Chris Stapleton - "Parachute"

[blueguitar]

Apr 20, 2016 14:15:57 GMT -5 ethanhunt said:

This song is great and all... But I thought it was gonna be Fire Away next for sure so this comes as a bit of a disappointment

So I've been listening to the Highway again and they are playing the crap out of "Fire Away". Like a slap in the face to the label telling them they picked the wrong song??? Seems a bit odd they are going against the grain on a single release. I personally think Parachute is a better choice timing wise . They can always release "Fire Away" in the fall.

[straitouttanashville]

I love this song choice, hope it can make it to the top.

[sabre14]

Apr 25, 2016 9:44:58 GMT -5 blueguitar said:

Apr 20, 2016 14:15:57 GMT -5 ethanhunt said:

This song is great and all... But I thought it was gonna be Fire Away next for sure so this comes as a bit of a disappointment

So I've been listening to the Highway again and they are playing the crap out of "Fire Away". Like a slap in the face to the label telling them they picked the wrong song??? Seems a bit odd they are going against the grain on a single release. I personally think Parachute is a better choice timing wise . They can always release "Fire Away" in the fall.

They've been playing "Fire Away" for quite a few weeks now and did play "Parachute" on their 'Horizon' show early in the year. I really don't think it's a slap in the face. They have no commercials and little advertising. They do what they wish. I'm hopeful they will add "Parachute" to their regular rotation soon.

[Kentucky25]

"Fire Away" did get a lot of promotion with a music video released that I believe (not certain) dealt with mental illness and the fact that it got a music video and some promotion probably led to this air play...I'm not sure why it's still continuing with another song announced as the single, but oh well.

[rsmatto]

Apr 27, 2016 0:19:08 GMT -5 Kentucky25 said:

"Fire Away" did get a lot of promotion with a music video released that I believe (not certain) dealt with mental illness and the fact that it got a music video and some promotion probably led to this air play...I'm not sure why it's still continuing with another song announced as the single, but oh well.

Because the Highway can and does play what it wants to play. Like sabre14 said, they don't have commercials. That means they have more time to fill and that means things like "On The Horizon" or "Highway Find" or other album cuts or "singles" for artists. That's what they're doing here. I suspect they'll play "Parachute" outside of "On The Horizon" in due time.

[straitouttanashville]

I was curious how many digital singles "Parachute" sold this past week, and overall. It seems Roughstock.com has discontinued posting single and album sales. Does anyone have a place to go for that now?

[onebuffalo]

Apr 28, 2016 12:53:00 GMT -5 straitouttanashville said:

I was curious how many digital singles "Parachute" sold this past week, and overall. It seems Roughstock.com has discontinued posting single and album sales. Does anyone have a place to go for that now?

I was there myself and did not see any updates. rsmatto, what's going on over there?

[travelrocks24]

Apr 27, 2016 0:22:25 GMT -5 rsmatto said:

Apr 27, 2016 0:19:08 GMT -5 Kentucky25 said:

"Fire Away" did get a lot of promotion with a music video released that I believe (not certain) dealt with mental illness and the fact that it got a music video and some promotion probably led to this air play...I'm not sure why it's still continuing with another song announced as the single, but oh well.

Because the Highway can and does play what it wants to play. Like sabre14 said, they don't have commercials. That means they have more time to fill and that means things like "On The Horizon" or "Highway Find" or other album cuts or "singles" for artists. That's what they're doing here. I suspect they'll play "Parachute" outside of "On The Horizon" in due time.

Renegade Radio Nashville (which is online only) is also commercial free, but they play a much better variety than "The Highway" ever comes up with.  In addition, relativity unknown artists are interviewed on Renegade on a regular basis, to the point that I usually have to google who one is because it is a new name to me. 

[straitouttanashville]

Apr 28, 2016 13:00:18 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

Apr 28, 2016 12:53:00 GMT -5 straitouttanashville said:

I was curious how many digital singles "Parachute" sold this past week, and overall. It seems Roughstock.com has discontinued posting single and album sales. Does anyone have a place to go for that now?

I was there myself and did not see any updates. rsmatto, what's going on over there?

Anyone have an answer to where to find sales totals now that Roughstock.com has stopped reporting numbers? I would love to know how "Parachute" did this week.

[rsmatto]

Apr 29, 2016 11:16:09 GMT -5 straitouttanashville said:

Apr 28, 2016 13:00:18 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

I was there myself and did not see any updates. rsmatto, what's going on over there?

Anyone have an answer to where to find sales totals now that Roughstock.com has stopped reporting numbers? I would love to know how "Parachute" did this week.

We have sourced the charts from various friends in the industry. This week friends were on vacation.

[sabre14]

There's a fair amount of competition tomorrow but I expect "Parachute" to see a ton of adds. Chris' song is showing close to 20 starters. "H.O.L.Y." will be the most added but I'm guessing "Parachute" will be second.

Parmalee and Chris Janson are going for adds tomorrow, too.

[sabre14]

^ Sure enough, "Parachute" is the second most added song on Mediabase this week with 57 adds on impact day. :)

[Daryl the Beryl]

Debuts at #57 on Billboard.

[straitouttanashville]

Apr 29, 2016 17:22:57 GMT -5 rsmatto said:

Apr 29, 2016 11:16:09 GMT -5 straitouttanashville said:

Anyone have an answer to where to find sales totals now that Roughstock.com has stopped reporting numbers? I would love to know how "Parachute" did this week.

We have sourced the charts from various friends in the industry. This week friends were on vacation.

I know I asked last week, but does anyone know how sales are for "Parachute" to date? Since Roughstock.com has quit reporting sales for Albums and Singles I have looked everywhere to find some website reporting but no luck. It would be awesome if someone had a new source or a link for sales. Thanks.

[Deleted]

May 3, 2016 18:42:24 GMT -5 straitouttanashville said:

I know I asked last week, but does anyone know how sales are for "Parachute" to date? Since Roughstock.com has quit reporting sales for Albums and Singles I have looked everywhere to find some website reporting but no luck. It would be awesome if someone had a new source or a link for sales. Thanks.

The track sales for "Parachute" are probably somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000. It was at 29,000 at the end of February. It's the best-selling album track besides "Tennessee Whiskey" and "Fire Away", and these are hardly fair comparisons given that "Tennessee Whiskey" went viral after the CMA's and "Fire Away" has a video and has also received a lot of airplay on SiriusXM the last couple of months.

Additionally, the title track (which was technically a single last spring) has sold about 140,000 simply because it's the title track. And his 2013 single "What Are You Listening To?" (which wasn't included on the album) has sold well over 100,000 copies since Chris' breakout performance at the CMA's in November. People are hearing Chris and they are responding. Many are buying Traveller as a whole and are also seeking out "What Are You Listening To?" because it's the only other solo material that Chris has released so far.

[straitouttanashville]

May 3, 2016 21:59:20 GMT -5 jhomes87 said:

May 3, 2016 18:42:24 GMT -5 straitouttanashville said:

I know I asked last week, but does anyone know how sales are for "Parachute" to date? Since Roughstock.com has quit reporting sales for Albums and Singles I have looked everywhere to find some website reporting but no luck. It would be awesome if someone had a new source or a link for sales. Thanks.

The track sales for "Parachute" are probably somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000. It was at 29,000 at the end of February. It's the best-selling album track besides "Tennessee Whiskey" and "Fire Away", and these are hardly fair comparisons given that "Tennessee Whiskey" went viral after the CMA's and "Fire Away" has a video and has also received a lot of airplay on SiriusXM the last couple of months.

Additionally, the title track (which was technically a single last spring) has sold about 140,000 simply because it's the title track. And his 2013 single "What Are You Listening To?" (which wasn't included on the album) has sold well over 100,000 copies since Chris' breakout performance at the CMA's in November. People are hearing Chris and they are responding. Many are buying Traveller as a whole and are also seeking out "What Are You Listening To?" because it's the only other solo material that Chris has released so far.

Is there a place to find this information? Are you guessing or do you have sales totals?

[Deleted]

May 3, 2016 23:07:25 GMT -5 straitouttanashville said:

May 3, 2016 21:59:20 GMT -5 jhomes87 said:

The track sales for "Parachute" are probably somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000. It was at 29,000 at the end of February. It's the best-selling album track besides "Tennessee Whiskey" and "Fire Away", and these are hardly fair comparisons given that "Tennessee Whiskey" went viral after the CMA's and "Fire Away" has a video and has also received a lot of airplay on SiriusXM the last couple of months.

Additionally, the title track (which was technically a single last spring) has sold about 140,000 simply because it's the title track. And his 2013 single "What Are You Listening To?" (which wasn't included on the album) has sold well over 100,000 copies since Chris' breakout performance at the CMA's in November. People are hearing Chris and they are responding. Many are buying Traveller as a whole and are also seeking out "What Are You Listening To?" because it's the only other solo material that Chris has released so far.

Is there a place to find this information? Are you guessing or do you have sales totals?

I got the numbers from Stapleton's Wikipedia page, which generally cites Roughstock as the source for sales numbers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stapleton#Discography

[straitouttanashville]

May 4, 2016 1:13:09 GMT -5 jhomes87 said:

May 3, 2016 23:07:25 GMT -5 straitouttanashville said:

Is there a place to find this information? Are you guessing or do you have sales totals?

I got the numbers from Stapleton's Wikipedia page, which generally cites Roughstock as the source for sales numbers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stapleton#Discography

That number is from a Roughstock report from 2/26/2016. Wikapedia is user generated information. How will the numbers become updated in the future if Roughstock does not post a report?

[Deleted]

May 4, 2016 21:28:25 GMT -5 straitouttanashville said:

That number is from a Roughstock report from 2/26/2016. Wikapedia is user generated information. How will the numbers become updated in the future if Roughstock does not post a report?

I'm aware that Wikipedia is user-generated, lol.

And I believe rsmatto said Roughstock will start reporting sales figures again soon. Just keep in mind that there really aren't any places that publish weekly single sales numbers -- it's pretty much always been like that. We just have to wait until Billboard or some other source periodically reports sales totals for a given song(s) or album(s).

[countryboy79]

May 5, 2016 3:34:18 GMT -5 countryboy79 said:

I have the last numbers for digital songs (by Billboard): i report only country songs in top 200 (all genre digital songs)

14 17 25 46 MCGRAW*TIM HUMBLE AND KIND 35,000 -12 40,000 473,000
15 24 32 60 BENTLEY*DIERKS SOMEWHERE ON A BEACH 28,000 -16 33,000 382,000
15 36 39 61 MAREN MORRIS MY CHURCH 27,000 7 25,500 461,000
10 43 40 66 RHETT*THOMAS T-SHIRT 25,000 -1 25,000 270,400
14 35 41 74 YOUNG*CHRIS FEAT. CASSADEE THINK OF YOU 22,000 -11 25,000 324,000
7 39 46 75 BRYAN*LUKE HUNTIN', FISHIN' & LOVIN' EVER 22,000 -6 24,000 156,000
8 30 43 77 BLAKE SHELTON CAME HERE TO FORGET 22,000 -13 25,000 288,000
32 42 52 79 RHETT*THOMAS DIE A HAPPY MAN 21,000 -3 22,000 1,409,000
20 34 44 80 COLE SWINDELL YOU SHOULD BE HERE 21,000 -15 24,000 567,000
1 94 COLE SWINDELL REMEMBER BOYS 18,000 0 18,000
16 58 62 95 PARDI*JON HEAD OVER BOOTS 18,000 -1 18,000 299,000
16 52 59 98 OLD DOMINION SNAPBACK 17,000 -10 19,000 290,000
4 47 60 105 ALDEAN*JASON LIGHTS COME ON 16,000 -15 19,000 124,000
7 69 86 115 CHURCH*ERIC RECORD YEAR 13,000 -1 13,000 115,000
17 73 77 117 RASCAL FLATTS I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT 13,000 -13 15,000 276,000
12 90 89 119 DAN + SHAY FROM THE GROUND UP 13,000 -1 13,000 143,000
4 94 112 123 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE CHURCH BELLS 12,000 11 11,000 62,000
11 103 98 128 LYNCH*DUSTIN MIND READER 11,000 -2 12,000 202,000
4 63 68 131 KEITH URBAN WASTED TIME 11,000 -35 17,000 92,000
12 177 151 133 FRANKIE BALLARD IT ALL STARTED WITH A BEER 11,000 37 8,000 132,000
1 135 HILLARY SCOTT & THE SCOTT FAMILY THY WILL 11,000 0 11,000
26 68 94 136 STAPLETON*CHRIS TENNESSEE WHISKEY 11,000 -10 12,000 715,000
8 158 125 145 OWEN*JAKE AMERICAN COUNTRY LOVE SONG 10,000 2 10,000 107,000
4 100 118 149 BALLERINI*KELSEA PETER PAN 10,000 -3 10,000 77,000
25 92 103 151 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CONFESSION 10,000 -14 12,000 333,000
5 98 116 155 CHESNEY*KENNY NOISE 10,000 -6 10,000 80,000
17 55 87 156 ELDREDGE*BRETT DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE 10,000 -27 13,000 414,000
23 65 96 165 STAPLETON*CHRIS NOBODY TO BLAME 9,000 -26 12,000 337,000
10 140 144 176 LANE*CHRIS FIX 8,000 -5 9,000 138,000
8 78 122 177 STAPLETON*CHRIS FIRE AWAY 8,300 -18 10,200 134,000
37 134 153 198 HUNT*SAM BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN 7,000 -12 8,000 1,278,000

froma: www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=116684

[rsmatto]

Ask and Ye Shall Receive: Chart sales figures: roughstock.com/news/2016/05/40235-top-30-digital-singles-report-may-5-2016

[Libra]

Hey folks, just a reminder from the original message from the ever-present reminder against posting unrounded SoundScan figures:

Data from soundscan will only allowed to be discussed if it is directly given from a source. The source MUST be a reputable one and NOT from a blog or another message board. This means ukmix, for example, cannot be given as a source but an article posted on a site like Billboard can.

So yeah, just because they may appear on UKMIX or the like does not mean they can appear here without independent verification. If UKMIX is intended to be the "primary" source for the unrounded figures then posting the figures won't fly.

[rsmatto]

May 6, 2016 0:41:13 GMT -5 Libra said:

Hey folks, just a reminder from the original message from the ever-present reminder against posting unrounded SoundScan figures:

Data from soundscan will only allowed to be discussed if it is directly given from a source. The source MUST be a reputable one and NOT from a blog or another message board. This means ukmix, for example, cannot be given as a source but an article posted on a site like Billboard can.

So yeah, just because they may appear on UKMIX or the like does not mean they can appear here without independent verification. If UKMIX is intended to be the "primary" source for the unrounded figures then posting the figures won't fly.

SoundScan also requires numbers to be rounded up or down. No raw numbers posted (which is what happens on RoughStock).

Edit: So. Yeah, I didn't read this post properly. Said the same thing! HA!

As for this song's sales so far, the estimate of 40k was spot on.

[onebuffalo]

This should make jhomes87 happy. Picking up stations and spins:

COLE SWINDELL Middle Of A Memory 54 598
JERROD NIEMANN & LEE BRICE A Little More Love 47 464
FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE H.O.L.Y. 11 147
ZAC BROWN BAND Castaway 7 80
CHRIS STAPLETON Parachute 5 38

[sabre14]

"Parachute" makes its top 50 debut on the Mediabase rolling chart today. Top 300 of the iTunes all-genre chart.

[Deleted]

Just stopped in here to say this song is unbelievable.
His vocals are ridiculous on this.
This along with "record year" are my two favourite singles of the year.

[sabre14]

Excuse me for working in another Stapleton story but I can't resist.

I covered the Buffalo Bisons game today in downtown Buffalo (Bisons beat Toledo, 7-5). Anyway, after the game, the media heads down to the clubhouse to interview the manager and a player or two.

While the 6 of us or so were waiting in between the Bisons manager walking off and the Bisons catcher to come into the interview room (we had to talk to him since he went 4 for 4, with 2 doubles) to be given questions, we overheard some Hip Hop music coming from the speakers in the clubhouse and the media guy next to me said "Ehh, I wish they had something else playing in there." I then said, "You probably want some Luke Bryan?" -- I said this because I caught this same guy lipping the words to "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)" during the 7th inning stretch in the press box, lol. He said, "Yeah I'm a Country guy; I like Luke's music for the most part." I then said, "He can sing some good ones but "Country Girl" ain't one of them, haha."

Everyone kinda chuckled.

Then a media guy across from us said, "Florida Georgia Line?" and the same guy muttered, "God no. I want to put a bullet in the chamber every time I hear them on the radio." -- I swear to God that's what he said, lol. Please don't take that as me taking the chance to berate FGL -- it was just what the dude said, I swear.

I then thought of the opportunity to mention Chris' name and hopefully some folks would agree with me. I said, "Put on some Chris Stapleton" and the same guy went, "YES! That's where it's at. Unreal talent in that guy!" Another guy said, "He is pretty damn good, I agree."

Literally made my day. :)

[babybuffalo]

This gives me Bob Seger vibes and I know this sounds strange but...Journey!!?? Something in the melody maybe.

[dm2081]

This song gives me Stevie Ray Vaughan vibes personally. The raspy vocals make it really sound like Stevie.

[countryboy79]

Chris is an amazing vocalist.