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Post by The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 on Nov 10, 2015 17:52:33 GMT -5
I hope Chris' breakthrough moment opens the door for other equally talented artists who also have a hard time on radio... I'm skeptical about it, but still can dream! Lol
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Post by .indulgecountry on Nov 10, 2015 18:23:04 GMT -5
It's nice to see radio responding to the fanfare. Now if only they'd do the same with Kacey and "Dime Store Cowgirl."
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Post by trebor on Nov 10, 2015 18:54:30 GMT -5
"Traveller" re-enters the UK and OZ Country Charts mainly on 1 day worth of sales (last Thursday). UK #6 & Australia #25 Would love for Chris Stapleton to enter the UK main album chart at least at #9 and breaking the record for a country album this year,
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 10, 2015 19:13:14 GMT -5
Debuts at #50 on the mongrel chart. Chris Stapleton is tops with Tennessee Whiskey.
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Post by The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 on Nov 10, 2015 19:17:53 GMT -5
"Traveller" re-enters the UK and OZ Country Charts mainly on 1 day worth of sales (last Thursday). UK #6 & Australia #25 Would love for Chris Stapleton to enter the UK main album chart at least at #9 and breaking the record for a country album this year, What is the record? I know Kacey missed the top 10 by a bit which was incredible considering she has even less exposure there than the US...
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Post by trebor on Nov 10, 2015 19:39:39 GMT -5
"Traveller" re-enters the UK and OZ Country Charts mainly on 1 day worth of sales (last Thursday). UK #6 & Australia #25 Would love for Chris Stapleton to enter the UK main album chart at least at #9 and breaking the record for a country album this year, What is the record? I know Kacey missed the top 10 by a bit which was incredible considering she has even less exposure there than the US... This year it's #10 for UK country duo The Shires with their debut album "Brave". >70K sold already. 2015 UK peaks: #10: The Shires: "Brave" #11: Kacey Musgraves: "Pageant Material" #13: Carrie Underwood: "Storyteller" #30: Steve Earle & The Dukes: "Terraplane" #34: Nathan Carter: Beautiful Life" #36: Zac Brown Band: "JEKYLL + HYDE" #39: Gretchen Peters: "Blackbirds" #47: Dave Rawlings Band: "Nashville Obsolete" & Luke Bryan: "Kill The Lights" #65: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: "The Travelling Kind" #66: Wille Nelson/Merle Haggard: "Django And Jimmie" #79: Ward Thomas: "From Where We Stand" #81: Lady Antebellum: "747" #85: Alan Jackson: "Angels And Alcohol" #96: The Mavericks: "Mono" #98: Rhiannon Giddens: "Tomorrow Is My Turn"
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Nov 11, 2015 7:14:52 GMT -5
ENTERS THE TOP 50 ON MEDIABASE TODAY!
81 47 CHRIS STAPLETON Nobody To Blame 508 56 452 3.639
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 11, 2015 13:51:00 GMT -5
The start for this one is extremely encouraging. A few stations have already put "Nobody To Blame" in medium rotation , including KKBQ in Houston (nearly 500k of total audience) and the rest of the stations look to have Chris' song well into the teens by the end of the week. "What Are You Listening To?" never got past #48 on MB in the +3 months it charted and "Nobody To Blame" is #47 on MB's rolling chart, just two days after officially going for adds.
Mercury Nashville and UMG Nashville could not have set up this single release any better. They knew that there was a chance Stapleton could walk away a big winner at the CMA Awards, so they set up a new single release for the Monday after the award show. The also more than likely let country radio know at every moment they could that "Nobody To Blame" and the award show coincided and luckily for them the planets aligned perfectly with New Artist, Album and Male Vocalist of the year.
Chris' music is just not the kind that mainstream country radio has been pushing up lately because it doesn't chase their target demos but the word of mouth and unbelievable album sales are just far too great to ignore right now.
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Post by robenglund on Nov 11, 2015 14:53:28 GMT -5
The start for this one is extremely encouraging. A few stations have already put "Nobody To Blame" in medium rotation , including KKBQ in Houston (nearly 500k of total audience) and the rest of the stations look to have Chris' song well into the teens by the end of the week. I assume you mean the number of spins not chart position right?
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 11, 2015 14:58:27 GMT -5
The start for this one is extremely encouraging. A few stations have already put "Nobody To Blame" in medium rotation , including KKBQ in Houston (nearly 500k of total audience) and the rest of the stations look to have Chris' song well into the teens by the end of the week. I assume you mean the number of spins not chart position right? Yes, of course. The context of the sentence was referring to stations spin totals.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 7:07:01 GMT -5
Just jumped past Eric Church on MB :o
(While I admit these are both excellent songs, that's quite surprising)
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 12, 2015 11:05:10 GMT -5
Just jumped past Eric Church on MB :o (While I admit these are both excellent songs, that's quite surprising) Yeah, today's update was quite remarkable. It's reminiscent of an update that Luke or Blake would have (over 100 spins gained and 800k in audience gained) It remains to be seen just how long these updates can last but I have never seen anything like this scenario. This doesn't appear to be some pre-arrange airplay deal, either.
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Post by tonyei31 on Nov 12, 2015 16:23:10 GMT -5
Just jumped past Eric Church on MB :o (While I admit these are both excellent songs, that's quite surprising) Yeah, today's update was quite remarkable. It's reminiscent of an update that Luke or Blake would have (over 100 spins gained and 800k in audience gained) It remains to be seen just how long these updates can last but I have never seen anything like this scenario. This doesn't appear to be some pre-arrange airplay deal, either.
I would say you have a case where the voice sells. It's very rare. When you saw Chris on that major platform vocally dominate his peers (no disrespect to others but that is definitely what happened) at the CMA's, as well as the big wins, you got something that programmers couldn't ignore.
In my lifetime I have only heard two voices that make you go "is this real what I am hearing?" One is Freddie Mercury and the other is Chris Stapleton. I feel many others finally got that experience. His voice is one that knows no musical genre boundaries. It couldn't be ignored any longer. The album and single sales after the CMA's showed this (as well as numerous "where the hell has this guy been during my lifetime" comments).
I don't think it's coincidence to see his peers admiration for his voice. I understand it didn't sell when the first release happened in 2013 but with Bro country having run it's course and the need to usher in a new sound to country music Stapleton did just that. He just might have brought with him some old style country fans as well.
I was hoping that this song might go top 20. I am now thinking that it has a collision course for a top 10 hit. I don't see him being a one trick pony at the radio (even with his "unconventional country sound" compared to modern country). That voice is just too much to ignore.
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 12, 2015 16:39:24 GMT -5
Yeah, today's update was quite remarkable. It's reminiscent of an update that Luke or Blake would have (over 100 spins gained and 800k in audience gained) It remains to be seen just how long these updates can last but I have never seen anything like this scenario. This doesn't appear to be some pre-arrange airplay deal, either.
I would say you have a case where the voice sells. It's very rare. When you saw Chris on that major platform vocally dominate his peers (no disrespect to others but that is definitely what happened) at the CMA's, as well as the big wins, you got something that programmers couldn't ignore.
In my lifetime I have only heard two voices that make you go "is this real what I am hearing?" One is Freddie Mercury and the other is Chris Stapleton. I feel many others finally got that experience. His voice is one that knows no musical genre boundaries. It couldn't be ignored any longer. The album and single sales after the CMA's showed this (as well as numerous "where the hell has this guy been during my lifetime" comments).
I don't think it's coincidence to see his peers admiration for his voice. I understand it didn't sell when the first release happened in 2013 but with Bro country having run it's course and the need to usher in a new sound to country music Stapleton did just that. He just might have brought with him some old style country fans as well.
I was hoping that this song might go top 20. I am now thinking that it has a collision course for a top 10 hit. I don't see him being a one trick pony at the radio (even with his "unconventional country sound" compared to modern country). That voice is just too much to ignore. I don't think it's his selling voice that's causing this song to have an update of +132 spins and 800k in total audience. His talent is obviously abundant in nature (and radio recognizes that) but his CMA Award buzz and extraordinary sales that has caused radio to jump aboard this wave of momentum. Many fans had never heard Chris sing anything other than "What Are You Listening To?" in 2013 but Mercury's plan to release the album in 2015 without a single that was successful is when fans really got exposed to his music (they released "Traveller" when the album dropped) and that's when the sales came into effect...but radio still ignored "Traveller" (the single) and Chris' music, despite wide accolades from his peers and fans alike. This single's massive updates are due to the CMA's and Mercury/UMG's great plan to maximize Chris's success at radio with a song from the album being given an adds date, just days after the night that Stapleton won three awards. Don't get me wrong, I think a ton of folks are just now recognizing Chris' souful vocals and stellar music, but that's not the primary reason why "Nobody To Blame" is taking off. I'm anxious to see how this song tests and whether or not radio will deem in satisfactory, within their targeted demos. The sales have and will continue to be there though. BTW: There's still artists with great voices that radio doesn't give the time of day to, while other artists with suspect voices, flourish on country radio.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 2:17:10 GMT -5
I've been so busy lately that I haven't made too many posts over the last 4-6 weeks, but the near future is looking much less busy for me, so hopefully I'll be able to chime in on more discussions.
I haven't even posted anything about the CMA Awards yet, so here goes. Chris' performance was simply incredible, and what he's done since the awards has been equally as incredible. I always knew that if he ever got a shot like that on a big stage, on national TV, that he'd blow everybody else away. And that's not a knock on other artists -- I still really enjoyed Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, Little Big Town, Reba/B&D, etc -- but Chris (and JT) stole the show. They'll be talking about their performance 5, 10, 20 years from now.
However, with that said, I never expected Chris to blow up this big. I knew people would pay attention and he'd see a big sales spike, but selling 150,000 albums in one day? Simply incredible. I did manage to spend quite a bit of time (too much time, probably) on Facebook on my phone over the past week, and I read dozens of articles about Stapleton, and sifted through hundreds of comments. Chris made a HUGE impression on people. It's almost funny, the sheer amount of people saying things like "wow, Chris is incredible" and then either wondering why he isn't on the radio, OR going directly to their local station's Facebook page and complaining that they haven't been playing Chris. Both of the big market stations in Phoenix (I'm not in AZ anymore but I still follow their FB pages) have been getting blasted for not playing Chris, and I can't help but chuckle at their responses as they try to defend themselves and explain why they haven't been playing him. Well, here's the thing: there's no good excuse. People who work for radio have known about Chris and his talent for years now.
It's my view that radio programmers and gatekeepers have been doing their listeners an incredible disservice by not playing Chris (I know "Nobody To Blame" is starting to get airplay, but I'm talking about pre-CMA's). Radio really missed the boat here -- they're way late to the party. And so in a way I'm a little bit worried that they'll eventually hold "Nobody To Blame" back, because radio has always decided what's popular -- they like to be the taste-makers and trendsetters. If artists can become extremely popular without radio, well, that makes radio seem a bit irrelevant.
Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that country radio of the last few years has made me really pessimistic. But, when it all comes down to it, my prediction is that the explosion of momentum for Chris could very well be too much for radio to ignore. Radio folks aren't gonna like the fact that they weren't the ones to "launch" Chris, but that's just too damn bad. They should have made this guy a household name back in 2013 when he released "What Are You Listening To".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 2:33:04 GMT -5
I have to make a 2nd post...the following article was in The Tennessean this evening: That's the full article, but y'all should click the link anyway, as it has some pretty cool graphics as well.
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 13, 2015 13:58:29 GMT -5
I've been following the charts for over 10 years now and I have never seen anything like this...for an artist who was basically disregarded by mainstream radio and in the span of one night...does a complete 180 on that artist. "Nobody To Blame" is just showing an absolute abundance of starters the past two weeks and this should crack the MB top 40 this Sunday as Chris is very close to passing both Canaan Smith and David Nail. It remains to be seen just how high this one can get but country radio clearly looks to have no choice but to welcome Chris Stapleton to country radio, and he's doing it with flying colors. It would be one thing to have a moderate climb but "Nobody To Blame" is pretty much soaring up the airplay chart.
I've already heard this one the radio, twice (on WYRK, too), and it just sounds so refreshing from the monotony I'm used to.
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Post by dm2081 on Nov 13, 2015 15:43:17 GMT -5
Once again I'm glad to see some heat thrown Country radio's way. They should be embarrassed that outsiders are clueless as to why they haven't been hearing any Stapleton on the radio. I fully believe that for Country radio to survive a time period where streaming and satellite radio have dipped into its audience, its going to have to play a variety of country music, including some traditional leaning songs. It might seem a little odd hearing a Christ Stapleton song right after a Sam Hunt song, but diversity in its music catalog will be the best way to retain a plethora of listeners. Only playing safe songs like "Hell Of A Night" and "Young & Crazy" isn't going to establish a loyal fan base.
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Post by rsmatto on Nov 14, 2015 0:14:48 GMT -5
Once again I'm glad to see some heat thrown Country radio's way. They should be embarrassed that outsiders are clueless as to why they haven't been hearing any Stapleton on the radio. I fully believe that for Country radio to survive a time period where streaming and satellite radio have dipped into its audience, its going to have to play a variety of country music, including some traditional leaning songs. It might seem a little odd hearing a Christ Stapleton song right after a Sam Hunt song, but diversity in its music catalog will be the best way to retain a plethora of listeners. Only playing safe songs like "Hell Of A Night" and "Young & Crazy" isn't going to establish a loyal fan base. Basically a country "Jack FM" idea.
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 14, 2015 9:13:49 GMT -5
Once again I'm glad to see some heat thrown Country radio's way. They should be embarrassed that outsiders are clueless as to why they haven't been hearing any Stapleton on the radio. I fully believe that for Country radio to survive a time period where streaming and satellite radio have dipped into its audience, its going to have to play a variety of country music, including some traditional leaning songs. It might seem a little odd hearing a Christ Stapleton song right after a Sam Hunt song, but diversity in its music catalog will be the best way to retain a plethora of listeners. Only playing safe songs like "Hell Of A Night" and "Young & Crazy" isn't going to establish a loyal fan base. Basically a country "Jack FM" idea. Playin' what we like. Anyway, someone else has covered Tennessee Whiskey: tasteofcountry.com/chris-stapleton-tennessee-whiskey-sara-bareilles/Off the rolling chart: 67 41 CHRIS STAPLETON Nobody To Blame 779 205 574 4.853
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 15, 2015 12:26:34 GMT -5
Wow @ this jump. "Nobody To Blame" climbs from #63 to #39 on MB this week. :)
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 16, 2015 15:57:46 GMT -5
"Nobody To Blame" got at least 29 more adds on MB this week which gives this song roughly 100 monitored stations so far.
This is remarkable -- "Nobody To Blame" over the past seven days has gained 696 spins and 3.0 million in total audience on MB.
Is this happening? Or am I just dreaming?
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Post by rsmatto on Nov 16, 2015 16:11:48 GMT -5
It's happening. Still skeptical it'll last beyond this song but we'll see.
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Post by phil1996 on Nov 16, 2015 17:46:41 GMT -5
I'm already trying to think of what would be a smart choice for the follow up, assuming this hits big as it looks like it will....I'm guessing Parachute or Was it 26.
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Post by zjames on Nov 16, 2015 17:52:55 GMT -5
I'm already trying to think of what would be a smart choice for the follow up, assuming this hits big as it looks like it will....I'm guessing Parachute or Was it 26. I'm thinking "Parachute" or "When The Stars Come Out".
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Post by dm2081 on Nov 16, 2015 19:53:58 GMT -5
Why not just go with "Tennessee Whiskey" since it's already proven to be very popular? If they insist on something else than I'd go with "Parachute".
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Nov 16, 2015 20:06:26 GMT -5
"When The Stars Come Out" always seemed like it would connect with a wide swath of people so that gets my vote!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2015 20:50:22 GMT -5
I haven't been more excited (and I mean EXCITED) to hear a country song on the radio since God knows when. I've heard this 3 separate times now, and it's just amazing hearing it. My local DJ's "explained" why they "couldn't" play Chris before. They didn't give a concrete answer (probably because they don't have one), but they said, "Well, we've had people ask, why didn't you play him before? And well, now that he's crossed into the mainstream, hopefully we can now!"
Lol, he didn't cross into anything, he gained recognition and it wasn't through you guys. Deal with it. So yeah, "hopefully" you can start playing him. I'm not trying to signal these guys out or anything, I just found their words laughable/rant worthy.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2015 21:10:29 GMT -5
It's happening. Still skeptical it'll last beyond this song but we'll see. I'm pretty much in agreement with you -- I'm skeptical that radio will continue to support Chris despite the great reaction to "Tennessee Whiskey" at the CMA's and now the strong start of "Nobody To Blame" at radio. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the radio "system" is backwards. They'll play dozens of new artists that might sell anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 albums during release week (for their debut album, or even sophomore albums) and then they take pride that they (radio) were the ones to 'break' these new stars and introduce them to the fans. But then you have someone like Chris Stapleton just blow everybody away at the CMA's, and his album outsells the mainstream newbies 10 to 1...and yet I'm less sure that radio will continue to play him than I am when it comes to artists like Old Dominion, Chase Rice, Tyler Farr, Frankie Ballard, Randy Houser, etc. And don't get me wrong -- I like some of the newer artists (Frankie and especially Randy are just fine in my book, and there are others too that I didn't name) -- but why they have an easier "go" at radio is beyond me, especially when there is clearly more interest for an artist like Stapleton. I mean, Stapleton's numbers are basically A-list in this day and age. I literally feel some secondhand embarrassment for radio folks who are trying to explain why they haven't been playing Stapleton -- I've heard several remarks that have either caused me to double over with laughter, or to just shake my head.
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Post by McCreerian on Nov 16, 2015 21:13:59 GMT -5
I just love how Chris' success is exposing all Country radio's flaws and lies at it's deepest roots.
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