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Post by .indulgecountry on May 11, 2014 21:39:26 GMT -5
What you guys think of the Blake/Miranda power house bringing the word "s**t" to country music? I can't think of any specific examples off the top of my head, but I guarantee that these recent Blake and Miranda songs are not the first country songs to use that word. I'm guessing that the inclusion of the word in the title of the Miranda track assures that it stays an album track, and if it was edited so that it could go to radio... well, it wouldn't have that word in it anymore, so it wouldn't matter.
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Post by tim on May 11, 2014 22:23:11 GMT -5
What you guys think of the Blake/Miranda power house bringing the word "s**t" to country music? I can't think of any specific examples off the top of my head, but I guarantee that these recent Blake and Miranda songs are not the first country songs to use that word. I'm guessing that the inclusion of the word in the title of the Miranda track assures that it stays an album track, and if it was edited so that it could go to radio... well, it wouldn't have that word in it anymore, so it wouldn't matter. I'll take the word "s**t" over an artist singing about a girl "shaking her money maker" to get him some of that for just the night.
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Post by .indulgecountry on May 11, 2014 22:45:53 GMT -5
The new Alan Jackson song (from that movie A Million Ways to Die in the West) has the same expletive in it as well, just as an aside.
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Post by countrysuperfan on May 12, 2014 3:41:32 GMT -5
Cuss words do not bother me.
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Post by onebuffalo on May 12, 2014 7:46:26 GMT -5
I've heard Charlie Daniels say 's.o.b.' in The Devil Went Down To Georgia. The Bellamy Brothers say 'friggin'' in Old Hippie.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 17:47:09 GMT -5
Here's her weekly Mediabase run thus far: Mediabase Run: 35-31-24-22-20-17-14-13-10-10-9-8-7-6
Depending on its longevity, it may appear in the year end top 10.
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Post by someguy on May 12, 2014 20:38:16 GMT -5
Will this peak at #2? I think country radio is salivating at the opportunity to play the new Carrie/Miranda duet ASAP (likely next Monday - after the BB Music Awards). This might be a "My Kinda Party"/"Don't You Wanna Stay" chart situation. I hope not. RCA would be wise to get Automatic to #1 then let Something Bad be released. I sure hope it doesn't peak at #2. This is my favourite country hit of the year. I think it stands a pretty good chance of hitting #1 after Luke Bryan, so I'll be disappointed if it falls short. How many weeks do you think Luke Bryan will have between his duet with Florida Georgia Line and his solo record?
It's so hard to predict that now, in the age of massive pushes to #1, and then massive plummets. Both Luke songs seem like they would have been easy multi-week #1s a few years ago, but I don't know. I would say 4-5 weeks at the top for the Luke songs combined, but 4 is probably the most he could get.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 22:11:19 GMT -5
Will this peak at #2? I think country radio is salivating at the opportunity to play the new Carrie/Miranda duet ASAP (likely next Monday - after the BB Music Awards). This might be a "My Kinda Party"/"Don't You Wanna Stay" chart situation. "Something Bad" could possibly chart based off unsolicited airplay, but I'm imagining a situation similar to Brad with "Old Alabama" and "Remind Me", or Tim with "One Of Those Nights" and "Highway Don't Care". With Brad, "Remind Me" was well into the 30's on Billboard, possibly almost top 30 (I can't quite remember), but it hadn't been officially sent out. Stations were just picking up on it since they knew it was the next single, even though "Old Alabama" was still climbing through the top 5. And we had a similar situation with Tim last year. "Highway Don't Care" started getting airplay as soon as the album dropped (which was February 5th), and I think that one was also top 30 or close to it while "One Of Those Nights" was still climbing. And OOTN went on to spend 3 weeks at #1 on Billboard but it didn't peak until March. "Something Bad" could affect "Automatic" a little bit, but there's a precedent here that might suggest "Automatic" will still be fine, assuming it can generate #1-level audience numbers. Edit: Forgot to point out the difference between this situation and what happened in the Brad & Tim cases. Brad and Tim had brand new album releases while their songs were still climbing in the top 5, but neither "Highway Don't Care" nor "Remind Me" got early televised performances. "Something Bad" will get performed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the label will make the studio version available to radio until after the album gets released, and that's not until June 3. So, in other words, even if radio wants to play it early, they might not have a choice if the label decides to hold it back until Platinum is released. Their only choice might be to play a live recording for a few weeks.
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Post by rbundy1987 on May 15, 2014 9:16:03 GMT -5
jhomes87, why is this song losing audience all the sudden? It has been losing and losing audience after day and day again for the past 4-5 days. "Automatic" hasn't gained any audience back at all since May 10th's Mediabase update, I really like to see this hit #1 since it started so strong but ever since it hit the top ten it has slown down so much that it is letting the more popular Luke and now Brett pass her up, and now Justin who is still far back in spins and audience is now starting to gain on her. RCA better get their act together because Justin is coming for her here and soon. I see that "Automatic" even though it lost a little more audience today (May 15th), it still gained back 17 spins, so I wonder if they are just going to be pushing for the Mediabase #1 :(, man I hope not only that, I would like Billboard since no solo female has topped the Billboard Airplay chart since October 2012 with Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away", it's like Billboard doesn't like women topping the chart.
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Post by countrysuperfan on May 15, 2014 11:00:50 GMT -5
jhomes87, why is this song losing audience all the sudden? It has been losing and losing audience after day and day again for the past 4-5 days. "Automatic" hasn't gained any audience back at all since May 10th's Mediabase update, I really like to see this hit #1 since it started so strong but ever since it hit the top ten it has slown down so much that it is letting the more popular Luke and now Brett pass her up, and now Justin who is still far back in spins and audience is now starting to gain on her. RCA better get their act together because Justin is coming for her here and soon. I see that "Automatic" even though it lost a little more audience today (May 15th), it still gained back 17 spins, so I wonder if they are just going to be pushing for the Mediabase #1 :(, man I hope not only that, I would like Billboard since no solo female has topped the Billboard Airplay chart since October 2012 with Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away", it's like Billboard doesn't like women topping the chart. are Sony pushing another song hard at the moment? I'm not sure. However I guess Sony's team know they have a surefire smash album on their hands with this and the upcoming Carrie duet so maybe they are not overly concerned with airplay since they have guaranteed big sales numbers.
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Post by onebuffalo on May 15, 2014 11:12:45 GMT -5
jhomes87, why is this song losing audience all the sudden? It has been losing and losing audience after day and day again for the past 4-5 days. "Automatic" hasn't gained any audience back at all since May 10th's Mediabase update, I really like to see this hit #1 since it started so strong but ever since it hit the top ten it has slown down so much that it is letting the more popular Luke and now Brett pass her up, and now Justin who is still far back in spins and audience is now starting to gain on her. RCA better get their act together because Justin is coming for her here and soon. I see that "Automatic" even though it lost a little more audience today (May 15th), it still gained back 17 spins, so I wonder if they are just going to be pushing for the Mediabase #1 :(, man I hope not only that, I would like Billboard since no solo female has topped the Billboard Airplay chart since October 2012 with Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away", it's like Billboard doesn't like women topping the chart. are Sony pushing another song hard at the moment? I'm not sure. However I guess Sony's team know they have a surefire smash album on their hands with this and the upcoming Carrie duet so maybe they are not overly concerned with airplay since they have guaranteed big sales numbers. You can say that again. Automatic is at #11 this week after 26,000 in sales. It is now at 363,000, guaranteeing a gold single for Miranda Lambert. I hope RCA can get this one to the top.
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Post by sabre14 on May 15, 2014 12:32:59 GMT -5
It is disheartening that this song has had some bad updates this week, but hopefully this is just a blip on the radar because of the three powerhouses vying for the #1 spot. I have faith RCA can at least make this get top 3 if not #1 still. Luckily on Mediabase there's nobody within shouting distance of her with Justin still nearly 1000 spins and over 5 million in audience behind her.
I certainly need to see how these next few days turn out for "Automatic".
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2014 0:06:44 GMT -5
jhomes87, why is this song losing audience all the sudden? It has been losing and losing audience after day and day again for the past 4-5 days. "Automatic" hasn't gained any audience back at all since May 10th's Mediabase update, I really like to see this hit #1 since it started so strong but ever since it hit the top ten it has slown down so much that it is letting the more popular Luke and now Brett pass her up, and now Justin who is still far back in spins and audience is now starting to gain on her. RCA better get their act together because Justin is coming for her here and soon. I see that "Automatic" even though it lost a little more audience today (May 15th), it still gained back 17 spins, so I wonder if they are just going to be pushing for the Mediabase #1 :(, man I hope not only that, I would like Billboard since no solo female has topped the Billboard Airplay chart since October 2012 with Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away", it's like Billboard doesn't like women topping the chart. Miranda's slow week is indeed a bit troubling, but at the same time, I think there's still plenty of room for optimism. As sabre14 noted, we have 3 major hit songs vying for the top spot, and likely to occupy the top 3 spots for perhaps the next 3-4 weeks or so. That leaves really only Brett Eldredge to battle it out with Miranda. I suppose Warner Bros. could get Brett another #1 but his song is pretty old, and I don't think this is a situation where only 1 song can hit the top. Even if Brett makes it there, Miranda still has a good chance, if "Automatic" can hold out for a few more weeks. The next competitor is Justin Moore, and he's a full 1000 spins behind. Keith Urban is going nowhere, and Jake Owen is 2300 spins behind Miranda, and also her label-mate (thus, he's no threat). All RCA really has to do here is keep this one afloat and wait out FGL, Luke, and RF (and "Rewind" will almost certainly plummet next week). There really would be no excuse if this one fell short of #1. "Automatic" is only 14 weeks old, after all. I am thinking that this week's slowdown is only temporary. The alternative would be to take the top 5 peak and release "Something Bad" right after the Billboard Music Awards, but as I said in a previous post, we've had some recent examples where a top 5 song still went to #1 even after a big duet follow-up single had started to chart ("Remind Me" following "Old Alabama", "Highway Don't Care" following "One Of Those Nights"...even "Don't You Wanna Stay" following "My Kinda Party", a #2 BB/#1 MB hit), so I don't see why RCA would be so ready to pull the plug on "Automatic" prematurely. In other words, the only logical reason why this might miss #1 is if RCA rush releases "Something Bad", but I see no reason for them to do so. I think they should save it for after the album release. Let "Automatic" peak in mid-June and then promptly send out SB.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on May 17, 2014 14:47:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 17:58:53 GMT -5
RCA has a "power up" ad out for this song in today's Aircheck email: Her album drops a week from today, and she does co-host Lon Helton's countdown this coming weekend. A lot of the top songs didn't do much in today's Mediabase update but that's likely because of Memorial Day yesterday. If Luke and FGL can fall close to 500 spins this week, it's definitely possible for Miranda to meet them in the middle and overtake them for the top spot, at least on Mediabase. Billboard might be a little bit tougher to get but it's probably doable as well. We'll have to see what the gaps are when the chart is released tonight, and whether or not Luke and FGL are ready to start coming down. FGL might still try to slip in to the #1 spot or Luke could try for a longer run yet. ETA: Wow, I just noticed that "Automatic" has been #1 for 3 weeks straight on both the Billboard Indicator and Country Aircheck Activator charts. PIA is #2 on both secondary charts and it doesn't appear that Luke has hit #1 yet. I find this very strange, because usually the secondary charts show better 'natural' peaks than the big charts do (due to the labels' interference on the big charts), but "Play It Again" has certainly been a bigger hit than "Automatic" has. This is the rare case where I think the secondary charts got it a bit wrong, in terms of what is/was the biggest hit.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on May 28, 2014 16:06:59 GMT -5
I've been meaning to comment on this one; I really like it. In fact, I may end up rooting for Miranda again. Didn't sound like a lead single at first, but I've warmed up to it being one ever since. It's a great introduction to this new era and a breath of fresh air in today's polluted "bro-country" radio climate. Very happy to see this coming close to the top; hope it can make it.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 4, 2014 13:20:25 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 15:58:35 GMT -5
Mind you I'm not much of a country queen myself although i love some of the classic artists of yesteryear, but this song and this woman really serves me life, all day everyday! Just so vulnerable and a gorgeous tune yass Miranda xoxo
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 4, 2014 16:04:26 GMT -5
Mind you I'm not much of a country queen myself although i love some of the classic artists of yesteryear, but this song and this woman really serves me life, all day everyday! Just so vulnerable and a gorgeous tune yass Miranda xoxo Come on over to the country, Coco. There's room here for you!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 16:19:23 GMT -5
Was gonna mention this yesterday but I forgot. RCA released a different version of this song to radio on Monday afternoon, the "Three on the Tree" mix, according to Play MPE. I have not heard it so I don't know what differences there are from the original version (and it doesn't necessarily mean it's a major 'remix' or anything like that, but there must be something that's at least a little different from the original version). So...that probably means that this is the final 'push' week for this song, and of course that makes sense as well. The album just dropped, she's been doing "Automatic" for a lot of TV performances, and with "Somethin' Bad" charting pretty high already, the label won't want to wait much longer to officially send that one to radio. Usually when a new version of a song gets sent out (oftentimes, if another version gets sent out, it's an acoustic one) that's a pretty good indicator that the label is trying to get max spins for the final push. Thus, I think "Automatic" will peak this weekend. It has a slight chance at the Mediabase #1 (it had a big swing in spins vs. "Play It Again" today) but I don't think its chances of topping Billboard are very high, unless it can somehow keep climbing next week...but again, I think that's doubtful.
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Post by dm2081 on Jun 4, 2014 16:57:09 GMT -5
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 4, 2014 17:36:12 GMT -5
It's going to be very difficult for Miranda to get the top spot on MB or Billboard this week. She's still over 5 million behind Luke in audience and over 300 spins on MB. Her update today was very good but there's only three days left and it may be a day or two too late. Luke has to start falling in it's points come tomorrow for me to see "Automatic" getting there. Plus there's still Brett in the way and he's still gaining at a steady clip of a 270 bullet on MB today. Anything's possible but it appears Miranda's #1 chances look slim if this indeed her peak week.
"Automatic" is just unfortunate when it peaked. Being stuck behind both Luke and FGL with Brett in the way the entirety of her top 10 run was her downfall. Again, Luke's song has to decrease enough before Miranda can get there and that remains to be seen. It appears that Justin is the lucky one among all these songs. He's still nearly 1000 spins and almost 6 million in audience ahead of Jake and remains far enough back of Luke, Brett, and Miranda that they don't pose a threat.
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Post by joey2002 on Jun 4, 2014 19:14:42 GMT -5
I really love "Automatic", but I never realized that Carolyn Dawn Johnson provides harmony and background vocals on the tune. Brings back memories of her hits "Georgia" and "Complicated". Those were the good ol' days of country music. :)
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 4, 2014 19:20:12 GMT -5
I really love "Automatic", but I never realized that Carolyn Dawn Johnson provides harmony and background vocals on the tune. Brings back memories of her hits "Georgia" and "Complicated". Those were the good ol' days of country music. :) Don't forget "I Don't Want You To Go". :) All the way back to the olden days of country music....2001.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 4, 2014 19:33:17 GMT -5
I think I read somewhere recently that Carolyn Dawn Johnson is not only a background vocalist on this song, but also an actual member of Lambert's band as a backup singer.
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Post by countrygirl918 on Jun 4, 2014 23:28:56 GMT -5
Yes, Carolyn will be joining Miranda on tour this year as a member of her band.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 5, 2014 17:52:44 GMT -5
Not to nitpick here, but Automatic should have already been #1. This is a lead single and it has been on the charts now for 17 weeks (33% of a year).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2014 17:59:55 GMT -5
Not to nitpick here, but Automatic should have already been #1. This is a lead single and it has been on the charts now for 17 weeks (33% of a year). So? This isn't an argument at all. It's an opinion. "Automatic" has done pretty well but it has not been near the hit that "Over You" or "Mama's Broken Heart" were. A lead single doesn't mean it's going to go #1...in fact Miranda has never gone #1 with a lead single. Again, "Automatic" has done fairly well, but it hasn't been a digital monster, and it hasn't really shown any signs of being a slam dunk #1 at radio, so I don't know why anyone would say it "should have already been #1". It's had a chart run more in line with that of "Baggage Claim".
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 5, 2014 18:05:47 GMT -5
Not to nitpick here, but Automatic should have already been #1. This is a lead single and it has been on the charts now for 17 weeks (33% of a year). So? This isn't an argument at all. It's an opinion. "Automatic" has done pretty well but it has not been near the hit that "Over You" or "Mama's Broken Heart" were. A lead single doesn't mean it's going to go #1...in fact Miranda has never gone #1 with a lead single. Again, "Automatic" has done fairly well, but it hasn't been a digital monster, and it hasn't really shown any signs of being a slam dunk #1 at radio, so I don't know why anyone would say it "should have already been #1". It's had a chart run more in line with that of "Baggage Claim". I wasn't arguing. This should have been a #1. As far as a Miranda Lambert lead single goes, I know none of them have hit the top. Compare that with her duet partner, Carrie Underwood. Her Cowboy Casanova from 2009, the lead single from Play On hit the top in ten weeks. Surely, Lambert (the current five time A.C.M. Female Vocalist of the Year) can get a single to the top in break neck speed.
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