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Post by carriekins on Mar 19, 2015 9:51:40 GMT -5
He filmed the video for this yesterday.
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Post by gonecountry on Mar 19, 2015 13:48:26 GMT -5
He filmed the video for this yesterday. Great investment Mercury Nashville! Really? Some six months into its run. Gee, I wonder why this is moving somewhat slowly? One misfire clearly makes some companies skittish...
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Post by carriekins on Mar 19, 2015 14:24:56 GMT -5
He filmed the video for this yesterday. Great investment Mercury Nashville! Really? Some six months into its run. Gee, I wonder why this is moving somewhat slowly? One misfire clearly makes some companies skittish... It makes more sense to me to film a video for a video and release it as it's moving through the top 20 and is becoming a hit than it does to release a video for a song that is already top 5 - like they just did with Cole Swindell. I do wish they'd done a lyric video for this a while ago, but I can completely see why they'd go the fiscally cautious route with this song.
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Post by gonecountry on Mar 19, 2015 15:57:11 GMT -5
Great investment Mercury Nashville! Really? Some six months into its run. Gee, I wonder why this is moving somewhat slowly? One misfire clearly makes some companies skittish... It makes more sense to me to film a video for a video and release it as it's moving through the top 20 and is becoming a hit than it does to release a video for a song that is already top 5 - like they just did with Cole Swindell. I do wish they'd done a lyric video for this a while ago, but I can completely see why they'd go the fiscally cautious route with this song. Completely agree with the increased use of lyric videos, at minimum. Releasing a video when it is in the Top 10 reduces the shelf life of the video. That all said, I'm hoping this makes the Top 10. Top 5 would be great
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 19:23:06 GMT -5
He filmed the video for this yesterday. Great investment Mercury Nashville! Really? Some six months into its run. Gee, I wonder why this is moving somewhat slowly? One misfire clearly makes some companies skittish... This one had been moving so slowly through the 40's and 30's though and the label wasn't sure that it was going to be a hit, so I'm not surprised that they held off on making a video until now (now that the song is becoming a decent-sized hit). I think it makes a lot of sense that they did it this way. I suppose you could argue that a video 2-3 months ago may have helped the song along, but I doubt it...videos generally don't boost a song's airplay when the song is still so far down on the radio charts. They probably didn't want to spend the money on a video only to have the song die out in the 30's (like "Clockwork" did).
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Post by gonecountry on Mar 19, 2015 19:52:26 GMT -5
I enjoyed Clockwork - the song and video, but I'm somewhat surprised that people thought it would do overly well. The song was a bit too much against his image, IMO. Easton getting bootie calls?
I think that Easton will do okay as long as he stays true to character. I can't see him singing "slide your sugar maker over here".
I agree videos are expensive but I don't buy that a lyric video is all that expensive.
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 23, 2015 21:41:59 GMT -5
I think Easton will get a top 10 out of this. "Baby Be My Love Song" is up to #17 on MB and Billboard and is only 28 weeks old (pretty bad when I think there's some wiggle room remaining at 28 weeks ). I think Mercury will be pushing this towards 40 weeks and the video being filmed will only reinforce that. Easton just needs 5 more stations to complete the MB panel. I'm looking at the MB chart and boy, songs 9-21 are littered with great songs ("Say You Do", "Raise 'Em Up", "A Guy Walks Into A Bar", "Wild Child", "Diamond Rings And Old Bar Stools", "Baby Be My Love Song", "She Don't Love You", "Little Toy Guns", "Crushin' It"). BTW: Can't wait for Easton's third studio album. :)
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 26, 2015 12:37:23 GMT -5
Wow, "Baby Be My Love Song" is up another 818k in audience today; over 1.6 the past two days, and 2.4 million for the past five days.
Ever since March, Easton has gotten over 1.0 million in audience gains every week on MB, with 2.6 being the highest, and this week should be near or over the 3.0 million mark. The official album release date has got to be coming very soon as this song is getting red hot. I said top 10 a few days ago, but top 5 seems like good odds and I can see this song matching the peaks of "Lovin' You Is Fun" or "All Over The Road". Actually, I went back to both of those songs chart runs and "Lovin' You Is Fun" was at the same exact position on the chart (#17) on Billboard at the 25 week mark, that "Baby Be My Love Song" is at currently, at 28 weeks.
In short, things are looking great for "Baby Be My Love Song".
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Mar 26, 2015 22:11:01 GMT -5
Finally in the top 300 on iTunes (#290)
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Post by dm2081 on Mar 26, 2015 23:02:07 GMT -5
I like this song, but my lord is this the definition of "Safe". I understand Easton needed to go this route because his career at radio was in jeopardy, but this song lacks the personality that songs like "All Over The Road", "Hearts Drawn In The Sand", and "Roll With It". I'm glad Easton is doing well with this song, but I'm pretty shocked by it's chart movement lately. Other than that, there really doesn't seem to be any momentum or buzz about this single.
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Post by rjz on Mar 27, 2015 8:21:53 GMT -5
I like this song, but my lord is this the definition of "Safe". I understand Easton needed to go this route because his career at radio was in jeopardy, but this song lacks the personality that songs like "All Over The Road", "Hearts Drawn In The Sand", and "Roll With It". I'm glad Easton is doing well with this song, but I'm pretty shocked by it's chart movement lately. Other than that, there really doesn't seem to be any momentum or buzz about this single. Wow, you have voiced my thoughts exactly. I thought inoffensive and safe when I heard it, rolls off my brain like a million other country easy listening pop songs. Not that it is bad at all-Easton has a great voice but just nothing that grabs me. I think he needs to stand out from the crowd to resurge (I know; difficult to stand out with all the competition out there). All of a sudden I hear this several times daily during prime listening hours so obviously getting a big push from my station.
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 29, 2015 13:39:57 GMT -5
Too bad this week there was a log jam on most of the MB chart with only one recurrent because "Baby Be My Love Song" really saw a conversion with a lot of stations as it increased 4.3 million in audience and 315 spins. That's nearly 3x as much audience as last week and 1.7 more than Easton's previous high in this chart run. Eric Paslay's "She Don't Love You" also saw an increase of 4.0 million this week. Though Easton's is still 64 spots behind Eric's on the iTunes Country Chart and 294 spots behind on the all-genre chart.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 15:29:17 GMT -5
Too bad this week there was a log jam on most of the MB chart with only one recurrent because "Baby Be My Love Song" really saw a conversion with a lot of stations as it increased 4.3 million in audience and 315 spins. That's nearly 3x as much audience as last week and 1.7 more than Easton's previous high in this chart run. Eric Paslay's "She Don't Love You" also saw an increase of 4.0 million this week. Though Easton's is still 64 spots behind Eric's on the iTunes Country Chart and 294 spots behind on the all-genre chart. Easton has definitely had a good week, but I look at these numbers as pretty misleading. The vast majority of his gain this week has come from this song being put into rotation at Westwood One's Mainstream Country. Easton went from 0 spins to 21 spins there, and that's more than 2 million in audience from just 21 spins. If you factor out the Westwood One gains (Hot Country in addition to Mainstream Country), Easton is up only about 1.65 million in the last 6 days--still a solid number, but definitely a far cry from 4.3 million. The same goes for Paslay. Both of them got put into rotation at W1 and that significantly inflates the MB numbers (and of course none of this audience translates to Billboard, as the W1 stations are MB-only reporters).
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 29, 2015 15:41:42 GMT -5
Too bad this week there was a log jam on most of the MB chart with only one recurrent because "Baby Be My Love Song" really saw a conversion with a lot of stations as it increased 4.3 million in audience and 315 spins. That's nearly 3x as much audience as last week and 1.7 more than Easton's previous high in this chart run. Eric Paslay's "She Don't Love You" also saw an increase of 4.0 million this week. Though Easton's is still 64 spots behind Eric's on the iTunes Country Chart and 294 spots behind on the all-genre chart. Easton has definitely had a good week, but I look at these numbers as pretty misleading. The vast majority of his gain this week has come from this song being put into rotation at Westwood One's Mainstream Country. Easton went from 0 spins to 21 spins there, and that's more than 2 million in audience from just 21 spins. If you factor out the Westwood One gains (Hot Country in addition to Mainstream Country), Easton is up only about 1.65 million in the last 6 days--still a solid number, but definitely a far cry from 4.3 million. The same goes for Paslay. Both of them got put into rotation at W1 and that significantly inflates the MB numbers (and of course none of this audience translates to Billboard, as the W1 stations are MB-only reporters). Ah, thanks Jamie. I had a feeling it was Westwood One. I never seem check that station for some reason, though being a factoring contributor to inflated audience with those discrepancies, I should, lol. Being up nearly 2.0 for the week is still very solid - if not great, and I still expect a top 10, if not not top 5 peak when all is said and done. "Baby Be My Love Song" has broken that barrier that "Clockwork" couldn't and Mercury is starting to sort out their album release plans, which could be announced shortly, though the sales are still a concern to me. Do you have any predictions yourself with what Mercury will do? I'm thinking an album being released just as this song is peaking with the follow up to be released shortly after the album hits stores - the song, for whatever reason, just isn't as enticing to download to fans as others charting. I was thinking this would be at least inside the top 250 on the all-genre chart by now.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 15:47:52 GMT -5
Ah, thanks Jamie. I had a feeling it was Westwood One. I never seem check that station for some reason, though being a factoring contributor to inflated audience with those discrepancies, I should, lol. I'm calculating my chart projections right now so I always have to check Westwood One before I can really get started, because if I don't account for their airplay (basically factor it out), then my Billboard estimates will be WAY off It's really frustrating. I wish Westwood One airplay was counted by BOTH Mediabase and Billboard, or by neither of them. As it is now, with W1 reporting to only MB, it makes it such a headache trying to accurately project BB numbers from MB numbers. Anyway...I would think UMG would announced the release date for Easton's album any day now. HITS apparently has May 19 down for the release date, which seems to fit the time-frame of the single peaking somewhere in the top 10, and I'm guessing HITS probably got tipped off from someone at the label. Their release schedule changes from time to time of course but I'd guess that that's the tentative date that UMG is shooting for, and so I'm expecting it'll be confirmed within the next couple of weeks (fingers crossed!)
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Post by .indulgecountry on Apr 12, 2015 4:14:26 GMT -5
Seems like sales for this have finally caught up to its airplay showing. Did it get discounted or did he perform this on TV somewhere?
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Apr 12, 2015 4:31:00 GMT -5
Seems like sales for this have finally caught up to its airplay showing. Did it get discounted or did he perform this on TV somewhere? Discounted on iTunes at $0.69
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Post by gonecountry on Apr 12, 2015 6:29:23 GMT -5
Seems like sales for this have finally caught up to its airplay showing. Did it get discounted or did he perform this on TV somewhere? Perform this on TV somewhere? Does he (or many other equally talented B/C listers) ever get the opportunity to play on any of the award shows? Maybe my memory's fading, but it seems luke (Freudian slip) that the same performers are on every show.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Apr 12, 2015 12:46:34 GMT -5
Seems like sales for this have finally caught up to its airplay showing. Did it get discounted or did he perform this on TV somewhere? Perform this on TV somewhere? Does he (or many other equally talented B/C listers) ever get the opportunity to play on any of the award shows? Maybe my memory's fading, but it seems luke (Freudian slip) that the same performers are on every show. There are more venues than just awards shows to perform on, and the ACM Awards aren't until next week anyway, so I'm not sure why that would matter. Mickey Guyton performed her single on Good Morning America last month, and "Girl Crush" was performed recently on The Tonight Show. Easton could easily perform on any number of daytime/nighttime talk shows, i.e. without being big enough to be added to the lineup on a country awards show. But this is all moot as apparently its sales boost was driven not by a performance, but by a discount in price. Thanks for the update, Daryl the Beryl.
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 15, 2015 13:56:51 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 15:51:33 GMT -5
Solid video. Really good, actually. This is far from one of my favorite Easton songs, but I like it well enough. I think Mercury has done a fabulous job with promotion as well. They recently discounted the song to 69 cents (it's been selling very poorly, but that's not really something a label can control), and now dropping the video right in the middle of a "sale" is a great move. I don't see this getting all the way to #1, but it'll easily go top 10 and I think it's got a good shot of being a solid top 5 hit, a la "Lovin' You Is Fun" and "All Over The Road". This'll be his 1st big hit not to go Gold, though, so they really need to be careful with the next single selection. I think it could be a very crucial single for Easton, so hopefully they have a really incredible track waiting in the wings. As an aside, something super random that I just found out while perusing Easton's Wikipedia page. A remix of "Are You With Me", which was on his All Over The Road album and was always rumored to be a single, was actually released internationally in October, by a Belgian DJ known as Lost Frequencies. The song was credited as Lost Frequencies - "Are You With Me", featuring vocals by Easton Corbin. It charted at #1 in Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany; #4 in France; #33 in Italy; #3 in Lebanon; top 5 in the Netherlands; #4 in Norway; and #16 in Spain. Lost Frequencies sped up the track - his radio edit remix was only 2:18 in length, but it led to 5 other remixed versions spanning anywhere from about 3-4 minutes in length. There's the "Kungs Radio Edit Remix", the "Kungs Remix", the "Funk D Radio Edit Remix", the "Funk D Remix", and the "Harold van Lennep Piano Edit". Talk about super random. This is the first track that Lost Frequencies ever released...out of all the songs in the world, he chose an obscure album track from Easton Corbin, lol. LOL. Remixes Abound! (none of these sound like Easton's vocals though, which contradicts Wikipedia) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjHMDlAPMUwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=6fn6W5yyjBkwww.youtube.com/watch?v=iTwmVasMxCMA YouTube search for "Lost Frequencies Are You With Me" turns up dozens of random Euro-dance remixes. Hahaha, this is sooo funny/random, I can't stop laughing.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Apr 16, 2015 21:07:27 GMT -5
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Post by sabre14 on May 3, 2015 15:28:23 GMT -5
"Baby Be My Love Song" finally cracks the MB top 10 this week, at #10.
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Post by onebuffalo on May 5, 2015 8:27:36 GMT -5
Easton Corbin may get into the top ten before Tim McGraw/Catherine Dunn. Who'd a thunk it?
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Post by sabre14 on May 5, 2015 11:22:30 GMT -5
Easton Corbin may get into the top ten before Tim McGraw/Catherine Dunn. Who'd a thunk it? It's very possible both will enter Billboard's top 10 at the same time (next week). I'm not sure why you think it's incredible to imagine Easton Corbin getting into the top 10 before Tim and Catherine's song?
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Post by onebuffalo on May 5, 2015 11:38:58 GMT -5
Easton Corbin may get into the top ten before Tim McGraw/Catherine Dunn. Who'd a thunk it? It's very possible both will enter Billboard's top 10 at the same time (next week). I'm not sure why you think it's incredible to imagine Easton Corbin getting into the top 10 before Tim and Catherine's song? Because I didn't think Easton Corbin would pass Tim McGraw/Catherine Dunn. Jhomes87 had it predicted perfectly when she had the Zac Brown Band at #9, preventing the duet from reaching the top ten.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2015 22:24:30 GMT -5
It's very possible both will enter Billboard's top 10 at the same time (next week). I'm not sure why you think it's incredible to imagine Easton Corbin getting into the top 10 before Tim and Catherine's song? Because I didn't think Easton Corbin would pass Tim McGraw/Catherine Dunn. Jhomes87 had it predicted perfectly when she had the Zac Brown Band at #9, preventing the duet from reaching the top ten. Right, Easton was able to re-pass Tim on last night's Billboard chart (just barely), but technically he wouldn't be entering the top 10 before Tim - they'll both enter the top 10 next week. And it's not like Easton has gone up faster...Tim's song needed only 15 weeks to get to the 25 million mark, and Easton has been on the chart for 34 weeks.
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Post by codyj100 on May 5, 2015 23:57:58 GMT -5
I head this for the first time on one of my local stations. KSON. They played it once this morning about 6:30AM and once on the way home from campus about 4:45PM. Nice to hear it twice in one day. Hope the rest of the single releases do well for Easton. He is very talented and is definitely aiming to keep the more traditional material alive.
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Post by Marv on May 7, 2015 5:30:12 GMT -5
How much more gas does Easton's tune have left in the tank after8 months on the Billboard chart is the question.
Are they ready to pull the plug on it?
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2015 6:36:36 GMT -5
How much more gas does Easton's tune have left in the tank after 8 months on the Billboard chart is the question. Are they ready to pull the plug on it? They won't pull the plug on this one. Easton's album doesn't come out until June 30, so I'm sure Mercury will stick with this song for at least another 4-6 weeks yet. I doubt that this one will go all the way to #1, but I don't see why it can't manage a top 5 peak similar to "Lovin' You Is Fun" and "All Over The Road".
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