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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Jan 5, 2009 11:36:38 GMT -5
Country *** No. 1 *** #1 Sugarland Already Gone (Mercury) Most Increased Audience #3 Brad Paisley Duet With Keith Urban Start A Band (Arista Nashville) Re-Entry #45 Josh Gracin Telluride (Lyric Street) Re-Entry #46 Little Big Town Good Lord Willing (Capitol Nashville) Re-Entry #47 Jessica Andrews Everything (Carolwood) Re-Entry #48 Melissa Lawson What If It All Goes Right (Warner Bros./WRN) Debut #49 Trace Adkins Marry For Money (Capitol Nashville) Re-Entry #50 Jamie O'Neal Like A Woman (1720) Debut #51 Trent Tomlinson That's How It Still 'Oughta Be (Carolwood) Debut #53 Richie McDonald How Do I Just Stop (Stroudavarious) Debut #54 Craig Morgan God Must Really Love Me (BNA) Debut #55 Point Of Grace I Wish (Word-Curb/Warner Bros./WRN) Re-Entry #56 Steve Holy Might Have Been (Curb) Debut #57 Steve Azar You're My Life (Dang/Ride/New Revolution) Debut #58 Crystal Shawanda My Roots Are Showing (RCA) Re-Entry #59 Tracy Lawrence You Can't Hide Redneck (Rocky Comfort/Nine North) Debut #60 Rehab Bartender Song (Universal Republic/CO5/Curb)
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Post by drock89 on Jan 5, 2009 12:01:50 GMT -5
Santa cues his exit, and as expected, the chart goes into frenzy. Also expected, Sugarland slides into #1. Congrats to Sugarland!
The highlights make me wonder though -- who's playing Melissa Lawson??
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Post by Jonsolo on Jan 5, 2009 12:26:24 GMT -5
15 debuts/re-entries, while there were 16 "holiday" songs on last week's chart. So either one of those was somehow able to stay on (maybe Faith's Baby song isn't too Christmas-sy, and is the song at #52?), or the R&R people forgot a re-entry (probably the song at #52).
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Post by zaclord on Jan 5, 2009 12:45:33 GMT -5
i cant believe Rehab made it onto the chart
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Post by kw9461 on Jan 6, 2009 2:11:19 GMT -5
15 debuts/re-entries, while there were 16 "holiday" songs on last week's chart. So either one of those was somehow able to stay on (maybe Faith's Baby song isn't too Christmas-sy, and is the song at #52?), or the R&R people forgot a re-entry (probably the song at #52). I'm guessing that the highlights forgot Matt Stillwell as a re-entrant at #52. He had very similar quick cut numbers to Trent Tomlinson, and charted with much lower totals before the holiday season, so I find it hard to believe that couldn't even edge out Rehab.
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Post by ollck on Jan 6, 2009 16:59:24 GMT -5
i cant believe Rehab made it onto the chart With Hank Williams JR feturing with them or without?
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Post by leilamaurizia on Jan 7, 2009 13:24:48 GMT -5
Billboard Chart Alert: • It's the least wonderful time of the year, as the Billboard 200 collapses in a post-Christmas free fall. The top-selling album this week, Taylor Swift's "Fearless," sells 90,000 (down 66%). It's the first time the No. 1 album has sold less than 100,000 since the sales week that ended Feb. 3, 2008, when Alicia Keys' "As I Am" topped the chart with 61,000. • "Fearless" marks its fifth week atop the Billboard 200, the first time any album has managed that many weeks at No. 1 since Josh Groban's "Noel" also did five weeks in December 2007. • Sugarland scores its fourth No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, as "Already Gone" lifts 2-1. The duo previously led with "All I Want to Do" in August, "Settlin' " in May 2007 and "Want To" in December 2006. Since the act's first trip to the top, only Brad Paisley has earned more No. 1s (six), followed by Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney (five each). "Gone" halts a two-week reign for Rascal Flatts' "Here," the trio's ninth No. 1, the most among groups since 2000.
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Post by zaclord on Jan 8, 2009 17:09:00 GMT -5
^^hopefully without. he is not mentioned on the highlights.
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Post by someguy on Jan 9, 2009 23:41:19 GMT -5
i cant believe Rehab made it onto the chart With Hank Williams JR feturing with them or without? Apparently with, according to Billboard's Fred Bronson: THANKS, HANK: Hank Williams Jr. scores his 103rd entry on Hot Country Songs with the No. 60 debut of “Bartender Song” (Universal Republic/CO5/Curb) credited to Atlanta-based rock/rap quintet Rehab with a featured billing for Williams Jr. The song marks Rehab’s first appearance on the country chart. The second-generation Williams made his first appearance on this survey the week of Feb. 8, 1964, giving him a newly-revised chart span of 44 years, 11 months and one week.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Jan 12, 2009 12:00:35 GMT -5
Country *** No. 1 *** #1 Brad Paisley Duet With Keith Urban Start A Band (Arista Nashville) Most Increased Audience #9 Blake Shelton She Wouldn't Be Gone (Warner Bros./WRN) Breaker #37 Trace Adkins Marry For Money (Capitol Nashville) Debut #51 John Rich Another You (Warner Bros./WRN) Debut #54 Zac Brown Band Whatever It Is (Atlantic/Home Grown/Big Picture)
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Post by S4C on Jan 12, 2009 15:56:09 GMT -5
A little late, but let me throw in an ecstatic w00t w00t! for Rehab and Point of Grace entering the charts.
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Post by S4C on Jan 12, 2009 20:10:55 GMT -5
I was just looking over last week's chart (the latest published one). Does anyone know why Rehab's "Bartender Song" is marked as having 12 weeks on the chart already? ???
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Post by zaclord on Jan 12, 2009 20:15:20 GMT -5
S4C is back!
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Post by kw9461 on Jan 12, 2009 20:38:29 GMT -5
I was just looking over last week's chart (the latest published one). Does anyone know why Rehab's "Bartender Song" is marked as having 12 weeks on the chart already? ??? I think that was merely a misprint. The chart beat (or whatever it's called) mentioned it as a debut.
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Post by gcizvolsfan on Jan 12, 2009 21:47:11 GMT -5
Didnt RF get two weeks at #1 with Here?
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Post by leilamaurizia on Jan 15, 2009 7:19:04 GMT -5
Billboard Chart Alert: • Brad Paisley and Keith Urban land Hot Country Songs' first No. 1 duet by solo males in nearly five years, as "Start a Band" strikes up a 3-1 move. The song is the first leader by a pair of male artists since Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker's "When the Sun Goes Down" spent five weeks at No. 1 in the spring of 2004. Last year, Chesney just missed the summit when his duet with George Strait, "Shiftwork," reached No. 2. Meanwhile, Chesney's current hit, "Down the Road," with Mac McAnally, bullets at No. 11.
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Jan 15, 2009 10:47:01 GMT -5
Why isn't Sara Evans listed as re-entry?
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Post by drock89 on Jan 15, 2009 10:54:25 GMT -5
5 #1 songs thus far... wow.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jan 15, 2009 14:13:07 GMT -5
Why isn't Sara Evans listed as re-entry? They tend to skip re-entries a lot for some reason. Matt Stillwell's re-entry wasn't listed on 1/17 either.
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Post by leilamaurizia on Jan 16, 2009 6:12:18 GMT -5
SGG, there's a week missing for country songs. "Start a Band" is for January 24. I haven't been paying as close attention to the charts lately, but I recall (like gcizvolsfan) that "Here" got 2 weeks?
There's also a week missing for country albums. For the January 10 issue date, it should be 262,000 for Fearless. Then push the 90,000 and 72,000 down.
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Post by jenglisbe on Jan 17, 2009 12:05:10 GMT -5
The issue date for the latest charts is January 24, so the topic post is off a week.
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Post by drock89 on Jan 17, 2009 12:16:29 GMT -5
Ok, I think I fixed it. Let me know if I'm still wrong. Thanks guys!!
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Post by Jonsolo on Jan 20, 2009 18:05:36 GMT -5
The revolving door continues at the top, with Alan Jackson taking #1 on the 1/31 chart, and probably followed by one-week appearances by Billy C and one of Dierks/Blake, before Toby comes calling to make an attempt at two weeks.
Dating back to the last 3-week #1, Brad's I'm Still A Guy, we've had 21 different #1 songs in the last 33 weeks. That's easily on pace for 30 for a full year, and this is easily the longest we've gone since a 3+ week #1 song since before the BDS monitoring system was installed, in January 1990. It does appear that songs are more than content to just make an appearance at #1, and then get the hell out of Dodge. Now, a "Big Hit" might have to be re-defined as a two-week #1.
Looking at the sales numbers on the Weekly Album and Singles Sales thread, and the various comments over the last year at how the sales numbers in general have been so poor for Country music, that did get me thinking if there was some kind of correlation between that and the abundance of quick-moving #1 songs in the last eight months.
Perhaps the major labels are realizing that it no longer "pays" to keep promoting the big hits anymore, keeping them at the top for 4-5 weeks, and in the top ten for a quarter of the year. Songs that stay that high for so long no longer keep the corresponding albums flying off the chart at the same rate, so that it's not cost effective. Not as much bang for your promoting buck. Instead, with the rise of those digital download/single sales, the labels might have shifted their focus to that aspect.
Sure, the labels only get a dollar a pop for each single sale/download, but maybe they are now going to try to squeeze as many single releases into a year, as quickly as possible, and that will give them a better and more constant revenue stream. An album not selling well might be acceptable to a label, if they're still able to push 3 or "3.5" songs up the chart in a year.
Just a theory or mine, unprovable unless any label big-wigs want to confess that that is now their mindset/focus, and we'll see if the big releases by the superstars and mid-level stars continue to disappoint, and if we keep getting new #1s each week or two (with songs like Love Story and Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven hitting the top and dropping well before 20 weeks is up).
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Post by rowdawg21 on Jan 20, 2009 19:06:57 GMT -5
The revolving door continues at the top, with Alan Jackson taking #1 on the 1/31 chart, and probably followed by one-week appearances by Billy C and one of Dierks/Blake, before Toby comes calling to make an attempt at two weeks. You think Mercury will try to push Billy to #1 on Billboard after he got #1 on Mediabase/Country Aircheck this week? I think they'll be content with just the Mediabase/CA #1. I also wouldn't count out Kenny getting to #1 ahead of Toby. Here's my guess for the next five weeks: 2/7: Blake 2/14: Dierks 2/21: Kenny 2/28: Kenny 3/7: Toby I also think we'll see the total audience for the #1 song start increasing back to what it was before Christmas - somewhere around 33 or 34. As for your theory about why songs aren't having long stays at #1 anymore, I wouldn't be surprised if you're correct about that. I think someone is going to have to come out with an especially strong single ("Live Like You Were Dying," for example) to have a 4-5 week stay at the top.
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Post by leilamaurizia on Jan 21, 2009 11:52:41 GMT -5
*** No. 1 *** #1 Alan Jackson Country Boy (Arista Nashville) Most Increased Audience #24 Tim McGraw Nothin' To Die For (Curb) Breaker #35 Dean Brody Brothers (Broken Bow) Breaker #36 James Otto These Are The Good Ole Days (Warner Bros./WRN) Debut #37 Carrie Underwood I Told You So (19/Arista/Arista Nashville) Debut #50 Lady Antebellum I Run To You (Capitol Nashville) Debut #52 Carrie Underwood The More Boys I Meet (19/Arista/Arista Nashville) Debut #59 Chuck Wicks Man Of The House (RCA) Debut #60 Keith Anderson She Could've Been Mine (Columbia)
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Post by Jonsolo on Jan 21, 2009 13:17:37 GMT -5
The revolving door continues at the top, with Alan Jackson taking #1 on the 1/31 chart, and probably followed by one-week appearances by Billy C and one of Dierks/Blake, before Toby comes calling to make an attempt at two weeks. You think Mercury will try to push Billy to #1 on Billboard after he got #1 on Mediabase/Country Aircheck this week? I think they'll be content with just the Mediabase/CA #1. I also wouldn't count out Kenny getting to #1 ahead of Toby. Here's my guess for the next five weeks: Looks like you might end up being right about Billy C, and it'd be nice if every time we have "split" #1s on the Aircheck and Billboard charts, that only the songs/artists that I don't care for get to #1 on the Aircheck chart, so that I can ignore them, and only have the artists I do like hit #1 on Billboard, that I do count.
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Post by leilamaurizia on Jan 22, 2009 5:51:39 GMT -5
Billboard Chart Alert: • For the first time since 2004, an album spends a seventh week atop the Billboard 200, as Taylor Swift's "Fearless" hangs in the penthouse yet another week. The last album to notch seven frames at No. 1 was Usher's "Confessions," which strung together nine nonconsecutive chart-topping weeks. • Alan Jackson matches George Strait for the most No. 1s on the Hot Country Songs chart since the tally began using Nielsen BDS data in January 1990, as "Country Boy" leaps 5-1. The track is Jackson's 25th No. 1. All of his chart-toppers have been released since 1990. Strait registered his 25th leader in that same span of time when "I Saw God Today" reached the top last April. He's notched a chart-record 43 No. 1s overall dating to 1982.
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Post by jenglisbe on Jan 24, 2009 11:42:44 GMT -5
Why wasn't "Here" taken off the chart this week? It's #11.
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Post by kw9461 on Jan 24, 2009 13:53:46 GMT -5
It was only it's 20th week and it didn't meet the new criteria for early exit.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Jan 26, 2009 11:24:01 GMT -5
Issue Date: January 30, 2009
Country *** No. 1 *** #1 Blake Shelton She Wouldn't Be Gone (Warner Bros./WRN) Breaker #20 Tim McGraw Nothin' To Die For (Curb) Debut/Most Increased Audience #29 Rascal Flatts Here Comes Goodbye (Lyric Street) Breaker #36 Kellie Pickler Best Days Of Your Life (19/BNA) Breaker #39 Adam Gregory What It Takes (Midas/Big Machine) Debut #49 Montgomery Gentry One In Every Crowd (Columbia) Debut #55 Gloriana Wild At Heart (Emblem/New Revolution) Debut #57 Kid Rock Blue Jeans And A Rosary (Top Dog/Atlantic/CO5) Re-Entry #60 Steve Holy Might Have Been (Curb)
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