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Post by sabre14 on Jul 7, 2014 18:29:53 GMT -5
^ Wasn't "My Front Porch Looking In" the top hit of 2003 despite having only ONE week at #1? I'm still baffled as to how that happened, especially since "Beer for My Horses" got 6 and "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" got eight. The R&R year end chart I have says "19 Somethin'" was the #1 single for 2003 while "My Front Porch Looking In" was #2. "It's Five O' Clock Somewhere" was #6! Both "Brokenheartsville" and "I Believe" outranked it because of the timing I think. Those peaked in early to mid year which usually meant a good year end ranking on R&R/MB. "American Kids" has a ways to go before it can be even close to as big as those songs but it has the early makings of one of the biggest singles of 2014.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jul 7, 2014 18:37:32 GMT -5
TOP TEN BILLBOARD HITS FOR 2003: 1. My Front Porch Looking In-Lonestar-BNA 2. Beer For My Horses-Toby Keith and Willie Nelson-Dreamworks 3. 19 Somethin'-Mark Wills-Mercury 4. It's Five O'Clock Somewhere-Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett-Arista 5. Red Dirt Road-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 6. What Was I Thinkin'-Dierks Bentley-Capitol 7. I Believe-Diamond Rio-Arista 8. Brokenheartsville-Joe Nichols-Universal South 9. Real Good Man-Tim McGraw-Curb 10. Celebrity-Brad Paisley-Arista
This is what I posted in 2010 as far as the American Country Countdown is concerned:
8. THE YEAR'S BIGGEST: These are the ten biggest hits of 2003 according to the American Country Countdown: 1. It's Five O'Clock Somewhere-Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett-Arista 2. Nineteen Somethin'-Mark Wills-Mercury 3. Beer For My Horses-Toby Keith and Willie Nelson-Dreamworks 4. My Front Porch Looking In-Lonestar-BNA 5. Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me-Keith Urban-Capitol 6. She'll Leave You With A Smile-George Strait-MCA 7. What Was I Thinkin'-Dierks Bentley-Capitol 8. I Believe-Diamond Rio-Arista 9. Red Dirt Road-Brooks & Dunn-Arista 10. Who's Your Daddy-Toby Keith-Dreamworks
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Post by Zazie on Jul 7, 2014 18:59:04 GMT -5
^ Wasn't "My Front Porch Looking In" the top hit of 2003 despite having only ONE week at #1? I'm still baffled as to how that happened, especially since "Beer for My Horses" got 6 and "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" got eight. The R&R year end chart I have says "19 Somethin'" was the #1 single for 2003 while "My Front Porch Looking In" was #2. "It's Five O' Clock Somewhere" was #6! Both "Brokenheartsville" and "I Believe" outranked it because of the timing I think. Those peaked in early to mid year which usually meant a good year end ranking on R&R/MB. "American Kids" has a ways to go before it can be even close to as big as those songs but it has the early makings of one of the biggest singles of 2014. BB's year-end list back in 2003 was based on comparing the cumulative audience of every song on the current singles chart (unlike MB's list, which counts spins instead of audience and also counts recurrent spins as well as current ones). So a song that spent a long time in the top 5 waiting for other songs to clear out of the way, and then took over at the top to spend even more weeks with big audience totals, could outpace other songs that had many more weeks at #1. Lonestar isn't the only song to have accomplished that. I think BB might still compile a list this way but I'm not sure anymore. It's not interesting to me any longer and I pay no attention. The double-track system, in which songs by big artists go up superfast and songs by others take 40 weeks, has gotten to me. Sure, we've always seen songs do those things but the difference between the two tracks is so extreme that it makes the year-end list a measure of which songs spent the most time moving up through the teens and 20's.
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Post by Marv on Jul 7, 2014 20:47:46 GMT -5
R&R/Mediabase & BB rarely agree on the #1 single of the year anyway as I've posted previously; prior to James Otto in 2008 & Rodney Atkins in 2007, you had Craig Morgan in 2005, and Brooks & Dunn in 2001 topping the year-end charts at both publications.
They might agree again in 2014 with the underwhelming 'Beat Of The Music', or the equally ho-hum 'Lettin' The Night Roll', but that's just my two cents.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jul 14, 2014 10:22:51 GMT -5
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Post by Marv on Jul 14, 2014 15:52:39 GMT -5
He needed all of a whopping three weeks to clear 100% of the R&R/Mediabase panel, more proof that country radio has been in NBC (Nobody But Chesney) mode when it comes to barreling onto the charts unlike just about anybody else for most of the past two decades.
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Post by stevieb1434 on Jul 20, 2014 16:48:22 GMT -5
Just passed "Bartender" on the mediabase chart and now in the top 10. Can it get to number 1 in 4-5 more weeks? Can it stay up there 2+ weeks?
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 20, 2014 17:24:25 GMT -5
Just passed "Bartender" on the mediabase chart and now in the top 10. Can it get to number 1 in 4-5 more weeks? Can it stay up there 2+ weeks? I think 4-5 weeks is stretching it just a bit here but I fully expect "American Kids" to reach the top. I find that the Friday debut along with the fact Kenny was away from the radio for a while, with a great radio friendly single like this is why "American Kids" will get there. Right now the final top 10 this week on MB looks stacked with many heavy hitters and loads of hot singles (Tyler, Jake, and Blake losing lots of spins this week helped as well). I think Lee, Tim, and Dierks are locks for #1. Billy's is a bit up in the air with Lee's song closing in fast. Brad's has picked up too as of late but not 100% confident about it's #1 chances (though wouldn't be surprised if it in fact does as well, even if it was just a MB only variety). Kenny's song took just 5 weeks to reach the top 10 and already has a MB audience of 38 million which is amazing for a song as young as his. I suspect Kenny will probably take 6-7 weeks to reach the top just because of some major competition in front of him. I also think if any song can get multiple weeks on top, it's this one. Unfortunately with all the insane last minute manipulated pushes, it's difficult to forecast how things will shape out 6-7 weeks in the future.
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Post by bluedog6 on Jul 23, 2014 20:22:31 GMT -5
This song is extremely catchy and I find myself singing it all day long. I don't think I'll go and buy this one, but it sure is fun to listen to on the radio while driving down the road. I love the imagery in the chorus and many elements remind of my own youth. Just as the song is meant to do. :) :)
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Post by someguy on Jul 30, 2014 1:56:23 GMT -5
Up to #9 in only its sixth week on the chart. Kenny's 'comeback' continues in full force, and I expect this will be #1 in a few weeks. By comparison, "Pirate Flag" hit #9 in its 8th week, which was also pretty good. "Pirate Flag" was showing signs of slowing down at that point, though, whereas it doesn't look like "American Kids" is at all.
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Post by Zazie on Jul 31, 2014 11:21:54 GMT -5
Up to #9 in only its sixth week on the chart. Kenny's 'comeback' continues in full force, and I expect this will be #1 in a few weeks. By comparison, "Pirate Flag" hit #9 in its 8th week, which was also pretty good. "Pirate Flag" was showing signs of slowing down at that point, though, whereas it doesn't look like "American Kids" is at all. It's going up a lot slower than the Lady A song, so I expect he'll have to wait awhile. I don't know what you mean by "a few weeks" but Billy C, Lee Brice, Dierks, and Tim is 4 weeks right there, and then maybe 2 weeks for Lady A? Luckily he's 8.5 million ahead of Florida Georgia Line. And I guess he could start gaining faster, but it's hard to do that with FlaGa, Luke, and Jason taking so many of the available spins. I do expect this song to hit #1, but I don't think the climb will be an easy one. 6 weeks to hit the top 10, then maybe 8 more weeks to hit #1 -- that's unusual.
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Post by someguy on Aug 2, 2014 11:05:36 GMT -5
Up to #9 in only its sixth week on the chart. Kenny's 'comeback' continues in full force, and I expect this will be #1 in a few weeks. By comparison, "Pirate Flag" hit #9 in its 8th week, which was also pretty good. "Pirate Flag" was showing signs of slowing down at that point, though, whereas it doesn't look like "American Kids" is at all. It's going up a lot slower than the Lady A song, so I expect he'll have to wait awhile. I don't know what you mean by "a few weeks" but Billy C, Lee Brice, Dierks, and Tim is 4 weeks right there, and then maybe 2 weeks for Lady A? Luckily he's 8.5 million ahead of Florida Georgia Line. And I guess he could start gaining faster, but it's hard to do that with FlaGa, Luke, and Jason taking so many of the available spins. I do expect this song to hit #1, but I don't think the climb will be an easy one. 6 weeks to hit the top 10, then maybe 8 more weeks to hit #1 -- that's unusual. I was hoping that Billy/Lee would split this week at the different trades (1), Dierks would get a week (2), Tim would aget a week (3), then Lady A (4), making Kenny #1 in 5-6 weeks, in case someone got an extra week. It doesn't look like Billy/Lee will split this week though, so that will push everything back a week.
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Post by Marv on Aug 4, 2014 9:56:27 GMT -5
It seems these days that tunes by Blake & Luke can routinely & repeatedly shoot to #1 in 10 weeks or less as Tim, Toby, Alan and/or Keith Urban did with regularity a decade ago.
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Post by Kentucky25 on Aug 12, 2014 10:19:17 GMT -5
Gotta say, didn't like this song at first but it's really growing on me. Still not a song I particularly like, but it's so catchy that I've found myself singing it lately.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 18:04:34 GMT -5
While I still enjoy this one, it's burned on me fairly quickly. That said, I'm really rooting for Kenny to take this one to #1. He is one of the artists I grew up on and he's rarely let me down, and this song--again, even though I'm a bit tired of hearing it now (and that's mostly because some stations I've listened to have taken to playing it 60+ times per week)--still sounds like a breath of fresh air on today's country radio. Another very encouraging sign...the sales. This has consistently been selling 60-70k copies per week, and its total sales are already nearing 600k. "American Kids" will easily go Platinum in sales, and that would be Kenny's first Platinum hit since "Come Over" in 2012. Coincidentally, both "Come Over" and "American Kids" share the same Hot 100 peak (#23), but with AK still climbing at radio, it could (and should) climb a few spots higher. As red hot as songs like "Bartender" and "Drunk On A Plane" are, Kenny is even outpacing those ones in weekly sales. Aldean sold over 100k of "Burnin' It Down" this past week but Kenny came in at #3 on the sales charts, less than 10k behind "Dirt" and we all know how hot FGL is with consumers. (as usual thanks to rsmatto at Roughstock for the numbers).
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Post by onebuffalo on Aug 16, 2014 10:35:16 GMT -5
Another Kenny Chesney song getting airplay:
CHASE BRYANT Take It On Back 15 266 JAKE OWEN What We Ain't Got 8 82 MADDIE & TAE Girl In A Country Song 4 37 HUNTER HAYES Tattoo 3 31 KENNY CHESNEY Flora-Bama 2 25
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 16, 2014 15:41:21 GMT -5
Another Kenny Chesney song getting airplay: CHASE BRYANT Take It On Back 15 266 JAKE OWEN What We Ain't Got 8 82 MADDIE & TAE Girl In A Country Song 4 37 HUNTER HAYES Tattoo 3 31 KENNY CHESNEY Flora-Bama 2 25 "Flora-Bama" is already getting some spins on The Highway. Didn't really think it was memorable. Typical sort of Kenny song.
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Post by rsmatto on Aug 16, 2014 16:00:37 GMT -5
While I still enjoy this one, it's burned on me fairly quickly. That said, I'm really rooting for Kenny to take this one to #1. He is one of the artists I grew up on and he's rarely let me down, and this song--again, even though I'm a bit tired of hearing it now (and that's mostly because some stations I've listened to have taken to playing it 60+ times per week)--still sounds like a breath of fresh air on today's country radio. Another very encouraging sign...the sales. This has consistently been selling 60-70k copies per week, and its total sales are already nearing 600k. "American Kids" will easily go Platinum in sales, and that would be Kenny's first Platinum hit since "Come Over" in 2012. Coincidentally, both "Come Over" and "American Kids" share the same Hot 100 peak (#23), but with AK still climbing at radio, it could (and should) climb a few spots higher. As red hot as songs like "Bartender" and "Drunk On A Plane" are, Kenny is even outpacing those ones in weekly sales. Aldean sold over 100k of "Burnin' It Down" this past week but Kenny came in at #3 on the sales charts, less than 10k behind "Dirt" and we all know how hot FGL is with consumers. (as usual thanks to rsmatto at Roughstock for the numbers). You're welcome jhomes87, Also both "Come Over" and "American Kids" share some of the same songwriters, ;).
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Post by stevieb1434 on Aug 18, 2014 2:31:44 GMT -5
This album is appearing to be cranked up. We know American kids and Flora-Bama are uptempo, but it appears the first three songs of the album are as well. I've heard short clips of The Big Revival, Drink It Up, and Til It's Gone, all of which have the volume turned up. With American Kids as the forth song on the album and Flora-Bama as the tenth one could reasonably conclude that there are likely only 3-4 ballads on this record.
That's a change of pace as we have to go back to The Road and the Radio to find 3 uptempo songs in a given era worthy of both radio and concert play. When they called this record "aggressive" they weren't lying. Personally I like this for live show purposes. Wondering what that will mean for radio. Think it's fair to say that majority opinion prefers his slower radio hits.
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Post by rsmatto on Aug 18, 2014 8:40:02 GMT -5
This album is appearing to be cranked up. We know American kids and Flora-Bama are uptempo, but it appears the first three songs of the album are as well. I've heard short clips of The Big Revival, Drink It Up, and Til It's Gone, all of which have the volume turned up. With American Kids as the forth song on the album and Flora-Bama as the tenth one could reasonably conclude that there are likely only 3-4 ballads on this record. That's a change of pace as we have to go back to The Road and the Radio to find 3 uptempo songs in a given era worthy of both radio and concert play. When they called this record "aggressive" they weren't lying. Personally I like this for live show purposes. Wondering what that will mean for radio. Think it's fair to say that majority opinion prefers his slower radio hits. This was all about giving radio more of what they'd actually play. So, no surprise if it's mostly tempo..
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Aug 18, 2014 10:37:31 GMT -5
Big Revival is a Dennis Linde song that's been floating around for some time. I would love to see that as a single simply because it's written by one of my favorite songwriters.
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Post by gurustu on Aug 18, 2014 10:53:54 GMT -5
Neither this song or "Flora-Bama" does anything for me, typical Kenny in my opinion (with "American Kids" being a little different than his norm). Waiting to see if there are any songs off the new record like "El Cerito Place", "Come Over" and "You and Tequila" on it. If so, then those will need to be singles :)
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 18, 2014 11:14:19 GMT -5
Big Revival is a Dennis Linde song that's been floating around for some time. I would love to see that as a single simply because it's written by one of my favorite songwriters. "I know you've been using a cut rate thesaurus Cause your adverbs are backed up into your chorus And now your verse is running on verbs that are way to weak"
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Post by someguy on Aug 18, 2014 11:59:55 GMT -5
I was really happy to see a Dennis Linde song on the tracklisting, too. I think it's been done a few times before, but I've never heard it myself. At this point, I'll just wait until I hear Kenny's version. I have really high hopes for this album, based on what we've seen (and heard) from it so far.
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Aug 18, 2014 13:13:33 GMT -5
Yes "The Big Revival" has been recorded 3 times before by my count.
John Anderson recorded it first for his 'Nobody's Got It All" album in 2001.
Joanna Cotten recorded it for her debut album 'Funkabilly' in 2007
and Montgomery Gentry recorded it for their 'Back When I Knew It All' album in 2008.
Funnily enough Joanna, Montgomery Gentry & Kenny all placed it as the first track on their albums.
My favorite version so far is Joanna's with John's being very close in second. MG's always seemed to pale in comparison to those two versions. I can't see Kenny doing better than any of them though as I feel you need a more "agressive" sound than he's capable of to really sell the song. I would like to see it released though just to have another Dennis Linde song on radio.
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Post by rowdawg21 on Aug 19, 2014 17:20:39 GMT -5
Has anyone found "Drink It Up" or "Til It's Gone" on YouTube? I saw he played them at the Flora Bama Jama concert, but I haven't been able to find any videos.
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Post by stevieb1434 on Aug 19, 2014 19:56:13 GMT -5
Has anyone found "Drink It Up" or "Til It's Gone" on YouTube? I saw he played them at the Flora Bama Jama concert, but I haven't been able to find any videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMO0uq_bmeIAt the 1:42 mark you get about 20 seconds of "Drink It Up" at 3:30 you get the first verse and chorus of "Til It's Gone" This is all I've found so far.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2014 18:17:21 GMT -5
I wouldn't bet a fifth of whiskey on this just yet, but I do see a ghost of a chance that "American Kids" may be passed on Billboard by "Where It's At" this week and Broken Bow Records' promotion staff may try to block Chesney's song from going #1 on Billboard. Last week, "At" was less than a million behind "Kids" in audience and the Dustin Lynch record has gained more audience than the Kenny Chesney record every day this past week besides 8/26, when Chesney's song out-gained Lynch's song by a mere 20k. "Kids" is a much bigger hit than "At," but the Broken Bow Music Group is really good at this stuff and Columbia Nashville often falls short of #1 (their last Billboard #1 being "Come Over" back in summer 2012). I'm sure Columbia will kick "American Kids" into "big push mode" next week if they haven't already and Chesney's single will start posting some bigger gains, but if Dustin Lynch gets ahead by the next published Billboard chart, it may be too late for "Kids" to jump back ahead.
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Post by countrymusic20 on Aug 31, 2014 16:23:45 GMT -5
I wouldn't bet a fifth of whiskey on this just yet, but I do see a ghost of a chance that "American Kids" may be passed on Billboard by "Where It's At" this week and Broken Bow Records' promotion staff may try to block Chesney's song from going #1 on Billboard. Last week, "At" was less than a million behind "Kids" in audience and the Dustin Lynch record has gained more audience than the Kenny Chesney record every day this past week besides 8/26, when Chesney's song out-gained Lynch's song by a mere 20k. "Kids" is a much bigger hit than "At," but the Broken Bow Music Group is really good at this stuff and Columbia Nashville often falls short of #1 (their last Billboard #1 being "Come Over" back in summer 2012). I'm sure Columbia will kick "American Kids" into "big push mode" next week if they haven't already and Chesney's single will start posting some bigger gains, but if Dustin Lynch gets ahead by the next published Billboard chart, it may be too late for "Kids" to jump back ahead. The Dustin Lynch song wouldn't even be in the top 20 without the benefit of the iheart radio on the verge treatment it received. Kenny's American Kids single is his hottest he's had out in years ... it'll come it at #2 on the chart tomorrow at 11 weeks. American Kids has hardly any burn on the Callout America chart - it has plenty of legs left and will probably be a multiple week #1 no matter what radio shenanigans Broken Bow has planned to get Dustin's 23 week old song #1.
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