the hymn “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” and slid in the title of “Amazing Grace.” As they worked on the demo that day, they took it even further, using “Amaz-ing Grace” as a melodic counterpoint in the final parts of the song.
Producer Mark Bright (Sara Evans, Swon Broth-ers) was an immediate believer when Underwood played the demo of “Something in the Water.”
“It sounded fabulous,” he says, “except that every bit of it was programmed. So my job was to humanize that.”
The musicians were so inspired during the tracking session at Reba McEntire’s Starstruck Studios that they nailed it, recalls Bright, on the second take. Drum-
mer Chris McHugh added some humanity by layering tribal toms on top of the basic track, and percussionist Eric Darken supplemented additional sounds, in-cluding a hybrid blend of instruments at the start of the first chorus that sounds, intentionally, like a door slamming on the past.
The “Amazing Grace” chorus became epic. DeStefano served as the de facto choir leader, singing with Underwood, James, songwriter Hillary Lindsey (“So Small,” “Blessed”) and gospel-based background vocalists Vicki Hampton and Robert Bailey.
“My manager has a video on her phone of me bouncing in the room because I just couldn’t contain myself,” says Underwood. “We were going to church in the studio.”
Underwood hoped it would be a single down the line, but she was surprised when the label chose to make “Water” the first single from Greatest Hits: Decade #1, due Dec. 9.
“I think she thought we would be afraid of it,” says Sony Music Nashville chair-man/CEO Gary Overton.
The label did test the song’s religious content internally, and the promotion de-partment briefly debated whether it would receive any pushback — “That’s their job,” says Underwood — but everyone signed off. Seven seconds were snipped from the intro for the radio edit, and it was embraced at the outset. “Water” is at No. 5 in its third week on Hot Country Songs.
“It’s really nice to have that kind of song going against the current of all the other songs that we are experiencing right now,” observes Bright. “It’s sort of boldly going where nobody has been willing to go in country music for awhile.”
The baptismal theme has certainly been absent from country radio for years, though for Underwood, it’s more a continuation of the commitment to faith she in-troduced with the release of her transformative first single, “Jesus, Take the Wheel.”
“I feel like from that moment on people kind of understood that that would probably be a part of my music,” she says. “And it has been.”
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Which job is harder: working in radio promotion for a record label, or work-ing for an artist management company? A growing group of veteran Nashville executives is getting the opportunity to make the comparison. As noted in last week’s column, a handful of management companies have recruited key staff-ers from among the label promotion ranks in recent years, and the trend seems poised to continue.
Some, including Q Prime South, Morris Higham Management and Triple 8 Management, have created in-house promotion posi-tions. Others, like longtime George Strait manager Erv Wool-sey, are hiring people like 12-year label vet Allen Mitchell to handle day-to-day management duties for their developing acts.
Regardless of their job description, all of the promo vets say their current gigs in management afford them the opportunity to broaden their skills and focus more on the artists’ long-term career goals.
“I’ve been [on the label side] and I know sometimes with these weekly report cards you can’t see the big picture,” says Q Prime vp country promotion Angela Lange, a former vp promotion at EMI Nashville. “On the management side, it’s all about the big picture.”
Morris Higham vp radio promotion and marketing Buffy Cooper agrees, saying her job “gives me the luxury to concentrate on the bigger pieces. I play a part in the marketing of the tour” and album launches, something she says of-fers “my first real taste of getting to do something outside of asking for airplay.”
“There’s a lot more I’m exposed to here that I wasn’t [while I was] in the pro-motion department,” says Lange. For instance, she is now much more involved in the touring aspects of the careers of her artists, Eric Church and Brothers Osborne, and sits in on many of those meetings. “This is a whole new level of getting into the touring world for me, which I love.”
Lange also calls moving from promotion to management a “natural [career] progression, especially now that record sales are harder and harder to get. With streaming and so many other ways people are getting their music, I feel fortunate to be on a different side where we’re not relying just on record sales. There’s so
much more to the pie over on this side.”The job isn’t necessarily easier though. Lange says she’s still on the road
nearly as much as she was at her old job. She went to six of the first nine shows on Church’s current tour, and much of Brothers Osborne’s initial radio tour.
Nevertheless, Lange says that in her current job she’s “less stressed, for the most part, and happier. I feel like it’s opened up a whole new world [and wonder], ‘Why didn’t I do this 10 years ago?’ ”
Of course, jobs like hers didn’t really exist 10 years ago. Karen McGuire was one of the first to make the move when she joined Triple 8 as director of radio promotions four years ago after more than 20 years working for labels.
Like Lange and Cooper, McGuire says her current job has “a lot of pieces to it … I’m doing all kinds of different things. I’m not in the add game anymore. I’m here to accomplish the goal of getting [my] artists where they need to be.”
Like Lange, McGuire finds her current job easier, though hardly easy, and also feels it’s a bit “safer” than working in the
sometimes volatile record industry.“It’s challenging,” she says, “but radio doesn’t dodge me like they do with re-
gionals who come to them with a laundry list of what they need spun and added. I’m not chasing them every week or even every month. I call when it’s important, and I feel like it’s something that warrants that extra voice.”
Mitchell is in a completely different role in his new position at Erv Woolsey Management. Just a few months into the job, he hasn’t yet decided which gig is more difficult, but he admits, “Promotion is very hard. One of the reasons people transition [from that job] and become successful managers is because they learn how to communicate better and they learn resilience. You’ve got to be resilient to be a promotion person because it’s ‘no’ all the time.
“In promotion, you’re constricted to coming up with [only] radio station pro-motions for your artists,” he adds. “As an artist manager, it’s much broader. You can dream as big as you can and go for it.”
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wanted to take over the world. It was really easy when it came to them.
The first single and the first album were both huge. What was the most impor-tant thing to consider in making that follow-up? We said, “Let’s not get caught up in the numbers game. Let’s not get caught up in the sophomore slump and all the pressure now to write another ‘Cruise’ and deliver more hit songs.” As soon as you start thinking like that, that’s where
trouble comes. The chances of us ever breaking the records that “Cruise” had, it’s probably not going to happen. But that’s not our goal now. Our goal now is to be a career band and to have great songs and to keep improving as songwriters, as singers, as entertainers, as performers and just keep building the Florida Georgia Line brand.
With Nickelback being the band everybody loves to hate, is there some-thing that you learned that has influenced how you coach clients? It’s bi-zarre because I know so many people who say they can’t stand them but listen to Nickelback and go to their shows. This is a band that sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in merchandise, and to this day, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a person with a Nickelback T-shirt on walking the streets anywhere in the world. I don’t know what it is, but for whatever reason it became cool to hate Nickelback, and once that trend took off, it exploded. What I’ve definitely talked to [FGL’s] Brian [Kelley] and Tyler [Hubbard] about is that whenever anybody becomes success-ful in any business, there’s people that get jealous. The one thing where I do think Nickelback went wrong is they kind of tried to fight back. That just doesn’t work because haters are going to talk louder and you are actually feeding the argu-ment. You know what you do? Don’t worry about the people that don’t like you. Just make sure you look after the people that love you and support your music.
How did you get the nickname “Chief”? When I started in the music business, I was working at a club and I was the stage guy. The sound guy called everybody “chief ” — like “bro” or “buddy” or “dude” or whatever. So every band that would come in at that time, every weekend, he would yell to me onstage, “Hey, Chief, do this, do that.” Then the band would come up and say, ”Hey, Chief, thanks for your help.” Then they would come back a month later and say, “Chief! What’s up?” It was just one of those nicknames that just stuck. People still meet me and go, “You’re not Indian!” I’m like, “No, I’m a white Ukrainian kid. I don’t know what to tell you.” —Tom Roland
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AnsweredKevin “Chief” Zaruk
Partner, Big Loud Mountain
Vancouver-based Kevin “Chief ” Zaruk came to prominence in a man-agement role with rock bands Nickelback and Hinder, and when Nick-elback producer Joey Moi took on Jake Owen as a client, it forged a bridge with Nashville. Zaruk and Moi formed the Big Loud Mountain management firm with songwriter Craig Wiseman (“Live Like You Were Dying”) and manager Seth England, and they struck gold — mul-tiplatinum, too — with the launch of Florida Georgia Line, whose soph-omore album Anything Goes was released Oct. 14. Big Loud’s clients also include newcomers Chris Lane and Dallas Smith.
How much time do you end up spending in Nashville? I actually just bought a place in Nashville, literally a month ago. So I’m going to be spending a lot more time there than I have been — not just because of Florida Georgia Line, but as our company is starting to grow, we have more stuff going on. So I guess I’m going to be splitting my time very shortly, half Nashville, half Vancouver.
What was it that kind of hooked you about Florida Georgia Line? First, when we saw them live, they were great. They are entertaining, they are funny, they’re charming, they’re very relaxed. There were about 300 people there, and people were just into them. But the thing that got us there was their songs. When we were ready to sign them, Jason Aldean was cutting their songs on his record. We clearly knew they were great songwriters, and we knew they were only going to get better and write with even better songwriters. So we knew the songs were going to come, and then we saw the entertainment value and the live value: two young guys who got along great, who are really easy to be around and really charming. Great personalities, great people. They were busy, and they were hungry, and they wanted to tour, and they
CMA ADDS ERIC, KACEY, FGLWith the 48th annual Country Music Association Awards drawing ever closer, the CMA announced three new additions to the performance lineup: Eric Church, Kacey Musgraves and Florida Georgia Line. It brings the total thus far to 16 acts that will appear on the Nov. 5 show
that ABC will telecast from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Among the previ-ous reveals are Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Little Big Town, Jason Al-dean and Blake Shelton.
Kelly Clarkson is organizing a holi-day benefit, Miracle on Broadway, for Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Dec. 20. The lineup includes Garth Brooks, Tri-sha Yearwood, Reba McEntire, Kacey
Musgraves, Ronnie Dunn, Nashville actor Charles Esten and pop vocalists Meghan Trainor and Hayley Williams of Paramore. Proceeds will be di-vided among several charities. Clarkson intends to make it an annual event.
Singer. Songwriter. Guitarist. Clothier. Yup, Brad Paisley’s adding yet an-other facet to his public persona by launching a new clothing line, Moon-shine Spirit, with Boot Barn. The duds include boots, jeans, hats, T-shirts, jewelry, belts and woven shirts. Oh, and a leather jacket that maxes out the price range at $299. The clothes will be formally introduced Oct. 24 at the Boot Barn in downtown Nashville, one day after the outlet’s grand opening.
Chely Wright’s first Kickstarter foray was a success. Thanks to 2,265 back-ers, she raised $247,000 — nearly $50,000 more than her stated goal of $175,000 — during a 30-day window that closed Oct. 9. The effort coincides with her 20th anniversary as a recording artist. Two backers contributed $6,500 each in return for a private, 60-minute concert in their home.
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l1 1 1 13 BURNIN’ IT DOWN ★★No. 1 (12 weeks)/Streaming Gainer★★ Jason Aldean M.KNOX (C.G.TOMPKINS,R.CLAWSON,B.KELLEY,T.HUBBARD) BROKEN BOW 1 1
l2 3 2 15 DIRT Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (C.G.TOMPKINS,R.CLAWSON) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 1 1
l3 5 4 17 LEAVE THE NIGHT ON Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) MCA NASHVILLE 0 3
4 4 6 9 NEON LIGHT Blake Shelton S.HENDRICKS (A.DORFF,J.KEAR,MARK IRWIN) WARNER BROS./WMN 4
l5 2 48 3 SOMETHING IN THE WATER ★★Airplay Gainer★★ Carrie Underwood M.BRIGHT (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,BRETT JAMES) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE
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6 6 5 18 ROLLER COASTER Luke Bryan J.STEVENS (C.SWINDELL,M.CARTER) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 5
l7 8 9 45 READY SET ROLL Chase Rice C. DESTEFANO (C. DESTEFANO,R.AKINS,C.RICE) DACK JANIELS/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 7
8 7 3 17 AMERICAN KIDS Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (R.CLAWSON,S.MCANALLY,L.LAIRD) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 1 2
9 9 11 21 SOMETHIN’ BAD Miranda Lambert Duet With Carrie Underwood F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF (C. DESTEFANO,BRETT JAMES,PRISCILLA RENEA) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/RCA NASHVILLE 1 1
l10 NEW 1 SIPPIN’ ON FIRE ★★Hot Shot Debut★★ Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,M.DRAGSTREM,C.TAYLOR) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE
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l11 12 14 13 GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG Maddie & Tae D.HUFF,A.SCHERZ (A.SCHERZ,M.MARLOW,T.DYE) DOT 11
l12 13 13 24 SUNSHINE & WHISKEY Frankie Ballard M.ALTMAN (L.LAIRD,J.JOHNSTON) WARNER BROS./WAR 12
l13 14 15 14 SOMEWHERE IN MY CAR Keith Urban D.HUFF,K.URBAN (J.T.HARDING,K.URBAN) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 13
l14 17 16 23 SMALL TOWN THROWDOWN Brantley Gilbert Featuring Justin Moore & Thomas Rhett D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,B.HAYSLIP,R.AKINS,D.DAVIDSON) VALORY 13
l15 18 18 19 DAY DRINKING Little Big Town J.JOYCE (K.FAIRCHILD,J.WESTBROOK,P.SWEET,T.VERGES,B.DEAN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 15
16 11 12 21 BARTENDER Lady Antebellum N.CHAPMAN,LADY ANTEBELLUM (C.KELLEY,D.HAYWOOD,H.SCOTT,R.CLAWSON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 1 4
17 19 17 25 DRUNK ON A PLANE Dierks Bentley R. COPPERMAN (C.G.TOMPKINS,J.KEAR,D.BENTLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 1 3
l18 20 21 31 LOOK AT YOU Big & Rich B.KENNY,J.RICH (J.RICH,S.LAWSON) B$R/NEW REVOLUTION 18
l19 22 25 4 SHOTGUN RIDER Tim McGraw B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (H.LINDSEY,M.GREEN,T.VERGES) MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE 19
l20 25 24 8 PERFECT STORM Brad Paisley L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,L.T.MILLER) ARISTA NASHVILLE 20
l21 21 23 25 CLOSE YOUR EYES Parmalee NV (A.CRAIG,T.TOMLINSON,S.MINOR) STONEY CREEK 21
l22 23 22 20 FEELIN’ IT Scotty McCreery F.ROGERS (F.ROGERS,M.WEST) 19/INTERSCOPE/MERCURY 22
l23 26 31 7 DRINKING CLASS Lee Brice M.MCCLURE,K.JACOBS,L.BRICE (J.KEAR,D.FRASIER,E.M.HILL) CURB 23
l24 30 28 16 PAYBACK Rascal Flatts H.BENSON (A.ESHUIS,N.MASON,R.HURD) BIG MACHINE 24
l25 33 33 23 KISS YOU TONIGHT David Nail F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF (D.COOK,J.KNOWLES,T.SUMMAR) MCA NASHVILLE 25
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l26 28 30 7 MEAN TO ME Brett Eldredge L.LAIRD (B.ELDREDGE,S.CARUSOE) ATLANTIC/WMN 25
l27 41 50 4 TALLADEGA ★★Digital Gainer★★ Eric Church J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,L.LAIRD) EMI NASHVILLE
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l28 31 39 7 HOMEGROWN HONEY Darius Rucker F.ROGERS (D.RUCKER,C.KELLEY,N.CHAPMAN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 25
l29 37 43 7 MAKE ME WANNA Thomas Rhett J.JOYCE (THOMAS RHETT,B.BUTLER,L.MCCOY) VALORY 29
30 15 — 2 BUMPIN’ THE NIGHT Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (B.ALLMAND,C.G.TOMPKINS,R.CLAWSON) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 15
l31 32 32 9 TAKE IT ON BACK Chase Bryant D.GEORGE,C.BRYANT (C.BRYANT,T.L.JAMES,D.ALTMAN) RED BOW 31
l32 35 36 15 TATTOO Hunter Hayes D.HUFF,H.HAYES (H.HAYES,T.VERGES,B.DEAN) ATLANTIC/WMN 31
l33 34 34 15 GOD MADE GIRLS RaeLynn J.MOI (RAELYNN,N.GALYON,L.MCKENNA,L.ROSE) VALORY 30
l34 38 38 23 SHOW YOU OFF Dan + Shay D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS,D.ORTON (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,D.ORTON) WARNER BROS./WAR 29
35 29 19 3 ANYTHING GOES Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (F.MCTEIGUE,C.G.TOMPKINS,C.WISEMAN) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 19
l36 39 26 4 SUN DAZE Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (C.R.BARLOWE,J.FRASURE,S.BUXTON,T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 20
l37 44 45 18 LIKE A COWBOY Randy Houser D.GEORGE (R.HOUSER,B.LONG) STONEY CREEK 36
l38 48 — 2 TIL IT’S GONE Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (R.CLAWSON,D.L.MURPHY,J.YEARY) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 38
39 42 40 20 RUM Brothers Osborne B. HILL,BROTHERS OSBORNE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,B.DEAN) EMI NASHVILLE 34
40 40 41 6 PEOPLE LOVING PEOPLE Garth Brooks M.A.MILLER (L.T.MILLER,C.WALLIN,BUSBEE) PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE 25
41 10 — 2 JUST GETTIN’ STARTED Jason Aldean M.KNOX (C. DESTEFANO,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY) BROKEN BOW 10
l42 47 46 9 WHAT WE AIN’T GOT Jake Owen J.MOI (T.J.GOFF,T.MEADOWS) RCA NASHVILLE 33
43 27 8 3 TONIGHT LOOKS GOOD ON YOU Jason Aldean M.KNOX (D.DAVIDSON,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY) BROKEN BOW 8
44 36 27 6 SWEET LITTLE SOMETHIN’ Jason Aldean M.KNOX (D.L.MURPHY,B.HAYSLIP,M.GREEN) BROKEN BOW 17
l45 49 49 9 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY) MCA NASHVILLE 30
l46 50 — 4 LONELY EYES Chris Young J.STROUD (J.BULFORD,J.MATTHEWS,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE 46
l47 RE-ENTRY 6 HOUSE PARTY Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.FLOWERS) MCA NASHVILLE 39
48 45 42 15 HOME SWEET HOME Justin Moore Featuring Vince Neil J.S.STOVER (V.NEIL,N.SIXX,T.LEE) MOTLEY/ELEVEN SEVEN/BIG MACHINE/VALORY 28
l49 RE-ENTRY 18 LOVE Jana Kramer S.HENDRICKS (C.GRAVITT,J.ROBBINS) ELEKTRA NASHVILLE/WAR 37
l50 NEW 1 I’M NOT GONNA MISS YOU Glen Campbell J.RAYMOND (J.RAYMOND,G.CAMPBELL) BIG MACHINE 50
For week ending October 12, 2014. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen SoundScan.
For inquiries about any Nielsen SoundScan data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or [email protected]
The week’s most popular country songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen BDS. Descending titles below No. 25 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks.
COUNTRY MARKET WATCHA Weekly National Music Sales Report
Hot Country SongsBILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE OCTOBER 16, 2014 | PAGE 9 OF 11
ALBUMSDIGITAL
ALBUMS*DIGITAL TRACKS
This Week 782,000 280,000 1,716,000
Last Week 666,000 203,000 2,345,000
Change 17.4% 37.9% -26.8%
This Week Last Year 542,000 156,000 2,231,000
Change 44.3% 79.5% -23.1%
*Digital album sales are also counted within album sales.
Weekly Unit SalesYear-Over-Year Album Sales2013 2014 CHANGE
Albums 29,131,000 23,808,000 -18.3%
Digital Tracks 132,486,000 109,852,000 -17.1%
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Overall Unit Sales
2013 2014 CHANGE
Physical 20,199,000 15,485,000 9.0%
Digital 8,932,000 7,823,000 -12.4%
Sales by Album Format
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29.1 million
23.8 million
000.0 million
’14
’13
109.9 million
132.5 million
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l1 NEW SIPPIN’ ON FIRE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)
2 1 2 SOMETHING IN THE WATER CARRIE UNDERWOOD (19/Arista Nashville/SMN)
3 5 14 DIRT FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)
l4 8 8 NEON LIGHT BLAKE SHELTON (Warner Bros./WMN)
5 7 17 LEAVE THE NIGHT ON SAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)
6 6 17 AMERICAN KIDS KENNY CHESNEY (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville/SMN)
l7 11 13 GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG MADDIE & TAE (Dot/BMLG)
8 3 2 BUMPIN’ THE NIGHT FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)
l9 12 45 READY SET ROLL CHASE RICE (Dack Janiels)
l10 16 20 SUNSHINE & WHISKEY FRANKIE BALLARD (Warner Bros./WMN)
11 10 3 ANYTHING GOES FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)
12 13 16 ROLLER COASTER LUKE BRYAN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
13 14 21 BARTENDER LADY ANTEBELLUM (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
14 17 21 SOMETHIN’ BAD MIRANDA LAMBERT DUET WITH CARRIE UNDERWOOD (RCA Nashville/SMN)
15 19 4 SUN DAZE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)
l16 21 12 SOMEWHERE IN MY CAR KEITH URBAN (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville)
l17 23 6 PERFECT STORM BRAD PAISLEY (Arista Nashville/SMN)
l18 26 4 SHOTGUN RIDER TIM MCGRAW (McGraw/Big Machine/BMLG)
l19 30 5 DRINKING CLASS LEE BRICE (Curb)
20 22 36 HOPE YOU GET LONELY TONIGHT COLE SWINDELL (Warner Bros./WMN)
l21 27 19 DAY DRINKING LITTLE BIG TOWN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
22 24 24 DRUNK ON A PLANE DIERKS BENTLEY (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
l23 33 9 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN SAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)
24 25 26 WHERE IT’S AT (YEP, YEP) DUSTIN LYNCH (Broken Bow/BBMG)
25 29 46 THIS IS HOW WE ROLL FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FEAT. LUKE BRYAN (Republic Nashville/BMLG)
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26 28 33 I DON’T DANCE LEE BRICE (Curb)
27 31 46 PLAY IT AGAIN LUKE BRYAN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
28 32 22 SMALL TOWN THROWDOWN BRANTLEY GILBERT FEAT. JUSTIN MOORE & THOMAS RHETT (Valory/BMLG)
l29 46 3 TALLADEGA ERIC CHURCH (EMI Nashville/UMGN)
l30 40 2 MAKE ME WANNA THOMAS RHETT (Valory/BMLG)
l31 37 14 LOOK AT YOU BIG & RICH (B$R)
32 35 13 FEELIN’ IT SCOTTY MCCREERY (19/Interscope/Mercury/UMGN)
l33 38 10 GOD MADE GIRLS RAELYNN (Valory/BMLG)
34 36 6 MEAN TO ME BRETT ELDREDGE (Atlantic/WMN)
35 34 25 MEANWHILE BACK AT MAMA’S TIM MCGRAW FEAT. FAITH HILL (McGraw/Big Machine/BMLG)
l36 41 122 CRUISE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)
l37 42 6 CLOSE YOUR EYES PARMALEE (Stoney Creek/BBMG)
l38 50 9 EX TO SEE SAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)
l39 NEW RAISED ON IT SAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)
40 44 12 LATER ON THE SWON BROTHERS (Arista Nashville/SMN)
l41 NEW TRYIN’ TO LOVE ME JASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG)
42 45 43 BOTTOMS UP BRANTLEY GILBERT (Valory/BMLG)
43 47 7 WHAT WE AIN’T GOT JAKE OWEN (RCA Nashville/SMN)
44 48 92 WAGON WHEEL DARIUS RUCKER (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
l45 RE-ENTRY PAYBACK RASCAL FLATTS (Big Machine/BMLG)
46 43 14 HOME SWEET HOME JUSTIN MOORE FEAT. VINCE NEIL (Motley/Eleven Seven/Big Machine/BMLG)
l47 RE-ENTRY HOMEGROWN HONEY DARIUS RUCKER (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
l48 RE-ENTRY HOUSE PARTY SAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)
l49 RE-ENTRY LIKE A COWBOY RANDY HOUSER (Stoney Creek/BBMG)
l50 RE-ENTRY THAT’S MY KIND OF NIGHT LUKE BRYAN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
Top-selling paid download country songs compiled from sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen SoundScan. Charts update weekly on Thurdays at www.Billboard.Biz/charts. Copyright 2014, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.
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l1 1 12 BURNIN’ IT DOWN JASON ALDEAN
2 2 14 DIRT FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE
3 3 16 LEAVE THE NIGHT ON SAM HUNT
4 4 2 SOMETHING IN THE WATER CARRIE UNDERWOOD
5 5 33 THIS IS HOW WE ROLL FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FEAT. LUKE BRYAN
6 8 80 CRUISE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE
7 7 29 PLAY IT AGAIN LUKE BRYAN
8 6 16 AMERICAN KIDS KENNY CHESNEY
l9 9 12 ROLLER COASTER LUKE BRYAN
10 10 19 SOMETHIN’ BAD MIRANDA LAMBERT DUET WITH CARRIE UNDERWOOD
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11 12 42 BOTTOMS UP BRANTLEY GILBERT
l12 16 12 GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG MADDIE & TAE
13 13 20 DRUNK ON A PLANE DIERKS BENTLEY
14 11 19 BARTENDER LADY ANTEBELLUM
15 14 26 I DON’T DANCE LEE BRICE
16 15 5 NEON LIGHT BLAKE SHELTON
17 18 11 READY SET ROLL CHASE RICE
18 19 61 THAT’S MY KIND OF NIGHT LUKE BRYAN
19 17 3 SOMEWHERE IN MY CAR KEITH URBAN
l20 21 10 HOPE YOU GET LONELY TONIGHT COLE SWINDELL
Country Streaming Songs -The week’s top Country streamed radio songs, on-demand songs and videos on leading online music services. Charts update weekly on Thurdays at www.Billboard.Biz/charts. Copyright 2014, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.
BUILDING AIRPLAY GAINERSTITLE Label Artist GAIN
DRUNK AMERICANS Show Dog-Universal Toby Keith +724
SOMETHING IN THE WATER 19/Arista Nashville Carrie Underwood +350
TIL IT’S GONE Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney +279
SOMEWHERE IN MY CAR Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban +225
SUNSHINE & WHISKEY Warner Bros./WAR Frankie Ballard +187
LEAVE THE NIGHT ON MCA Nashville Sam Hunt +135
GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG Dot Maddie & Tae +128
KISS YOU TONIGHT MCA Nashville David Nail +117
NEON LIGHT Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +114
SHOTGUN RIDER Big Machine Tim McGraw +112
Building Gainers reflects titles with the top increases in plays from Monday through 5pm ET Wednesday, as compared to the same period in the previous week, according to Nielsen BDS.
TOP COUNTRY ALBUMSCOUNTRY DIGITAL SONGS
BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE OCTOBER 16, 2014 | PAGE 10 OF 11
SALES DATA COMPILED BY
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STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY
The week’s most popular country albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18 months old or older than 18 months but still residing in the Billboard 200’s top 100. Charts update weekly on Thurdays at www.Billboard.Biz/charts. Copyright 2014, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.
COUNTRY STREAMING SONGS
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l1 NEW 1 JASON ALDEAN Old Boots, New DirtBROKEN BOW 7105/BBMG 1
2 1 — 2 BLAKE SHELTON BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINEWARNER BROS. 544918/WMN 1
3 2 — 2 LADY ANTEBELLUM 747CAPITOL NASHVILLE /UMGN 2
4 3 1 3 KENNY CHESNEY The Big RevivalBLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 306274/SMN 1
5 4 3 4 GEORGE STRAIT The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T StadiumMCA NASHVILLE 021477/UMGN 2
6 5 2 4 TIM MCGRAW Sundown Heaven TownMCGRAW/BIG MACHINE TM0200A/BMLG 1
7 6 4 62 LUKE BRYAN Crash My PartyCAPITOL NASHVILLE 018733/UMGN 2 1
l8 15 14 7 BRAD PAISLEY Moonshine In The TrunkARISTA NASHVILLE 305528/SMN 1
9 7 10 5 ALABAMA Angels Among Us: Hymns & Gospel FavoritesCRACKER BARREL/TAG/GAITHER 483414 EX/CAPITOL CMG 6
10 9 7 21 BRANTLEY GILBERT Just As I AmVALORY BG0200A/BMLG 0 1
11 8 5 5 LEE BRICE I Dont DanceCURB 79392* 1
l12 NEW 1 SOUNDTRACK The Best Of MeRELATIVITY/EMI NASHVILLE 1074/UMGN 12
13 10 6 97 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Here’s To The Good TimesREPUBLIC NASHVILLE 017773/BMLG (13.98) 2 1
14 12 11 19 MIRANDA LAMBERT PlatinumRCA NASHVILLE 379278/SMN 0 1
15 11 9 81 BLAKE SHELTON Based On A True Story ...WARNER BROS. 530386/WMN 1 1
16 13 15 8 CHASE RICE Ignite The NightDACK JANIELS 22573 1
l17 16 16 35 ERIC CHURCH The OutsidersEMI NASHVILLE 019402*/UMGN 0 1
18 14 13 5 DUSTIN LYNCH Where It’s AtBROKEN BOW 7337/BBMG 2
19 17 19 34 COLE SWINDELL Cole SwindellWARNER BROS. 541372/WMN 2
20 18 20 19 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’s What I Call Country: Volume 7UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC 020859/UME 3
21 20 23 19 BIG SMO Kuntry Livin’BIG SMO/ELEKTRA NASHVILLE 543999/WMN 6
22 21 17 33 DIERKS BENTLEY RiserCAPITOL NASHVILLE 019404/UMGN 1
l23 25 27 22 RASCAL FLATTS RewindBIG MACHINE RF0300A/BMLG 1
24 19 8 3 BIG & RICH GravityB$R 001/KOBALT 8
l25 NEW 1 DOUG SEEGERS Going Down To The RiverROUNDER 613611*/CONCORD (613611) 25
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1 1 ROLLER COASTER Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 51.9% 79.1% 4.20 13.6% 4.1% 3.3%
2 2 KISS YOU TONIGHT MCA Nashville David Nail 42.0% 75.2% 4.10 19.9% 2.7% 2.2%
3 6 LIKE A COWBOY Stoney Creek Randy Houser 39.7% 74.5% 4.03 17.8% 4.1% 3.6%
4 11 SUNSHINE & WHISKEY Warner Bros / WAR Frankie Ballard 43.6% 73.8% 4.01 13.6% 9.0% 3.5%
5 5 DAY DRINKING Capitol Nashville Little Big Town 47.4% 73.6% 4.05 14.3% 8.3% 3.9%
6 — PERFECT STORM Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 36.0% 73.3% 3.96 18.0% 4.1% 4.7%
7 8 LOOK AT YOU B$R/New Revolution Big & Rich 39.7% 71.2% 3.96 17.9% 7.3% 3.5%
8 13 DIRT Republic Nashville Florida Georgia Line 41.1% 70.3% 3.87 13.9% 7.6% 8.2%
9 7 SOMEWHERE IN MY CAR Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 38.8% 69.9% 3.95 20.2% 6.0% 3.8%
10 12 SOMETHIN’ BAD 19/Arista Nashville/RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert w Carrie Underwood 46.2% 69.8% 3.85 9.8% 9.2% 11.1%
11 9 FEELIN’ IT 19/Interscope/Mercury Scotty McCreery 33.8% 68.1% 3.85 19.6% 7.4% 4.9%
12 19 NEON LIGHT Warner Bros/WMN Blake Shelton 42.2% 67.8% 3.92 19.1% 8.2% 4.9%
13 14 WHAT WE AIN’T GOT RCA Nashville Jake Owen 33.5% 67.6% 3.85 20.6% 7.7% 4.1%
14 — LONELY EYES RCA Nashville Chris Young 30.7% 67.5% 3.88 25.3% 4.2% 3.0%
15 20 SMALL TOWN THROWDOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert f Justin Moore & Thomas Rhett 43.4% 67.0% 3.86 15.9% 9.9% 7.1%
16 17 GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG Dot Maddie & Tae 36.0% 67.0% 3.79 16.2% 9.1% 7.7%
17 16 HOME SWEET HOME Valory Justin Moore f Vince Neil 37.0% 65.8% 3.82 19.3% 9.0% 6.0%
18 18 SHOTGUN RIDER Big Machine Tim McGraw 27.0% 65.3% 3.79 24.9% 6.3% 3.6%
19 21 LEAVE THE NIGHT ON MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 35.6% 64.7% 3.80 19.7% 10.5% 5.1%
20 22 LOVE Elektra Nashville / WAR Jana Kramer 28.5% 64.5% 3.78 24.5% 6.7% 4.3%
21 31 HOMEGROWN HONEY Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker 23.8% 62.7% 3.70 24.4% 8.8% 4.1%
22 23 READY SET ROLL Dack Janiels/Columbia Nashville Chase Rice 36.0% 61.9% 3.71 20.2% 8.7% 9.3%
23 25 MEAN TO ME Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 28.0% 61.7% 3.76 28.8% 5.1% 4.3%
24 26 BURNIN’ IT DOWN Broken Bow Jason Aldean 38.6% 61.7% 3.67 15.5% 12.2% 10.6%
25 — TIL IT’S GONE Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney 23.5% 60.2% 3.73 31.3% 6.0% 2.4%
26 27 MAKE ME WANNA Valory Thomas Rhett 28.1% 59.7% 3.65 23.0% 11.4% 5.9%
27 30 RUM EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 28.6% 59.4% 3.58 18.5% 14.2% 7.9%
28 29 TAKE IT ON BACK Red Bow Chase Bryant 22.3% 59.1% 3.67 30.0% 7.4% 3.5%
29 28 TONIGHT TONIGHT Black River John King 18.7% 58.0% 3.58 27.2% 11.0% 3.8%
30 34 PEOPLE LOVING PEOPLE Pearl/RCA Nashville Garth Brooks 24.9% 57.7% 3.56 24.1% 9.8% 8.4%
31 33 PAYBACK Big Machine Rascal Flatts 30.3% 57.1% 3.57 22.4% 10.9% 9.6%
32 32 GOD MADE GIRLS Valory RaeLynn 28.4% 56.0% 3.59 24.9% 12.3% 6.7%
33 — TALLADEGA EMI Nashville Eric Church 26.8% 54.9% 3.59 28.7% 10.4% 6.1%
34 — HEADLIGHTS Blaster Montgomery Gentry 17.8% 53.4% 3.52 31.9% 9.8% 4.9%
35 35 TATTOO Atlantic/WMN Hunter Hayes 24.8% 52.3% 3.45 24.8% 13.9% 9.0%
Radiofeedback is solicited weekly via email to Country Radio listeners and fans in Radio Station Loyal Listener data bases and from Social Media Data Bases. Listeners score 40 songs online via a link to the Radiofeedback study. Song clips are :20 seconds in length and are scored on a 1 to 5 differential with “1” meaning I “Don’t Like This Song At All” and “5” meaning “I Like this Song A Lot” they also answer a follow up question asking if they hear the song “Too Much”, Not Enough” or “Just About Right” on the radio. Radiofeedback’s Top 30 contributing markets are; Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville FL, Knoxville, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York City, Omaha, Orlando, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington DC. For more information, contact John Hart ([email protected]).
Luke Bryan’s “Roller Coaster” repeats at No. 1 overall positive and favorite. Younger 18-34s track at No. 2 and No. 3 favorite, while core 25-44s ride at No. 2 and No. 4 favorite. Females are the drivers at No. 1 positive and favor-ite 12-plus; females 18-34 rate it No. 2 positive and favorite. Males 12-plus are at No. 2 and No. 1 favorite.
Brad Paisley debuts “Perfect Storm” strong with active P1s at No. 6 positive and No. 14 fa-vorite. Younger actives 18-34 launch at No. 2 and No. 10 favorite. Adults 25-54 make it No. 6 and No. 15 favorite. Females 12-plus kick in at No. 3, with females 25-54 at No. 10. Male strength lies with younger 18-34s at No. 1 positive and favorite. Core males are at No. 7.
Scotty McCreery is a totally safe play with heavy listeners, who rank “Fee-lin’ It” No. 11 total positive and No. 18 favorite. Younger 18-34s raise it to No. 13 from No. 17, and core 25-44s register at No. 4 and No. 18 favorite. Females overall research at No. 10 and No. 17 favorite, younger females re-spond at No. 14, and core females are at No. 13. Core males consider it No. 4. Montgomery Gentry’s “Headlights” starts at No. 24 with active P1s 12-plus, who also mark it at No. 28 favorite. Adults 18-44 post it at No. 19 and No. 17 favorite. Adults 35-54 punched in at No. 16 and No. 18 favorite. Males 18-44 are at No. 13 and No. 5 favorite/passion song. Female strength is with adults 35-44 at No. 22 and No. 29 favorite.
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Luke Bryan’s ‘Roller Coaster’ Still Stuck At The Top
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