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Post by jjose712 on Oct 30, 2014 15:27:26 GMT -5
This is a big crossover hit waiting to happen
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Post by zjames on Oct 30, 2014 22:00:04 GMT -5
This is a big crossover hit waiting to happen Yeah, this is the #1 selling country song on iTunes. This is getting a crossover push soon and it's gonna be big.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 22:10:59 GMT -5
This is a big crossover hit waiting to happen Yeah, this is the #1 selling country song on iTunes. This is getting a crossover push soon and it's gonna be big. The main reason it's #1 is because the album just dropped (although I'm not refuting your point that it's been selling well, because it certainly has). For the better part of the last 2 months this has held down the #3 spot on iTunes country, trailing only "Burnin' It Down" and "Dirt" (and "Something In The Water" was ahead during its first 1-2 weeks of availability). I hope Sam does cross-over, and I hope he has tons of success at other formats...which hopefully persuades him to just call himself a pop artist. The obvious problem is that he is signed to a Nashville-based label. I definitely don't blame MCA because Sam has obviously proved to be a great investment and country radio has been more than willing to play this song...so much so that it was selected by Clear Channel programmers for their On The Verge program. I'm not certain how much further Sam can push the sonic boundaries at country radio with subsequent releases, though, and I maintain my belief that he'd be better suited and a better fit at the CHR format. I just don't hear any country influences in his music.
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Post by jjose712 on Oct 31, 2014 4:03:58 GMT -5
Yeah, this is the #1 selling country song on iTunes. This is getting a crossover push soon and it's gonna be big. The main reason it's #1 is because the album just dropped (although I'm not refuting your point that it's been selling well, because it certainly has). For the better part of the last 2 months this has held down the #3 spot on iTunes country, trailing only "Burnin' It Down" and "Dirt" (and "Something In The Water" was ahead during its first 1-2 weeks of availability). I hope Sam does cross-over, and I hope he has tons of success at other formats...which hopefully persuades him to just call himself a pop artist. The obvious problem is that he is signed to a Nashville-based label. I definitely don't blame MCA because Sam has obviously proved to be a great investment and country radio has been more than willing to play this song...so much so that it was selected by Clear Channel programmers for their On The Verge program. I'm not certain how much further Sam can push the sonic boundaries at country radio with subsequent releases, though, and I maintain my belief that he'd be better suited and a better fit at the CHR format. I just don't hear any country influences in his music. The song is doing well in sales way before being a top 10 on country airplay (and it's quite difficult to become top 10 on country airplay for a newbie these days). This won't need a rapper to cross to pop, it's true the song is on the border of being pure pop, but the truth is country radio is putting their bets in songs that not exactly country (or innovative). Bro country, maybe talks about tailgates and whiskey, but musically is on the verge. Of course there are singers that are considered right now pure country that were on the verge when they started. I'm quite surprised he got that number one, when other songs that where popular in sales and where on the verge of pop like 19 you + me peaked way behind its sales and popularity. Crossing to pop is the natural way to do for him, because as you say, most people after hearing the album think that Leave the night on is probably one of the most country songs, so there's a probability that radio don't support his next songs. Anyway, i hope he won't do the same mistake of other country singers trying to cross to pop. Don't change the song, one thing is making little arrangements or changing a banjo for a guitar, and other very different is changing the whole song and adding a rapper. It worked on Cruise, but i doubt it'll work anymore. And Hunter Hayes' Wanted show clearly that a song can cross to pop without changes
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 11:34:21 GMT -5
Maybe "Leave the Night On" won't quite get to higher peak levels of airplay than "Burnin' It Down." Sam Hunt has actually been having much steadier gains this week than he had been, while all of a sudden "Neon Light" is stepping on the gas and coming uncomfortably close to "Night On." This is a case similar to the face off between "Chillin' It" and "When She Says Baby" where the newer artist has the bigger seller but has a tougher time getting to high levels of airplay than the consistent A-list star. I'm still not expecting "Light" to block "Night" (confusing!) since the Billboard audience gap between the two Monday was over two million, but this week does throw my idea that Sam Hunt was going to be a candidate for two weeks at #1 out the window.
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Post by kml567 on Nov 2, 2014 23:55:27 GMT -5
UMG must be celebrating hard this weekend. Sam Hunt has the #1 country song AND album this week.
#1 Country Song (Mediabase) #1 Country Album #1 Country Digital Sales (iTunes)
Crazy that a guy that I used to watch on ESPN Saturday afternoons back in '06 is now topping the Country charts in 2014. Congrats Sam!
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Post by dm2081 on Nov 3, 2014 0:32:55 GMT -5
I think this song could snap Aldeans reign on the Hot Country Songs chart too. The only reason I'm not sure yet is because with the complete my album feature it might have way less sales. It'll be interesting to watch.
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Post by surfy on Nov 3, 2014 0:37:07 GMT -5
Okay, so this is one of the few current country singles right now that I actually like! It's so addicting!!! :)
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Post by maine on Nov 3, 2014 16:10:03 GMT -5
Really liking this one. I listened to some of the samples of his album, and he's pretty good. A little poppy-country (nearly everyone is nowadays), but still good.
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 5, 2014 16:50:35 GMT -5
#1 in Canada!
#1 on the mongrel chart.
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Post by surfy on Nov 8, 2014 0:17:22 GMT -5
Well, I love this song now! I'm amazed I haven't charted it yet...
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Post by someguy on Nov 8, 2014 0:22:20 GMT -5
This is one of my favourite singles of the year, so I'm glad that it hit #1. It's dropping pretty steadily though, so I would imagine that it falls back to at least #4 this week.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2014 1:12:36 GMT -5
I have a hunch "Leave the Night On" will reach higher peak airplay levels than "Burnin' It Down" but only get one week at #1. On Billboard, Jason's "Burnin' It Down" peaked at 48.663 million audience impressions and "Leave the Night On" peaked at 47.840 million audience impressions. However, on Mediabase Sam did pass Jason's peak numbers by 31 spins and 222k audience, so I guess the two were about equal hits in terms of radio success. (Obviously, Jason Aldean's single had way better digital sales, but he's much more popular than Sam Hunt as well.) The only difference is that, as usual, Broken Bow got really lucky with timing and worked Jason's single really well to get him two weeks at #1, while Sam Hunt had to go up just before a lead single from Blake Shelton, so he was only able to get one week at #1. (MCA didn't try for a second week at #1 this week from what I can tell, but I highly doubt they would have been successful if they did continue pushing and tried to fight Warner Music Nashville and Blake Shelton). There have been some other eyebrow-raisers with Broken Bow getting "lucky" on the charts this year, such as when Dustin Lynch's "Where It's At" got two weeks at #1 but hits from Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Cole Swindell, and Florida Georgia Line only got one week at #1, or when Joe Nichols' "Yeah" got three weeks at #1 and blocked singles from Tyler Farr and Chris Young on Billboard's airplay chart. Broken Bow Music Group has good radio promotion teams but I don't think they've done a good job of actually breaking their artists or finding consistently strong material. Dustin Lynch's "Where It's At" got two weeks at #1 on Billboard, but I don't think he has nearly as much longevity or momentum as Sam Hunt, Cole Swindell, or even Chase Rice, whose last single peaked at #5. I feel similarly about other Broken Bow artists such as Parmalee and Thompson Square. A label can work the radio stations really well to get three or four singles per year to have very successful chart runs, but in the long run what really matters is getting an artist "broken" by finding consistently good material that sells and building momentum. It seems that Broken Bow's artists really struggle to preserve momentum after getting one or two hits per album. Of course, this can be said for many or even most new artists on any label, but seeing a three-week #1 followed up by a single that is at #38 after 10 weeks (Joe Nichols) or a two-week #1 on Mediabase followed up by a 40-week climb to the top 10 (Parmalee) really causes me to raise my eyebrows. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make here is that the charts don't always seem to represent the true hits with perfect precision, and the situation of Sam Hunt only getting one week at #1 while reaching roughly equal peak levels to Jason Aldean's two-week #1 proves this point.
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