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Post by Future Captain on Mar 23, 2015 18:07:45 GMT -5
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Post by Unhinged on Mar 24, 2015 9:24:25 GMT -5
This is currently my favorite guilty pleasure. He has a great voice and well, he's also nice to look at. Great video for this too. Doesn't fit the song, but meh, I still like it.
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Post by Future Captain on Mar 24, 2015 10:05:23 GMT -5
Slowly crossing over... Top 50 in HAC, right? I really hope they push this for Pop, HAC and Rhytmic.
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Post by rsmatto on Mar 24, 2015 10:33:46 GMT -5
Slowly crossing over... Top 50 in HAC, right? I really hope they push this for Pop, HAC and Rhytmic. This wouldn't surprise me at all if it gets a full push at HAC and Pop. Rhythmic I don't know about.
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Post by trustypepper on Mar 26, 2015 6:47:54 GMT -5
Up 6 spots to a new peak of #21 on the Hot 100 this week.
Seems like the highest a country song has been in quite a while, am I right?
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 26, 2015 12:00:49 GMT -5
I'm 95% sure "House Party" is the next single. The Highway has started playing it and it was introduced as Sam's newest song by one of the deejay's (can't remember which one). I've listened to Montevallo and I do think that is the best, and safest option for the summer.
Even if The Highway didn't start spinning it, I would have guessed it as the next single. It will follow a huge #1 single in "Take Your Time" as TYT is up another 1.15 million in audience today and 3.3 million since Sunday, which is actually slightly more than "Homegrown Honey" which is getting an insane push to be #1 on both charts.
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 26, 2015 17:40:43 GMT -5
Up 6 spots to a new peak of #21 on the Hot 100 this week. Seems like the highest a country song has been in quite a while, am I right? Pretty close. Somethin' Bad hit #19 last year.
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Post by dm2081 on Mar 26, 2015 18:03:31 GMT -5
Up 6 spots to a new peak of #21 on the Hot 100 this week. Seems like the highest a country song has been in quite a while, am I right? Dirt and Burnin' It Down peaked pretty close to the top 10. This song is in the same boat of popularity as those songs.
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 26, 2015 18:11:08 GMT -5
Up 6 spots to a new peak of #21 on the Hot 100 this week. Seems like the highest a country song has been in quite a while, am I right? Dirt and Burnin' It Down peaked pretty close to the top 10. This song is in the same boat of popularity as those songs. You're right. Florida Georgia Line hit #11 while Jason Aldean peaked at #12.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 17:29:00 GMT -5
My guess is that this'll take over #1 on both charts next weekend, so right now is ZBB's last chance to get to #1. "Homegrown" could end up a Billboard-only #1 if the push for "Homegrown Honey" this week only gets Darius Rucker a Mediabase #1, or "Homegrown Honey" could take the #1 position on both charts this weekend and then ZBB would be held to a #2 peak altogether.
I did comment a few weeks ago that Sam Hunt was cooling off a bit more than I expected upon entering the top 10, and now I think this may have had something to do with UMG wanting to make sure "Take Your Time" didn't pass "Homegrown Honey." That would explain why the past two weeks Sam has seen stronger updates now that Darius is sure to get his #1 ahead of Sam Hunt. If MCA has now officially taken their foot off the brakes with this single and they are doing a full throttle push, I don't see a strong chance of Southern Ground being able to hold off this song next week.
Sam Hunt's label also appears to be working the Mediabase points system well, as this is 100 spins behind Chris Young's "Lonely Eyes" yet Sam moved up to #3 on Mediabase this morning and surpassed Chris Young's song. So maybe there won't be a revolving door at #1 after all. "Lonely Eyes" is looking at a top 5 peak and "Homegrown" may be held to a #2 peak if Southern Ground doesn't manage a #1 finish this week.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 17:49:43 GMT -5
My guess is that this'll take over #1 on both charts next weekend, so right now is ZBB's last chance to get to #1. "Homegrown" could end up a Billboard-only #1 if the push for "Homegrown Honey" this week only gets Darius Rucker a Mediabase #1, or "Homegrown Honey" could take the #1 position on both charts this weekend and then ZBB would be held to a #2 peak altogether. Wow. You really think "Homegrown" could miss #1 altogether? I don't see any possible way that ZBB misses the top spot. I give it less than a 1% chance of happening. I know we've had a string of one-weekers lately, but ZBB's song is so young yet, and I think it'll get 2 weeks at #1 on Billboard--this coming Monday and also the 6th. If Darius gets the #1 on both charts this weekend (which I'm praying doesn't happen) then that could put a damper on ZBB's situation, but I'm predicting a split of the charts. Sam really doesn't need to be in any sort of hurry, either. Chris Young isn't gonna be a threat, Lee Brice...eh. But I don't see Sam getting to #1 until the 12th/13th. Maybe Zac and his team will be content with 1 week at #1, but with Darius set to get the MB #1 tomorrow, then ZBB's one week would be the 5th...which could lead to a 2nd week at #1 on BB. Or, I suppose Sam could re-pass Zac, but I still think Zac could wait him out fairly easily.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 17:57:56 GMT -5
I know it sounds crazy, lol. I just think it's going to be some strange/tricky timing. ZBB was already at 41 million audience on last Monday's Billboard chart, so I think if Sam Hunt does push back ahead, it'll be very tough for even a huge hit like "Homegrown" to sit at #2 for so many weeks with #1 levels of airplay and still bullet after "Take Your Time." Sam Hunt is going to have a more steady path of growth since he has a nice 8 million to grow on Billboard before reaching what I think will be roughly maximum audience numbers. I just have a feeling this was Universal's plan all along and things so rarely don't work out in their favor. Of course, if "Homegrown" does get blocked, it'll be ridiculously unfair and all due to label politics/chart manipulation. Under a natural chart, I think ZBB and Sam Hunt would have both gotten multiple weeks at #1, but Universal's a stronger label and I think they have the resources to achieve pretty much whatever they want in this situation. Southern Ground seems to be a decent label and it's certainly proven itself capable of working singles to radio without any trouble, but I still think when it comes down to who is #1 and who is #2 all that really comes into play is which label is more powerful.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 18:11:46 GMT -5
Universal's a stronger label and I think they have the resources to achieve pretty much whatever they want in this situation. Southern Ground seems to be a decent label and it's certainly proven itself capable of working singles to radio without any trouble, but I still think when it comes down to who is #1 and who is #2 all that really comes into play is which label is more powerful. UMG might be a bigger label, but I think this might be splitting hairs here. When it comes to radio promotion, the Southern Ground team is just as capable of "delivering" as the MCA, Big Machine, Arista, etc. teams are. If anything, the fact that the only artist that SG is promoting to radio is the ZBB will work in their favor, whereas MCA also has singles from Josh Turner, Gary Allan, and Kip Moore on the charts right now. Also, I think this current chart brawl might finally push the Billboard audience levels back up to higher numbers (probably the highest we've seen since prior to Christmas). Let's not forget that songs were routinely getting into the 46-48 million range for pretty much all of 2014, with a couple of them even hitting 50 million. Not counting the 2013 and 2014 holiday weeks, we've seen most Billboard #1's since July of 2013 peak with 46 million or more. The last several #1's have actually had lower peak numbers--I'd say this recent stretch was a bit of an anomaly, and I'm expecting that, as we get into spring and summer, most #1 hits from here on out will once again be peaking in the 46+ million range. Radio has a couple of really popular hits on their hands here ("Homegrown" & "Take Your Time"), with neither of them really showing any burn, so I don't think radio will hesitate to push them up closer to 8000 total spins each before finally dropping them.
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Post by wjr15 on Apr 1, 2015 20:58:55 GMT -5
I'm more of a pop listener, but I heard this song today for the first time and I'd love to see it cross over to pop. Hopefully they push it on CHR or AC
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Post by kanimal on Apr 3, 2015 13:14:38 GMT -5
I'm more of a pop listener, but I heard this song today for the first time and I'd love to see it cross over to pop. Hopefully they push it on CHR or AC It's already starting to gain some steam at Hot AC, and Billboard says Capitol will push the song to pop radio as well.
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Post by wjr15 on Apr 3, 2015 15:54:02 GMT -5
I'm more of a pop listener, but I heard this song today for the first time and I'd love to see it cross over to pop. Hopefully they push it on CHR or AC It's already starting to gain some steam at Hot AC, and Billboard says Capitol will push the song to pop radio as well. I can definitely see this doing well on pop radio during the summer
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Post by kml567 on Apr 3, 2015 16:11:17 GMT -5
Good to see Billboard reporting that Capitol Records will adopt Sam Hunt and push "Take Your Time" to Pop/HotAC radio on behalf of MCA Nashville. I was worried this would be "Play It Again 2.0" (which charted on Hot AC based on unsolicited airplay, and then nothing happened afterwards). Any idea of an official add date?
It'd be tough to get Pop radio airplay though without a remix though. Even FGL's "Cruise" needed help from Nelly to get Pop radio airplay. Maybe Sam needs a pop remix to get Top 40 PDs attention.....perhaps guest vocals from Christina Aguilera (who's suddenly into country music lately) or maybe some female pop star from Capitol would work.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 18:57:23 GMT -5
It'd be tough to get Pop radio airplay though without a remix though. Even FGL's "Cruise" needed help from Nelly to get Pop radio airplay. Maybe Sam needs a pop remix to get Top 40 PDs attention. Tyler Hubbard of FGL has a decidedly twangy voice, though, and "Cruise" had more of a country melody, so it made sense that FGL's label opted for a re-release with that one. Sam's voice on the other hand lends itself much better to these R&B-flavored pop ballads, and there's really not a single country instrument (fiddle, steel, banjo, etc) in "Take Your Time", or at least if there is, I certainly can't hear it. I really don't think Sam needs to remix any of his songs to get pop airplay. They already sound like straight-up pop songs (and that's not a knock on Sam or this song--for the record, I think this is a very good song, but it's a pop song to me, and not country).
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Post by Kurt on Apr 3, 2015 20:02:37 GMT -5
Agreed, Jamie - instrumentally, at least, the intro of the song makes me think it's by The Fray (who have become somewhat of a core band at HAC radio), and it stays in that contemporary pop lane throughout without any country instrumentation (besides FGL, Lady Antebellum's "Bartender" got a pop edit that turned those down), so I agree that an edit isn't really necessary. SiriusXM's HAC station The Pulse added this this week, so I'm looking forward to hearing how it sounds in their mix of endless Goo Goo Dolls and Imagine Dragons soon.
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Post by kml567 on Apr 3, 2015 21:44:10 GMT -5
I still think a pop remix is needed for Top 40 radio. For example, my local Top 40 station refused to add John Legend's "All Of Me", Hozier's "Take Me To Church", Sam Smith's recent hits, etc until the remix is available. Pop radio has a problem with playing slow songs, and the remedy for record labels is usually to release a remix. That helped many of these songs get into the top 10 on Pop airplay.
I do agree with you that it's not needed for Hot AC radio though.
It'd be interesting if "Take Your Time" is eligible for On The Verge selection. For a slow song like "Take Your Time", it may need something like On The Verge to help get a jump-start on CHR/Top 40 radio stations that have a bias against slower tempo songs.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 22:19:27 GMT -5
MCA definitely seems to have tried to push this to #1 this week, since it's currently the second greatest spin gainer on Mediabase (just behind "Say You Do") and has accumulated 469 spins and 3.513 million audience over the first six days of the Mediabase tracking week. I guess they just couldn't quite put up the numbers to beat ZBB. Southern Ground has played out this week wisely, with "Homegrown" having strong but steady gains all week rather than front-loaded or back-loaded big gains at the beginning or end of the week. I am expecting the race to be pretty close on both charts this week, with ZBB just barely coming out ahead. "Homegrown" and "Take Your Time" are both going to finish at record high audience numbers on Mediabase this week. I still expect Sam Hunt's song to get two weeks at #1, but it's probably going to have some pretty small gains for the rest of the chart run since it's already gotten so high. As jhomes87 pointed out, these songs are big enough hits to return the Billboard numbers to the 46-48 million range. Last Monday, they were around the 42 million mark, so maybe ZBB and Sam Hunt will finish around 45 million this week? I'm not the best at projecting Billboard numbers, so it'd be great if someone could provide an estimate for where the top 2 might finish this week on BB. I see the possibility of this bulleting for one more week (its first at #1), and then getting a second week at #1 with a small loss of just a million or two audience impressions.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 14:25:09 GMT -5
An interesting update today shows this one down 39 spins and about 151k in audience.
Oddly enough, Lonely Eyes is also down 65 spins and 146k in audience.
I think Lonely Eyes is done but there's no way this one is going to fall without a #1 peak, right?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 14:49:49 GMT -5
^This is definitely going to #1, most likely this week. MCA pushed really hard to get this to #1 last week and failed, so now the song's kind of burning due to receiving such heavy promotion last week, but I still find it highly unlikely that the ZBB song will continue gaining as strongly as it did today for the rest of the week and I also expect that today will be only a small hiccup in this song's chart run. "Take Your Time" should have minimal trouble getting to #1 this week.
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Post by maine on Apr 7, 2015 14:50:12 GMT -5
My guess is "House Party" becomes the next single. It seems the most likely. "Break Up In A Small Town" and "Make You Miss Me" might have an upperhand though since they're more popular on iTunes. I wouldn't mind "Single for the Summer" as that is my personal favorite from the album, but I'm not sure how well it'd do.
Might as well just release the whole album...
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 7, 2015 14:53:05 GMT -5
My guess is "House Party" becomes the next single. It seems the most likely. "Break Up In A Small Town" and "Make You Miss Me" might have an upperhand though since they're more popular on iTunes. I wouldn't mind "Single for the Summer" as that is my personal favorite from the album, but I'm not sure how well it'd do. Might as well just release the whole album... "House Party" is next. :)
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Post by josephmorgan on Apr 7, 2015 16:18:50 GMT -5
Is there a reliable source to confirm this, other than the fact that "HP" is gaining enough spins to be on the Airplay chart?
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 7, 2015 16:25:51 GMT -5
Is there a reliable source to confirm this, other than the fact that "HP" is gaining enough spins to be on the Airplay chart? Storme Warren said it was next on The Highway. They've been playing it for a few weeks now.
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 9, 2015 9:45:07 GMT -5
Look at these spins and audience totals of the top two:
1 1 ZAC BROWN BAND Homegrown 8225 7951 274 64.443 2 2 SAM HUNT Take Your Time 8062 7706 356 63.036
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2015 10:24:24 GMT -5
Look at these spins and audience totals of the top two: 1 1 ZAC BROWN BAND Homegrown 8225 7951 274 64.443 2 2 SAM HUNT Take Your Time 8062 7706 356 63.036 And Chris Young's peak was 7903 spins and 62.075 million. That's insane to have three songs with that much at the same time. I think that's why literally TWENTY songs on the chart yesterday saw negative updates in either spins or audience; there are just too many songs in MAX rotation right now.
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