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Post by sabre14 on May 27, 2014 19:23:56 GMT -5
Even though Craig got to #10 on Mediabase, he fell short of Chris' song by over a million in audience on Billboard. "Who I Am With You" increased over 6 million in audience taking the final top 10 spot away from both Craig and the also surging Blake :o. The Mediabase audience numbers today are extremely close. Craig still has the #10 position but is only up .204 in audience on Blake and Chris has him beaten out by .016 in audience. Craig still leads the way in the spin department which is the primary reason he still has both of them edged out in total points.
Rascal Flatts and Thomas should both go recurrent on Billboard next week and Rascal Flatts should fall from the top 10 on Mediabase while Thomas goes recurrent. If Craig can hang on for another good bulleted week (I'm still unsure if he can but so far so good as of Tuesday) then he could bump up to #10 on Billboard and probably hold his ground on Mediabase. Unfortunately Billy is closing in and he still has the Band Perry to worry about at #13. Should be interesting to see how KTCC can fair here until it loses it's bullet and if it can claim a top 10 on Billboard as well.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on May 28, 2014 16:19:18 GMT -5
I pretty much echo .indulgecountry's sentiment about this song; definite radio candy, but it actually sounds like a country song! It also doesn't hurt that Craig's vocal performance is significantly better than most of today's leading male artists. ;)
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2014 17:02:10 GMT -5
Up another 640k in today's update. If this can hold off The Band Perry and Billy Currington for the rest of the week--and it has a really great chance of doing so--it will finish no lower than #10 on Monday's Billboard chart, since both Thomas Rhett and Rascal Flatts will be going recurrent (Rhett will probably remain T10 in audience, but both should fall out of the top 10 in spins and thus be sent recurrent).
Craig doesn't seem likely to re-pass Blake or Chris so I'm guessing #10 will be both the highest and lowest possible destination for KTKC this week. After that, Craig would likely need another 2 bullets to pass FGL just to move up to #9, so I think #10 will be its peak on both charts. I suppose the former BGP staffers could keep pushing into next week yet in hopes of climbing past #10 but I can't see Craig staying ahead of TBP, Billy, Brad, and Joe for multiple weeks while he waits for the top 10 to open up some more (via songs dropping down into his range).
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Post by rsmatto on May 28, 2014 18:05:43 GMT -5
Given his promo teams tenacity, Top 10 is a great result for this tune.
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Post by sabre14 on May 31, 2014 14:39:04 GMT -5
Well Craig only has gotten past by Blake as of today on Mediabase and he's still roughly 300 spins ahead of Chris, so with Thomas going recurrent and Rascal Flatts long behind now, it's looking like he'll land at #9 on MB this week. On Billboard he should move up to #10 with the Flatts going recurrent and I'm pretty sure Thomas will go recurrent as well, though it should be close. If that's the case then Craig should officially grab his first top 10 on both MB and Billboard. KTTC still has a bullet of 392 on Mediabase, so it hasn't really showed any signs of slowing down though I agree it's going to be tough to climb much higher than he is with no label and plenty of heavy competition surrounding him.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 17:14:52 GMT -5
This song appears to be finally slowing down...it gained another 40 spins in today's update but its audience gain was flat.
Two of the former Bigger Picture regionals (promotion team) recently accepted new jobs: Southeast regional Jay Cruze took a job as PD of Clear Channel's WSCG in Augusta, Georgia, and Northeast regional Chris DeCarlo joined RPM in the same position, according to Country Aircheck. From what I understood the promotion team had stayed on after the label closed in order to keep promoting this song to radio, so I'm assuming that those staffers accepting new jobs will mean fewer people are left to continue promoting KTKC.
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 4, 2014 17:25:05 GMT -5
This song appears to be finally slowing down...it gained another 40 spins in today's update but its audience gain was flat. Two of the former Bigger Picture regionals (promotion team) recently accepted new jobs: Southeast regional Jay Cruze took a job as PD of Clear Channel's WSCG in Augusta, Georgia, and Northeast regional Chris DeCarlo joined RPM in the same position, according to Country Aircheck. From what I understood the promotion team had stayed on after the label closed in order to keep promoting this song to radio, so I'm assuming that those staffers accepting new jobs will mean fewer people are left to continue promoting KTKC. Yeah, I saw that too and the timing is kind of on schedule for what I predicted. Now that this has garnered a top 10 finish on both MB and Billboard, I suspect that KTKC will start to really slow up in the next couple days and this week will be his final bulleted week.
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Post by someguy on Jun 8, 2014 1:59:58 GMT -5
I thought this would have started to plummet by now. I still don't expect it to get much higher, but it's surprising to see it gain after reaching top 10 on both trades.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 2:22:52 GMT -5
I thought this would have started to plummet by now. I still don't expect it to get much higher, but it's surprising to see it gain after reaching top 10 on both trades. Agreed. I thought it might be starting to slow down 3-4 days ago but I guess that was just wishful thinking, and I was probably reading into the daily updates a bit too much as this has actually had a pretty solid week once again. It's not that I dislike the song or Craig; on the contrary, I think he has a good voice and I'm always rooting for the neo-traditionalists. I do find this particular song to be pretty average, though, and I'm still hoping that it'll fall soon now that it's achieved its top 10 peak. I think this will move ahead of "This Is How We Roll" on the next Billboard chart, and Craig might be able to re-pass Chris Young, which would move KTKC up to #8. Chris' song looks like a future #1, though, so if Craig moves ahead it would probably only be temporary.
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 11, 2014 13:22:59 GMT -5
Just as I thought, Craig's song is really slowing down (finally). It's updated bullet today on MB is just a 109 which was close to 300 less than over a week ago. Down over 50 in the past day. It appears now that "Keep Them Kisses Comin's" peak will be #8 on MB and #10 or #9 on Billboard, depending on how much Joe can gain and pass him. It still might be able to maintain it's bullet by week's end (which right now is iffy) but certainly by next Monday "Keep Them Kisses Comin'" will start to fall. Luckily for him Joe, Billy, and TBP are all roughly 5 million behind him and close to 1000 spins less, so he will maintain his position this week.
I think that Craig will be on a new label home soon and I'm glad that his former staff continued to promote this song well after the label went under.
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Post by countrymusic20 on Jun 11, 2014 13:29:49 GMT -5
Just as I thought, Craig's song is really slowing down (finally). It's updated bullet today on MB is just a 109 which was close to 300 less than over a week ago. Down over 50 in the past day. It appears now that "Keep Them Kisses Comin's" peak will be #8 on MB and #10 or #9 on Billboard, depending on how much Joe can gain and pass him. It still might be able to maintain it's bullet by week's end (which right now is iffy) but certainly by next Monday "Keep Them Kisses Comin'" will start to fall. Luckily for him Joe, Billy, and TBP are all roughly 5 million behind him and close to 1000 spins less, so he will maintain his position this week. I think that Craig will be on a new label home soon and I'm glad that his former staff continued to promote this song well after the label went under. Really glad Craig finally had a top 10 ... great voice and a great guy. Hope he finds a good new label home that can serve his talent better.
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 19, 2014 13:51:24 GMT -5
I don't know what's more amazing. The fact that "Keep Them Kisses Comin'" was able to continue to the top 10 without a label, or the fact that as of Thursday, this song still has it's bullet. Granted, it's hanging on for dear life right now with a bullet of just 48 on MB. In fact it's bullet has been somewhere between 0 and 50 for the past few days. Usually when a song has a day or two like that in the top 10 and has been on the charts for almost 30 weeks, it starts to have negative updates and free falls. Not to mention he still has no label to back this song. But KTCC refuses to give up, with these barely positive gains the past week. If it's able to somehow keep it's bullet past Saturday (big if) and doesn't begin a free fall, this should move up to #7 on MB with Luke officially going recurrent this Sunday and Miranda already below him. Joe's song at #9 is just too far back right now to be a threat.
Any day this should die and begin it's decent. Perhaps I should have given more credence to the power up add in this past week's edition of CountryAircheck, though I'm sure the former staffers at Bigger Picture knew that was a bit of wishful thinking to see this "going all the way" which is the wording they used in that add. Overall I can't believe this is still having positive updates as of Thursday, though it's clearly hanging on by the smallest of threads.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jun 19, 2014 15:27:39 GMT -5
I wonder if anyone who used to work at Bigger Picture knows the meaning of the phrase "pyrrhic victory".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 16:59:54 GMT -5
I don't know what's more amazing. The fact that "Keep Them Kisses Comin'" was able to continue to the top 10 without a label, or the fact that as of Thursday, this song still has it's bullet. Granted, it's hanging on for dear life right now with a bullet of just 48 on MB. In fact it's bullet has been somewhere between 0 and 50 for the past few days. Usually when a song has a day or two like that in the top 10 and has been on the charts for almost 30 weeks, it starts to have negative updates and free falls. Not to mention he still has no label to back this song. But KTCC refuses to give up, with these barely positive gains the past week. If it's able to somehow keep it's bullet past Saturday (big if) and doesn't begin a free fall, this should move up to #7 on MB with Luke officially going recurrent this Sunday and Miranda already below him. Joe's song at #9 is just too far back right now to be a threat. Any day this should die and begin it's decent. Perhaps I should have given more credence to the power up add in this past week's edition of CountryAircheck, though I'm sure the former staffers at Bigger Picture knew that was a bit of wishful thinking to see this "going all the way" which is the wording they used in that add. Overall I can't believe this is still having positive updates as of Thursday, though it's clearly hanging on by the smallest of threads. Even though it's really started to slow down I'm not convinced it's going to start dropping yet. I think Craig has a lot of people at radio who are rooting for him and aren't ready to give up on this song even though there's apparently only 2-3 people left promoting it. They've had ads for this in the last several Aircheck issues now. It's just a unique situation. Normally I would agree with you that, given this one's trajectory over the past week or so, it's likely it would start to fall soon. But the more I've thought about it the more I'm not so sure. I'm not saying it'll necessarily make it all the way to the #1 goal, just that I'm not sure I see it dropping yet. It's really hard to guess how it will play out. I just think that a lot of radio folks are probably rooting for this and still doing all they can to get it higher. I'm sure they sympathize with Craig with having the label shut down. And I think Craig has made enough of a name for himself that radio knows this isn't the last they'll hear from him...I'm sure some radio folks have heard a bit of his new material and they know it's only a matter of time before he gets picked up by another label (heck, it could've happened already, but maybe just hasn't been announced yet).
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 19, 2014 17:48:12 GMT -5
I don't know what's more amazing. The fact that "Keep Them Kisses Comin'" was able to continue to the top 10 without a label, or the fact that as of Thursday, this song still has it's bullet. Granted, it's hanging on for dear life right now with a bullet of just 48 on MB. In fact it's bullet has been somewhere between 0 and 50 for the past few days. Usually when a song has a day or two like that in the top 10 and has been on the charts for almost 30 weeks, it starts to have negative updates and free falls. Not to mention he still has no label to back this song. But KTCC refuses to give up, with these barely positive gains the past week. If it's able to somehow keep it's bullet past Saturday (big if) and doesn't begin a free fall, this should move up to #7 on MB with Luke officially going recurrent this Sunday and Miranda already below him. Joe's song at #9 is just too far back right now to be a threat. Any day this should die and begin it's decent. Perhaps I should have given more credence to the power up add in this past week's edition of CountryAircheck, though I'm sure the former staffers at Bigger Picture knew that was a bit of wishful thinking to see this "going all the way" which is the wording they used in that add. Overall I can't believe this is still having positive updates as of Thursday, though it's clearly hanging on by the smallest of threads. Even though it's really started to slow down I'm not convinced it's going to start dropping yet. I think Craig has a lot of people at radio who are rooting for him and aren't ready to give up on this song even though there's apparently only 2-3 people left promoting it. They've had ads for this in the last several Aircheck issues now. It's just a unique situation. Normally I would agree with you that, given this one's trajectory over the past week or so, it's likely it would start to fall soon. But the more I've thought about it the more I'm not so sure. I'm not saying it'll necessarily make it all the way to the #1 goal, just that I'm not sure I see it dropping yet. It's really hard to guess how it will play out. I just think that a lot of radio folks are probably rooting for this and still doing all they can to get it higher. I'm sure they sympathize with Craig with having the label shut down. And I think Craig has made enough of a name for himself that radio knows this isn't the last they'll hear from him...I'm sure some radio folks have heard a bit of his new material and they know it's only a matter of time before he gets picked up by another label (heck, it could've happened already, but maybe just hasn't been announced yet). If he does want to reach the top or at least the top 5, he's got to move quicker than barely breaking even. To me if he's not going to do much better than where he is now, what the heck's the point. They've gotten this song into the top 7 on MB (as long as he can hold on till the weekend), and this songs been out since the holidays, plus he's working on new material right now and like you I'm sure he already has his label lined up. The only way I can agree with this continuing it's run is if we hear who he's been picked up by and they decide to put their own promotion into this song and get it to #1. But it's just too hard to fathom given his updates over the past week, and I would think his new label, whoever it may be, would want to start fresh with a new single and new material. I guess I'll have to wait and see how it shakes out because like you said, we've never really seen this situation before.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 19, 2014 17:56:01 GMT -5
Miranda Lambert goes recurrent next week. Any chance that Craig Campbell gets a new peak of #8?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 17:16:24 GMT -5
Miranda Lambert goes recurrent next week. Any chance that Craig Campbell gets a new peak of #8? Actually Miranda won't go recurrent, because this will only be the 20th chart week for "Automatic" and only her 2nd week without a bullet, so by rule Billboard should leave her on even though she'll fall way down to around #15 or so. But obviously she'll fall below Craig, allowing him to move up to #8. KTKC lost almost 50 spins and 600k in today's update. Perhaps it can rally one more time yet but it looks like this one is done and should start falling pretty quickly in the next couple of days. With Luke going recurrent on Mediabase this afternoon, Craig will get the #7 spot there. So it looks like a #7 MB peak/#8 BB peak for this one.
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 22, 2014 17:24:19 GMT -5
Miranda Lambert goes recurrent next week. Any chance that Craig Campbell gets a new peak of #8? Actually Miranda won't go recurrent, because this will only be the 20th chart week for "Automatic" and only her 2nd week without a bullet, so by rule Billboard should leave her on even though she'll fall way down to around #15 or so. But obviously she'll fall below Craig, allowing him to move up to #8. KTKC lost almost 50 spins and 600k in today's update. Perhaps it can rally one more time yet but it looks like this one is done and should start falling pretty quickly in the next couple of days. With Luke going recurrent on Mediabase this afternoon, Craig will get the #7 spot there. So it looks like a #7 MB peak/#8 BB peak for this one. I was about to post my thoughts on this song, but every time I do, Craig seems to be listening and deciding not to lose his bullet. Now I'm pretty sure like you said, Craig's last bulleted week on MB will be this one and he'll start falling and really should be falling hard this upcoming week. All in all a #7 peak on MB and a #8 peak on BB for a song who went quite a few weeks without a label is really impressive (iHeart's "On The Verge" not withstanding). I really am glad this song had a happy ending. I was really put off by the "On The Verge" deal and the ridiculous jump this made from the low 40's to #31 in one week. Then the fact that staffers who lost their jobs when the label closed, but decided to keep working this song and get it top 10 is awesome in a time and age where there are very little "awesome" things about modern country radio.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 20:23:53 GMT -5
Actually, scratch that...I don't think this will be #8 on tomorrow's Billboard chart. I didn't check how much ground Joe Nichols had made up, but having checked the numbers now, it certainly looks like Joe will jump ahead. So I'm expecting Joe to claim the #8 spot with Craig stuck at #9 and Billy Currington moving up to #10.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 23, 2014 7:38:57 GMT -5
Miranda Lambert goes recurrent next week. Any chance that Craig Campbell gets a new peak of #8? Actually Miranda won't go recurrent, because this will only be the 20th chart week for "Automatic" and only her 2nd week without a bullet, so by rule Billboard should leave her on even though she'll fall way down to around #15 or so. But obviously she'll fall below Craig, allowing him to move up to #8. KTKC lost almost 50 spins and 600k in today's update. Perhaps it can rally one more time yet but it looks like this one is done and should start falling pretty quickly in the next couple of days. With Luke going recurrent on Mediabase this afternoon, Craig will get the #7 spot there. So it looks like a #7 MB peak/#8 BB peak for this one. I swear I should be paying attention to number of weeks on the chart. O.K., I am assuming Miranda Lambert will be out of the top ten. Can anyone tell me the last time a single fell out of the top ten and was still charting? Thanks.
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